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Explosion near the grave of slain military commander in Iran kills at least 73

11:09am January 03, 2024

At least 73 people have been killed and 170 injured in the Iranian city of Kerman in explosions near the burial site of slain military commander Qasem Soleimani.

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Smoke rises from a destroyed apartment following a large explosion in a southern suburb of Beirut on Tuesday. The TV station of Lebanon's Hezbollah group says top Hamas official Saleh Arouri was killed Tuesday in an explosion in a southern Beirut suburb.

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Up First briefing: Top Hamas leader killed in Lebanon; Harvard president resigns

8:04am January 03, 2024

by Suzanne Nuyen

A senior Hamas leader is killed in an explosion in Beirut. Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigns.

Melissa Hoskins of Australia's women's track cycling team poses during a media day on July 17, 2012, in Brescia, Italy.

An Australian cyclist has died after being hit by a car. Police arrested her husband

7:14pm January 02, 2024

by Joe Hernandez

Two-time Olympian and world champion cyclist Melissa Hoskins was struck outside her home near the city of Adelaide. Her husband, Rohan Dennis, has been charged.

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A Hamas leader is killed in an explosion in Beirut

6:25pm January 02, 2024

by Jane Arraf

A senior official of the Palestinian militant group Hamas has been killed in what it believes to be an Israeli strike in Lebanon's capital of Beirut. Israel has not taken responsibility.

British actor Alex Cox, Mexican actress Blanca Guerra and Ana Ofelia Murguía (center), Mexican film director Arturo Ripstein and Mexican actress Patricia Reyes Spíndola pose as part of the 47th Cannes Film Festival in 1994. Murguía died Sunday.

Acclaimed Mexican actor Ana Ofelia Murguía, voice of Mama Coco, dead at 90

6:00pm January 02, 2024

by Andrew Limbong

Murguía was a lauded actor with a decades-long career in film, television and theater. She's best known in the U.S. for voicing the elderly matriarch in Coco.

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Iryna Karetnykova and her partner Viktor Tyschenko were in the building when it was struck by a Russian missile in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday.

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Russia strikes residences in Kyiv in large missile attack on Ukraine cities

4:36pm January 02, 2024

Russia launched dozens of attack drones and missiles — including its advanced Kinzhal ballistic missile — according to Ukrainian officials.

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Senior Hamas commander killed in Beirut drone blast

4:22pm January 02, 2024

by Carrie Kahn

Hamas has confirmed the death of one of its senior leaders in a blast in Beirut. Lebanese state media is attributing the killing to an Israeli drone strike, but Israel has not confirmed this.

Gaza poet recalls treacherous evacuation from Gaza

4:22pm January 02, 2024

Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha describes his perilous journey out of Gaza, during which he was separated from his family by a soldier.

South Korean opposition leader is stabbed in public

4:13pm January 02, 2024

by Anthony Kuhn

In South Korea's latest outburst of political violence, the country's opposition leader has been stabbed in public ahead of general elections in April 2024.

A Japan Airlines plane is on fire on the runway of Haneda airport on Tuesday in Tokyo.

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Planes collide and catch fire at Japan's busy Haneda airport, killing 5

1:12pm January 02, 2024

by The Associated Press

All 379 occupants of the Japan Airlines plane escaped safely after colliding with a Japan coast guard aircraft carrying earthquake relief supplies. Five coast guard crew members died.