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d3sign via Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s legislature has unanimously passed a strict security law, 11 days after it was tabled in an unusually fast turnaround. Authorities in Hong Kong have argued that the law is necessary to uphold stability and “plug any holes” left by the sweeping National Security Law, which was […]

Catherine, Princess of Wales attends the Christmas Day service at St Mary Magdalene Church on Dec. 25, 2023 in Sandringham, Norfolk. (Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Kate, the princess of Wales, is seen in a new video with Prince William as the pair visited a local farm shop over the weekend in […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza, as the entire population of the strip experiences high levels of food insecurity amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, according to a report released Monday. The report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) initiative said a famine in the north of the strip […]

Contributor/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Vladimir Putin was handed a fifth term in Russia’s heavily stage-managed presidential election on Sunday in a vote where no real competition was permitted and with virtually all leading opposition figures jailed, in exile or dead. The election, held over three days, gave Putin over 87% of the vote, extending […]

Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A newly discovered 10-foot-tall silver monolith on a muddy bluff in Wales has reignited wild speculation on its origin after similar obelisks appeared in Utah, California, England and Romania. The shiny spear impaled in the ground near Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales, was discovered this month by construction worker […]

ABC News Vladimir Putin has thanked the Russian citizens after early election results showed him winning his country’s presidency in a landslide. In his victory speech, delivered after results showed him winning with 87% of the vote, Putin called his win an example of the trust of Russian citizens. Among the tasks he said his […]

ABC News More than 30 U.S. citizens were returned to the United States from Haiti on a flight chartered by the U.S. State Department Sunday, a department spokesperson said. One day after the State Department posted its plans for the flight on X, asking interested U.S. passport holders to register on an intake form, the […]

Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management A volcano on Iceland’s southwestern coast erupted on Saturday for the fourth time since December, prompting an evacuation, officials said. The eruption began between Mt. Hagafell and Mt. Stóra Skógfell at 20:23 UTC, with a “2.9-km-long fissure forming quickly,” the Icelandic Meteorological Office said. “The lead-up to the […]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (GAZA) — The Israel Defense Forces denied accusations that its troops opened fire on a group of Gazan civilians who were waiting for aid Thursday. At least 20 people were killed and 155 were injured in a shooting at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City, which is used by aid groups to distribute […]

In this pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to TV host and Director General of Rossiya Segodnya (RIA Novosti) news agency Dmitry Kiselyov (not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 12, 2024. — (Photo by GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) (MOSCOW) — For days […]