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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov indicted in France for allegedly allowing criminal activity on app
Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images (PARIS) — Pavel Durov, the Russian-born billionaire CEO of the social media messaging app Telegram, was indicted in France for allegedly allowing criminal activity on the platform, prosecutors announced Wednesday. [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: IDF launches large raids in the West Bank
Kawnat Haju/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and [Read More…]

Telegram CEO Pavel Durov arrested in Paris amid investigation into illegal activity on the message app
Nadine Rupp/Getty Images (LONDON) — Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is being held in custody after being arrested at an airport near Paris over the weekend. French authorities say his arrest was made in connection with [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israel rescues another Gaza hostage
Kawnat Haju/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and [Read More…]

India’s Prime Minister Modi steps into Ukraine-Russia peace vacuum
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi applaud during the ceremony of documents signing after their talks in Mariinskyi Palace, on August 23, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Sergei [Read More…]

Sudan dam disaster imperils major port city amid civil war
This picture shows the destroyed Arbaat Dam, 40km north of Port Sudan that collapsed following heavy rains and torrential floods on August 25, 2024. (-/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — A dam collapse in Sudan [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Patients evacuate hospital in central Gaza
Kawnat Haju/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and [Read More…]

Travis King, Army soldier who ran into North Korea, to plead guilty to desertion: Attorney
RUNSTUDIO/Getty Images (FORT BLISS, Texas) — Travis King, the U.S. Army soldier who ran across the border from South Korea to North Korea last year will plead guilty, to desertion and assault charges as part [Read More…]

Russia launches ‘nightmare’ deadly drone and missile strikes across Ukraine, Kyiv says
This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on Aug. 26, 2024, shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. [Read More…]

Kate Middleton attends Sunday service in Balmoral with royal family amid cancer treatment
Catherine, Princess of Wales attends day fourteen of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on July 14, 2024 in London. — Karwai Tang/WireImage via Getty Images, FILE (ABERDEENSHIRE, [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Sirens sound in Tel Aviv as Hamas fires rocket from Gaza
Kawnat Haju/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Hezbollah fires ‘hundreds’ of rockets amid Israeli strikes
Kawnat Haju/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

One detained in deadly knife attack at German music festival: Police
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images (SOLINGEN, Germany) — German police said they have detained a 15-year-old boy and are working to verify if the teen is connected to the stabbing of several people at a music festival [Read More…]

Authorities open manslaughter probe into superyacht sinking
Alberto Lo Bianco/Anadolu via Getty Images (PALERMO, Sicily) — Authorities investigating the sinking of a superyacht off the Sicilian coast that claimed the lives of seven people said a manslaughter probe has been launched in [Read More…]

Last missing body from sunken superyacht near Sicily recovered
Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters leave Porticello harbor near Palermo, to resume research for a last missing person on August 23, 2024, four days after the British-flagged luxury yacht [Read More…]

Israel-Gaza live updates: Israeli forces strike another school in Gaza, killing two
Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its [Read More…]

Five bodies recovered from sunken superyacht off Sicily as search continues
Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images (LONDON and ROME) — Five bodies have been recovered from the superyacht that sunk off the Sicilian coast, ABC News has confirmed, with the final missing passenger’s body also now located inside [Read More…]

Drone attack sets fire at Russian military airfield
belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — A large fire was burning at a Russian military airfield early on Thursday after it was targeted by drones overnight, officials said. Videos circulating on Russia social media showed fires and [Read More…]

Russian authorities urge citizens to avoid social media, dating sites in areas where Ukraine is attacking
Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian authorities are urging citizens in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions of Russia — areas where Ukraine has been attacking — to stop using video cameras, social media [Read More…]

Drone attack launched on Moscow: Officials
Getty Images – STOCK/omersukrugoksu (MOSCOW) — In what is one of the largest drone attacks since the Russia-Ukraine war began, Moscow officials said they shot down at least 12 drones on Wendesday. The Air Defense [Read More…]