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ABC News (HIROSHIMA, Japan) — Nearly eight decades after surviving the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, 85-year-old Keiko Ogura had this message for Russian President Vladimir Putin: “You don’t know what is a nuclear weapon, the reality of a nuclear weapon. So come here and see.” Ogura spoke to ABC News’ Britt Clennett ahead of the […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (LONDON) — A year since Russia took control of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, plans for reconstruction are under way but former residents aren’t convinced. The siege of Mariupol started the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and ended on May 20, 2022. The battle ended with the surrender of the last […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — The Islamic Republic of Iran said it executed three men Friday morning on charges of “waging war against God” and collaboration with terrorist groups. The judiciary’s website Mizan claimed that Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi’s charges were based on their confessions that they were involved in killing three members […]

Hassan Ali Elmi/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Rescue and relief efforts are underway in Somalia following historic flooding that has left at least 22 people dead and affected more than 460,000 people, according to the United Nations. The flash and riverine flooding — said to be one of Somalia’s worst in decades — […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Western officials said Russia’s forces in Ukraine are so badly depleted that Russia may lack the reserves to effectively respond to a major counteroffensive from Ukrainian troops in the coming weeks. One official said Russia does not appear to have a dedicated reserve force to react to a major breakthrough […]

Moe Zoyari/Bloomberg via Getty Images (ISTANBUL) — Voters in Turkey will return to the polls soon as no candidate was able to receive 50% of voting in the first round of the critical presidential election. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has ruled the country for 20 years and has won the majority of the elections, […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A group of North Koreans crossed the Northern Limit Line in a fishing boat and South Korea’s navy patrol boat located the group, South Korean authorities said Thursday. The incident took place on May 6 and authorities from the Defense Ministry, National Intelligence, and the Unification Ministry said that the government […]

ABC News (LONDON) — An Iranian judiciary banned grape juicing at Tehran’s central fruit and vegetable market on Wednesday. Grape juicing refers to the process of making grape juice in Tehran. Residents buy large amounts of grapes ranging from 120-150 kilograms, which translates to almost 350 pounds, from the local fruit market. The move is […]

Hillary Kladke/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Fossil fragments found in Spain are pointing to a new species of dinosaur, researchers said. Scientists have proposed a new species of spinosaurid after studying the specimen, which includes a right jaw bone, one tooth and five vertebrate, found in the Arcillas de Morella Formation in Castellon, Spain, in […]

Oleksiy Pshemyskiy/ABC News (NEW YORK) — U.S. Avenger air defense systems, which are mounted on Humvees and are highly mobile, are now being used to protect major Ukrainian cities and to protect Ukraine’s ground forces near the frontline, according to a senior Ukrainian official. One of Ukraine’s most senior commanders also confirmed to ABC News […]