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Getty Images - STOCK(RUSSIA) -- The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday's arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba as U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships "actively monitored" the Russian s...

Getty Images - STOCK(ITALY) -- It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Italian city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new...

Natalia Kushnir/ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukraine on Tuesday launched its Unmanned Systems Forces, a new branch of its military focused on drone warfare that officials said was the first of its kind....

A visitor looks at the new official portrait of King Charles III, painted by British artist Jonathan Yeo, displayed at the Philip Mould gallery, on Pall Mall, central London, on May 16, 2024. (Henry N...

Newborn elephant twins, a female (R) and a male (L), stand next to their mother Jamjuree at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal in Ayutthaya on June 10, 2024. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty...

Relatives and supporters hold placards bearing portraits of Israeli hostages (L to R) Almog Meir Jan, Edan Alexander, and Matan Angrest, held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attacks by the Palestinian Hamas ...

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were injured in a "serious incident" while overseas in China, the university said in a statement Monday.The in...

Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Israeli special forces were disguised as Palestinian refugees looking for a place to live when they entered the buildings where hostages were be...

Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The United Nations Security Council on Monday afternoon adopted a U.S. draft resolution urging Hamas to accept the latest cease-fire and hostage release...

GEORG HOCHMUTH/APA/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- An Austrian Airlines flight suffered significant damage from hail, which took off part of the airplane's nose on Sunday, the airline said.Flight OS...