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Zebra on the loose in Seoul sparks frantic chase A zebra escaped from a Seoul, South Korea zoo and led police and firefighters on a chase through city streets before the animal was tranquilized and returned to the zoo. (National Fire Agency via Yonhap) A zebra has been captured on …

Iran proxy forces launched about seven rockets targeting a U.S. base in Northeast Syria today in retaliation to the U.S., a defense official confirms to Fox News.  In first assessments, there are no U.S. casualties and no damage to the base near the Al-Omar oil field. The rocket attacks came …

A planned visit by King Charles III to France has been scrapped as more than a million people have taken to the streets across the country to protest French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms.  Macron’s office said Friday that the state visit – which was set for Sunday – has been …

The U.S. military has denied Chinese claims that American warships were chased away from disputed islands in the South China Sea.  China’s Southern Theatre Command claimed that it forced the USS Milius, a guided-missile destroyer part of the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet, away from the disputed Paracel Islands.  “USS Milius …

America’s credibility among its adversaries has dwindled under President Biden, with some experts arguing a line can be drawn from the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan to more recent events such as the Chinese spy balloon and the downing of a U.S. drone by Russian forces. “I think the Biden …

A new ocean could form in the distant future after a split continues to form in Africa, according to researchers.  “This is the only place on Earth where you can study how a continental rift becomes an oceanic rift,” Christopher Moore, a doctoral student at the University of Leeds, told …

A Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs official gave a terse correction to a Western reporter on Thursday, rebuking their question about the “Taiwanese president.” Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin fielded questions from journalists Thursday at a press conference in Beijing. A reporter with United Kingdom-based outlet Reuters asked Wang, “Taiwanese …

After a landmark agreement to restore ties with Iran, Saudi Arabia is looking to do the same with Syria after more than a decade of hostilities, according to a new report.  Several sources close to the matter told Reuters that talks between Riyadh and Damascus gathered momentum in the weeks …

The U.S. military carried out several airstrikes in Syria on Thursday in response to a drone strike Iranian forces conducted earlier in the day on a coalition base that killed one American. The Defense Department said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps crashed a UAV into a building near Hasakah in …

French President Emmanuel Macron continues to see massive resistance toward his pension reforms, which pushed back the age of retirement from 62 to 64, with some 800,000 people gathering to protest in Paris alone, according to local reports Thursday.  Demonstrators clashed with police in what have been aggressive and even …