(KYIV, Ukraine) -- There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who are contracted in a special forces division of the Ukrainian military and who were both injured during an…
(LONDON) -- At least 11 women's rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). However, Iranian officials say the number of people arrested in Gilan is 12, according to the Tasnim News Agency,…
(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country's most well-known opposition leader. The Treasury Department said the four individuals were members of Russia's Federal Security Service, or the FSB -- the main successor agency to the…
(NEW YORK) -- Sixty-three people are presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people from Senegal sank near Cabo Verde, an island about 600 kilometers west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.N. International Organization of Migration told ABC News in a statement Wednesday. Seven people were confirmed…
(NEW YORK) -- Ocean cleanup crews have fished out the most trash ever taken from one of the largest garbage patches in the world. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit environmental engineering organization, saw its largest extraction earlier this month by removing about 25,000 pounds of trash from the Great Pacific Garbage…
(WASHINGTON) -- Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke over the phone with Paul Whelan, a wrongfully imprisoned American citizen who has been jailed by Moscow since 2018, according to sources familiar with the call. A source said that during their conversation on Wednesday, Blinken reassured Whelan, who is currently being held…
(NEW YORK) -- Scientists are beginning to better understand the consequences of melting glaciers on humans, species of all kinds and the ecosystem in which they live. Glaciers are disappearing all over the world due to climate change, and the Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the…
(NEW YORK) -- David Barnes, an American who has been incarcerated in Russia since the beginning of 2022, will have to wait another three weeks before he returns to a Moscow courtroom. Barnes is facing a bench trial, accused by Russian prosecutors of abusing his two sons in Texas, even…
(NEW YORK) -- North Korea on Wednesday said the U.S. army private who crossed the border in July had "expressed his willingness to seek refuge" in the secretive country after becoming disillusioned with American society. Pvt. Travis King, 23, had been deployed in South Korea and spent 47 days in…
(NEW YORK) -- A gas station in the Russian town of Makhachkala, in the southern region of Dagestan, exploded on Tuesday evening, killing at least 35 and injuring dozens of others, local officials said. Seventy-five people were being treated for injuries at hospitals, with 10 in serious condition, the health ministry…
