Getty Images / Stock PhotoFrench Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu credited localized overnight curfews in Paris and other major cities for providing a measure of calm after intense nationwide protests that have seen thousands arrested and sustained violent clashes between demonstrators and police.Nighttime curfews went into effect on Monday night in...Read more

Workers with UNICEF's 'U-Report' group raise awareness about Ebola transmission at Alanine market on June 24, 2026, in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. (Daniel Buuma/Getty Images)Kenya health officials have reported a new case of Ebola, bringing the total number of confirmed infections to eight.All the cases appear to be linked...Read more

ABC NewsLONDON -- Russian missiles and drones targeted Ukraine overnight, striking civilian infrastructure along with energy facilities, knocking out power for some 550,000 families, Ukrainian officials said.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was "no early warning from our partners" that the missile attack was imminent.Moscow launched at least 16 ballistic...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoMultiple people were killed and dozens more were injured when an explosion erupted at a Canadian military base, according to authorities.The deadly blast occurred on Saturday afternoon at the Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Wainwright in Alberta province, igniting a massive fire that was fanned by high...Read more

A view of Gemelli Hospital is seen on Oct. 13, 2026 in Rome, Italy. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)Pope Leo XIV will recite the Angelus prayer in public on Sunday, the Vatican said in an update on Friday.The Vatican did not say where the pontiff would speak on Sunday.Asked whether the pope...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoLONDON -- Russia targeted Ukraine with a "massive" aerial attack, including waves of drones, launching so many of them that "there was not a single hour when our skies were clear" for most of Wednesday and into Thursday morning, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.Hundreds of attack drones...Read more

A view of Policlinico Gemelli Hospital, framed by the sculpture of Saint Pope John Paul II, before the arrival of Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 13, 2026, in Rome, Italy. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images)Pope Leo XIV's recovery is "proceeding as expected" following his surgery on Tuesday, the Vatican said.The pope underwent...Read more

ABC NewsLONDON -- At least 600,000 people were without power early Wednesday in Ukraine, after Russia launched an aerial attack that struck energy infrastructure, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said."A targeted Russian ballistic missile strike specifically against energy infrastructure -- the very infrastructure covered by the ceasefire announced by the American...Read more

A view of Gemelli Hospital is seen as Pope Leo XIV is admitted for surgery on Oct. 13, 2026, in Rome, Italy. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)Pope Leo XIV departed the Vatican on Tuesday for a hospital in Rome, where he's scheduled to undergo an operation to remove a nodule from his...Read more

Pope Leo XIV attends a prayer of the holy rosary and torchlit procession at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes on September 27 in Lourdes, France. (Tom Nicholson/Getty Images)Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to a hospital in Rome on Tuesday morning, the Vatican said on Monday, a day...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoLONDON -- A "violent" fire ripped through the Enfants Rouges market in Paris early on Monday, engulfing the 17th-century building and destroying it, officials said.The market of the Red Children in the city's 3rd arrondissement was the oldest covered food market in the city. The Paris...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoLONDON and TOKYO -- North Korea test-fired on Monday at least two suspected ballistic missiles, both of which fell into the sea to the country's east, Japanese officials said."Earlier today, sometime after 9 a.m., North Korea launched at least two ballistic missiles from its interior toward...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoRussia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump’s statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials.A local official told ABC News the thermal power plant CHP-5 was struck at...Read more

Getty Images / Stock PhotoROME and LONDON -- Pope Leo XIV is scheduled to undergo surgery in the "next few days" after doctors found a nodule on his lung, he said on Sunday."Recently during some check ups doctors found a circumscribed nodule in my lung," the pontiff, 71, said during...Read more

Firefighters perform cooling and search operations on the burnt shell of a passenger bus following a Russian missile and aerial bomb strike in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine on October 8, 2026. (Photo by State Emergency Service of Ukraine / Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) LONDON and LVIV, Ukraine -- At least...Read more