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ABC News (NEW YORK) — Muzhgan Azizy escaped Kabul just weeks before the swift Taliban takeover and chaotic U.S. evacuation, but adjusting to her new freedom in America has been difficult. “The resettlement journey for me [Read More…]

Handout/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s government will grant a special pardon to former President Park Guen-hye, who was in prison on corruption charges. “From the perspective of national reconciliation, former President Park [Read More…]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Amid fears Russia might invade Ukraine, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has again repeated demands for guarantees from Western countries that NATO will not expand in eastern Europe, but also expressed [Read More…]

Naveen Sharma/EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New research suggests that India’s COVID-19 death toll during its first and second waves might have been significantly undercounted, with the actual number potentially 12 times higher than the official [Read More…]

KeithBinns/iStock FILE (WASHINGTON) — As Afghanistan spirals further toward a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the international community is allowing greater exemptions to aid groups to try to alleviate the suffering. The United Nations Security Council passed [Read More…]

Getty Images/Ketkarn sakultap (RIO DE JANEIRO) — Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old self-described “moderate socialist,” will be sworn in as Chile’s president in March, making him both the youngest leader in South America and the youngest [Read More…]

BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The British royal family’s annual Christmas tradition has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic. Queen Elizabeth will remain at Windsor [Read More…]

Courtesy Tasmania Police (SYDNEY) — A sixth child has died from his injuries following Thursday’s bouncy castle tragedy at an Australian school. Chace Harrison, 11, died at Royal Hobart Hospital on Sunday afternoon, Tasmania Police said. [Read More…]

Obtained by ABC News (KABUL, Afghanistan) — Around two dozen U.S.-trained former Afghan Air Force pilots are still trapped in Afghanistan and pleading for the United States government to evacuate them from the country, where [Read More…]

mashabuba/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Russia published a list of sweeping new security guarantees it wants from the United States and NATO on Friday — including a promise not to expand the alliance — staking out [Read More…]

Francois LOCHON/ Getty Images (PARIS) — After 2 1/2 years of cleaning and consolidating — and a pandemic that halted French workers for a few months — the restoration phase of the Notre Dame cathedral [Read More…]

JasonDoiy/iStock (LONDON) — Australia is coming together as a nation following Thursday’s bouncy castle tragedy in which five children were killed. A gust of wind lifted the castle into the air, causing several children at [Read More…]

Michael Hickey/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The remaining 12 hostages from a U.S.-based missionary group have been released by the Haitian gang that had held them for two months, Haitian authorities and the missionary group confirmed [Read More…]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration has blacklisted and sanctioned dozens of Chinese government research institutes and private-sector tech firms, accusing them of weaponizing technology for use at home and abroad, the U.S. departments [Read More…]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images (LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth has canceled her annual pre-Christmas celebration for family for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 95-year-old monarch traditionally holds a lunch at [Read More…]

MCCAIG/Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Five children died in Australia on Thursday after wind lifted the bouncy castle they were in about 32 feet into the air, local police said. Nine children were in the [Read More…]

Courtesy of Maryam Jami (WASHINGTON) — A group of 100 or so potential scholars in the State Department’s prestigious Fulbright Foreign Student Program will have to continue waiting for a final answer on whether their [Read More…]

Chen Xuming/VCG via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Scores of people were trapped in a Hong Kong skyscraper on Wednesday after a major fire broke out, authorities said. Flames ignited at the World Trade Centre [Read More…]

Aliaksandr Bukatsich/iStock (LONDON) — A court in Belarus has sentenced the husband of the leader of the country’s pro-democracy movement, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, to 18 years in prison, convicting him in a closed-door trial widely condemned [Read More…]

Mlenny/iStock (NEW YORK) — Scientists have long predicted that sea level rise will be one of the most disastrous consequences of global warming — and now, they’re discovering that the northernmost region, the biggest contributor [Read More…]