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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House Thursday for talks with President Joe Biden. The two leaders held a meeting in the Oval Office befo...

ABC(NEW YORK) -- Despite an alleged plot to lure and kidnap her, the arrest of her brother in Iran and ongoing death threats, Iranian American activist and journalist Masih Alinejad refuses to be sile...

Unicef(NEW YORK) -- Approximately 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Haiti on Wednesday, meaning it no longer was the only country in the Americas without any. But vaccine hesitancy, to say ...

omersukrugoksu/iStock(PRETORIA, South Africa) -- At least 117 people have been killed in ongoing riots across South Africa despite the efforts of heavily outnumbered authorities to quell violent unres...

ONT/ Belarusian state TV(MOSCOW) — Alena Denisavets said she had been looking for her husband for more than a day when she got a text message from a lawyer who she believed was working for Belar...

Official White House Photo by Cameron Smith(WASHINGTON) -- First lady Jill Biden will attend the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, which will be held on July 23, according to th...

Richard Pierrin/Getty Images(LONDON) -- More than two dozen people, mostly foreigners, have been accused of playing a role in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise last week. Now, ...

Pawel Gaul/iStock(NEW YORK) — Claude Joseph, the interim prime minister of Haiti, said in an interview with ABC News that former President Jovenel Moise was tortured before he was killed and vow...

PinkOmelet/iStock(LONDON) -- As the coronavirus pandemic rages on in some parts of the world, the upcoming Summer Olympic Games are set to be unlike any others. The 2020 Summer Olympics were supposed ...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. will not be sending troops to Haiti, according to a senior administration official, after the Caribbean nation's government requested help to stabilize ...