(NEW YORK) -- A U.S. military Osprey aircraft carrying eight airmen crashed off the Japanese coast at about 3 p.m. Wednesday, U.S. officials said. The crash took place during a "routine training mission," according to the U.S. Air Force, which added that the cause is currently unknown. At least one…
(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. is warning Israel to fight in a more targeted way once the pause ends in order to avoid displacing more Palestinians and worsening the humanitarian crisis, senior administration officials say. If the sort of displacement that happened in northern Gaza happens in the south -- where Israeli…
(LONDON) -- The Virgin Boeing 787 took off from London’s Heathrow Airport en route to New York on Tuesday. Virgin Atlantic just became the first airline to power a transatlantic flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel. The Boeing 787 passenger jet – dubbed Flight 100 – left London's Heathrow Airport Tuesday…
(NEW YORK) -- Ukrainian forces are under intense pressure around a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine, where the Russian military has made some of its greatest gains this year, according to the U.K. Ministry of Defense. Over the last two months Russia has been assaulting heavily fortified Ukrainian positions…
(LONDON) -- A Moscow court extended on Tuesday the pre-trial detention of a Wall Street Journal reporter accused of spying. Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter in the newspaper's Moscow bureau, was arrested in March. "By a court decision of November 28, the period of detention in relation to Evan Gershkovich…
(WASHINGTON) -- Attackers who seized a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden this weekend appear to have been Somali pirates, the Defense Department's top spokesman told reporters at the Pentagon Monday. A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer and allied ships belonging to a counter-piracy task force on Sunday responded to…
(NEW YORK) -- Prince William briefed the press about his younger brother Prince Harry amid the ongoing rift between the two brothers, according to a new book about Britain's royal family. In his new book Endgame, author Omid Scobie, also an ABC News royal contributor, claims that William's alleged press…
(SEOUL, South Korea) -- North Korea has redeployed troops and equipment at the front-line guard posts within the Demilitarized Zone after withdrawing from a military agreement with South Korea last week. The North Korean military has been spotted re-installing surveillance posts, according to surveillance footage provided by the South Korean…
A sanctuary in Indonesia is celebrating the birth of a Sumatran rhino, the most threatened species of rhinoceros in the world. The healthy male calf was born on Saturday at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary at Way Kambas National Park in the Lampung province, the Indonesian government announced Sunday. The baby…
(LONDON) -- An elephant in Kenya has given birth to a rare set of twins, conservation group Save the Elephants has announced. The two baby elephant calves – both female - were born to a mother elephant named Alto in Kenya's Samburu National Reserve. "Yet another set of twins have…
