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iStock/pavalena(BERLIN) — Multiple people are dead and several injured after a shooting in the German town of Rot am See on Friday, local police told ABC News. The authorities are still responding to the shooting, […]

DanHenson1/iStock(WASHINGTON) — A Libyan man was sentenced to more than 19 years in prison on Thursday for his role in the 2012 terrorist attack on two U.S. government facilities in Benghazi that killed four Americans. […]

narvikk/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department is warning Americans not to enter China’s Hubei province due to the coronavirus, as Chinese authorities announced Thursday that the death toll from the virus has gone up. The […]

Marilyn Nieves/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. has denied an extradition request for Anne Sacoolas, the wife of an American diplomat who police say fatally struck a British teenager with her car as he was walking on […]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top political challenger Benny Gantz will visit Washington next week to discuss peace in the Middle East, the White House announced Thursday. Vice President […]

Mark Wilson/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The world just got 20 seconds closer to catastrophe. Gauging the duel threats of nuclear warfare and climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Thursday that the […]

yorkfoto/iStock(LONDON) — The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled that Myanmar must “take all measures within its power” to prevent the genocide of its embattled Rohingya minority Thursday, in a move hailed by […]

Sjo/iStock(SYDNEY) — Three Americans were killed battling the Australian wildfires Thursday when their water tanker plane crashed in New South Wales. The Lockheed C-130 Hercules aerial water tanker went down in the Snowy Mountains’ Monaro […]

BCFC/iStock(GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba) — The psychologist credited with devising the C.I.A.’s program of “enhanced interrogation” during the war on terror defended his record at a pretrial hearing for the alleged masterminds of 9/11. James Mitchell, […]

ramihalim/iStock(GAINESVILLE, Fla.) — Looks like it’s safer to get back in the water. There were 64 unprovoked shark attacks reported around the world in 2019, 22% fewer attacks than the five-year average of 82 incidents […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan may be off to a rocky start with the media as they begin to chart their futures as non-working members of Britain’s royal family. The Duke and […]

Pawel Gaul/iStock(NEW YORK) — An American woman disappeared over the weekend while vacationing in Belize, authorities said. Alison MacKenzie, 43, was among a group of tourists who on Friday embarked on an overnight excursion to […]

iStock(HINGHAM, Mass.) — A 6-year-old Massachusetts boy who started making clay koalas as a way to help the animals hurt in the Australia bushfires has raised more than $250,000 for relief efforts. Owen Colley, of […]

beyhanyazar/iStock(NEW YORK) — New geologic data reveals that a crater in Western Australia is likely the oldest impact structure on Earth, according to a paper published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. At roughly 2.2 […]

CT757fan/iStock(BAGHDAD) — Three rockets were fired into Baghdad’s Green Zone, the heavily fortified area of the capital that houses the U.S. embassy, government buildings and U.S. service members. The Katyusha rockets landed “in the vicinity […]

BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) — Prince Harry has left the U.K. and is flying to Canada to reunite with his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and their 8-month-old son Archie, according to ABC […]

iStock(LONDON) — Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, made their first public appearance Monday since the announcement of Prince Harry and Meghan’s exit from the royal family. William and Kate hosted […]

Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Sentebale(LONDON) — Prince Harry has made his first public comments about the decision he and his wife Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, made to no longer be “working members” of Britain’s […]

nopparit/iStock(BEIJING) — Chinese officials have announced 17 new cases of the new coronavirus, a SARS-like illness that began to spread in Wuhan, China, in December. The total number of coronavirus infections in Wuhan, the epicenter […]

Sussex Police Department(LONDON) —  A London man running late for his flight reported a fake bomb threat to try and delay it, police said. Rashidul Islam, 32, was going to meet his fiancee in Marrakech, […]