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The pope will return to his residence at the Vatican.

The cause of the substation fire is currently under investigation.

Pope Francis’ doctors are providing their first in-person update on the pontiff’s condition in a month

At least two firefighters have died and hundreds of people have been evacuated from their homes in South Korea as emergency workers struggled to contain more than 30 wildfires fueled by dry winds

One year since the Moscow concert hall attack killed 145 people, Russian officials have asserted that it was planned and organized by “the special services of an unfriendly state.”

The Danish foreign ministry has changed its U.S. travel advisory for transgender people

Sudan’s military has consolidated its grip on the capital, retaking more key government buildings a day after it gained control of the Republican Palace from a notorious paramilitary group

Niger authorities say an attack by a jihadi group on a village in western Niger has killed 44 civilians

Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has appeared before police for questioning on terror-related charges a day after his interrogation over corruption allegations

Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 12

Heathrow Airport says it is “fully operational” on Saturday, after an almost daylong closure sparked by an electrical substation fire

Electric tricycles are transforming the lives of some women in parts of rural Zimbabwe

Over 12 years, Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome power of the papacy

The Trevi Fountain, arguably the world’s most famous, has graced screens for decades, from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” to Netflix’s “Emily in Paris.”

A United Nations agency is urging Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to immediately lift a lingering ban on girls’ education to save the future of millions who have been deprived of their right to education since the Taliban returned to power in 2021

Foreign ministers from Japan and its two neighboring Asian powers China and South Korea held a meeting Saturday to seek common ground on areas like low birth rates, natural disasters and cultural exchanges at a time of growing tensions

Between emerald sea and jungled hills, the Cobre Panama copper mine has fueled mass protests across the Central American country. Buried in the rolling hills and dense jungles of Panama’s eastern Caribbean Donoso region, the mine is marked by heavy machinery and rubble slicing into the earth, clashing with the vivid blues and green of the vast nature enveloping it. More than a year ago, it became the heart of protests rippling across Panama. The country-wide protests blocked off roads and fueled shortages in much of the country, prompting Panama’s Supreme Court to halt operations. Now, the new administration is signaling that the mine may roar back to life.

Kurds in Iraq and Syria this week have marked the Newroz festival, a traditional celebration of spring and renewal, at a time when many are hoping that a new political beginning is on the horizon

Javed Ali, former National Security Council senior director for counterterrorism, discusses where ceasefire negotiations between the two countries stand now.

A power outage also affected a large numbers of homes and businesses.

Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate are en route from the U.S. to Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women

Peru’s Congress has voted to remove the interior minister from office after deciding that he had failed to adequately handle rising violent crime in the Andean country

President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is an “incredibly troublesome and problematic” application of the centuries-old wartime law, Judge James Boasberg said during a hearing on Friday.

More than a year after Panama’s Supreme Court halted operations at a huge copper mine because its government concession was deemed unconstitutional, there’s a fresh push with the new Panamanian president to restart the mine

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ABC News’ James Longman sat down with Victoria Honcharuk, who has spent the last two years saving lives in the war in Ukraine.

Two of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are predicting that he will recover from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his pontificate will open after he is released

Italy’s Constitutional Court has ruled that unmarried people can adopt foreign minors, ending a 40-year-long ban on the practice and setting a precedent that could pave the way to allowing Italian singles to adopt from within the country

Nearly 600 people were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza this week.

Officials are working to establish the cause of the fire, which remains under investigation.

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia

Ukrainian authorities reported airstrikes in several regions of the country, including a drone attack on a hospital in the northeastern city of Sumy.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to trigger the process for an early parliamentary election this weekend for an expected vote on April 28

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed S...

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Heathrow Airport is expected to be closed until 11:59 p.m. local time on Friday night. ABC News’ Marcus Moore reports.

ABC News’ Matt Rivers reports on the military operations and humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

A strong earthquake off Panama’s Pacific coast has shaken the central part of the country, but it has gone largely unnoticed in the capital

Javed Ali, a former Trump administration official and cybersecurity expert, says it’ll take time for Israel and Hamas to get back to the negotiating table.

A snorkeling boat carrying 13 people, including 11 Australian tourists, has capsized in rough seas off Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, killing a woman and injuring two others

A 19-year-old has died in a hospital in Serbia, the 16th fatality of the collapse of a concrete canopy at a train station last November

Cambodia expects its new airport to serve the capital Phnom Penh will open in July

Turkey's opposition party has urged supporters to take to the streets for peaceful demonstrations against the arrest of Istanbul’s mayor and top rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires

Heathrow Airport said the fire at the substation, which supplies power to the airport, has caused a "significant power outage" and the airport.

Sudan’s military says it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion in the capital of rival paramilitary forces, after nearly two years of fighting

Mysterious deaths, unexplained noises and late-night apparitions are not the usual fodder of daily tours offered at New Zealand's parliament in Wellington

U.S. Senator Steve Daines is visiting Beijing as the U.S. and China swap tariff threats and harsh words over each others’ handling of the illegal trade in fentanyl

Migrants from Afghanistan, Russia, Iran and China deported from the United States and dropped into limbo in Panama are hopping door-to-door at embassies and consulates desperately seeking asylum in any country that would accept them

Frustration runs high in sprawling camps of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the freeze on American foreign aid