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DIMITAR KYOSEMARLIEV/AFP via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- At least 45 people, including a dozen children, were killed after a tourist bus from North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in Bulgaria early Tues...

RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two of the Christian missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti last month have been released, according to the ministry. Nineteen people -- including ...

fstop123/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) -- In a dark, cold Polish wood, Ahmad Al Hasan's coffin was lowered into a freshly dug grave. It was early evening but already pitch black in the cemetery outside th...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The wife of an American held hostage by Islamist militants in Africa broke years of silence on Wednesday to criticize U.S. government efforts and to make a plea to the leader o...

Yaraslau Mikheyeu/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) -- Germany's chancellor Angela Merkel talked with Belarus' authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, on Wednesday, as part of a burst of European diplomat...

iStock(LONDON) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson commented in a meeting Tuesday with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that the decision to return the famous Parthenon marbles to Greece would be ...

Cavan Images/Getty Images(BELLINGHAM, Wash.) -- Devastating flooding in western Canada forced 184 people to evacuate overnight in Abbotsford in British Columbia, Abbotsford Mayor Henry Braun said. Bil...

E_Rojas/iStock(NEW YORK) -- A self-portrait by the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo was sold for almost $35 million, including fees, at a Sotheby's auction in New York on Tuesday. This portrait, titled 'Die...

State Department photo by Ron Przysucha(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is running headfirst into a number of fires as he makes his first trip to Africa as America's top diplomat...

United States Space Command(WASHINGTON) -- The United States on Monday condemned a Russian anti-satellite test against one of its own satellites that the U.S. said created a field of more than 1,500 p...