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hansslegers/iStockBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Three years ago, Myanmar’s military escalated its persecution of the Rohingya — a mostly-Muslim ethnic minority — with a sustained, violent campaign of murder, rape and beatings […]

iStock/fizkesBY: KIRIT RADIA and IVAN PEREIRA, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — Doctors at a German hospital treating Alexey Navalny confirmed Monday that the vocal critic of Vladimir Putin was poisoned. The Russian opposition leader had an […]

querbeet/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN and ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — Queen Elizabeth II is making changes to her living arrangements due to the coronavirus pandemic. The 94-year-old plans to stay at Windsor Castle, her royal […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(LONDON) — Twenty inmates were shot dead Sunday at a prison in Madagascar as authorities tried to stop a riot there. The riot began Sunday afternoon at the prison in Farafagana, […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC News (TEHRAN, Iran) — Abbas Tajik, 38-year old butcher in west Tehran, goes home at night feeling overwhelmed with depression after hearing his customers’ stories of poverty. Day after day, he […]

bluejayphoto/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Russia’s best-known opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, was flown from Siberia to Berlin on Saturday for emergency treatment for suspected poisoning, after Russian doctors permitted him to be evacuated […]

sonreir es gratis/iStockBy AICHA EL HAMMAR CASTANO and GUY DAVIES, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Brazil, the second-worst-hit country by the coronavirus pandemic, is seeing daily case reports and death rolls continue to rise. In […]

Adam Smigielski/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Russia’s most prominent opposition activist, Alexey Navalny, is expected to be flown to Germany on Saturday for treatment for suspected poisoning, after Russian doctors at a Siberian […]

Adam Smigielski/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Russian doctors have refused to allow the anti-Kremlin opposition leader Alexey Navalny to be evacuated from Siberia to Germany for treatment for suspected poisoning, prompting accusations from […]

simon2579/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL and SONY SALZMAN, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Roughly 10 days after becoming the first nation to approve a COVID-19 vaccine, an announcement greeted with skepticism by many in the international community, Russia […]