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A cute sloth was saved from electrocution and certain death after climbing up an electrical pole in Colombia's Antioquia province on Monday afternoon. (Reuters)

A German army convoy of 130 soldiers and 60 vehicles reached Lithuania on Thursday, bringing almost half of the planned reinforcements for the country's German-led NATO battlegroup amid fears of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Reuters)

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Ukraine received another consignment of weapons from Britain Wednesday, following a commitment made in January to supply Ukraine with light anti-armor defensive weapon systems and personnel to provide training. (Reuters)

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, a U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group has been placed under NATO command, as allies carry out military drills in the Adriatic Sea off the Italian coast. (Reuters)

Two polar bear twin cubs born at Rostock Zoo in northern Germany last November are making great progress, according to the wildlife park, which released a new video filmed in January. (Reuters)

Tagged with the number nine on its right-wing, Urku, a rescued Andean condor, was released back into the mountain ranges of Peru, Jan. 15, 2022. (Reuters)

An oil spill covered kilometers of shoreline Sunday in Peru, turning golden sand black, and some people are blaming the recent explosion near Tonga for the spill. (Reuters)

A group of 12 herons were released into the wild, Jan. 13, 2022, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, after wildfires consumed their habitat last year. (Reuters)

Anti-vaccine protesters tried to storm the Bulgarian parliament on Wednesday and briefly scuffled with police officers during a rally against coronavirus restrictions in downtown Sofia, Bulgaria's capital. (Reuters)