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Washington — Israeli officials are furious over the Signal chat leak involving senior Trump administration officials because it included sensitive intelligence Israel provided to the U.S. from a human intelligence source in Yemen, CBS News has learned.  "Trigger Based" F-18 1st Strike Window Starts (Target Terrorist is @ his Known Location so SHOULD BE ON TIME – also, Strike Drones Launch (MQ-9s)

The U.S. government is on an international egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs.

Beirut, Lebanon — Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a fragile ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from the area that Israel's military had warned it would strike.

Melbourne, Australia — A former Australian police officer avoided a prison term when sentenced Friday for killing a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a stun gun, an outcome that disappointed the victim's family.

Bangkok — Two violent earthquakes rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, causing buildings in the Thai capital Bangkok to sway and prompting evacuations across the city, which officials declared an emergency zone, as well as in neighboring Myanmar. A skyscraper under construction collapsed when the first quake, with a magnitude of 7.7, struck in Bangkok, police said. 

Canadian officials are making their voices heard against tariffs through digital billboards in multiple states.

AMSTERDAM — A knife-wielding assailant in Amsterdam seriously wounded five people — including two from the United States, one from Belgium and one from Poland — in a stabbing attack Thursday on a busy shopping street, Dutch police said.

Cairo — Six tourists died on Thursday when a tourist submarine sank off the resort of Hurghada on Egypt's Red Sea coast, state media reported. The website of the state-owned Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper said the deceased were all foreigners, adding that 19 others were injured.

Seoul — South Korea's worst wildfires on record have scorched a massive swath of the country's southeast over the past five days and killed at least 24 people, according to the national fire service. The combination of strong winds and dry weather has enabled the fires to spread frighteningly across the region.

Seoul, South Korea — A motorcyclist who fell into a cavernous sinkhole that opened on a Seoul street was found dead after an overnight search, officials in South Korea's capital said Tuesday. The roughly 65-foot-wide, 65-foot-deep sinkhole appeared at an intersection in the Myeongil-dong neighborhood in eastern Seoul on Monday afternoon, swallowing the motorcyclist and injuring a woman whose van was passing over the site, according to safety and emergency offices.

Geneva — The sudden halt to U.S. foreign aid funding has been devastating, the UNAIDS chief said Monday, warning that without more funding, millions more will die and the global AIDS pandemic will resurge.

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Monday overturned the impeachment of Prime Minister Han Duck-soo, reinstating the nation's No. 2 official as acting leader, while not yet ruling on the separate impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol.

The South African ambassador who was expelled from the United States and declared persona non grata by the Trump administration was welcomed home at an airport Sunday by hundreds of supporters who sang songs praising him.

Palestinian officials said the war in Gaza has killed more than 50,000 people after Israel ended the ceasefire last week in a wave of strikes that killed hundreds.

Pope Francis waved to hundreds of people gathered outside Rome's Gemelli hospital on Sunday as the pontiff left the hospital after surviving a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

The State Department has banned former Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kricher from entering the United States, accusing her of involvement in "significant corruption" while in office.

Pope Francis will make his first public appearance on Sunday with a blessing and a wave more than a month after he was admitted into Rome's Gemelli Hospital.

Tokyo — President Trump in early March criticized what he characterized as a one-sided security alliance between the U.S. and Japan. Officials in Japan have heard these comments from Mr. Trump before, and so far, they've continued shaping the country's national security plans based on the assurance of backing from the United States. 

Some Europeans are becoming leery of visiting the U.S., as reports of U.S. immigration authorities detaining them while traveling, for reasons that are not clear, swirl. 

London's Heathrow Airport announced it will be closed Friday after experiencing a "significant power outage" due to a fire. 

A jury has found two men guilty on all counts of trying to kill Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, who works as a journalist and lives in New York City.

Kirsty Coventry was elected president of the International Olympic Committee on Thursday and became the first woman and first African to get perhaps the biggest job in world sports.

Construction work near one of Greece's most notorious prisons in Thessaloniki has unearthed the remains of dozens of people executed during the Greek Civil War era, relatives and officials said Wednesday. The grisly find included the discovery of footwear, including the remnants of a woman's shoe.

Tel Aviv — For a second night in a row, Israel's military launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least 13 more people by early Wednesday after more than 400 were killed the previous day, according to health officials in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory.

A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace was convicted Tuesday along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art insured for more than $6 million.

Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia launched a series of drone strikes that struck civilian areas overnight and damaged a hospital in Ukraine following a phone call between Presidents Trump and Vladimir Putin during which the Russian leader refused to back a full 30-day ceasefire. Mr. Trump had said that Putin agreed during the call to immediately halt attacks "on all energy and infrastructure" in Ukraine.

A new report from the World Meteorological Organization delivers a stark warning: climate change is accelerating, with some impacts now irreversible for centuries. The State of the Global Climate report confirms global temperatures, greenhouse gas emissions and sea levels all reached record highs in 2024. 

A Greek woman sentenced to life last year for murdering her 9-year-old daughter received two additional life terms on Tuesday for killing her two other children.

Washington—President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are speaking by phone Tuesday morning as the U.S. tries to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine three years after Russia's invasion.

Johannesburg — It sounds like the plot of a horror movie. Researchers stuck on a remote research base in Antarctica send an email out to the world, pleading for help as a colleague is accused of assault.

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israel launched new strikes against Hamas, killing at least 69 people, according to Gaza's health ministry, and promised "increasing military force" after talks on further hostage releases stalled, Israel's Office of the Prime Minister said Monday.

Peru announced a state of emergency late Sunday in the capital Lima over a wave of killings linked to extortion.

An assailant poured a liquid over a woman on a tram in eastern Germany on Sunday and set her on fire, police said. The woman was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, while the attacker fled.

A massive fire tore through a nightclub in North Macedonia 's eastern town of Kocani early Sunday, killing 51 people and injuring more than 100, authorities said.

Tens of thousands of people descended on Belgrade on Saturday as part of a mass rally seen as a culmination of months-long protests against Serbia's populist President Aleksandar Vucic and his government.

An American influencer who sparked outrage after posting a video of her snatching a baby wombat from its mother while in Australia apologized on Saturday, saying she had acted out of concern for the young animal's welfare.

Cuba suffered a massive power outage Friday night affecting Havana and the country's provinces that left millions in the dark.

Former central banker Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada's new prime minister on Friday, and will now try to steer his country through a trade war brought by U.S. President Donald Trump, annexation threats and an expected federal election.

Hamas said on Friday it has accepted a proposal from mediators to release one living American-Israeli hostage and the bodies of four dual-nationals who had died in captivity. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office cast doubt on the offer, accusing the U.S. and Israeli-designated terrorist group of trying to manipulate talks underway in Qatar on the next stage of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire.

A Mass was held in St. Peter's Basilica Friday in honor of Pope Francis as the 88-year-old marked two milestones this week: his 12-year anniversary as pontiff and the one-month mark since he was hospitalized for ongoing treatment of a respiratory infection.

Police in Japan said Friday that they had arrested a suspect in the fatal stabbing of a YouTuber while she was livestreaming on a downtown Tokyo street.

During a meeting on Wednesday with Ireland's leader Michel Martin, President Trump made an offhand remark that was quickly picked up in the Middle East as a major change in his stance on the war-torn Gaza Strip and its roughly 2 million Palestinian inhabitants.

As many Americans prepare for spring break, questions have surfaced around the safety of traveling to the Dominican Republic – amid a search for a missing U.S. student – and other Caribbean tourist destinations, including the Turks and Caicos Islands.

One of China's biggest restaurant chains has promised to refund thousands of customers after video of a customer urinating into a simmering hotpot went viral online, triggering a public outcry. The clip, recorded last month, appears to show a young man standing on a table at a branch of the Haidilao restaurant chain in Shanghai urinating into a vat of boiling broth.

Over 800 marine species were newly discovered after two years of collaborative efforts by scientists, governments, museums and others participating in the Ocean Census, a global alliance founded to accelerate the discovery of marine life.

In August 2021, Tamim Satari raced to the Kabul International Airport to evacuate Afghanistan after working with the American military as an intelligence officer, helping U.S. forces coordinate aerial bomb campaigns against the Taliban. But in the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal, his wife and newborn son were left behind. 

Researchers in Spain have unearthed a fossil from a potential new prehistoric member of the human family tree, and they say it's the earliest known remnants of a face discovered in Western Europe.

One of Guatemala's most wanted drug traffickers has been captured in Mexico and returned to Guatemala to await extradition to the United States, Guatemalan officials said.

It's a confusing time for American diplomacy. After yesterday's meeting in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. appeared on Tuesday to be back in Ukraine's corner — and calling on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire in the war it started more than three years ago. It remained entirely unclear on Wednesday, however, whether Vladimir Putin might agree to a temporary ceasefire. His forces currently have the momentum on the battlefield but, like Ukraine, Russia is thought to have suffered hundreds of thousands of military casualties.

Quetta, Pakistan — Pakistani security forces were battling hundreds of separatist militants holding roughly 300 hostages Wednesday on a train they hijacked in the country's remote southwest, officials said. At least 30 of the militants had been killed, security officials said, while about 190 of the roughly 450 passengers initially on the train had been rescued.