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(BERLIN) — A car plowed into people visiting a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring nearly 70 others, according to German officials. German authorities are treating the [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian missile strike killed one person and wounded nine others early on Friday morning, Ukrainian officials said, an attack that U.S. Ambassador Bridget A. Brink described as “brutal.” “Early this [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s war on Ukraine dominated the opening stages of President Vladimir Putin’s annual marathon press conference on Thursday, with the Russian leader also addressing issues including future relations with President-elect Donald [Read More…]

Arnold Jerocki/Getty Images (LONDON) — Dominique Pelicot, 72, has been given the maximum sentence of 20 years in the massive trial that has shaken France and shocked the world. Pelicot and the 50 codefendants have [Read More…]

Rainer Puster / EyeEm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — China has nearly tripled its nuclear warhead arsenal since 2020, according to the Pentagon’s latest China military power report released Wednesday. “DOD estimates the PRC has surpassed 600 operational [Read More…]

ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Ukraine’s intelligence services released new information Tuesday about the conduct of North Korean troops now fighting alongside Russian forces in the western Russian region of Kursk, which since August [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The upcoming change in the White House is sparking uncertainty for the Middle East. President-elect Donald Trump might be a familiar face (and a historically friendly one for the Israelis), but [Read More…]

Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russian investigators detained a 29-year-old citizen of Uzbekistan in connection with Tuesday’s assassination of a general in Moscow, an attack in a residential neighborhood for which Ukraine claimed [Read More…]

Twelve people are dead at after their bodies were found inside a restaurant at a ski resort in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, authorities said. (Facebook / Gudauri Ski Resort) (LONDON) — Twelve people are [Read More…]

Ugur Yildirim/ dia images via Getty Images (DAMASCUS, SYRIA) — Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, [Read More…]

Bekir Kasim/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Mouaz Moustafa, the head of the U.S.-based Syrian advocacy organization, the Syrian Emergency Task Force, told ABC News Tuesday there are believed to be well over 100,000 bodies in [Read More…]

STR/AFP via Getty Images (PORT VILA, VANUATU) — The U.S. Embassy in Port Vila was damaged on Tuesday as a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The embassy, which is in [Read More…]

Sefa Karacan/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — A senior Russian general was killed in a bomb blast in a residential neighborhood in Moscow, Russian media reported early Tuesday, in what Ukrainian sources told ABC News [Read More…]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The climate crisis is not a distant threat; it’s happening right now and affecting what matters most to us. Hurricanes intensified by a warming planet and drought-fueled wildfires are destroying [Read More…]

Ugur Yildirim/ dia images via Getty Images (DAMASCUS, SYRIA) — Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, [Read More…]

Borna News/Matin Ghasemi/Aksonline ATPImages/Getty Images (LONDON) — Former Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday made his first official statement since being toppled by a rebel offensive and fleeing the country for Russia, declaring that he left [Read More…]

Yao Dawei/Xinhua via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Intelligence said on Monday that at least 30 North Korean soldiers were killed and wounded in weekend battles in Russia’s western [Read More…]

Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL) — As South Korea’s Constitutional Court began the process of reviewing the impeachment of President Yoon Suk Yeol, the leader of his party, who had supported his [Read More…]

Sofia Buti/500px/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two Russian tankers believed to be carrying thousands of tons of oil were damaged off the coast of Crimea in the early hours of Sunday amid stormy weather, Russian emergency [Read More…]

Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images (KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA) — The humanitarian crisis and ongoing conflict in Gaza has left in its wake thousands of people with life-altering disabilities. The ongoing conflict between Hamas and [Read More…]