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Dawam Syah / 500px/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — A Russian cosmonaut became the first person to spend a cumulative 1,000 days in space, Russia’s space agency Roscosmos announced Wednesday. Oleg Kononenko, 59, reached the record while on his current mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Kononenko’s current mission to the ISS began Sept. 15, 2023, […]

Getty Images – STOCK (UKRAINE) — Soon after President Joe Biden announced a new $225 million package of desperately-needed weapons and ammunition for Ukraine during an in-person meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris Friday, he told Biden that to thwart the Russian invasion, Ukraine must be allowed to use the weapons to strike at […]

Getty Images – STOCK (BELIZE) –Scientists are increasingly turning to Indigenous communities for marine conservation, leaning toward generational practices to reach environmental goals. Indigenous and Native communities, historically pushed to the side by colonizers and explorers in centuries past, are coming to the forefront of ecosystem restoration efforts around the world, experts told ABC News. […]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war nears the near-month mark, negotiations are apparently stalled […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023. (Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — A date has finally been set for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress. House Speaker […]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war nears the near-month mark, negotiations are apparently stalled […]

U.S. Central Command via Getty Images (TEL AVIV, Israel) — After being out of commission for almost two weeks, the U.S. military’s temporary pier has been repaired and was reattached to a beach in Gaza on Friday morning with humanitarian aid deliveries expected to resume “in the coming days,” said a top U.S. military official. […]

Emma Ogao and Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News (LONDON and BRUSSELS) — Dozens of Congolese and foreign nationals — including 3 Americans — were brought to trial on Friday in the Democratic Republic of Congo over a failed attempted “coup” against the government of President Felix Tshisekedi last month. Fifty-three people are accused of […]

Palestinians gather at the site of an Israeli strike on a camp for internally displaced people in Rafah on May 27, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas militant group. (Photo by EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war nears the near-month mark, negotiations are apparently stalled […]

Getty Images – STOCK (LONDON) — Scores of civilians are feared dead in Sudan’s Al Jazirah state following attacks by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group around the village of Wad Al-Noora on Wednesday. “Up to a hundred” people were killed as the RSF militia besieged the village, attacking the village twice with heavy artillery, […]