(DNIPRO, Ukraine) -- The number of heavily wounded soldiers being treated at one of Ukraine's largest trauma hospitals has risen by as much as 30% in the past few weeks, according to the chief doctor there. Dr. Sergii Ryzhenko told ABC News that the Mechnikov Hospital in the city of…
(NEW YORK) -- A year featuring extreme events across the globe is now officially Earth's hottest year on record, according to Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service. 2023 has been confirmed as the hottest year on record surpassing 2016, the previous hottest year, by a large margin, according to a new…
(NEW YORK) -- A 32-year-old dual U.S.-Russian citizen has been arrested in Russia on drug charges, local officials said. Robert Woodland was arrested on Jan. 5 and appeared in court Jan. 6. Story developing... Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.
(SEOUL, South Korea) -- South Korea's national assembly unanimously passed a bill to ban eating and selling of dog meat on Tuesday. Slaughtering, breeding, trading and selling of dog meat for human consumption will be prohibited starting in 2027. Violators of the new law will face penalties of two to…
(NEW YORK) -- Beginning in December, after the end of the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) expanded its ground operation in Gaza — both in the south, and more recently, in the central region of the territory. This has also resulted in more evacuation warnings…
(NEW YORK) -- An American man and his two daughters were among four people killed Thursday when a small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from a Caribbean island, authorities said. The deadly crash happened in the waters off Bequia, a small island that's part of the southern Caribbean nation of…
(LONDON) -- Oscar Pistorius, the former South African runner who competed in both the Olympics and Paralympics, has been released from prison on parole nearly 11 years after he shot and killed his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. The South African Department of Correctional Services announced Friday that Pistorius, 37, was admitted…
(WASHINGTON) -- Very different circumstances surround the assassination of a top Hamas strategist in Lebanon and the mysterious blasts in Iran that occurred this week, but the events have reignited the same lingering fear: that the conflict between Israel and Hamas could still spiral into a regional war -- and…
(LONDON) -- Sudan's Rapid Support Forces Chief Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo said the RSF is open to an "immediate" and "unconditional" cease-fire with the Sudanese army, as the conflict in Sudan grinds on into its ninth month. The RSF is "committed to ending [the] war," Dagalo, who is known as Hamedti,…
(TOKYO) -- The warning lights that tell pilots whether a runway is clear were not working at the Haneda Airport the night a Japan Airlines plane caught fire after colliding with a coast guard aircraft, according to official aviation data. A NOTAM message, a notice containing information essential to pilots…
