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China’s national security authorities in Hong Kong and the city’s police launched their first publicly known joint operation, raiding the homes of six people on suspicion of colluding with foreign forces to endanger national security

Israel has launched what it is calling a "preemptive strike" against Iran and declared a state of emergency, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz.

Israel's defense minister declared a state of emergency after the strikes.

Israel has launched what it is calling a "preemptive strike" against Iran and declared a state of emergency, according to Defense Minister Israel Katz.

The owner of an iconic nightclub in the Domincan Republic whose roof collapsed in April and killed 236 people has been arrested along with his sister

Flight AI171 was operating from Ahmedabad to London Gatwick, the airline said.

Transportation reporter Sam Sweeney discusses the Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, the plane that crashed en route to the United Kingdom from India.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has asked for forgiveness after a close confidante in his Socialist Party has been put under investigation for his alleged participation in a kickback scheme

Haiti’s first commercial flight in seven months took off has taken off from the capital, going to the northern city of Cap-Haitien, where excited passengers hope to reunite with friends, relatives and business associates

Residents and local media in northwestern Cong say at least 30 passengers including several students have been killed in a boat sinking in the Equateur province amid extreme weather

The U.S. currently has planned nuclear talks with Iranian officials this weekend. ABC News' Luis Martinez reports.

The Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad confirmed to ABC News that Ramesh Vishwaskumar, one passenger on the downed Air India flight, is alive and hospitalized there.

Two center-left Dutch political parties have agreed to merge

The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed in the Meghaninagar area near Ahmedabad airport, in India's Gujarat state, Ahmedabad Police Commissioner G.S. Malik said.

This will be the sixth round of talks between the U.S. and Iran since April.

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

Protesters have taken to the streets of the Kenyan capital to vent their anger over the death of a blogger in police custody

ABC News’ Sam Sweeney and aviation analyst John Nance discuss the plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, which crashed en route to the United Kingdom from India.

The plane, a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, crashed in the Meghaninagar area near the airport, the Ahmedabad Police Commissioner said Thursday.

Officials say the former student who killed nine students and a teacher at a school in Austria and then took his own life planned the attack in detail

Judges at the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Italy could not be held liable for the actions of the Libyan Coast Guard, rejecting a case brought by a group of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea in a fatal boat sinking in 2017

President Javier Milei of Argentina has received the $1 million Genesis prize in Jerusalem in recognition of his support for Israel ss it faces a mounting international isolation over the war in Gaza

Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict

U.S. and Chinese negotiators met in London this week.

Japan and China are blaming each other after Tokyo raised concern that a Chinese fighter jet came dangerously close to Japanese reconnaissance planes

The Indian Coast Guard is attempting to tow a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Kerala in southern India earlier this week to prevent a potential ecological disaster

Sudanese paramilitaries have claimed the seizure of a strategic area along the border with neighboring Libya and Egypt

Russian forces have pummeled Ukraine with drones and other weapons, killing three people and injuring scores of others despite international pressure to accept a ceasefire

Australia’s defense minister has dismissed concerns that a deal between the U.S., Australia and Britain to provide his country with nuclear-powered submarines could be in jeopardy, following a report that the Pentagon had ordered a review

Istanbul’s imprisoned opposition Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and his lawyers have boycotted a court hearing, claiming a late change of venue was “unlawful.”

Scheduled talks would the the sixth between Washington and Tehran since April.

Iran says it will create a new uranium enrichment facility after a vote at the IAEA

The UN nuclear watchdog’s board of governors finds that Iran isn’t complying with its nuclear obligations, diplomats say

A government minister says the death toll in floods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province has risen to 57

Oman’s foreign minister says there will be a sixth round of negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program this weekend

Oman's foreign minister says there will be a sixth round of negotiations between Iran and the US on Sunday in Oman

A Pakistani crackdown on Afghans has seen some families handed deadlines of hours, or just minutes, to collect whatever they can and leave forever

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is intensifying his crackdown on dissent, a move observers suggest has been emboldened by his alliance with U.S. President Donald Trump

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has bypassed legislative opposition and signed a decree summoning voters to the polls in August to decide changes to the country’s labor laws, including whether workdays should be limited to eight hours

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports on the latest killings -- this time of more than 30 Palestinians at an aid distribution site in Gaza, as the death toll surpasses a grim milestone.

"We'll see what happens," the president said Wednesday.

Veteran rock star Bruce Springsteen, a high-profile celebrity critic of President Donald Trump, slammed the U.S. administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous” during a concert Wednesday in Berlin

At least 163 people have been killed while trying to get aid from the GHF.

Kosovo says it has agreed to a request from the United States to temporarily accept up to 50 third-country migrants a year

Paleontologists discovered a new species of dinosaur that was related to the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex.

The European Union and the U.K. have reached an agreement to ease cross-border trade and travel in Gibraltar after years of post-Brexit wrangling over the contested territory, EU Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said Wednesday

UK and EU strike deal on Spain-Gibraltar border after years of post-Brexit wrangling over the contested territory

Fossils found 50 years ago were initially thought to belong to another species.

A Turkish far-right politician accused of inciting public hatred and hostility has gone on trial in a case critics view as an effort to suppress opposition to the president

Officials say at least 49 people have died in flooding in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province