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luoman/iStockBy NEIL GIARDINO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The Amazon rainforest lost an estimated 5 million acres in 2020, an area roughly the size of Israel, according to a recent report on the region. Experts […]

macky_ch/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — The Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has released a message from jail, the first since a Moscow court sentenced him this week to two years and eight months […]

MarsBars/iStockBy ZOE MAGEE, ABC News The U.K. government is announcing a new trial to test mixing different types of COVID-19 vaccines. In a world-first, trial participants will be given one vaccine dose followed by a […]

Jacob King/PA Images via Getty ImagesBy ALEXANDRA SVOKOS and GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — Tributes continue to pour in for Capt. Sir Thomas Moore, the World War II veteran who raised tens of millions […]

randomclicks/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and SREYA BANERJEE, ABC News (LONDON and DELHI) — The Indian government has dismissed calls of international support for a major protest movement of farmers from celebrities as “neither accurate nor responsible,”as […]

Kuzma/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A Russian court ordered opposition leader Alexey Navalny be sent to a prison camp for two years and eight months, imprisoning President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest critic despite an […]

WLDavies/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (LONDON) — Poaching of rhinos, one of the world’s most endangered species, has been on the decline in South Africa ever since the country shut down due to the COVID-19 […]

Kuzma/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A Moscow court on Tuesday could order the imprisonment of opposition leader Alexey Navalny for up to three and a half years in what is widely seen as […]

peterschreiber.media/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — The first shipments of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in South Africa on Monday amidst concerns that new coronavirus variants and “vaccine nationalism” are hindering efforts to control the pandemic. […]

DNY59/iStockBy ZOE MAGEE and KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince Harry has ended his libel case against a U.K. tabloid that quoted a top British general as saying Harry was not taking his military […]