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belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent was sentenced Friday to an additional 19 years behind bars on extremism charges. A Russian judge delivered the guilty verdict and sentencing in the closed-door trial against Alexey Navalny at a courtroom inside the maximum-security prison camp in Melekhovo, about 145 miles east of […]

Brandon Bell/Getty Images (EAGLE PASS, TX) — Two people have been found dead in the southern part of the Rio Grande river, officials said. One body was found stuck in the lines of orange buoys installed by Texas authorities near the U.S.-Mexico border. A second body was discovered separately in the area of the buoys […]

Mitch Diamond/ Getty Images (SAN DIEGO, CA) — Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to allegedly spying for China, federal prosecutors announced on Thursday. Both are accused of having passed along national defense information to Chinese intelligence officials in return for cash payments. Jinchao “Patrick” Wei, a 22-year-old petty officer 2nd […]

Aldo Pavan/Getty Images (NIAMEY, Niger) — The State Department has ordered the departure of some U.S. citizens from Niger Wednesday as the violence from the attempted military coup escalates. “Given ongoing developments in Niger and out of an abundance of caution, the Department of State is ordering the temporary departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel and […]

ABC News/WHO While cases of mpox continue to decline across the United States and Europe, infections are steadily rising in China. For the week ending July 21, 117 cases were confirmed in China, according to data from the World Health Organization. Between the week ending May 5 and the week ending July 21, 315 cases […]

RICHARD PIERRIN/AFP via Getty Images (PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — U.N. Secretary General António Guterres made his first-ever visit to Haiti on July 1 to impress urgency upon whomever would listen as the country struggles with gang violence and ravaging food insecurity. “Every day counts,” he said. “If we do not act now, instability and violence will […]

Petter Sandell/Getty Images (HAITI) — While the whereabouts of an American nurse and her young child reportedly kidnapped in Haiti late last week are still a mystery, the alarming surge of abductions taking place in the country demonstrates a clear and growing danger for both foreign travelers and Haitian citizens. The efforts to locate Alix […]

200mm/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — North Korea for the first time responded to messages regarding U.S. Army Private 2nd Class Travis King, who ran across the demilitarized zone two weeks ago, according to defense officials. “I can confirm that the [Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] has responded to United Nations Command, but I don’t have any substantial […]

Aldo Pavan/Getty Images (NIGER) — High-ranking officials at the U.S. Department of State are trying to restore democratic order in Niger, a key U.S. ally on counterterrorism. There may be a “narrow opportunity” to reverse an attempted coup in the West African nation, according to one senior U.S. official. The official told ABC News on […]

Valais cantonal police / Kantonspolizei Wallis (LONDON) — The body of a hiker who has been missing for 37 years has been unearthed on a thawing glacier near the Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps. A 38-year-old German mountaineer was reported missing after failing to return from a hike in Sept. 1986, the Valais cantonal police […]