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Petrovich9/iStockBy EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said “widespread hazardous tsunami waves” were possible after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck the South Pacific Ocean. There’s no tsunami threat to Hawaii […]

Seoul Metropolitan GovernmentBy JOOHEE CHO, ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — South Korea’s capital has started free COVID-19 tests for cats and dogs if a confirmed pet owner requests for them to be tested. The […]

DASRIL ROSZANDI/AFP via Getty ImagesBy MORGAN WINSOR andd RANDY MULYANTO, ABC News (LONDON) — Indonesian investigators said Wednesday that a malfunctioning automatic throttle may have led to the fatal crash of a Sriwijaya Air passenger […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Princess Eugenie, the younger daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, gave birth Tuesday to her first child. Eugenie, 30, delivered her son at Portland Hospital […]

U.S. Coast Guard Southeast/TwitterBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three people believed to be stranded on an uninhabited island in the Bahamas for over 30 days, surviving on conch shells and rats, were […]

DNY59/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and DRAGANA JOVANOVIC, ABC News (LONDON and MOSCOW) — Two renowned historians have been ordered to apologize by a Polish court after being accused of defaming a long-deceased village elder they said […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Earth’s invasion of Mars has officially kicked off as the United Arab Emirates’ Hope probe entered the red planet’s orbit Tuesday. China’s Tianwen-1 mission is not far […]

DNY59/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and DRAGANA JOVANOVIC, ABC News (LONDON) — An unusual libel case in Poland pertaining to the Holocaust has the potential to affect both the future of academic research as well as how […]

macky_ch/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A Russian LGBT rights group says two young men it helped escape Chechnya have been kidnapped from a safe house in central Russia by Chechen security forces and […]

Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesBy CATHERINE THORBECKE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appointed Michael Bloomberg — the former mayor of New York City and a short-lived 2020 U.S. presidential […]