A billboard promoting contract army service is pictured in the Russian city of Belgorod, some 40 km from border with Ukraine, on May 27, 2023. — Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images (SLOVYANSK, Ukraine) — Well-trained, well-equipped Ukrainian combat forces are now in “assembly areas,” close enough to front line areas,Read More →
Catherine Falls Commercial/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway, will likely be extradited to the United States Tuesday, a source close to the family told ABC News. Van der Sloot left the Challapalca prison on SaturdayRead More →
Abbas Hussein Eltoum (KHARTOUM, Sudan) — When electricity shortages closed the Ibrahim Malik Teaching Hospital where Dr. Mohamed Karrar worked, he packed a bag with any medical equipment and medicine he could carry. “I posted on Twitter that I am an emergency doctor in Al Mamoura available at any time forRead More →
Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images (TAIPEI, Taiwan) — In the second major provocation by China’s military in the span of a week, a Chinese warship carried out what the U.S. military called “an unsafe maritime interaction” when it crossed an American warship’s bow at a distance of 150 yards forcing the U.S. NavyRead More →
Sudanese Red Crescent Society (LONDON) — Perturbed by the stench entering his family home in Bahri, Khartoum North, Dr. Noah Madni and his remaining neighbors decided to remove the bodies amassing in the street themselves. “No one from the military or health ministry was coming to pick the bodies up,”Read More →
Tuul & Bruno Morandi/Getty Images (INDIA) — At least 200 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a train accident in India, as the death toll continues to rise, officials said. The crash occurred Friday night in Odisha, a state in eastern India, and involved three trains, accordingRead More →
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Ethnic cleansing campaigns have continued in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, despite a November 2022 peace agreement, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch. “The November truce in northern Ethiopia has not brought about an end to the ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans in Western TigrayRead More →
Valentyn Semenov / EyeEm/Getty Images (KYIV, Ukraine) — A group of friends in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, opened what they call the first military-meme art bar: Offensive. On the walls of a new bar, there’s a piece of a Russian UAVs, a spent shell, the debris of the downed RussianRead More →
Abstract Aerial Art/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Keith Russell began his day with a trip to the airport to pick up some supplies. It ended with a scene that could have been pulled from an adventure movie when he rescued five travelers from an airplane submerged in the crystal-clear watersRead More →
pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NASSAU, Bahamas) — Five people were rescued after a private plane crashed into waters near the Bahamas on Thursday, the Bahamas’ Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority told ABC News. The plane was en route to Florida when it crashed into the water about 10 nautical miles north of Andros, anRead More →
