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Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(SEOUL, South Korea) — For the fourth time in less than two weeks, North Korea has fired missiles into the Sea of Japan, a U.S. official said. The two missiles, fired on Tuesday morning […]

iStock(MONTREAL) — Canadian police sent divers into a river over the weekend to search for signs of two teenage boys who are suspected of killing three people, as a nationwide manhunt enters its third week. […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(SEOUL) — For the fourth time in less than two weeks, North Korea has fired projectiles into the Sea of Japan, a U.S. official said. The two projectiles, fired on Tuesday morning local time, […]

hansslegers/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. is urging Turkey not to undertake an offensive into northeastern Syria against U.S.-backed Kurdish forces that helped to defeat the Islamic State and now maintains prisons with thousands of the terror […]

bingfengwu/iStock(HONG KONG) — For the first time since its handover to China more than two decades ago, a city-wide strike brought much of Hong Kong to a standstill. In an unusual sight for a city […]

Muni Yogeshwaran/iStock(LONDON) — The Indian government moved to revoke the special status that granted autonomy to Muslim-majority Kashmir on Monday, with experts describing the move as “undoing seven decades” of constitutional relations. Amit Shah, the […]

LUke1138/iStock(CAIRO) — Tutankhamun’s golden-plated coffin is undergoing a face-lift for the first time since the boy king’s tomb was discovered in 1922 as Egypt nears completion of the Grand Egyptian Museum, a mega project on […]

mikeinlondon/iStock(LONDON) — A 6-year-old boy is in a critical but stable condition after being thrown five stories from the Tate Modern in London, the UK’s most popular tourist attraction. The boy was visiting the modern […]

anouchka/iStock(MOSCOW) — Russia’s anti-Kremlin opposition has pledged to hold more protests a day after police arrested hundreds of people for a second weekend running at a demonstration in Moscow calling for fair elections. Opposition leaders […]

iStock(SANGATTE, France) — Just 10 days after a failed first try ended with Franky Zapata up to his neck in water, the French jet-ski champion successfully crossed the English Channel on his self-made “flyboard” Sunday […]

Martin Holverda/iStock(MOSCOW) —  Hundreds of protesters were violently arrested in Moscow Saturday, the latest demonstration against the Kremlin-aligned United Russia party. Independent watchdog OVD-Info said at least 838 people were detained. Opposition leader Lubovj Sobol […]

ABC News(MOSCOW) — It’s a nice day for a … fright wedding. Russian companies are potentially giving new meaning to “shotgun wedding– sending in a platoon of former police and special forces soldiers dressed in […]

ABC News(LONDON) — Cecilie Fjellhoy thought she had met her prince charming when she matched on Tinder with Simon Leviev. Fjellhoy, a 29-year-old Norwegian masters student living in London, said she was swept off her […]

bluejayphoto/iStockphoto(WASHINGTON) — Greenland, home to the world’s second largest ice sheet, is melting at such an alarming rate that scientists are warning it’s on track with worst-case scenario models for the year 2070. On Wednesday […]

zudin/iStock(WASHINGTON) — When Mustafa Nasser heard the news that the U.S. authorities had cleared his brother, Abdul Latif, for release from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, he could barely contain his excitement. Within […]

MicroStockHub/iStock(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Friday again downplayed a recent spate of ballistic missile launches by North Korea, tweeting that Kim Jong Un “will do the right thing because he is far too smart […]

iStock(SEOUL) — Tensions heightened between Seoul and Tokyo after Japan imposed broad new trade restrictions on South Korea on Friday morning. South Korean President Moon Jae-in immediately struck back with strong words. “It is truly […]

iStock(MOSCOW) — The United States will withdraw from a landmark Cold War arms-control pact on Friday, six months after the Trump administration declared Russia in material breach of the treaty and said Moscow hadn’t made […]

iStock(RIYADH, Saudi Arabia) — Saudi Arabia is touting new relaxed laws for women — including traveling without consent from their husband or male relative, equal pay and the ability to open and run independent businesses […]

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(SEOUL) — North Korea has fired at least one projectile into the Sea of Japan, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News. The official said that the projectile is similar to the two launched […]