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KeithBinns/Getty Images (PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti) — American woman Alix Dorsainvil and her young child have been freed and are safe after being kidnapped in Haiti roughly two weeks ago, according to a statement from El Roi Haiti, the faith-based nonprofit where she worked. “It is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that […]

Courtesy of Hesham Sallam (NEW YORK) — Scientists have identified a new species of ancient miniature whale, which is now thought to be the smallest known basilosaurid to ever exist. Remnants from the whale, named the Tutcetus rayanensis after the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, were found in 2012 embedded in limestone rock in the Fayum […]

A Sudanese officer speaks to civilians recruited by the army as they take part in a military training in the Kassinger area of Sudan’s Northern State on August 9, 2023. — AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Sudan is facing the risk of “major disease outbreaks,” with medics reporting “thousands of corpses” decomposing in the […]

RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images (QUITO, Ecuador) — One suspect in Villavicencio’s assassination is dead and six other suspects, said to be Colombian nationals, have been arrested, according to a press conference from Interior Minister Jose Serrano. The six suspects currently in custody are reported to have ties to organized crime, as the local government […]

Jose Antonio Caravaca/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After months of quiet negotiations, Iran and the U.S. have reached an agreement that would see five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained released from custody and allowed to leave the country, ABC News has learned. A lawyer representing one of the detainees tells ABC News that four […]

Neda Sharghi via Twitter (WASHINGTON) — Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials said Thursday. Four of the five were released from Iran’s notorious Evin prison on Thursday, according to a lawyer for one of the detainees. The […]

Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace on Feb. 16, 2023 in Paris. — Chesnot/Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — There is “growing concern” for the safety of Niger’s democratically elected president who remains under house arrest amid an apparent coup there, according to the U.S. Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller. “We are greatly […]

FILE — Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (LONDON) — Eleven people are dead after a fire engulfed a vacation home in eastern France on Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. The blaze broke out around 6:30 a.m. local time at a private accommodation in the French town of Wintzenheim, near the border with Germany. It wasn’t long […]

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (LAMPEDUSA, Italy) — Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told the deputy general secretary of the Red Cross. Four migrants told the Red Cross that on Thursday they left Sfax, Tunisia and were shipwrecked the next […]

ABC News (NASSAU, Bahamas) — A Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband while vacationing in the Bahamas was released on $100,000 bail on Wednesday. Lindsay Shiver, a 36-year-old mother of three, was arrested last month and arraigned on murder conspiracy charges. She and two men are accused of planning to murder her […]