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Adam Smigielski/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The European Union has sanctioned six senior Russian officials for the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny with a nerve agent, laying the responsibility for […]

BEN STANSALL/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth on Thursday attended her first public engagement since March, at the start of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.K. The 94-year-old monarch […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, JAMES GORDON MEEK, and JORDYN PHELPS, ABC News(WASHINGTON) — Two Americans have been freed and the remains of a third American have been released by the Houthis, an Iran-backed rebel group […]

sorincolac/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) — The government of Peru opened its most famous tourist site to the first tourist since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, after he’d been stuck in the country […]

Ovidiu Dugulan/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new three-tier coronavirus program that outlines stringent local restrictions in England as the country attempts to curb an increase in […]

Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty ImagesBy ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are appreciating their time together as a family with their son, Archie, during […]

Adam Smigielski/iStockBY: ALINA LOBZINA, ABC NEWS (WASHINGTON) — Russian scientists are struggling to determine the reason for a mysterious mass die-off of marine life on the Russian Pacific coast. Russia officials have so far insisted […]

ABCBY: HALEY YAMADA AND LAREN PEARLE, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — David Beasley, the executive director of the World Food Programme, knows the existence of his organization is both a blessing and a curse: it […]

Photo Beto/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — New restrictions have been unveiled across Europe as COVID-19 cases continue to rise on the continent, with several countries reporting record one-day rises in cases this week. […]

oonal/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — The World Bank has warned that 150 million people could fall into “extreme poverty” by the end of 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying global recession […]

FabrikaCr/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (LONDON) — The 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal.” […]

Brian Lawless – WPA Pool/Getty ImagesBy KATIE KINDELAN and ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, has launched a new environmental prize described by Kensington Palace as the “most prestigious […]

sacco/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA) — The Tasmanian devil, the feisty marsupial that only resided on the island of Tasmania for the last 3,000 years, has been reintroduced into Australia’s mainland for the […]

DNY59/iStockBy ALEXANDER MALLIN and JAMES GORDON MEEK, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department will announce Wednesday that two former ISIS guards are en route to the U.S. where they will face charges for their […]

Svisio/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (LONDON) — Two scientists have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna were jointly awarded the prize for […]

ABIDAL/iStockBy JULIA JACOBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The ozone hole over Antarctica has grown to its “maximum size” just one year after researchers reported that it was at its smallest since its discovery. The […]

Comic Relief/BBC Children in Need/Comic Relief via Getty ImagesBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News(LONDON) — The floss challenge has nothing on the royal family, some of whom have mastered it with ease. Kate, the Duchess of […]

Cappan/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three scientists have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday. Roger Penrose was awarded half of the prize “for the […]

Hailshadow/iStockBy JON HAWORTH, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three scientists have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus,” the Nobel Committee […]

Khaled DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images By HATEM MAHER, ABC News (SAQQARA, Egypt) — Egypt on Saturday unveiled a collection of 59 sarcophagi unearthed in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, with officials saying they expect tens […]