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Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country’s oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern humans’ hominin ancestors.

The United States will soon open a small diplomatic mission in Norway that will be its northernmost in the world and only such facility above the Arctic Circle, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Thursday.

Clashes between police and supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko left nine people dead, the government said Friday, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms in the aftermath of the violence.

Japan’s birth rate declined for the seventh consecutive year in 2022 to a record low, the health ministry said on Friday, underscoring the sense of crisis gripping the country as the population shrinks and ages rapidly.

Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase, said that he had never met disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and never even heard of him until Epstein’s 2019 arrest.

Doctors and medical ethicists discuss the biological and ethical issues that can come with fathering children in old age, as Al Pacino prepares to welcome a baby.

Medicare will pay for newer Alzheimer’s drugs if they are granted full approval, though it will require doctors to continue to monitor patients.

A gun store owner near Atlanta said he is closing his store after his conscience was burdened by recent mass shootings that targeted young victims.

A South Carolina convenience store owner who fatally shot a 14-year-old in the back after falsely accusing him of stealing was involved in at least two prior altercations in which he confronted people he suspected of shoplifting and then opened fire, authorities said.