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Sources told CBS News that at least 12,000 people -- and possibly upwards of 20,000 -- are now feared dead as anti-government protests continue and the regime threatens to begin executions. Source link

A 26-year-old Iranian man, Erfan Soltani, was set to be executed Wednesday, accused by the Islamic Republic's government of participating in the protests that swept across the country for two weeks, according to a human...

Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other White House officials are meeting Wednesday with Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers amid the Trump administration's ongoing threats to take over Greenland. The Danish foreign...

The Chinese mobile app "Are You Dead?" which sounds an alarm if a user doesn't check in every 48 hours, has announced it will drop its catchy name, after it drew international media attention. It...

Two senior doctors have been arrested in Russia following the deaths of nine babies in a maternity hospital in Siberia this month.The newborns died during the long New Year holiday in Novokuznetsk, Russia's main investigative authority said in a...

The head of Uganda's electoral body says he has received threats warning him against declaring certain presidential candidates the winners of Thursday's election.Simon Byabakama said he would not be intimidated by such threats from senior state officials, whom he...

Joel GuintoandJonathan Head,South East Asia Correspondent, BangkokThai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, who is due to visit the scene later on Wednesday, called for "someone be punished and held accountable" for the incident."Accidents like this can only happen due...

Venezuela has started releasing multiple Americans detained across the country, according to a US state department official. The official did not confirm the identities or number of prisoners released by Venezuela, but in a statement called the move "an...

Katya AdlerEurope editor, reporting from Nuuk, GreenlandBut it's hard to see how Donald Trump's appetite for territorial expansionism can leave room for negotiation on Wednesday. These were his words at the beginning of the week:"We're talking about acquiring...