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Italian Coast Guard Command teams and firefighters are carrying out search and rescue operations with helicopters and ships to find missing people after after a yacht sank on Monday due to a storm 20 kilometers east of Palermo in southern Italy on August 19, 2024. (Alberto Lo Bianco/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Two Americans […]

In this image that was posted to social media, Maria Branyas is shown. (@MariaBranyas112/X) (NEW YORK) — A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 at the age of 117, her family confirmed to The New York Times. According to Guinness World Records, Maria Branyas […]

Russian journalist and activist Vladimir Kara-Murza addresses a press conference on August 2, 2024 in Bonn, Germany, one day after being released from Russia as political prisoner in one of the biggest prisoner swaps between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. (Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — When […]

Divers of the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian Corps. of Firefighters leave Porticello harbor near Palermo, to resume research for a last missing person on August 23, 2024, four days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. — Alberto Pizzoli/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Divers in Italy have recovered the last missing body, believe […]

Karl Tapales/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian authorities are urging citizens in the Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod regions of Russia — areas where Ukraine has been attacking — to stop using video cameras, social media and dating sites. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs issued the memo Tuesday, saying the “enemy,” referring to Ukraine, is […]

belterz/Getty Images (LONDON) — A large fire was burning at a Russian military airfield early on Thursday after it was targeted by drones overnight, officials said. Videos circulating on Russia social media showed fires and thick black smoke rising from the Marinovka airfield near Volgograd in southern Russia, which the region’s governor confirmed was attacked […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its allies continue to plead for a cease-fire deal, with discussions set for this week. Here’s how the news is developing: […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, cease-fire discussions are occurring in the Middle East, with officials hoping to bring an end to the conflict. The United States and its allies continue to plead for a cease-fire deal, with discussions set for this week. Here’s how the news is developing: […]

Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images (LONDON and ROME) — Five bodies have been recovered from the superyacht that sunk off the Sicilian coast, ABC News has confirmed, with the final missing passenger’s body also now located inside the vessel. The fifth body had been brought to shore as of early Thursday morning. Two bodies were brought ashore […]

Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images (LONDON and ROME) — Five bodies have been found from the superyacht that sunk off the Sicilian coast, according to the Italian coast guard. One final passenger remains missing. Four of the bodies have been brought to the surface, but none has been identified. Two bodies were brought ashore on Wednesday morning, […]