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Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (TEL AVIV) — President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday, according to the White House. Vice President Kamala Harris also joined the call, the White House said. It marked the first phone call between the two leaders in months, and since fighting has intensified in the Middle […]

Jung Yeon-je / AFP via Getty Images (SEOUL) — A North Korean defector living in South Korea is under arrest for allegedly stealing a bus and attempting to drive it across the border into North Korea last week, police said. The man, who is in his 30s, escaped North Korea and settled in 2011 in […]

LAM Museum (LONDON) — A museum in the Netherlands has recovered an artwork that resembles two empty beer cans from the trash after an elevator technician accidentally disposed of them during his shift, officials said. The artwork, “All The Good Times We Spent Together” by Alexandre Lavet, was made in 1988 and initially appears to […]

ABC News (NEW DELHI) — An American climber along with her British climbing partner have been rescued at an altitude of more than 20,000 feet after becoming stranded in the Himalayas for three days. American Michelle Dvorak and her British climbing partner, Fay Manners, were trying to climb Chaukhamba Mountain in northern India last Wednesday […]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Israel is marking the first anniversary of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack as its Lebanon operation continues and leaders consider their response to Iran’s latest long-range missile attack. Hundreds of Iranian missiles were fired into the country last week, according to Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. […]

Gali Mir-Tibon speaks with ABC News’ chief national correspondent Matt Gutman. ABC News (TEL AVIV, Israel) — For Israeli husband-and-wife Noam Tibon and Gali Mir-Tibon, Oct. 7, 2023, began like any other day. They went for an early-morning swim off the Tel Aviv coast on that Saturday morning. They heard sirens but continued to swim […]

Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Smoke and question marks still hang over the devastated Gaza Strip a year after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack touched off a regional firestorm. The fighting in Gaza continues, though the epicenter of the broader conflict has now shifted north to the Israel-Lebanon border where Hezbollah is maintaining […]

Roni Bintang/Getty Images (LONDON) — Julian Assange made his first public appearance since his release from prison, telling European lawmakers the United States had forced him to “plead guilty to journalism” to put an end to his years of captivity and that his case still set a dangerous precedent. Assange addressed the Parliamentary Assembly of […]

Malcolm P Chapman/Getty Images (BEIRUT) — Nearly one quarter of the Lebanese population has been displaced by Israel’s military campaign there, the country’s caretaker prime minister said. Najib Mikati said 1.2 million people — out of Lebanon’s total 2022 population of 5.49 million, according to United Nations data — have been forced from their homes […]

Leon Neal/Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — At least seven people were killed and eight others injured in a stabbing and shooting attack Tuesday night in Tel Aviv, Israel, according to the Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The Israeli Police Spokesperson’s Unit suspects terror as a motive in the incident. Both of the two alleged […]