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Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis has “progressively improved” after spending the night in the hospital with a respiratory infection, the Vatican Press Office said Thursday. The pontiff rested well [Read More…]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing 39 people, officials said. The blaze began as the result of a protest [Read More…]

Alessandra Benedetti – Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (ROME) — Pope Francis has been diagnosed with a respiratory infection, according to the Vatican Press Office. He was taken to The Gemelli University Hospital in Rome, where he [Read More…]

ALEXANDR DEMYANCHUK/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East have all avoided taking sides on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — but India’s size and power make it the [Read More…]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 38 people, officials said. The blaze began as the result of [Read More…]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement. The blaze began as [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SAO PAULO) — A 13-year-old student stabbed four teachers and two other students at a school in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday, officials said. Elisabete Tenreiro, 71, one of the teachers injured in [Read More…]

Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A fire broke out at a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Monday, killing at least 39 people, officials said in a statement. The fire started at [Read More…]

200mm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Israel’s controversial judicial overhaul plan pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been delayed until the parliament’s next legislative session, according to the head of the far-right Jewish Power party. [Read More…]

Hazem Bader/AFP via Getty Images (JERUSALEM) — Tens of thousands of people are marching in the streets in Israel on Monday, the latest day in a series of protests against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned [Read More…]

200mm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Protesters stormed Israel’s streets overnight, as thousands voiced their opposition to a controversial justice reform bill and the prime minister’s decision to fire the defense secretary who spoke out against [Read More…]

Maxime Popov/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Newer generation fighter jets are giving Russia “increasing dominance” in the skies over the conflict zone in eastern Ukraine, according to a senior Ukrainian official. It is [Read More…]

Kremlin Press Office / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — U.S. officials and lawmakers reacted with a mix of caution and concern this weekend in the wake of comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin that [Read More…]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (LONDON) — In the days after Ugandan Parliament passed one of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ bills, members of the country’s LGBTQ community who spoke to ABC News said they were worried about [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A U.S. official told ABC News that there were two new attacks late Friday on two U.S. facilities in Deir ez-Zor Province in eastern Syria after another earlier in the day [Read More…]

Toussaint and Imbert Family (TAMARAC, Fla.) — An American couple visiting Haiti is being held at ransom after being kidnapped from a bus nearly a week ago, according to their family. Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two U.S. officials told ABC News that there was another attack on a U.S. base in eastern Syria Friday, following a drone strike on Thursday, but that no damage or injuries [Read More…]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Rwandan government announced Friday that Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the acclaimed 2004 film Hotel Rwanda, will be released from prison nearly three years after he was captured and detained. [Read More…]