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Vladimir Nikolayev/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The bodies of those killed in the plane crash near Kuzhenkino, Russia, including Yevgeny Prigozhin and the commander of the Wagner PMC Dmitry Utkin, have been moved to the Tver Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, ABC News has learned. There has still been no comment from the […]
STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company began releasing treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday afternoon. Executives of the company, known as TEPCO, told reporters they would immediately halt the release of the treated water into the Pacific if […]
DIMUSE/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which played a key role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine before briefly launching an insurrection against the Russian military, and President Vladimir Putin by extension, died Wednesday in a plane crash. Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a […]
Artyom Anikeev/Stocktrek Images/Getty Images (RUSSIA) — Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was on the passenger list of a plane that crashed in Russia’s Tver region on Wednesday, according to the press service of Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency. Ten people were killed in the crash near the town of Kuzhenkino, including Prigozhin. “An investigation has […]
TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK)– India on Wednesday became only the fourth country in the world to land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so in the lunar south pole region. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched the mission, known as Chandrayaan-3, in mid-July, with the spacecraft traveling […]
ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school broke, sparking a dramatic hourslong rescue operation. The six children ranged in age from 10 to 15 years old. Pakistani […]
ABC News (LONDON) — Two adults and six children were rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school broke, sparking a dramatic hourslong rescue operation. The six children ranged in age from 10 to 15 years old. Pakistani […]
ANGELOS TZORTZINIS/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — The bodies of 18 people were found amid the wreckage left by wildfires in a hiking area in northeastern Greece, the country’s fire service said on Tuesday. The remains were found northeast of the port city of Alexandroupoli, in an area where trails cross the Turkish border. A […]
Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The historic wildfire season currently plaguing Canada is expected to persist, perhaps becoming even worse in the coming weeks – a potentially devastating forecast made more likely due to human-caused climate change, according to new research. Drought and hot conditions contributed to an unprecedented start to the fire season […]
SEN LI/Getty Images (LONDON) — Two adults and six children who rescued Tuesday after they were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in Pakistan when a cable car used to get kids to school broke, sparking a dramatic hourslong rescue operation. The six children ranged in age from 10 to 15 years old. Pakistani […]