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Ceasefire allows Palestinians to return to homes often reduced to rubble

After 15 months of war, the current ceasefire in Gaza is allowing some Palestinians to return to homes that have often been reduced to rubble, with family members buried beneath.
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Ceasefire allows Palestinians to return to homes often reduced to rubble
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Nearly 250 million children missed school last year because of extreme weather, UNICEF says

The United Nations Children's Fund says at least 242 million children in 85 countries had their schooling interrupted last year because of heatwaves, cyclones, flooding and other extreme weather
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A young girl walks in the Kaweni slum on the outskirts of Mamoudzou, in the French Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024, after Cyclone Chido. (AP Photo/Adrienne Surprenant)
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Trudeau says Americans will pay more whenever Trump decides to impose tariffs on Canada

Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says prices for Americans will go up if President Donald Trump follows through with his vow to apply sweeping tariffs on Canadian products
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
January 23

Palestinians returning home in Gaza torn between joy, loss and uncertainty

"I returned [...] and stayed next to the rubble of the house," one teen said.
January 23
Palestinians transport belongings in Gaza's southern city of Rafah, on Jan. 22, 2025, as residents return following a ceasefire deal days earlier between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group.
January 23

Video diary: Palestinian family's home still standing among ruins in Gaza

Leena Almadhoun took ABC News on her journey by foot back to her home in Beit Lahia after a ceasefire was reached, miraculously finding her home still standing.
January 23
Leena Almadhoun took ABC News on her journey by foot back to her home in Beit Lahia after a ceasefire was reached, miraculously finding her home still standing.
January 23

Teen sentenced to 52 years for deadly stabbing at Taylor Swift-themed event

Axel Rudakubana, 18, pleaded guilty earlier this week.
January 23
Emergency services near the scene in Hart Street, Southport, England, of a knife attack, July 29, 2024.
January 23

Storm approaching Ireland and UK is 'likely a danger to life'

Storm Éowyn is expected to hit parts of the U.K. and Ireland, according to the United Kingdom’s national weather and climate service.
January 23
Storm approaching Ireland and UK is 'likely a danger to life'
January 23

Displaced Palestinians beginning to return home after ceasefire

Thousands of Palestinians are returning home after the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas. Many are returning to discover their homes and neighborhoods completely destroyed.
January 23
Thousands of Palestinians are returning home after the ceasefire and hostage agreement between Israel and Hamas. Many are returning to discover their homes and neighborhoods completely destroyed.
January 23

Teen sentenced to 52 years for deadly stabbing at Taylor Swift-themed event

Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to 52 years in prison for fatally stabbing three girls at a children's Taylor Swift-themed event in the United Kingdom last year.
January 23
VIDEO: Teen sentenced to 52 years for deadly stabbing at Taylor Swift-themed event
January 23

Why Netanyahu's political future is as fragile as the ceasefire

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be flying high
January 23
FILE - Mourners carry the coffins of Hezbollah fighters killed in the fighting against Israeli troops past a destroyed building in Maarakeh village, southern Lebanon, on Nov. 29, 2024.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)
January 23

Violence erupts after police in Jamaica kill a top gang leader they had sought for years

Police in Jamaica have killed a top gang leader whose death has unleashed a violent backlash near the capital of Kingston as authorities were placed under an extreme threat level
January 23
January 23

Spain's leader wants the EU to ‘make social media great again.’ Here's how

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is launching a crusade against what he sees as the downsides of social media
January 23
Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez, right, walks in the snow at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 23

Top European rights court rules woman's refusal to have sex not a fault in divorce case

A French woman who had stopped having sex with her husband and had been considered at fault in a divorce, has won a case at Europe’s top human rights court
January 23
FILE - View of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, on Sept. 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias, File)
January 23

President Donald Trump virtually addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke remotely Thursday to business and world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
January 23
VIDEO: President Donald Trump virtually addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos
January 23

Italy's interior minister says he expelled Libyan warlord wanted by ICC because he posed 'danger'

Italy's interior minister has told lawmakers that he ordered the expulsion of a Libyan warlord sought by the International Criminal Court due to security concerns
January 23
Italian Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi addresses the Senate in Rome, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)
January 23

Croatia protests detention and deportation of 5 citizens in neighboring Serbia

Croatia has sent a diplomatic protest note to neighboring Serbia after Belgrade detained and deported five Croatian citizens who were taking part in a meeting of civil society organizations in the Serbian capital
January 23
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andriiy Sybiha hugs Croatia's Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman before a flower ceremony at The Wall of Remembrance of the Fallen for Ukraine at St Michael's Square in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday Jan. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
January 23

International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
January 23
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
January 23

Trump speaking virtually to World Economic Forum in Davos

President Donald Trump will speak remotely Thursday to the World Economic Forum to an international audience in Davos, Switzerland with a speech and question-and-answer session.
January 23
VIDEO: Trump speaking virtually to World Economic Forum in Davos
January 23

Ukraine is reforming its recruitment efforts to attract younger soldiers and boost forces

Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruitment reforms to attract 18- to 25-year-olds who are currently exempt from mobilization as it looks for ways to bolster its fighting force
January 23
Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President's Office, Col. Pavlo Palisa, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 23

Spain says over 550 migrants reached its Canary Islands in 2 days

Spain’s marine rescue service on Thursday said that more than 550 migrants have reached its Canary Islands in boats over the past two days
January 23
FILE - A wooden boat used by migrants from Morocco is seen at the coast of the Canary Island on Friday, Oct.16, 2020. (AP Photo/Javier Bauluz, File)
January 23

Saudi foreign minister makes first official trip to Lebanon in a decade after years of strained ties

Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat has visited Lebanon for the first time in a decade following years of strained relations between the oil-rich kingdom and the tiny Mediterranean country
January 23
January 23

Paul Smith takes inspiration from father's photography for Paris Fashion Week

A vibrant energy pulsed through the Paris Fashion Week air as Paul Smith unveiled his fall menswear
January 23
Pharrell Williams reacts after the men's Louis Vuitton Fall-Winter 2025-2026 collection, that was presented in Paris, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
January 23

Micheál Martin returns as Ireland's prime minister after securing backing of parliament

Irish lawmakers have voted to make veteran politician Micheál Martin prime minister for a second time at the helm of a coalition government
January 23
Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin, centre, kisses his wife Mary as he leaves Leinster House, Dublin, after he was selected by members of the Dail to be the new Taoiseach, on Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Liam McBurney/PA via AP)
January 23

Greece says 66 migrants arrive on southern island of Crete after sailing from the Libyan coast

Greek authorities say 66 migrants have been found in two locations on the southern island of Crete after arriving on the island on a wooden boat that set sail from the Libyan coast – a route increasingly used by smuggling rings
January 23
January 23

ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Afghan Taliban leaders over persecution of women

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor says he has requested arrest warrants for two top Afghan Taliban officials over the repression of women
January 23
FILE - Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
January 23

5 treated after stabbing in south London, man arrested

London’s Ambulance Service says five people have been treated following a stabbing in south London
January 23
January 23

Mayotte's students are returning to school amid cyclone devastation

Students in the French territory of Mayotte are preparing to return to school on Monday, just over six weeks after the worst cyclone to hit the islands off Africa in nearly a century laid waste to entire neighborhoods and villages and left widespread d...
January 23
Rescue workers repair the damaged roof of at the Bamana school, weeks after the Chido cyclone, Saturday Jan.18, in Mamoudzou, in the Indian Ocean French territory of Mayotte as return to schools has been postponed to Jan. 27. (AP Photo/Chafion Madi)
January 23

UK watchdog targets Apple, Google mobile ecosystems with new digital market powers

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS are facing fresh scrutiny from Britain’s competition watchdog, which unveiled investigations targeting the two tech giants’ mobile phone ecosystems under new powers to crack down on digital market abuses
January 23
FILE - Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks about Siri during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., June 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
January 23

Police in Hungary investigate bomb threats affecting over 240 schools

Police in Hungary say they are investigating bomb threats that were sent to more than 240 schools across the country, resulting in classes being cancelled at some schools
January 23
Minister heading the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyas speaks during the weekly government briefing at the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office in Budapest, Hungary, 23 January 2025, to announce that an investigation had started concerning multiple bomb threats at schools earlier in the day. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)
January 23

Turkey's central bank lowers benchmark interest rate to 45%

Turkey’s central bank has lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45%
January 23
A man carries a bag with groceries in a food street market at Uskudar neighbourhood in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, same day as Turkey's central bank lowered its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points to 45%. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)
January 23

Scholz's challenger demands tougher migration rules as knife attack spills into German election

Germany’s opposition leader has vowed to bar people from entering the country without proper papers and to step up deportations if he is elected as chancellor next month, as a knife attack by a rejected asylum-seeker spills over into an election campai...
January 23
German opposition leader and chairman of the Christian Democratic Union party Friedrich Merz attends the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 23

Forecasters in Ireland and UK warn of danger to life as Storm Eowyn spirals in from Atlantic

Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland are braced for a storm spiraling in from the Atlantic, bringing gusts of up to 100 m
January 23
A person wheels a bike on the Great South Wall on a sunny winter's day in Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
January 23

One miner dies and 15 others injured after methane fire at a coal mine in Poland

Hospital authorities in southern Poland say a coal miner who suffered burns from a colliery methane gas fire has died
January 23
January 23

'KKK cruise' blamed on misunderstanding

The cruise line later said the workers wearing the white hoods weren't aware of the resemblance and issued an apology.
January 23
The cruise line later said the workers wearing the white hoods weren't aware of the resemblance and issued an apology.
January 23

Man who sailed from China to Taiwan in rubber dinghy indicted while Chinese jets surround island

A man who sailed across the Taiwan Strait from China in a rubber dinghy has been indicted for illegally entering the island, while an unusually large number of Chinese fighter jets flew through the area in an apparent show of force
January 23
January 23

Russia 'very closely' monitoring Trump's sanctions threats, Kremlin says

"We carefully record all the nuances," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
January 23
The Kremlin and the Moscow River are seen before dawn in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025.
January 23

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria resume after 13 years

Commercial flights between Turkey and Syria have resumed after 13 years with a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Damascus
January 23
A Turkish Airlines commercial flight lands at Damascus international airport from Istanbul, in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Ahmet Arslan/IHA via AP)
January 23

Waitress dies from Turkish ski resort blaze, one of 78 lives lost as concerns over safety revive

Officials say a waitress who jumped out of a burning hotel at a popular ski resort has succumbed to her injuries, becoming the latest victim of tragedy that has shocked the nation and revived concerns over lax safety regulations in the country
January 23
Firefighters work at the scene after a fire broke out at a hotel in the ski resort of Kartalkaya, located in Bolu province, northwest Turkey, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. (Mert Gokhan Koc/DIA Photo via AP)
January 23

Chinese court sentences man to death over knife attack at a Japanese school bus stop

A Chinese man who injured a Japanese mother and her child and killed a Chinese bus attendant trying to protect them in a knife attack near Shanghai last June has been sentenced to death
January 23
January 23

Why meeting Trump's military spending target could be tough for NATO's lowest spender

Europe’s military heavyweights have already said that meeting President Donald Trump’s potential challenge to spend up to 5% of their economic output on security would be challenging
January 23
FILE - Armed Spanish military police are seen on duty at the square in front of the Spanish Cortes (Parliament) seen in the background, in Madrid, Feb. 24, 1981 while inside the lower house about 150 armed Civil Guards still hold the deputies hostage. (AP Photo)
January 23

Taiwan plans to cull up to 120,000 green iguanas due to negative agriculture impact

Taiwan plans to cull up to 120,000 green iguanas, with supporters urging humane methods to bring down the animal's population, which is wreaking havoc on the island's agricultural sector
January 23
In this image made from video, hunters hold the iguanas they catch in Pingtung County, southern Taiwan on Jan 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Wu Taijing)
January 23

Pakistani government proposes sweeping controls on social media

Pakistan's lower house of parliament has passed a bill with sweeping controls on social media that includes blocking platforms and sending users to prison for spreading disinformation
January 23
FILE -A Pakistani waits to connect his mobile WhatsApp with a desktop as internet runs slow past several days, in Karachi, Pakistan, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File)
January 23

South Korea to remove concrete barriers near runways, reports say

South Korea will remove a concrete structure at the runway of one of its southern airports, the scene of a plane crash that killed all but two of the 181 people on board last month
January 23
FILE - Rescue team members work at the site of a plane crash at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea on Dec. 31, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon, File)
January 23

Gabon's military government announces presidential election on April 12

Gabon will hold a presidential election on April 12, the council of ministers said
January 23
FILE - A voter show his stamped electoral card after casting his ballot in a referendum on whether to adopt a new constitution in Libreville, Gabon, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Betines Makosso, File)
January 23

Trump heads back to Davos, this time virtually, for elite World Economic Forum gathering

U.S. President Trump is to speak to an international audience for the first time after returning into the White House with a speech and Q&A by video conference to the World Economic Forum’s annual event in Davos on Thursday
January 23
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attends the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)
January 23

Lunar New Year giveaway of cash, food leaves 4 dead in Cambodia as crowd surges

Four people were killed and five others injured as a crowd scrambled for food and cash handouts from one of Cambodia’s richest men as a Chinese Lunar New Year gift
January 23
January 23

NATO chief says Russian victory over Ukraine would have a costly impact on alliance's credibility

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world’s biggest military alliance and could cost trillions of dollars to restore the organization's credibility
January 23
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte arrives at the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
January 23

Gunmen kill 2 soldiers, wound 12 others deployed to secure a UN project in the southern Philippines

Gunmen have killed two soldiers and wounded 12 others who were deployed to secure a U.N. livelihood project in the southern Philippines
January 23
January 23

Middle East latest: Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinian militants who carried out West Bank bus attack

Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants who carried out a deadly attack on a bus in the West Bank earlier this month
January 23
Humanitarian aid trucks enter through the Kerem Shalom crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip, in Rafah, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, days after the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
January 23

Rare plant emits a stink of death when it blooms. Thousands queued to get close to it

An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a greenhouse in Sydney
January 23
Karen, center left, and Wayne McKay photograph themselves with an endangered plant known as the "corpse flower" for its putrid stink, at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney, Australia, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)