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daboost/iStock(MOSCOW) — In the first round of its presidential election on Sunday, Ukrainian voters will have a choice between its current president, a former prime minister and an unlikely third candidate — a comedian best […]

LightLock/iStock(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor stole the show Wednesday in his first appearance with his parents in South Africa. The nearly 5-month-old son of Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess […]

DanHenson1/iStock(NEW YORK) — The threat of ISIS fighters breaking out of the massive prison camps where they’re being held in Syria and Iraq is growing, according to a new report and a senior U.S. official. […]

Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump ordered that aid to Ukraine be frozen ahead of his call with that country’s president, a senior administration official confirmed to ABC News on […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(NEW YORK) — With the Middle East on high alert after an attack on Saudi oil facilities, world leaders were jockeying at the United Nations on Monday to respond to the attack and find […]

William Barton/iStock(LONDON) — The U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s move to suspend Parliament was unlawful in a historic judgement Tuesday. The court ruled that Johnson’s advice to the queen requesting […]

lucagavagna/iStock(NEW YORK) — The young activist didn’t mince words when she took the stage — and took adults to task at the United Nation’s Climate Action Summit on Monday. Greta Thunberg — the Swedish 16-year-old […]

omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, kicked off their tour of Africa on Monday and brought baby Archie with them, marking their first official overseas trip as a family. The family […]

Hakyung Kate Lee/ABC News(SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA) — A mother and son who defected from North Korea are believed to have died of starvation after their bodies were uncovered two months after they were last seen. […]

Facebook/Kenesha Antoine(KONDE, Tanzania) — A Louisiana man reportedly drowned after he asked his girlfriend to marry him in an underwater proposal, she said in a social media post. “You never emerged from those depths, so […]

Bychykhin_Olexandr/iStock(NEW YORK) —  A 65-year-old man linked to the 1985 hijacking of a Trans World Airlines flight, an attack during which a U.S. Navy diver was killed, has been arrested in Greece. Hamadei Saleh Mohammed […]

iStock/Thinkstock(PARIS) — Paris police used tear gas against Yellow Vest protesters for the second time Saturday to prevent further riots during what was a peaceful climate march. The march, which was protesting government and corporation […]

Sgt. Zachary Mott/U.S. Army(WASHINGTON) —  President Donald Trump has approved the deployment of air and missile defense systems to Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of last weekend’s attack on Saudi oil facilities that the U.S. […]

LewisTsePuiLung/iStock(HONG KONG) — Amnesty International has documented “reckless and indiscriminate tactics” used by the Hong Kong police in responding to 15 weeks of anti-government protests. The London-based human rights group claims detained protesters have been […]

alexsl/iStock(TORONTO) — For some politicians, being photographed dressing in black or brown face multiple times would be automatically devastating to a political campaign. Some Canadian experts say that might not be the case for Prime […]

Ismailciydem/iStock(TOKYO) — A British military rugby team on tour in Japan has apologized for visiting a controversial military shrine honoring Japanese soldiers, among them war criminals. The U.K. Armed Forces Rugby team is in Japan […]

ansonmiao/iStock(BEIJING) — Beijing’s new massive international airport nicknamed “The Starfish” is set to officially open its doors on Sept. 30. But the first commercial test flights were already scheduled for Friday. Officially called Beijing Daxing […]

MicroStockHub/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s phone call with a foreign leader that has become the focus of a complaint to the director of national intelligence’s inspector general involved Ukraine, multiple sources familiar with the matter […]

Deejpilot/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has used the Rose Garden at the White House for major policy announcements, Medal of Honor ceremonies, impromptu press conferences and as a backdrop for Twitter videos, but on Friday […]

Joel Carillet/iStock(CAIRO, Egypt) — Wael Ghonim, a United States-based activist who was behind a Facebook page that helped ignite a popular uprising in Egypt in 2011, said his brother was arrested at his family’s home […]