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ABC News’ Phil Lipof spoke with Greenlandic Member of Parliament Aaja Chemnitz about Greenland’s fight for independence amidst an ongoing effort by President Trump to acquire the island territory.

ABC News foreign correspondent Britt Clennett delivers the latest on the deadly earthquake that struck Myanmar and Thailand from the scene of a terrifying building collapse.

A mob in southern Nigeria has killed 16 people, at least some them when tires were forced over their heads and shoulders and set on fire, because they were believed to be kidnappers

T Coronae Borealis has an outburst every 79 to 80 years, according to NASA.

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake rattled much of Southeast Asia on Friday, flattening skyscrapers and leaving more than 150 people dead from Myanmar to Thailand.

ABC News' Matt Rivers reports the latest on the ongoing crisis in the Middle East.

Vice President JD Vance took questions at a press conference during a trip to Greenland on Friday, where he visited Pituffik Space Base and met with service members.

Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance arrived in Greenland on Friday for a scaled-back visit to the Pituffik Space Base.

Marisa Abel was vacationing at a hotel in Bangkok when the 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck.

The epicenter was in Mandalay, Myanmar, the country's second-largest city.

ABC News’ Marcus Moore reports on the quake, and eyewitness Michelle Moody describes what she saw as the destruction unfolded.

France’s foreign affairs minister says France and China are making progress toward resolving a trade dispute over cognac imports

The United States, Japan and the Philippines have staged joint naval drills to boost crisis readiness off a disputed South China Sea shoal as a Chinese military ship kept watch from a distance

The soldiers, who are all based in Georgia, went missing on Tuesday.

ABC News’ Britt Clennett reports on the deadly quake that rocked Southeast Asia, and eyewitness Jack Brown describes what he saw as the destruction unfolded.

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.

Pope Francis offered prayers to the victims of a powerful earthquake in Southeast Asia on the sixth day of his convalescence in the Vatican after a five-week hospitalization for life-threatening double pneumonia

Myanmar’s ruling junta has declared a state of emergency in six regions.

Two journalists have been detained in dawn raids in Istanbul as part of a crackdown on media coverage of the largest protests in Turkey for more than a decade

The USGS says the epicenter of the quake was in Mandalay, Myanmar.

A strong 7.3 magnitude earthquake has rocked the Thai capital, causing buildings to sway

A remote Australian town that will soon lose its only doctor is offering a salary package of up to $680,000 Australian dollars, plus free rent and a car, to attract a new candidate

A former Australian police officer has avoided a prison term for killing a 95-year-old nursing home resident with a stun gun

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the Trump administration would boost military ties with the Philippines to strengthen deterrence against “threats from the communist Chinese” and ensure freedom of navigation in the disputed South Ch...

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife will be visiting an American military base in Greenland

The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France’s back-channel talks with the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

Officials say the most destructive wildfires ever to hit South Korea are almost contained

ABC News’ Linsey Davis speaks with Caroline Darian, the daughter of rape victim Gisèle Pelicot, about her father’s crime and the public trial, both focuses in her book “I’ll Never Call Him Dad Again.”

The accident occurred less than a mile off the coast of Hurghada during an underwater excursion to see the coral reef, according to the Russian consulate in Hurghada.

The victims include two Americans -- a 67-year-old woman and a 69-year-old man -- police said.

The search for four U.S. Army soldiers who went missing during a scheduled training exercise near Pabradė, Lithuania, has shifted from rescue to recovery mission.

A motive remains under investigation, police said.

The submarine crashed during an excursion to see the coral reef, officials said.

Zelenskyy said Russian artillery damaged an energy facility in Kherson.

A U.N. report states that a steady stream of illegal weapons smuggled into Haiti is fueling an increase in gang violence and leading to severe human rights abuses

Police in Amsterdam say at least five people have been wounded in a stabbing in the Dutch city

The hotel was closed in January following a deadly blaze at the Grand Kartal Hotel in nearby Bolu Province.

The soldiers are all based in Fort Stewart, Georgia.

A German nurse who was abducted while working in Somalia seven years ago has pleaded with the German government to secure her release as security in the country continues to be fluid after an attempted assassination on the president by al-Qaeda-linked ...

British Steel says it is planning to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in the north England town of Scunthorpe, after its Chinese owner Jingye failed to agree a rescue package with the U.K. government

The president suggested that "the world needs us to have Greenland."

The Taliban leader says Afghanistan has a “golden opportunity” for unity and reconciliation

Ukraine’s allies from across Europe have gathered for talks in Paris about how to strengthen Kyiv’s hand and its military as it pushes for a ceasefire with Russia

A Bosnian court has requested that an international warrant be issued for the arrest of the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president who is wanted for his separatist policies

The fire reportedly started in the dining area before 5:30 a.m.

Indonesian authorities say they have arrested an Argentinian woman and a British man for allegedly smuggling cocaine on the tourist island of Bali

German authorities say the German and Austrian interior ministers have broken off a planned trip to Syria because of a possible threat to their delegation

A fire at a closed ski resort hotel in northwest Turkey has killed one person, two months after a blaze at another Turkish winter resort left 79 dead

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint

A panel of Brazil Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled that former President Jair Bolsonaro and seven of his associates will stand trial on five counts, including attempting to stage a coup after the far-right leader lost the 2022 election