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pabradyphoto/iStock(LONDON) — After nearly seven years essentially trapped inside Ecuador’s embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had become an expensive bother to his hosts – they wanted him out. “They were over him, he […]

Kerrick/iStock(BANGKOK) — Oil rig workers have rescued a dog found swimming in the Gulf of Thailand some 137 miles offshore. The workers spotted the pup paddling near the rig Friday afternoon before it swam toward […]

FRANCOIS GUILLOT/AFP/Getty Images(PARIS) — A fire broke out at the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, one of the city’s most iconic sights. The fire began at 6:50 p.m. local time Monday, the Paris fire department […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — The president of Ecuador has claimed that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange used the London embassy that was his home for seven years as a “center for spying,” as new footage emerged […]

Phoebe Natanson/ABC News(ROME) —  Seventy-five years after eight U.S. servicemen were summarily shot at a hermitage on the top of a mount overlooking the Italian village of Montebuono during World War II, local Italian and […]

Lukas Schulze – UEFA / Contributor / Getty Images(AMSTERDAM) — Amsterdam has long been held as the model for the modern sex industry, with prostitution legalized and rebranded as part of the leisure industry. Until […]

Courtesy Drew Pasler(MIAMI) —  An American doctor is recovering after he was shot three times during a mission trip to help schoolchildren in Haiti last week. Dr. Doug Burbella, 58, and a group of missionaries […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — It’s been a little more than nine years since Chelsea Manning first contacted Wikileaks and provided Julian Assange’s organization with hundreds of thousands of classified documents and a video of an […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — After nearly seven years holed up inside the cramped Ecuadorian Embassy in London, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is dreading the prospect of violent attacks on him in an American prison, one […]

Franco Origlia/Getty Images(ROME) — After more than a year of restoration, the 28 steps that make up the “Scala Sancta,” or Holy Stairs, of the Pontifical Shrine in Rome were unveiled on Thursday, just in […]

PeterHermesFurian/iStock(LONDON) — Voters in India headed to the ballot box on Thursday as this year’s elections got underway, in what promises to be a pivotal political moment for a nation that has increasingly sought out […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — After seven years within the confines of the Ecuador Embassy in London, the infamous WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, 47, was dragged away by police officers looking haggard, tired and clearly aged […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — Federal prosecutors in the United States unsealed a computer hacking indictment against Julian Assange on Thursday just hours after authorities in the United Kingdom arrested the WikiLeaks founder at the Ecuadorian […]

200mm/iStock(CAIRO) — The Sudanese armed forces announced Thursday the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir and the beginning of a two-year interim period ruled by the High Council of the Armed Forces. Minister of Defense Awad […]

Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage(LONDON) — Meghan Markle made history when she wed Prince Harry last May. Now, Meghan, 37, is due to give birth to the couple’s first child. The baby will be seventh in line […]

Karwai Tang/WireImage(LONDON) — The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be keeping plans for the birth of their baby private. The royal couple, expecting their first child this month, won’t make any announcements about the […]

Jack Taylor/Getty Images(LONDON) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested on a 7-year-old warrant early Thursday at the Embassy of Ecuador in London. “Julian Assange, 47, has today, Thursday 11 April, been arrested by officers […]

Gelia/iStock(WASHINGTON) — With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reelection victory now secured, the Trump administration is preparing to roll out Jared Kushner’s “peace plan” as early as this month, sources familiar with the plan tell […]

U.S. Army(WASHINGTON) — The U.S.-led coalition’s fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is not over, despite a declaration of victory against the group’s last remaining stronghold in eastern Syria last month. In […]

PhilMSparrow/iStock(CAIRO) — A video of a Sudanese protester reciting revolutionary poetry to thousands of protesters in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum has gone viral, making her an icon for the mass anti-government mobilization that started last […]