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(ISTANBUL) — Thousands of women took to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to mark International Women’s Day Friday despite a ban by the government, demanding equality and change of laws to protect women and help them gain their rights in the country and around the world. Waving purple flags as a sign of International Women’s […]

(WASHINGTON) — The European Union announced on Friday the launch of the Cyprus Maritime Corridor, a naval route facilitated by Europe’s most southeastern island, Cyprus, to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, said that the corridor is a direct response to the dire conditions of […]

(GAZA) — Five children were allegedly killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said. Several Palestinian civilians were also injured in the airdrop, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, which called the airdrop “random.” Bystander footage of […]

(LONDON) — Armed bandits in Nigeria have kidnapped over 100 school children in Kuriga, north-western Nigeria, oaccording to officials. The bandits are reported to have stormed into the LEA Primary School in Kuriga town, Kaduna state, on Thursday seizing scores of pupils before marching them into the forest. The incident is reported to have happened […]

Alfie/Getty (NEW YORK) — Sweden’s arduous path to joining the NATO alliance came to a successful close Thursday, as the Swedish prime minister and foreign minister deposited the country’s “instrument of accession” at the State Department in Washington. In a lighthearted ceremony, Secretary of State Antony Blinken posed for photos with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf […]

(LONDON) — A red panda was among 87 animals seized by Thai customs agents after they were discovered in checked luggage at Thailand’s main international airport. The animals were discovered at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday by Thai customs agents in checked luggage headed to Mumbai, India, Thailand’s Customs Department announced. The red panda was […]

(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. State Department is encouraging American citizens to leave Haiti following an ongoing spate of gang violence. A series of coordinated gang attacks began against a number of government institutions last week, with prisons, dozens of police stations and the international airport all targeted. The violence has paralyzed the country, prompting the […]

(NEW YORK) — Planet Earth has now broken warmest-month records for nine months in a row, according to a new report by Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service. February 2024 broke global temperature records, rounding out the warmest winter on record in the Northern Hemisphere, from December 2023 through the end of February, at 1.4 degrees […]

Stefanie Smith in a photo with her brother Chris Volz. (Courtesy Chris Volz) (NEW YORK) — Family and friends of an Indiana mother said they were shocked and stunned by her sudden death as she was aboard a flight returning from a vacation in the Dominican Republic last week. Investigators in Turks and Caicos said […]

Luis Diaz Devesa/Getty Images (LONDON) — A senior Egyptian official has told ABC News that the Hamas delegation has left Cairo, thereby ending cease-fire talks and making it unlikely that there will be a break in the violence before the start of Ramadan on Monday. Story developing… Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.