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Retired Gen. Robert Spalding joined ABC News Live to discuss a preliminary U.S. intelligence assessment that found Trump-ordered strikes only set back Iran's nuclear program by months.

Arash Azizi, author and contributing writer at The Atlantic, discusses the current political climate inside Iran following U.S. strikes on the country's nuclear facilities.

Officials say Indonesian rescuers have retrieved the body of a Brazilian hiker who died after falling from the ridge of a volcano

Nigeria's army says gunmen have killed at least 14 soldiers in clashes in the country's troubled north

The former DHS assistant secretary for counterterrorism, Elizabeth Neumann, says the U.S. would be “foolish” to think that Iran won’t seek revenge for recent strikes on its nuclear sites.

One of Armenia’s top religious leaders was arrested on terrorism charges and accused of plotting to overthrow the government, the second arrest in a week of a prominent political opponent

He claimed "fake news" reports on the damage assessment demean the B-2 pilots.

Youth-led protests against police brutality and poor governance have erupted across Kenya, with thousands gathering in Nairobi

Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office has submitted a new arrest warrant based on terrorism allegations for a Syrian man who stabbed and critically injured four men outside a restaurant in the western city of Bielefeld last month

A man armed with a samurai sword who killed a teenager on his way to school and injured five other people during what the prosecution said was a psychotic episode triggered by drug use has been convicted of murder

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

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO, Ret. Lt. Gen. Doug Lute, says President Donald Trump has been “influential” in dealing with NATO allies.

NATO leaders agree to a massive hike in defense spending after pressure from Trump

Pope Leo XIV has affirmed that priests must be celibate

Thailand’s government has taken a further step to tighten control of cannabis sales after the health minister signed an order banning sales of the plant to those without prescriptions

Czech officials have detained five teenagers who were described as being radicalized online by the militant Islamic State group

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson says its nuclear installations 'badly damaged' by American strikes.

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik

The World Bank has approved over $1 billion dollars for infrastructure and reconstruction projects in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to formally approve plans to establish a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is looking on from the sidelines as NATO leaders meet to agree a significant boost in defense spending that is spurred by Russian aggression

Pope Leo XIV is urging the warring sides in the Israel-Iran war to “reject the logic of bullying and revenge.”

The Zambian government has filed court papers seeking to stop the private burial of former President Edgar Lungu in South Africa

The U.K. says it will buy 12 U.S.-made F35 fighter jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs and join NATO’s shared airborne nuclear mission

At least eight people have died during protests in Kenya against police brutality and bad governnance

A Japanese court has found a U.S. Marine guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on Okinawa and sentenced him to seven years in prison

Police say a landmine killed four people and wounded others in a remote area in northwest Pakistan

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is upbeat that the military organization will agree a massive spending hike at a “transformational summit,” as member state leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to agree a new defense spending tar...

Iran executes three more prisoners over allegedly spying for Israel, its state-run IRNA news agency says

Brazil's Supreme Court had a historic moment on Tuesday when it heard a confrontation between an army colonel and general, both disgraced for their involvement in an alleged coup plot to keep former President Jair Bolsonaro in office

Police in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas have unveiled a fleet of armed drones Tuesday that they say will better position them against the heavily armed drug cartels vying for control of their border with Guatemala

U.S. President Donald Trump is attending the NATO summit and facing an alliance he has worked to bend to his will while he continues to rattle its members

Drip, drip. Trickle, trickle. That's the sound of water seeping from a sunbaked and slushy Swiss glacier that geoscientists are monitoring for signs of continued retreat by the majestic masses of ice under the heat of global warming. In recent years, glaciologists like Matthias Huss of the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, known as ETHZ, and others have turned to dramatic measures to help protect glaciers like the Rhone Glacier, which feeds into the river of the same name that runs through Switzerland and France. One of those desperate steps involves using giant sheets to cover the ice like blankets to slow the melt. Switzerland is continental Europe’s glacier capital, with some 1,400 that provide drinking water, irrigation for farmland in many parts of Europe including French wine country, and hydropower that generates most of the country’s electricity. The number has been dwindling. The Alpine country has already lost up to 1,000 small glaciers, and the bigger ones...

One of Switzerland's glaciologists says his teams are noticing a strange phenomenon in the Alpine country's glaciers

North and South Korea have been separated by a heavily fortified border since the Korean War that began 75 years ago Wednesday

ABC News’ Linsey Davis is joined by Kelsey Davenport, the director of nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, to discuss where Iran’s nuclear capabilities stand.

Police in France say that 14 people have been arrested after 145 people reported being ‘pricked’, possibly by syringes, at a nationwide music festival on Saturday.

A longtime friend of Tehran, Beijing jumped into verbal action when Israel attacked Iran nearly two weeks ago

A judge in El Salvador has ordered attorney Enrique Anaya — a well-known critic of President Nayib Bukele — to remain in jail as his prosecution on charges of money laundering proceeds

Javed Ali, a former National Security Council director, weighs in on President Donald Trump’s claim that the war between Israel and Iran will end if the ceasefire holds through the night.

Forty-nine people were killed in Gaza at various locations while attempting to receive food aid Tuesday, the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said.

Dozens of Colombian waste pickers have inundated one of Bogota’s most iconic squares with about 15 tons of recyclable goods

Families have been sharing accounts of their loved ones from inside the prison.

People are marking the start of the winter and summer solstices across the globe. North of the equator, celebrations welcome summer, while those in the south observe the beginning of winter. In Romania, dancers wearing crowns of wheat gathered for the Sanziene, or “Fairies," a pre-Christian, pagan celebration in honor of the tiny, imaginary winged beings who come to earth as a symbol of fertility. Meanwhile, Lithuanians danced in the small town of Kernave and Russians lit bonfires. In the U.S., a performer danced across the colors of Christopher Janey’s “Passing Light” solar sculpture that aligns each Summer Solstice at the San Antonio airport. In Spain, people watched the sun rise on a Barcelona beach, coined “The Night of San Juan.” South of the equator in Bolivia, Indigenous people gathered around fires and held up their hands to receive the first rays of sunlight in celebration of the Andean New Year of 5533, marking the Southern Hemisphere’s winter solstice. This is a photo...

Brazil's government says that a young Brazilian hiker who had plunged hundreds of meters from the ridge of a towering Indonesian volcano and was trapped there for almost four days has been found dead

ABC News’ Selina Wang, James Longman and contributor Darrell Blocker discuss the state of the ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

The U.K. government says China’s attempts to spy, destabilize and disrupt Britain’s economy and democracy have grown, but Beijing is still a vital economic partner

Police in France said 14 people have been arrested after 145 people reported being "pricked," possibly by syringes, at a nationwide music festival on Saturday. ABC News’ Tom Soufi Burridge reports.

A cargo truck, with the driver inside, was seen hanging over the edge of a collapsed road bridge in China.

Retired Army Maj. Mike Lyons says a ceasefire isn’t in Israel’s best interests because they have Iran “on the ropes.”