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Anup Shah/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Even the fastest animal in the world can’t outrun the effects of climate change, according to experts. Cheetah populations are especially vulnerable to rising temperatures because hotter days are forcing them to behave more nocturnally, putting them in greater competition with other predators such as lions and African wild […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s high-profile visit to the Middle East to push for humanitarian pauses in the Israel-Hamas war may have yielded no immediate results, but American envoys on the ground are still quietly making the administration’s case — a strategy that officials and analysts say may ultimately prove to […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korean authorities have been desperately detecting and exterminating bedbugs for the last two weeks, as a major disinfection of transportation and public facilities is on the way. Fear among South Korean citizens is beginning to spread after more than 30 confirmed or suspected bedbug reports were filed across […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For more than three weeks, Tom Hand thought his 8-year-old daughter, Emily, was dead following Hamas’ surprise terrorist attack on Israel. Given the alternative, he said he was “relieved.” Emily was staying at a friend’s house in Kibbutz Be’eri the night of Oct. 6 and was there when […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — A judge in the United Kingdom issued a ruling Friday in Prince Harry’s lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Ltd., the publisher of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and the MailOnline. The judge ruled that the lawsuit filed by the Duke of Sussex, as well as several other high-profile figures […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone was downed in international airspace near Yemen on Wednesday, according to a U.S. defense official. “We can confirm that a U.S. military MQ-9 remotely-piloted aircraft was shot down off the coast of Yemen by Houthi forces,” the official said. Story developing… Copyright © 2023, ABC Audio. […]

Bernard Van Berg / EyeEm/Getty Images (PARIS) — Officials in France said they are investigating a possible Russian link to a spate of potentially antisemitic graffiti that appeared on buildings in Paris at the end of last month. Prosecutors in the French capital said in a statement Tuesday that it was possible that the potential […]

SimpleImages/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The planet has capped off its hottest 12-month span on record now that temperatures in the month of October have surpassed previous records throughout history. Global temperatures have now exceeded 1.3 degrees Celsius of warming since pre-industrial revolution levels, getting dangerously close to the limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius, a […]

Bashar Taleb/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A doctor inside Gaza has warned the health sector is on the brink of total collapse. “We’ve reached the point where the fuel is running out everywhere. And so most of the hospitals are going to run out of fuel,” Ghassan Abu Sitta, a British-Palestinian plastic surgeon, […]