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iStock/madsciBY: BILL HUTCHINSON, ABC News (QUEBEC CITY, Canada) — A 24-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly dressed in a medieval costume and used a samurai sword to randomly attack seven people, killing two, on […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy JAMES GORDON MEEK, AICHA EL HAMMAR CASTANO, and CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — An American citizen abducted last week in Niger has been rescued during a high-risk U.S. military raid in neighboring Nigeria, officials […]

kali9/iStockBy RASHID HADDOU and ALEXANDRA SVOKOS, ABC News (LYON, France) — A priest was shot at an Orthodox church in Lyon, France, at about 4 p.m. local time Saturday. The priest is in critical condition […]

Petrovich9/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ALEXANDRA SVOKOS, and ENGIN BAS, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A strong earthquake struck close to the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea off the coast of Turkey, resulting […]

Petrovich9/iStockBy WILLIAM MANSELL, ABC News (NEW YORK) — There are reports of a strong earthquake off the Greek island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea. The earthquake, measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale based […]

Beata Haliw/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As the World Trade Organization closes in on a decision for its next leader, the U.S. issued a contrarian statement voicing support for the South Korean […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (LONDON) — Three people are dead after a series of stabbings in a “suspected terror attack” that occurred at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice, France, shortly before 9 a.m. […]

pawel.gaul/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT, ABC News (HONG KONG) — Teen activist Tony Chung has become the second person to be charged under Hong Kong’s deeply controversial national security law. The former leader of pro-independence group Studentlocalism […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (LONDON) — Three people are dead after a series of stabbings in a “suspected terror attack” that occurred at the Basilica of Notre-Dame in Nice, France, at 9 a.m. local […]

NataliaCatalina/iStockBy ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, scored a win Thursday in her legal battle with Associated Newspapers Ltd., the publishers of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday. […]

Chesnot/Getty ImagesBy GENEVIEVE SHAW BROWN, ABC News (PARIS) — Disneyland Paris will once again close due to COVID-19. “In line with latest direction from the French authorities, Disneyland Paris will be closing end of day […]

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy JULIA MACFARLANE, ABC News(NEW YORK) — Europe is now battling a second surge of COVID-19 cases, and many worry it could be worse than the first. The continent now accounts for 46% of […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three people are dead after a series of stabbings in a “suspected terror attack” that occurred at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de in Nice, France, at 9 […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, AICHA EL HAMMAR CASTANO and MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A U.S. citizen living in Niger has been kidnapped, a Nigerien Ministry of Defense source told ABC News. Philip Walton, […]

scyther5/iStockBy ABC News (NEW YORK) — The U.S. elections are just one week away and the eyes of the world are watching. Here are the views from over a dozen countries, reported by the ABC […]

200mm/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A ceasefire brokered by the United States between Armenia and Azerbaijan appears to have collapsed without ever having taken hold, as heavy fighting continues between the two and […]

barmalini/iStockBy KELLY MCCARTHY, ABC News(ROUGEMONT, Quebec) — As winemakers in Quebec prepared to harvest grapes after months of careful viticulture, they arrived to a depleted vineyard that had been picked over by thieves. The unknown […]

Bigandt_Photography/iStockBy TOMEK ROLSKI, ABC News (KRAKOW, Poland) — “Poland is an example for Europe and the world,” chanted the hundreds of pro-life activists gathered outside the Constitutional Court in Warsaw last Thursday. Their outburst of […]

Viktorcvetkovic/iStockBY: PATRICK REEVELL, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) —Workers and students across Belarus declared strikes on Monday, heeding a call for a national strike to try to force authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko to resign at the […]

Duminda Cooray/iStockBY: PATRICK REEVELL, ABC NEWS(NEW YORK) — Police used stun grenades and fired non-lethal weapons on Sunday to attack peaceful protesters in Belarus’ capital who are demanding the resignation of authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko. […]