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Bruce Yuanyue Bi/Getty Images (CARTAGENA, Colombia) — Centuries after the Spanish galleon ship San José sunk in Colombian waters and nearly a decade after it was initially discovered, the estimated $17 billion shipwreck is set [Read More…]

MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A private U.S. advisory firm of former senior American military, CIA and humanitarian officials is proposing to operate the anticipated daily deployment of international aid ships from [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The United States has fallen eight spots and is no longer in the top 20 happiest countries in the world, falling behind countries like Canada, Israel, Kuwait, Lithuania and the [Read More…]

Ayzenstayn/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The recent identification of fossils from a heavily armored ancient crocodile ancestor species, known as aetosaurs, provides a glimpse into our world 215 million years ago. The study, led by [Read More…]

Prince and Princess of Wales/X (LONDON) — For the second time in less than two weeks, a global photo agency has issued an editing notice on a royal family photo shared by Kate, the Princess [Read More…]

d3sign via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s legislature has unanimously passed a strict security law, 11 days after it was tabled in an unusually fast turnaround. Authorities in Hong Kong have argued that [Read More…]

Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on Dec. 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kate, the princess of Wales, is [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, as the entire population of the strip experiences high levels of food insecurity amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a report released Monday. [Read More…]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Vladimir Putin was handed a fifth term in Russia’s heavily stage-managed presidential election on Sunday in a vote where no real competition was permitted and with virtually all leading opposition [Read More…]

Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A newly discovered 10-foot-tall silver monolith on a muddy bluff in Wales has reignited wild speculation on its origin after similar obelisks appeared in Utah, California, England and [Read More…]

ABC News More than 30 U.S. citizens were returned to the United States from Haiti on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department Sunday, a department spokesperson said. One day after the State Department [Read More…]

ABC News Vladimir Putin has thanked the Russian citizens after early election results showed him winning his country’s presidency in a landslide. In his victory speech, delivered after results showed him winning with 87% of [Read More…]

Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management A volcano on Iceland’s southwestern coast erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December, prompting an evacuation, officials said. The eruption began between Mt. Hagafell and Mt. [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces denied accusations that its troops opened fire on a group of Gazan civilians who were waiting for aid Thursday. At least 20 people were killed and 155 [Read More…]

In this pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov (not pictured) at [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A senior Israeli official says the United States has begun slow-walking some military aid to Israel — an assertion senior U.S. officials denied was the case, in what’s perhaps more evidence [Read More…]

NASA (LONDON) — At least two people have been killed and thousands have been displaced as Tropical Storm Filipo made landfall in Mozambique, the country’s National Institute for Disaster Management said. The tropical storm made [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Five Palestinians were killed on Wednesday at the U.N. aid distribution center in Rafah, the southern Gaza city bordering Egypt, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said. This distribution center [Read More…]

Burghley House (LONDON) — A mysterious 1,800-year-old Roman statue has been discovered by a construction worker while he was digging up a parking lot. It was during work on an overflow parking area at Burghley [Read More…]

Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images (LITHUANIA) — Leonid Volkov, a former top aide to the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, is recovering after he was attacked with a hammer by an assailant on Tuesday night near [Read More…]