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Cuban Missile Crisis turns 60
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Cuban Missile Crisis turns 60

Sixty years ago, the world got as close it's ever been to nuclear war. For 13 days, the US and the USSR played a dangerous cat-and-mouse game over Soviet nuclear missiles parked in Cuba. The Cold War nearly got hot.

Composite of JFK, Nikita Kruschev, Vladimir Putin, and Joe Biden on a background of a global map with nuclear danger symbols.
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Another nuclear showdown?

Sixty years ago on Friday, the US and the USSR found themselves in a nose-to-nose nuclear crisis. What lessons does the Cuban Missile Crisis have for us now?

Medical workers treat injured people at Ameth Bek hospital after a drone strike on a market in the disputed Abyei region along the border between South Sudan and Sudan, October 19, 2026.
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South Sudan suffers drone strike, Romania finally gets a government, Colombia revives sea beef with Nicaragua

South Sudan is accusing neighboring Sudan of launching a drone strike that killed at least 73 people at a market in Abyei, a disputed, oil-rich region of roughly 4,000 square miles claimed by both countries.