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KeithBinns/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted two weeks of bail by Islamabad’s high court Friday, one day after the Supreme Court ruled his arrest on corruption charges was unlawful. The ruling came in the wake of violent and unprecedented protests in Pakistan since Khan’s arrest on Monday. At […]
Darrin Klimek/Getty Images (LONDON) — The prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway could soon be extradited from Peru to face criminal charges in the United States, ABC News has learned. The Peruvian government issued an executive order on Wednesday accepting a request by U.S. authorities for the temporary extradition […]
abile/Getty Images (MILAN) — A parked van exploded in a busy section of central Milan in Italy on Thursday morning. The carabinieri — or Italian police — said that it was not clear what caused the van to explode in the Porta Romana neighborhood of the city and that no further details are currently available. […]
Tom Soufi Burridge/ABC News (KYIV, Ukraine) — Six-year-old Sasha Pylypets watched, impassively, with a type of curious stare, as people threw handfuls of earth into her dad’s grave. Days later, in another Ukrainian region, Tetyana Taranukha sobbed uncontrollably as she arched her grief-stricken body over her son’s flag-draped coffin. She pressed her face down onto the […]
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (MEXICO CITY) — When Emiliano, 51 years old, finally reached Mexico from his native Venezuela, he was detained by Mexico’s immigration authority, known by its Spanish-language initials as INM. Imprisoned in a crowded room, he said he and other migrants were never given medications or access to their phones, even to let family […]
Facebook / Wodonga Police (LONDON) — A woman is lucky to be alive after she was stranded for five days in thick Australian bushland and managed to survive on some candy and a bottle of wine, police said. The incident occurred when the 48-year-old woman — identified by the Wodonga Police only as Lillian — […]
Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon on Tuesday announced a new commitment of $1.2 billion in military aid for Ukraine. The package includes air-defense systems to help Ukrainian forces defend against a near-constant barrage of Russian strikes. The aid also includes equipment to help “integrate Western air defense launchers, missiles, and radars […]
David Whelan, Paul Whelan’s brother, is shown during an interview with ABC News’ Linsey Davis. — ABC News (NEW YORK) — Paul Whelan, a former American Marine who has been detained in Russia since 2018, recently had a visit in prison with U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy, who said on Twitter that securing Whelan’s release “remains […]
Anton Petrus/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — More than a year after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the countries are fighting for control of areas in eastern and southern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s forces are readying a spring counteroffensive, but Putin appears to be preparing […]
Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Russia’s Victory Day parade is meant to be a projection of President Vladimir Putin’s military might. But this year, it was effectively the opposite. The military parade in Moscow’s Red Square on Tuesday was a significantly shrunken version of itself — thinned out due to Russia’s huge losses […]
