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alexsl/iStock(LONDON) -- The U.S. is reopening borders to vaccinated travelers on Monday after 20 months of being closed to many countries, including the United Kingdom, Brazil, China, India, South Af...

DNY59/iStock(NEW YORK) -- It was not until 2017 that Monique Bitu Bingi felt strong enough to tell the full story of what happened during her childhood in the Belgian-ruled Congo. Even her husband, wh...

Tamati Smith/Getty Images(PERTH, Australia) -- Terence Darrell Kelly was charged Thursday afternoon with one count of forcibly taking a child under 16 for allegedly abducting 4-year-old Cleo Smit...

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Donations have poured in from thousands of "World News Tonight" viewers in the wake of our report on Southern Madagascar, a country on the verge of the world's first climate chan...

kali9/iStock(PUERTO MORELOS, Mexico) -- Two people are dead after a shooting involving alleged drug gangs in a Mexico resort zone Thursday afternoon, authorities said. The shooting occurred on a beach...

ABC News(RUZVAT, Tajikistan) -- In many places along Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, the countries are separated by just a few yards of water -- the narrow Panj River. There are no walls or fenc...

Alastair Grant - Pool/Getty Images(GLASGOW, Scotland) -- Eshrat Waris called just attending the COP26 climate summit and meeting Prince William in Glasgow, Scotland, this week an "out of body experien...

piyaset/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Young people are taking climate action into their own hands as distrust over lawmakers' ability to tackle global warming continues to grow. Children and young adults are ex...

Colin Murty/Newspix via Getty Images(CARNARVON, Australia) -- A 36-year-old man is now in custody following the rescue of missing 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who disappeared 18 days ago while camping with ...

Ivan Cholakov/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- China is rapidly increasing the size of its nuclear arsenal and could have as many as 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030, according to a new Pentagon report released We...