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Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female ...
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...
International Space Station welcomes its first astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary
The first astronauts in more than 40 years from India, Poland and Hungary arrived at the International Space Station on ...
College graduates face toughest job market in more than a decade as hiring slows
While completing a master’s degree in data analysis, Palwasha Zahid moved from Dallas to a town near Silicon Valley. The ...
Cambodia ex-leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister make separate visits to tense border areas
Cambodia’s powerful former leader Hun Sen and Thailand’s prime minister, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, on Thursday made separate ...
Shell denies reports that the energy giant is in talks to take over BP
British oil giant Shell on Thursday denied media reports that it is in talks to buy rival BP. The Wall Street Journal on ...
Myanmar burns confiscated drugs worth around $300 million
Nearly $300 million worth of confiscated illegal drugs were destroyed in Myanmar’s major cities on Thursday to mark the ...
Investigators begin analyzing data from black boxes of Air India flight that crashed
Investigators have begun analyzing data extracted from the black boxes of the ill-fated Air India Boeing 787 Dreamliner that crashed about two weeks ago, killing at least 270 ...
North Korea opening a tourist site on its east coast next week that’s key to its tourism hopes
North Korea next week will open a signature tourist site on its east coast that it called a prelude to a new era in its ...
Cassie, Jane, Cudi and freak-offs: How Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex trafficking trial has played out
Jurors at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ sex trafficking trial were barely seated on the trial’s first day when they were shown a video ...
EU leaders meet to discuss tougher Russia sanctions, US tariffs and Middle East conflicts
The heads of the European Union’s 27 member nations will meet Thursday in Brussels to discuss tougher sanctions on Russia, ...
Trump’s latest rejection of intelligence assessments reflects a long distrust of spy agencies
President Donald Trump’s fights with the intelligence community were a running theme of his first term, as he raged against ...