(BEIJING) -- China loosened some key COVID-19 controls on Wednesday after residents began protesting against the strict measures in November. Authorities did not acknowledge the unrest in their decision but the sudden announcement by China’s State Council Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism directly addresses some of the key concerns of…
(NEW YORK) -- A sanctioned Ukrainian politician who U.S. authorities said has ties to Russian intelligence services was hit with new criminal charges Wednesday over his alleged purchase of two condominiums in Beverly Hills, California. The charges were announced by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and the Justice Department's KleptoCapture task…
(LONDON) -- Thousands of police officers have carried out a series of raids across much of Germany on Wednesday morning against suspected far-right extremists who allegedly sought to overthrow the state by force, according to the Attorney General at the Federal Court of Justice in Germany. Federal prosecutors said some…
(NEW YORK) -- Tom and Pam Trusdale were enjoying a bucket list trip to Antarctica, until their trip of a lifetime turned into a deadly disaster. "It was going real smoothly, and we were only anticipating nothing but smooth going forward," Tom Trusdale told ABC News. The Trusdales were passengers…
(MOSCOW) -- Explosions that struck two military airbases deep inside Russia on Monday were the result of drone attacks launched by Ukraine, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials, in what appeared to be an audacious attempt to hit the long-range bombers Russia has used to devastate Ukraine’s power grid. Russia’s…
(LUMAJANG REGENCY, Indonesia) -- Several villages surrounding Mount Semeru, Indonesia's tallest volcano, have been blanketed in ash and soot following its latest eruption. Evacuations were announced Sunday as the 12,060-foot volcano, located in East Java in Indonesia, about 300 miles southeast of the capital Jakarta, began to spew lava and…
(NEW YORK) -- Women in Iran will still be required to wear the hijab under Islamic Republic law, even if the country's government decides to abolish the religious police who were in charge of enforcing the dress code. Iranian Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announced on Saturday the country's morality…
(NEW YORK) -- An American passenger on an Antarctic cruise died and four other guests were injured after their Viking ship was struck by a "rogue wave," officials said. The incident happened on Tuesday around 10:40 p.m. local time while the Viking Polaris ship was sailing toward Ushuaia, Argentina, Viking…
(KYIV, Ukraine) -- At one school in Kyiv, students and teachers are continuing to go to class, even in the dark, doing their schoolwork with the help of flashlights. "We don’t care, if it takes months and years without light -- we still continue," said 16-year-old Egor Egorenko. While large…
(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Iranian authorities have been accused of stealing the bodies of slain protesters from hospitals and morgues in order to prevent families from holding funerals, which activists say could prove rallying points for the protests. The families of the protesters who have been killed called it a disturbing new…
