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North Korea fails second attempt to launch spy satellite but vows to try again
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — North Korea said a second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed early Thursday, but the reclusive country vowed to launch another in the coming months. The Malligyeong-1 reconnaissance [Read More…]
Prigozhin’s body taken to medical examiner’s office as Kremlin remains silent
Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The bodies of those killed in the plane crash near Kuzhenkino, Russia, including Yevgeny Prigozhin and the commander of the Wagner PMC Dmitry Utkin, have been moved to [Read More…]
Female Afghan students stopped by Taliban on way to Dubai
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — A group of around 100 Afghan women was stopped by the Taliban from boarding a plane to the United Arab Emirates in order to attend university there, their sponsor said on [Read More…]
“Wall Street Journal” reporter’s detention extended in Moscow hearing
Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia had his pre-trial detention extended for three months during a hearing at a Moscow court on Thursday. Evan Gershkovich, [Read More…]
How Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rose with Putin, then turned on him
DIMUSE/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an insurrection against the Russian military, [Read More…]
Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin dies in plane crash in Russia
Artyom Anikeev/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia’s Tver region on Wednesday, according to the press service of Russia’s Federal [Read More…]
India becomes fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK)– India on Wednesday became only the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so in the lunar south [Read More…]
Pakistan cable car updates: All eight passengers rescued from 600 feet in the air
ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]
Pakistan cable car updates: All 8 passengers rescued from 600 feet in the air
ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]
Canada’s unprecedented wildfires could soon get worse, experts say
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to [Read More…]
Update: All eight passengers rescued after dangling 1,000 feet in the air
SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two adults and six children who rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school [Read More…]
Secretary of Commerce to visit China at end of August
yorkfoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is set to visit China at the end of August, according to the Commerce Department, making Gina Raimondo the second high-ranking member of the Biden administration [Read More…]
Two children rescued after dangling 1,000 feet in the air
SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — An urgent rescue operation is underway to save two adults and six children who were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in a chairlift when a cable broke in [Read More…]
Former UK neonatal nurse sentenced to life for murder of seven babies
Cheshire Constabulary/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Former British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty in the worst child serial killer [Read More…]
Russian spacecraft crashes into the moon
Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following [Read More…]
Western Canada firefighters bracing for massive spread of wildfires
Jesse Winter/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Fire officials in British Columbia warned they would be facing “the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer,” as wildfires that have been ravaging [Read More…]
Ukraine taking heavy casualties 10 weeks into its counteroffensive
Artem Hvozdkov/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who [Read More…]
Iran arrests women’s rights activists ahead of ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ anniversary
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least 11 women’s rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). [Read More…]
US sanctions four Russians allegedly involved in poisoning of Alexey Navalny
Contributor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country’s most well-known opposition leader. The Treasury Department said the four individuals [Read More…]
Dozens presumed dead after boat carrying migrants sinks near Cabo Verde off the coast of Senegal
pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sixty-three people are presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people from Senegal sank near Cabo Verde, an island about 600 kilometers west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, [Read More…]