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yorkfoto/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The U.S. Secretary of Commerce is set to visit China at the end of August, according to the Commerce Department, making Gina Raimondo the second high-ranking member of the Biden administration to visit China this year. Secretary Raimondo will visit Shanghai and Beijing from August 27-30, according to the Department of […]

SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — An urgent rescue operation is underway to save two adults and six children who were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in a chairlift when a cable broke in a mountainous region in Pakistan, authorities say. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said that they were working with the Pakistan […]

(LONDON) — Former British nurse Lucy Letby was sentenced on Monday to spend the rest of her life in prison after being found guilty in the worst child serial killer case in the modern history of the U.K. She was convicted in Manchester Crown Court of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others […]

Brais Seara/Getty Images (LONDON) — An uncrewed Russian spacecraft spun out of control during orbit and crashed into the moon, according to the country’s space agency. The Luna-25 craft lost contact with officials in Russia following an “abnormal situation” and crashed on Saturday, Roscosmos said in a statement to Interfax, a Russian news agency. Moscow’s lunar […]

(WASHINGTON) — The White House will bring together Japan and South Korea, two critical allies in the Pacific, on Friday for an unprecedented summit that could chart a course for confronting some of the three nations’ most pressing security challenges. Hosted at Camp David, the bucolic presidential retreat in Maryland, the gathering will mark the […]

(LONDON) — At least 11 women’s rights activists were arrested by security forces in Iran in the northern province of Gilan Wednesday, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA). However, Iranian officials say the number of people arrested in Gilan is 12, according to the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with Iran’s […]

(BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada) — Fire officials in British Columbia warned they would be facing “the most challenging 24 to 48 hours of the summer,” as wildfires that have been ravaging western Canada all week are expected to increase and impact more areas. Over 370 wildfires have been raging since the beginning of the week throughout […]

(KYIV, Ukraine) — There is mounting evidence that Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in its counteroffensive, which began roughly ten weeks ago. ABC News spoke with two former U.S. soldiers who are contracted in a special forces division of the Ukrainian military and who were both injured during an operation in eastern Ukraine two […]

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. on Thursday sanctioned four Russians they say were involved in the 2020 poisoning of Alexey Navalny, the country’s most well-known opposition leader. The Treasury Department said the four individuals were members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, or the FSB — the main successor agency to the Soviet Union’s KGB. “Today we […]

pop_jop/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Sixty-three people are presumed dead after a boat carrying about 100 people from Senegal sank near Cabo Verde, an island about 600 kilometers west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean, the U.N. International Organization of Migration told ABC News in a statement Wednesday. Seven people were confirmed dead, and 56 […]