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On the evening of January 18, a 32-year-old Greek man came to police with an unusual object he said he found in a plastic bag among garbage bins near the northern city of Thessaloniki.It was a headless, armless statue depicting a female form in a flowing, draped dress.Police announced on Wednesday that the statue is believed to date from the Hellenistic period, after the death of Alexander the Great, from around 323 BC to 31 BC.The find sparked an investigation among Greece's crime, traffic, antiquities and heritage protection units into its origins and how it might have ended up in the bin.The discovery of ancient artifacts in surprising places is not uncommon in a country as rich in history and archeology as Greece. Relics are often unearthed during construction projects, such as those i...

Amazon said Wednesday it will close all of its warehouse and logistics operations in Quebec, the Canadian province where unions have gained a foothold in one of its facilities, and lay off 1,700 workers.The closures represent a reversal of Amazon's recent investments in the province. The company opened three delivery stations in 2021 and one last year. It also had a small logistics center in Quebec and two warehouses that sorted packages. Overall, the investments amount to about 2 million square feet of assets, according to an estimate by Marc Wulfraat, a Montreal-based warehouse industry consultant who has long studied Amazon's logistics network.Amazon said it will close the seven facilities to "provide the same great service and even more savings to our customers in the long term," accor...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick to lead the nation's health agencies, formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to revoke authorization of all Covid-19 vaccines during a deadly phase of the pandemic when thousands of Americans were still dying every week.Mr Kennedy submitted a petition to the FDA in May 2021 asking that officials revoke authorization for the shots and refrain from approving any Covid vaccines in the future.Just six months earlier, Trump had declared that the anti-Covid vaccines were a miracle. By the time Mr. Kennedy filed the petition, half of American adults were getting the shot. Schools reopened and churches filled.Estimates had begun to show that the rapid rollout of Covid vaccines had already saved around 140,000 lives in the Unite...

Minutes after fighting in Gaza ended on Sunday, Islam Dahliz, his father and brother set off for the neighborhood where they had lived until Israeli forces ordered them to leave. They were looking for the family home, but the landscape around them confused their senses. Familiar landmarks, streets, neighbors' houses - everything was rubble.Then Mr. Dahliz recognized the local wedding hall, he said, or what was left of it. This meant that their house was – had been – behind them, at a point they had already passed. They simply hadn't recognized it, this house that Mr. Dahliz's father had built more than 50 years ago.“It took us a few minutes to accept that this pile of rubble was our home,” said Dahliz, 34, who works with local aid groups. They stood there, speechless.His father, Abed Dahli...

A fire swept through a 12-story hotel at a ski resort in Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring 51 others, authorities said, turning an idyllic vacation spot into a smoke-filled nightmare.The disaster occurred during the winter holidays in Türkiye, when children do not go to school and many families go on holiday, including to ski resorts. It is unclear how many children were among the dead, but some were reported by acquaintances.The cause of the fire was unclear.Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on social media that six prosecutors had been assigned to investigate the fire. Nine people, including the hotel owner, had been arrested.The fire broke out before dawn at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya, 180 miles east of Istanbul, sending large flames from the windows a...

President Trump is expected to announce a joint venture Tuesday between OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle to create at least $100 billion in computing infrastructure to power artificial intelligence, according to two people familiar with the announcement.The venture, called Stargate, adds to significant investments by technology companies in U.S. data centers, huge buildings filled with servers that provide computing power. According to sources, the total could reach $500 billion in four years. The three companies intend to contribute funds to the venture, which will be open to other investors and will start with a first data center in Texas.The joint venture announcement is set to be an early trophy for Trump, even though the effort to set up the joint venture predates his taking office on Mond...

President Trump moved quickly to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization on Monday, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation's position as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.In an executive order issued about eight hours after he was sworn in, Trump cited a number of reasons for the withdrawal, including the WHO decision “mismanagement of the Covid-19 pandemic” and “failure to adopt urgently needed reforms”. He said the agency demands “unfairly burdensome payments” from the United States and complained that China pays less.The move was not unexpected. Trump has been railing against the WHO since 2020, when he attacked the agency for its approach to the coronavirus pandemic and threatened to withhold U.S. fundin...

Gazans realized the scale of the devastation of their old neighborhoods and Israelis awaited news on the three newly released hostages as a day-long ceasefire between Hamas and Israel continued Monday.With the war's 15-month lull, Palestinians returned to the parts of the Gaza Strip from which they fled, picking their way through vast areas of rubble and trying to salvage what they could – a sofa, a mattress, a chair or a crate – from the rubble of their old homes.“People can barely recognize the destroyed places where they lived,” said Montaser Bahja, an English teacher, a day after visiting his old neighborhood in the northern city of Jabaliya.In a video shared with The New York Times, Mr. Bahja, 50, can be seen running through the streets with his son Alhassan, 21, and trying to reconci...

An 18-year-old British man admitted on Monday to killing three girls and attempting to kill 10 others during a brutal knife attack during a dance class last July in Southport, England.The defendant, Axel Rudakubana, unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges against him on the first day of his trial at Liverpool Crown Court.Mr Rudakubana admitted killing Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, 9, who were taking part in a Taylor Swift-themed bracelet-making and dance class on July 29 during the summer break from school. , and the attempted murder of 10 people, including eight children and two adults.After the stabbings, police searched Mr. Rudakubana's home and said they found ricin, a lethal toxin, and a PDF file titled "Military Studies in Jihad Against Tyrants: ...

Many tech leaders and companies have courted President-elect Donald J. Trump in recent weeks. From Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, they visited Trump at Mar-a-Lago, fawned over him on X and donated to his inaugural fund.But TikTok has taken these methods to the next level.As the Chinese-owned social app fights a federal law that bans it in the United States unless it is sold, it has publicly referenced and then thanked Trump for his support in statements and videos since Friday. He even embedded his flattery directly into the app so his 170 million American users could see it:“As a result of President Trump's efforts, TikTok has returned to the United States!,” read a pop-up message on Sunday.TikTok CEO Shou Chew filmed his own video thanking Trump last week, also refe...