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Louis Vuitton has unveiled its latest fashion designs at Barcelona’s Park Güell in an homage to one of Antoni Gaudí’s architectural masterpieces

ABC News’ Britt Clennett spoke to Shlomi Berger, the father of one of the female Israeli soldiers shown in a video released by the Hostage Families Forum showing her in Hamas custody.

The Stone Age fossils were discovered by a winemaker in Austria.

Four people have died and several more have been seriously injured when a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca

Spanish emergency services say 4 people have died after a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening arrived in Belarus for a two-day visit

German police have cleared about 150 pro-Palestinian demonstrators from a Berlin university faculty, ending one of a wave of student-led protests across Europe over Israel’s conduct of its war against Hamas

American comedian Dave Chappelle has said a “genocide” is striking the Gaza Strip amid the Israel-Hamas war to cheers during his performance in the capital of the United Arab Emirates

Czech President Petr Pavel has been injured while driving his motorcycle and is in hospital for observation

Police say an electric short at a sugar factory in Tanzania set off an explosion that killed 11 workers, including three foreign nationals

Former South African President Jacob Zuma has criticized the country’s highest court and his former allies in the ruling African National Congress over his disqualification from next week’s election

The Pakistani government says that the United Arab Emirates has committed to investing up to $10 billion in Pakistan during a meeting in the UAE capital between that country’s president and the Pakistani prime minister

The flightless bird went extinct 700 years ago.

The genome reconstruction could serve as a basis for the de-extinction of the species. 

The bones are believed to be from three different mammoths and approximately 30,000 to 40,000 years old, according to researchers.

Many believe his party will lose the upcoming election.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a general election, which could signal an end to his Conservative Party’s 14 years of power.

Iran's late President Ebrahim Raisi is interred at holiest Shiite shrine in nation, days after fatal helicopter crash

Kosovo’s parliament has approved a bill on leasing some of its prison space to Denmark, to help the Scandinavian country cope with its overcrowded prison system

A German far-right party set for big gains in upcoming European elections has suffered another setback after it was expelled from a right-wing group in the European Parliament

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is taking the biggest gamble of his political life by calling a general election for July 4

Chad has sworn in Mahamat Deby Itno as the president on Thursday after holding elections earlier this month, completing a disputed transition to democratic rule after he seized power three years ago

Myanmar’s military government appears to be considering reviving a massive China-backed hydroelectric dam project

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing Russia to confiscate U.S. assets to compensate for any Russian assets confiscated in the United States

A French prosecutor says a man who posted online about a deadly rampage in California in 2014 has been taken into custody and has told police investigators he had been thinking about an attack of his own

The struggle starts early in the Hammanskraal area of South Africa as people queue some mornings to fill buckets with water from a tank provided by an aid agency

French President Macron says he doesn’t want to force through a voting reform that sparked riots in New Caledonia

A woman in Denmark did not have her human rights violated when she was not given vegan food by a hospital when hospitalized two years ago

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has said his country does not have a “China-phobia” policy and wants to engage both Beijing and Washington, expressing hopes for both powers to resolve their differences

Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull

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Joshua Cheruiyot Kirui and his guide, Nawang Sherpa, went missing Wednesday.

A long-delayed and complex project to bring a subway line under ancient Roman ruins and through Rome’s historic center has entered a crucial phase

A Kenyan climber attempting to scale the world’s highest mountain has been found dead near the summit

The World Bank says poverty in Lebanon has tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis

The family of an American caught up in a failed coup attempt in Congo says their son was in Africa on vacation with family friends and had not previously engaged in political activism

A devotee knelt and gently touched his head on the dome of the Boudhanath Stupa, an iconic Buddhist monument in Kathmandu, as a mark of reverence on Thursday, which marks the birth of Buddha. The birthday of Buddha is a holy occasion for all Buddhists, but is celebrated on different dates depending on the school of Buddhism or country to which one belongs. In many parts of Asia, the sacred day marks not just the birth, but also the enlightenment and passing of Buddha. In most Asian cultures and the diaspora, Buddhists go to their local temples and participate in chanting, meditation and festivities all day. Families decorate their homes with lanterns and gather for feasts. The highlight of the celebration in South Korea is the lotus lantern festival called Yeondeunghoe, a parade of thousands of colorful, lighted paper lanterns often shaped like lotus flowers that are hung in temples and streets of Seoul. In Cambodia, novice monks wearing saffron robes joined elders seeking alms....

The European Commission has imposed a fine of 337.5 million euros ($366 million) on food company Mondelez, the owner of Oreo cookies and other snack brands, for obstructing sales of its products between EU member states

Officials say that Russian missiles have slammed into Ukraine’s second-largest city in the northeast of the country and killed at least seven civilians

Doctors are treating hundreds of victims of heatstroke at hospitals across Pakistan

Spanish police say they have recovered the fourth of five paintings by Irish-born painter Francis Bacon that were stolen from a Madrid apartment in 2015

A Tunisian court has sentenced two TV and radio journalists to one year in prison for criticizing the government on their programs and on social networks

A Bangkok hospital says several of the more seriously injured people who were on the Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence will need spinal surgery

Col. Oleksandr Bakulin, of the 57th Motorized Brigade, spoke with ABC News.

The Health Ministry in Gaza says the largest hospital serving the territory's center faces imminent shutdown

Hamas is still putting up a fight after seven brutal months of war with Israel, regrouping in some of the hardest-hit areas in northern Gaza and resuming rocket attacks into nearby Israeli communities

Norway says it will further tighten its restrictions on the entry of people from Russia, saying those with tourist visas issued by Norway before regulations were tightened in 2022 or issued by another European country will be barred from entering the S...

Britain’s political party leaders are crisscrossing the country on the first day of a six-week election campaign

A missile has splashed down in the waters of the Red Sea, but caused no damage to a passing commercial vessel in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels

Russian news reports say a deputy chief of the military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery