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Luciano Benetton says he's stepping down as chairman of the apparel brand

South Africa’s four main political parties have begun a final weekend of campaigning before a possibly pivotal election that could bring the country’s most important change in 30 years

British police say a small Royal Air Force plane has crashed into a field in eastern England with U.K. media reporting that it was a World War II-era Spitfire fighter

Police say they will file a case of negligence against the park owner.

At least 16 are dead in a fire in an amusement park in western India, news reports say

An advance team of Kenyan police officials who were assessing preparedness before a multinational force is deployed to quell violence in Haiti is heading back home after the planned deployment was delayed over logistical issues

Police say hundreds of Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the pages of Islam’s holy book, ransacking and burning his house and beating him before police officers rescued the man and his fa...

Syria's state media says a bomb attached to a car exploded in the western part of the Syrian capital that is home to several diplomatic missions, killing one person and causing material damage

At least five miners have died in an illegal gold mine collapse in northern Kenya

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have secured “combat control” of areas where Russian troops entered Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region earlier this month

Local officials say strong wind has blown off the roof of a school in Russia’s southern Krasnodar region, injuring at least 12 children

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is scheduled to make an official visit to Cambodia, one of China’s closest allies in Southeast Asia, after holding talks with his Chinese counterpart at an annual security conference in Singapore

Four people were hurt and one was arrested when supporters of Iran’s authorities clashed with anti-government protesters at a London event marking the death of President Ebrahim Raisi

The focus for South Africa’s national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time

An emergency convoy has delivered food, water and other provisions to stunned survivors of a landslide that devastated a remote village in the mountains of Papua New Guinea

On a small island off Japan’s northeastern coast, visitors make offerings at a shrine for unlikely local guardians: cats. The “Neko Jinja,” or Cat Shrine, mythologizes cats as guardian angels of Tashirojima, where cats outnumber humans. Legend says the island used to be famous for sericulture and farmers would keep cats because they would chase away rats, protecting the silkworm cocoons from the rodents. Fishermen on the island have also traditionally believed that cats bring good luck, including large hauls of fish. Another legend says fishermen used to watch the cats’ behavior for tips on the coming weather before heading to sea. The islanders have long coexisted with the cats. One day, however, a fisherman accidentally injured a cat while working. Feeling sorry for the injury, the islanders built the shrine for cats. Tashirojima is part of the city of Ishinomaki in Miyagi prefecture in the Tohoku region, which became well known after a tsunami devastated the area following a...

Millions of Indians are voting in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election in the searing summer heat

Highway bandits in Mexico made off of with over 40 tons of avocados

Ruto said he believes Kenyan forces can help stop gang violence in Haiti.

Bryan Hagerich pled guilty to possessing 20 rounds of ammo and was sentenced to 52 weeks plus a $6,700 fine.

ABC News’ Selina Wang joins to discuss her sit down with President William Ruto and his pledge to protect democracy in Haiti.

Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe has been charged in a long-running witness tampering investigation

Colombia's ex-President Uribe charged with witness tampering in polarizing legal battle

The International Court of Justice has ruled Israel must halt its military offensive immediately, however, it carries little weight. ABC News' Britt Clennett has the latest from Tel Aviv.

The cross at the apse of Notre-Dame de Paris, which survived the devastating 2019 fire, has been reinstalled atop the cathedral’s framework after a meticulous restoration by artistic ironworkers from Normandy

A Paris court has sentenced three high-ranking Syrian officials in absentia to life in prison for complicity in war crimes in a landmark case against the regime of Syria’s President Bashar Assad and the first such case on European soil

Bryan Hagerich was facing a mandatory 12-year sentence for possessing ammunition on the island of Turks and Caicos, but the judge gave Hagerich a suspended sentence and $6,700 fine.

Paris court sentences three high-ranking Syrian officials to life in prison in absentia for war crimes in landmark case

Warnings were issued well before a campaign event about winds that caused a deadly Mexico stage collapse this week, but they went unheeded

Greek authorities say nearly 140 migrants have reached Greek shores over the past 24 hours

A global treaty to fight pandemics like COVID is going to have to wait: After more than two years of negotiations, rich and poor countries have failed to come up with a plan for how the world might respond to the next pandemic

The bodies of the three hostages, who were murdered by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, have now been returned to Israel for burial.

At the rear of Rio de Janeiro’s polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet, or about 4 meters, from a previously deforested area

The Pennsylvania father of two dodged 12 years behind bars after authorities found hunting bullets in his bag.

The Pennsylvania father of two was arrested in February.

Britt Clennett reports from Israel on the ICJ’s ruling against Israel's war offensive in Gaza.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited his Belarusian counterpart and close ally for talks in Minsk

A family member says a U.S. missionary couple and a Haitian man who worked with them were shot and killed by gang members in Haiti’s capital who attacked them as they left a youth group activity held at a local church

Young missionary couple from US among 3 killed by gunmen in Haiti's capital who opened fire on a home, police say

China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by

The charge carries a minimum sentence of 12 years in prison.

German authorities say they have arrested two men suspected of plotting a knife attack on worshippers at a synagogue in the southwestern city of Heidelberg

Syrian Kurdish-led authorities in the country's northeast say they have handed over a British woman and three children linked to the Islamic State group to a U.K. delegation that visited the region this week

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

A British lawmaker who returned to work this week after losing his hands and feet to sepsis has announced he won't run in the July 4 election

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has waded into the European election campaign by warning that the next president of the European Commission should not seek support from far-right parties after next month’s vote

The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the removal of 25 Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from Russia was “unacceptable.”

Top UN court orders Israel to halt its military offensive in Rafah, a ruling Israel is unlikely to comply with

An outspoken former activist and member of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress will be among at least 10 independent candidates seeking to become lawmakers for the first time in the country’s history

The distributor of a popular protest song in Hong Kong has decided to remove the music from all platforms because of a court ban in the city, the group that created the song says