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DIMUSE/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an insurrection against the Russian military, [Read More…]

Artyom Anikeev/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia’s Tver region on Wednesday, according to the press service of Russia’s Federal [Read More…]

TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK)– India on Wednesday became only the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so in the lunar south [Read More…]

ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]

ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]

Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to [Read More…]

SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two adults and six children who rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]

yorkfoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is set to visit China at the end of August, according to the Commerce Department, making Gina Raimondo the second high-ranking member of the Biden administration [Read More…]

SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — An urgent rescue operation is underway to save two adults and six children who were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in a chairlift when a cable broke in [Read More…]

Cheshire Constabulary/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Former British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty in the worst child serial killer [Read More…]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following [Read More…]

Jesse Winter/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Fire officials in British Columbia warned they would be facing “the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer,” as wildfires that have been ravaging [Read More…]

Artem Hvozdkov/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who [Read More…]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 11 women’s rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country’s most well-known opposition leader. The Treasury Department said the four individuals [Read More…]

pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sixty-three people are presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people from Senegal sank near Cabo Verde, an island about 600 kilometers west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, [Read More…]

The Ocean Cleanup (NEW YORK) — Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone with Paul Whelan, a wrongfully imprisoned American citizen who has been jailed by Moscow since 2018, according to sources familiar with the [Read More…]

Jean-Baptiste Bosson (NEW YORK) — Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world [Read More…]

Courtesy Carol Barnes (NEW YORK) — David Barnes, an American who has been incarcerated in Russia since the beginning of 2022, will have to wait another three weeks before he returns to a Moscow courtroom. [Read More…]