In Canoas, Brazil, hundreds of volunteers have established a temporary dog shelter in an abandoned warehouse to care for dogs affected by recent floods.The volunteers provide medical treatment and food to sick, hungry or injured dogs with the goal of reuniting them with their owners.Floods in Rio Grande do Sul…

The World Health Organization and global leaders have acknowledged the need for improvement in pandemic responses.Efforts are underway to finalize a pandemic treaty to establish guidelines for future pandemic responses.There are concerns about the lack of consequences for countries that do not comply with the treaty.After the coronavirus pandemic triggered…

The U.S. congressional committee on China has directed the Georgia Institute of Technology to provide details of its collaboration with Tianjin University.Tianjin University is a Chinese institution facing U.S. government restrictions due to alleged ties to the country’s military.Tianjin University was added to the Commerce Department’s export restrictions list in…

Anzhelika Sharonova and her 86-year-old mother held out in their battered eastern Ukrainian town for as long as they could before finally fleeing this week with just a few bags between them.Russian forces are steadily advancing north and south of Toretsk as they press on multiple parts of the eastern…

High-level mediation talks on South Sudan were launched Thursday in Kenya with African presidents calling for an end to a conflict that has crippled the country’s economy for years.South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir thanked his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, for hosting the talks and said that his government would negotiate…

Hungary and China signed a number of new agreements on Thursday to deepen their economic and cultural cooperation during a visit to the Central European country by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a trip meant to solidify China’s economic footprint in the region.Xi and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks…

Suspected militants blew up a school for girls in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure but no one was harmed in the overnight attack, a local police official said Thursday.The attack happened Wednesday night on the only school for girls…

A Brazilian horse nicknamed Caramelo by social media users garnered national attention after a television news helicopter filmed him stranded on a rooftop in southern Brazil, where massive floods have killed more than 100 people.About 24 hours after he was first spotted and with people clamoring for his rescue, a…

A shipment of two types of precision bombs to Israel remains in limbo after being paused by the U.S. in opposition to Israeli forces’ operation in Rafah.The shipment contains 1,800 2,000-pound bombs, and 1,700 500-pound bombs the Biden administration has said may be used in Rafah.Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen.…

Guyana’s government on Thursday said it gave permission for the U.S. military to fly two powerful F/A-18F Super Hornet jets over its capital to demonstrate the close military and other forms of cooperation between this oil-exporting South American nation and the United States.The country had about three hours notice of…