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Sean Gallup/Getty Images (LONDON) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II “died peacefully” on Thursday, Sept. 8, at Balmoral Castle, the British royal family’s estate in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, according to a statement from Buckingham Palace. She was [Read More…]

bergserg/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Heavy fighting has broken out between Azerbaijan and Armenia after Azerbaijan appeared to launch a large-scale attack on Armenian territory, triggering a crisis that poses a potentially serious challenge for [Read More…]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the Chinese government increased its crackdown on political speech and dissenters in Hong Kong in recent years, tens of thousands of longtime residents have fled to nearby Taiwan to [Read More…]

Samir Hussein/WireImage (LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth II’s lying-in-state won’t begin until Wednesday evening, but people have already started lining up in London more than 24 hours before the first mourners will be allowed in for [Read More…]

PEC Photo/Getty Images (PARIS) — The Eiffel Tower will go dark earlier than usual each night in response to the energy crisis in Europe, officials announced Tuesday. The illumination of the Eiffel Tour will end [Read More…]

LONDON (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and a rock of stability across much of a turbulent century, died Thursday after 70 years on the throne. She was 96. The palace announced she [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — Vlad Buryak, 17, was traveling in a car on the morning of April 8 and stopped at a Russian checkpoint. Within hours, he would end up in a Russian prison. Russian [Read More…]

U.S. Marshals (SAN DIEGO, Calif.) — A former Marine arrested in El Salvador earlier this week for the 2016 murder of his girlfriend was ordered held without bail during an arraignment hearing in California on [Read More…]

Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A high-stakes mission from the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog reached a Russian-controlled power plant in Ukraine on Thursday afternoon amid reports of heavy fighting there. The International Atomic Energy Agency [Read More…]

Christe Chen Dawson (NEW YORK) — A Memphis, Tennessee man that prosecutors in Fiji say fatally beat his wife in early July at an exclusive resort pleaded not guilty Wednesday in the High Court of [Read More…]

owngarden/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Last year saw record levels of major greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, released into the Earth’s atmosphere, according to an international climate report. The annual State of the [Read More…]

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LONDON) — Inspectors from the United Nations’ International Atomic Energy Agency are heading to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine that has been shelled in the ongoing [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News (WASHINGTON) — “They know that I was working with the coalition forces,” Abdul, a former interpreter for the U.S. Marines said about the Taliban when ABC News spoke with him in [Read More…]

Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, [Read More…]

Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images (LONDON) — Twenty-five years after her death, the legacy of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, endures across the world. Diana died in a car crash on Aug. [Read More…]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images, FILE (MOSCOW) — Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has died “after a serious and long illness,” the Central Clinical Hospital reported on Tuesday. He was 91 years old. A more specific cause [Read More…]

Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi/ Ukrinform/Future Publishing via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Seventy-five people have died and 59 have been injured in Pakistan over the last 24 hours due to severe weather, further devastating a country that’s experiencing historic rain and flooding, [Read More…]

NASA (NEW YORK) — Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann is set to become the first Native American woman in space when NASA launches its new crew to the International Space Station this fall. Mann will serve [Read More…]