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A billboard promoting contract army service is pictured in the Russian city of Belgorod, some 40 km from border with Ukraine, on May 27, 2023. — Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images (SLOVYANSK, Ukraine) — Well-trained, well-equipped Ukrainian combat forces are now in “assembly areas,” close enough to front line areas, meaning they could launch a […]

Abbas Hussein Eltoum (KHARTOUM, Sudan) — When electricity shortages closed the Ibrahim Malik Teaching Hospital where Dr. Mohamed Karrar worked, he packed a bag with any medical equipment and medicine he could carry. “I posted on Twitter that I am an emergency doctor in Al Mamoura available at any time for anyone who needs me for […]

Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, will likely be extradited to the United States Tuesday, a source close to the family told ABC News. Van der Sloot left the Challapalca prison on Saturday as planned. He was then […]

Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images (INDIA) — At least 200 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a train accident in India, as the death toll continues to rise, officials said. The crash occurred Friday night in Odisha, a state in eastern India, and involved three trains, according to Odisha Chief Secretary Pradeep […]

Sudanese Red Crescent Society (LONDON) — Perturbed by the stench entering his family home in Bahri, Khartoum North, Dr. Noah Madni and his remaining neighbors decided to remove the bodies amassing in the street themselves. “No one from the military or health ministry was coming to pick the bodies up,” Madni told ABC News. He […]

krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Canada has announced that it will begin putting individual warning labels on cigarettes and other tobacco products in an effort to further reduce their appeal, becoming the world’s first country to use such a measure. Beginning on Aug. 1, Canada will implement a phased approach that will force cigarette […]

Telmo Pinto/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (PARIS) — France is now the first country in Europe to regulate influencer marketing on social media, cracking down on what people can monetize and promote online with a new law passed on Thursday. “The law was passed in record time and unanimously, which shows how much support it had […]

Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Keith Russell began his day with a trip to the airport to pick up some supplies. It ended with a scene that could have been pulled from an adventure movie when he rescued five travelers from an airplane submerged in the crystal-clear waters of the Bahamas. A single-engine […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ethnic cleansing campaigns have continued in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, despite a November 2022 peace agreement, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. “The November truce in northern Ethiopia has not brought about an end to the ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans in Western Tigray Zone,” Laetitia Bader, deputy Africa […]

Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — A group of friends in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, opened what they call the first military-meme art bar: Offensive. On the walls of a new bar, there’s a piece of a Russian UAVs, a spent shell, the debris of the downed Russian jet and a few uniforms […]