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Mother and calf elephants inhabit a dry deciduous forests in Sri Lanka. — Shermin de Silva (NEW YORK) — Habitats for Asian elephants have decreased by more than 64% across the continent, equating to about 3.3 million square kilometers — more than 850 million acres — since the year 1700, according to a new study […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — Ukrainian juvenile prosecutors have opened more than 100 criminal proceedings for what they describe as illegal transfers of Ukrainian kids to Russian-occupied territories, their further deportation to Russia and Belarus, and illegal adoption by Russian citizens, officials in the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office told ABC News. All the evidence collected […]

Fuse/Getty Images (MOSCOW) — At a movie theatre in central Moscow this month, people had come to watch an illicit film. It wasn’t a documentary about the war in Ukraine or political persecution under Vladimir Putin’s regime. it was “Avatar: The Way of Water.” Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year, Russian cinemas were supposed […]

Mohammed Sami / EyeEm/Getty Images (SUDAN) — A second American has been killed in the violence in Sudan, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby confirmed on Wednesday. While Kirby did not name the victim, a family spokesperson identified him to ABC News as Bushra Ibnauf Sulieman, a doctor who was helping educate physicians in Sudan […]

U.S. Army (WASHINGTON) — The 73-year-old remains of an American veteran of the Korean War have been identified, the United States and South Korea revealed on Wednesday. The joint announcement from President Joe Biden and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol identified the remains as belonging to Cpl. Luther H. Story, who was posthumously awarded the […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An ongoing investigation into a suspected religious cult in southeastern Kenya whose followers were allegedly told to starve themselves has led to the discovery of dozens of bodies. The death toll reached 90 on Tuesday after Kenyan police exhumed more remains from mass graves on an 800-acre forest in the […]

Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have liberated nearly 30,000 square miles of their territory from Russian forces since the invasion began on Feb. […]

Yagi Studio/Getty Images (AFGHANISTAN) — The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 170 Afghans was himself killed by Taliban fighters “in recent weeks,” U.S. officials tell ABC News. A senior Biden administration official on Tuesday described the deceased […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The world’s second-largest tobacco company has agreed to pay what the Department of Justice is saying is “the single largest North Korean sanctions penalty in the history of the Department of Justice.” The British American Tobacco subsidiary pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud and violating U.S. sanctions […]

State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/ Public Domain (WASHINGTON) — After intense negotiations, the Sudanese Armed Forces & Rapid Support Forces had agreed to implement a 72-hour cease-fire across the country beginning at midnight Monday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Monday afternoon in Washington. Blinken added that the U.S. would “coordinate […]