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KeithBinns/iStock(WASHINGTON) — After a week-long deal to reduce violence across Afghanistan, the U.S. and the Taliban are set to sign a historic agreement Saturday that would see U.S. troops start to withdraw, according to a […]

Powerofflowers/iStock(NEW YORK) — As the coronavirus continues its spread around the globe, a single word is coming from the mouths of experts at an alarmingly growing rate: pandemic. But what exactly is a pandemic and […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(MOSCOW) — Russia’s military has denied it is responsible for airstrikes that killed dozens of Turkish soldiers Thursday night in the Syrian province of Idlib, an incident which threatens to cause a major escalation in […]

dicus63/iStock(MOSCOW) — Russia has announced the date of a national referendum on constitutional changes that could allow Vladimir Putin, now 67, to extend his time in office. While Putin has remained in power, either as […]

Samara Heisz/iStock(NEW YORK) — Public health officials are sounding the alarm as an outbreak of a new coronavirus that began in China is now infecting thousands of people in dozens of other countries, including the […]

jaminwell/iStock(NEW YORK) — A prominent Chechen blogger and critic of the region’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov has survived a suspected assassination attempt after fighting off a man he said attacked him in his apartment in Poland. […]

Aaron Chown – WPA Pool/Getty Images(LONDON) — The threat of the coronavirus has hit the London school attended by Prince William and Duchess Kate’s two oldest children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. A spokesperson for […]

recep-bg/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — The South Korean government has implemented draconian measures to secure and distribute face masks to the public amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Manufacturers of face masks must immediately cut […]

jarun011/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — Global health experts say the speed and scope of South Korea’s novel coronavirus diagnostic capability exhibit impressive and significant lab capabilities that no other countries, including the U.S., can match at […]

powerofflowers/iStock(NEW YORK) — As clusters of novel coronavirus continue to pop up around the globe, the United States is grappling with how to prepare for an outbreak on American soil. Here is how the situation […]

Courtesy Dennis Bennett(SEOUL, South Korea) — When news of the coronavirus broke, Brandon Woolfolk, an American teacher who lives with his girlfriend in Shanghai, was in the Philippines and planning to travel to Malaysia and […]

Courtesy Julia Gogos(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) — When Julia Gogos and her children threw their very own “message in a bottle” into the Rhine River in Germany about eight years ago, they didn’t expect a response. […]

Kuzma/iStock(ROME) — The trial of the two American teens accused of killing an Italian police officer begins in Rome Wednesday, with the pair facing charges of aggravated murder and attempted extortion. Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth, 19, […]

narvikk/iStock(LONDON) — An American soldier based in South Korea has become the first U.S. service member to be diagnosed with the novel coronavirus as the outbreak, which began in China, infects more than 80,000 people […]

Sean Gallup/Getty Images(LONDON) — Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg met on Tuesday one of the very few people in the world who knows what it’s like to be the face of a movement in your […]

KeithBinns/iStock(NEW YORK) — At least four U.S. universities have canceled study abroad programs in Florence and urged students to leave Italy amid fears of the coronavirus spreading further in Europe. Syracuse University, New York University, […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — As the novel coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused the governments of China and Iran of censoring information about the outbreaks in their […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — “So far,” a deal among the U.S., the Taliban and the Afghan government to reduce violence “is working,” according to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. But, Pompeo said, the U.S. will […]

EMPPhotography/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet said Tuesday it will screen all personnel boarding its ships for coronavirus — formally called COVID-19 — as the virus spreads across Asia. “We have developed plans to […]

ABC News(NIIGATA, Japan) — The Japanese man who was recently named the world’s oldest living male person has passed away at the age of 112. Chitetsu Watanabe was honored by Guinness World Records with a […]