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Two boats carrying people are seen sailing at dusk.

At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, were missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently on the way to Malaysia, according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies.

Posted: April 15, 2026, 8:53 am
a woman dusts off books with a paint brush

A group of volunteers had begun sifting through the damage at the Omari library in Gaza City and trying to save whatever books they can find. They say the work is not just about the books, it's about protecting the culture and heritage of the Gaza Strip.

Posted: April 15, 2026, 8:00 am
A medium shot of U.S. President Donald Trump outside the Oval Office at the White House

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep U.S. President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 10:51 pm
Pedestrians walk past a driveway at the edge of a San Francisco home belonging to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

The man accused of trying to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by throwing a Molotov cocktail at his San Francisco home was experiencing a mental health crisis and has been overcharged by prosecutors, his public defender said Tuesday.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 10:07 pm
Four palm trees are battered by high winds.

A super typhoon steadily battered a pair of remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds and relentless rains, shredding tin roofs and forcing residents to take cover from flying tree limbs.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 9:11 pm
A crying man holds the hand of a deceased child

Israeli fire killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said, in the latest violence to undermine a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 4:21 pm
A man stands on a red carpet wearing a white suit with a scarf on top.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the release of Kuwaiti American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after he was detained in Kuwait over social media posts during military escalations in the Iran war.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 3:09 pm
A woman looks anguished seated in a dress as her arms are locked with a man in a suit.

The director of the Texas summer camp where 27 campers and counsellors were killed by a devastating flood last year testified Monday he did not see official warnings issued the day before the storm hit and that staff had no meetings about the pending danger.

Posted: April 14, 2026, 11:41 am