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Poland's health authorities say the death toll from Legionnaires' disease has risen to 16 with another 140 people infected in the southeast region close to the border with Ukraine WARSAW, Poland -- The death toll from Legionnaires’ disease in Poland has risen to 16 with another 140 people infected in the southeast ern region close to the border with Ukraine, Health authorities said Wednesday. The region of Rzeszow, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) from the border, is a key transit hub for international military support for Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion last year. Some 10,000 U.S. troops are stationed in the area. Fatalities from the disease were among elderly people who also suffered from other health issues like cancer, authorities said. Laboratory tests have confirmed the presence of Legionnaires' disease germs in the city’s water pipeline system. Authorities are still looking for the source of the infections, the numbers of which were unprecedented in...

Six miles from the Russian border, we board a bus packed with people with stories of life under Russian occupation. KRASNOPILLYA -- Six miles from the Russian border , we board a bus packed with people from the occupied areas. The young and old are piled in together -- Pet s fill the floor -- all with stories of life under Russian occupation . This humanitarian corridor -- reopened weeks ago -- is the only border crossing , taking about 150 people each day from Russia to Ukraine. A low-key mission is underway to bring Ukrainians back from Russian held territories. Ale Pavone/ABC News MORE: FDA approves new COVID booster amid rising cases, hospitalizations Vitaliy Kaporukhin, a volunteer of Ukrainian NGO Pluriton, said more than 9,000 people have crossed there since March. Most of them Travel ed for three or four days to reach this point, including 1.5 miles by foot. Young couple Natalia and Mykyta traveled from Russian-occupied Donetsk for three days with their 6-month-old baby. Nata...

Haiti’s government says it has met with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a threat by that country’s president to close all borders in response to a row over the construction of a supposed canal SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Haiti’s government announced that it met Wednesday with Dominican officials in the Dominican Republic to talk about a recent threat by that country’s president to close all border s in response to a row over the construction of a supposed canal . The brief statement by Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not provide much detail, except to say that both sides were trying to find a “fair and definitive” solution to squabbles over the use of the Massacre River that runs along the border both countries share on the island of Hispaniola. The Dominican Republic's Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the meeting and said that talks would continue on Thursday. Simmering tensions between Haiti and the Dominican Republic deepened on Monday when...

Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller traveled to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, on Friday, where he met with Mexican officials and railway industry leaders. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Sunday that the agency's top official has met with authorities in Mexico to work on ways to better secure their shared border. Acting CBP Commissioner Troy Miller Travel ed to Ciudad Juarez, a Mexican city on the Rio Grande, just south of El Paso, Texas, where he met with senior officials from the Mexican government and the railway industry on Friday. During those discussions, Miller "urged coordination of efforts to diminish surging irregular migration, and continuation of lawful trade and travel while reiterating the need for coordinated engagement -- to include mirrored patrols with local Mexican law enforcement agencies," CBP said in a press release. Miller also "noted his appreciation for the continuing attention to dangerous migrant Travel aboard railcars" and ...

Bahrain’s military says a third soldier has died of his wounds after an attack by Yemeni rebels on a Bahraini contingent patrolling Saudi Arabia’s southern border DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Bahrain's military said a third soldier died of his wounds on Wednesday after an attack by Yemeni rebels on a Bahraini contingent patrolling Saudi Arabia's southern border. The attack on Monday, which also wounded a number of soldier s, threatened recent progress in winding down Saudi Arabia's eight-year war against the Iran-aligned rebels , known as Houthis. The rebels have not commented on the attack . Bahrain says the rebels launched an unprovoked drone attack on the soldier s. Bahrain and its close ally Saudi Arabia condemned the attack , and the Saudi-led Military coalition said it had “the right to respond at the appropriate time and place.” The Pentagon condemned the attack in a statement Wednesday. “Such unacceptable attacks threaten the longest period of calm since th...

Mexico’s president says that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blames U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx MEXICO CITY -- Mexico’s president said Monday that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blamed U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the number of migrant s reaching Mexico's northern border with the United States was partly due to about 6,000 migrant s per day crossing into Mexico from Guatemala over the past week. He said many of those migrants are traveling on a route through Central America that includes the jungle-clad Darien Gap region between Panama and Colombia. López Obrador seemed to join Colombian President Gustavo Petro in blaming the situation on U.S. sanctions on countries like Venezuela and Cuba, whose citizens make up a large part of the migrant flow. Experts say economic mis...

Indiscriminate killing. Kidnappings. Homes raided and a music festival under attack. More than 900 Israelis have been killed in the devastating assault on Israel. TEL AVIV, Israel -- Indiscriminate killing. Kidnappings. Homes raided and a music festival under attack. More than 900 Israelis have been killed as a result of the most devastating assault on Israel since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Hamas militants broke through the fences surrounding Gaza on Saturday morning , attacking Israeli soil by land, sea and air, using mechanized hang gliders and motorbikes to storm communities caught completely unaware. "They came through the streets on pickup trucks with turrets on the back, spraying bullets, everything around them at the civilians walking up and down the street," Maj. Doron Spielman, a spokesperson for the IDF in the city of Sderot, which was overwhelmed by Hamas and subsequently liberated, told ABC News' Ian Pannell. "Women with little babies. People dying on t...

Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7 BEIRUT -- Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the b order as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7. Hezbollah’s military media arm released a video showing snipers shooting at and destroying surveillance cameras placed on five points along the Lebanon-Israel border including one outside the Israeli town of Metula. The militant group appears to want to prevent the Israeli army from monitoring movements on the Lebanese side of the border after days of fire exchange that left at least seven people dead, including four Hezbollah fighters, on the Lebanese side. Since the Oct. 7, attack by the Palestinian militant Hamas group on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 ...

Thousands of people are seeking refuge at the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border as Israeli airstrikes continue to pummel the Palestinian territory. Thousands of people are seeking refuge at the Rafah crossing at the border of Egypt as Israeli retaliatory airstrikes continue to pummel Gaza, while tons of humanitarian aid await entry on the other side. Egypt is preparing for the possible opening of the Rafah border crossing after it was hit at least four times by Israeli airstrikes. A security source said the latest Israeli shelling hit the Rafah crossing area on Monday. The Rafah crossing was shut on Oct. 10 after it was hit by Israeli warplanes on the Palestinian side three times on Oct. 9 and 10. Israeli forces are retaliating following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack from Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian territory of Gaza. The Rafah crossing has long been a point of contention for Israel, Gaza, and Egypt. It currently remains closed amid the onslaught of Isra...

The border remains closed, stranding the more than 200 trucks loaded down with aid in Egypt. CAIRO -- The wait continues at the Rafah border crossing. After all sides -- President Joe Biden, the Egyptian government, Egyptian state media, multiple sources -- pointed toward a Friday border opening, it now seems all but assured that won't happen. The border remains closed, stranding the more than 200 trucks loaded down with aid in Egypt. More than 4,000 tons of food, water, medicine and other aid items are now piled up and ready to enter Gaza, according to a senior Egyptian aid official at the border, which is between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres made a short stop at the border crossing Friday, the most senior international official to do so since the crisis began. Standing at a podium in front of the shuttered crossing, he implored that it be opened, and the trucks sent through. "So, these trucks are not just trucks. They are a li...

About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have set out on foot to reach the U.S., walking north from Mexico's southern border TAPACHULA, Mexico -- About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti set out on foot from Mexico's southern border Monday, walking north toward the U.S. The migrants complained that processing for refugee or exit visas takes too long at Mexico’s main migrant processing center in the city of Tapachula, near the Guatemalan border. Under Mexico's overwhelmed migration system, people seeking such visas often wait for weeks or months, without being able to work. The migrants formed a long line Monday along the highway, escorted at times by police. The police are usually there to prevent them from blocking the entire highway, and sometimes keep them from hitching rides. Monday's march was among the largest since June 2022. Migrant caravans in 2018 and 2019 drew far greater attention. But with as many a...

An Israeli woman received an unthinkably tragic update on the fate of her daughter, who has autism, and her elderly mother 12 days after they were taken by Hamas. An Israeli woman received an unthinkably tragic update on the fate of her daughter, who has autism , and her elderly mother 12 days after they were taken by Hamas: their bodies were found at the Gaza border , authorities told the family . Galit Dan's daughter Noya, 12, and her mother Carmela, 80, were taken from their homes during the Hamas attacks on their Kibbutz, Nir Oz, on Oct. 7. Dan said three other members of their family are still missing: her niece Sarah, 16, nephew Erez, 12, and brother-in-law Ofer, 52. Dan's sister, Hadas Kalderon, the mother of Sarah and Erez, told ABC News, "I have no time to grieve, I need to save my children's lives." "Two days ago, we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday without her," Kalderon said. "We had a lot of hope. Yesterday, we received a mess...