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(Photo by Contributor/Getty Images) (LONDON) — Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an “Easter truce” in the war in Ukraine on Saturday, saying that the Russian side will cease military action from 6 p.m. local Saturday night until midnight April 21. Putin said he assumes that “the Ukrainian side will follow our example,” according to a […]

David Barnes appears in court in Russia on Feb. 13, 2024. Via ABC News. (LONDON) — American David Barnes’ appeal to be released from a Russian detention center has been denied, causing prosecutors in Moscow to celebrate while Barnes’ friends and family in Alabama fear for his future. In a hearing that lasted roughly three […]

Thousands of Palestinians displaced by Israel continue to return to their lands in the north from the south with their vehicles in Gaza on January 29, 2025. (Photo by Moiz Salhi/Anadolu via Getty Images) (LONDON) — In mid-January, when two U.S.-based contracting firms tapped to secure a critical vehicle checkpoint in Gaza scrambled to sign […]

Marco Iacobucci/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (ROME and LONDON) — Pope Francis arrived on Thursday for a meet-and-greet with inmates at a prison in Rome amid the Catholic Holy Week, making a public appearance for one of the first times since his lengthy hospital stay. The pontiff, 88, made the short drive from the Vatican […]

State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Anadolu via Getty Images LONDON — Three people, including a child, were killed in a “massive” Russian drone strike overnight on Dnipro, Ukraine, the local governor said. “Thirty people were injured, five of them children,” Serhiy Lysak, who leads the local administration, said on the Telegram messaging app. The injured later […]

Diaa Ostaz/ABC News (GAZA) — Since the end of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on March 18, the humanitarian situation in Gaza has sharply deteriorated. The continued closure of all border crossings since March 2 has blocked the entry of humanitarian aid, triggering a severe food crisis and endangering the lives of millions of […]

Courtesy of Fellowship Baptist Church )LONDON and PRETORIA) — An American missionary allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint during a church service in South Africa last Thursday has been rescued in “a high-intensity shootout” between police and his suspected captors, authorities said on Wednesday. Three unidentified suspects were killed during Tuesday’s rescue operation, which was led by […]

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (NEW YORK) — For the first time, newly released security footage shows the moment an alleged stowaway sneaked onto a transatlantic flight just before last Thanksgiving in a stunning breach of security. Svetlana Dali is accused of boarding an overnight Delta flight from John F. Kennedy International […]

Scott Eisen/Getty Images International students pursuing degrees at Michigan public universities sought relief from detention and deportation during a federal court hearing on Tuesday, after their student immigration status was terminated this month, jeopardizing their legal status in the U.S. The students — two citizens of China, one of Nepal and another from India — […]

Christian Torres/Anadolu via Getty Images (FORT HUACHUCA, AZ) — U.S. Army soldiers will soon be patrolling a 170-mile buffer zone along the southern border with Mexico in a newly created “National Defense Area” in Arizona and New Mexico. It’s part of the Trump administration’s efforts to use the U.S. military to stop the flow of […]