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  1. Israelis mourn anniversary of Oct. 7 attacks as Palestinians grapple with war it sparked

    A woman kisses a poster of a memorial plaque while a man embraces her.

    Israelis gathered on Wednesday to commemorate the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks that killed 1,200 people, saw 251 taken hostage and sparked a devastating war in Gaza that has left much of the territory in ruins and its two million people living in dire conditions.

  2. Nepal search for missing after flash floods officially ends, with nearly 5,300 people still unaccounted for

    A helmeted person wearing a reflective vest holds a cellphone will walking among stone and rock with a dog.

    The families of thousands of people who remain missing in Nepal weeks after catastrophic floods devastated the country have expressed mixed feelings after the government said this week that it is stopping the search for victims.

  3. French, Japanese scientists share Nobel Prize in Chemistry

    Two people are shown on a projection screen over two men and a woman sitting at a long table. The men on the projection - one is bespectacled, cleanshaven and Caucasian, the other is Asian and cleanshaven.

    Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for their discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.

  4. Russian strike devastates apartment block in northern Ukraine, at least 19 killed overall across the country

    Several rescue workers in uniform, and other individuals are shown on a massive mountain of debris in an apparent search and rescue effort.

    Russian missiles and drones pounded Kyiv and a dozen other Ukrainian regions overnight into Wednesday, killing at least 19 civilians, including four children, and wounding around 60 in Moscow's latest devastating barrage, Ukrainian officials said.

  5. Tennessee inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say

    Tennessee inmate Christa Pike is seen in a photo taken Dec. 4, 2007.

    Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike is awake and speaking at a hospital, her lawyers said Tuesday, six days after the state's failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection left her unconscious and on a ventilator.