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Matteo Nardone/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images (TEHRAN, Iran) — Iranian authorities have been accused of stealing the bodies of slain protesters from hospitals and morgues in order to prevent families from holding funerals, which activists say could prove rallying points for the protests. The families of the protesters who have been killed called it a disturbing […]

SASCHA SCHUERMANN/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The Invictus Games are still less than a year away, but Prince Harry and Meghan, the duke and duchess of Sussex, are getting ready for the international event. On Wednesday, the Invictus Games Foundation released a new promotional video for the paralympic-style competition featuring several Invictus competitors […]

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The founder of nonprofit organization Sistah Space drew international attention after she detailed racist comments from a British royal aide while attending a Buckingham Palace reception on combatting violence against women hosted by Queen Consort Camilla. Ngozi Fulani, whose charity focuses on supporting women of African and Caribbean heritage affected […]

Courtesy Beverly Spiker (NEW YORK) — A passenger on an Antarctic cruise died and four others were injured after their Viking ship was struck by a “rogue wave,” the cruise line said. The incident happened on Tuesday around 10:40 p.m. local time while the Viking Polaris ship was sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, Viking said. A […]

Andrei Pungovschi/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to take […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images (BOSTON) — Royal watchers hoping for a family reunion between Prince William and Prince Harry while William and Kate are visiting the United States may be left disappointed. Sources close to William and his brother Prince Harry, who lives in the U.S. with his wife Meghan, confirm the two couples have no […]

ABC News (WASHINGTON) — French President Emmanuel Macron told ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos that he believes a negotiation is still “possible” with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — which Macron called a “huge mistake.” Macron spoke with Stephanopoulos ahead of meeting with President Joe Biden on Thursday for the first […]

Courtesy of The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (FAYOUM, Egypt) — A huge 2,300-year-old funerary building and a number of mummy portraits were discovered in Egypt’s southern province of Fayoum, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) south of Cairo, the country’s antiquities ministry said on Thursday. The building and the paintings, which are famously known as […]

Archaeologists explore a dig site in the Omnogovi Province in Mongolia, where they discovered a new species of dinosaur, the Natovenator polydontus, in 2008. – Sungjin Lee and Yuong-Nam Lee (NEW YORK) — Scientists have discovered a new predatory dinosaur fossil in Mongolia that was likely a semiaquatic diving predator. A near-complete skeleton, found in […]

Yuriy Zalizniak (LVIV, Ukraine) — Officials have warned that the city of Lviv, Ukraine, home to over 150,000 internally displaced people, could face a winter without power as they anticipate another surge in refugee numbers. The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, told ABC News that the city, near the western border with Poland, is preparing […]