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Iranian Leader Press Office/ Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed doubt about his country’s nuclear negotiations with the United States, saying he does not think the talks will come to a result, according to the official Islamic Republic News Agency. However, Khamenei, who is supreme leader of Iran’s Islamic […]

James Starnes (STARKVILLE, MS) — Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a mosasaur, a lizard ancestor that lived in the Late Cretaceous period, according to James Starnes, research director for the surface […]

Israeli Defense Forces / IDF / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — Edan Alexander — the American-Israeli hostage freed from Gaza last week — was “weak and exhausted” upon his dramatic release, his mother Yael told ABC News, recalling her son’s first moments of freedom after 584 days as a Hamas captive. “I was screaming […]

Rami Alsayed/NurPhoto via Getty Images (DAMASCUS, SYRIA) — He’s a former al-Qaeda insurgent who fought against U.S. forces in Iraq and served time in the infamous Abu Ghraib prison. Still, on Wednesday, new Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa stood on the world stage shaking hands with President Donald Trump and achieving a major feat for his […]

Eugene Abrasimov/Suspilne Ukraine/JSC “UA:PBC”https://digital.abcaudio.com/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — A Russian drone hit a civilian minibus in Bilopillia, northeastern Ukraine early Saturday morning local time, killing nine people and injuring four others, according to the Sumy regional military administration. The bus was en route to Sumy, not far from the Russian border and […]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (VATICAN CITY) — Pope Leo XIV, the first American pontiff for the Roman Catholic Church, will lead his inaugural mass on Sunday, according to the Vatican. The mass, called the Holy Mass for the Beginning of the Pontificate, will begin in Vatican City on Sunday at 10 a.m. local […]

Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia and Ukraine agreed to a prisoner exchange during peace talks in Turkey on Friday, which were led by a U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The two sides will conduct a 1,000 for 1,000 person prisoner exchange at a yet-to-be […]

Handout photo by Arda Kucukkaya/Turkish Foreign Ministry via Getty Images (LONDON) — The meeting between the U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukraine and Russia are set to take place in Turkey on Friday following a day of confusion on Thursday. Notably absent from the talks, however, are Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is in […]

Vladimir Putin & Donald Trump at G20 Osaka Summit 2019/ Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images (LONDON )– Ukrainian and Russian representatives will meet in Istanbul, Turkey, on Thursday, for their first meeting since the opening weeks of Moscow’s 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor. Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend Thursday’s talks, despite an invitation from Ukrainian […]

Aaron M. Sprecher/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Venezuelan 2-year-old who was kept in U.S. government custody after her parents were deported has been returned to Venezuela. In a video posted to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s YouTube page, Maduro is seen greeting the toddler upon the toddler’s return. The toddler, Maikelys Antonella Espinoza, is seen in […]