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Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United Nations on Tuesday officially declared that the global population had reached 8 billion, highlighting massive growth in the last few decades and the decades to come, but also [Read More…]

CIANJUR, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesian rescuers used jackhammers, circular saws and sometimes their bare hands Tuesday to shift the rubble of flattened buildings as they searched for the dead and missing from an earthquake that killed at [Read More…]

Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea has fired one of the most power intercontinental ballistic missiles it has ever launched with the latest having the potential trajectory to strike the mainland of [Read More…]

Halfpoint Images/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — As darkness descends on the Ukrainian capital, the consequences of the waves of Russian missile strikes against critical energy infrastructure become apparent. There’s no street lighting in many places [Read More…]

EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — WNBA star Brittney Griner has been taken to penal colony IK-2 in the Russian region of Mordovia, her lawyers said in a statement Thursday. Griner is nearing her [Read More…]

chrispecoraro/Getty Images (SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico) — An American woman’s death in Mexico is being investigated as a femicide, a form of gender-based violence, according to the Baja California Sur Attorney General’s Office. The [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Polish officials granted Ukrainian investigators access on Thursday to the site of the missile strike that hit a Polish village and killed two people earlier in the week. Ukrainian President [Read More…]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]

Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — ABC News has obtained a letter sent by a top Ukrainian official to senior members of Congress, asking them to assist Ukraine’s calls for additional air defense [Read More…]

CT757fan/Getty Images (LONDON) — An American aid worker was gunned down in Baghdad on Monday, officials said. Millennium Relief and Development Services, a Texas-based international aid group, confirmed in a statement that one of its [Read More…]

ElOjoTorpe/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The second total lunar eclipse of the year took place Tuesday — and it was the last time you can catch one until 2025. The lunar eclipse — when the [Read More…]

Joel Carillet/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Communities have gravitated toward the shore for thousands of years, building their lives in proximity to major waterways for easy access to trade, seafood and recreation. But those who [Read More…]

Ashley Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — When Andy Huynh watched the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, he started losing sleep. All he could think about was the struggle of [Read More…]

Dominika Zarzycka/NurPhoto via Getty Images (SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt) — Negotiators from around the world are gathering in Egypt this week for this year’s biggest international climate summit, called COP27. The United Nations recently warned the [Read More…]

SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — Air Force military trainings took place in both North and South Korean airspaces as the two nations continue to ratchet up tensions on the Korean Peninsula as 180 North [Read More…]

JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea test-fired six missiles on Thursday, a day after launching its most tests in a single day. One long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles were [Read More…]

JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea test-fired three missiles on Thursday, a day after launching its most-ever tests in a single day. One long-range and two short-range ballistic missiles were [Read More…]