By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/9/2025 2:24 PM
Bolivia's Supreme Electoral Tribunal has approved 10 presidential tickets for the Aug. 17 election, confirming that former President Evo Morales will not be allowed to run. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/9/2025 12:35 PM
World leaders at a United Nations conference in France now call for an end to ocean-plundering activity with a global agreement likely on the horizon. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/9/2025 10:29 AM
NATO allies are expected to be asked to pump up their defense spending when the organization's Secretary General Mark Rutte speaks in London Monday. ... Read full Story
9News' Lauren Tomasi was struck with a rubber bullet as she reported live near the front line of the protests surrounding Los Angeles's metropolitan detention centre. ... Read full Story
Delegations from China and the United States will be discussing trade in-person on Monday in London after phone call between U.S. President Trump and China's President Xi. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/9/2025 9:35 AM
Russia launched 499 drones and ballistic and cruise missiles against seven provinces across Ukraine, of which the Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have downed all but 22. ... Read full Story
Ukraine is short-handed on the front line against its bigger enemy and needs further military support from its Western partners, especially air defences. ... Read full Story
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is set to call on member countries on Monday to increase their missile and air defences by 400 per cent. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 10:42 PM
The Israeli military on Sunday released video it said showed the underground rooms where they found the body of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar who is believed to have died in tunnels under a Gaza hospital last month. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 8:08 PM
Pope Leo asked God to "open borders, break down walls and dispel hatred," during Sunday mass with tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square Sunday. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 7:03 PM
Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in central Madrid Sunday to push back on the policies of Spain's socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez, demanding an early election amid corruption allegations. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 5:40 PM
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake was recorded in Colombia on Sunday about 72 miles east of Bogota, according to the Servicio Geológico Colombiano. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 4:57 PM
Israel said Sunday that it would use "any means necessary" to stop a flotilla of boats carrying a dozen pro-Palestinian activists and aid from reaching Gaza. ... Read full Story
By United Press International, Inc. | | 6/8/2025 3:14 PM
Colombian police have arrested a teenage boy in connection with Saturday's shooting of far-right presidential candidate Miguel Uribe. ... Read full Story
What to know about Trump's deployment of 2,000 California National Guard troops over Gov. Newsom’s objections, invoking Title 10 to support ICE amid protests. ... Read full Story
"Worry is such a debilitating thing that robs you of your energy ..." — Georgia Nicols, The Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2025
Did you know?
Debilitating describes things that cause serious impairment of strength or ability to function. The word appears in both medical and general contexts; someone can suffer from debilitating nausea or debilitating stage fright. An adjective that takes the form of a verb, debilitating dates to the mid-17th century, making it the youngest of a trio: its source, the verb debilitate ("to impair the strength of"), dates to the early 16th century, and the noun debility ("weakness, infirmity") has been in use since the 15th century. All come from the Latin word for "weak," debilis. Polyglots may recognize the influence of debilis in words from Spanish, Russian, Czech, Turkish, Danish, and many other languages as well.