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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…]

Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images (EDINBURGH, U.K.) — Monster hunters, assemble! The Loch Ness Centre announced it’s set to begin the biggest search for its infamous mythical creature in over 50 years and volunteers are needed. [Read More…]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (LISBON, Portugal) — You’d think you were at a music festival — jubilant crowds singing and dancing, wearing face paint, even having a beer in some cases. And the [Read More…]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Moscow court has extended the detention of Travis Leake, an American man detained by Russia on drug charges. Heavily armed Russian police arrested Leake in early June at his [Read More…]

belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent could be sentenced Friday to an additional two decades behind bars on extremism charges. A Russian judge is set to deliver a verdict in [Read More…]

Mitch Diamond/ Getty Images (SAN DIEGO, CA) — Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to allegedly spying for China, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. Both are accused of having passed along [Read More…]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (EAGLE PASS, TX) — Two people have been found dead in the southern part of the Rio Grande river, officials said. One body was found stuck in the lines of orange buoys [Read More…]

ABC News/WHO While cases of mpox continue to decline across the United States and Europe, infections are steadily rising in China. For the week ending July 21, 117 cases were confirmed in China, according to [Read More…]

200mm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — North Korea for the first time responded to messages regarding U.S. Army Private 2nd Class Travis King, who ran across the demilitarized zone two weeks ago, according to defense officials. “I can [Read More…]

Aldo Pavan/Getty Images (NIGER) — High-ranking officials at the U.S. Department of State are trying to restore democratic order in Niger, a key U.S. ally on counterterrorism. There may be a “narrow opportunity” to reverse [Read More…]

Petter Sandell/Getty Images (HAITI) — While the whereabouts of an American nurse and her young child reportedly kidnapped in Haiti late last week are still a mystery, the alarming surge of abductions taking place in [Read More…]

Valais cantonal police / Kantonspolizei Wallis (LONDON) — The body of a hiker who has been missing for 37 years has been unearthed on a thawing glacier near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. A [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll after an apparent suicide bombing in Pakistan has risen to 54, officials said on Monday. No organization has yet taken responsibility for the apparent suicide bombing, which injured [Read More…]

Matt Rivers/ABC News (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti is in the grips of a ravaging hunger crisis, where nearly five million Haitians — half of the country — do not get enough to eat on a [Read More…]

ABC News (TOWNSVILLE, Australia) — For the next week 30,000 troops from the U.S., Australia, and 11 other countries will continue their joint training in different parts of Australia as part of the Talisman Sabre [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — When handing out machetes on the streets of Haiti to people who’ve never really used them, it’s important to wrap up the blades. They’re really sharp, and it’s easy to [Read More…]

ABC News (BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA) — The United States and Australia will deepen their military ties after reaching an agreement that expands their military cooperation as both countries work to deter China’s growing influence and territorial [Read More…]

-/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Soldiers in Niger have announced they have ousted the West African nation’s democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum, in a national televised address. Surrounded by uniformed soldiers, Niger’s Colonel-Major [Read More…]

Luis Martinez/ABC News (WASHINGTON) — As Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with Papua New Guinea’s top leaders on Thursday, to build on a new defense cooperation agreement signed between the two countries in May, Austin [Read More…]