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FILE photo — Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Ukraine will get American Abrams tanks this fall, much sooner than expected, after the Pentagon decided to refurbish existing hulls in its inventory instead of building new [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles toward the East Sea Wednesday, the latest show of its military capabilities during the 11-days-long joint drills between the U.S. and South Korea. [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…]

Tayeb Benzian / 500px/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An asteroid between 140 and 310 feet in size will safely pass by Earth on Saturday, according to NASA Asteroid Watch. An asteroid of this size only [Read More…]

AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — “Let me tell you, it is a serious situation. It is a tragedy,” says Paul Turnbull, Malawi Country Director of the World Food Programme. He is talking about [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…]

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…]

Steve Prezant/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A gun used earlier this month by cartel members to kidnap a group of Americans and kill two of them was illegally trafficked from the U.S., according to a [Read More…]

YOSHIKAZU TSUNO,LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (TOKYO) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is en-route to the Ukrainian capital for face-to-face talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Kishida, who just wrapped a two-day state visit to [Read More…]

Institution to Rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris (PARIS) — A team in northeastern France is busy rebuilding Notre Dame’s famous spire, with construction ramping up ahead of next year’s reopening. With the cathedral’s grand reopening to [Read More…]

Soltan Frédéric/Getty Images (HONG KONG and LONDON) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has held the first day of talks with Vladimir Putin during a closely watched state visit to Moscow, with the two leaders presenting [Read More…]

FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger has been released, U.S. officials said Monday. Jeffery Woodke, a Christian humanitarian aid worker, was released on Monday after more than six [Read More…]

Alexandros Maragos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase, exacerbating the challenge world leaders face in preventing the impacts of climate change from worsening, the United Nations warns in its latest [Read More…]

Soltan Frédéric/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday afternoon in Moscow, he was greeted at Vnukovo airport by a Russian military band, but not by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I [Read More…]

Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow on Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a significant moment, punching a hole in the international isolation that’s [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…]

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…]

Str/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Last month, the door to Yubrank Suazo’s cell in a Nicaraguan prison flung open in the middle of the night as officers told him to put on [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…]

U.S. European Command (WASHINGTON) — U.S. European Command has released dramatic declassified video taken by the MQ-9 Reaper drone that shows the moment that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with it after attempting to [Read More…]