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PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty Images)(BORDEAUX, France) — A wildfire is raging at an "unprecedented" rate in the famed wine region south of Bordeaux, France, firefighters said Wednesday. The pref...

Photography by Keith Getter (all rights reserved)/Getty Images(SEOUL, South Korea) -- Heavy rain with thunder and lightning has battered South Korea's central areas for two straight days, causing dama...

Aaron Katersky(NEW YORK) -- Cambodian artifacts will return to their home country after being smuggled and sold to U.S. collectors and institutions. The 10th Century Khmer sandstone statue "Skanda on ...

Photo courtesy of the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York(NEW YORK) -- Federal prosecutors have moved to seize the $90 million Airbus A319 used as a private jet by a Russi...

Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(NAIROBI, Kenya) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken is scheduled to meet with officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda this week, ar...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A British museum will return 72 artifacts to the Nigerian government that were forcibly taken over a hundred years ago. The Horniman Museum and Gardens agreed to...

Ibtissem Guenfoud/ABC News(BEIRUT, Lebanon) -- An explosion of 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate in Lebanon's biggest seaport in 2020 has left deep trauma in the Lebanese psyche. Opera singer Michel...

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Brittney Griner is known for her game on the basketball court, but she's now become embroiled in a much more dangerous game -- a political gambit between Russia and the U.S. Will...

Julio Cesar Aguilar/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Ten miners remain trapped underground in a flooded tunnel in northern Mexico on Friday after first becoming trapped nearly two days ago. Mexican o...

ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus...