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JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP via Getty ImagesBy IBTISSEM GUENFOUD, ABC News (PARIS) — Politicians from across the spectrum have denounced the publication of the cartoon depicting a French MP and anti-racism activist as a slave under the […]

Aliaksandr Bukatsich/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MINSK, Belarus) — Belarus authorities on Saturday revoked the press accreditation of journalists working for most foreign news organizations operating in the country in an apparent attempt to hinder […]

guvendemir/iStockBy LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. plans to reduce troop levels in Iraq to 3,500 from about 5,200, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News. The reduction in forces had been anticipated, […]

FRANCK ROBICHON/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesBy BRITT CLENNETT and ANTHONY TROTTER, ABC News (TOKYO) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will step down as the country’s leader due to chronic health issues. “I cannot be prime […]

Kuzma/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT, ABC News (CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand) — “Your crimes are so wicked that even if you are detained until you die, it will not exhaust the requirements of punishment,” said Judge Cameron Mander […]

dicus63/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(MINSK) — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that for now, Russia sees no need to send in its forces to intervene in Belarus but warned that it might if protesters […]

iStock/JRLPhotographerBY: LUIS MARTINEZ (DAMASCUS, Syria) — Four U.S. military personnel were injured Tuesday when their vehicle was side-swiped by a Russian military armored vehicle during a tense encounter with Russian troops in eastern Syria, according […]

FILE photo – toos/iStockBy NICOLE PELLETIERE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A baby who was being born as a deadly explosion rocked the city of Beirut is now inspiring his country in wake of the […]

solarseven/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and NASSER ATTA, ABC News (LONDON and JERUSALEM) — The first death linked to the novel coronavirus since May occurred in Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after the […]

macky_ch/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — The suspected poisoning of Russia’s best-known opposition leader Alexey Navalny is the latest to happen to a long line of Kremlin opponents. The Kremlin, as it has with […]