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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 […]

Daniel Cardenas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico) — Nine migrants were found Tuesday by Mexican authorities after a group was kidnapped on its way to the U.S.-Mexico border. A bus holding 50 migrants left Tapachula, Chiapas, on Sunday and disappeared the following day near Matehuala, San Luis Potosí. The migrants had permission to […]

Central Intelligence Agency (WASHINGTON) — The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by Russians, featuring a dramatized video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russian civilians as spies. The video invites them to engage with the agency on Telegram and share information it says could be […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two staff members of the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria were among the four people killed by armed assailants when an American convoy was attacked on Tuesday, the State Department said. The staff members, who were not U.S. citizens and who haven’t yet been publicly identified, were killed by people who […]

Rainer Puster / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American citizen charged with spying in China has been sentenced to life in prison after it was revealed that he had been held for over two years. Suzhou Intermediate Court announced the sentence against 78-year-old Liang Chengyun, also known as John Shing-Wan Leung, in a press […]

Carl Court/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday for “substantive” talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said ahead of the meeting that his country would supply Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and long-range attack drones. “I will meet my friend Rishi. We will conduct substantive negotiations […]

Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images (ROME) — Italy’s government is on full alert following a national problem: skyrocketing Pasta prices. Italy’s Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, chaired an emergency meeting on Thursday, convening government officials, trade and consumer association representatives and distributors, for crisis talks to discuss soaring pasta costs, which have seen the […]

KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted two weeks of bail by Islamabad’s high court Friday, one day after the Supreme Court ruled his arrest on corruption charges was unlawful. The ruling came in the wake of violent and unprecedented protests in Pakistan since Khan’s arrest on Monday. At […]

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the United States, ABC News has learned. The Peruvian government issued an executive order on Wednesday accepting a request by U.S. authorities for the temporary extradition […]

abile/Getty Images (ROME) — A parked van exploded in a busy section of central Milan in Italy on Thursday morning. The carabinieri — or Italian police — said that it was unclear what caused the van to explode in the Porta Romana neighborhood of the city. No further details were currently available, officials said. The […]