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Police say hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the pages of Islam’s holy book, ransacking and burning his house and beating him before police officers rescued the man and his fa...

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Syria's state media says a bomb attached to a car exploded in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage

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At least five miners have died in an illegal gold mine collapse in northern Kenya

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month

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Local officials say strong wind has blown off the roof of a school in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, injuring at least 12 children

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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to make an official visit to Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies in Southeast Asia, after holding talks with his Chinese counterpart at an annual security conference in Singapore

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Four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi

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The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time

May 25

An emergency convoy is delivering food, water and other provisions to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea

May 25

On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats.The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans.Legend says the island used to be famous for sericulture and farmers would keep cats because they would chase away rats, protecting the silkworm cocoons from the rodents.Fishermen on the island have also traditionally believed that cats bring good luck, including large hauls of fish.Another legend says fishermen used to watch the cats’ behavior for tips on the coming weather before heading to sea.The islanders have long coexisted with the cats. One day, however, a fisherman accidentally injured a cat while working. Feeling sorry for the injury, the islanders built the shrine for cats.Tashirojima is part of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture in the Tohoku region, which became well known after a tsunami devastated the area following a...

May 25

Millions of Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election in the searing summer heat

May 24

Highway bandits in Mexico made off of with over 40 tons of avocados

May 24

Ruto believes the Kenyan forces can help stop gang violence in Haiti.

May 24

Bryan Hagerich pled guilty to possessing 20 rounds of ammo and was sentenced to 52 weeks plus a $6,700 fine.

May 24

ABC News’ Selina Wang joins to discuss her sit down with President William Ruto and his pledge to protect democracy in Haiti.

May 24

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has been charged in a long-running witness tampering investigation

May 24

Colombia's ex-President Uribe charged with witness tampering in polarizing legal battle

May 24

The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel must halt its military offensive immediately, however, it carries little weight. ABC News' Britt Clennett has the latest from Tel Aviv.

May 24

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, has been reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy

May 24

A Paris court has sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil

May 24

Bryan Hagerich was facing a mandatory 12-year sentence for possessing ammunition on the island of Turks and Caicos, but the judge gave Hagerich a suspended sentence and $6,700 fine.

May 24

Paris court sentences three high-ranking Syrian officials to life in prison in absentia for war crimes in landmark case

May 24

Warnings were issued well before a campaign event about winds that caused a deadly Mexico stage collapse this week, but they went unheeded

May 24

Greek authorities say nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours

May 24

A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic

May 24

The bodies of the three hostages, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, have now been returned to Israel for burial.

May 24

At the rear of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet, or about 4 meters, from a previously deforested area

May 24

The Pennsylvania father of two dodged 12 years behind bars after authorities found hunting bullets in his bag.

May 24

The Pennsylvania father of two was arrested in February.

May 24

Britt Clennett reports from Israel on the ICJ’s ruling against Israel's war offensive in Gaza.

May 24

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited his Belarusian counterpart and close ally for talks in Minsk

May 24

A family member says a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti’s capital who attacked them as they left a youth group activity held at a local church

May 24

Young missionary couple from US among 3 killed by gunmen in Haiti's capital who opened fire on a home, police say

May 24

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by

May 24

The charge carries a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison.

May 24

German authorities say they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshippers at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg

May 24

Syrian Kurdish-led authorities in the country's northeast say they have handed over a British woman and three children linked to the Islamic State group to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week

May 24

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

May 24

A British lawmaker who returned to work this week after losing his hands and feet to sepsis has announced he won't run in the July 4 election

May 24

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has waded into the European election campaign by warning that the next president of the European Commission should not seek support from far-right parties after next month’s vote

May 24

The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia was “unacceptable.”

May 24

Top UN court orders Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah, a ruling Israel is unlikely to comply with

May 24

An outspoken former activist and member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will be among at least 10 independent candidates seeking to become lawmakers for the first time in the country’s history

May 24

The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says

May 24

Top UN court opens hearing to rule on a request to order Israel to halt military operation in Gaza

May 24

Russian state media have reported that an American soldier arrested in Russia’s far eastern city of Vladivostok on charges of stealing has lost an appeal against his detention and will remain in custody

May 24

The U.N. human rights office has warned of “frightening and disturbing reports” about the impact of new violence in Myanmar's western state of Rakhine and new attacks on Rohingya civilians by the army and an ethnic armed group fighting it

May 24

Officials say a nighttime Russian attack has destroyed train tracks and rolling stock in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region

May 24

A judge says an office manager of the Hong Kong trade office in London and another man will go on trial in February for allegedly helping Hong Kong authorities gather intelligence in the U.K. Chung Biu Yuen and Chi Leung Peter Wai appeared at London’s ...

May 24

Sherpa guide Kami Rita is back from Mount Everest after his record 30th successful ascent of the world’s highest peak, vowing to return to the mountain again next year

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