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Some U.S. military veterans are busy as bees, tending to beehives on the grounds of the veterans medical center in Manchester, New Hampshire. They’re among about a dozen veterans who are learning beekeeping as part of recreation therapy to help relieve post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety.

North Korea Thursday warned its “patience is running out” and threatened to increase provocations following the breakdown of nuclear talks with the United States.

Turkey is facing calls for restraint by its Western allies as well as Russia and Iran after Ankara’s forces launched a military offensive against a Syrian Kurdish militia Wednesday.

Most people think of rats as dirty, disease-ridden creatures that should be avoided at all cost. But not the folks at a global nonprofit organization in Tanzania. The group has developed an innovative method of detecting landmines and tuberculosis by using African giant pouched rats’ extraordinary sense of smell.

Two-thirds of the votes cast for incumbent Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in last month’s presidential election were cast without proper biometric verification and fraudulent, a leading rival candidate, former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said Oct. 7, joining a chorus of candidates making similar accusations.