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Wednesday, September 17, 2025 8:11 PM ET

CBS News - World

Wild chimps consume the equivalent of 2 cocktails a day, research finds -- A new study on chimpanzees in Uganda and C te d'Ivoire supports a theory that humans may have inherited a taste for alcohol from primate ancestors.

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Pharaoh's 3,000-year-old gold bracelet goes missing from museum -- The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with "spherical lapis lazuli beads," belonged to King Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt's 21st Dynasty.

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Putin foe was poisoned before dying in prison, widow says -- Alexei Navalny, who crusaded against official corruption and staged anti-Kremlin protests as President Vladimir Putin's fiercest foe, died in the Arctic penal colony in 2024.

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Prime suspect in Madeleine McCann case released from German prison -- Christian Brueckner, who prosecutors believe abducted British toddler Madeleine McCann, has been released from prison after serving a sentence in an unrelated rape case.

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Gold worth $700,000 stolen from Paris' Natural History Museum -- A break-in was detected on Tuesday, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into the river-side complex.

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Trump attends banquet dinner with King Charles during 2nd state visit to U.K. -- President Trump received the royal treatment from King Charles on a historic second U.K. state visit, but he's been greeted also by protests over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

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China accuses Philippines of ship collision near disputed Scarborough shoal -- China's coast guard has accused a Philippine ship of deliberately ramming one of its vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.

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Study details Russia's "forced militarization" of abducted Ukrainian kids -- Russia is subjecting abducted Ukrainian children to "forced militarization" at 210 facilities, even making them build drones, Yale researchers say.

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Trump unlikely to escape Epstein scandal on historic state visit to U.K. -- The ongoing fallout over Epstein is likely to follow Trump on his formal state visit to the U.K., which just lost its ambassador in D.C. to the scandal. -- Sep 16

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Divers recover artifacts from the Titanic's sister ship for first time -- Thirty of the more than 1,060 people on board the Britannic died when the lifeboats they were in were struck by the ship's still-turning propellers. -- Sep 16

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U.S. lifts travel restrictions on Hungarian citizens -- The Biden administration in 2021 imposed restrictions on Hungarian passport holders born outside of Hungary. -- Sep 16

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U.N. commission concludes Israel is committing genocide in Gaza -- Experts commissioned by the U.N. Human Rights Council say Israeli forces are "continuing to commit" genocide in Gaza. Israel calls the report Hamas lies. -- Sep 16

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Rugby player gets 12-match ban for biting her opponent in World Cup -- Axelle Berthoumieu admitted to biting Ireland's Aoife Wafer in their Women's Rugby World Cup quarterfinal but appealed her 12-match suspension. -- Sep 16

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Smoke-dried remains found in Asia may be world's oldest mummies -- Some ancient societies in Asia appear to have smoke-dried their dead, effectively mummifying them thousands of years earlier than their Egyptian counterparts, new research has found. -- Sep 16

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Israel's military says Gaza City ground offensive is underway -- Israel's military says troops have "begun pushing into the heart of Gaza City," renewing its call for thousands of war-weary civilians to evacuate. -- Sep 16

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