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Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Europe's devastating flood death toll rose to at least 183 on Sunday with hard-hit west Germany and Belgium reeling from fast-rising w...

Dan Kitwood/Getty Images(LONDON) -- England, which has faced more than 14 months of lockdowns as the COVID-19 pandemic raged and waned, is set to fully reopen July 19, despite a rising caseload in one...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(MOSCOW) -- Trevor Reed, one of two American former Marines that U.S. officials say is being held hostage by Russia, has been transferred to a prison camp a few hundred miles fr...

ABC(PORT-AU-PRINCE) -- Mamyrah Prosper moved to the U.S. in 1998 with some of her family members. But while she came looking for opportunities, it’s Haiti that she calls home. The Africana studi...

Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LONDON) -- More than 100 people have been confirmed dead while many more remain unaccounted for amid catastrophic flooding across western Europe, offi...

KeithBinns/iStock(LONDON) -- Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed in southern Afghanistan while covering clashes between the country's special forces and the Taliban. He w...

Joel Carillet/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Thousands of Cubans have been protesting food, vaccine and medicine shortages, in the one of the country's largest demonstrations in decades. Some residents went days...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House Thursday for talks with President Joe Biden. The two leaders held a meeting in the Oval Office befo...

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Despite an alleged plot to lure and kidnap her, the arrest of her brother in Iran and ongoing death threats, Iranian American activist and journalist Masih Alinejad refuses to be sile...

Unicef(NEW YORK) -- Approximately 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Haiti on Wednesday, meaning it no longer was the only country in the Americas without any. But vaccine hesitancy, to say ...