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Viacheslav Onyshchenko/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images (LONDON) — The World Health Organization warned Monday that the Ukrainian health care system is facing “unprecedented challenges” as the country marks the third year of defending against Russia’s invasion. Ukrainians have suffered a decline in physical and mental health with a need for mental health care, trauma care and rehabilitation, […]

Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) —  Russia launched 185 attack drones into Ukraine in an overnight attack coinciding with the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor, as allied leaders gathered in Kyiv to express their solidarity with Ukraine. Ukraine’s air force said it tracked 185 Shahed attack drones of various types […]

Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Before the final votes in Germany’s election were even counted, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the center-right Christian Democratic Union party, who is set to become the next chancellor, promised a major shift in relations with the U.S. In a post-election debate, he promised to confront head-on a […]

Mert Gokhankoc/ dia images via Getty Images (LONDON) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed his gratitude for the “absolute heroism” of Ukrainians over three years defending against Russia’s invasion, of which Monday marked the third anniversary. “Three years of resistance,” Zelenskyy wrote in a statement on social media. “Three years of gratitude. Three years of […]

Oleksi Liskonih/Getty Images (LONDON) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declared martial law early on Feb. 24, 2022, under Kyiv skies still tinged black by the smoke from Russian missile strikes. Three years later, the ravaged nation is still living under the extraordinary powers granted to the government in order to sustain its defensive and existential war against […]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Image (ROME and LONDON) — Pope Francis is “resting” on Monday morning after spending his 10th night in the hospital, the Vatican press office said. “The night passed well, the Pope slept and is resting,” the office said in a short statement. Francis has been eating normally, is awake and […]

ABC News ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis rested overnight in the hospital, the Vatican said on Sunday. “The night passed peacefully. The Pope rested,” the Holy See said in a short statement. The 88-year-old pontiff underwent another round of clinical tests on Sunday morning, Vatican sources told ABC News. A medical update was expected […]

Newly-released Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov gestures as he arrives in a vehicle at Beilinson Hospital in the Rabin Medical Centre in Petah Tikva in central Israel on February 22, 2025. Three more Israeli hostages were freed by Hamas militants at a ceremony in central Gaza on February 22 after two others were released in […]

Vatican Media via Vatican Pool/Getty Images (LONDON) — Pope Francis has not yet fully recovered from illness, but he is not in danger of losing his life, doctors from Gemelli Hospital said during a press conference on Friday. Pope Francis was hospitalized with a respiratory tract infection and now has pneumonia in both lungs. He has […]

(TEL AVIV) — Israeli police are responding to a suspected terror attack on buses near Tel Aviv, the Israeli Police Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement Thursday evening. The two buses where bombs exploded were empty and in separate parking lots about 500 meters apart from each other, the mayor of Bat Yam, where the […]