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At least 46 people were killed in an explosion in northeastern Myanmar today.

Dozens more were wounded.

It happened near the Chinese border in an area controlled by an armed ethnic rebel group since it launched a major offensive against the military in 2023.

Officials say the building was storing explosives for mining.

A sonic boom shook parts of the northeastern U.S.

this weekend, including in the Boston area.

NPR's Amy Held reports a fireball was seen in the skies.

Environmentalists are cheering relative newcomers to the Venetian lagoon, flamingos.

The pale pink birds nest in Spain and France and began showing up in Venice, Italy in the early 2000s.

They're now flocking there in record numbers.

Scientists say this is a sign of the lagoon's health instability as a feeding ground.

I'm Nora Rahm, NPR News in Washington.

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Noor Aram.

The war with Iran is now in its fourth month, with no clear indication it will be resolved anytime soon.

NPR's Tamara Keith has more.

NPR's Tamara Keith.

Israel has launched its deepest ground invasion into Lebanon in more than 25 years.

NPR's Jane Araf reports the military captured a strategic mountain in the southern part of the country.

Polls close in about an hour in Colombia, where voters are casting ballots in a first-round presidential election.