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abzee/Getty Images(DARWIN, Australia) -- The Marine Corps on Monday identified the three Marines killed on Sunday when their Osprey aircraft crashed during a training exercise off the northern coast o...

Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images(ATHENS, Greece) -- As firefighters battle wildfires raging across swathes of Greece that have killed at least 20 people, authorities warned that "arsonist scum" a...

Gianluigi Guercia/POOL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The five-nation BRICS group announced expansion of members on Thursday, having invited six countries to join the bloc. South African President Cy...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- North Korea said a second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit failed early Thursday, but the reclusive country vowed to launch another in the coming months...

Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin offered his first comments Thursday on the mysterious plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group head Yevgeny P...

STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Japan's Tokyo Electric Power Company began releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A group of around 100 Afghan women was stopped by the Taliban from boarding a plane to the United Arab Emirates in order to attend university there, their sponso...

Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The Wall Street Journal reporter being held in Russia had his pre-trial detention extended for three months during a hearing at a Moscow court on Th...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) -- At least 16 people were killed and 36 others were injured in a bus crash in central Mexico on Tuesday, authorities said. A passenger bus carrying locals and...

DIMUSE/Getty Images(RUSSIA) -- Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an i...