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baona/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration notified the United Nations of its withdrawal from the historic Paris climate accord on Monday, a move that will take effect one year later, on Nov. 4, 2020 — the […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) — Forty years ago, student followers of Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of Iran’s Islamic revolution, took the American embassy in Tehran by storm, capturing diplomats working there and holding the group of more […]

MacArthur Memorial Library(NEW YORK) — After 77 years buried unidentified in a cemetery in Manila, Philippines, the remains of a World War II prisoner of war missing in action (POW/MIA) returned home to Buffalo, New […]

Inimma-IS/iStock(OLORON-SAINTE-MARIE, France.) — Thieves used a tree trunk strapped to a car to smash the door of the Cathedral of Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the South of France, on Nov. 3, stealing valuables, some dating back to […]

Diy13/iStock(LONDON) — The government of New Delhi has turned to rationing car-use in an attempt to reduce air pollution, which reached its worst level this year over the weekend. Air pollution on Sunday hit a […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) — A Congolese journalist who had been helping to shed light on the deadly Ebola outbreak in his community was killed on Sunday night, officials said. The unnamed journalist, who is also described as […]

BlakeDavidTaylor/iStock(LONDON) — Eight suspects have been reportedly arrested in Vietnam in connection with a case in the United Kingdom in which 39 people, believed to be Vietnamese nationals, were found dead in a tractor-trailer near […]

ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — Yongsan police are investigating Jungkook of K-pop band BTS after he allegedly caused a car accident. The 22-year-old pop star appeared at a Yongsan police station to give his statement […]

Niagara Parks/Facebook(NIAGARA FALLS, Canada) — A barge that has been stuck atop some rocks in Niagara Falls for more than 100 years has finally shifted as a result of severe weather. The Iron Scow, a […]

Facebook/Haley.Anderson.9212(NEW YORK) — A man accused of killing a 22-year-old nursing student at SUNY Binghamton last year has been found guilty by a court in Nicaragua, to which he fled after the woman’s murder. Orlando […]

ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — Surrounded by psychedelic lights bouncing off a glittery mirror ball, more than 100 gray-haired men and women gather at the disco stage in Seoul twice a week to dance their […]

Kiyoshi Tanno/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The State Department is warning about a “rise in racially or ethnically motivated terrorism” that is “learning from their jihadist predecessors,” according to its top official for counter-terrorism. In its annual report […]

Metro de Madrid/Twitter(MADRID) — A woman looking down at her phone in a crowded train station fell onto the tracks of the subway in Madrid just as the train was entering the station. In Oct. […]

U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Branden J. Bourque(NEW YORK) — A United States Marine paused during his deployment in Syria to connect with three children standing nearby, a Defense Department photograph released on Thursday […]

NataliaCatalina/iStock(LONDON) — Duchess Meghan made a special appearance to celebrate the opening of a second location of a London bakery that empowers women who are working their way back from obstacles including homelessness, prison and […]

beyhanyazar/iStock(DELHI, India) — Five million masks are being distributed throughout schools in Delhi, India, as the chief minister described the city as a “gas chamber” because of the “toxic” air quality. Arvind Kejriwal, the chief […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(NEW YORK) — ISIS has confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Thursday, four days after President Donald Trump said the terror chief killed himself in a suicide explosion during a U.S. […]

mersukrugoksu/iStock(NEW YORK) — The leader of the Syrian Kurds’ civilian government accused Turkey and its forces of continuing its offensive into northern Syria using armed drones and heavy artillery, and conducting ethnic cleansing against the […]

US Department of Defense(WASHINGTON) — U.S. armored vehicles and infantry troops have arrived in eastern Syria as part of a new deployment to defend oil facilities from falling into the hands of the Islamic State, […]

Cesare Ferrari/iStock(LONDON) — The United Nations migration agency has halted Ebola screenings at five border crossings in East Africa after three of its aid workers were killed. The International Organization for Migration said several of […]