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Russia 'cannot be trusted,' Zelenskyy says as Moscow follows US talks with attack

Russia attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles after its U.S. talks concluded.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives to meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Feb. 15, 2025 in Munich, Germany.
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Migrants say racist attacks up in German city after deadly Christmas market violence

Migrants who have settled in the German city of Magdeburg say they have experienced a sharp increase in racism and anti-immigration sentiments following a deadly Christmas market attack last year
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Saeeid Saeeid, 25 years old Syrian immigrant who has lived and worked in Magdeburg for 6 years, poses for a photo in a street, in Magdeburg, Germany, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
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Pope slept peacefully, had breakfast after diagnosis of pneumonia, Vatican says

The Vatican says Pope Francis slept peacefully and ate breakfast after developing pneumonia in both his lungs
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Reporters stand in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, where Pope Francis has been hospitalized to undergo some necessary diagnostic tests and to continue his ongoing treatment for bronchitis. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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Activists to hold vigils to protest death penalty in Singapore as a Malaysian man awaits execution

Rights activists in Singapore and Malaysia will hold candlelight vigils to protest capital punishment as Singaporean authorities prepare to execute a Malaysian man for drug trafficking despite mounting pressure to halt the sentencing
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Israel's West Bank crackdown triggers a wave of displacement unseen in decades

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have fled home following recent Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank
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Palestinians who fled the Israeli military operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp attend noon prayers at a temporary shelter for displaced people in the West Bank town of Anabta, near Tulkarem, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
February 19

Police in disputed Kashmir raid bookstores, seizing books related to Islamic group

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have raided bookstores and seized 668 books linked to a major Islamic organization in the disputed region, where a strict controls on the press have escalated in recent years
February 19
Kashmiri men purchase books at a book shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
February 19

Dominica crams thousands of inmates facing no charges into overcrowded prisons

They’re known as “frog men,” inmates who are forced to sleep on prison floors across the Dominican Republic, often next to overflowing toilets or holes in the ground that serve as one
February 19
FILE - Inmates stand inside a corridor during time they are allowed to be outside of their cells at Najayo jail in San Cristobal, west of Santo Domingo, May 30, 2007. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)
February 18

Russia, US begin Ukraine peace talks sparking concern in Europe

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports from Estonia and Poland as European nations voice concerns over U.S.-Russia mediation efforts, with Ukraine and NATO countries excluded.
February 18
Russia, US begin Ukraine peace talks sparking concern in Europe
February 18

Man who attacked Japan's ex-PM Kishida convicted, sentenced to 10 years in prison

A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison
February 18
People queue up to get a ticket for a seat to observe a court's ruling on an attempted murder trial for Ryuji Kimura, who threw a homemade pipe bomb at former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, outside Wakayama District Court in Wakayama, western Japan Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. (Shohei Miyano/Kyodo News via AP)
February 18

Nearly 300 deportees from US held in Panama hotel as officials try to return them to their countries

Panama is detaining in a hotel nearly 300 people from various countries deported by the United States, not allowing them to leave while waiting for international authorities to organize a return to their countries
February 18
FILE - Panama's Minister of Public Security Frank Alexis Abrego, speaks to reporters after watching people board a repatriation flight bound for Colombia at Albrook Airport in Panama City, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
February 18

Delta plane crash latest: 'Extreme conditions' at airport in days before crash

At least 21 people were injured in Monday's crash, officials said.
February 18
Passengers leave a Delta Air Lines-operated CRJ900 aircraft that crashed at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, Feb. 17, 2025.
February 18

Hamas to release 6 more hostages, bodies of 4 others

The hostages will be released on Saturday.
February 18
Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza and their supporters marking 500 days in Hamas captivity during a protest outside the Kyria military headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel, Feb. 17, 2025.
February 18

'Exceptionally rare' fossil of iconic species found with soft tissue still intact

Fossilized soft tissue is exceptionally rare in plesiosaur fossils.
February 18
A styxosaurus, a plesiosaur of the Cretaceous era in an artist rendering.
February 18

Haiti police name ex-senator among suspects facing arrest over deadly gang attacks

A former senator is among suspects facing arrest in Haiti in connection with deadly gang attacks on a community near the capital for the past three weeks
February 18
A Kenyan police officer patrols an area in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)
February 18

28-year-old American prisoner has been freed in Russia, Kremlin says

Byers was detained in Moscow on Feb. 7 and charged with drug smuggling.
February 18
U.S. citizen Kalob Wayne Byers, detained on suspicion of drug smuggling, appears on a screen in the courthouse during a video link to a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2025, in this still image taken from video.
February 18

Mexico's economy secretary to meet with Trump officials in US to talk trade

Mexico’s Economic Minister Marcelo Ebrard says that he will meet on Thursday with Trump administration officials in Washington
February 18
Mexican Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard speaks during President Claudia Sheinbaum's daily morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte)
February 18

Pope Francis has pneumonia but remains in 'good spirits,' Vatican says

A follow-up chest CT scan "demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia."
February 18
VIDEO: Pope Francis has pneumonia but remains in 'good spirits,' Vatican says
February 18

Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor who warned of danger of indifference, dies at 98

Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, has died
February 18
Holocaust survivor Marian Turski addresses guests at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of its liberation, in Oswiecim, Poland, Monday, Jan. 27. 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 18

Pope Francis has pneumonia but remains in 'good spirits,' Vatican says

A follow-up chest CT scan "demonstrated the onset of bilateral pneumonia."
February 18
Pope Francis celebrates the mass for the Jubilee of the Armed Forces at St. Peter's square in the Vatican on February 9, 2025. The Vatican, Feb. 18, 2025.
February 18

Canadian officials give update on Toronto plane crash

Nineteen of the 21 passengers taken to hospitals have been released, according to Delta.
February 18
VIDEO: Canadian officials give update on Toronto plane crash
February 18

Polish prosecutors probe an exhibition of Russian armor from Ukraine that contained live explosives

Polish prosecutors say they're considering whether to open a criminal investigation into an open-air exhibition in 2022 of damaged Russian military vehicles after one of them was found to contain live explosives
February 18
FILE - People visit an open-air exhibition of damaged and burnt-out Russian tanks and armored vehicles at the Castle Square, in Warsaw, Poland, June 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk, File)
February 18

Ethiopia and Somalia hold a first round of technical talks in Turkey toward resolving their dispute

Turkey says top diplomats from Ethiopia and Somalia have held a first round of technical talks aimed at resolving a dispute sparked by a deal between Ethiopia and Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland
February 18
FILE - A Somali soldier controls the crowd as thousands of people attend a protest rally in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday Jan.3, 2024, after being angry with an agreement signed between Ethiopia and the breakaway region of Somaliland to give landlocked Ethiopia access to its shoreline. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)
February 18

Delta crash had ‘important factors’ that kept passengers safe: Airline pilot

Veteran airline pilot Douglas Rice discusses the passenger jet crash-landing in Toronto.
February 18
VIDEO: Delta crash had ‘important factors’ that kept passengers safe: Airline pilot
February 18

Dramatic video shows moment Delta plane flipped after landing in Toronto

Twenty-one people were taken to hospitals after Monday's crash, Delta said. ABC News' Reena Roy and Sam Sweeney report.
February 18
VIDEO: Dramatic video shows moment Delta plane flipped after landing in Toronto
February 18

Sidelined by Trump, Macron tries to rally Europe on Ukraine. But divisions run deep

European leaders were summoned by French President Emmanuel Macron in a high-profile display of European coordination on Ukraine
February 18
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni looks out of her car window as she leaves the Elysee Palace, after an informal meeting of leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom, in Paris, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)
February 18

Polish president says US assures him it won’t reduce troop levels as he revives 'Fort Trump' idea

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in Poland and elsewhere along NATO’s eastern flank
February 18
Poland's President Andrzej Duda, left, greets U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellog , right, ahead of talks on steps being taken to end the war in Ukraine, across Poland's eastern border, at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, Poland, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
February 18

Hamas to release 6 more hostages, bodies of 4 others

This latest hostage release is due to take place on Saturday, Hamas and Israel confirmed.
February 18
VIDEO: Hamas to release 6 more hostages, bodies of 4 others
February 18

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February 18
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
February 18

US, Russia agree to try to end war without Ukraine at the table

High-level delegations from the U.S. and Russia held talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday over the fate of Ukraine, the negotiations taking place without Kyiv's participation.
February 18
US, Russia agree to try to end war without Ukraine at the table
February 18

Descendants of Holocaust survivors mark 76th anniversary of Cypriot internment camps' closure

Snunith Shoham says she was only a few months old in February 1947 when British authorities permitted her family to leave one of around a dozen internment camps in Cyprus that held tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors and head for “the homeland.”
February 18
A replica barracks is seen, during a ceremony marking the 76th anniversary of the closing of a dozen internment camps for Jewish refugees from Europe trying to reach Palestine after World War II, at a Cypriot National Guard camp formerly housing a British Military Hospital in Nicosia, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)
February 18

Guyana military chief: 6 soldiers hurt in suspected gang attack on Venezuela border

Six soldiers in Guyana have been injured after armed men in neighboring Venezuela opened fire in an attack expected to further heighten tensions between the two South American countries
February 18
February 18

Attacks by Sudanese RSF paramilitaries leave hundreds dead in White Nile State

Sudanese officials and rights groups say insurgent attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Force have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state
February 18
This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)
February 18

Japan adopts new carbon reduction targets, energy plan to boost nuclear and renewables by 2040

Japan’s government adopted new decarbonization targets aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 70% from 2013 levels over the next 15 years, approving a renewed energy plan to help meet the goal
February 18
Wind turbines are seen in Rokkasho village, Aomori Prefecture, northern Japan on Nov. 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)
February 18

Hamas says it will release 6 living Israeli hostages on Saturday

Hamas says it will release 6 living Israeli hostages on Saturday
February 18
February 18

Greece says over 100 migrants are detained as officials link the surge in arrivals to Mideast wars

Authorities in Greece said Tuesday they detained 107 migrants in two separate operations near the island of Crete, as the country sees an increase in people trying to cross the eastern Mediterranean
February 18
February 18

Cook Islands gives some detail of its China deal that has upset close partner New Zealand

The South Pacific country of Cook Islands has unveiled the details of a deal with China to boost cooperation after the pact provoked a rare diplomatic clash with the nation’s chief benefactor, New Zealand, and protests at home
February 18
FILE - Cook Islands Prime Minister Mark Brown speaks during a plenary session at the COP29 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 13, 2024, in Baku, Azerbaijan. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
February 18

Iran accuses detained British couple of spying

Iranian state media say authorities have accused a British couple detained in the country since January of spying
February 18
February 18

Cambodia passes bill toughening penalties for denial of Khmer Rouge genocide

Cambodian lawmakers have approved a bill that will toughen penalties for anyone denying that atrocities were carried out in the late 1970s under the rule of the Khmer Rouge, whose brutal policies are blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people
February 18
FILE - The front gate of Tuol Sleng genocide museum in Pnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 13, 2007. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)
February 18

'Hanging...like bats': Toronto plane crash survivor speaks out

“It all happened pretty, pretty fast," one survivor told ABC News.
February 18
An emergency responder works around an aircraft on a runway, after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, February 17, 2025. REUTERS/Cole Burston
February 18

UN human rights chief accuses Rwanda-backed rebels in east Congo of killing and recruiting children

The U.N. human rights chief has accused Rwanda-backed rebels who seized a second major city in eastern Congo of killing children and attacking hospitals and warehouses storing humanitarian aid
February 18
People board the first boat leaving Bukavu heading to Goma on Lake Kivu since the eastern Congo city was taken by M23 rebels Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Janvier Barhahiga)
February 18

Russia launches massive drone strike on Ukraine as it begins talks with US

The overnight Russian barrage sparked a large fire in Kyiv.
February 18
An explosion is seen in the sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, during a Russian drone strike on Feb. 18, 2025.
February 18

Chinese navy helicopter flies within 10 feet of Philippine plane over disputed shoal

A Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet of a Philippine patrol plane on Tuesday in a disputed area of the the South China Sea, as the Filipino pilot warned by radio: “You are flying too close, you are very dangerous.”
February 18
A Chinese military helicopter flies close to a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic (BFAR) aircraft above Scarborough shoal on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan)
February 18

Villagers in southern Lebanon prepare to return home as Israeli army withdraws under ceasefire deal

Israeli forces have withdrawn from border villages in southern Lebanon under a deadline spelled out in a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement that ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war
February 18
Lebanese citizens check the destruction in their village caused by the Israeli air and ground offensive, in the town of Kfar Kila, southern Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
February 18

Senior Afghan Taliban officials in Japan for talks with Japanese officials

Japanese officials say senior Afghan Taliban officials are in Japan for talks, as part of Tokyo’s efforts to help Afghanistan build a more inclusive political system and protect human rights
February 18
FILE - Taliban fighters hold their flag as they celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
February 17

North Korea slams U.S. and Asian rivals for 'absurd' denuclearization plans

North Korea has criticized the United States and Asian neighbors for pursuing the “absurd” goal of denuclearizing the North and says it will push to expand its nuclear forces under the direction of its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un
February 17
FILE - In this photo provided by the North Korean government, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivers a speech at a meeting held during Dec. 23 until Dec. 27, 2024, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to cover the event depicted in this image distributed by the North Korean government. The content of this image is as provided and cannot be independently verified. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)
February 17

Australian central bank cuts benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020

Australia’s central bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020 as the nation’s inflation cools
February 17
FILE - A man walks past the Reserve Bank of Australia in Sydney, on Aug. 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft, File)
February 17

Delta plane crashes, overturns in Toronto; all survive, officials say

At least 18 people were taken to area hospitals, airport officials said.
February 17
First responders work at the Delta Air Lines plane crash site at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Feb. 17, 2025.
February 17

Toronto fire officials hold briefing on Delta plane crash

The plane crash cause is under investigation, according to fire officials in Toronto, Canada.
February 17
VIDEO: Toronto fire officials hold briefing on Delta plane crash
February 17

Officials give update on Delta plane crash in Toronto

Injuries were reported when a plane crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday. It was wound up upside-down on the snow-covered ground.
February 17
VIDEO: Officials give update on Delta plane crash in Toronto
February 17

Top American and Russian officials gear up for talks on ending war

Tuesday's talks come days after Donald Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin.
February 17
VIDEO: Top American and Russian officials gear up for talks on ending war