(NEW YORK) -- A Russian fighter jet collided with the rear propeller of an unmanned U.S. military drone over the international waters of the Black Sea on Tuesday morning, forcing the U.S. to bring the drone down off the coast of Ukraine, U.S. officials said. The incident, which involved two Russian…
(NEW YORK) -- Two people are dead and several others are injured after a driver hit pedestrians in Amqui, a town in the Québec region of Canada, authorities confirmed to ABC News. The driver turned himself in to police, Amqui police said. Police are investigating whether the act was deliberate,…
(SEOUL, South Korea) -- North Korea claimed to have launched two strategic cruise missiles from a submarine into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Sunday, but the South Korean military said they detected “one unidentified missile fired from North Korea’s submarine vessel near North’s port…
(KYIV, Ukraine) -- An Oscar-nominated documentary, "The House Made of Splinters," tells a deep and emotive story of Ukrainian children affected by the Russian invasion. "Life has always been difficult here," the narrator of the film says, "war made it worse." The film takes us to 2019 in an orphanage-type…
(HAMBURG, Germany) -- Seven people were killed, including an unborn child, in a mass shooting at a building used by Jehovah's Witnesses in Hamburg, Germany, on Thursday evening, police said. Eight people were also injured in the shooting, said police, including the pregnant mother of the unborn child. The 33-year-old…
(LONDON) -- Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced this week a "significant step" in the fight against Malaria as the East African nation expands its use of the world’s first-ever malaria vaccine. The malaria vaccine -- known as Mosquirix or RTS,s/AS01 -- has seen a phased introduction in the country…
(NEW YORK) -- The two Americans who survived a violent kidnapping ordeal in Mexico are back in the U.S., as questions remain surrounding what happened to the two members of the group who died. Here's everything we know: The kidnapping The four Americans -- Eric James Williams, Zindell Brown and…
(NEW YORK) -- The Afghan Taliban began reversing women’s rights soon after returning to power in 2021, imposing bans on education, work and the ability to travel without a male guardian. Women who have protested the oppressive new rules face arrest and the possibility of being tortured and forcibly disappeared,…
(AFGHANISTAN) -- More than 600 Afghan women and girls refuse to bow down to the Taliban's ban on education. Run by 25-year-old Parasto, a non-registered NGO called SRAK allows students to take their studies underground in a secret network of schools. The brutal crackdown on girls’ education in Afghanistan began…
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Intelligence chiefs from across the U.S. government faced a grilling on Wednesday from members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the origins of COVID-19 and China's influence in the world, along with other topics. The annual hearing on worldwide threats included testimony from, among others, the Director…
