By AICHA EL HAMMAR CASTANO and MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News (RIO DE JANEIRO) -- It's been days since Alejandra heard from her son.The 42-year-old mother has been one of many gathered outside a large prison in Guayaquil, a port city on Ecuador's southern coast, where dozens of inmates were killed…
By JON HAWORTH, ABC News (LONDON) -- Iran's Alpine ski coach, Samira Zargari, couldn't join her team for the world championships in Italy last week.The reason? Her husband barred her from leaving the country.The reaction on social media was swift, and many Iranians vented their fury by demanding the government…
By PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News (NEW YORK) -- It's not your standard diplomatic transport.A group of Russian diplomats and their families were obliged to use a hand-powered railway trolley to get home to Russia from North Korea because of travel restrictions imposed by the pandemic.A video published by Russia's foreign…
By CONOR FINNEGAN and LUCIEN BRUGGEMAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The Office of Director of National Intelligence on Friday released its highly anticipated report on the murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi Friday, making public the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Saudi Arabia's crown prince approved an operation to capture or…
By MORGAN WINSOR, ABC News(LONDON) -- As rich countries race to inoculate their populations against COVID-19, poorer nations have fallen behind in the biggest vaccination campaign in history.But a global vaccine-sharing scheme aims to ensure rapid and equitable access to vaccines for all countries regardless of income. Although there are…
By MICHAEL DOBUSKI, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Australia's Parliament approved the final amendements to a new law Thursday requiring tech companies to pay news organizations for their content. That means companies like Facebook and Google will have to shell out in order to have Austrailian news outlets post articles on…
By KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LOS ANGELES) -- Prince Harry showed his funny and lighthearted side in a new interview with Late Late Show host James Corden, while also opening up about serious topics, like his decision with Duchess Meghan to step back from their royal duties and leave the…
By LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- Two U.S. Navy ships deployed to the Middle East are experiencing coronavirus outbreaks and have arrived in Bahrain to isolate infected crew members, the Navy said in a statement Friday morning.The amphibious transport ship USS San Diego has gone into port in Bahrain…
By CONNOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden spoke to King Salman of Saudi Arabia on Thursday -- the two leaders' first call amid pressure on his new administration to change the U.S. relationship with the kingdom over its alleged human rights abuses.In particular, the Biden administration is set…
By LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The United States conducted a military airstrike in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq on Thursday night targeting Iranian-backed militias in retaliation for a recent rocket strike in Erbil in northern Iraq that left several Americans injured, according to the Pentagon.The airstrike targeted…
