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In a Portuguese town, the wine flows as free as a river — but no one is drinking it

5:38pm September 12, 2023

Roughly 581,000 gallons of wine poured out of two burst tanks at Destilaria Levira in Portugal Sunday, which led to a viral video of a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street.

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Displaced Yemenis receive humanitarian aid provided by the World Food Programme in the city of Taiz on September 11.

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The U.N.'s food program has a funding problem. Now millions are going hungry

5:22pm September 12, 2023

Cindy McCain, the U.N. World Food Programme's executive director, has been tasked with closing the giant hole in the budget.

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Cultural heritage matters when it comes to combating human-created climate change

5:15pm September 12, 2023

by Chloe Veltman

Officials from UNESCO are meeting to decide if Venice, Italy, should be listed as an "endangered" world heritage site in part for climate-change-related reasons.

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A "river of wine" cascaded down the streets of a small town in Portugal, after two large tanks ruptured at a nearby distillery.

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Cascades of red wine flood a city's streets in Portugal after huge tanks rupture

12:11pm September 12, 2023

by Bill Chappell

A viral video from the scene shows a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street, sluicing over curbs. The wine escaped from two tanks at a distillery up the hill.

Maria Ressa, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Rappler CEO, gestures as she talks to reporters after being acquitted by the Pasig Regional Trial Court over a tax evasion case in Pasig city, Philippines on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023.

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Nobel-winning Philippine journalist Maria Ressa is acquitted in tax evasion case

11:02am September 12, 2023

by The Associated Press

Maria Ressa said the charges against her were politically motivated as Rappler was critical of Duterte's brutal crackdown on illegal drugs that left thousands of mostly petty drug suspects dead.

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Rival factions are making a storm-driven natural disaster in Libya worse

10:25am September 12, 2023

Officials say hundreds are dead and thousands feared missing after a storm unleashes massive flooding in underserved and war-divided towns in Libya.

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A feral cat hides in a wooded area near a beach parking lot at Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, N.Y. The American Bird Conservancy sued the state parks department in 2016 to have the cats removed because they were a threat to the endangered piping plover and the cat colony was relocated to cat sanctuaries.

Australia weighs cat curfews and neutering requirements to rein in feral felines

5:00am September 12, 2023

by Joe Hernandez

Tanya Plibersek, Australia's Minister for the Environment and Water, declared "war" on feral cats officials say harm other species and carry disease. Critics say the feline threat is overblown.

In this photo provided by the Libyan government, a car sits partly suspended in trees after being carried by floodwaters in Derna, Libya, on Monday, Sept. 11, 2023.

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Thousands feared dead and more missing in Libya after storm collapsed dams

11:35pm September 11, 2023

by The Associated Press

The confirmed death toll from the weekend flooding did not include Derna, which was inaccessible, and many of the thousands missing there were believed carried away by waters after two dams burst.

Kim Jong Un steps off his train in 2019 ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit.

What we know about Kim Jong Un's train — a slow-moving bulletproof fortress

6:07pm September 11, 2023

On Monday, a dark green train with yellow trim was spotted at the border where Russia, China and North Korea meet. It runs with one passenger in mind: the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un.

50 years after the U.S.-backed coup toppled Chile's government, victims await justice

6:00pm September 11, 2023

by Carrie Kahn

It's been 50 years since a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the democratically elected president of Chile and installed a dictatorship. After five decades, many victims say they still haven't seen justice.

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