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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American woman has been killed by a shark while paddleboarding in the Bahamas, according to the Royal Bahamas Police Force. The woman was paddleboarding with a male relative near the back of the Sandals resort, about three-quarters of a mile out to sea, when she was attacked, police […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The temporary cease-fire between Hamas and Israel ended early Friday, and Israel has resumed its bombardment of Gaza. The end of the cease-fire came after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel. In exchange, Israel […]

STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images (YAKUSHIMA, Japan) — Wreckage and remains were discovered from the CV-22 Osprey that crashed last week off the shore of Yakushima Island, Japan, the U.S. Air Force said Monday. The remains of five crew members were found, but have not yet been identified, in the vicinity of Yakushima, the Air […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has ended, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which said early Friday morning that Hamas had broken the cease-fire. The end of the cease-fire comes after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 […]

Oguz Yeter/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Three commercial ships came under attack in the international waters of the Red Sea on Sunday, U.S. military officials said — as Houthi militants claimed responsibility for the latest incursion in the Middle East, where tensions have been high since the Israel-Hamas war began. “These attacks represent a […]

Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor A. Elberg/U.S. Navy photo (WASHINGTON) — Attackers who seized a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden this weekend appear to have been Somali pirates, the Defense Department’s top spokesman told reporters at the Pentagon Monday. A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer and allied ships belonging to a counter-piracy task […]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Moscow court extended on Tuesday the pre-trial detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter accused of spying. Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter in the newspaper’s Moscow bureau, was arrested in March. “By a court decision of November 28, the period of detention in relation to Evan Gershkovich was extended […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ukrainian forces are under intense pressure around a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has made some of its greatest gains this year, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Over the last two months Russia has been assaulting heavily fortified Ukrainian positions around Avdiivka, which […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The cease-fire between Hamas and Israel has ended, according to the Israel Defense Forces, which said early Friday morning that Hamas had broken the cease-fire. The end of the cease-fire comes after Hamas freed over 100 of the more than 200 people its militants took hostage during the Oct. 7 […]

Riccardo Niccoli/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images/STOCK (KAGOSHIMA, Japan) — The search for the seven crew members missing after a U.S. military Osprey crashed off the shore of Yakushima Island in southern Japan has yielded no new clues, the Japanese Coast Guard said Saturday. Dive searches were conducted in areas identified by side-scan sonar, both in the morning and […]