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The Israeli military is carrying out “targeted ground raids” in villages close to the Israeli border

Japan’s parliament elects Shigeru Ishiba, newly elected governing party leader, as the country’s prime minister

Takosangba Pongen had his vision for 14 years. He has been blind for the past 13. But in front of a piano, nobody can tell. “Playing the piano transports me to another dimension. After losing my vision, music has been one thing that has kept me alive. It opened a window to see the world. It gives me energy and hope to go forward,” he said. On Sunday night, he performed for a crowd at the Brillante Piano Festival in Bengaluru, the capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Pongen, 27, plays by ear. He is self taught, with help from YouTube tutorials that he began in 2020. He said he would like to be a professional musician someday but that finding an institute that teaches the visually impaired has been a challenge. He first noticed problems with his sight when he couldn't read what his schoolteacher was writing on the blackboard. Then he recalls having difficulty seeing small glass marbles as he played with his siblings. Surgery made the problem worse. By 14, he was...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg steps down and leaves the world's biggest security organization in the control of former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte

Rescuers are searching for people still missing and trying to recover bodies of those killed in weekend flooding and landslides in Nepal

A drone has struck a ship in the Red Sea in a suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels

Aviva Siegel has come to embody the disaster that befell Israel on Oct. 7, 2023

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will make his first public statements since he was released from prison when he addresses the Council of Europe

Claudia Sheinbaum will take the oath of office as Mexico’s first female president in more than 200 years of independence, promising to protect an expanded social safety net and fight for the poor like her predecessor, but facing pressing problems

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's trip to the U.S. brought him face to face with the American leaders who will help decide his country's future

Claudia Sheinbaum is Mexico’s first female leader in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence

South Korea has unveiled its most powerful ballistic missile targeting North Korea

Taiwan cancelled dozens of flight, closed schools and offices and evacuated hundreds from vulnerable areas around the island ahead of a strong typhoon expected to hit its heavily populated western coast

A knife attack at a supermarket in Shanghai has killed three people and injured 15 others

Voting in the final phase of an election to choose a local government has begun in Indian-controlled Kashmir

More than three decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of China retains a firm grip on power

A startup called HopfON — a play on Hopfen, the German word for hops — and a research society in Bavaria are seeking to solve the problem of waste created during the hops harvest in Germany

Along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, floodwaters have begun to recede, leaving behind devastated towns and 17 dead, after John struck the coast once as a hurricane and again as tropical storm Desperate residents in the town of Coyuca de Benitez, abou...

Business sentiment among Japan’s large manufacturers stood unchanged in the latest quarter from the previous quarter, according to a closely watched survey called “tankan.”

ABC's Bob Woodruff goes on a journey to uncover the networks behind the poaching crisis hitting Africa's last forest elephants and the efforts to save these majestic animals across Cameroon and Gabon.

Nicaraguan guerrilla fighter Humberto Ortega, a Sandinista defense minister who later in life became a critic of his older brother President Daniel Ortega, has died at age 77

Japan’s parliament has formally elected Shigeru Ishiba, head of the governing Liberal Democratic Party, as the country’s new prime minister

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida steps down as planned before his likely successor Shigeru Ishiba takes office

China is marking the 75th year of Communist Party rule as economic challenges and security threats linger over the massive state

Outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador turned his final morning briefing Monday into a variety show featuring live music, breakfast and a raffle to gift his watch to a journalist

A team of prosecutors in Argentina has concluded that there are grounds for launching a criminal investigation into the highest authorities of Opus Dei in South America between 1983 and 2015

Israeli military says it has begun 'limited, localized' operation in southern Lebanon

Local police in the cartel-dominated city of Culiacan, Mexico have been pulled off the streets after the army seized their guns

Doctors Without Borders says that it treated more than 25,000 victims of sexual violence in the Congo last year, by far the highest level it has seen there and most of it in the east where armed groups vie for power

Albanian opposition lawmakers have violently disrupted a Parliament session to protest the imprisonment of a fellow legislator for alleged slander

A judge has convicted a man of obstructing the investigation into the assassination of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco and sentenced him to five years in prison

A Cambodian freelance reporter noted for his bold investigative reporting in a country with limited press freedom has been arrested

Israeli forces have been "conducting training near the northern border," the IDF said in a statement Monday.

Israel says three northern communities are a "closed military zone," a possible precursor to ground invasion of Lebanon

The mother of a prominent Egyptian rights activist has said that she has started a hunger strike to pressure authorities to release her son Alaa Abdel-Fattah, who rose to prominence with the 2011 pro-democracy uprisings that swept the Middle East and i...

Four Tanzanian men, including a soldier and a police officer, have been sentenced to life in prison for gang raping an underage girl in a case that caused national outrage

A new report has found that nearly 6,000 people in Haiti are starving, with nearly half the country’s population of more than 11 million people experiencing crisis levels of hunger or worse, as gang violence smothers life in the capital of Port-au-Prin...

Belarusian human rights activists have accused the authorities of pressuring political prisoners pardoned by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko

Stella McCartney’s high-octane Paris show transformed an ordinary rainy market street into a dazzling runway spectacle

A lawyer for the world’s longest-serving death row inmate — who was acquitted in a retrial last week of a 1966 quadruple murder — says the defense team is considering filing a damages suit against the government for ruining the man’s life and his menta...

A Pakistani court has denied a bail application by imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a graft case

Tunisia’s coast guard has found 12 bodies of migrants, including three young children, off the Mediterranean coast, as authorities struggle to stem unauthorized boat crossings from North Africa to Europe

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says a top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon Monday was one of its employees but had been suspended since allegations of his ties to the militant group emerged in March

Libya’s eastern parliament has agreed to appoint Naji Mohamed Issa Belqasem as the new central bank governor after the former governor, Sadiq al-Kabir, was fired last month by the presidential council in the capital, Tripoli

Italian police arrested 19 people accused of ties with the ’Ndrangheta group.

Iran lost its most reliable ally in the Middle East when an Israeli airstrike killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah

An 81-year-old South Korean fashion model fell short in her bid to become the oldest Miss Universe contestant

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European far-right and nationalist parties are celebrating the far-right Freedom Party’s win in Austria’s election

ABC News' Tom Soufi Burridge reports how Israel dispatches ambulances to towns facing incoming rockets from Hezbollah in Lebanon, even before the munitions have landed or been intercepted.