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CBS News - World

FBI concerned alleged Chinese agent is serious flight risk, sources say -- California realtor Wanying Zhang is facing federal prosecution for allegedly surveilling the Taiwanese president's son in Washington last year at the direction of Chinese government officials.

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Maduro expected to face new charges of torture of Americans in Venezuelan prisons -- An attorney for Maduro told CBS News that he has not been given notice that additional charges could be coming.

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Newly obtained footage shows Iran attack on major U.S. post in Kuwait -- CBS News obtained new video from a person on the ground showing an Iranian attack on a U.S. base at the beginning of the war.

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Vance appears to soften U.S. demands on Iranian nuclear enrichment -- Vance says Iran must do "something meaningful on enrichment capacity" to end the war, as Rubio claims Tehran has "lost complete control" of the Strait of Hormuz.

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Mexico arrests alleged cartel leader and fuel smuggler "The Tank" -- Authorities say "El Tanque" runs a massive fuel theft network and is linked to homicides, kidnappings and drug trafficking. -- Oct 6

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Russia open to a Trump-Putin call as questions mount over plague lab death -- Russia says it's open to a Trump-Putin phone call as concern and questions mount over a woman's death of "pneumonia of unknown origin."

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Rubio calls for "unapologetic pursuit of national power" in Acropolis speech -- Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Acropolis to argue that the answer to the West's current problems can be found, at least in part, in ancient Greece.

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Iconic penguin colony sees "population collapse," study finds -- Drone and satellite images show the volcanic island lost more than 680,000 of its chinstrap penguins between 2011 and 2025, experts said.

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For families of children killed in Israel and Gaza, pain has not dulled -- Relatives of Hind Rajab in Gaza and Shiri Bibas and her children in Israel speak to CBS News three years after the Oct. 7 attacks.

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How Israeli and Palestinian kids are coping 3 years after Oct. 7 attacks -- CBS News asks two teenagers, one from either side of the Israel-Gaza border, how their lives have changed since the Hamas attack three years ago.

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Oct. 7, 2023, Pearl Harbor and 9/11 echo the same failures -- Israel learned a lesson three years ago that America has learned, at least twice, and every time the consequences are disastrous.

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U.S. troops on Okinawa facing curfew, alcohol ban after murder charge vs. Marine -- U.S. forces on Okinawa were barred from drinking alcohol for 48 hours and put under a 30-day curfew in the wake of the murder of a local woman allegedly committed by an American Marine.

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What to know about plague amid reports of Russian lab worker's death -- Reports of a lab worker dying in Russia after allegedly being exposed to plague have raised concerns, even as the WHO says the public health risk is low. -- Oct 6

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U.K. arrests 7th man on suspicion of terrorism over air base incident -- Police have now detained seven people, and released six on bail, in connection with the incident near an air base used by U.S. warplanes that President Trump and Britain's leader say has Iran links. -- Oct 6

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Amelia Earhart investigators to study mysterious object in Pacific -- Investigators have begun an expedition to study a mysterious "visual anomaly" that they say may be Amelia Earhart's long-lost plane. -- Oct 6

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