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shaunl/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As Canada and the U.S. continue to feel the lasting effects of the ongoing wildfires raging in the Great White North, environmental experts are pushing for long-term changes that they say can mitigate the damage from future blazes. And with climate change making these once unprecedented wildfire events commonplace, those […]

kolderal/Getty Images (PARIS) — Riots erupted for a fourth night across France over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nahel M., who was laid to rest on Saturday. More than 1,300 people were arrested overnight throughout the country, according to the French Ministry of the Interior, as cars and buildings were set ablaze and stores […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The reports of hundreds of Pakistanis losing their lives as they attempted to enter Europe last week sent shockwaves across the country, forcing officials in Islamabad to acknowledge the increasing number of people embarking on perilous journeys. An estimated 350 Pakistanis were on board the ill-fated and overcrowded boat that […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WATERLOO, Ontario) — A former student has been charged in a hate-motivated stabbing of two other students and a university professor during a class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo in Canada, according to local police. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, a 24-year-old international student who recently graduated from the university, faces three counts […]

©fitopardo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A University of California, Berkeley graduate student was killed in Mexico, ABC News has learned. Gabriel Trujillo, a botanist who was a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Integrative Biology, was killed in the Mexican state of Sonora last week while doing field research, according to a statement from […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Weeks into Ukraine’s counteroffensive, political turmoil in Russia has raised new questions in the war and what it means for Vladimir Putin’s invasion. In a fleeting but shocking show of rebellion against Russia’s top military brass, forces with the Russian paramilitary organization Wagner Group left the front line in Ukraine […]

Firas Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PARIS) — Widespread rioting continued in the streets of France for a third night amid anger over the fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Nael M. Protesters erected barricades, set buildings and cars ablaze, threw fireworks at riot police and ransacked stores. Police stations, schools and town halls were among […]

Artur Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — As Ukrainian forces continue their counteroffensive against Russia, some soldiers say an American-supplied vehicle is making a key difference in their advances, and more importantly, saving lives. The U.S. has provided has provided Ukrainian forces with Bradley Fighting Vehicles as part of aid packages since the beginning […]

Firas Abdullah/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (PARIS) — Widespread protests continued for a third night over the fatal police shooting of a teenager in a Paris suburb. More than 100 people have been arrested across the country so far, as curfews are in place in multiple cities, according to French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. Fourteen people […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WATERLOO, Ontario) — Two students and a university professor have been stabbed during a class on gender issues, police said. The incident occurred at the University of Waterloo in Canada — located approximately 70 miles west of Toronto — when authorities from the Waterloo Regional Police Service were called at 3:35 p.m. […]