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Missing girl found in Australia, man in custody: ‘Our family is whole again’
Colin Murty/Newspix via Getty Images (CARNARVON, Australia) — A 36-year-old man is now in custody following the rescue of missing 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who disappeared 18 days ago while camping with her family, the Western [Read More…]

After ending Ethiopia’s trade status, US weighs sanctions, genocide designation over Tigray war
DavorLovincic/iStock (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration is ending Ethiopia’s special trade status under U.S. law — the latest penalty imposed on the Ethiopian government amid its ongoing war with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, the [Read More…]

COP26 live updates: Biden speaks on methane reduction, forest conservation
oonal/iStock (GLASGOW, Scotland) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]

“We’re blinking code red,” President Biden looks to put the US back at center of climate change fight
Oliver Weiken/picture alliance via Getty Images (GLASGOW, Scotland.) — COP26 is underway with President Biden looking to put the United States back at the center of the global effort on climate change. After leading the [Read More…]

COP26 live updates: Biden emphasizes urgency to fight climate change: ‘The science is clear’
iStock/Kinwun (GLASGOW, U.K.) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]

COP26 live updates: World leaders converge upon Glasgow for historic climate summit
iStock/studio023 (NEW YORK) — Leaders from nearly every country in the world have converged upon Glasgow, Scotland, for COP26, the United Nations Climate Change Conference that experts are touting as the most important environmental summit [Read More…]

S. Madagascar on the verge of climate change-induced famine: How to help
ABC News (AMBOVOMBE, Madagascar) — “Kere” is a word that echoes around southern Madagascar. It means hunger, and the people here know it all too well. For the past four years, the lack of food [Read More…]

Ginger Zee helps explain climate change
iStock/chonticha wat (NEW YORK) — As the first piece of ABC News Radio’s series on the global climate crisis, Ginger Zee helps us understand the global impact of climate change. The signs and symptoms of [Read More…]

Explosion in Mexico destroys at least 30 buildings, leaves 1 dead, 15 injured
KeithBinns/iStock (MEXICO CITY) — A large explosion attributed to a gas leak in east-central Mexico’s Puebla state has left at least one dead, 15 injured and damaged between 30 to 50 buildings, local government authorities [Read More…]

Joe Biden, second Catholic president, meets with Pope Francis amid US bishops’ criticism
Photo by Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — As President Joe Biden embarked on only his second overseas trip, he started with a personally poignant audience with Pope Francis on Friday, the [Read More…]

Facing court deadline, Prince Andrew set to respond to sexual assault complaint
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Britain’s Prince Andrew faces a deadline Friday to file a response to a sexual assault lawsuit filed against him in New York by an alleged victim of deceased sex [Read More…]

Allies unsure of Biden’s policies, clout as he takes world stage
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz (WASHINGTON) — As President Joe Biden jets off to Europe to meet with allies, some of the United States’ closest partners are still wondering if America is truly [Read More…]

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has no health issues despite weight loss, South Korea says
MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has seemed to have lost 44 pounds in the past two years, according to South Korean lawmakers who were briefed [Read More…]

Iran will resume indirect talks with US to revive nuclear deal, top negotiator says
iStock (TEHRAN, Iran) — Iran has agreed to restart negotiations over its nuclear program next month, its chief negotiator said Wednesday. Those talks, in which Iran and the U.S. have engaged through intermediaries, come as the [Read More…]

Looted Benin Bronze statue returned to Nigeria in ‘institutional first’
Jesus College, University of Cambridge (LONDON) — A college at the University of Cambridge is set to return an artifact looted by British soldiers to Nigeria, in a move described as “the first institutional return of [Read More…]

Queen Elizabeth to skip climate summit in Scotland as she recovers after hospitalization
Vladislav Zolotov/iStock (LONDON) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Scotland next week as planned as she continues to follow doctors’ advice to rest. The queen had been scheduled to attend an evening [Read More…]

Siberia’s permafrost melt is causing swamps, lakes, making land difficult to live on
iStock/malerapaso (YAKUTSK, Russia) — Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough that local people used to play football on them. But today, [Read More…]

Family of five in hiding from Taliban pleads for help getting out of Afghanistan
Obtained by ABC News (NEW YORK) — “It’s like a living hell for us now,” Zahra, 20, told ABC News on a phone call while hiding out in western Afghanistan, in a country she hardly [Read More…]

US ‘deeply alarmed’ at reports of military takeover in Sudan, calls for PM’s release
iStock/MarkRubens (CAIRO) — After initially being put under house arrest by military forces Monday, Sudan’s acting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife Muna Abdalla were “kidnapped” at dawn from their Khartoum residence, according to [Read More…]

Sixteen rescued from burning container ship off coast of Canada
(File photo) – SHansche/iStock (VICTORIA, British Columbia) — Sixteen people have been evacuated from a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Canada, according to officials. A fire broke out in 10 containers [Read More…]