Kremlin reacts to CIA video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russians as spies

Kremlin reacts to CIA video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russians as spies

(WASHINGTON) -- The Kremlin has responded forcefully to the CIA launching an official channel on Telegram, the encrypted messaging app favored by Russians, featuring a dramatized video aimed at recruiting frustrated Russian civilians as spies. The video invites them to engage with the agency on Telegram and share information it says…
9 migrants found, 41 still missing after kidnapping in Mexico

9 migrants found, 41 still missing after kidnapping in Mexico

(SAN LUIS POTOSI, Mexico) -- Nine migrants were found Tuesday by Mexican authorities after a group was kidnapped on its way to the U.S.-Mexico border. A bus holding 50 migrants left Tapachula, Chiapas, on Sunday and disappeared the following day near Matehuala, San Luis Potosí. The migrants had permission to transit…
Two US Consulate staff members among four killed in convoy attack in Nigeria

Two US Consulate staff members among four killed in convoy attack in Nigeria

(NEW YORK) -- Two staff members of the U.S. Consulate in Nigeria were among the four people killed by armed assailants when an American convoy was attacked on Tuesday, the State Department said. The staff members, who were not U.S. citizens and who haven't yet been publicly identified, were killed…
UK, France pledge military aid to Ukraine as Zelenskyy makes unannounced visit

UK, France pledge military aid to Ukraine as Zelenskyy makes unannounced visit

(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in the United Kingdom on Monday for "substantive" talks with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who said ahead of the meeting that his country would supply Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and long-range attack drones. "I will meet my friend Rishi. We will conduct…
China sentences American citizen to life on spying charge

China sentences American citizen to life on spying charge

(NEW YORK) -- An American citizen charged with spying in China has been sentenced to life in prison after it was revealed that he had been held for over two years. Suzhou Intermediate Court announced the sentence against 78-year-old Liang Chengyun, also known as John Shing-Wan Leung, in a press…
Italy’s government convenes talks amid skyrocketing pasta prices

Italy’s government convenes talks amid skyrocketing pasta prices

(ROME) -- Italy's government is on full alert following a national problem: skyrocketing Pasta prices. Italy's Minister of Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, chaired an emergency meeting on Thursday, convening government officials, trade and consumer association representatives and distributors, for crisis talks to discuss soaring pasta costs, which have…
Suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance faces extradition to US

Suspect in Natalee Holloway’s disappearance faces extradition to US

(LONDON) -- The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the United States, ABC News has learned. The Peruvian government issued an executive order on Wednesday accepting a request by U.S. authorities for the…
Vehicle explodes in central Milan, releasing plumes of smoke

Vehicle explodes in central Milan, releasing plumes of smoke

(ROME) -- A parked van exploded in a busy section of central Milan in Italy on Thursday morning. The carabinieri -- or Italian police -- said that it was unclear what caused the van to explode in the Porta Romana neighborhood of the city. No further details were currently available,…
Death and sacrifice: How Ukrainians on the front line deal with loss

Death and sacrifice: How Ukrainians on the front line deal with loss

(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Six-year-old Sasha Pylypets watched, impassively, with a type of curious stare, as people threw handfuls of earth into her dad's grave. Days later, in another Ukrainian region, Tetyana Taranukha sobbed uncontrollably as she arched her grief-stricken body over her son's flag-draped coffin. She pressed her face down onto…