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omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (ATHENS, Greece) — Rescue efforts were underway Wednesday after a fishing vessel carrying migrants capsized and sank in the Mediterranean Sea, about 54 miles off the coast of Pylos, Greece. At least 104 people have been rescued and 59 have died, the Greek Coast Guard said. Unconfirmed early estimates put hundreds of migrants […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukraine has begun its long-awaited counteroffensive against Russia, officials told ABC News. Multiple reports have said a […]

Max Ryazanov/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 51-year-old American living in Moscow was arrested on reported drug trafficking charges last week, according to Russian media. Michael Travis Leake, accused of selling narcotics, appeared on Russian TV in a courtroom cage. “I am not admitting to any guilt,” Leake said in a video posted on social media […]

Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (LONDON) — A 31-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were killed in the English city of Nottingham and a van attempted to run over more people early Tuesday morning, police said. Police were called to Ilkeston Road in the center of the city shortly after 4 […]

Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — A bus driver was arrested and charged on Monday after the vehicle rolled over while transporting wedding guests on a foggy night in Australia’s wine country, killing 10 of them, authorities said. The rollover occurred just after 11:30 p.m. local time on Sunday as the bus was making […]

Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images (LONDON) — Former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was “innocent of any wrongdoing” after facing hours of questioning in police custody on Sunday. Sturgeon, a staunch independence supporter who resigned earlier this year, was questioning for several hours on Sunday in connection with an ongoing probe into her party’s […]

Franco Origlia/Getty Images (ROME) — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has died in Milan at 86, Italian media reported. The three-time premier and former leader of the Forza Italia party had suffered with a series of medical ailments over the past several years. The billionaire media tycoon — worth approximately $7 billion — has […]

BanksPhotos/Getty Images (LONDON) — A wealthy man in Finland has been handed a whopping €121,000 fine ($129,544) for speeding. Andres Wiklöf — one of Finland’s richest men — was driving on Finland’s Åland Islands on the Järsövägen headed towards the Åland Island capital, Mariehamn, when police caught him driving approximately 50 mph in a 30 […]

Witthaya Prasongsin/Getty Images (LONDON) — Prince Harry took to the witness stand in a U.K. courtroom on Tuesday, becoming the first British royal to do so in more than a century. The Duke of Sussex was grilled by the defense team in his lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers, the publisher of The Daily Mirror. Harry […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, has lost his extradition appeal and will be sent to the United States on Thursday, according to the Peruvian Supreme Court. Van der Sloot had filed “a habeas corpus application against the […]