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(Photo by Fatima Shbair/Getty Images) Palestinians inspect damage to buildings in Al-Saftawi street northern Gaza City on May 20, 2021 in Gaza City, Gaza. (NEW YORK) -- Something was off about this on...

Jasmine Hartin's lawyer, Godfrey Smith, emerged from the court and told members of the press that she has been charged with "manslaughter by negligence," in the death of a police superintendent in Bel...

olrat/iStock(LONDON) -- The head of the World Health Organization has called for launching negotiations on an international treaty on pandemic preparedness and response to better ready the world for t...

egadolfo/iStock(PARIS) -- A French feminist organization is using the favored French bread as a means to fight against domestic violence. The "NousToutes" ("MeToo" in French) collective is leading an ...

STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images(PARIS) -- The focus at a concert is usually on the band. But Saturday night, the focus at France's Paris Accor Arena was on the crowd. Some 5,000 volunteers go...

Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — The shock and a sense of sickening horror were immediate among Roman Protasevich's family and colleagues in Belarus' pro-democracy movement, the...

David Kawai/Bloomberg via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the recent discovery of more than 200 bodies in the grounds of what was the country's largest Indig...

ABC News(LOD, Israel) -- It's a story of hope -- and grace -- between two families after almost two weeks of fighting in the Middle East. On May 11, Ira Yehoshua's husband, Yigal Yehoshua, died 500 ya...

omersukrugoksu/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- After months of ongoing fighting, reported atrocities, and hindered humanitarian aid, President Joe Biden has finally weighed in directly on the crisis in Ethiopia...

Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP / Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- After four years of President Donald Trump tilting U.S. policy toward Israel, Secretary of State Antony Blinken seems intent on a reset. In his ...