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Venezuela’s former opposition candidate says he was coerced into signing a letter effectively recognizing his defeat in July’s presidential election

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is demanding that former secretary of public security Genaro García Luna, who was convicted on drug trafficking charges in the United States last year, present evidence to support his accusations that the p...

Officials from the U.S. and the Dominican Republic have arrested nearly a dozen suspects after they launched a joint operation to crack down on a regional drug trafficking ring

Greek authorities say a rockfall triggered by a sudden rainstorm has fatally injured a hiker in a popular national park on the island of Crete

Russia's deputy prime minister says Moscow will support Islamabad’s bid to join the BRICS bloc of developing economies

Israel's operation was six to 12 months in the making, a source told ABC News.

As the sun bleeds into daylight or fades toward night, AP photographer Michael Probst is often on the hunt for serene scenes near his home in Frankfurt, Germany that evoke a sense of wonder. Nature comes alive in the vibrant yellow of a pollen-laden bee approaching a sunflower or a fuzzy-headed gosling poking from the plumage on its mother’s back. Two toothy Icelandic horses with shaggy manes playfully bite each other while their large eyes seem fixed on the camera lens. Probst, who has worked for The Associated Press for 30 years, focused on finding a different perspective on life once his three children were grown up and he could work in the early or late hours of the day when the light is best. “I thought there must be more in news photography than soccer, business and government press conferences,” Probst said. “With all the trouble in the world, I wanted to show the nice things.” Among the many images he’s captured when not on traditional assignments: a wild boar bounds...

Israel was responsible for the pagers blowing up, sources told ABC News.

More than 30 ambulances are providing treatment and evacuations to wounded people in Lebanon on Wednesday, the Lebanese Red Cross said.

The global vaccine alliance Gavi says it will buy 500,000 doses of vaccine against mpox to fight outbreaks of the disease in African countries

The company linked to the manufacture of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria is based in a duplex in a quiet neighborhood of the Hungarian capital

A high-ranking official with Haiti’s National Office of Migration has been killed in the north coastal city of Cap-Haitien

A respected human rights organization in Belarus says dozens of teachers have been detained or interrogated by authorities as part of the country’s wide-ranging crackdown on dissent

Israeli defense minister declares start of "new phase" of war as army turns attention to northern front with Lebanon

Donald Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event this Sunday in Pennsylvania, a battleground state in this year’s presidential election, as Trump seeks to tap into the Polish-American vote

ABC News gathered testimonies alleging widespread detainee abuse.

Nigeria’ has warned of possible flooding in 11 states following the release of water from a dam in neighboring Cameroon

Lebanon's official news agency reports that home solar energy systems exploded in several areas of Beirut

Javed Ali, former senior director for counterterrorism on the White House National Security Council, says this plan is “opening up Pandora’s box” for terrorist groups.

Lebanon's health ministry says over 100 wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of country

A Hezbollah official says walkie-talkies used by the group exploded as part of blasts heard across Beirut

Multiple explosions heard in Beirut during funeral for Hezbollah members and child killed by exploding pagers

Prosecutors in Thailand say eight former security personnel accused of responsibility for the deaths of 78 Muslim men arrested 20 years ago will be indicted on murder charges

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has expressed frustration at surprise escalations that threaten to derail efforts to broker a cease-fire deal in Gaza

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Officials say that Pakistan has complained to Kabul after an Afghan diplomat failed to stand up when the Pakistani national anthem was played during an event in the country's northwest

Cinnamon the capybara escaped from her enclosure on Friday, the zoo said.

Soldiers and residents in southwestern Poland are laying sandbags near swollen rivers around the city of Wroclaw to protect homes and businesses after days of flooding across Central Europe

Pakistani police say they have arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign

Qualcomm lost its bid to get a European Union antitrust penalty thrown out after a top court largely rebuffed the technology company’s arguments in the case involving cellphone chipsets

An artwork featuring the plaster face casts of hundreds of transgender people is on display in London’s Trafalgar Square

The European Union has begun the process of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go Hungary

A Chinese aircraft carrier entered an area near Japan's shores for the first time on Wednesday, leading Tokyo to convey its “serious concerns” to Beijing over China’s increasingly assertive military actions around Japan, officials said

The new Dutch government dominated by the far-right party of Geert Wilders has officially asked the European Union for an exemption from its migration obligations

Cyprus’ top court has ordered that the government's comptroller general be removed from his post for misconduct and interferences in the works of the judiciary

China has announced sanctions on American companies selling arms to the self-ruled island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as its own territory and threatens to annex by force

The chief executive of Britain’s scandal-ridden Post Office will step down next year

Lebanon's health minister says death toll in exploding pagers attack on Hezbollah has risen to 12

More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to the limit in northern Portugal

Ukrainian drones have struck a large military depot in a town deep inside Russia overnight, causing a huge blaze and prompting the evacuation of residents

The European Union's head office is warning that devastating floods through much of Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown” that will become the norm unless drastic action is taken

Officials say a 10-year-old student attending a Japanese school in southern China has been attacked and a suspect is in custody

Google has won a court challenge against a 1.49 billion euro European Union antitrust fine imposed five years ago that targeted its online advertising business

Google wins an appeal against 1.5 billion euro antitrust penalty in a 2019 European Union digital ad case

Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 14 people were killed and 450 others wounded by exploding electronic devices in multiple regions of the country

The Bank of England is widely expected to keep interest rates unchanged after official figures showed Inflation in the U.K. holding steady at an annual rate of 2.2% in August, with higher airfares offset by lower fuel costs and restaurant and hotel bills

Israel's defense minister declares a “new phase” of war as Hezbollah officials and Lebanon's state media say explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices

Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria were made by a company in Budapest

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers, but the long-marginalized group has heard promises like these before

Japan has posted a trade deficit for a second straight month, as both exports and imports were lower than expected