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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 […]

FILE — Visoot Uthairam/Getty Images (LONDON) — Eleven people are missing after a fire engulfed a vacation home for people with disabilities in eastern France on Wednesday morning, officials said. 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 […]

ABC News (NASSAU, Bahamas) — A Georgia mom accused of plotting to kill her estranged husband while vacationing in the Bahamas is set to be 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 […]

bgwalker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States has now had “direct contact” with Niger’s junta leaders, but the conversations have yet to substantially move the needle as the West African nation — a key ally on counterterrorism in the region — faces an apparent coup, U.S. officials said. U.S. Department of State spokesperson Matthew Miller […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — A Ukrainian woman has been detained by Ukraine’s Security Service in connection with an apparent plot to attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the service said on Monday. The woman, who is from Mykolaiv but was not publicly named, was being questioned, officials said. She had been part of a plot aimed […]

FrankRamspott/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Russian and Chinese naval formation patrolled “near Alaska” last week but “was not considered a threat,” U.S. Northern Command said Sunday. “Air and maritime assets under our commands conducted operations to assure the defense of the United States and Canada,” a NORTHCOM statement to ABC News said, adding that […]

Nuno Cruz/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nuno Cruz/NurPhoto via Getty Images (LISBON, Portugal) — In one of the most iconic moments coming out of World Youth Day, Pope Francis called on the hundreds of thousands gathered before him to yell back at him that the Catholic Church is for “todos, todos, todos” — everyone, everyone, everyone. […]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (LISBON, Portugal) — You’d think you were at a music festival — jubilant crowds singing and dancing, wearing face paint, even having a beer in some cases. And the young people packing the streets of Lisbon are here for their very own rockstar: Pope Francis. Close to 800,000 young […]

Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images (EDINBURGH, U.K.) — Monster hunters, assemble! The Loch Ness Centre announced it’s set to begin the biggest search for its infamous mythical creature in over 50 years and volunteers are needed. In partnership with research team Loch Ness Exploration, the tourism company is looking for volunteers to join in a search […]

belterz/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A Moscow court has extended the detention of Travis Leake, an American man detained by Russia on drug charges. Heavily armed Russian police arrested Leake in early June at his apartment in Moscow, accusing him of selling narcotics. Leake, 51, had lived in Russia for more than a decade, working […]