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Matthew Horwood/Getty ImagesBy KARMA ALLEN, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — A statue of a controversial 17th century British slave trader stood for more than 100 years in Bristol, U.K. Protesters toppled it last month, but the […]

ABC News(LONDON) — BY: GUY DAVIES A “cyber espionage group” associated with the Russian intelligence services has attempted to hack into coronavirus vaccine research in the US, Britain and Canada, according to a report from […]

Lightguard/iStockBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — Shamima Begum, the British woman who joined ISIS as a teenager in 2015, is set to be allowed to return to the U.K. in order to challenge the […]

DKart/iStockBy SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC News(TEHRAN, Iran) — Iranians from a variety of political, economic and cultural backgrounds — lawyers, teachers, footballers, artists, students, activists — joined together in an unprecedented Twitter storm, sharing the hashtag […]

Matthew Horwood/Getty ImagesBY: KARMA ALLEN, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — Just weeks after protesters illegally toppled a controversial statue of a 17th century British slave trader, an acclaimed sculptor secretly replaced it with a brand new […]

Myriam Munoz/iStockBY: ELLA TORRES, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The vanishing of a rare bird colony in New Zealand has left ornithologists both baffled and concerned for the species’ future, according to experts who spoke […]

solarseven/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News (HONG KONG) — Life in Hong Kong had more or less returned to normal. Restaurants, shopping malls and public areas appeared to be buzzing once again. However, […]

leightrail/iStockBY: ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC NEWS (NEW YORK) — The world of higher education, already struggling to cope amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was rocked last week when the Trump administration issued a regulation that would prevent […]

ABCNews.comBY: GUY DAVIES, ABC NEWS (LONDON) — Many proprietors of pubs and restaurants in Britain have been forced to come up with atypical methods to serve customers in a world of social distancing. But while […]

malerapaso/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(KHABAROVSK, Russia) — Tens of thousands of people joined protests in Russia’s Far East last weekend in an almost unheard of display of opposition to President Vladimir Putin triggered by the […]