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Robert Fico was leaving a building in Handlova when he was shot outside.

Robert Fico was leaving a building in Handlova when he was shot outside.

Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico, 59, was shot in the abdomen in an assassination attempt in the town of Handlova on Wednesday, according to a government official.

Yemeni authorities have deployed security forces and armored vehicles across the port city of Aden, in preparation for the latest in a series of protests over hours-long electricity outages caused by a shortage of fuel for power stations

Canadian officials say favorable winds are expected to push an “out of control” wildfire away from Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, a day after thousands were evacuated

Slovak interior minister: Initial investigation shows political motivation in assassination attempt on prime minister

Slovak defense minister says doctors are fighting for the life of prime minister who was shot multiple times

A Guatemalan court has ordered the release of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly two years on money laundering charges

Guatemalan court orders release of journalist José Rubén Zamora, jailed for nearly 2 years on money laundering charges

The head of Brazil’s Petrobras is stepping down after a fight over dividends, sending shares of the state-controlled oil and gas giant tumbling

ABC News' Foreign correspondent Marcus Moore witnessed Israeli protesters attempting to block aid trucks outside of Hebron from entering Gaza.

A Hungarian court of appeal has upheld a request from an Italian anti-fascist activist to be moved from jail to house arrest in Budapest as she awaits trial

France says it will impose a state of emergency in French Pacific territory of New Caledonia for at least 12 days

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, an amateur musician, may have thought he had the perfect upbeat song to perform with a Kyiv bar band

A U.N. report says child migration through Panama’s dangerous Darien Gap is up 40% so far this year

The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside

Albania has installed a “sophisticated” network of cameras along its border with Kosovo, supplied by the British government in an attempt to stem the number of migrants flowing into the United Kingdom and to track criminal activity in the region, the U...

A new exhibition of photographs owned by Elton John opens this week at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum

The National Security Council says high-level U.S. government envoys raised concerns about “the misuse of AI” by China and others in closed-door talks with Chinese officials in Geneva

This move comes one week after the Biden administration said it would temporarily block the delivery of bombs that could be used in Rafah.

Workers said they are forced to ration supplies, are out of hand soap and are at a near 100% infection rate.

Japan and the United States have signed an arrangement to jointly develop a new type of missile defense system as the allies seek to defend against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons

French media is reporting that the attack lasted 2 minutes.

Two Tunisian journalists are kept in pre-trial detention as authorities continued a wave of arrests targeting perceived critics of President Kais Saied's government

A 30-year-old prisoner nicknamed “The Fly” has become notorious in France overnight after a daring and bloody escape from a prison convoy in Normandy that left two guards dead

Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year

Slovakia's president says shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico is 'an attack on democracy'

South Africa's president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the healthcare system to address deep inequality, but it faces legal challenges from critics

A weekend fire in a shopping center in Warsaw dealt tragedy to many members of Poland's Vietnamese community

Two prison guards were killed in the brazen escape, officials said.

Slovakian PM Robert Fico is in life-threatening condition after being shot multiple times, his Facebook profile says

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A radical Sunni scholar whose criticisms of Saudi Arabia’s government and the West drew praise from the late al-Qaida founder Osama bin Laden should be immediately tried or released from a yearslong arbitrary detention by the kingdom

Chances of restarting formal talks to mend Cyprus’ decades-long ethnic division appeared dimmer as the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots told a U.N. envoy that he saw no common ground with Greek Cypriots for a return to negotiations

Human Rights Watch says an Islamist group operating in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province used boys as young as 13 in attacks on a town last week

A Pakistani court granted imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan bail in a graft case

Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe

Hungary will vote against a United Nations resolution commemorating the 1995 genocide of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica

Media reports say Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico was injured in a shooting and taken to hospital

A high court in Nepal has overturned an eight-year prison sentence for rape for the country’s star cricket player and former captain of the national team, and cleared him of all charges

At least 24 worshippers, including four children, were injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning, resulting in an explosion, the police said

Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea

French president's office says government to consider imposing state of emergency in Pacific territory of New Caledonia

Singapore's deputy leader Lawrence Wong is sworn in as prime minister, as Lee Hsien Loong bows out after 20 years

Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin is prepared to negotiate over the conflict in Ukraine in an interview with Chinese media

A black bear was the picture of relaxation as it lay on a swing in a British Columbia garden while its cub scampered about nearby.

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A clash between warring groups killed dozens of civilians, the U.N. said.

US Secretary of State Blinken announces $2 billion arms deal for Ukraine; mostly from package approved last month

A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden’s biggest amusement centers, causing the death of one person