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Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- Amid fears Russia might invade Ukraine, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has again repeated demands for guarantees from Western countries that NATO will ...

Naveen Sharma/EyeEm/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- New research suggests that India’s COVID-19 death toll during its first and second waves might have been significantly undercounted, with the a...

KeithBinns/iStock FILE(WASHINGTON) -- As Afghanistan spirals further toward a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, the international community is allowing greater exemptions to aid groups to try to allev...

Getty Images/Ketkarn sakultap(RIO DE JANEIRO) -- Gabriel Boric, a 35-year-old self-described "moderate socialist," will be sworn in as Chile's president in March, making him both the youngest leader i...

BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images(LONDON) -- The British royal family's annual Christmas tradition has been canceled for the second year in a row due to the coronavirus pandemic. Queen Elizabeth will ...

Courtesy Tasmania Police(SYDNEY) -- A sixth child has died from his injuries following Thursday's bouncy castle tragedy at an Australian school. Chace Harrison, 11, died at Royal Hobart Hospital ...

Obtained by ABC News(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Around two dozen U.S.-trained former Afghan Air Force pilots are still trapped in Afghanistan and pleading for the United States government to evacuate them...

mashabuba/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Russia published a list of sweeping new security guarantees it wants from the United States and NATO on Friday -- including a promise not to expand the alliance -...

Francois LOCHON/ Getty Images(PARIS) -- After 2 1/2 years of cleaning and consolidating -- and a pandemic that halted French workers for a few months -- the restoration phase of the Notre Dame cathedr...

JasonDoiy/iStock(LONDON) -- Australia is coming together as a nation following Thursday’s bouncy castle tragedy in which five children were killed. A gust of wind lifted the castle into the air,...