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STOCK IMAGE/Getty Images (BELIZE) — Police in Belize are investigating after three young American women were found dead in their hotel room at a luxury beachfront resort last weekend. The women — identified as 23-year-old Koutar Naqqad, 24-year-old Imane Mallah and 26-year-old Wafae El-Arar — were found dead at the Royal Kahal Beach Resort in […]

Tiziana FABI / AFP via Getty Images (ROME and LONDON) — Pope Francis’s condition remains “critical but stable,” Vatican officials said in a brief update on Tuesday. “There have been no acute respiratory episodes and hemodynamic parameters continue to be stable. In the evening, he underwent a scheduled CT scan for radiological monitoring of the […]

Neil Milton/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (LONDON) — NATO ally Poland scrambled “military aviation” in its airspace early Tuesday morning in response to Russian missile strikes in western Ukraine, the country’s Operational Command said. “Due to the activity of long-range aviation of the Russian Federation carrying out strikes on objects located, among others, in western […]

Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images (LONDON) — When she left her home in Gaza City 16 months ago, Tala Herzallah didn’t think she was seeing it for the last time. Now, walking in the rubble of what used to be her house, the 22-year-old Palestinian can barely recognize the place where she spent most of […]

Tiziana FABI / AFP via Getty Images (ROME and LONDON) — Pope Francis “rested well, all night long” in the hospital, Vatican officials said in a brief update on Tuesday morning. The pope slept without interruption, Vatican sources told ABC News. He woke up on Tuesday and continued his usual therapies, the sources said. Francis, […]

Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — French President Emmanuel Macron used his visit to the U.S. to publicly push back on President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on Ukraine, fact-checking his American counterpart in real-time and urging caution in talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. During their joint Oval Office appearance on Monday, […]

Paula Bronstein/Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his leadership team spent much of 2024 cautiously courting both sides of America’s widening political divide — well aware that repelling Russia’s ongoing invasion relied, in large part, on U.S. largesse. Kyiv appeared hopeful it could weather President Donald Trump’s dramatic return to the White […]

Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images (KYIV, UKRAINE) — Ukraine’s parliament has passed a resolution affirming the legitimacy of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president and confirming that elections are not possible until after the war ends. The resolution is a rebuff to U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who have both suggested Zelenskyy is illegitimate because […]

Soldiers from 1st Battalion 4th Infantry Skynet team walking through the area of operations during Combined Resolve 25-1at Hohenfels Training Area on Feb. 5, 2025. (U.S. Army Reserve Photo by Spc. Airam B. I Amaro-Millan) (WASHINGTON) — Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. troops in Eastern Europe are using the lessons learned […]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Image (ROME and LONDON) — Pope Francis’ “critical clinical condition” has shown a “slight improvement,” the Vatican said on Monday, as the 88-year-old pontiff remains hospitalized following a pneumonia diagnosis. “In view of the complexity of the clinical picture, the doctors are still cautious about the prognosis,” the Vatican press […]