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Early reports say that as many as 60 people have been killed.

Two people were arrested, one in France and one in Spain, Europol said.

South Korea’s top court has upheld the acquittal of Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong on financial criminal charges, ending years of legal disputes over a 2015 merger that solidified his control over the company

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are signing a treaty Thursday to strengthen defense ties and combat migrant smuggling across the English Channel

ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge investigates why so many Palestinians in Gaza have died near food distribution sites run by the Israeli-approved, U.S.-led Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Mexico City officials have unveiled a preliminary plan to tackle gentrification

ABC News' Marcus Moore reports on the incident, which occurred in the south of Gaza in the city of Khan Younis.

The cause of the fire remains unknown. No injuries were reported in the incident, according to festival organizers.

The cause of the blaze remains unknown.

Thousands have been forced to forgo an annual pilgrimage to a revered waterfall in central Haiti, now in territory held by gangs, where they would splash among sacred waters and rub their bodies with aromatic leaves

Prince Harry has followed in his late mother’s footsteps by wearing a flak jacket and walking down a path in an active land mine field in Angola to raise awareness for a charity’s work clearing explosives from old war zones

A huge fire has damaged the main stage at the Tomorrowland festival site in Belgium

The strike came amid a wave of violence in the southern Syrian city of Sweida.

An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold mining in the ancestral territory

The United States has deported five immigrants from Vietnam, Jamaica, Cuba, Yemen and Laos to Eswatini, a small country in southern Africa where the king still holds absolute power

President Donald Trump gave Russia a 50-day window to agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine, but that’s not slowing down the Kremlin’s attacks. ABC News’ Ian Pannell reports from Kyiv.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has unveiled a proposal for a long-term EU budget that she says will total $2.3 trillion

At least one person was killed and 18 others were injured Wednesday in the Israeli airstrikes on the capital, Damascus, Syria's Ministry of Health told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency.

The incident occurred in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis.

A campsite in the town of Grindavik was evacuated shortly after the seismic activity began.

The Israel Defense Forces said it struck "the entrance" of Syria's military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday. ABC News' Marcus Moore reports.

Cambodian authorities have made 1,000 arrests after Prime Minister Hun Manet ordered a crackdown on cybercrime operators

Bangladeshi security forces have clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four dead and scores of people injured

At least 20 people have been killed in a gun attack on a village in central Nigeria

Police and government officials in southwestern Pakistan say that gunmen have opened fire on a passenger bus, killing at least three people and wounding seven others

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

Europol has announced details of a major international operation targeting a pro-Russian cybercrime group

The current and previous British governments are facing criticism over a secret program that resettled thousands of Afghans in the U.K. after the Taliban's return to power in 2021

The U.S. Navy plans to build two facilities in the Philippines for repairing and maintaining Philippine military boats

Police in India’s southern Karnataka state say they have found a Russian woman and her two young daughters living in isolation in a remote forest cave

Moscow has been steadily escalating its long-range strikes against Ukraine.

A Turkish court has convicted Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor of insulting and threatening a public official

Britain has lifted its ban on Pakistani airlines after years of restrictions

The key question now is how seriously will Putin take Trump's new approach?

Officials say Russian weapons pounded Ukrainian cities overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, injuring at least 15 people in an attack that mostly targeted energy infrastructure

A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland has once again forced the evacuation of tourists at the internationally known Blue Lagoon geothermal spa

The United States says it has sent five men to the small African nation of Eswatini in an expansion of the Trump administration’s third-country deportation program

A Japanese man has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges

In Uganda, politics often intertwines with spiritual beliefs, as many politicians secretly consult traditional healers or witch doctors for perceived advantages

President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Russia to accept a peace deal in Ukraine within 50 days or face bruising sanctions has given the Kremlin extra time to pursue its summer offensive

Rats may send some squealing, but in Cambodia, teams of the not-so-little critters have become indispensable in helping specialists detect land mines that have killed and maimed thousands in the Southeast Asian country. The African giant pouched rats, which can grow up to 45 centimeters (around 18 inches) and weigh up to 1.5 kilograms (more than 3 pounds), are on the front line, making their way nimbly across fields to signal to their handlers when they get a whiff of TNT, used in most land mines and explosive ordnance. “While working with these rats, I have always found mines and they have never skipped a single one,” said Mott Sreymom, a rat handler at APOPO, a humanitarian demining group that trains and deploys rodent detection teams across the world. “I really trust these mine detection rats," Mott told The Associated Press while on her lunch break after working on a land mine field in the province of Siem Reap. After three decades of conflict in the previous century,...

ABC News’ Linsey Davis is joined by former minister of foreign affairs in Russia Andrei Kozyrev to discuss President Trump’s tariff threats against Russia and how Vladimir Putin may react.

Police fear Bradley John Murdoch, known as the “Outback Killer”, has taken to his grave the secret of how he disposed of the body of British backpacker Peter Falconio who was murdered in arid central Australia 24 years ago

The president on Monday announced new plans to provide Kyiv with military aid.

Cuba’s Labor Minister Marta Elena Feitó Cabrera faces backlash after controversial comments she made about poverty in the island nation

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison reacts to President Donald Trump's threat to enact 100% tariffs on Russia if no peace deal is reached with Ukraine in 50 days.

The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation announced some changes at its Khan Younis aid distribution center on Monday, as Palestinians continue to report mass killings and chaos near aid sites.

France’s prime minister has proposed cutting two public holidays to save money in next year’s budget

Conservationists have released five vultures back into the wild on a mountain range in South Africa after they were rescued and rehabilitated

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would make a decision about how to respond to Trump. ABC News' Patrick Reevell reports.