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Jacek Malipan / EyeEm / Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — North Korea has fired what appears to be a ballistic missile over Japan, the country’s Ministry of Defense said Monday. The apparent ballistic missile was launched at 7:22 a.m. local time and passed over Japan at 7:29 a.m., the Japanese Ministry of Defense announced. The government […]
Sylvain Sonnet/Getty Images (LONDON) — Buckingham Palace released a new official photo of the king, the queen consort and the prince and princess of Wales following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla posed alongside Prince William, the next heir apparent to the British throne, and his wife Princess […]
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to […]
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to […]
Valeria Ferraro/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Giorgia Meloni, leader of Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), will become the first female prime minister in Italy’s history. Her election last month will move the country to the far right for the first time since Benito Mussolini’s fall during World War II. The Brothers of […]
Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Image (NEW YORK) — More than six months after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion into neighboring Ukraine, the two countries are engaged in a struggle for control of areas throughout eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whose forces began an offensive in August, has vowed to […]
Photo and Co/Getty Images (MALANG, Indonesia) — At least 125 people died after a soccer match in Indonesia, where police fired tear gas into crowds of rioting fans, causing a stampede, officials said. East Java Vice Governor Emil Dardak told a local news station Sunday that at least 125 died in the incident. Authorities revised […]
Tech. Sgt. Joshua Smoot/U.S. Air Force (CENTRAL AMERICA) — U.S. military medical teams have carried out medical missions in Central America for decades, but a recently completed mission to Honduras and Guatemala may set a new standard for future health care missions. During what was known as HEART 22, the military’s acronym for Health Engagements Assistance […]
Anna Rabemanantsoa/ABC News (PARIS) — The restoration work inside Notre Dame cathedral is ramping up. Less than two years before the grand reopening, Notre Dame’s exceptional stained glass windows and paintings, which were spared by the flames that ravaged the monument back in April 2019, are now being given a fresh look. This past spring, […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — For months, the U.S. has warned that the Kremlin would move to annex occupied areas of Ukraine. But now that Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday has certified the annexation of four territories into the Russian Federation, all eyes turned to the Western response to the provocation. Within minutes of Putin’s […]
