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Putin praises Joe Biden, denies Alexei Navalny poisoning during annual marathon press conference

Thursday, December 17 by ABC News

By PATRICK REEVEL, ABC News(MOSCOW) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin held his marathon end-of-year press conference Thursday, using it to comment briefly on President-elect Joe Biden and to deny an explosive investigation this week suggesting a Russian security services hit squad carried... Read More.

Top US general meets with Taliban negotiators

Thursday, December 17 by ABC News

By LUIS MARTINEZ, ABC News (WASHINGTON) -- Gen. Mark Milley, the top U.S. military officer, met with Taliban negotiators in Qatar earlier this week to push for an end to increased violence in Afghanistan, his office confirmed on Thursday.Milley also traveled to Kabul... Read More.

George, Charlotte and Louis star in Prince William’s and Kate’s family Christmas card

Thursday, December 17 by ABC News

By KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (LONDON) -- Prince William and Kate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, have shared the personal family photo that was featured on the family's 2020 Christmas card.The photo shows William and Kate posing with their three children,... Read More.

City fined for hiring too many women

Wednesday, December 16 by ABC News

By IBTISSEM GUENFOUD, ABC News(PARIS) -- Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday that she was "happy to be fined" for breaching a law designed to bring about gender parity in employment. Her office staff comprises 11 women and five men --... Read More.

US sanctions Turkey for purchasing Russian missile system

Monday, December 14 by ABC News

By CONOR FINNEGAN, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- A year and a half after Turkey acquired a Russian missile defense system, violating U.S. sanctions law, President Donald Trump has implemented penalties against the NATO ally.His refusal to implement those sanctions had drawn bipartisan ire... Read More.

Russian intelligence hit squad poisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny: Report

Monday, December 14 by ABC News

By PATRICK REEVELL, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- The independent investigative group Bellingcat says it has identified a team of Russian intelligence agents that it says were behind the poisoning of the opposition leader Alexey Navalny with a nerve agent this summer.In

US sanctions alleged Iranian spies in ‘probable’ death of retired FBI agent Bob Levinson

Monday, December 14 by ABC News

By JAMES GORDON MEEK and BEN GITTLESON, ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The United States on Monday officially fingered Iran for the first time for the kidnapping, captivity and what it called the "probable death" of retired FBI Special Agent Bob Levinson 13 years... Read More.

Hundreds of students missing after Nigerian boarding school attack

Monday, December 14 by ABC News

By MORGAN WINSOR and JAMES BWALA, ABC News(LONDON and MAIDUGURI, Nigeria) -- Hundreds of students remain missing after gunmen attacked an all-boys boarding school in northwestern Nigeria, authorities said.A group of "bandits" wielding assault rifles stormed the Government Science Secondary School in... Read More.

How to watch the Geminids, the best meteor shower of 2020

Monday, December 14 by ABC News

By JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Stargazers are prepping to head outside to watch the best meteor shower of 2020 brighten the sky.The Geminid meteor shower, which is typically active every year between Dec. 4 and Dec. 17, is expected to... Read More.

Hong Kong rebel media tycoon Jimmy Lai charged under national security law

Friday, December 11 by ABC News

By BRITT CLENNETT and KARSON YIU, ABC News (HONG KONG) -- Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai has been charged under the city's controversial national security law, accused of colluding with foreign forces, as a crackdown on Beijing critics intensifies.Lai is the most-high... Read More.

Thirty-one species now extinct, according to updated ICUN Red List

Thursday, December 10 by ABC News

By JULIA JACOBO, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- An update to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species has declared 31 animal and plant species extinct.That total includes the lost shark, listed as critically endangered or possibly extinct,... Read More.

Rich countries are hoarding the vaccine: Report

Wednesday, December 9 by ABC News

By ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News(NEW YORK) -- While rich countries have purchased enough coronavirus vaccine doses to inoculate their populations three times over next year, 90% of people in poor countries won't be able to get the vaccine in 2021,

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