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The Chinese government is protesting the latest American announcements of military sales and assistance to Taiwan, warning the United States that it is “playing with fire.”

Nearly two million displaced Palestinians in Gaza are struggling to protect themselves from the coming winter

On the walls of the palatial mausoleum built to house the remains of former Syrian President Hafez Assad — whose son, Bashar Assad, was ousted two weeks ago — vandals have sprayed variations of the phrase, “Damn your soul, Hafez.”

Flooding is becoming a yearly disaster in South Sudan

The military said a full investigation is underway.

Both pilots were recovered alive, with one suffering minor injuries.

The Moken, a group of indigenous people from Thailand and Myanmar, once sailed freely between the archipelago of 800 islands off the coast of the two countries

As Christmas approaches and people decorate their homes with lights, Ecuadoreans are getting some relief from the severe power cuts that have hounded the country this year with President Daniel Noboa saying there will be no power rationing for resident...

The attack occurred on Friday night in the eastern city of Magdeburg.

Santa Claus has arrived in Rio de Janeiro — under water

Greece's coast guard says it continues to search for survivors or victims of a speedboat that capsized carrying migrants off the eastern Greek island of Rhodes

Officials say 38 people are confirmed dead, and over 100 remain missing in Congo after an overloaded ferry — full of people returning home for Christmas — capsized late Friday night

A young child is one of the at least 5 dead and over 200 injured in the vehicle-ramming attack on a Christmas market in Germany on Friday, according to Minister President Reiner Haseloff.

The Pakistani Taliban says it carried out a deadly attack on a military checkpoint in the country's northwest

The Vatican has taken the first main step to implement Pope Francis’ wish that Belgium’s late king be beatified

Hundreds of former Syrian soldiers are reporting to the country’s new rulers for the first time since Bashar Assad was ousted to answer questions about whether they may have been involved in crimes against civilians in exchange for a promised amnesty

Officials say 22 people have been killed in a crash between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in Minas Gerais, a state in southeastern Brazil

Police are treating a car-ramming at a Christmas market in Germany that killed at least five people as an attack

Large crowds gathered for food and clothing distributed at Christmas events.

Authorities in Nigeria say ten people, including four children, have been killed in a stampede in the capital city as a large crowd gathered to collect food items distributed by a local church at a Christmas event

Russian authorities reported 8 Ukrainian drones over the city of Kazan.

Germany is still in shock and struggling to understand the suspect behind the attack in the city of Magdeburg

A week after Cyclone Chido ravaged Mayotte, France’s poorest territory, the island remains in crisis

Cyprus’ top diplomat says his country stands ready to help eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles and to support a search for people whose fate remains unknown after more than a decade of war

Ukraine has brought the war into the heart of Russia with drone attacks that Russian authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan, some 600 miles from the front line

Houthi rebels later reported airstrikes in Yemen’s rebel-held capital, Sanaa.

Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market what officials called a deliberate attack

On Dec. 26, 2004, a 9.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the west coast of Sumatra, causing a massive wave that devastated Asian coastal communities across thousands of miles. Some 230,000 people died as the tsunami leveled remote villages, ports and tourist resorts in Indonesia, Thailand, India and Sri Lanka, among other countries. Ahead of the 20th anniversary of a disaster that's still vividly remembered in the region, here's a look back at the aftermath. In these photos, a resident of a fishing village in India's Tamil Nadu state contemplates the remains of her house as fires continue to burn in her village. In Thailand, dozens of bodies are lined up at a Buddhist temple, and a young Swedish boy carries a sign listing family members he hasn't seen since they were swept out to sea from their beachfront hotel. In Sri Lanka, villagers search for the dead among derailed train cars, lighting fires to cremate those they find. And in Aceh, Indonesia, the worst-hit area nearest the...

The toppling of Bashar Assad has raised tentative hopes that Syrians might live peacefully and as equals after a half century of authoritarian rule

A suspect has been arrested in the attack in Magdeburg, sources said.

ABC News’ Juju Chang spoke with ABC News contributor and former DHS official Elizabeth Neumann about the Christmas market attack in Germany and how U.S. officials are taking extra protective measures.

Two decades after a catastrophic tsunami destroyed her village, Tria Asnani still cries when she recalls how she lost her mother while trying to escape the giant waves and her father to the sea

Guatemalan authorities have searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect and taken at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of abuse

At least two people were killed in the incident and 60 others were injured, according to a German security official.

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has found El Salvador’s government responsible for violating the rights of a young Salvadoran woman who was denied an abortion of her anencephalic fetus in a country with a total abortion ban

Two people have been arrested for allegedly plotting to harm Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema using witchcraft

A car plowed into people visiting a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday, killing at least two people and injuring nearly 70 others, according to German officials.

A car plowed into a crowd of people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany, on Friday, injuring multiple people, according to police.

Abu Yusif and another operative were killed in the attack, officials said.

Authorities in the German city of Magdeburg say at least two people were killed and dozens were injured after a car plowed into a busy Christmas market what officials called a deliberate attack

Members of Greece’s former royal family have applied for Greek citizenship and formally acknowledged the country’s republican system of government, in a landmark move 50 years after the monarchy was abolished

Ciarán Donnelly of the International Rescue Committee discusses getting critical humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

Even with hopes running high, so much can go wrong when a country ousts a longtime dictator and tries to start anew

The Lithuanian government says an investigation of last month’s crash of a DHL cargo plane as it approached the airport in Vilnius has found no indication of “unauthorized interference."

A Russian missile strike killed one person and wounded seven others early on Friday morning, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense said.

Bulgaria's mountain rescue service says one person has died in an avalanche on Pirin Mountain, in the south of the country, rescue efforts are underway to find several others buried under the snow

It’s perhaps Rio de Janeiro’s hardest trail

Pakistani authorities in the northwest want warring tribes to hand over their weapons after weeks of deadly clashes

A powerful ethnic armed group in western Myanmar is claiming to have scored a major victory in the war against the ruling military, even as neighboring nations at a meeting in Thailand were discussing efforts to end the conflict peacefully

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s chances of staying on in power have become more tenuous after the opposition party that backed his government for years said it'll vote no confidence in the government when Parliament resumes