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Italy’s government convenes talks amid skyrocketing pasta prices
Edoardo Fornaciari/Getty Images(ROME) -- Italy's government is on full alert following a national problem: skyrocketing Pasta prices. Italy's Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso...
Emma Ogao, ABC News May 13, 2023

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan granted two-week reprieve after arrest triggered violent protests
KeithBinns/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted two weeks of bail by Islamabad's high court Friday, one day after the Supreme Court ruled his arrest on corr...
Habibullah Khan, ABC News May 12, 2023

Suspect in Natalee Holloway's disappearance faces extradition to US
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(LONDON) -- The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the Unit...
Morgan Winsor and Conor Finnegan, ABC News May 11, 2023

Vehicle explodes in central Milan, releasing plumes of smoke
abile/Getty Images(ROME) -- A parked van exploded in a busy section of central Milan in Italy on Thursday morning. The carabinieri -- or Italian police -- said that it was unclear what caused the van ...
Phoebe Natanson, Jon Haworth and Clark Bentson, ABC News May 11, 2023

Death and sacrifice: How Ukrainians on the front line deal with loss
Tom Soufi Burridge/ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Six-year-old Sasha Pylypets watched, impassively, with a type of curious stare, as people threw handfuls of earth into her dad's grave. Days later, i...
Tom Soufi Burridge, ABC News May 10, 2023

'Outsourcing' border enforcement: Biden's migration policies rely on Mexico despite its grim record
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(MEXICO CITY) -- When Emiliano, 51 years old, finally reached Mexico from his native Venezuela, he was detained by Mexico's immigration authority, known by its Spanish-langu...
Conor Finnegan, ABC News May 10, 2023

Woman survives on candy and wine after being lost in the wilderness for five days: Police
Facebook / Wodonga Police(LONDON) -- A woman is lucky to be alive after she was stranded for five days in thick Australian bushland and managed to survive on some candy and a bottle of wine, police sa...
Jon Haworth, ABC News May 10, 2023

New $1.2 billion US military aid package to Ukraine: What's in it?
Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a new commitment of $1.2 billion in military aid for Ukraine. The package includes air-defense syste...
Matt Seyler and Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News May 09, 2023

Paul Whelan 'is focused on getting through each day,' brother says after US ambassador's visit
David Whelan, Paul Whelan's brother, is shown during an interview with ABC News' Linsey Davis. -- ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Paul Whelan, a former American Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2018...
ABC News May 09, 2023

During shrunken Victory Day parade, Putin says Ukraine war was 'unleashed' on Russia
Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- Russia's Victory Day parade is meant to be a projection of President Vladimir Putin's military might. But this year, it was effectively the opp...
Patrick Reevell and Morgan Winsor, ABC News May 09, 2023
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