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Actor Kathryn Hahn met with a person she describes as a real-life witch every week to help her further embrace her role as the witch Agatha Harkness in the show "Agatha All Along." The Marvel miniseries created by director Jac Schaeffer serves as a spin-off of the Emmy-winning Disney Plus series “WandaVision,” also created by Schaeffer.

U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris called for an end to the Israel-Gaza war on Tuesday (September 17) at a Philadelphia forum organized by the National Association of Black Journalists.

As the period drama series “Shogun” takes home a record 18 Emmy Awards, a workshop in central Tokyo that teaches people how to swing a Japanese sword has seen an increase in tourists seeking an authentic samurai experience. Owner Kazuko Mitsui thinks it could be linked. Kristy Kilburn has more.

A fire broke out inside Greece's second biggest oil refinery on Tuesday (September 17) forcing workers to evacuate as a column of black smoke poured across the evening sky, authorities and the company said.

Militant group Hezbollah promised to retaliate against Israel after accusing it of detonating pagers across Lebanon on Tuesday (September 17), killing at least eight people and wounding nearly 3,000 others. Cybersecurity expert Joseph Steinberg said it was surprising that the organization was using pagers in the first place given Israel's history of detonating devices.

Georgian lawmakers on Tuesday (September 17) approved the third and final reading of a law on "family values and the protection of minors" that would impose sweeping curbs on LGBT rights. Arrthy Thayaparan has more.

Receiving an honorary degree in Berlin on Tuesday (September 17) actor and former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger used the opportunity to brush off former U.S. President Donald Trump's claims about immigrants in the United States eating pets, saying that the Republican presidential candidate is just one person in the party: "Let him entertain us."

Palestinian agricultural engineer Inas al-Ghoul constructed a solar cooker and a desalination system to combat the persistent energy and water crises in war-torn Gaza.

Cuba's communist-run government on Monday (September 16) slashed by a quarter the weight of its subsidized ration of daily bread, the latest shortage to strain a decades-old subsidies scheme created by the late Fidel Castro. Kristy Kilburn reports.

Lebanon's health ministry said at least eight people had been killed and more than 2,800 injured after pagers detonated across the country. The killed and injured include members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, the group told Reuters. Zachary Goelman produced this report.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams on Tuesday (September 17) spoke to reporters after a three-count federal indictment was unsealed alleging music mogul Sean 'Diddy' Combs of engaging in demeaning sex acts as part of a decades-long scheme of sex trafficking and racketeering.

Three Portuguese firefighters died on Tuesday in one of dozens of forest blazes ravaging the country's central and northern regions, bringing the death toll from the latest wildfires to seven people since Saturday, authorities said. Alice Rizzo reports.

Brazilian military firefighters recovered a young ocelot from the remnants of a forest fire in the southern Rio de Janeiro state region on Sunday (September 15).

While volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks along the Oder in Poland on Tuesday, for Lewin Brzeski it was too late, as the stricken town was completely under water. Drone footage showed the extent of the flooding as emergency services drove speedboats down the flooded streets evacuating people to safety.

Sean "Diddy" Combs has been indicted on criminal charges for what U.S. prosecutors called the music mogul's years-long orchestration of a sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy. Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Combs, said in front of Manhattan federal court he was "going to fight like hell to get him released."

CCTV captured the moment a man's bag exploded in a supermarket in the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Tuesday (September 17).

Armed insurgents attacked a training center for gendarmes in Mali's capital Bamako on Tuesday (September 17) morning but the situation is now under control, according to a state television report.

Bad weather has walloped wine production in France, with output expected to down 18% from last year, the farm ministry said on Friday. One organic wine maker near Nantes says his crops have declined by over 80%. Sean Hogan has more.

The Portuguese government requested help from the European Commission under the EU civil protection mechanism on Monday (September 16), leading Spain, Italy and Greece to send two water-bombing aircraft each.

Malian authorities have said that insurgents targeted a gendarmerie school and other areas of Bamako on Tuesday in what would be a rare attack inside the capital. David Doyle has more.

Dozens of supporters of Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, whose ex-husband allegedly abused her by recruiting strangers to sexually assault her while she was drugged, gave her a round of applause as she left court in Avignon on Tuesday (September 17).

Dominique Pelicot, the Frenchman accused of drugging and raping his wife and inviting other men to rape her, admitted to his various criminal charges in court on Tuesday (September 17). Fiona Jones reports.

Parts of central Bratislava along the Danube River were submerged on Tuesday (September 17) following a flood wave that struck the Slovak capital overnight.

Ghana lost more than a third of its cocoa output to smugglers last year, with an official describing how it is being transported across borders in quarry trucks, palm oil barrels and even an oil tanker. David Doyle examines the issue.

Water levels in the southern Polish town of Nysa started receding on Tuesday (17 September), following a night of efforts by firefighters and residents to protect the town by building a wall of sandbags. Local residents Grzegorz Grochowski and Sabina Jakubowska explain the events of the previous night.