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Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov has invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk to Russia after being filmed behind the wheel of one of the company’s Cybertrucks mounted with a machine gun

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Authorities say wildfires are raging across western Turkey for a third straight day exacerbated by high winds and warm temperatures

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The youngest of three girls killed when a teen went on a stabbing rampage at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class has been mourned in a private funeral

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After 10 months of war, President Joe Biden says, "a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas is closer than ever."

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Fighters from Sudan’s paramilitary group have rampaged through a central village, looting and burning and killing at least 85 people, including women and children

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Sudan's paramilitary fighters killed 85 people in an attack on a central village, residents say

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Ukranian forces cross further into Russian territory as Russia closes in on a key Ukranian city.

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Hurricane Ernesto makes landfall, bombarding the islands with 85 mile-per-hour winds.

August 17

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov has arrived in Afghanistan in the highest-level visit by a foreign official since the Taliban returned to power three years ago

August 17

Silvio Santos, a Brazilian television executive and presenter known for his beaming smile and catchphrase “Who wants money?”

August 17

Priceless paintings by Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh and others were safe after firefighters worked to douse a fire at Somerset House

August 17

Russia is keeping up its assault on Ukraine even as Ukrainian forces push into Russia’s Kursk border region

August 17

The scale of the raid was "definitely unusual," an UNRWA director told ABC News.

August 17

It was hours after mediators expressed optimism for an imminent cease-fire deal.

August 17

Madonna has celebrated her 66th birthday with a private evening tour of the famed Italian archaeological site at Pompeii

August 17

Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall on the tiny British Atlantic territory of Bermuda as residents continue to hunker down

August 17

Hurricane Ernesto has made landfall on the Atlantic Ocean territory of Bermuda, the National Hurricane Center says

August 17

Lebanon’s Health Ministry says an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon has killed at least 10 Syrian nationals including a woman and her two children

August 17

The threat of polio is rising fast in Gaza, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak

August 17

Anger at the Indian government’s failure to deter rising violence against women has fueled protests by medics and women’s groups across Indian cities after a trainee doctor was raped and killed last week

August 17

A humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo is contributing to mpox outbreaks there and elsewhere in Africa that have been deemed a global health emergency by the World Health Organization

August 17

Indonesia is marking 79 years of independence with a ceremony in its future new capital of Nusantara, a city still under construction

August 16

Militants with ties to the Islamic State group have killed 16 villagers in northeastern Congo and kidnapped 20 others

August 16

Gunmen in northern Nigeria have ambushed vehicles conveying some university students and abducted 20 of them

August 16

A powerful typhoon that slammed the Tokyo area with heavy rains and brought mudslide warnings in northern Japan is heading eastward in the Pacific Ocean away from the coast

August 16

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico is defending cross-border anti-drug cooperation after Mexican prosecutors complained the Americans aren't giving them enough information

August 16

Nearly 150,000 Montreal homes were put under a boil water advisory after a broken water main erupted into a “geyser” that transformed streets into streams, paralyzed traffic and forced people to evacuate from flooded buildings

August 16

Palestinian health officials say the first case of polio has been recorded in an unvaccinated 10-month old-child in the Gaza city of Deir al-Balah

August 16

Gaza's Health Ministry says it has recorded the first case of polio in a 10-month-old Palestinian child

August 16

A trail of destruction lies in the path that Ukrainian forces carved on their risky incursion into Russia, blasting through the border and into the Russian town of Sudzha

August 16

Kosovo’s president has set Feb. 9 as the date for the tiny Balkan country’s new parliamentary elections, a vote that's expected to be a key test for Prime Minister Albin Kurti whose governing party won a landslide in 2021

August 16

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 30 prisoners convicted for taking part in protests

August 16

Jamaican police have arrested at least six suspects in connection with a mass shooting in which eight people were recently killed in the island’s southern region

August 16

It was surprising when Mexico's most-wanted drug lord landed at an airfield near El Paso, Texas in July

August 16

US official says mediators are preparing to implement Gaza cease-fire and hostage-swap deal before final agreement

August 16

Officials are investigating the incident.

August 16

Ukranian military officials say that they are setting up an administrative office in the Kursk region of Russia to “maintain law and order” in the area.

August 16

The Biden administration is optimistic about peace talks in the Middle East despite Hamas not participating.

August 16

The United States has called on Sudan’s military to join talks aimed at calming the country’s grinding conflict as the country faces a worsening humanitarian crisis

August 16

Visitors will be allowed to visit Samjiyon City, but Pyongyang and other parts of the country will be restricted, according to Koryo Tours.

August 16

Germany's Defense Ministry says an investigation found no evidence that the water supply at a major air force barracks in western Germany was tampered with, two days after the facility was sealed off for hours over fears of possible sabotage

August 16

Police in Haiti say inmates have broken out of a prison in the central coastal town of Saint-Marc as authorities in the country struggle to quell widespread gang violence

August 16

Germany’s quarrelsome governing coalition has reached an agreement on details of the country’s 2025 budget

August 16

The top United Nations court says that public hearings will open Dec_ 2 in a landmark case seeking a non-binding advisory opinion on “the obligations of States in respect of climate change.”

August 16

Mideast mediators say cease-fire talks have wrapped up and they aim to reconvene in Cairo next week to seal a deal

August 16

A brawl has broken out among Turkish lawmakers during a heated debate over the fate of a jailed opposition delegate

August 16

Irish police say they are investigating a potential terrorism motive in an attack on a chaplain at an army barracks in County Galway

August 16

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August 16

Amnesty International says most of the suspects in a rampage last year against minority Christians in eastern Pakistan over alleged blasphemy are still at large and authorities have failed to deliver justice to the victims

August 16

China has expressed its “very dramatic” alarm over a mid-range missile system that the U.S. military recently deployed to the Philippines and warned it could destabilize the region

August 16