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Geraint Rowland Photography/Getty Images(LONDON) -- A Gaza road being extended and expanded for use by the Israeli military now runs across the full width of the Gaza Strip from east to west, satellit...

Chesnot/Getty Images(UNITED KINGDOM) -- Bitcoin soared to a record high of more than $72,000 on Monday after a financial regulator in the United Kingdom gave the green light to a c...

FILE photo -- Sebastian Barros/Long Visual Press/Universal Images Group via Getty Images(SYDNEY) -- A LATAM Airlines Group plane had a "technical problem" during a flight, causing what the airline des...

ABC NewsU.S. military crews have airlifted nonessential U.S. Embassy personnel in Haiti out of harm's way amid a surge of gang-related violence against the government, according to a statement Sunday ...

ABC News(ISTANBUL) -- Thousands of women took to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women's Day Friday despite a ban by the government, demanding equality and change of laws to pro...

Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images(GAZA) -- Five children were allegedly killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday, the Hamas-run Ga...

Daniel Day/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The European Union announced on Friday the launch of the Cyprus Maritime Corridor, a naval route facilitated by Europe's most southeastern island, Cyprus, to del...

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Armed bandits in Nigeria have kidnapped over 100 school children in Kuriga, north-western Nigeria, oaccording to officials.The bandits are reported to have storm...

Alfie/Getty(NEW YORK) -- Sweden's arduous path to joining the NATO alliance came to a successful close Thursday, as the Swedish prime minister and foreign minister deposited the country's "instrument ...

Thailand Customs Dept./Facebook(LONDON) -- A red panda was among 87 animals seized by Thai customs agents after they were discovered in checked luggage at Thailand’s main international airport.T...