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Buena Vista Images/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Francis announced Sunday he’s elevating 21 clergymen from around the world to become cardinals in a ceremony later this year. The pope made the announcement during his [Read More…]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly two dozen armed men stormed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the Tabarre section of Port-au-Prince Thursday night, forcibly removing a gunshot victim [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For four days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature ever [Read More…]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Friday marks journalist and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich’s 100th day being detained by Russian government authorities. The 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter has sat in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison [Read More…]

Yuriy Boyko/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia could stage an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to halt Ukrainian advances on the battlefield, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in a wide-ranging new interview with ABC [Read More…]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For three days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature [Read More…]

CT757fan/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Princeton University graduate student is being held captive by an Iran-linked Shiite militia in Iraq where she was conducting field research for her Ph.D. in political science, according to officials [Read More…]

Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ukrainian officials have heightened warnings in recent days that Russia plans to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — the largest nuclear plant in Europe. The [Read More…]

Yuriy Boyko/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukraine’s ongoing counteroffensive has allowed their forces to take the “initiative” in the war against Russian invaders but “we want to do it faster,” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military released dramatic video of a tense encounter on Wednesday over the skies of eastern Syria as Russian fighter jets were seen “harassing” three American military drones carrying out [Read More…]

Alexandre Morin-Laprise/Getty Images (JENIN, West Bank) — Israel withdrew its forces from the Jenin refugee camp just after midnight Wednesday, ending the largest military operation it’s conducted in the occupied West Bank in nearly twenty [Read More…]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The planet reached the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments during one of America’s most quintessential summer holidays. The average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 [Read More…]

Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images (TOKYO) — The United Nation’s nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), approved plans by Japan to release water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Russia continues its nearly 16-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine, political turmoil has erupted in Moscow while Kyiv tries to take back territory. A feud between Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of [Read More…]

Mona Makela Photography/Getty Images (TEXAS) — Four bodies, including that of an infant, have been recovered from the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, since Saturday, according to Lt. Chris Olivarez, a spokesperson with the [Read More…]

Boy_Anupong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israeli forces fired tear gas inside of a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that injured 125 people as a two-day raid on the city continued, [Read More…]

Boy_Anupong/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israeli forces fired tear gas inside of a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday that injured 125 people as a two-day raid on the city continued, [Read More…]

Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (PARIS) — France has been beset by violent unrest in recent days after a police officer shot and killed a teenager in a Paris suburb. Here’s what we know [Read More…]

pop_jop/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian Armed Forces have yet to reach their “full potential” but two top generals say the counteroffensive is “going to plan” despite anxiety among some Western analysts that Ukraine is [Read More…]

George Karbus Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — July marks the peak of the humpback whale’s 6,000-mile migration north to Queensland, Australia’s warmer waters, where they mate and give birth. “We think we have more whales [Read More…]