World News

ABC News (LONDON) — The wife of the president of Iran defended a law passed this week designed to impose harsher sentences on women who do not wear hijabs in public, comparing the rules to “dress codes everywhere” in an interview with ABC’s “This Week.” You can see Martha Raddatz’s full interview with Jamileh Alamolhoda on ABC’s “This Week” on …

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (LONDON) — Three South African Navy personnel have been pronounced dead, and one senior officer remains in critical condition, following a deadly incident at sea off the coast of Cape Town, the South African Department of Defence has announced. Crew from the South African Navy Submarine SAS Manthatisi were executing a “vertical transfer” of supplies with use of …

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russia has continued a nearly 19-month-long invasion of neighboring Ukraine. Recently, though, the Ukrainians have gone on a counteroffensive, fighting to reclaim occupied territory. Here’s how the news is developing. All times Eastern: Sep 21, 6:16 AM EDT Ukraine claims large-scale strikes on Russian military base in Crimea While Russia launched massive missile strikes across …

Li Rui/Xinhua via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres delivered another speech critical of the failure to make progress on climate action. In the opening remarks for his Climate Ambition Summit, he said “humanity has opened the gates of hell” warning we are heading toward a “dangerous and unstable world.” “Our focus here is on climate solutions – …

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Volodymyr Zelenskyy avoided a potential face-off with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Ukrainian president’s first in-person appearance before the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday. Speaking via a translator, Zelenskyy called for Russia to be stripped of its veto power — a move rendered virtually impossible by the structure of the U.N. charter. …

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — After over five years as the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern surprised the world in January when she announced that she would step down and not seek reelection, saying, “It’s time.” Ardern said at the time that she no longer had “enough in the tank” to do the job well, leading some people …

KAREN MINASYAN/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Azerbaijan has announced it is suspending its military offensive in Nagorno-Karabakh, after ethnic Armenian authorities in the disputed enclave agreed to lay down their arms in an apparent capitulation. Nagorno-Karabakh’s Armenian-led government on Wednesday morning said they had agreed to a ceasefire after Azerbaijani forces made major advances in the day-long offensive that …

NASA (NEW YORK) — An asteroid NASA’s been tracking for nearly 25 years could impact Earth in the future, a new report reveals. First discovered in 1999, Bennu, the near-Earth asteroid, could possibly drift into the planet’s orbit and could hit the planet by September 2182, according to the OSIRIS-REx science team. Bennu passes near Earth every six years and …

KeithBinns/Getty Images (LONDON) — When she hopped on a taxi in Tehran this past summer, Raha was not wearing a headscarf. Her open challenge to the mandatory hijab rule in place in Iran for the last 40 years did not go unnoticed. She said her male taxi driver complimented her for the brave gesture, like many other men have done …

bgwalker/Getty Images (LONDON) — Climate change was one of the main factors that led to the catastrophic flooding in Libya, according to a new report. World Weather Attribution (WWA), a collaboration of scientists from all over the globe, released a new report on Tuesday saying that human-caused climate change played a role in the devastating heavy rainfall event earlier this …