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Sheila Paras/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Two people are dead and several others are injured after a driver hit pedestrians in Amqui, a town in the Québec region of Canada, authorities confirmed to ABC News. The driver turned himself in to police, Amqui police said. Police are investigating whether the act was deliberate, they told […]

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. […]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military said they detected “one unidentified missile fired from North Korea’s submarine vessel near North’s port city of Sinpo.” […]

Azad Safarov (KYIV, Ukraine) — An Oscar-nominated documentary, “The House Made of Splinters,” tells a deep and emotive story of Ukrainian children affected by the Russian invasion. “Life has always been difficult here,” the narrator of the film says, “war made it worse.” The film takes us to 2019 in an orphanage-type institution in Lysychansk, […]

Franck Fife/AFP via Getty Images (PARIS) — As ticket sales for the 2024 Paris Olympics get underway, some online reviewers have begun to raise concerns about what they see as the flaws of a new sales system. A new ticket draw registration was implemented for these Games, which start in July 2024. Ticket buyers had […]

Pavlo Tsviliuk (VANCOUVER, British Columbia) — Pavlo Tsviliuk considered emigration to Canada long before February 2022, but had been planning to move there only after giving birth to his children in Ukraine. A 28-year-old software engineer and developer and his wife — an influencer with over 100,000 subscribers working with Ukrainian brands — used to […]

Kim Jae-Hwan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s second child, a daughter named Kim Ju Ae, who has been exposed to the public lately, has an older brother and another sibling, according to lawmakers who were briefed by South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) in a closed-door […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images (COLCHESTER, England) — On a cold, damp March morning, hundreds of people had turned out in Colchester, England, hoping for a glimpse of King Charles III. The gathering was, however, divided into two distinct groups. By far the larger of the two was there to support their king, but the smaller — […]

Henrik Sorensen/Getty Images (LONDON) — Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a “significant step” in the fight against Malaria as the East African nation expands its use of the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine. The malaria vaccine — known as Mosquirix or RTS,s/AS01 — has seen a phased introduction in the country since a […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (HAMBURG, Germany) — Seven people were killed, including an unborn child, in a mass shooting at a building used by Jehovah’s Witnesses in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday evening, police said. Eight people were also injured in the shooting, said police, including the pregnant mother of the unborn child. The 33-year-old woman, who […]