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Okan Celik/iStock(BERLIN) -- Germany passed a grim milestone on Thursday: 100,000 deaths from COVID-19. In recent weeks, the situation has spiraled out of control as cases have spiked and intensive ca...

Manuel Chinchilla/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Honduras teeters on the edge of democracy. In one of the most consequential elections in the Western Hemisphere, in one of Central America's poorest countries, Ho...

beyhanyazar/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. government is warning American citizens in Ethiopia even more starkly to leave the country now, as the conflict there continues to deteriorate. Ethiopian Pri...

metamorworks/iStock(NEW YORK) -- When the world's leaders arrived in Glasgow for COP26 earlier this month, they knew what needed to be done: keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius at all costs. T...

DeAgostini/Getty Images(LUXOR, Egypt) -- Egypt on Thursday opened to the public a 3,000-year-old sphinx-filled avenue in the Southern city of Luxor to great fanfare, having wrapped up restoration work...

Bettmann/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A rare manuscript by Albert Einstein that changed the course of modern science was just sold for over 13.3 million euros (over $15 million), including fees, beating al...

DIMITAR KYOSEMARLIEV/AFP via Getty Images(MOSCOW) -- At least 45 people, including a dozen children, were killed after a tourist bus from North Macedonia crashed and caught fire in Bulgaria early Tues...

RICARDO ARDUENGO/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Two of the Christian missionaries who were kidnapped in Haiti last month have been released, according to the ministry. Nineteen people -- including ...

fstop123/iStock(BIALYSTOK, Poland) -- In a dark, cold Polish wood, Ahmad Al Hasan's coffin was lowered into a freshly dug grave. It was early evening but already pitch black in the cemetery outside th...

ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The wife of an American held hostage by Islamist militants in Africa broke years of silence on Wednesday to criticize U.S. government efforts and to make a plea to the leader o...