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Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Joe Biden announced on Monday that the United States would offer almost $2.5 billion in defense assistance to Ukraine, a move that will bring an “immediate influx of capabilities” [Read More…]

ABC News All 181 passengers and crew aboard a passenger jet that crashed upon landing in South Korea on Sunday morning are presumed dead except for two people rescued from the wreckage, authorities said. Jeju [Read More…]

Jose Luis Torales/NurPhoto via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to inform family members and local consulates if they think they are about to be detained [Read More…]

Issa Tazhenbayev/AFP via Getty Images (KAZAKHSTAN) — Survivors of the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan reported hearing thuds and explosions from outside the aircraft during the flight, as the cause of the deadly catastrophe remains [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — An American citizen, Evgeny “Eugene” Spector, was sentenced to 15 years in a high-security prison by the Moscow City Court on espionage charges on Dec. 24, reported Interfax, a Russian news [Read More…]

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]

Issa Tazhenbayev/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — There are early indications that a Russian anti-aircraft system may have struck the Azerbaijan Airlines plane that crashed in Kazakhstan, killing dozens, a U.S. official told ABC News. If these [Read More…]

Rescuers of the State Emergency Service work to put out a fire in a private house after a drone strike in Kharkiv, on December 25, 2024, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. (Photo by SERGEY [Read More…]

Emergency specialists work at the crash site of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet near the western Kazakh city of Aktau on December 25, 2024. (Photo by Issa Tazhenbayev / AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — [Read More…]

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]

Millo Moravski/agence Zoom/Getty Images (LONDON) — Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger was tragically killed in an avalanche on Monday, according to the Swiss-Ski federation. Hediger, 26, got caught in an avalanche at the mountain resort [Read More…]

Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images (JERUSALEM) — Hanna Katzir, an Israeli hostage survivor who was released last year after 49 days of captivity in Gaza, has died, officials said. Katzir, 78, struggled with a “complex [Read More…]

AFP via Getty Images (BEIT LAHIA, Gaza) – Health officials in Gaza say there is only one hospital remaining that is providing humanitarian aid services in the northern part of the strip amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. [Read More…]

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]

ED JONES/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that more 3,000 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed or wounded fighting for Moscow in Russia’s western Kursk region. Zelenskyy [Read More…]

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON)– Rebel forces in Syria are building a transitional government after toppling the regime of President Bashar Assad in a lightning-quick advance across the country. Meanwhile, the ceasefire in Lebanon [Read More…]

The USS Gettysburg on June 29, 2010. Via Chris Jackson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two U.S. Navy pilots ejected safely over the Red Sea after their F/A-18 fighter aircraft was mistakenly shot down early Sunday in [Read More…]

Car drives into crowd at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Via ABC News (LONDON) —  At least five people, including a 9-year-old, are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a [Read More…]

Samoilov/Getty Images (LONDON) —  Two Russian airports were put under flight restrictions early Saturday after authorities alleged an attack by Ukrainian drones, according to state-run news agencies. The state-owned RIA Novosti agency reported that Russia’s [Read More…]

Car drives into crowd at Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. Via ABC News (LONDON) — At least five people are now known to have been killed in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in [Read More…]