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A statement on his website says Belarus’ authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 20 more people that rights activists describe as political prisoners

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm about the risk posed to thousands of North Gaza residents after the last functioning hospital in Gaza was evacuated by the IDF.

Space industry expert Eric Ingram discusses the looming threat of "Kessler Syndrome," and how space junk might impact future space missions.

Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom says it will halt gas supplies to Moldova starting on Jan. 1, citing alleged unpaid debt by the east European country

Burial associations in Sweden are looking to acquire enough land for something they hope they’ll never have to do

The crash killed 38 of the 67 people on board.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has apologized to his Azerbaijani counterpart for what he called a “tragic incident” following the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan that killed 38 people

Travelers flying to or from the U.K. are facing further disruptions as thick fog and low visibility restrict air traffic on one of the year’s busiest weekends

Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says its forces hit several points inside Pakistan in retaliation for deadly airstrikes

The Health Ministry in Gaza says Israel’s army has detained the director of one of the last functioning hospitals in northern Gaza

Manmohan Singh, the former Indian prime minister widely regarded as the architect of the country’s economic reform program, has been cremated after a state funeral

A retrospective exhibition in South Africa is honoring Esther Mahlangu, a local artist from a rural background who has become internationally known for her colorful work in traditional Ndebele painting

Five months after their shock offensive into Russia, Ukrainian troops are bloodied by daily combat losses and demoralized by the rising risk of defeat in Kursk

A collision between a bus and a truck on Mexico’s Gulf coast has left eight people dead and 27 others injured

The app will allow Mexican nationals to notify family and the local consulate.

Dozens of Chinese workers have been taken and put up in hotels in Brazil’s tropical northeastern region after local labor authorities found them at a construction site for electric vehicle automaker BYD

Two top Canadian Cabinet ministers have met with President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for commerce secretary at Mar-a-Lago as Canada tries to avoid sweeping tariffs when Trump takes office

Nigeria's military says an airstrike targeting an armed group in northwestern Nigeria mistakenly killed at least 10 civilians

John Feeley, the former U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Panama, discusses President-elect Donald Trump’s assertions that the U.S. should control the Panama Canal.

Venezuela’s attorney general said on Friday that an Argentine military officer who was arrested in Venezuela earlier this month has been charged with terrorism

The vote took place just 13 days after the country’s prime minister, Han Duk-soo, began his role as acting president.

Former Syrian rebels who now serve as part of the new Syrian government's armed forces posed for photo portraits with their weapons Friday. The soldiers, who took part in the overthrow of former president Bashar Assad’s government, were gathered together to wait for a military parade to begin in the central square of the capital Damascus. Syria’s transition has been surprisingly smooth but it’s only been a few weeks since Assad fled the country and his administration and forces melted away. The insurgents who ousted Assad are rooted in fundamentalist Islamist ideology, and though they have vowed to create a pluralist system, it isn’t clear how or whether they plan to share power.

ABC News contributor and former DHS Acting Under Secretary for Intelligence John Cohen discusses the fatal crash that killed at least 38 people in Kazakhstan.

Travelers to and from the U.K. are facing disruption and delays with foggy weather affecting some of the country’s airports

Montenegro has approved the extradition of a South Korean mogul known as “the cryptocurrency king” to the United States

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the military alliance will step up patrols in the Baltic Sea area as Finnish investigators work to establish whether a ship linked to Russia sabotaged undersea cables there this week

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

Italy's foreign ministry says an Italian journalist who was reporting in Tehran has been detained by the Iranian police

Lebanese officials say the wife and daughter of one of deposed Syrian president Bashar Assad’s cousins have been arrested at the Beirut airport

Mexico is developing a cellphone app that will allow migrants to warn relatives and consulates if they think they are about to be detained by U.S. immigration officials

The leading human rights organization in Belarus says a well-known opposition activist has been convicted of public order offenses and sentenced to six years in prison

Senegal’s Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko has announced the closure of all foreign military bases

Kamal Adwan Hospital, in the city of Beit Lahia, has reported multiple attacks by Israeli forces over the past week. ABC News’ Britt Clennett reports.

Serbian university students have left piles of old school books outside the education ministry building as part of daily street protests demanding accountability over the collapse nearly two months ago of a concrete canopy that killed 15 people in the ...

The brother of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has died after suffering from cancer, Downing Street said in a statement Friday

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the territory's north and forced many of the staff and patients outside

A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings

The bodies of two Italian climbers have been found on the Gran Sasso massif five days after the men disappeared during an excursion, rescuers said

The Malian authorities have announced that almost 70 migrants, including 25 Malians, died when their boat sank last week while they were trying to reach Europe

Maddie’s weekend can’t officially start until her favorite neighborhood garbage men arrive at her home in northern Ireland.

U.S. and Azerbaijani officials have said weapons fire may have brought down an Azerbaijani airliner that crashed on Wednesday, killing 38 people

Osamu Suzuki, the charismatic former boss of Japanese mini-vehicle maker Suzuki Motor Corp., has died

Gaza's Health Ministry says Israeli soldiers stormed and burned a hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients

The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights has raised concerns over the rising number of government critics who were apparently abducted, as four people were reported missing over the weekend

Germany is headed for a national election seven months early

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo

Authorities in India have declared a seven-day mourning period to honor Manmohan Singh as politicians and public paid tributes to the country’s former prime minister widely regarded as the architect of India’s economic reform program

Sierra Leone's brutal civil war from 1991-2002 created about 28,000 amputees

Croatia’s left-leaning president, who has been critical of Western military support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, is running for reelection this weekend

ABC News’ Phil Lipof spoke to Ciarán Donnelly with the International Rescue Committee on growing humanitarian concerns in Gaza, Syria and Sudan as winter begins.