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Prince and Princess of Wales/X (LONDON) — For the second time in less than two weeks, a global photo agency has issued an editing notice on a royal family photo shared by Kate, the Princess of Wales. Getty Images added an editor’s note Tuesday on a photo that was taken by Kate in 2022 of […]

d3sign via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s legislature has unanimously passed a strict security law, 11 days after it was tabled in an unusually fast turnaround. Authorities in Hong Kong have argued that the law is necessary to uphold stability and “plug any holes” left by the sweeping National Security Law, which was […]

Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on Dec. 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kate, the princess of Wales, is seen in a new video with Prince William as the pair visited a local farm shop over the weekend in […]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Vladimir Putin was handed a fifth term in Russia’s heavily stage-managed presidential election on Sunday in a vote where no real competition was permitted and with virtually all leading opposition figures jailed, in exile or dead. The election, held over three days, gave Putin over 87% of the vote, extending […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, as the entire population of the strip experiences high levels of food insecurity amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a report released Monday. The report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative said a famine in the north of the strip […]

ABC News More than 30 U.S. citizens were returned to the United States from Haiti on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department Sunday, a department spokesperson said. One day after the State Department posted its plans for the flight on X, asking interested U.S. passport holders to register on an intake form, the […]

Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management A volcano on Iceland’s southwestern coast erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December, prompting an evacuation, officials said. The eruption began between Mt. Hagafell and Mt. Stóra Skógfell at 20:23 UTC, with a “2.9-km-long fissure forming quickly,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. “The lead-up to the […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A senior Israeli official says the United States has begun slow-walking some military aid to Israel — an assertion senior U.S. officials denied was the case, in what’s perhaps more evidence that the relationship between the two allies is growing increasingly strained. The conflicting account came as Senate Majority Leader Chuck […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces denied accusations that its troops opened fire on a group of Gazan civilians who were waiting for aid Thursday. At least 20 people were killed and 155 were injured in a shooting at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, which is used by aid groups to distribute […]

In this pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov (not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 12, 2024. — (Photo by GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (MOSCOW) — For days […]