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Perry Gerenday/Getty Images (LONDON) — At least one person was killed and eight others remained trapped Wednesday after a hotel partially collapsed near the banks of the Mosel River in western Germany, police said. Police said they believed 14 people were inside the hotel in the winemaking town of Kroev at the time of the […]

In this aerial view melting icebergs crowd the Ilulissat Icefjord near the mouth to Disko Bay on July 16, 2024 near Ilulissat, Greenland. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Scientists are warning of a catastrophic sea level rise if the ice in the Arctic melts — a very real possibility. The Arctic is the front […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, tensions are escalating after the assassinations of two Hamas and Hezbollah leaders this week. Here’s how the news is developing: Israeli prisons are ‘network of torture’ for Palestinians: Human rights group B’tselem, a major Israeli human rights group, published a report alleging that the Israeli […]

CT757fan/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Several U.S. personnel were injured following a suspected rocket attack Monday against U.S. and Coalition forces at Al-Assad Air Base in western Iraq, a Department of Defense spokesperson told ABC News. “Initial indications are that several U.S. personnel were injured,” the spokesperson said. “Base personnel are conducting a post-attack damage assessment. […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, tensions are escalating after the assassinations of two Hamas and Hezbollah leaders this week. Here’s how the news is developing: Israel kills another Hezbollah commander The Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Monday they had killed another Hezbollah commander in a strike on Lebanon. Ali Jamal […]

simon2579/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As the Middle East braces for potential escalation of hostilities, diplomats at the State Department are trying to rally allies and partners to pressure Tehran into containing the scope of its retaliation against Israel that U.S. officials now view as inevitable. During a call with G7 foreign ministers on Sunday, Secretary […]

Riot police officers push back anti-migration protesters outside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which is housing asylum seekers, on August 4, 2024, in Rotherham, U.K. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Violence has shaken the U.K. as riots led by far-right groups have gripped multiple cities across the country, leading to nearly 150 arrests, according […]

Bangladesh army personnel stand guard during a curfew following clashes between police and Anti-Discrimination Student Movement activists amid anti-government protests in Dhaka on August 5, 2024. (Munir Uz Zaman/AFP via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country on Monday, as anti-government protesters marched on the capital to […]

Stockbyte/Getty Images (SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is conducting successor programs with implications that he has his 11-year-old daughter Kim Ju Ae in mind “as of now” to be his successor, South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) said in a closed-door briefing to the members of the National Assembly on […]

Ukrainian servicemen of the Shkval special battalion, 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade, ex-convicts, take part in military exercises at an unspecified location in the Donetsk region, July 26, 2024. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images) (SOLOTVYNSKA, Ukraine) — The barbed wire fence stretches along the bank of the river that marks Ukraine’s western border. Across the water, […]