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Courtesy Carol Barnes(NEW YORK) -- David Barnes, an American who has been incarcerated in Russia since the beginning of 2022, will have to wait another three weeks before he returns to a Moscow courtr...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- North Korea on Wednesday said the U.S. army private who crossed the border in July had "expressed his willingness to seek refuge" in the secretive country afte...

Russian Emergency Ministry/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- A gas station in the Russian town of Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan, exploded on Tuesday evening, killing at least 35...

A Sudanese officer speaks to civilians recruited by the army as they take part in a military training in the Kassinger area of Sudan's Northern State on August 9, 2023. -- AFP via Getty Images(LONDON)...

Neda Sharghi via Twitter(WASHINGTON) -- Five American citizens considered to be unjustly detained have all been moved into house arrest in Iran after previously being imprisoned there, U.S. officials ...

Jose Antonio Caravaca/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After months of quiet negotiations, Iran and the U.S. have reached an agreement that would see five American citizens considered to be unjustly detain...

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum at the Elysee Palace on Feb. 16, 2023 in Paris. -- Chesnot/Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) -- There is "growing concern" for the safety of Niger's democratically electe...

RODRIGO BUENDIA/AFP via Getty Images(QUITO, Ecuador) -- Fernando Villavicencio, a presidential candidate in Ecuador, whose campaign highlighted alleged connections between gangs and government officia...

Courtesy of Hesham Sallam(NEW YORK) -- Scientists have identified a new species of ancient miniature whale, which is now thought to be the smallest known basilosaurid to ever exist. Remnants from the ...

Valeria Ferraro/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(LAMPEDUSA, Italy) -- Forty-one people are presumed to have died in a shipwreck close to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Friday, survivors told t...