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golubovy/iStockBy HEEJIN KANG, ABC News (SEOUL, South Korea) — A medical school in South Korea is making students take final exams in person after it says the majority of its freshman and sophomore class was […]

iStock/EKH-Pictures(BERLIN) — BY: MATT ZARRELL Police have identified a suspect in the 2007 disappearance of 3-year-old Madeleine McCann. The suspect, who is not identified by name, is currently in a German prison on an unrelated […]

dicus63/iStockBy PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (NORILSK, Russia) — Russian authorities have declared a state of emergency in an Arctic region after a huge fuel tank ruptured and leaked at least 20,000 tons of diesel into […]

Lefteris_/iStockBy PHOEBE NATANSON, ABC News (ROME) — Pope Francis spoke out on Wednesday about U.S. protests in reaction to the killing of George Floyd, calling for “national reconciliation and peace” to stop “the disturbing social […]

Justin Setterfield/Getty ImagesBy GUY DAVIES, MAGGIE RULLI and IBTISSEM GUENFOUD, ABC News (LONDON) — Thousands gathered on Wednesday to protest racial injustice and the death of George Floyd as the civil unrest in the U.S. […]

Official White House Photo by Shealah CraigheadBy CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s administration has come under criticism at home for using strong-arm tactics to clear protesters in the nation’s capital or […]

Michael White, an American Navy veteran released from prison in Iran on medical furlough, is pictured in a March 25, 2020, photo released by his family. – (Courtesy White Family)By CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News (NEW […]

nazarethman/iStockBy SOMAYEH MALEKIAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A candlelight vigil in honor of George Floyd was held in Iran, igniting a chain of critical reactions on social media. The ceremony was held in the […]

Xinhua/ via Getty ImagesBy GUY DAVIES, ABC News (LONDON) — Hundreds of demonstrators were seen chanting and carrying Black Lives Matter signs outside a number of U.S. embassies in Europe and across the world over […]

iStock/malerapasoBy: PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Zarina Ermyrzayeva lived in a two-bedroom apartment in Moscow with nine other people, all immigrant workers from Central Asia. In late April, she and several of her […]