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Royal Canadian Mounted Police Nova Scotia police have suspect Gabriel Wortman in custody. – (Royal Canadian Mounted Police)By MEREDITH DELISO and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (WENTWORTH CENTRE, Nova Scotia) — Investigators say this weekend’s mass […]

pinkomelet/iStockBy IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — This year was supposed to be a milestone for environmentalists worldwide: the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. But the novel coronavirus pandemic has canceled almost all of […]

Carol_Ann_Peacock/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Fewer people on roads, beaches and waterways amid COVID-19 social distancing measures could benefit protected wildlife, experts who study animal behavior say. Vehicle mortalities are a “big […]

ABC News(WASHINGTON) — BY: CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News North Korea’s young leader was absent from celebrations marking the country’s most important holiday. That much is clear. But that absence has now fueled speculation that something […]

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesBy JOOHEE CHO and HAKYUNG KATE LEE, ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — The South Korean government said Tuesday that there were no signs suggesting that North Korean leader, Kim Jong […]

mseidelch/iStockBy AARON KATERSKY and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (WESTCHESTER, N.Y.) — Three men in Westchester, New York, are suing the World Health Organization contending it mishandled its response to the novel pandemic and engaged in […]

CasPhotography/iStockBy GUY DAVIES (LONDON) — The coronavirus pandemic is having a serious impact on press freedom worldwide as authoritarian leaders have taken advantage of the public health crisis, a new report has said. The 2020 […]

BalkansCat/iStockBy MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The death toll in the worst shooting in Canadian history has risen to 19 — and authorities expect it to increase as the investigation into the rampage […]

Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are taking their battle with the British tabloids one step further. The Sussexes have announced they will no longer participate with […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) — Countries across Europe continued to ease lockdown measures on Monday as a new report warned that up to a quarter of jobs on the continent are at risk in the economic fallout of […]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Sixteen people, including a police officer, are dead in Nova Scotia following the worst shooting rampage in Canadian history, according to multiple reports. The suspect, identified as Gabriel Wortman, 51, is “deceased,” […]

iStock(NEW YORK) — Following a manhunt, Canadian police have arrested a suspect in a Nova Scotia shooting after multiple victims were found. Gabriel Wortman, 51, was taken into custody on Sunday after a pursuit throughout […]

Courtesy Steven Song(NEW YORK) — Teenagers Lily Chen and Steven Song are among the rare few to have experienced the global COVID-19 pandemic from virus hot zones on two continents. As the outbreak swept the […]

ChandraDhas/iStock(NEW YORK) — On a sunny Monday in January, Bárbara Méndez arrived at daycare center El Centro Abrazar in Bogotá, Colombia, to drop off her 2-year-old son Michal before heading to work. She had only […]

Totojang/iStock(NEW YORK) — The first 100,000 coronavirus antibody tests authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and headed to New York City could have been deployed days ago, but they’ve been stuck in red-tape limbo […]

HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Even as the Chinese city of Wuhan emerges from its 76-day lockdown, the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market, where the first cluster of COVID-19 was detected in December, remains […]

beyhanyazar/iStock(LONDON) — Earlier this week, the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, announced that the lockdown currently in place to protect 1.3 billion people would remain in force until at least May 3. While the […]

Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) — Thae Yong Ho, the second-highest ranking North Korean official to have defected to South Korea, made history becoming the first defector to be directly elected as a lawmaker in […]

MarioGuti/iStock(LONDON) — Capt. Tom Moore, who fought in World War II, is again going to great lengths for his countrymen. The 99-year-old British veteran has raised more than £7 million — almost $9 million — […]

Christian Marquardt – Pool/Getty Images(BERLIN) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of Germany’s 16 states have decided to allow some stores to open as early as next week even as social distancing guidelines […]