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US announces diplomatic boycott of Winter Olympics in China over human rights
Hou Yu/China News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) -- The United States will not send an official delegation to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the White House announced Monday, citing ...
Conor Finnegan, ABC News Dec 07, 2021

Biden confronts Putin over Ukraine in high-stakes meeting
Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a video meeting on Tuesday that the United States "would respond with strong ...
Ben Gittleson, Molly Nagle and Sarah Kolinovsky, ABC News Dec 07, 2021

New York billionaire surrenders stolen antiquities worth $70M
iStock/Punkbarby(NEW YORK) -- Billionaire investor and philanthropist Michael Steinhardt was forced to surrender $70 million worth of stolen antiquities and comply with a lifetime ban on collecting an...
Aaron Katersky and Ayushi Agarwal, ABC News Dec 06, 2021

Hundreds of migrants living in squalor in warehouse in Belarus amid ongoing border crisis
ABC News(BRUZGI, Belarus) -- Parsa Akram now lives with her mother, father and brother under a warehouse shelf. The space is about 2 meters wide. The 18-year-old and her mother sleep in a tent, her br...
Patrick Reevell, ABC News Dec 02, 2021

Global health authorities warn against 'blanket' travel bans
PinkOmelet/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Global health authorities are urging against the use of "blanket" travel bans in response to the threat of new coronavirus variants, as some nations have rushed to shu...
Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News Dec 01, 2021

Russia planning 'significant aggressive moves against Ukraine,' Blinken warns
GINTS IVUSKANS/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. is "deeply concerned by evidence that Russia has made plans for significant aggressive moves against Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Bli...
Conor Finnegan, ABC News Dec 01, 2021

Climate change is affecting when grey seals give birth, scientists say
iStock/chonticha wat(NEW YORK) -- Scientists are continuing to discover ways in which climate change is already affecting animal species around the world -- including how it's changing the phenology, ...
Julia Jacobo, ABC News Nov 30, 2021

Iran returns to negotiations, with a nuclear crisis still looming large for Biden
Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- Iran returned to negotiations over its nuclear program on Monday -- meeting for the first time in over five months, with the country's new hard-line government n...
Conor Finnegan, ABC News Nov 29, 2021

61 people snowed in at English pub are now back home
Facebook/Tan Hill Inn(LONDON) -- A British inn and pub officially bid “fond farewell” to 61 guests Monday after a blizzard stranded them for days inside. Located 270 miles north of London,...
Somayeh Malekian, ABC News Nov 29, 2021

At least 19 dead, 32 injured after bus crash in Mexico
kali9/iStock(JOQUICINGO, Mexico) -- At least 19 people are dead and dozens more injured after a bus crash in central Mexico Friday. The accident occurred on a highway in Joquicingo, a township in the ...
Meredith Deliso, ABC News Nov 27, 2021
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