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The day before Russian prison authorities said fierce Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny had died in a far-flung penal colony, the opposition leader and long-time thorn in President Vladimir Putin’s side appeared in a courtroom via live video link from the prison, looking happy and healthy. Navalny can even be heard in the video joking with the judge. “Your honor, I …

NBA champion and “Survivor” contestant Scot Pollard is “awake and feeling great” a day after a heart transplant, his wife said Saturday on social media. “Scot has a new heart!” Dawn Pollard posted Friday night on social media. “Surgery went well and I’ve been told the heart is big, powerful and is a perfect fit! Now on to the crucial …

Moscow — President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia would prefer to see President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump. Speaking in an interview with a correspondent from Russian state television, Putin declared that he will work with any U.S. leader who is elected, but noted that he would prefer a Biden …

CBS News senior foreign correspondent Debora Patta conducted a rare interview with a Hamas commander and recruiter in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, four months after the group launched its bloody terror attack on Israel, sparking the ongoing war in Gaza. The militant said the war was helping draw new members to Hamas in the West Bank — a point one …

Polar bears, unable to thrive on land in Canada’s Hudson Bay, are facing greater risk of starvation as Arctic ice melts and they endure longer ice-free seasons, researchers said. In a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, researchers said they’d hoped polar bears might adapt to longer ice-free seasons by behaving like their grizzly bear relatives. The 20 …

Jerusalem— The Israeli military said Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of strikes in Lebanon,” raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border fire and increasing tension fueled by the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military gave no further details on the airstrikes, but Lebanese media said three …

Jenin, West Bank— After more than four months of war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and despite mounting international pressure to limit the devastating impact on Palestinian civilians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s goal remains the same — to destroy Hamas. But in the other Palestinian territory, the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the seemingly endless war in Gaza is …

South Korea’s military says it has detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into waters off its northeastern coast in its fifth test of such weapons since January. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff on Wednesday didn’t immediately provide the exact numbers of missiles fired or how far they flew. It added that both South Korea and U.S. intelligence agencies …

Scaffolding that covered the top of Notre Dame cathedral following a devastating fire in April 2019 is being removed, marking a milestone in its reconstruction. As the shell at the summit has been taken down in recent days, it has revealed the cathedral’s new spire for the first time, adorned with a golden rooster and cross, offering a glimpse of …

An artist in the south of France says he’s planning to destroy up to $45 million worth of art, including pieces by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Andy Warhol, if WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange dies in prison, British broadcaster Sky News reports. Andrei Molodkin told Sky that he put a collection of masterpieces that had been donated to him into a 29-ton …