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Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia announced on Thursday that it is returning to Ukraine five children who have been separated from their families by the war. Maria Lvova-Belova, the Kremlin’s commissioner [Read More…]

ABC News (OAXACA, Mexico) — Hurricane Erick, which rapidly intensified overnight, made landfall Thursday morning on Mexico’s Pacific Coast as a powerful Category 3 storm, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. Erick came ashore in [Read More…]

Stringer/Getty Images (LONDON) — The repercussions of Israel’s surprise campaign against Iran’s nuclear program and military leadership launched last Friday were evident within hours. “We are racking up achievements,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL and LONDON) — North Korea launched “more than a dozen” rockets on Thursday morning, the South Korean Ministry of Defense said. The rockets were launched at about 10 a.m. local time from [Read More…]

Kyic Oleksandr Gusev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) —  Massive overnight Russian strikes on Kyiv killed 15 people, Ukrainian officials said, as Moscow launched hundreds of drones and missiles at targets across the [Read More…]

Hassan Jedi/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Almost 60 people are dead after two incidents near locations where people were trying to get food aid in Gaza Tuesday, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said. [Read More…]

Kyic Oleksandr Gusev/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) —  A massive overnight Russian strike on Kyiv killed 14 people and wounded more than 100 others, local officials in the Ukrainian capital said early [Read More…]

Eyad Baba/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — More than 30 people in Gaza were killed on Monday by alleged Israeli gunfire while trying to reach food aid distribution centers, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health [Read More…]

ABC News Israel’s ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel “Michael” Leiter, claimed that Israel had set Iran’s nuclear program back significantly after a series of strikes on the country, but that the full operation could take [Read More…]

Raju Shinde/Hindustan Times via Getty Images (LONDON) — An investigation is underway as to what caused an Air India airliner carrying 230 passengers and 12 crew members to crash shortly after takeoff on Thursday. Both black boxes [Read More…]

Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images) LONDON — Vishwaskumar Ramesh, the only survivor of the Air India plane crash headed to the United Kingdom from Ahmedabad, India, that left all 241 other passengers and crew dead, along [Read More…]

(LONDON) — Israel is considering taking military action against Iran in the coming days, according to three sources familiar with the situation. The sources were not aware of a specific U.S. role in an Israeli strike on [Read More…]

Nandan Dave/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and DELHI) — An Air India airliner carrying 242 passengers and crew en route to the United Kingdom from India crashed shortly after takeoff, with at least one passenger [Read More…]

John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The State Department is ordering the departure of all nonessential staff from its embassy in Baghdad due to concern over increased security risks in the region, according to two State [Read More…]

Nandan Dave/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON and DELHI) — An Air India airliner carrying 242 passengers and crew en route to the United Kingdom from India crashed shortly after takeoff in an area near the [Read More…]

John Moore/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The State Department is ordering the departure of all nonessential staff from its embassy in Baghdad due to concern over increased security risks in the region, according to two State [Read More…]

Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 66 Palestinians have been killed in shootings near aid distribution sites on back-to-back days in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health. At least 30 [Read More…]

CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images (LONDON and HONG KONG) — President Donald Trump said a trade deal with China “is done, subject to final approval.” “Our deal with China is done, subject to final approval [Read More…]

Yevhen Titov/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russian drone strikes and bombs killed at least three people in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight, regional officials there said, even though Moscow’s latest [Read More…]

Matej Povse/Getty Images (BELGRADE and LONDON) — Eleven people injured in a school shooting in Graz, Austria, on Tuesday are still being treated but are not in life-threatening condition, officials at the three hospitals treating [Read More…]