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Police officers secure the area around the Koenigsplatz square after a shooting near the building of the Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism (NS-Dokumentationszentrum) in Munich, southern Germany, on September 5, 2024. (PAULINE CURTET/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Munich police shot a “suspicious person” in the Karolinenplatz area of the southern German […]

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon is aware of reports Wednesday that an American service member was recently detained in Venezuela, a U.S. official told ABC News. The Department of Defense is “working closely” with the State Department on the matter, according to a statement from the official. “We are aware of […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the latest round of cease-fire discussions appears to have reached an impasse. Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Protesters have demanded its government bring the hostages home. Here’s how the news is developing: Netanyahu defends keeping troops in […]

Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Ivanovych Kuleba talks to media prior to the start of an Informal meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the Europa Building on August 29, 2024 in Brussels, Belgium. (Thierry Monasse/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is the latest government minister to tender a resignation amid […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As the Israel-Hamas war continues, the latest round of cease-fire discussions appears to have reached an impasse. Meanwhile, after six hostages were found dead in Gaza, protests erupted in Israel. Protesters have demanded its government bring the hostages home. Here’s how the news is developing: Israel hits southern Lebanon after […]

A view of the burned vehicles after a Russian missile attack that killed 7 people including 3 children, and wounded 45 people including 7 children, in Lviv, Ukraine, on September 4, 2024. (Olena Znak/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Russian missiles struck Lviv in western Ukraine early on Wednesday, killing at least seven people and […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The grisly discovery of six murdered hostages in a tunnel under Gaza over the weekend has sent U.S. officials scrambling to devise a new strategy to advance the already beleaguered negotiations aimed at securing a cease-fire deal and allow dozens of detainees to return home. “Our team is still working to […]

@genclikbirligi/Twitter (IZMIR, Turkey) — Ten of the people accused of assaulting two U.S. Marines in Turkey on Monday were arrested on Tuesday, according to the Criminal Court of Izmir. The grounds for their arrest is “deprivation of liberty of more than one person,” the court said, and five other people will be tried without their […]

Holly Hennessy, a passenger on Villa Vie Odyssey, speaks with ABC News. (ABC News) (NEW YORK) — Passengers planning to travel the world on a three-year cruise are speaking out as they remain stuck on land, waiting for their ship to depart. Holly Hennessy said she has been stuck in Belfast, Ireland, for three months […]

RMS Titanic, Inc. (NEW YORK) — The Titanic may have survived more than a century at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but a chunk of the ship’s iconic bow railing, featured in the movie of the same name, has not, newly released photos show. RMS Titanic Inc., the American company with salvage rights to […]