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ABC News North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile on Sunday afternoon, Japan and South Korea said. The launch appeared to have been a shorter-range ballistic missile than those recently tested based on its flight [Read More…]

ABC News All of the Ecuador prison guards and administrative employees who were being held by inmates were released, the country’s prison agency said Saturday night. As nationwide civil unrest unfolded in Ecuador, a total [Read More…]

A man holds the body of a small child as he and others mourn while collecting the bodies of friends and relatives killed in an airstrike on January 13, 2024 in Rafah, Gaza. (Photo by [Read More…]

shaunl/Getty Images (SOMALIA) — Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing off the coast of Somalia after having fallen into the water during a nighttime boarding mission on Thursday, according to two U.S. officials. The officials [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas ended, the Israeli military continues its bombardment of the neighboring Gaza Strip. The end of the cease-fire came [Read More…]

filo/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. military has unleashed large-scale retaliatory airstrikes against multiple Houthi targets in Yemen following months of attacks by the Iranian-backed militants on commercial shipping in the Red Sea, a U.S. [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended, Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]

MICROGEN IMAGES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images (LONDON) — Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have announced a major historical discovery dating back to as early as the 6th century after finding the buried remains of over 20 [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — An oil tanker was seized by the Iranian Navy in the waters between Iran and Oman on Thursday, according to state media. Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA published a brief story [Read More…]

Members of the Armed Forces frisk men during an operation to protect civil security in Quito, on Jan. 10, 2024. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — At least 125 prison guards and 14 administrative [Read More…]

Yemen’s Houthi loyalists lift their weapons as they take part in an armed parade for more than 20,000 members who have finished a military course, staged to show their willingness to battle any potential attack [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said Thursday that it has received a report of several gunmen boarding a ship in the waters between Oman and Iran. Four to five [Read More…]

Amir Levy/Getty Images (LONDON) — The death toll in Gaza has reached a grim milestone, with one of every 100 Palestinians there killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, which started following Hamas’ surprise [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended, Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]

An Ecuadorean police squad approach the premises of Ecuador’s TC television channel after unidentified gunmen burst into the state-owned television studio live on air on Jan. 9, 2024, in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty [Read More…]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy and the U.K.’s Royal Navy foiled a major Houthi attack Tuesday night in the Red Sea, shooting down 18 one-way drones and three missiles targeting commercial ships. The [Read More…]

Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) meets with Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz (2nd-R) in Tel Aviv, on Jan. 9, 2024, during his week-long trip aimed at calming tensions across the Middle East. (Evelyn Hockstein/POOL [Read More…]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — An internet seller who tricked eBay users into bidding for a walking stick that he falsely said belonged to Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced. Dru Marshall, a 26-year-old man [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a month after a temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended, Israel continues its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 [Read More…]

amphotora/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 32-year-old dual U.S.-Russian citizen has been arrested in Russia on drug charges, local officials said. Robert Woodland was arrested on Jan. 5 and appeared in court Jan. 6. This [Read More…]