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Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ukrainian officials have heightened warnings in recent days that Russia plans to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant — the largest nuclear plant in Europe. The plant has been at the center of concern since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. Russian troops stormed the […]

Manuel Augusto Moreno/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Nearly two dozen armed men stormed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the Tabarre section of Port-au-Prince Thursday night, forcibly removing a gunshot victim as he was being operated on and threatening to kill the staff inside the facility, the organization said. MSF said […]

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — Friday marks journalist and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich’s 100th day being detained by Russian government authorities. The 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter has sat in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison for more than three months, held on espionage charges — charges he and the outlet vehemently deny. The U.S. has […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — For four days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments when the average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit, on Tuesday, as […]

Yuriy Boyko/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Russia could stage an explosion at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to halt Ukrainian advances on the battlefield, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned in a wide-ranging new interview with ABC News that was previewed on “World News with David Muir” on Thursday. Speaking to ABC News’ Chief Global Affairs Correspondent […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — For three days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments when the average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit, on Tuesday, […]

CT757fan/Getty Images (LONDON) — A Princeton University graduate student is being held captive by an Iran-linked Shiite militia in Iraq where she was conducting field research for her Ph.D. in political science, according to officials and colleagues. The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office announced in a statement on Wednesday that Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian dual citizen, […]

Jane Barlow – Pool/Getty Images (EDINBURGH, Scotland) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, paid sentimental tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II while attending a coronation celebration in Scotland Wednesday for King Charles III. Kate joined her husband Prince William, as well as Charles and Queen Camilla, in Edinburgh for a series of events organized […]

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The planet reached the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments during one of America’s most quintessential summer holidays. The average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit, on Tuesday, as temperatures sizzled beyond the triple-digit mark around the world and millions of Americans celebrated the […]

Alexandre Morin-Laprise/Getty Images (JENIN, West Bank) — Israel withdrew its forces from the Jenin refugee camp just after midnight Wednesday, ending the largest military operation it’s conducted in the occupied West Bank in nearly twenty years. The Israeli operation — which included drone airstrikes, hundreds of special forces and tanks — lasted 48 hours, leaving […]