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iStock/nigelcarse(SEOUL, South Korea) — Christmas passed without the promised “gift” from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, but South Korean authorities are still keeping an eye on possible provocations by the North. Kim announced in the […]

iStock/nigelcarse(SEOUL, South Korea) — Park Jeonghee, 64, donned a traditional Korean dress embroidered with tiny flowers and sat down in front of a class of preschoolers. Children gathered around her, their eyes twinkling with curiosity […]

iStock(ALMATY, Kazakhstan) — Twelve people were killed early Friday morning when a commercial airplane carrying 98 passengers crashed just seconds after takeoff from Almaty International Airport in Kazakhstan, according to officials. The Kazhak Ministry of […]

iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump issued a Twitter warning Thursday to Syrian strongman President Bashar al Assad and his backers Russia and Iran amid their assault on the last rebel stronghold in the war-torn country. […]

Facebook/Western Australia Police Force(PERTH, Australia) — A quick-thinking police sergeant rushed to the aid of a choking toddler in a dramatic Christmas Eve rescue that was captured on surveillance video. A man and woman dashed […]

ABC News(PARIS) — For the first time in centuries, Christmas mass was not held at Notre Dame Cathedral. The famed church has been off limits to parishioners since April 15, when a massive inferno brought […]

Somayeh Malekian/ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) — It was four weeks to her wedding in September when Mohaddeseh Gol Alizadeh, a 26-year-old nurse, realized her mother’s colon cancer had returned. The news was devastating, but what followed […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — After months of stalled nuclear negotiations and ratcheting up rhetoric, North Korea has promised to deliver a “Christmas gift” to the U.S. — a warning that has American and South Korean officials […]

7Michael/iStock(WHAKATANE, New Zealand) — Police in New Zealand on Tuesday said they’re calling off the search for two people who went missing during a volcano eruption earlier this month. Nineteen people, including Americans, were killed […]

DanHenson1/iStock(MOSCOW) — The former U.S. Marine detained in Russia accused of being a spy has had his custody extended until the end of March by Russian authorities. Paul Whelan, 49, has been detained since he […]