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Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Paramilitary organizations making the largest cross-border attack inside Russia since the war began have maintained they’re fighting for Ukraine and reportedly claimed to have conducted another operation Thursday. But more than a week after verified images appeared to show that the fighters were equipped with U.S.-supplied military […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NASSAU, Bahamas) — Five people were rescued after a private plane crashed into waters near the Bahamas on Thursday, the Bahamas’ Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority told ABC News. The plane was en route to Florida when it crashed into the water about 10 nautical miles north of Andros, an island in the Bahamas, the […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — William and Kate traveled from their home in Windsor, England, to Jordan to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II, 28, and Rajwa Alseif, 29, on Thursday. The Waleses are reportedly among 1,700 guests at the high-profile wedding. Kate was seen arriving in a pale […]

Sheila Paras/Getty Images (LONDON and BERLIN) — German authorities said Thursday that “a number of items were seized” in Portugal during a renewed search for missing British child Madeleine McCann. “These will be evaluated in the coming days and weeks,” the Braunschweig District Attorney’s Office in Germany said in a statement. “It is not yet […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — Dozens of illegal miners have safely exited an underground gold mine shaft in the Ashanti region of Ghana after they were feared trapped. Several illegal miners are reported to have entered AngloGold Ltd.’s Obuasi Mines in Anwiam, Ashanti Region, in search of gold deposits. However, the miners found themselves unable to […]

ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — On a recent Thursday afternoon, the soft melody of Bach’s “Amazing Grace” filled the bustling streets of Seoul. The solemn tunes coming from the violin and cello were part of a “Concert for Peace.” Twice a week, a handful of musicians perform near the Russian Embassy in Seoul to […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea acknowledged on Wednesday its failure to launch a military spy satellite, an attempt that U.S. officials called a “brazen violation” of U.N. resolutions. After admitting the failure in an unusually short time, North Korea’s state news agency reported that a second launch attempt will be made as […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Negotiations between Sudan’s warring parties fell apart Wednesday as both sides accused each other of cease-fire violations. ABC News has reached out to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for comment. There was no immediate comment Saudi Arabia or the United States, which have been mediating the talks. In response to the […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court on Tuesday opened the trial of Niloofar Hamedi, the first journalist in Iran who reported on Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in September. Hamedi’s report came ahead of spiraling mass protests across the country, posing one of the biggest threats against the Islamic regime in […]

USAF (CHINA) — A Chinese J-16 jet fighter flew directly in front of an American surveillance plane flying in international airspace over the South China Sea last Friday, forcing the U.S. Air Force plane to fly through the fighter’s wake turbulence and causing the U.S. aircraft to shake. U.S. Indo-Pacific Command labeled the Chinese intercept […]