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iStock/Thinkstock(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — In a surprise move, North Korea launched a “barrage” of unidentified short-range projectiles into the Sea of Japan, American and South Korean military officials confirmed to ABC News on Friday evening. […]

Rafael Briceño/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido defended an apparently failed effort to convince President Nicolas Maduro’s top aides to desert this week — saying that although Maduro’s senior aides did […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PYONGYANG, North Korea) — In a surprise move, North Korea launched a “barrage” of unidentified short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, American and South Korean military officials confirmed to ABC News on Friday evening. […]

ABC News(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Two days after violent clashes ended in Venezuela, interim President Juan Guaido said that although the protests did not end President Nicolas Maduro’s “usurpation,” those who stood in opposition had still […]

Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Violent clashes this week between anti-government protesters and security forces in Venezuela led to at least four deaths and hundreds of injuries. But one protester who was injured in the […]

Xinhua/Liu Shiping via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — China is increasing its activity in the Arctic, building a second ice-breaking ship and looking to expand its footprint in Greenland, according to a new Pentagon report, and Beijing’s […]

Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Cindy Warmbier, the mother of American Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old American student who died shortly after being brought back to the U.S. after being held for 18 months in North Korea, […]

iStock(BEIJING) — A 9-year-old girl is among seven North Korean defectors recently arrested in China who are being threatened with repatriation. The girl, known only by her surname, Choe, was left behind in North Korea […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Speaking about the administration’s much-anticipated Middle East peace plan at the Washington Institute in the nation’s capital Thursday night, Jared Kushner said the administration has developed a […]

Pakhnyushchyy/iStock(CAIRO) — An Egyptian man climbed to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza, removed parts of a wooden mast put in place in the late 19th century to measure the actual height of […]