(NEW YORK) -- Hurricane experts are debating adding a Category 6 on the current scale to highlight the increasing possibility of stronger storms as ocean waters continue to warm. Researchers are introducing an extension of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, the system used by the National Hurricane Center to rank the…
(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. carried out an airstrike in Baghdad on Wednesday targeting a senior leader of an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq responsible for attacks on U.S. forces in the Middle East, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command. A U.S. official told ABC News that the airstrike was part…
(MOSCOW) -- Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor and right-wing media personality, has recorded an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin and Carlson. The interview, which has yet to air, would be the first interview Putin has granted to a Western journalist since he launched his…
(NEW YORK) -- A pod of orcas that appeared to be trapped by drift sea ice off Japan's main northern island of Hokkaido has seemingly escaped the icy enclosure, according to a local official. Officials from the town of Rausu conducted a land-based search for the whales for about two…
(LONDON) -- Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, is on his way home after a quick visit to the United Kingdom to see his father, King Charles III, who is battling cancer. Harry, 39, was spotted Wednesday at London's Heathrow Airport, where he is expected to catch a flight home…
(NEW YORK) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed reports saying people were dying of hunger in his country, but allowed that people "may have died" due to malnutrition-associated illnesses. "There are no people dying due to hunger in Ethiopia," Ahmed told lawmakers in Parliament on Tuesday. Authorities in Tigray…
(KYIV, Ukraine) -- Russian missiles struck Kyiv early on Wednesday, killing at least four, destroying homes and temporarily knocking out power for many, Ukrainian officials said. "Another massive Russian air attack against our country," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on social media. "Six regions came under enemy fire." At least 20…
(NEW YORK) -- The chief of the United Nation's atomic energy watchdog warned Tuesday that there's "no place for complacency" in security at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. "There is absolutely no place for complacency or to believe that everything is stabilised there. Far from it," Rafael Grossi,…
(LONDON) -- Two of the highest-profile members of Britain's royal family, King Charles III and Princess Kate, are currently facing health issues that are keeping them out of the public eye. In their absence, the few remaining members of Charles' slimmed-down monarchy are staying active to keep the royal schedule…
(LONDON) -- U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Tuesday that King Charles III's cancer was "caught early" and he would "continue to communicate with him as normal." "He'll just be in our thoughts and our prayers. Many families around the country listening to this will have been touched by the…
