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Juanmonino/Getty Images (LONDON) — Wildfires that have killed at least 34 people in northern Algeria over the past several days are now almost entirely under control, officials said. As of Tuesday afternoon, 80% of the wildfires had been extinguished, according to the Algerian Ministry of the Interior, which in a statement credited the “positive results” […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — When Norte-Dame de Paris Cathedral went up in flames more than four years ago, historical and architectural experts warned that bringing the cathedral back to its original luster would take a lot of work. Architects, carpenters, painters and other foremen from around the world had to contend with the fact […]

ABC News (LONDON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that his plan to overhaul his country’s judicial system is “a minor correction” to an “activist” court. “It’s described as the end of Israeli democracy — I think that’s silly and when the dust settles, everybody will see it,” Netanyahu told ABC News’ George […]

Juanmonino/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — With Guatemalan authorities appearing to ramp up their interference in the country’s presidential election, including last week’s raids of the election tribunal offices and the anti-corruption candidate’s party offices, the U.S. is sending stronger signals to back off. The top U.S. diplomat for the Western Hemisphere called Guatemala’s foreign minister […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was wrongfully detained in Russia before being released in a prisoner swap, has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, according to a Biden administration official. Reed is expected to make a “full recovery,” two sources familiar with the situation told ABC News on Wednesday. He […]

Phoebe Natanson/ABC News (ROME) — “What an artist dies with me!” Nero, the emperor of Rome from AD 54 until AD 68, reportedly uttered those famous last words before his death in exile. Experts believe he may have left behind evidence of his love of the arts in the form of a theater he built […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — Actor Kevin Spacey was on Wednesday found not guilty in a London court of a series of sexual assaults against several accusers. Twelve jurors at the Southwark Crown Court had begun deliberating at about noon on Monday following a three-week trial. Spacey, 64, had pleaded not guilty to 12 charges […]

Spyros Bakalis/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — As wildfire flames crept toward Zena Katsaros’ home in Kiotari, a village in Rhodes, on Friday, she fled with her bathing suit and a few other items. She slept on the beach that first night, surrounded by about 200 other people who had also left their houses, she […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Trevor Reed, the former U.S. Marine who was wrongfully detained in Russia before being released in a prisoner swap, has been injured while fighting in Ukraine, according to a Biden administration official. Reed “was not engaged in any activities on behalf of the U.S. government,” State Department Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel said […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — In the week since U.S. Army Private 2nd Class Travis King crossed into North Korea, American officials have been unable to extract even the most basic information about his condition from tight-lipped officials in Pyongyang — a move experts say could be a play by the country’s authoritarian leader Kim […]