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Hong Kong cuts liquor tax in effort to reignite its nightlife industry

Hong Kong’s leader announced a cut to liquor tax as the Asian financial hub hopes to revive its reputation as a travel destination with a vibrant nightlife and dining scene
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FILE -People walk past a night club in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district, Nov. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)
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A full-scale replica of Anne Frank's hidden annex is heading to New York for an exhibition

The hidden annex where the young Jewish diarist Anne Frank hid from Nazi occupiers during World War II is heading to New York
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Anne Frank's diary, a red checkered notebook, the cornerstone of the Amsterdam museum's collection, is displayed in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Friday, Oct. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)
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Takeaways from AP's report on euthanasia, doctors and ethics in Canada

Canada has arguably the world’s most permissive system of euthanasia
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The Canadian flag is blown by wind on Centre Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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Years of war in Congo have created a dire mental health crisis. But little support is available

Years of conflict in eastern Congo have created a dire mental health crisis
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Nelly Shukuru, 51, and others receive counseling in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
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Canadian doctors who provide euthanasia struggle with the ethics of killing vulnerable patients

A homeless man refusing long-term care, a woman with severe obesity, grieving widows
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The Toronto skyline is seen from Wards Island in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)
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Zelenskyy to unveil 'victory plan' to Ukrainian lawmakers after presenting it to Western allies

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to unveil a blueprint for his country's victory in the war against Russia
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FILE - U.S. President Joe Biden, center, with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, front second left, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, front left, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, front second right, President of Poland Andrzej Duda, right, and other world leaders pose for a family picture of the launching of a Joint Declaration of Support for Ukrainian Recovery and Reconstruction, on Sept. 25, 2024, in New York. (Leon Neal/Pool Photo via AP, File)
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In the heartland of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the old ways have changed and violence rages

Cellphone chats have become death sentences in the continuing, bloody factional war inside the Sinaloa drug cartel
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Musicians play for tips from motorists in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo)
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The world’s second Sphere will be built in the UAE capital after the first opened in Las Vegas

The world’s second Sphere will be built in the capital of the United Arab Emirates after the opening of the first in Las Vegas
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FILE - Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, of the Netherlands, drives past the Sphere during the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix auto race, on Nov. 18, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Nick Didlick, File)
October 15

UN accuses Venezuela of crimes against humanity in post-election violence

In the weeks since the violent crackdown, thousands are fleeing their country.
October 15
Police officers take security measures as people gather to protest against reelection of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for the 3rd term one day after the Venezuelan presidential elections in Caracas, Venezuela, July 29, 2024.
October 15

Paraglider spots dog on top of Great Pyramid of Giza

A man flying high above Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza in a powered paraglider spotted something unexpected on top of the ancient landmark: a dog.
October 15
Paraglider spots dog on top of Great Pyramid of Giza
October 15

Mexico says foreign firms have pledged $20 billion in investments, but many are old or uncertain

Mexican officials say companies have pledged $20 billion in new foreign direct investment in Mexico
October 15
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, left, listens to Mexican businessperson Francisco Cervantes speak during a news conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
October 15

Puerto Rico police investigate 8 deaths and about two dozen suspected fentanyl overdoses in one town

At least eight people have died in a town on Puerto Rico’s north coast in recent days after authorities say around two dozen suffered from suspected overdoses linked to drugs likely contaminated with fentanyl
October 15
October 15

UNICEF spokesperson on dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza

UNICEF' James Elder joined ABC News Live to discuss the ongoing famine and hunger crisis in Gaza.
October 15
VIDEO: UNICEF spokesperson on dire humanitarian crisis in Gaza
October 15

Mexican president acknowledges army killings of 3 civilians in a violent border city

Mexico’s new president acknowledged Tuesday that three civilians including a child died in two shootouts involving the military last week in a violent border city
October 15
FILE - Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a media briefing from the National Palace in Mexico City, Oct. 2, 2024, the morning after her inauguration. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano, File)
October 15

$55 million plan to give Notre Dame area a green facelift is part of Paris-wide eco plan

Notre Dame is gearing up to reopen its doors in December as Paris is on the verge of a remarkable eco-revival
October 15
FILE - Scaffolding is being removed around the spire of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral, showing the rooster and the cross, in Paris, Feb. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
October 15

Belarus adds 1 year to imprisoned opposition activist's sentence

A court in Belarus has sentenced an imprisoned opponent of hardline President Alexander Lukashenko to an additional year behind bars for disobeying prison officials
October 15
October 15

Hezbollah vows to expand attacks in Israel after deadly strike in Lebanon's Christian heartland

Hezbollah's acting leader says the militant group will aim rockets into more areas of Israel
October 15
A Lebanese army soldiers walks on the rubble of a destroyed building at the site of Monday's Israeli airstrike in Aito village, north Lebanon, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
October 15

A grand museum displaying Egypt's ancient treasures is opening for a trial run

The long-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum will partially open its main galleries Wednesday, showcasing 12 halls that exhibit aspects of ancient Egypt
October 15
FILE - Visitors walk past the cups used in the mosaic of ancient Egyptian King Tutankhamun's mask at the yard of the Grand Egyptian Museum near the Great Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, Saturday, Dec. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Hamada Elrasam, File)
October 15

Meta’s Oversight Board says viral video left on Facebook threatened LGBTQ+ people in Nigeria

Meta’s oversight board has expressed serious concern over the company’s failure to take down a viral graphic video showing two men bleeding after they were apparently beaten up for being allegedly gay
October 15
FILE - The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
October 15

Head of Myanmar's military government urges ethnic rebels to join peace talks

The head of Myanmar’s military government has invited ethnic rebels to hold peace talks to end armed conflict across the country
October 15
In this photo released by Myanmar Military True News Information Team, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the Myanmar military leader, delivers video speech to mark the 9th anniversary of signing Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement- NCA with 8 Ethnic Armed Organizations, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. (The Myanmar Military True News Information Team via AP)
October 15

Russia releases man whose daughter's drawing opposed Ukraine fighting

A group that monitors political detentions in Russia says that a man convicted of discrediting the military after his daughter made a drawing criticizing Russia’s military actions in Ukraine has been released from prison after serving 22 months
October 15
FILE Alexei Moskalyov sits in a courtroom in Yefremov, Tula region, some 300 kilometers (186 miles) south of Moscow, Russia, March 27, 2023. Moskalyov convicted of discrediting the military after his daughter made a drawing criticizing Russia's military actions in Ukraine was released from prison after serving 22 months, a group that monitors political detentions said Tuesday. (AP Photo, File)
October 15

Tubeworms, snails discovered beneath Pacific Ocean seafloor: Study

Researchers used a remotely operated vehicle to drill into the floor of a volcanically active ridge.
October 15
Researchers used a remotely operated vehicle to drill into the floor of a volcanically active ridge.
October 15

Qatar's ruler says his nation will vote on abandoning legislative elections after just one poll

Qatar’s ruling emir says his small, energy-rich nation will hold a referendum on ending a short-lived experiment in electing members of the country’s advisory Shura Council
October 15
FILE - Qatar's ruling emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
October 15

UN asks Asia-Pacific countries to invest more in preventing damage from disasters

A U.N. official says disasters, including those wrought by fiercer storms, are threatening more people and could derail economic progress in the Asia Pacific region if governments would not invest more in disaster-prevention and mitigation
October 15
U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Kamal Kishore gestures as he speaks at the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
October 15

A Saudi cartoonist has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, activists say

A Saudi cartoonist who once drew for a Qatari newspaper as a yearslong diplomatic crisis engulfed Doha has been sentenced to 23 years in prison
October 15
This is a locator map for Saudi Arabia with its capital, Riyadh. (AP Photo)
October 15

Several thousand attend a funeral service in southern Bosnia for 19 killed in devastating floods

Several thousand mourners in southern Bosnia have converged around 19 caskets covered in traditional Islamic green cloth, part of a funeral service held for those killed during the destructive floods and landslides that hit the country in early October
October 15
A mourner weeps before the funeral of 19 victims of recent floods in Jablanica, Bosnia, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Armin Durgut)
October 15

Kenya's High Court rejects move to stop deputy president's impeachment debate

Kenya’s High Court has rejected an application by the deputy president’s lawyers to stop the senate from debating an impeachment motion against him after parliament voted to remove him from office last week
October 15
FILE - Kenya's Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua gestures to the crowd at the swearing-in ceremony for Kenya's new president William Ruto, at Kasarani stadium in Nairobi, Kenya Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)
October 15

Suspect in mass shootings in South Africa that left 18 dead abandons his bail application

A man charged with killing 18 people in mass shootings in two separate homes on the same night in South Africa has abandoned his bail application and remains in custody
October 15
October 15

A gang leader in Haiti is injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police

Police in Haiti said that a leader of one of that country's powerful gangs has been injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory since a U.N.-backed mission began earlier this year
October 15
Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille, left, and Kenya's President William Ruto, right, shake hands after a joint at State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
October 15

Hereditary nobles have sat in Britain's Parliament for centuries. Their time may be up

British lawmakers are voting on a bill to strip hereditary aristocrats of the right to sit and vote in the House of Lords after more than 700 years
October 15
FILE - Member of the House of Lords take their seats in the Lords Chamber, ahead of the State Opening of Parliament, in the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, July 17, 2024. (Henry Nicholls/POOL via AP, File)
October 15

International headlines from ABC News

Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
October 15
Catch up on the developing stories from around the globe making headlines.
October 15

4 people die in a migrant boat accident off a Greek island

Greek authorities say four people, including two children, have died off the island of Kos in an accident involving a migrant smuggling boat crossing from nearby Turkey
October 15
Survivors sit on a vessel after a boat carrying migrants ran into trouble off the coast of the eastern Aegean Sea island of Samos, Greece, on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Svarnias)
October 15

World conkers tournament investigates claims of cheating with steel chestnut

The World Conker Championships says it's investigating allegations of cheating after this year’s men’s winner was found to have a steel chestnut in his pocket
October 15
Competitors take part in the annual World Conker Championships at the Shuckburgh Arms in Southwick, Peterborough, England, Sunday Oct. 13, 2024. (Jacob King/PA via AP)
October 15

Canada-India dispute over assassination allegations could impact Modi's global ambitions

A diplomatic row that has strained bilateral relations between India and Canada for over a year has boiled over as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada and allegations of other crimes there
October 15
FILE - Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, walks past India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi as they take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Raj Ghat, Mahatma Gandhi's cremation site, during the G20 Summit in New Delhi, Sept. 10, 2023. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
October 15

Southern Africa is enduring its worst hunger crisis in decades due to El Ni?o, the UN says

The United Nations' food agency says months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades
October 15
File — A woman scoops water from a hole she has dug in a dried up riverbed in Lusitu, Zambia, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe/File)
October 15

Albania says only Italy is allowed to operate migrant asylum centers in the country

Albania’s prime minister says his government turned down many requests from other European Union countries to take in thousands of asylum-seekers but made an exception for Italy
October 15
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, and Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto speak, at the start of the second intergovernmental EU-Albania conference in Luxembourg city in Luxembourg, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, during the Hungarian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. (Boglarka Bodnar/MTI via AP)
October 15

South Korea fires warning shots after North Korea blows up border roads

South Korea's military said Tuesday it detected explosions on two cross-border roads connecting the country to North Korea.
October 15
South Korea's military said Tuesday it detected explosions on two cross-border roads connecting the country to North Korea.
October 15

After 67 days adrift, a Russian man was rescued but his brother and nephew are dead

A Russian man has been rescued in the Sea of Okhotsk after surviving for two months in an inflatable boat that lost its engine, but his brother and nephew have died
October 15
In this photo taken from video released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024, Russian emergency workers pull Mikhail Pichugin ashore after he was rescued by a fishing vessel following 67 days adrift in the Sea of Okhotsk near the village of Ust-Khairuzovo in Kamchatka region of Russian far east. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)
October 15

Taliban-run media stops showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces

A Taliban official says official media have stopped showing images of living beings in some Afghan provinces to comply with morality laws
October 15
FILE - Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks at his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)
October 15

Slovak government and South Korea's Hyundai Mobis sign a deal to build an electric car parts plant

The Slovak government and Hyundai Mobis have signed a memorandum of understanding on the South Korean company’s plan to build a plant for engines and other parts for electric cars in Slovakia
October 15
October 15

France's budget battle: Why the government's plan to plug the deficit is sparking an outcry

France’s new government has unveiled its 2025 belt-tightening budget bill, with plans for major tax hikes and spending cuts aimed at tackling the country’s giant deficit
October 15
France's Prime Minister Michel Barnier delivers a speech at the National Assembly, in Paris, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
October 15

South Korea fires warning shots after North Korea blows up border roads

The explosions follow several months of rising cross-border tensions.
October 15
A TV screen reports North Korea has blown up parts of northern side of inter-Korean roads during a news program at Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024.
October 15

Violence-hit Pakistan locks down its capital for an Asian security meeting

Pakistani authorities have locked down the capital in a major security move as senior officials from several nations arrive for an Asian security group meeting
October 15
In this photo released by the Press Information Department, visiting China's Premier Li Qiang, left, and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attend a welcome ceremony, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (Press Information Department via AP)
October 15

Middle East latest: Hezbollah's acting leader says the group is focused on hurting Israel

Hezbollah’s acting leader says the Lebanese militant group is focused on “hurting the enemy” by targeting Haifa and other parts of Israel, including Tel Aviv
October 15
Palestinians look at the damage after an Israeli strike hit a tent area in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
October 15

How did a killing at a Sikh temple lead to Canada and India expelling each other's diplomats?

Relations between India and Canada are at a low point as the countries expelled each other’s top diplomats over an ongoing dispute about the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada
October 15
FILE -People sit on the lawn of the the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara, below a picture of Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Surrey, B.C. on Friday, May 3, 2024. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
October 15

China unveils its plans to turn its feats in space exploration into scientific advances

China has made great strides in exploring space in recent years, rocketing astronauts to its own space station and bringing back rocks from the moon
October 15
A woman holds a national flag near a floral display featuring a theme of China Space Mission for the upcoming National Day celebration, in Beijing, on Sept. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
October 15

A Hong Kong zoo seeks answers after 9 monkeys die in 2 days

Hong Kong’s oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery after nine animals died in two days, including three members of a critically endangered species
October 15
A buff-cheeked gibbon swings in its cage at Hong Kong's Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Hong Kong, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (AP Photo)
October 15

King Charles III set to visit Australia and Samoa on a trip spanning a dozen time zones

King Charles III will travel halfway around the world to Samoa this month to take his seat as the head of the Commonwealth and highlight the existential threat climate change poses for Pacific island nations
October 15
FILE - Britain's Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall sign the guest book as Australian High Commissioner George Brandis looks on, during a visit Australia House to celebrate the centenary of the building completion in 1918 in London, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, Pool, File)
October 15

A pastry brought to Mexico by British miners is still popular after 200 years

Back in the 19th century, migrant miners from Cornwall, in the southwest of England, brought their pastries to the Mexican mining town of Real del Monte
October 15
A basket of Mexican pastes sit on a patron's table before they are eated for lunch at the 16th International Paste Festival in Mineral del Monte, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/India Grant)
October 14

Campaigning begins for Japan's parliamentary election

Official campaigning has begun for Japan's Oct. 27 parliamentary election
October 14
Yoshihiko Noda, leader of Japan's opposition Constitutional Democratic Party delivers a speech in Hachioji, outskirts of Tokyo as official campaigning for a parliamentary election later this month officially kicked off Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024. (Kyodo News via AP)
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