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March 22

New Canadian Prime Minister Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

Two officials familiar with the matter say new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in an Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament for the first time
March 22
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a press conference following the First Ministers Meeting at the National War Museum on Friday, March 21, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
March 22

Big cities across the globe go dark for ‘Earth Hour’

Brand engagement specialist for the World Wildlife Fund Hannah Feltz joined ABC News Live to discuss cities going dark for “Earth Hour” to give back to the planet.
March 22
Big cities across the globe go dark for ‘Earth Hour’
March 22

Fighting in Gaza continues as Muslims observe Ramadan

The brutal fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas continues as Muslims observe the holy month of Ramadan.
March 22
Fighting in Gaza continues as Muslims observe Ramadan
March 22

Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday, Vatican says

Pope Francis will be discharged from the hospital on Sunday and return to his residence at the Vatican, his doctors announced at a press conference Saturday.
March 22
Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday, Vatican says
March 22

London's Heathrow Airport 'fully operational' after fire causes travel chaos

The cause of the substation fire is currently under investigation.
March 22
A passenger plane makes its landing approach to Heathrow International Airport, a day after a fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out power at the airport, near London, Britain, March 22, 2025.
March 22

Venezuela to resume repatriation of migrants after deal with US

U.S. Treasury Department withdrew Chevron’s license to export Venezuelan oil.
March 22
FILE - Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States deplane at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Cristian Hernandez, File)
March 22

Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday

The pope will return to his residence at the Vatican.
March 22
A nun attends a Rosary prayer for Pope Francis, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, March 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 22

Doctors will provide first in-person update in Pope Francis' recovery from pneumonia in a month

Pope Francis’ doctors are providing their first in-person update on the pontiff’s condition in a month
March 22
From left, head physician of Vatican's Health and Hygiene Office, Luigi Carbone, pope's spokeperson Matteo Bruni, and Surgeon Sergio Alfieri, speak to journalists, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in the entrance hall of Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic where Pope Francis is being treated for bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
March 22

2 firefighters die in South Korea as dry winds fuel dozens of wildfires

At least two firefighters have died and hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in South Korea as emergency workers struggled to contain more than 30 wildfires fueled by dry winds
March 22
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a factory building that has been engulfed in a wildfire in Uiseong, South Korea, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (Yoon Gwan-shick/Yonhap via AP)
March 22

Russia accuses an 'unfriendly state' of planning the 2004 Moscow concert hall assault

One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials have asserted that it was planned and organized by “the special services of an unfriendly state.”
March 22
People gather at the newly opened memorial at the Crocus City Hall on the western outskirts of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 22, 2025, one year on from the concert hall attack that killed 145 people. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
March 22

Denmark advises transgender people to contact US Embassy before traveling to US

The Danish foreign ministry has changed its U.S. travel advisory for transgender people
March 22
FILE - A rainbow flag is suspended at Copenhagen City Hall in Denmark on Aug. 11, 2021, marking the opening of Copenhagen 2021, World Pride and Eurogames. (Ida Guldbaek Arentsen/Ritzau Scanpix via AP, File)
March 22

Sudanese military says it seized key buildings in Khartoum after retaking the Republican Palace

Sudan’s military has consolidated its grip on the capital, retaking more key government buildings a day after it gained control of the Republican Palace from a notorious paramilitary group
March 22
An army soldier walks in front of the damaged Republican Palace in Khartoum, Sudan, after it was taken over by Sudan's army Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo)
March 22

Dozens of civilians killed in jihadi attack in Niger, authorities say

Niger authorities say an attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians
March 22
March 22

Turkey prosecutors request arrest of Istanbul mayor, Erdogan's top challenger

A court will decide whether the popular opposition figure will be jailed.
March 22
A protester sits on her knees as riot police stand guard during a protest against the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
March 22

At least 3 killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia despite limited truce

Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 12
March 22
Rescuers work on site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
March 22

Flights resume at London Heathrow after daylong closure sparked travel chaos

Heathrow Airport says it is “fully operational” on Saturday, after an almost daylong closure sparked by an electrical substation fire
March 22
Travellers wait at Terminal 5 as Heathrow Airport slowly resumes flights after a fire cut power to Europe's busiest airport in London, Saturday, March 22, 2025.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
March 22

Electric tricycles are a ticket to respect and prosperity for some rural women in Zimbabwe

Electric tricycles are transforming the lives of some women in parts of rural Zimbabwe
March 22
Vendors pick tomatoes from the back of an electric tricycle in Hwedza, Zimbabwe, Thursday, March 6 2025. (AP Photo/Aaron Ufumeli)
March 22

A weak Pope Francis is wielding power and rewriting the narrative of how popes exercise authority

Over 12 years, Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome power of the papacy
March 22
FILE - In this Oct. 16, 2015 file photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with a Vatican Swiss guard as he leaves after a morning session of the Synod of bishops, at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, file)
March 22

A rare peek at the hidden waterworks behind Rome’s Trevi Fountain

The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.”
March 22
A view of Rome's Trevi fountain is seen through a window of its old water flow control room, Wednesday, March 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
March 21

UNICEF calls on the Taliban to lift ban on girls' education as new school year begins in Afghanistan

A United Nations agency is urging Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have been deprived of their right to education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021
March 21
FILE - Afghan school girls attend their classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
March 21

Japan host talks with China and South Korea

Foreign ministers from Japan and its two neighboring Asian powers China and South Korea held a meeting Saturday to seek common ground on areas like low birth rates, natural disasters and cultural exchanges at a time of growing tensions
March 21
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, speaks during their trilateral foreign ministers’ meeting with Japan and South Korea in Tokyo Saturday, March 22, 2025.(Rodrigo Reyes Marin/Pool Photo via AP)
March 21

AP PHOTOS: Aerial views of a controversial copper mine

Between emerald sea and jungled hills, the Cobre Panama copper mine has fueled mass protests across the Central American country. Buried in the rolling hills and dense jungles of Panama’s eastern Caribbean Donoso region, the mine is marked by heavy machinery and rubble slicing into the earth, clashing with the vivid blues and green of the vast nature enveloping it. More than a year ago, it became the heart of protests rippling across Panama. The country-wide protests blocked off roads and fueled shortages in much of the country, prompting Panama’s Supreme Court to halt operations. Now, the new administration is signaling that the mine may roar back to life.
March 21
Machinery is parked at the Cobre Panama copper mine during a press tour of the mine, owned by Canada's First Quantum Minerals, which was closed after the country's Supreme Court ruled that the mining concession was unconstitutional, in Donoso, Panama, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
March 21

Kurds in Iraq, Syria celebrate Newroz festival of spring

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon
March 21
Iraqi Kurds walk up a mountain during a procession to celebrate their Nowruz, the Persian New Year, Akra, in Iraq's northern autonomous Kurdish region, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
March 21

National security expert on Israel’s expansion of ground operation in Gaza

Javed Ali, former National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism, discusses where ceasefire negotiations between the two countries stand now.
March 21
VIDEO: National security expert on Israel’s expansion of ground operation in Gaza
March 21

Passengers warned of delays as flights set to resume at London's Heathrow Airport

A power outage also affected a large numbers of homes and businesses.
March 21
Firefighters extinguish the fire at the North Hyde electrical substation, which caught fire Thursday night and lead to a closure of Heathrow Airport in London, Friday, March 21, 2025.
March 21

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate en route to Romania after weeks in the US

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are en route from the U.S. to Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
March 21
Andrew Tate, right, speaks to media next to his brother Tristan, after returning from the United States, outside his home on the outskirts of Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, March 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
March 21

Peru's Congress votes to oust the interior minister for failing to halt killings

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove the interior minister from office after deciding that he had failed to adequately handle rising violent crime in the Andean country
March 21
March 21

Legal showdown over alleged gang member deportations by Trump administration

President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is an “incredibly troublesome and problematic” application of the centuries-old wartime law, Judge James Boasberg said during a hearing on Friday.
March 21
VIDEO: Legal showdown over alleged gang member deportations by Trump administration
March 21

Panama reopens talks about the future of a controversial copper mine, but opposition remains

More than a year after Panama’s Supreme Court halted operations at a huge copper mine because its government concession was deemed unconstitutional, there’s a fresh push with the new Panamanian president to restart the mine
March 21
The thermoelectric plant of the Cobre Panama copper mine, owned by Canada's First Quantum Minerals, in Donoso, Panama, Friday, March 21, 2025, during a media tour of the mine that was closed after Panama's Supreme Court ruled that the government concession was unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix)
March 21

Husam al-Titi, former ABC News journalist, killed in Gaza air strike

Al-Titi worked as a teacher after leaving ABC News.
March 21
Former ABC News Journalist Husam Al-Titi was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Monday evening local time, the night the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended.
March 21

Medic in Ukraine on the importance of ending this war

ABC News’ James Longman sat down with Victoria Honcharuk, who has spent the last two years saving lives in the war in Ukraine.
March 21
VIDEO: Medic in Ukraine on the importance of ending this war
March 21

Pope Francis advisers say he'll recover from pneumonia and a 'new stage' is opening for him

Two of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are predicting that he will recover from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his pontificate will open after he is released
March 21
From left, Cardinal Victor Fernandez and Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro arrive on the occasion of the presentation of a book by Pope Francis titled "Viva la Poesia" (long live poetry) in Rome, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
March 21

Italy's Constitutional Court allows singles to adopt foreign kids, ending 40-year ban

Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-long ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country
March 21
FILE - Sculptures are seen atop the Constitutional Court building near the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, on Saturday, April 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, File)
March 21

Israel orders expansion of ground operation in Gaza, seizure of more territory

Nearly 600 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza this week.
March 21
Israeli army soldiers walk in a position along Israel's southern border with the northern Gaza Strip, Mar. 20, 2025.
March 21

London's Heathrow Airport resumes flights after fire causes closure

Officials are working to establish the cause of the fire, which remains under investigation.
March 21
VIDEO: London's Heathrow Airport resumes flights after fire causes closure
March 21

An ancient bronze griffin head is returned to Greece from New York in a major repatriation move

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia
March 21
The head of a griffin, that was repatriated from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
March 21

Fight in Ukraine rages as both sides inch closer to ceasefire

Ukrainian authorities reported airstrikes in several regions of the country, including a drone attack on a hospital in the northeastern city of Sumy.
March 21
VIDE: Fight in Ukraine rages as both sides inch closer to ceasefire
March 21

Canada's new prime minister is triggering an election campaign this weekend. Here’s what to know

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to trigger the process for an early parliamentary election this weekend for an expected vote on April 28
March 21
Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, March 20, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick /The Canadian Press via AP)
March 21

Hegseth to visit the Philippines for talks that will include South China Sea concerns, envoy says

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed S...
March 21
FILE - U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responds to questions from reporters during a meeting with Britain's Defense Secretary John Healey at the Pentagon, on March 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr., File)
March 21

International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
March 21
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
March 21

Fire at London’s Heathrow prompts investigation

Heathrow Airport is expected to be closed until 11:59 p.m. local time on Friday night. ABC News’ Marcus Moore reports.
March 21
VIDEO: Fire at London’s Heathrow prompts investigation
March 21

Israel orders expansion of ground troops in Gaza

ABC News’ Matt Rivers reports on the military operations and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
March 21
VIDEO: Israel orders expansion of ground troops in Gaza
March 21

6.2 magnitude earthquake rattles Panama, but no reports of damage or injuries

A strong earthquake off Panama’s Pacific coast has shaken the central part of the country, but it has gone largely unnoticed in the capital
March 21
March 21

Ceasefire talks ‘have collapsed’ in Gaza: Former DHS official

Javed Ali, a former Trump administration official and cybersecurity expert, says it’ll take time for Israel and Hamas to get back to the negotiating table.
March 21
VIDEO: Ceasefire talks ‘have collapsed’ in Gaza: Former DHS official
March 21

Australian tourist killed, 2 injured as snorkeling boat capsizes off Bali

A snorkeling boat carrying 13 people, including 11 Australian tourists, has capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing a woman and injuring two others
March 21
In this photo released by Klungkung District Police, passengers sit on a boat carrying tourists including a number of Australians that capsized in the waters off Nusa Penida Island, in Bali, Indonesia, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Klungkung District Police via AP)
March 21

19-year old is the latest death in Serbia canopy fall that triggered mass protests

A 19-year-old has died in a hospital in Serbia, the 16th fatality of the collapse of a concrete canopy at a train station last November
March 21
People use the lights on their cell phones as they observe fifteen minutes of silence during a major anti-corruption rally led by university students in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, March 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)
March 21

A major new airport to serve Cambodia's capital and boost tourism is due to open in July

Cambodia expects its new airport to serve the capital Phnom Penh will open in July
March 21
March 21

Turkey's opposition urges peaceful protests over Istanbul mayor's arrest despite bans

Turkey's opposition party has urged supporters to take to the streets for peaceful demonstrations against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
March 21
Protesters shout slogans during clashes with anti riot police during a protest against the arrest of Istanbul's Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
March 21

Russian drones strike Ukrainian city of Odesa, underlining challenges for truce

Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires
March 21
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire at a storehouse following a Russian attack in Odesa, Ukraine, Friday, March 21, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
March 21

Heathrow Airport closed due to fire at London electrical substation

Heathrow Airport said the fire at the substation, which supplies power to the airport, has caused a "significant power outage" and the airport.
March 21
Heathrow Airport said the fire at the substation, which supplies power to the airport, has caused a "significant power outage" and the airport is expected to be closed until 11:59 p.m. local time on Friday night.