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Iran will resume indirect talks with US to revive nuclear deal, top negotiator says

(TEHRAN, Iran) -- Iran has agreed to restart negotiations over its nuclear program next month, its chief negotiator said Wednesday. Those talks, in which Iran and the U.S. have engaged through intermediaries, come as the Obama-era nuclear deal hangs by a thread and amid warnings about ...
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Looted Benin Bronze statue returned to Nigeria in ‘institutional first’

(LONDON) -- A college at the University of Cambridge is set to return an artifact looted by British soldiers to Nigeria, in a move described as "the first institutional return of its kind." On Wednesday, Jesus College Cambridge will hand over a statue of a cockerel ...
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Queen Elizabeth to skip climate summit in Scotland as she recovers after hospitalization

(LONDON) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will not travel to Scotland next week as planned as she continues to follow doctors' advice to rest. The queen had been scheduled to attend an evening reception next Monday at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or ...
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Siberia’s permafrost melt is causing swamps, lakes, making land difficult to live on

(YAKUTSK, Russia) -- Thirty years ago, the road out from the village of Mai was flat. So were the fields around it, enough that local people used to play football on them. But today, the road and fields around this town in the remote Siberian ...
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Queen Elizabeth makes first public appearance since overnight hospital stay

(LONDON) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is back at work less than a week after an overnight hospital stay. The 95-year-old monarch was seen smiling on Tuesday as she held a virtual audience at Windsor Castle to receive South Korea's ambassador to the United Kingdom, ...
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Family of five in hiding from Taliban pleads for help getting out of Afghanistan

(NEW YORK) -- "It's like a living hell for us now," Zahra, 20, told ABC News on a phone call while hiding out in western Afghanistan, in a country she hardly even knows. "When I think about all the things that I'm missing out on ...
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US ‘deeply alarmed’ at reports of military takeover in Sudan, calls for PM’s release

(CAIRO) -- After initially being put under house arrest by military forces Monday, Sudan's acting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and his wife Muna Abdalla were "kidnapped" at dawn from their Khartoum residence, according to the prime minister's office. The move happened after the military forces ...
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Sixteen rescued from burning container ship off coast of Canada

(VICTORIA, British Columbia) -- Sixteen people have been evacuated from a container ship that caught fire off the coast of Canada, according to officials. A fire broke out in 10 containers on the MV Zim Kingston near Victoria, British Columbia, on Saturday, according to the ...
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What to know about the Japanese royal family as Princess Mako prepares to bow out

(NEW YORK) -- Princess Mako, niece to Japan's enthroned emperor, Naruhito, is planning to leave the imperial family, moving out of her family's estate on Oct. 26 when her marriage to Fordham-educated Kei Komuro is officially registered. Female members of Japan's imperial family must renounce ...
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Facing rising COVID cases, UK government resists calls for new restrictions ahead

(LONDON) -- Flanked by public health officials, the U.K. Health Secretary painted a bleak picture of the current state of the pandemic in Britain. "Cases are rising," Sajid Javid, told the nation this week. "And they could go yet as high as 100,000 a day. ...
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US cleans up Biden’s ‘commitment’ to defend Taiwan from Chinese invasion

(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration is again playing cleanup after President Joe Biden said the U.S. would come to Taiwan's defense in the event of an invasion by mainland China -- despite decades of policy that leaves that an open question. His comment prompted a ...
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Suspected poacher likely killed by elephant in South Africa

(LONDON) -- A suspected poacher found dead in a South African national park is believed to have been killed by an elephant, park officials said. Rangers in Kruger National Park discovered the body on Thursday after following tracks in the Stolznek section of the giant ...
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