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Russia-Ukraine live updates: Ukraine claims it destroyed Russian cruise missiles in Crimea
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
Gun used in kidnapping, killing of Americans in Mexico came from US
Steve Prezant/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A gun used earlier this month by cartel members to kidnap a group of Americans and kill two of them was illegally trafficked from the U.S., according to a [Read More…]
Japan’s Prime Minister Kishida bound for Ukraine, Zelenskyy meeting
YOSHIKAZU TSUNO,LUDOVIC MARIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (TOKYO) — Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is en-route to the Ukrainian capital for face-to-face talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Kishida, who just wrapped a two-day state visit to [Read More…]
Notre Dame’s iconic spire being rebuilt ‘as it was’ ahead of 2024 reopening
Institution to Rebuild Notre-Dame de Paris (PARIS) — A team in northeastern France is busy rebuilding Notre Dame’s famous spire, with construction ramping up ahead of next year’s reopening. With the cathedral’s grand reopening to [Read More…]
Putin hosts China’s president Xi in Moscow amid Ukraine war
Soltan Frédéric/Getty Images (HONG KONG and LONDON) — Chinese President Xi Jinping has held the first day of talks with Vladimir Putin during a closely watched state visit to Moscow, with the two leaders presenting [Read More…]
American Jeffery Woodke, who was held hostage in Niger, has been released
FotografiaBasica/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger has been released, U.S. officials said Monday. Jeffery Woodke, a Christian humanitarian aid worker, was released on Monday after more than six [Read More…]
Greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase, making climate mitigation more challenging: UN report
Alexandros Maragos/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to increase, exacerbating the challenge world leaders face in preventing the impacts of climate change from worsening, the United Nations warns in its latest [Read More…]
China’s President Xi arrives in Moscow for meeting with Putin amid Ukraine war
Soltan Frédéric/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — As Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived on Monday afternoon in Moscow, he was greeted at Vnukovo airport by a Russian military band, but not by Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I [Read More…]
China’s Xi to meet with Putin in Moscow Monday in show of support
Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Moscow on Monday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be a significant moment, punching a hole in the international isolation that’s [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Putin arrives in Mariupol
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: ICC issues arrest warrant for Putin
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
He was freed from a Nicaraguan prison and now urges Biden admin to protect migrants like him
Str/picture alliance via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Last month, the door to Yubrank Suazo’s cell in a Nicaraguan prison flung open in the middle of the night as officers told him to put on [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Hundreds of Russians dying daily in fierce Bakhmut fighting
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
US military releases video from Russian fighter jet crash with drone
U.S. European Command (WASHINGTON) — U.S. European Command has released dramatic declassified video taken by the MQ-9 Reaper drone that shows the moment that a Russian Su-27 fighter jet collided with it after attempting to [Read More…]
Only 13 countries and regions achieved normal air quality standards last year: Report
Pongmanat Tasiri/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In 2022, only 13 countries, territories and regions globally have met the World Health Organization’s guidelines for healthy air quality, according to a report from Swiss technology [Read More…]
Russian fighters collide with US drone, force it down close to Ukraine
U.S. Air Force, FILE (NEW YORK) — Russian fighter jets collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone on Tuesday, forcing the U.S. to bring down the drone into the waters. U.S. [Read More…]
Two dead, several injured after driver hits pedestrians in Quebec, Canada
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people are dead and several others are injured after a driver hit pedestrians in Amqui, a town in the Québec region of Canada, authorities confirmed to ABC News. [Read More…]
Russia-Ukraine live updates: More than 1,100 Russians dead in less than a week, Zelenskyy says
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. [Read More…]
North Korea launches two cruise missiles from submarine ahead of US-South Korea military drills
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South [Read More…]
In an Oscar-nominated documentary, Ukrainian children scarred by war navigate life
Azad Safarov (KYIV, Ukraine) — An Oscar-nominated documentary, “The House Made of Splinters,” tells a deep and emotive story of Ukrainian children affected by the Russian invasion. “Life has always been difficult here,” the narrator [Read More…]