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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…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — North Korea on Wednesday said the U.S. army private who crossed the border in July had “expressed his willingness to seek refuge” in the secretive country after becoming disillusioned with [Read More…]

Russian Emergency Ministry/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A gas station in the Russian town of Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan, exploded on Monday evening, killing at least 25 and injuring dozens [Read More…]

A Sudanese officer speaks to civilians recruited by the army as they take part in a military training in the Kassinger area of Sudan’s Northern State on August 9, 2023. — AFP via Getty Images [Read More…]

Neda Sharghi via Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials said Thursday. Four of the [Read More…]

Jose Antonio Caravaca/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After months of quiet negotiations, Iran and the U.S. have reached an agreement that would see five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained released from custody and allowed [Read More…]

Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace on Feb. 16, 2023 in Paris. — Chesnot/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — There is “growing concern” for the safety of Niger’s democratically elected president who remains under [Read More…]

RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images (QUITO, Ecuador) — Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in Ecuador, whose campaign highlighted alleged connections between gangs and government officials, was assassinated at the end of a campaign rally in [Read More…]

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LAMPEDUSA, Italy) — Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told the deputy general secretary of the [Read More…]

ABC News (NASSAU, Bahamas) — A Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband while vacationing in the Bahamas was released on $100,000 bail on Wednesday. Lindsay Shiver, a 36-year-old mother of three, was [Read More…]

FILE — Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (LONDON) — Eleven people are dead after a fire engulfed a vacation home in eastern France on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. The blaze broke out around 6:30 a.m. [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti) — American woman Alix Dorsainvil and her young child have been freed and are safe after being kidnapped in Haiti roughly two weeks ago, according to a statement from [Read More…]

FILE — Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (LONDON) — Eleven people are missing after a fire engulfed a vacation home for people with disabilities in eastern France on Wednesday morning, officials said. The blaze broke out around [Read More…]

ABC News (NASSAU, Bahamas) — A Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband while vacationing in the Bahamas is set to be released on $100,000 bail on Wednesday. Lindsay Shiver, a 36-year-old mother [Read More…]

bgwalker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States has now had “direct contact” with Niger’s junta leaders, but the conversations have yet to substantially move the needle as the West African nation — a key ally [Read More…]

Nuno Cruz/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nuno Cruz/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LISBON, Portugal) — In one of the most iconic moments coming out of World Youth Day, Pope Francis called on the hundreds of thousands gathered [Read More…]

FrankRamspott/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday. “Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted [Read More…]

pop_jop/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — A Ukrainian woman has been detained by Ukraine’s Security Service in connection with an apparent plot to attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the service said on Monday. The woman, who is [Read More…]