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Getty Images - STOCK(CANADA) -- A segment of the polar bear population is at risk of extinction should ice-free periods continue to get longer, researchers have determined using analysis of the sea ic...

Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images(FASANO, Italy) -- G7 leaders on Thursday agreed to lend Ukraine $50 billion this year -- backed by profits from frozen Russian assets -- to help the country's war...

Darrin Klimek/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- In a setback to Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the Russian prosecutor's office announced Thursday he will stand trial on espionage charges, offi...

Getty Images - STOCK(RUSSIA) -- The Pentagon is downplaying Wednesday's arrival of four Russian Navy ships in Cuba as U.S. officials acknowledge that U.S. Navy ships "actively monitored" the Russian s...

Getty Images - STOCK(ITALY) -- It has been thousands of years since the eruption of Mount Vesuvius left the Italian city of Pompeii in ruins, but the ancient archaeological site continues to offer new...

Natalia Kushnir/ABC News(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Ukraine on Tuesday launched its Unmanned Systems Forces, a new branch of its military focused on drone warfare that officials said was the first of its kind....

A visitor looks at the new official portrait of King Charles III, painted by British artist Jonathan Yeo, displayed at the Philip Mould gallery, on Pall Mall, central London, on May 16, 2024. (Henry N...

Newborn elephant twins, a female (R) and a male (L), stand next to their mother Jamjuree at the Ayutthaya Elephant Palace and Royal Kraal in Ayutthaya on June 10, 2024. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP via Getty...

Relatives and supporters hold placards bearing portraits of Israeli hostages (L to R) Almog Meir Jan, Edan Alexander, and Matan Angrest, held in Gaza since the Oct. 7 attacks by the Palestinian Hamas ...

Thinkstock Images/Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were injured in a "serious incident" while overseas in China, the university said in a statement Monday.The in...