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Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy KARSON YIU, ABC News (BEIJING) — China has officially ordered the U.S. to close its consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu in an expected retaliation against the ordered closure of the Chinese […]

danielvfung/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News (HONG KONG) — In 1993 President Bill Clinton called Hong Kong “a catalyst of democratic values.” This rosy outlook seems far removed from the reality in Hong […]

blueclue/iStockBy ABIGAIL ROBERTS, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A video of a woman screaming for help while being beaten to death with a brick by her father and brothers in a so-called “honor killing” in […]

MicroStockHub/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A Russian court sentenced a historian who helped uncover mass graves from Stalin’s “Great Terror” campaign to 3 1/2 years in jail, on charges widely criticized by rights […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStockBy GUY DAVIES and RASHID HADDOU, ABC News (LONDON) — The U.S. and U.K. have agreed to end an “anomaly” that allowed Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat accused of running over […]

Alexey_Seafarer/iStockBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A dire new climate change report projects polar bears could reach extinction within the next 80 years, putting a timeline on the crisis for the first time, […]

Igor Ilnitckii/iStockBy KARSON YIU, ABC News (BEIJING) — Beijing vowed to retaliate after it said that the United States ordered its Houston consulate to be closed within 72 hours, calling it an “outrageous and unjustified […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — A tense day-long stand-off between Ukrainian police and a heavily armed man who took 13 people hostage on board a bus in western Ukraine has ended after police […]

omersukrugoksu/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (MOSCOW) — Ukrainian police are in a tense standoff with a heavily armed man who has taken approximately 20 people hostage aboard a passenger bus in the town of Lutsk […]

DNY59/iStockBy ALEXANDER MALLIN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has announced an 11-count indictment charging two alleged Chinese hackers accused of carrying out a massive global cyber intrusion campaign to steal trade secrets, including […]