A screen grab from a video shows Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber carries out a strike in settlement of Vilcha in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine on December 23, 2025. (The Russian Ministry of Defense/Anadolu via Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Russia launched a "massive" drone and missile strike on Ukraine overnight into Tuesday morning,...Read more

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi's daughter Kiana Rahmani, son Ali Rahmani, and chairman of the Nobel Committee Norwegian Berit Reiss Andersen attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo City Hall on December 10, 2023 in Oslo, Norway. (Rune Hellestad/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- More than a thousand political,...Read more

A portrait of 10-year-old Matilda, victim of the Bondi Beach shooting, sits on a flower memorial beside Bondi Pavilion on December 17, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. James D. Morgan/Getty Images(SYDNEY) -- Hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday for the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda, who was the youngest victim...Read more

Community members gather outside of Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)(SYDNEY) -- When shots rang out at a Hanukkah celebration on Australia's Bondi Beach, Arsen Ostrovsky said he thought it could've been balloons popping."Because it was the carnival, there were...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue on December 15, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Kay Nietfeld - Pool/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an address on Wednesday that Russia is preparing "the coming year as a year of war," despite ongoing U.S.-brokered...Read more

An Israeli flag and flowers are laid outside Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach as people gather to mourn in the wake of a mass shooting on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (Audrey Richardson/Getty Images)(SYDNEY) -- The 24-year-old man who allegedly opened fire alongside his father on a Jewish gathering...Read more

Mourners gather to lay flowers at Bondi Beach on December 15, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Police say at least 16 people, including one suspected gunman, were killed and more than 40 others injured when two attackers opened fire near a Hanukkah celebration at the world-famous Bondi Beach, in what authorities...Read more

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns visits Ahmed al Ahmed, who was identified as the bystander who seized a rifle from one of the gunmen during the deadly shooting at Bondi Beach on Sunday, at a hospital in Sydney, Dec. 15, 2025. (@ChrisMinnsMP/X) (SYDNEY) -- A Sydney man is being...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrive to speak to the media at the Chancellery on December 15, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that no consensus had been reached on key territorial questions as part of a...Read more

Izhar Khan/Getty Images(LONDON) -- At least nine of the 15 people who were killed in the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, have been identified.They include a young soccer player originally from France, a rugby team manager, a great-grandfather known for his "love of life" who died while...Read more

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks to the media at Parliament House Canberra on December 14, 2025 in Canberra, Australia. (Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- The Australian government is "prepared to take whatever action is necessary," after a shooting that left 15 people dead and more than 40 injured at Bondi Beach...Read more

Police enforce a cordon at Bondi Beach after a mass shooting on December 14, 2025 in Sydney, Australia. (George Chan/Getty Images)(LONDON) -- At least 11 people were killed on Sunday as two gunmen opened fire at Australia's Bondi Beach in an attack that targeted a Jewish event, New South Wales...Read more

Protesters hold posters in support of Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski during a solidarity demonstration in Vilnius. Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Belarusian human rights defender Ales Bialiatski turned 62 on September 25, 2024. (Yauhen Yerchak/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- The Belarusian government announced Saturday that it has released 123...Read more

ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Two U.S. soldiers and one civilian U.S. interpreter were killed in Syria Saturday after they were ambushed by a likely ISIS gunman, U.S. officials said.The gunman was killed by "partner forces" during a skirmish, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.Three other service members were injured during...Read more

A burned and unusable car is seen as firefighters continue to extinguish the fire that broke out in a house following the Russian drone attacks on Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine on December 13, 2025. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)(NEW YORK) -- Russia targeted Ukraine's energy...Read more