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Photography taken by Mario Gutiérrez./Getty Images(RUSSIA) -- A Russian-Ukrainian national suspected of being involved in a terrorist conspiracy was taken into custody after being injured in an...

Dawam Syah / 500px/Getty Images(RUSSIA) -- A Russian cosmonaut became the first person to spend a cumulative 1,000 days in space, Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced Wednesday.Oleg Kononenko, 59...

Getty Images - STOCK(LONDON) -- Six people, including the alleged gunman, have been arrested in connection with a shooting Wednesday morning near the entrance to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, t...

the_burtons/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- This year's World Environment Day comes with a sobering reminder about the severity of global warming, according to climate experts.New climate warnings were anno...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- There were "serious breaches" of international law and crimes against humanity were committed during the two-year Tigray War, according to a report released by U...

Amanda Knox arrives with her husband Christopher Robinson at the courthouse in Florence, on June 5, 2024 before a hearing in a slander case, related to her jailing and later acquittal for the murder o...

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin (L) listens as Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet (R) speaks during a meeting at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh on June 4, 2024. (Str/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)(WASH...

Buena Vista Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected president of Mexico, marking the first time a woman has been chosen to lead the country, Mexico's election institute ann...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A North Korean official on Sunday vowed that the secretive country would stop floating trash-carrying balloons over the border into South Korea, but warned tha...

Getty Images - STOCK(LONDON) -- Sudanese army leaders are rejecting peace talks with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group following U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's call with Sudanese A...