The Palestinian government has not received the financial support it had expected from international and regional partners, President Mahmoud Abbas said at an Arab League summit on
May 16, 2024
A U.S. Navy strike group’s flagship aircraft carrier has left its Japanese home port, wrapping up nearly nine years of deployment in the Indo-Pacific, where it served a key role in the U.S. effort to bolster defense ties with Japan and other partners in the region
May 16, 2024
Human Rights Watch is urging the Thai government to stop forcing political dissidents who fled to Thailand for safety to return to homelands where they may face torture, persecution or death
May 16, 2024
Military officials in Ukraine say their units locked in street battles with the Kremlin’s forces in a northeastern Ukrainian town have halted the Russian advance
May 16, 2024
Russian forces are preparing to try to take a village called Lyptsi located about 30 km (19 miles) north of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, according to a Russian-installed
May 16, 2024
Violence is raging across New Caledonia for the third consecutive day
May 16, 2024
The White House on Thursday said it would protect domestic solar factories from Chinese competition by scrapping a tariff exemption for imported double-sided panels and
May 16, 2024
The legal defense team for nine Egyptian men due to go on trial in southern Greece next week accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks say they will argue Greece has no jurisdiction in the case
May 16, 2024
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament warned that Ukraine was dragging the United States and Europe into a major global war and on Thursday urged Western leaders to act
May 16, 2024
Israel's Arrow defense systems helped thwart Iran's massive missile and drone attack last month, and a number of countries are now interested in purchasing the
May 16, 2024
Israel’s defense minister says the military will send more troops into Rafah, a city along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, as fighting also rages in northern Gaza, where Hamas has regrouped
May 16, 2024
The Pentagon says that humanitarian aid will soon begin flowing onto the Gaza shore through the new pier that was anchored to the beach overnight and will reach those in need almost immediately
May 16, 2024
South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to order a cease-fire in Gaza during hearings over emergency measures to halt Israel’s military operation in the enclave’s southern city of Rafah
May 16, 2024
The Kremlin said a planned summit that Switzerland hopes will pave the way for a peace process in Ukraine will be futile without the participation of Russia.
May 16, 2024
Gordon Black, a U.S. soldier being held in the Russian city of Vladivostok, has pleaded guilty to theft charges and is cooperating with investigators, Russia's RIA state news
May 16, 2024
While many of the migrants who reach Europe are escaping war, conflict and poverty, an increasing number are fleeing possible prison terms and death sentences because they are gay
May 16, 2024
At an intersection packed in four directions, rally-goers scream and light up cellphones in the evening as Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado climbs onto a flatbed truck like a presidential candidate
May 16, 2024
South Korea has held talks about joining part of the AUKUS defence deal between the U.S., Britain and Australia, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik said on Wednesday,
May 16, 2024
Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said on Wednesday that U.S.
May 16, 2024
Mexico told judges at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday that an armed raid on its embassy in Quito by Ecuador breached international law.
May 16, 2024
Ecuador accused Mexico before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) of blatant interference in Ecuadorian internal affairs on Wednesday after Mexico
May 16, 2024
Britain has sent its first asylum seeker to Rwanda under a voluntary scheme, The Sun Newspaper reported on Tuesday, saying the unnamed migrant was flown out of the
May 16, 2024
Russia attacked the Kharkiv region in northeastern Ukraine with guided bombs on Wednesday, killing at least two people and wounding two others, the regional governor said.
May 16, 2024
The French foreign minister said on Wednesday diplomats were still working to secure a truce in the war between Israel and Hamas and the release of hostages held in Gaza
May 16, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Wednesday that Turkey would join in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
May 16, 2024
Israel reopened the sole crossing on the northern edge of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, allowing aid trucks to pass through the Erez checkpoint following U.S. demands
May 16, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to China underlines an increasingly close partnership between the two allies
May 16, 2024
Under Chief Executive Noel Quinn, HSBC navigated a global pandemic and a push by rebel investors to
May 15, 2024
McDonald's missed quarterly profit estimates for the first time in two years as budget-conscious consumers looked past its offers and the Middle East conflict weighed on
May 15, 2024
Brazil's Senate on Tuesday approved a bill maintaining tax incentives for the meetings and cultural events sector until the end of 2026, which now needs President
May 15, 2024
Japan's factory activity shrank at a slower pace in April as declines in output and new orders eased, a private-sector survey showed on Wednesday.
May 15, 2024
The United Nations on Tuesday warned that an Israeli assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip was "on the immediate horizon" and that "incremental" progress by
May 15, 2024
Rival Palestinian groups Hamas and Fatah have expressed the will to seek reconciliation through dialogue at unity talks in Beijing,
May 15, 2024
Top U.S. security officials say America’s foreign adversaries will again seek to influence the upcoming U.S. elections
May 15, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has removed Cuba from the State Department's short list of countries deemed as not cooperating as much as they could in counterterrorism efforts
May 15, 2024
The U.S. military has started moving a pier towards the Gaza coast, a U.S. official said on Wednesday, one of the last steps before the launch of a maritime port promised by
May 15, 2024
Greek police clashed with protesters after a pro-Palestinian march to the Israeli embassy in Athens on Wednesday, Reuters witnesses and police officials said.
May 15, 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday it had reached a staff-level agreement with Mali for about $120 million in emergency financing, as the West African
May 15, 2024
International companies cannot responsibly operate in Xinjiang and should leave the western Chinese region due to forced labor concerns, a U.S.
May 15, 2024
Dawud Assad still has nightmares of the day Jewish militias attacked his village of Deir Yassin outside Jerusalem 76 years ago, killing more than 100 people
May 15, 2024
The Biden administration is working to get a group of U.S. doctors out of Gaza after Israel closed the Rafah border crossing, the White House said on Wednesday.
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
There is a risk that the H5N1 bird flu virus, present in many wild birds, may infect cows in countries beyond the United States as they migrate, a World Health Organization official
May 15, 2024
Mexico has released Abraham Oseguera, the brother of Mexican drug lord Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG)
May 15, 2024
North American graphite miners are lobbying the US government to impose a 25% tariff on three graphite products sourced from China in order to counter Beijing's
May 15, 2024
Argentina's lower house of Congress gave President Javier Milei a boost on Tuesday by approving his sweeping reform bill ahead of a final
May 15, 2024
France's foreign minister called on Israel to make public its position on a proposal that he shared with it aimed at defusing tensions between Israel and Lebanon's
May 15, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine needed "a significant acceleration" in deliveries of weaponry from its partners to enable its troops to face advancing Russian
May 15, 2024
Negotiations on a future global treaty to tackle soaring plastic pollution ran overtime into Tuesday morning amid tense debates over whether the world should
May 15, 2024
Proxy advisor Glass Lewis has recommended shareholders vote against the reelection of three directors to Boeing's board, including outgoing CEO Dave Calhoun, citing
May 15, 2024
The yen fell against the dollar on Tuesday, giving back a chunk of its sharp gains in the prior session sparked by suspected intervention by Japanese
May 15, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to go ahead with a long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 15, 2024
Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they targeted the MSC Orion container ship in a drone attack in the Indian Ocean as part of their ongoing
May 15, 2024
A summit that Switzerland hopes will pave the way for a peace process in Ukraine has drawn delegations from more than 50 countries, Swiss President Viola Amherd said on Wednesday.
May 15, 2024
The vast flooding that has devastated Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state has yet to subside
May 15, 2024
The Biden administration is preparing more changes to the nation’s asylum system meant to speed up processing and potential removal of migrants who continue to arrive at the southern border
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year
May 15, 2024
Canada's economy likely weakened in the first quarter, data from Statistics Canada showed on Tuesday, bolstering expectations that the Canadian
May 15, 2024
Born some 20 years ago as their countries joined the European Union, a cohort of young adults has grown up with rights and freedoms as citizens of the bloc that their parents never knew.
May 15, 2024
The euro zone economy rebounded in the first quarter from a mild recession as Germany returned to growth and expansion accelerated elsewhere, while inflation
May 15, 2024
Germany's IG Metall union on Tuesday said it had preliminary talks with Carlyle on the investment firm taking a majority stake in Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and agreed
May 15, 2024
China Evergrande Group flagged a delay in publishing its annual results as its liquidators are taking time to "ascertain the current state of affairs" of the embattled property developer.
May 15, 2024
A smiling and healthy-looking King Charles returned to public duties on Tuesday for the first time since he was diagnosed with cancer in February, telling patients at a treatment
May 15, 2024
Colombia's inflation in April is expected to hit 0.59%, extending its deceleration and taking 12-month consumer price growth to its lowest level in 27 months,
May 15, 2024
French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday.
May 15, 2024
European shares closed lower on Tuesday weighed by a bleak raft of earnings reports from the region's top car makers, while investors also assessed a
May 15, 2024
Ireland's government said on Tuesday it planned to enact legislation by the end of May allowing it to resume sending asylum seekers back to the United Kingdom.
May 15, 2024
The world's largest asset manager BlackRock said on Tuesday it plans to launch a new investment platform in Saudi Arabia, backed by up to $5 billion from Saudi
May 15, 2024
Palestinians commemorated the 1948 "Nakba" or catastrophe, on Wednesday, marking the time when hundreds of thousands were dispossessed
May 15, 2024
The Biden administration says the White House is sending an unofficial delegation to Taiwan this weekend for the inauguration of the island’s democratically elected president
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
Hundreds of police are scouring northern France for Mohamed Amra, a fugitive known as "The Fly" who was freed by gunmen in a brazen attack against a prison van that killed two guards
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
Ni'ma Ali Imad is desperate to get her wounded son Mohammed out of Gaza for the medical treatment that doctors say they cannot provide in the
May 15, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed targeting a U.S. Navy destroyer and a commercial ship in the Red Sea
May 15, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reaffirmed their “no-limits” partnership that has deepened as both countries face rising tensions with the West
May 15, 2024
The European Union urges Israel to end its operation in Rafah immediately as the operation disrupts the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza and is leading to more internal
May 15, 2024
Prosecutors from the International Criminal Court have interviewed staff from Gaza's two biggest hospitals, two sources told Reuters, the first
May 15, 2024
The city of Amsterdam on Tuesday said it would severely restrict attendance to the annual national World War II remembrance on May 4, in a bid to keep the ceremony safe and to
May 15, 2024
A Moldovan court on Tuesday opened the trial of the Gagauzia region's Kremlin-allied governor who is accused of channelling funds from Russia to a pro-Moscow
May 15, 2024
Bottler Coca-Cola HBC beat market forecast for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, and reiterated its operating profit would rise this year, supported by strong demand for its coffee, energy
May 15, 2024
Norway's central bank will keep its key policy interest rate unchanged this week, according to all 30 economists in a Reuters poll, but it remains on track to cut the cost of
May 15, 2024
A Turkish national on Tuesday stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said.
May 15, 2024
A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in a popular seafront park in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday killed at least five
May 15, 2024
Government borrowing costs across developed economies saw their biggest jumps in months in April, evidence that bond markets are not yet out of the woods when it comes to
May 15, 2024
Born two months premature as war raged in Gaza, Palestinian baby Yehia Hamuda was evacuated to southern Gaza after Israeli
May 15, 2024
Russian guided bombs targeting a railway killed at least one person and damaged civilian infrastructure on Tuesday in the northeastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, officials said.
May 15, 2024
When Jacky Yu, 48, opened his Japanese gift shop in Hong Kong more than a decade ago, the tourist and shopping district of Mong Kok was
May 15, 2024
Ukraine's trust in its NATO allies has "taken a dent" because of delays and failures in the delivery of arms for the war against Russia’s invasion, NATO boss
May 15, 2024
Estonia accused Russia of violating international airspace regulations by interfering with GPS signals and the Baltic nation's foreign
May 15, 2024
A court on Tuesday deferred until next week a ruling on whether Austria's most infamous living criminal, 89-year-old incestuous rapist Josef
May 15, 2024
Tajikistan has secured $550 million in financing from the Islamic Development Bank and institutions in several Arab countries for its Rogun hydroelectric power plant megaproject,
May 15, 2024
With Panama's business-friendly reputation
May 15, 2024
The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) called on Tuesday for countries to back an independent investigation into alleged killings and detentions
May 15, 2024
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
May 15, 2024
The World Health Organization has authorized a second dengue vaccine, a move that could provide protection for millions worldwide against the mosquito-borne disease that has already sparked numerous outbreaks across the Americas this year
May 15, 2024
Paris garbage collectors have lifted the strike notice that threatened to leave the French capital facing piles of rubbish during the Olympic Games
May 15, 2024
Slovakia’s government approved a plan to build another nuclear reactor in a country that relies heavily on nuclear electricity generation
May 15, 2024
Switzerland’s top criminal court has convicted a former interior minister of Gambia for crimes against humanity for his role in murder, torture and other repression by the west African country’s security forces against opponents of its longtime dictator
May 15, 2024
FIFA has moved toward ending decades of soccer tradition by reviewing the policy that currently block domestic league games being played in other countries
May 15, 2024
Indonesia may offer dual citizenship to people of Indonesian descent to entice more skilled workers into the country, a senior cabinet minister said on Tuesday.
May 15, 2024
The French economy gained momentum in the first quarter, growing slightly faster than expected thanks to a pick-up in consumer spending and business investment, official data published on
May 15, 2024
BHP Group can't cherry pick Anglo American assets without paying a hefty premium, Anglo investors told Reuters, concerned that they
May 15, 2024
HSBC Chief Executive Noel Quinn said on Tuesday that he plans to step down, marking the surprise departure of a hard-nosed leader who has
May 15, 2024
The number of people out of work in Germany rose more than expected in April, Federal Labour Office figures showed on Tuesday.
May 15, 2024
Growth slowed in China's manufacturing and services sectors in April, official surveys showed on Tuesday, suggesting a loss of momentum for the world's
May 15, 2024
Russia said on Tuesday that the United States was being hypocritical by opposing the International Criminal Court's (ICC) investigation of Israel but supporting the court's warrant
May 15, 2024
The euro zone economy grew by more than expected in the first quarter of 2024, buoyed by a return to growth for Germany and strong expansion in Spain, preliminary data from the
May 15, 2024
Austria's Beer Party will run in this year's parliamentary election even though it's still well short of its own funding target, its leader said on Tuesday, buoyed by growing
May 15, 2024
Cases of negative equity in Hong Kong's residential mortgage loans rose 27% in the first quarter from the previous one to the highest in 20 years, the city's de facto central
May 15, 2024
The European Central Bank should start cutting interest rates in June if inflation continues its gradual decline as expected, European Central Bank policymaker Pablo Hernandez de
May 15, 2024
More than 34,535 Palestinians have been killed and 77,704 wounded in the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 last year, the Gaza health ministry said on Tuesday
May 15, 2024
An Italian court sentenced former foreign minister Gianfranco Fini to two years and eight months in jail after he was convicted for his role in the sale of a Monte Carlo apartment by
May 15, 2024
Fashion company Hermes vowed to 'vigorously defend itself' in a lawsuit filed against it in California claiming it unlawfully allows only customers with "sufficient purchase history"
May 15, 2024
Meta on Tuesday defended its risk mitigating process after the European Commission launched an investigation into its Facebook and Instagram for failing to tackle deceptive
May 15, 2024
U.S. defense company Leidos Holdings lifted its annual profit and revenue forecasts on Tuesday, banking on strong weapons demand and increased defense spending amid growing geopolitical
May 15, 2024
China will step up support for the economy with prudent monetary and proactive fiscal policies, including interest rates and bank reserve requirement
May 15, 2024
Half of the Chinese cities targeted by the government for air quality improvements have missed their targets as the country prioritised strengthening the economy
May 15, 2024
Please disregard AS--New Caledonia-Unrest, published at 8:50 EST on May 16, 2024, and datelined in PARIS
May 15, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed all his foreign trips as Ukraine's battlefield situation continued to deteriorate on Wednesday
May 15, 2024
Ukraine plans record high electricity imports on Wednesday after significant energy infrastructure damage from recent Russian strikes on its energy system, the
May 15, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it's impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated
May 15, 2024
Palestinians are marking 76 years of dispossession, commemorating their mass expulsion from what is today Israel as a potentially even larger catastrophe unfolds in Gaza
May 15, 2024
Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from some parts of the country’s northeast and were battling Russian troops in other areas
May 15, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has postponed all upcoming foreign visits including a trip to Spain and Portugal this week, his press secretary said on Wednesday, amid Russia's
May 15, 2024
India said on Wednesday it was working to repatriate the body of a former Indian Army officer serving as a U.N. staffer, who was killed in Gaza when his vehicle was hit by what
May 15, 2024
The political power of Muslims is declining in the world's largest democracy
May 15, 2024
Japan's factory output grew more than expected in March, government data showed on Tuesday, thanks largely to automakers resuming production after safety scandals.
May 15, 2024
China's non-manufacturing activity expanded at a slower pace in April, an official survey showed on Tuesday, likely due to disruption caused to construction and services businesses
May 15, 2024
KFC Malaysia has temporarily closed outlets in the country, citing challenging economic conditions, after local media reported that the closings were because of boycotts over
May 15, 2024
U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has bought a stake in Sumitomo Corp worth several tens of billions of yen, a person familiar with the situation said on
May 15, 2024
China's manufacturing activity expanded at the fastest pace in 14 months in April, driven by a solid uptick in new export orders, a private survey showed on Tuesday, an encouraging
May 15, 2024
About 30 Ukrainian men have died trying to illegally cross Ukraine's borders and avoid fighting in the war against Russia which started in 2022, the spokesman
May 15, 2024
Relatively lower inflation in Asia means the region's central banks can focus more on domestic conditions and less on what the U.S.
May 15, 2024
Samsung Electronics forecast demand for artificial intelligence would hold strong and tighten supply of some high-end chips, joining rivals in
May 15, 2024
Japanese service prices are rising and bumper pay hikes offered by firms will boost household income later this year, the Bank of Japan said, underscoring its
May 15, 2024
Nikola Jokic was presented with his third NBA MVP award before the game, then scored 40 points and dished out 13 assists in leading the Denver Nuggets past the Minnesota Timberwolves 112-97 Tuesday night
May 15, 2024
After 30 years of dominating South African politics, the ruling African National Congress will face its toughest election this month as most opinion polls predict it will lose its parliamentary majority for the first time
May 15, 2024
YouTube has blocked access to videos of a protest song in Hong Kong to comply with a removal order, days after a court approved an injunction to ban the song in the city
May 15, 2024
Chinese coast guard ships have shadowed a group of Filipino activists and fishermen sailing on wooden boats toward a disputed shoal in the South China Sea which Beijing has fiercely guarded from what it regards as intruders
May 15, 2024
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor is facing demands for speedy action against Israeli leaders, and a blistering Russian attack over the ICC’s arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin stemming from Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
May 15, 2024
South Korea's factory output fell in March by the most in 15 months, government data showed on Tuesday, missing market expectations.
May 15, 2024
Amy Wang was counting on a 100,000 yuan ($13,800) subsidy promised by authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Weifang to fit and
May 15, 2024
Argentina's oilseed and maritime worker unions kicked off a strike on Monday to protest a labor reform bill backed by radical libertarian President Javier Milei, which
May 15, 2024
Japan's yen saw a sudden jump on Monday, suggesting the country's authorities may have finally followed through on the FX market intervention warnings they have be
May 15, 2024
Jalen Brunson scored 44 points, and the New York Knicks moved a win away from their first Eastern Conference finals trip since 2000 by beating the Indiana Pacers 121-91 in Game 5
May 15, 2024
Walmart on Tuesday announced layoffs affecting several hundred jobs at the retail giant's campus offices and said it will be requiring most remote workers and personnel in its Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices to relocate to office hubs in Bentonville, Arkansas; Hoboken, New Jersey; and the San Francisco Bay Area
May 15, 2024
Singapore’s new prime minister has vowed to make “tomorrow better than today” as he took his oath of office in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure stability in the Asian financial hub
May 15, 2024
The yen jumped against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities as a trigger for the bounce in a currency
May 14, 2024
Lily Gladstone, the first Native American woman to be nominated for an Oscar, will return to this year's Cannes Film Festival as a member of the nine-strong main jury, organizers
May 14, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 14, 2024
The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it plans to move ahead on more than $1 billion in arms sales to Israel
May 14, 2024
The College Football Playoff snub of unbeaten Florida State is still a fresh wound for the entire Atlantic Coast Conference
May 14, 2024
On an ordinary April afternoon, a routine bus ride home from school turned into a scene straight out of an action movie. When the driver unexpectedly lost consciousness, it was a 14-year-old Wisconsin student who took control of the careening school bus and potentially saved over a dozen lives through his quick-thinking heroism. Acie Holland III, an 8th grader at Glen Hills Middle School in Glendale, had just settled into his usual seat near the middle of the bus. As they departed the school grounds, the driver was joking with students as she typically did. But Holland soon noticed something
May 14, 2024
The Peruvian government is looking to avoid an international arbitration process which could be filed by Chinese port operator Cosco Shipping over a legal dispute regarding
May 14, 2024
Bidzina Ivanishvili, the influential billionaire founder of Georgia's ruling party, accused a Western "global party of war" of meddling in Georgia in a rare speech at
May 14, 2024
Brazil's government will soon create an interministerial commission chaired by the Planning Ministry to unlock projects for integration in South America, a top official said on
May 14, 2024
Haiti's new transition council is set to choose the country's next president on Tuesday, but leaders of the gangs who have exerted increasing control are clamoring for
May 14, 2024
A miniature poodle named Sage has won the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show
May 14, 2024
The Rev. William “Bill” Lawson, a longtime pastor and civil rights leader who helped desegregate Houston, Texas, and worked with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, has died
May 14, 2024
Investigators probing the March collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore said in a preliminary report the cargo ship Dali experienced an electrical blackout about 10 hours before leaving the Port of Baltimore and yet again shortly before it slammed into the bridge and killed six construction workers
May 14, 2024
The first asylum seekers to be deported from Britain to Rwanda will come from a group of 5,700 people that Kigali has agreed in principle to take, according to a British government
May 14, 2024
Bangladesh again closed all primary schools across the country and educational institutions in almost half of districts including the capital as a severe heatwave saw
May 14, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov visited Sudan on Monday in a signal of support for the Sudanese army which is locked in a year-long war with the paramilitary Rapid Support
May 14, 2024
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen sharply attacked far-right parties such as the German AfD who are standing for the European Union parliamentary election, telling
May 14, 2024
Finnair said on Monday it is pausing flights to Tartu in eastern Estonia for one month due to GPS disturbances in the area, which Tallinn blamed on neighbouring Russia.
May 14, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund approved $1.1 billion in funding for Pakistan on Monday, the agency said in a statement, amid discussions for a new loan.
May 14, 2024
Euro zone inflation is on its way back to 2%, but the process is bound to be bumpy and geopolitical tensions pose an upside risk to price growth, European Central Bank Vice
May 14, 2024
Oil prices lost more than $1 a barrel on Monday as Israel ceasefire talks in Cairo tempered fears of a wider Middle East conflict, while U.S. inflation data dimmed the
May 14, 2024
There's a lot of uncertainty about Tiger Woods at the PGA Championship
May 14, 2024
Federal agencies are warning that foreign terrorist organizations or their supporters might target LGBTQ-related events and venues as part of the upcoming June Pride Month
May 14, 2024
Government data in Argentina says the country’s monthly inflation rate has eased sharply to a single-digit rate in April for the first time in half a year
May 14, 2024
In the coming days, the U.S. military in the eastern Mediterranean is expected to jab one end of a hulking metal dock into a beach in northern Gaza
May 14, 2024
Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada's oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta have been ordered out
May 14, 2024
Eight watches belonging to auto racing icon Michael Schumacher sold Tuesday for nearly 4 million Swiss francs ($4.4 million) at a Geneva auction
May 14, 2024
An American accused of sexually assaulting a Pennsylvania college student in 2013 and later sending her a Facebook message that said, “So I raped you,” has been detained in France after a three-year search
May 14, 2024
Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce in a stunning development as the PGA Championship nears
May 14, 2024
A mixed-breed dog has won the Westminster Kennel Club dog show's agility prize for the first time
May 14, 2024
Israel and Hamas have been waging war since gunmen from the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip stormed into southern Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 people and capturing 253
May 14, 2024
Mexico's economy continued to grow at a weak rate in the first quarter, due largely to a drop in manufacturing and agriculture that was only partially offset by services,
May 14, 2024
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf said on Monday he would step down, saying he was not the right candidate to rebuild ties with other parties after he ended a coalition with
May 14, 2024
Georgia faces more protests this week as lawmakers resume debate on a "foreign agents" law that opponents denounce as a Russian-inspired tool to crack down on
May 14, 2024
Apple's operating system for iPads has been designated as a gatekeeper under the bloc's landmark tech rules by EU antitrust regulators because of its importance to
May 14, 2024
Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States
May 14, 2024
Anglo American faced calls from shareholders on Monday to detail plans for improving its value in order to fend off bidder
May 14, 2024
Two lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration on the use of cryptocurrency to evade sanctions in Russia, Iran and North Korea, asking officials what additional
May 14, 2024
Vale, BHP and their joint venture Samarco have presented Brazilian authorities with a settlement proposal related to
May 14, 2024
Poland's prime minister said on Monday he had called the country's chief prosecutor and secret services coordinator to discuss potential links between the former CEO of oil refiner
May 14, 2024
Venezuela's use of digital currencies, expected to increase after the United States ordered a wind-down of oil deals with the sanctioned country by May 31, will require greater scrutiny by
May 14, 2024
Flash floods and a landslide in central Kenya killed at least 45 people and injured over 110 others on Monday as floodwaters swept away houses and cars in the town of Mai
May 14, 2024
Coca-Cola is gearing up for a potential initial public offering (IPO) of its African bottling business as soon as next year, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with
May 14, 2024
Voting got under way in legislative elections in Togo on Monday following approval of constitutional reforms by the outgoing parliament that
May 14, 2024
Israel's Independence Day is normally a raucous affair, celebrated with day parties and barbecues in parks, but this year, celebrations — from Monday evening through Tuesday — were muted
May 14, 2024
A movie weapons armorer is appealing her conviction for involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film “Rust.”
May 14, 2024
Nobel laureate Alice Munro has died
May 14, 2024
Opening statements were expected to occur Wednesday in the corruption trial of Sen. Bob Menendez
May 14, 2024
A new FBI report shows the rate of assaults on American law enforcement reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 officer attacks reported
May 14, 2024
The University of Amsterdam has canceled classes and shut buildings for two days after the latest demonstrations over the war in Gaza turned destructive
May 14, 2024
The intense northern hemisphere summer heat that drove wildfires across the Mediterranean, buckled roads in Texas and strained power grids in China last year made it
May 14, 2024
A coalition that includes entrepreneur and philanthropist Daniel Lubetzky, actor Liev Schreiber, journalist Katie Couric, and director of the Muhammad Ali Center Lonnie Ali announced Tuesday that it would launch Builders, a nonprofit global initiative aimed at reducing polarization while encouraging people to work together to find solutions they can all support
May 14, 2024
Russia carried out a series of air strikes on residential areas in the city of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine on Tuesday, local officials said, injuring at least 20 people.
May 14, 2024
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol confirmed his country's participation in a Ukraine peace summit in a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart on Tuesday, President Volodymyr
May 14, 2024
Storms that slammed several Southern states have added to the region’s recent string of weather-related destruction and death
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to visit Madrid on May 17 and meet with Spain's King Felipe, the Royal Palace said in a statement on Tuesday.
May 14, 2024
Palestinian health authorities say Israel's ground and air campaign in Gaza has killed more than 35,000 people, mostly civilians, and driven most of the enclave's 2.3 million people from
May 14, 2024
China hinted on Monday that it could retaliate after U.S.
May 14, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol met opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for talks on Monday after a crushing election defeat for the president's ruling party led to
May 14, 2024
Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI on Monday found itself the target of a privacy complaint by advocacy group NOYB for allegedly not fixing incorrect information
May 14, 2024
Russia may respond to any U.S. confiscation of its currency reserves frozen in the West by seizing the assets, including property and cash, of U.S. citizens and investors in Russia,
May 14, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing on Sunday on an unannounced visit, where he was expected to discuss the rollout of Full Self-Driving (FSD)
May 14, 2024
Solomon Islands incumbent Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said he would not be a candidate when lawmakers vote this week for a new prime minister, and his
May 14, 2024
Inflation showing no recent sign of slowing or narrowing in scope leaves U.S.
May 14, 2024
The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for
May 14, 2024
A man was convicted of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece's deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to
May 14, 2024
World Central Kitchen (WCK) said it would resume operations in the Gaza Strip on Monday, a month after seven workers of the U.S.-based charity were killed in an Israeli air strike.
May 14, 2024
Mexico's main opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez called her rival, frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, "the candidate of lies"
May 14, 2024
The U.S. has seen measurable progress in the humanitarian situation in Gaza, U.S.
May 14, 2024
Turkey has told allies that it will back the candidacy of Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to be NATO's next secretary-general, a Turkish official said on Monday, an important step
May 14, 2024
Turkish delivery company Getir will withdraw from its remaining European and U.S. markets to focus on its main home market, it said on Monday, marking an abrupt
May 14, 2024
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg told Ukrainians on Monday that his alliance’s members had failed to live up to their promises of military aid in recent months, but said the flow of arms
May 14, 2024
Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has given a fresh impetus to the European Union's drive to admit more countries, the bloc's chairman said on Monday, adding
May 14, 2024
Scotland's leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, further imperilling more than a decade of governance by the Scottish National Party (SNP) and setting back its
May 14, 2024
The transfer of the Russian subsidiary of Italian water heating firm Ariston to management by a Gazprom entity was a response to the "hostile actions" of Western countries, the
May 14, 2024
Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, is falling short on its climate ambitions by failing to back multiple shareholder proposals pushing oil companies to
May 14, 2024
German inflation rose slightly in April due to higher food prices and a smaller drop in energy prices than in previous months, preliminary data from the federal
May 14, 2024
Wall Street's main indexes opened higher on Monday as Tesla and Apple led gains in megacap companies, while investors exercised caution ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate
May 14, 2024
Brussels is set to open a probe into Meta Platforms' Facebook and Instagram as soon as Monday over concerns the company is failing to do enough to counter disinformation from Russia and
May 14, 2024
Luis Rubiales, the disgraced former Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) chief, will have to appear before a local court in Madrid at least once a month and will need
May 14, 2024
German prosecutors on Monday said they were not ruling out a political motive as they investigated a Russian citizen arrested on suspicion of stabbing to death two convalescing
May 14, 2024
European carmaker Stellantis says it will begin selling electric vehicles from its Chinese partner Leapmotor in nine European countries later this year
May 14, 2024
A young Thai activist who went on a hunger strike after being jailed for advocating reform of the country’s monarchy system has died in a prison hospital
May 14, 2024
Negotiations between China and an Arab bloc for a free trade agreement have stalled over concerns by Saudi Arabia that cheap Chinese imports could undermine its
May 14, 2024
The U.N.'s International Court of Justice will hold hearings on Thursday and Friday to discuss new emergency measures sought by South Africa over
May 14, 2024
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Tuesday that Turkey decided to submit its declaration of official intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the
May 14, 2024
European Union nations have officially endorsed a major overhaul of the bloc’s failed asylum system
May 14, 2024
Home Depot’s sales continued to soften in the first quarter as the nation’s largest home improvement retailer not only was constrained by high mortgage rates and customers dealing with inflation concerns, but it also had to deal with a delayed start to spring
May 14, 2024
The Bayreuth Festival in Germany has announced it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its director for another five years
May 14, 2024
Huge throngs of protesters blocked streets in the capital of Georgia and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday approved a “foreign influence” bill that critics call a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union
May 14, 2024
Diego Maradona’s heirs want to stop the auction of a trophy he was awarded after the 1986 World Cup won by Argentina
May 14, 2024
A top migration monitoring group says conflicts and natural disasters left nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, a new record
May 14, 2024
The Chinese Foreign Ministery says Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week
May 14, 2024
A court in Germany has ruled that one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party knowingly used a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to pay a fine
May 14, 2024
Asian stocks have advanced after equities rose on Wall Street, with the Nasdaq composite hitting a record high
May 14, 2024
The United Nations says more than half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza
May 14, 2024
Three police officers were killed on Saturday in southern Chile during what President Gabriel Boric called a cowardly attack that led him to declare three days of national mourning.
May 14, 2024
Success in the fight to wipe out polio is not guaranteed, according to tech billionaire turned philanthropist Bill Gates, whose foundation has poured billions into
May 14, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced on Sunday she will be a candidate at June's European elections in a bid to boost support for her Brothers of Italy
May 14, 2024
Israel has agreed to listen to U.S. concerns and thoughts before it launches an invasion of the border city of Rafah in Gaza, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said on
May 14, 2024
A’ja Wilson and the Las Vegas Aces will begin the WNBA season Tuesday night as a heavy favorite to win a third straight title
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a fresh plea to the international community to hurry up and deliver more air defences, start formal talks for his country to enter the
May 14, 2024
Ukraine's top commander said on Sunday Kyiv's outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where
May 14, 2024
Nigeria secured a $600 million investment in seaport infrastructure from Danish shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday.
May 14, 2024
A Hamas delegation will visit Cairo on Monday for talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, a Hamas official told Reuters on Sunday, as mediators
May 14, 2024
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to announce on Monday whether he plans to stay on or quit the premiership, days after saying he was considering resigning.
May 14, 2024
On the eve of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's dramatic announcement about his future, thousands of Socialist Party supporters rallied in Madrid on Sunday to ask him to stay
May 14, 2024
A tornado that struck the city of Guangzhou in southern China killed five people and left 33 injured, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing local authorities.
May 14, 2024
Star Entertainment said on Monday Chairman David Foster has stepped down just more than a year into the role, adding to an exodus of senior management at the beleaguered Australian casino
May 14, 2024
At least four people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S.
May 14, 2024
China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that
May 14, 2024
The export controls proposed by Japan related to semiconductors will seriously affect normal trade between Chinese and Japanese enterprises, China's commerce ministry said on
May 14, 2024
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Sunday that he named his teenage son, who was shown beating a prisoner in custody last year, a trustee of the Russian University of Special Forces
May 14, 2024
Taiwan's trade-dependent economy likely grew faster in the first quarter, supported by a rebound in exports amid upbeat demand for the technology that powers artificial intelligence
May 14, 2024
Japan's yen strengthened sharply on Monday in a move market participants said pointed to yen-buying intervention from Japanese authorities to stabilise the sliding currency.
May 14, 2024
Baidu, China's major internet search company, reached an agreement with Tesla to grant the car company access to its mapping license for data collection on China's public roads, two
May 14, 2024
The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to boost the currency that is languishing near 34-year lows.
May 14, 2024
South Korea's exports are expected to have risen at a faster pace in April, extending gains for a seventh straight month on strong chip sales, a Reuters poll showed on
May 14, 2024
The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to boost the currency that is languishing near 34-year lows.
May 14, 2024
Japan's yen hit a three-decade low on Monday before rebounding in a move currency traders suspected was official intervention.
May 14, 2024
A Thai court sentenced a prominent jailed activist lawyer on Monday to a further two years in prison for royal insults relating to a speech he made at a 2021 protest, his lawyer
May 14, 2024
China's manufacturing activity in April likely expanded at a slower pace, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, indicating the country's sprawling factory sector may have lost some
May 14, 2024
Afghanistan's Taliban face criticism over their human rights record at a U.N. meeting on Monday, with Washington accusing them of systematically depriving women and
May 14, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit France, Serbia and Hungary from May 5-10, his first Europe trip in five years aimed at boosting EU ties as tensions mount with the world's
May 14, 2024
A former Australian army lawyer has been sentenced to almost six years in prison for leaking classified information that exposed allegations of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan
May 14, 2024
Hong Kong's leader has urged foreign governments to respect its overseas-based trade offices after a staff member in its London branch was charged in Britain for allegedly working for the Chinese city’s intelligence service
May 14, 2024
Rescuers are searching in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for bodies, and whenever possible survivors, of flash floods that hit Indonesia’s Sumatra Island over the weekend
May 14, 2024
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko says the long delay by the U_S_ Congress in approving military aid for his country was “a colossal waste of time.”
May 14, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a Russian attack on his country's energy sector on Saturday had targeted gas facilities important for supply to the European Union.
May 14, 2024
France's foreign minister will push proposals to prevent further escalation and a potential war between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah during a visit to Lebanon on
May 14, 2024
A humanitarian aid flotilla destined for Gaza was halted after Guinea Bissau decided to remove its flag from two vessels, activist group Freedom Flotilla Coalition said on
May 14, 2024
Thai former energy executive Pichai Chunhavajira was named the country's finance minister on Sunday, facing a tough task to revive Southeast Asia's second-
May 14, 2024
Hong Kong's gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow between 2.5% and 3.5% for the first quarter, maintaining moderate growth for a fifth consecutive quarter, the city's
May 14, 2024
Most countries in the European Union are making efforts to “de-risk” their economies from perceived threats posed by China
May 14, 2024
A large billboard that collapsed amid raging thunderstorms in Mumbai killed at least 14 people and injured 75 others, reports said on Tuesday
May 14, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is seeking to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive
May 14, 2024
A Missouri man who crashed a rental truck into White House barriers and showed a Nazi flag before his arrest last year has pleaded guilty to damaging government property
May 14, 2024
BHP Group is considering making an improved offer for Anglo American after its $39 billion initial proposal was rejected by the London-listed miner, a source familiar with the matter told
May 14, 2024
Aid shipments to Gaza from Cyprus resumed late on Friday, a Cypriot source and a UAE official said, with a ship carrying food to the besieged Palestinian enclave after a pause
May 14, 2024
Buffeted by sliding poll ratings and reeling from allegations that it had harboured a Chinese spy in its ranks, Germany's far-right Alternative
May 14, 2024
Israel's foreign minister said on Saturday that a planned incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah could be suspended should a deal emerge to secure the release of Israeli
May 14, 2024
Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian gunmen who opened fire at them from a vehicle in the occupied West Bank, the military said on Saturday.
May 14, 2024
Portugal's government said on Saturday it refuses to initiate any process to pay reparations for atrocities committed during transatlantic slavery and the
May 14, 2024
Iraq's parliament passed a law criminalising same-sex relationships with a maximum 15-year prison sentence on Saturday, in a move it said aimed to uphold religious values but was
May 14, 2024
Over the weekend, President Vladimir Putin replaced Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu — the longest serving member of his Cabinet at 11 1/2 years — in a rare Kremlin shake-up that came even as a Russian offensive in Ukraine is making gains
May 13, 2024
One of California's most influential agricultural companies has filed a lawsuit against the state to stop a contentious law that was meant to make it easier for farmworkers to unionize
May 13, 2024
Melinda French Gates announced Monday that she will step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
May 13, 2024
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a new law regulating transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
May 13, 2024
The 148th Westminster Kennel Club dog show is underway
May 13, 2024
Substitute Jhon Duran has scored twice in the last five minutes for Aston Villa to come back from the dead and draw with Liverpool 3-3 in the English Premier League
May 13, 2024
South Korea said on Saturday it will consult with Naver, after media reported that the domestic internet company was under pressure from Japan to
May 13, 2024
The Kremlin shrugged off a trip to China by U.S.
May 13, 2024
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn't order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in
May 13, 2024
Germany needs an economic turnaround in order to secure its geopolitical position, German Finance Minister and head of the Free Democrats FDP Christian Lindner said on Saturday.
May 13, 2024
The U.S.
May 13, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and several international officials will be in Riyadh this week for talks aimed at pushing for a peace agreement in Gaza to be held on the
May 13, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said for the first time on Saturday that he supports a reform of the country's constitutionally-enshrined debt brake, but does not currently see any
May 13, 2024
Violence against women is an "epidemic" in Australia, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday, as thousands attended rallies in Sydney and other major Australian cities
May 13, 2024
Russia has sent more troops to Ocheretyne in eastern Ukraine to reinforce an offensive there, but Kyiv's forces largely hold the village and expect U.S. arms deliveries to turn the
May 13, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron will visit Germany in May and will spend more days than planned with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, government sources said, in a sign of
May 13, 2024
Thousands of Socialist Party supporters travelled from across Spain for a rally in Madrid on Saturday to call on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay on, after he
May 13, 2024
Russia's industrial production and investments are stagnating, its exports of goods are continuing to deteriorate and profitability in most industries is
May 13, 2024
At the apartment door where a Florida deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson, a small shrine is growing with the tributes from an Air Force unit grappling with his loss
May 13, 2024
Scottie Scheffler made it to the PGA Championship with a newborn at home
May 13, 2024
One of Europe’s most notorious human smugglers has been arrested in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq, security officials said
May 13, 2024
Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors
May 13, 2024
A Belfast judge says that the United Kingdom's law to deport asylum-seekers shouldn't apply in Northern Ireland because parts of it violate human rights protections
May 13, 2024
The death toll in the Gaza Strip from the Israel-Hamas war is still more than 35,000, but the enclave's Ministry of Health has
May 13, 2024
The two major opposition parties in the Solomon Islands struck a coalition deal on Saturday as they vie with former Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare's party to form a
May 13, 2024
Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity near the island on Saturday with 12 aircraft crossing the
May 13, 2024
The first half of NASCAR's regular season ended Sunday with Brad Keselowski ending his three-year winless drought at Darlington Raceway
May 13, 2024
The International Monetary Fund, Argentina’s biggest creditor, has agreed to release the next tranche of loans due under a bailout program
May 13, 2024
Crews have set off a chain of explosives to break down the largest remaining span of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge
May 13, 2024
After being sentenced to eight years in prison, the award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof says he’s fled to Europe shortly ahead of the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his latest film
May 13, 2024
Reports that soldiers of Myanmar’s military government last week carried out a massacre of more than 30 civilians in a village in central Myanmar have been supported in interviews with a local administrator and a man who says he survived the killings
May 13, 2024
As the United States faces security threats across the globe, its close ally Japan has committed to stepping up as a trusted defence
May 13, 2024
The Canadian province of British Columbia on Friday scrapped a much-criticized pilot program that allowed the open use of some illegal drugs, citing the need to maintain public
May 13, 2024
Lawyers for Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov have filed an appeal against a court decision to remand him in pre-trial detention, Russian state-owned news agency TASS
May 13, 2024
The Russian and Turkish flags were lowered on Friday to mark the closure of a centre set up to monitor a ceasefire in Nagorno-Karabakh, as Russian
May 13, 2024
Australian police said on Thursday they charged five teenagers
May 13, 2024
U.S. export controls on sending advanced computing chips to China are not meant to hold back China's economy or technological development, Secretary of State Antony
May 13, 2024
Refugee rights activists are criticizing Poland’s pro-European Union government for plans to tighten security at the border with Belarus
May 13, 2024
The Associated Press has withdrawn its story about a theater production involving George Clooney because it moved ahead of an embargo lifting
May 13, 2024
More than 15 million people from Texas to Florida are under threat of severe storms and the potential for more tornadoes
May 13, 2024
Smoke from Canadian wildfires has prompted health warnings across the Upper Midwest for a second straight year
May 13, 2024
A billboard has collapsed and killed three people and injured 59 in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, in thunderstorms and heavy rain
May 13, 2024
High-level envoys from the United States and China are set to meet in Geneva for talks about artificial intelligence
May 13, 2024
The leaders of Greece and Turkey have met for talks that were supposed to underline their efforts to put aside decades-old disputes but also revealed deep divisions between them
May 13, 2024
Aid workers are struggling to distribute dwindling food to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians displaced by what Israel says is a limited operation in Rafah
May 13, 2024
The Anseir family loaded their meagre belongings on a beat up car hoping to escape before an Israeli ground offensive in Rafah -- where more than a million Gazans
May 13, 2024
U.S. and South Korean officials outlined respective visions for a new agreement on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea in talks this week and will
May 13, 2024
Burkina Faso has suspended the radio broadcasts of BBC Africa and the U.S-funded Voice of America (VOA) for two weeks over their coverage of a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the
May 13, 2024
U.S. car maker General Motors will close its manufacturing operations in Colombia and Ecuador, the company said in a statement on Friday, as part of its shift towards producing next-
May 13, 2024
The Dutch government on Friday said it would consider resuming funding for the UN agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) in Gaza if the agency implements recommendations to strengthen
May 13, 2024
Relatives gathered by a tiny sandy grave in Gaza on Friday, where they had buried a baby girl, who lived just a few days after
May 13, 2024
Spain’s ruling Socialist party scored a crucial victory in regional elections in the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia, garnering the most seats and dealing a blow to the region’s two main separatist parties that have governed for decades
May 13, 2024
Swedish police say the Dutch contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest who was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before the finale will likely be charged for making illegal threats
May 13, 2024
Microsoft has announced its most substantial commitment yet to France
May 13, 2024
The European Union’s executive will demand explanations from Eurovision song contest organizers why its flag was banned from the concert hall during the final
May 13, 2024
Authorities in China were expected on Monday to release a citizen journalist jailed for four years after she documented the early phases of the coronavirus outbreak from the central city
May 13, 2024
Survivors of the devastating floods that struck northern Afghanistan last week are still searching for their missing loved ones and burying their dead
May 13, 2024
Israel's Embassy to the Holy See issued a protest on Monday after a Yemeni Nobel Prize winner accused Israel of "genocide" in Gaza during an event hosted by the Vatican.
May 13, 2024
Thousands of Malians joined the replastering of the world’s largest mud-brick building this weekend, a key ritual that maintains the integrity of the Great Mosque of Djenne in central Mali
May 13, 2024
The memoirs of former German Chancellor Angela Merkel will be released in November
May 13, 2024
Pope Francis will attend this year's Group of Seven (G7) leaders' summit to discuss the challenges posed by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Italian Prime Minister
May 13, 2024
U.S.
May 13, 2024
The Ukrainian capital Kyiv evacuated two civilian hospitals on Friday after the head of the Belarusian KGB security service said they were housing soldiers, sparking fears of an
May 13, 2024
India held the second phase of the world's biggest election on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his rivals
May 13, 2024
The U.S. and Taiwan will hold another round of negotiations toward their "21st Century" trade agreement starting on Monday in Taipei, the U.S.
May 13, 2024
A lawmaker from Poland's former ruling party is among 31 people prosecutors have summoned because they were victims of phone hacking while the party was in power, Gazeta Wyborcza
May 13, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday called for additional air defense systems to be sent to Kyiv to help protect against Russian
May 13, 2024
The U.S.
May 13, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has postponed a White House meeting with President Joe Biden, a source familiar with the situation
May 13, 2024
Fire experts and officials are warning that an intense wildfire could reach a town in western Canada this week
May 13, 2024
Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have filed a class-action complaint with the Vatican administration demanding better seniority, leave and overtime benefits
May 13, 2024
The United Nations says nearly half a million Palestinians have been displaced in recent days by escalating Israeli military operations in both southern and northern Gaza
May 13, 2024
Rescue teams in South Africa are searching for any survivors still trapped under rubble a week after an apartment building that was under construction collapsed
May 13, 2024
Renault held talks this week with China's Li Auto and Xiaomi on electric and intelligent vehicle technologies, the French carmaker said on Friday, opening the door to potential
May 13, 2024
Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf said on Friday he intended to fight a vote of no confidence called by political opponents following his decision to withdraw from a coalition
May 13, 2024
Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev on Friday rejected criticism over the arrests of journalists and said the fact that people had access to the internet meant press
May 13, 2024
Support for South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has fallen to just over 40%, an Ipsos opinion poll showed, weeks before a general
May 13, 2024
Donald Trump is ready to renew a conservative alliance with Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the U.S.
May 13, 2024
The United States has received new information from the Israeli authorities about a specific Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) unit that Washington was reportedly
May 13, 2024
The Biden administration is imposing new restrictions on firearms exports and increasing scrutiny on transactions to limit diversions of guns to drug cartels
May 13, 2024
Ukrainian officials and commanders say Russian troops are locked in intense battles with Ukrainian soldiers in the embattled town of Vovchansk and are pushing ahead with a ground offensive that opened a new front to put pressure on overstretched Ukrainian forces
May 13, 2024
Georgia’s parliament green-lit a final vote on a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union, after police dispersed the latest protests against it over the weekend
May 13, 2024
An Australian judge has lifted a ban on the social media platform X showing Australians a video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church
May 13, 2024
Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies are casting their ballots as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark
May 13, 2024
Protests over the Israel-Hamas war have spread across U.S. university and college campuses in recent weeks, leading to disruptions and arrests
May 13, 2024
A tiny, low-priced electric vehicle called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling
May 13, 2024
The United Arab Emirates will tender shortly for the construction of a new nuclear power plant that would double the number of the small Gulf
May 13, 2024
Inflation is set to ease more slowly than previously thought, Russia's central bank said on Friday as it held its key
May 13, 2024
Supporters of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez prepared on Friday to hold rallies to urge him to stay on after he announced this week he was considering stepping down as a court
May 13, 2024
Shares of private equity group CVC Capital Partners gained as much as 25% on their first day of trading in Amsterdam in what shapes up to be one of Europe's
May 13, 2024
Hospitals in South Korea's smaller cities are struggling with a lack of physicians, as a nationwide strike of trainee doctors enters its
May 13, 2024
Countries in the World Trade Organization are resuming stalled negotiations on fixing its dispute settlement system by the end of this year, a document showed on Friday, after they
May 13, 2024
An Israeli assault on southern Gaza's Rafah area would spell disaster for civilians, not only in Gaza but across the Middle East, the head of an aid
May 13, 2024
Rwandan President Paul Kagame's government said on Friday it would take as many migrants as Britain sends its way and urged "shouting" critics of the
May 13, 2024
Brazil's consumer prices rose slightly less than expected in the mid-April reading, data from statistics agency IBGE showed on Friday.
May 13, 2024
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
May 13, 2024
Asian shares are mixed in muted trading after U.S. stock indexes were little changed
May 13, 2024
After withdrawing from two huge U.S. military bases in the Philippines at the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s, American forces are returning and building a new presence in nine sites on Philippine bases under a 2014 defense pact to counter China's increasingly assertive actions
May 13, 2024
Violence is traumatizing Haitian children
May 13, 2024
The daily struggle to find work for Chinese immigrants living illegally in a borough of New York is a far cry from the picture Donald Trump and other Republicans have sought to paint
May 13, 2024
Rescuers have recovered more bodies after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, leaving 44 people dead and 15 missing
May 13, 2024
Kenya Airways on Friday accused authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) of harassment over the continued detention of two of the airline's staff for alleged
May 13, 2024
NATO on Friday launched one of its biggest naval deployments since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with
May 13, 2024
French oil major TotalEnergies is "seriously" looking at a possible listing in New York, Chief Executive Patrick Pouyanne told analysts on Friday, to move closer to a majority of U.S.
May 13, 2024
The chairman of Vietnam's parliament Vuong Dinh Hue resigned over unspecified "violations and shortcomings", the ruling Communist Party said on Friday,
May 13, 2024
Donald Trump got another break when the U.S.
May 13, 2024
A Turkish court sentenced Ahlam Albashir, a Syrian national, to life in prison on Friday over a 2022 bombing that killed six people in Istanbul's main shopping street, a copy of
May 13, 2024
Manchester United has won its first major trophy by routing Tottenham 4-0 in the Women’s FA Cup final at Wembley
May 12, 2024
Brad Keselowski moved to the front when Chris Buescher and Tyler Reddick hit each other with nine laps left and held on to win the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway on Sunday
May 12, 2024
The vast amount of rubble including unexploded ordnance left by Israel's devastating war in the Gaza Strip could take about 14 years to remove, a United Nations official said on
May 12, 2024
As wars rage in Ukraine, Gaza and elsewhere, tens of thousands of faithful prayed for peace on Sunday at Portugal's Fatima shrine,
May 12, 2024
Actor Steve Buscemi's publicist says he is OK after the “Boardwalk Empire” star was punched in the face by a man on a New York City street
May 12, 2024
Despite pro-Palestinian protests roiling some U.S. college campuses this spring, graduation ceremonies are going off largely peacefully so far
May 12, 2024
Sergei Shoigu, Russia's defence minister, has tried to send a "business as usual" message since his deputy was arrested on a bribery charge.
May 12, 2024
Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Solsky was released from custody on bail on Friday pending a corruption investigation into allegations he took
May 12, 2024
Kylian Mbappé got a mixed reception from Paris Saint-Germain fans in his last home game for the club before scoring in a 3-1 home defeat against Toulouse in the French league
May 12, 2024
Egypt on Sunday said it would intervene in support of South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, citing the growing scale of Israel's operations in
May 12, 2024
Azerbaijan, host of this year's U.N. climate summit, will defend the right of oil and gas producing nations to invest in the sector, the country's president said on Friday, noting
May 12, 2024
Sergei Mingazov, a journalist for the Russian edition of Forbes, has been detained on suspicion of spreading false information about the Russian army, the magazine said on Friday.
May 12, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that the United States and European countries were not doing enough to pressure Israel to agree a ceasefire in Gaza, after
May 12, 2024
Spanish rail authorities say commuter rail service serving Barcelona and northeastern Spain has suffered major disruption because of the theft of copper cables from a train installation
May 12, 2024
Nigeria’s fashion and traditional dances were at full display during Prince Harry and Meghan's visit to the country's largest city, Lagos
May 12, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates around zero on Friday and highlighted a growing conviction that inflation was on track to durably hit its target of 2% in coming
May 12, 2024
Russia and its allies in Asia should expand joint military exercises as they face a direct threat from attempts by the United States to expand its security influence in the region,
May 12, 2024
The slightly alarming sight of a French leader calling on the European Central Bank to nuance its focus on inflation may be less dramatic than it first seems - but it
May 12, 2024
The discovery of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals, said by Palestinian authorities to contain hundreds of bodies, have triggered
May 12, 2024
Sweden should raise its military spending to around 2.6% of GDP by 2030, a parliamentary committee said in a report on Friday, as the country rebuilds its defence capabilities
May 12, 2024
Novak Djokovic put on one of his worst performances at one of his favorite tournaments as he was upset by 29th-seeded Alejandro Tabilo in the third round of the Italian Open
May 12, 2024
Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova has been sworn as the first female president of North Macedonia and has immediately reignited a diplomatic spat with neighboring Greece
May 12, 2024
TikTok owner ByteDance would prefer to shut down its loss-making app rather than sell it if the Chinese company exhausts all legal options to fight
May 12, 2024
WNBA rookie Caitlin Clark, like NBA Hall of Famer Larry Bird was 45 years ago, is involuntarily the focus of discussions about race and her transition to professional basketball
May 12, 2024
Republican Gov. Phil Scott is running for reelection to a fifth two-year term in the largely blue state of Vermont
May 12, 2024
Swiss Eurovision fans were getting ready to give a hero’s welcome to singer Nemo, who won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an operatic pop-rap ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity
May 12, 2024
Finland shut out newcomer Britain 8-0 for its first victory at the ice hockey world championship
May 12, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced Sergei Shoigu as defense minister in a Cabinet shakeup that comes as he begins his fifth term in office
May 12, 2024
An apartment building has partially collapsed in the Russian border city of Belgorod, and officials say at least 13 people have been killed and 20 others injured
May 12, 2024
Victims of the devastating floods in northern Afghanistan are burying the dead and looking for the loved ones still missing
May 12, 2024
The threat of deportation to Rwanda is causing migrants to head for Ireland instead of staying in Britain, Ireland's deputy prime minister told a British newspaper on Friday.
May 12, 2024
A South Korean music executive credited with creating popular K-pop group NewJeans denied allegations that she was trying to break her label away from HYBE, home to
May 12, 2024
Euro zone consumers lowered their expectation for inflation over the next 12 months in March but continued to see price growth above the European Central Bank's 2% target further
May 12, 2024
Chinese companies won five more bids to explore Iraqi oil and gas fields, Iraq's oil minister said on Sunday, as the Middle Eastern
May 12, 2024
Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants across Gaza, including in parts of the devastated north that the military said it cleared months ago
May 12, 2024
French airport group ADP reported on Friday a better-than-expected rise in first-quarter revenue, benefiting from the post-pandemic holiday boom and as travellers splashed
May 12, 2024
Heavy rains and torrents of cold lava and mud flowing down a volcano's slopes on Indonesia’s Sumatra island have triggered flash floods
May 12, 2024
A major fire broke out in a vast shopping complex in the Polish capital that housed some 1,400 shops and service outlets
May 12, 2024
Memorial Day is always a somber occasion in Israel
May 12, 2024
Country Garden has told some of its offshore creditors it plans to present a debt restructuring proposal in the second half of this year, two sources said
May 12, 2024
Buddha's birthday is an important holiday in several countries in Asia where there are large Buddhist populations
May 12, 2024
Tyler Seguin scored the tie-breaking goal in the second period and added an empty-netter in the third and Dallas goaltender Jake Oettinger made it all hold up, powering the Stars to a 4-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche for a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference second-round series
May 12, 2024
Indonesian officials say a bus slammed into cars and motorbikes after its brakes apparently malfunctioned in West Java province, killing at least 11 people, mostly students, and injuring dozens of others
May 12, 2024
Taylor Wenczkowski scored at 11:44 of the third overtime to give Boston a 2-1 victory over Montreal on Saturday night in Game 2 of the Professional Women’s Hockey League semifinal series
May 12, 2024
Old foes Turkey and Greece are set to test a five-month-old friendship initiative when Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visits Ankara
May 12, 2024
Separatist parties are in danger of losing their decade-long hold of power in Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia
May 12, 2024
Indiana is one of 18 states that has never had a female governor
May 12, 2024
Lithuanians have voted in a presidential election at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears about Moscow’s intentions
May 12, 2024
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge for a 40-year prison sentence for the man who broke into former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer
May 12, 2024
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece can not offer air defence systems like 'Patriots' or S-300 to Ukraine responding to pressure from EU and NATO allies to send more
May 12, 2024
Japan's factory output likely staged a strong rebound in March from the previous month's decline, with retail sales probably holding firm on booming inbound tourism and easing worry
May 12, 2024
Brady Skjei scored on the power play with 3:11 left to help the Carolina Hurricanes beat the New York Rangers 4-3, staving off a sweep by winning Game 4 of the second-round playoff series
May 12, 2024
A Swiss parliamentary committee late on Thursday voted to back a 5 billion Swiss franc ($5.5 billion) aid contribution for Ukraine as part of a broader package aimed at improving
May 11, 2024
Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Paul Skenes made an impressive big league debut, striking out seven in four-plus innings against the Chicago Cubs
May 11, 2024
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from entering nearly 20% of her state after another tribe banished her this week over comments she made earlier this year about tribal leaders benefitting from drug cartels
May 11, 2024
New York’s J
May 11, 2024
Small pro-Palestinian protests are popping up sporadically as colleges and universities hold commencement services
May 11, 2024
The killing of a Black U.S. Air Force senior airman by a Florida sheriff's deputy responding to a phoned-in complaint about an argument has the airman's family calling for charges, saying the shooting was completely unjustified
May 11, 2024
When Isaac Anthony Lumori launched South Sudan's first weekly comedy show at the height of a civil war in 2014, his performers' quips about different ethnic
May 11, 2024
Mexico's Senate approved the creation of a new pension fund on Thursday aimed at boosting payouts to the lowest-earning recipients.
May 11, 2024
Elon Musk's new plan to use current product lines as the basis for new affordable vehicles — rather than
May 11, 2024
Vietnam will delay the launch of the much-expected new stock trading system initially slated for next week, its State Securities Commission (SSC) said.
May 11, 2024
A growing number of civilians and police officers are demanding the dismissal and arrest of Haiti’s police chief as heavily armed gangs launched a new attack in the capital of Port-au-Prince
May 11, 2024
Two more wins separate Manchester City from becoming English champion for an unprecedented fourth straight year
May 11, 2024
Hong Kong's private home prices reversed a 10-month falling streak in March, climbing 1.1% from February, after the financial city lifted curbs to boost the ailing property
May 11, 2024
Maryland Democrats are trying to decide which Senate candidate is best positioned to beat Republican Larry Hogan, a popular former governor
May 11, 2024
Core inflation in Japan's capital slowed much more than expected in April and fell below the central bank's 2% target, data showed on Friday, complicating its decision
May 11, 2024
Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as "part of public discussion", rejecting a
May 11, 2024
U.S. special operations commanders are having to do more with less and they're learning from the war in Ukraine, That means juggling how to add more high-tech experts to their teams while still cutting their overall forces by about 5,000 troops over the next five years
May 11, 2024
A Dutch public broadcaster has reacted angrily after the Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was dramatically expelled from the competition hours before Saturday’s final
May 11, 2024
South Korea's public finances are no longer a strength for its sovereign credit rating but are now a neutral factor requiring near-term efforts to contain the rise in
May 11, 2024
The global economy is likely to carry its solid momentum for the rest of the year and into 2025, defying earlier expectations of a slowdown, according to a Reuters
May 11, 2024
Pakistan's central bank is widely expected to hold its key interest rate at a record 22% for the seventh straight policy meeting on Monday as Pakistan gears up for
May 11, 2024
A man was rescued from the rubble five days after a deadly building collapse in South Africa in what Western Cape Premier Alan Winde said was "nothing short of a miracle".
May 11, 2024
The Russian Defense Ministry says Moscow’s forces have captured five villages in a renewed ground assault in northeastern Ukraine
May 11, 2024
The Colombian attorney general's office has suspended arrest warrants for nine leaders of the illegal armed group Segunda Marquetalia, it said on Thursday, as part of a process to
May 11, 2024
Five people were killed and nine wounded in three separate Ukrainian drone and artillery strikes on the Russian border provinces of Belgorod and Kursk, and the city of Donetsk, which
May 11, 2024
The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan
May 11, 2024
Winnie Makinda says she is facing the worst crisis and lowest moment of her life because of the Kenyan government’s response to floods that devastated her poor community in the capital of Nairobi
May 11, 2024
Swiss singer Nemo has won the 68th Eurovision Song Contest with “The Code,” an operatic ode to the singer’s journey toward embracing a nongender identity
May 11, 2024
Israel has ordered new evacuations in Rafah
May 11, 2024
As the yen plumbs three-decade lows and pressure grows on Japan to intervene or make monetary policy changes, traders figure there is not much Tokyo can do to reverse
May 11, 2024
The Gateway Pundit, a far-right news site, filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, following litigation by election workers and others who faced harassment after the
May 11, 2024
A 45-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the theft of a bronze Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and found days later smoldering in a trash can in a city park in Kansas
May 11, 2024
Celebrity Chef Jose Andres called seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza "the best of humanity" on Thursday during a memorial service at the Washington
May 11, 2024
The United Auto Workers is aiming for a key victory at Mercedes-Benz in Alabama
May 11, 2024
The winners of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA resigned from their titles within days of each other
May 11, 2024
South Africa has urged the United Nations’ top court to issue more emergency measures to restrain Israel, saying its military incursion in Rafah threatens the “very survival of Palestinians in Gaza.”
May 11, 2024
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II have received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict
May 11, 2024
Acts from more than two dozen countries will take the stage in Malmo, Sweden, to compete in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest
May 11, 2024
Sean “Diddy” Combs is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he and two other men raped a 17-year-old girl in a New York recording studio in 2003
May 10, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday inspected the test-firing of 240 mm multiple launch rockets manufactured by a newly established defence industry unit, the North's KCNA
May 10, 2024
The Biden administration wants to partially end a 27-year-old agreement that provides court oversight of how the federal government cares for migrant children in its custody
May 10, 2024
The Biden administration says Israel’s use of U
May 10, 2024
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green announced Wildfire Mitigation and Risk Reduction Preparedness Month nine months after the nation’s deadliest wildfire in over a century burned the historic town of Lahaina
May 10, 2024
Residents of a Ukrainian border town, frustrated and angry at an armoured ground attack by Russian troops trying to secure a new foothold, were
May 10, 2024
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed proposed restrictions on foreign ownership of land in Kansas
May 10, 2024
Colombia's parks agency, the Frankfurt Zoological Society and German fund Legacy Landscapes on Thursday launched a financial mechanism to fund Chiribiquete
May 10, 2024
U.S. forest product firm Weyerhaeuser on Thursday beat estimates for first-quarter profit on increased demand for housing construction.
May 10, 2024
The U.S. has announced a new $400 million package of military aid for Ukraine
May 10, 2024
A statue of the late Rev. Billy Graham set to stand inside the U.S. Capitol to represent North Carolina will be unveiled next week in a ceremony
May 10, 2024
The lawyer for the New Jersey man charged with stabbing author Salman Rushdie says he's in talks with prosecutors to try to resolve existing charges of attempted murder without a trial — as well as potential terrorism-related charges that could still be coming
May 10, 2024
A Michigan judge has sentenced the former executive of a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy to at least 10 years in prison for the deaths of 11 people in 2012
May 10, 2024
A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names were removed
May 10, 2024
Target confirmed that it won’t be carrying its LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month in June in some stores after the discount retailer received a backlash last year for its assortment
May 10, 2024
A man in a hospital gown who stole two police cruisers while handcuffed and survived gunfire from 11 police officers is in no shape to see a judge
May 10, 2024
Ukraine's agriculture minister tendered his resignation on Thursday as he faces criminal allegations for involvement in an illegal acquisition of state
May 10, 2024
Thousands of protesters angered by the government’s decision to hand over control of some border villages to Azerbaijan have demonstrated in the center of the Armenian capital for a second day to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan
May 10, 2024
Hundreds of mothers of missing people, other relatives and activists have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark a sad commemoration of Mother's Day
May 10, 2024
Kylian Mbappé has confirmed what the soccer world was long expecting to hear by announcing he is leaving Paris Saint-Germain
May 10, 2024
French soccer star Kylian Mbappe said in a video on social media platform X on Friday that he would leave Paris Saint Germain and end his 'adventure' with the club in a few weeks
May 10, 2024
A Taliban official says that flash floods from seasonal rains in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan have killed at least 50 people
May 10, 2024
Rosemary Ketchum became West Virginia's first openly transgender lawmaker when she was elected to the Wheeling City Council in 2020
May 10, 2024
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Ecuadorean authorities have reached a staff-level agreement to underpin a four-year, $4 billion extended fund facility (EFF), the
May 10, 2024
Britain's opposition Labour Party said it planned to
May 10, 2024
The Arabic language spokesperson of the U.S.
May 10, 2024
U.S.
May 10, 2024
The northern Gaza Strip is still heading toward a famine, the deputy U.N. food chief said on Thursday, appealing for a greater volume and diversity of
May 10, 2024
Spanish fast fashion retailer Inditex on Thursday relaunched its business in Venezuela with the opening of a Zara store via a franchise agreement.
May 10, 2024
L3Harris lifted the upper-end of its annual adjusted profit target on Thursday, betting on sustained weapons demand and robust defense spending amid escalating global security concerns.
May 10, 2024
Authorities in Argentina say at least 90 people were injured in Buenos Aires when a passenger train struck an empty box car on the tracks and derailed
May 10, 2024
U.S.
May 10, 2024
It was the barking that saved Rippy, a mutt that fell deep into a working rock quarry
May 10, 2024
Canada will contribute C$76 million ($55.7 million) to a German-led initiative that aims to quickly source and deliver air defense systems to Ukraine to fend off Russian attacks,
May 10, 2024
Mock coffins have filled one of Milan’s most famous squares in a protest organized by Italy’s second-largest union to raise awareness over workplace deaths
May 10, 2024
Liam and Olivia have for the fifth year topped the list of top baby names for brand new boys and girls in the U.S., according to the Social Security Administration
May 10, 2024
Scotland's leader faced a fight for his political future on Thursday as opponents said they would try to oust him after his once dominant pro-
May 10, 2024
Egypt has asked for a follow-up meeting with Israel in renewed efforts to mediate a deal for a ceasefire and the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, two Egyptian security sources
May 10, 2024
The Israeli government sought another deferral on Thursday of a looming Supreme Court-enforced deadline for it to come up with a new military conscription plan
May 10, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed his gratitude on Thursday for the U.S. aid bill for Ukraine during calls with U.S.
May 10, 2024
China must stop supporting Russia's war in Ukraine if it wants to enjoy good relations with the West, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, warning Beijing in
May 10, 2024
Kenya's military was deployed on Thursday to rescue victims of heavy rains that have killed dozens of people across East Africa over the past month.
May 10, 2024
At least one person is dead in Florida as powerful storms continue to pummel the South during a week of severe weather across the U.S. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday issued an executive order declaring a state of emergency for some north Florida counties
May 10, 2024
A federal appeals court has upheld the criminal conviction of Donald Trump’s longtime ally Steve Bannon for defying a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol
May 10, 2024
The United States is planning to temporarily withdraw some of its troops from Chad, U.S. officials said on Thursday, a move that comes just days after Washington was forced to
May 10, 2024
Authorities in Russia say seven people were killed when a bus veered off a bridge in St. Petersburg, the country's second-largest city
May 10, 2024
A U.S. proposal for using the interest derived from $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine could win broad support from
May 10, 2024
Wireless carrier T-Mobile US expects to invest about $950 million for a 50% stake in a joint venture with Swedish investment firm EQT's fund that will buy fiber optic network provider
May 10, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he will suspend public duties until next week to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a
May 10, 2024
Toyota launched a public transport pilot on Thursday with nine fully electric Hilux Revo pickup trucks in Thailand, a key Southeast Asian
May 10, 2024
Anglo American's London-listed shares spiked in late UK trade on Wednesday, hours before the miner announced a $39 billion bid by
May 10, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for stronger, more integrated European defences as he outlined his vision for a more assertive
May 10, 2024
Two environmental activists have attacked a glass case containing an original copy of the Magna Carta at the British Library
May 10, 2024
Mozambique's army is fighting Islamist insurgents who launched a major attack on the northern town of Macomia on Friday morning, President Filipe Nyusi said in a televised address.
May 10, 2024
Japan’s defense chief has called for the bolstering of its anti-drone capability after a drone footage posted on a Chinese social media site showed a Japanese aircraft carrier docked at a restricted navy port west of Tokyo
May 10, 2024
Hundreds of volunteers have set up a makeshift dog shelter in an abandoned, roofless warehouse in the Brazilian city of Canoas, one of the hardest hit by floods in southern Brazil’s Rio Grande do Sul state
May 10, 2024
Charred homes and cars dot the hilltop West Bank village of Duma, a searing reminder of Palestinians' vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers
May 10, 2024
Ukraine has rushed reinforcements to its northeastern Kharkiv region to hold off a Russian attempt to breach local defenses
May 10, 2024
Nebraskans will cast presidential primary ballots Tuesday in a reliably Republican state that could nonetheless be decisive in the race for the White House
May 10, 2024
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump look to pad their delegate totals in Maryland as the presidential primary campaign enters its final weeks
May 10, 2024
An Australian judge has extended a ban on social media platform X allowing videos of the stabbing of a Sydney bishop in his church last month after government lawyers condemned the company's free speech argument for keeping the graphic images circulating
May 10, 2024
The U.N. says heavy fighting between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has left crucial nearby aid crossings inaccessible and caused over 110,000 people to flee north
May 10, 2024
Eden Golan is in Sweden for the Eurovision Song Contest
May 10, 2024
Police have made dozens of arrests as pro-Palestinian protest encampments were dismantled at the University of Pennsylvania, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona
May 10, 2024
A top Indian opposition leader has been freed from jail on interim bail by the Supreme Court nearly seven weeks after his arrest in a bribery case
May 10, 2024
South Korea has vowed to protect its companies operating in other markets after Japanese regulators told LY Corp., which runs the popular chat app Line, to reduce its dependence on Naver, the Korean partner in the venture
May 10, 2024
The U_N_ General Assembly has overwhelmingly passed a resolution to give Palestine more “rights and privileges.”
May 10, 2024
Russia is considering downgrading the level of its diplomatic relations with the United States if Western governments go ahead with proposals to confiscate its frozen assets, state
May 10, 2024
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday his country was facing grave threats internally and externally that had required it to change its security posture
May 10, 2024
The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell last week, pointing to still tight labor market conditions.
May 10, 2024
Mexican cement maker Cemex reported a 13% increase in first-quarter net profit on Thursday, bolstered by lower taxes and less exposure to
May 10, 2024
The German ambassador to China was summoned by Beijing on Thursday in response to several arrests in Germany on suspicion of Chinese espionage, a spokesperson for the German foreign
May 10, 2024
Republican China hardliners Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik are calling on the Biden administration to block all sales to Huawei after the sanctioned Chinese
May 10, 2024
Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions targeting Iran's military drone industry, in response to Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel earlier this month.
May 10, 2024
Russia said on Thursday that Poland was playing a "very dangerous game" by considering the possibility of hosting U.S. nuclear weapons.
May 10, 2024
Prosecutors in Spain asked a court on Thursday to throw out a corruption case against Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife that has prompted him to announce he is
May 10, 2024
The United States on Thursday issued further sanctions on Iran, targeting Iranian drones, including their use by Russia in the war in Ukraine, as Washington
May 10, 2024
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are in Nigeria to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick servicemembers and veterans
May 10, 2024
Spain, Ireland and other European Union member countries plan to recognise a Palestinian state on May 21, the EU's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said late on Thursday ahead
May 10, 2024
The U.N. General Assembly has voted by a wide margin to grant new “rights and privileges” to Palestine and has called on the Security Council to reconsider Palestine's request to become the 194th member of the United Nations
May 10, 2024
Polish farmers have marched through downtown Warsaw to protest the European Union’s climate policies and to oppose the pro-EU government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk
May 10, 2024
South Korea's foreign minister Cho Tae-yul will visit China between Monday and Tuesday next week at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, Seoul's foreign ministry said
May 10, 2024
The British economy bounced back strongly in the first three months of the year, bringing to an end to what economists termed a “technical recession.”
May 10, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as the country’s prime minister
May 10, 2024
New Delhi said on Thursday it does not attach any value to a U.S. State Department report critical of human rights in India, and called it deeply biased.
May 10, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov has accused the United States of exerting pressure on Turkey's national airline to bar Russian
May 10, 2024
Madrid's prosecuting authority on Thursday sought the dismissal of a case against Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife.
May 10, 2024
Israeli warplanes pounded the northern Gaza strip for a second day on Wednesday in a fierce assault that has shattered weeks of
May 10, 2024
ASML's new boss Christophe Fouquet faces a tricky balancing act in helping to steer Europe's biggest tech company through the US/China "chip war", while
May 10, 2024
Textron is expanding its restructuring plan to include about 1,500 job cuts, it said on Thursday, after U.S.
May 10, 2024
Iranians have voted in a runoff election for the remaining seats in the country’s parliament after hard-line politicians dominated March balloting
May 10, 2024
After the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders worldwide vowed to do better next time but are still struggling to finalize a global plan
May 10, 2024
Ronald Greene’s deadly arrest on a rural Louisiana roadside in 2019 sparked outrage after The Associated Press published long-suppressed body-camera video showing white state troopers stunning, beating and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”
May 10, 2024
A Russian missile attack on Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv injured two people and set three houses on fire in the early hours of Friday, local
May 10, 2024
Luka Doncic had 29 points, 10 rebounds and seven assists, and the Dallas Mavericks defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder 119-110 to even their Western Conference semifinals series at one win apiece
May 10, 2024
About 6 million Catalans are called to cast ballots in regional elections on Sunday that will surely have reverberations in Spain's national politics
May 10, 2024
Shunned publicly by politicians and intellectuals for centuries, Vodou is transforming into a more powerful and accepted religion across Haiti, where its believers were once persecuted
May 10, 2024
Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow's intentions
May 10, 2024
Some universities are vowing to provide information about how much university endowment money is invested in companies profiting from the Israel-Hamas war amid calls from pro-Palestinian protesters
May 10, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly backed a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join
May 10, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he met British finance minister Jeremy Hunt in Kyiv and called for sanctions against Russia to be tightened to stop Moscow
May 10, 2024
A diplomatic crisis in Ecuador and uncertainty over Venezuela's political future have divided South American nations and
May 10, 2024
Inflation in key African economies will slow into next year but remain stubbornly high in Nigeria due to sporadic flooding and difficult terrain for the naira
May 10, 2024
Senior Chinese military officials held separate meetings with U.S. and Russian naval counterparts during a Western Pacific naval symposium in Qingdao this week, a
May 10, 2024
Lockheed Martin Corp and RTX Corp, fresh off a surge of orders in response to Russian aggression against Ukraine and the war in Gaza, stand to profit from $95
May 10, 2024
Birkin bag maker Hermes reported a 17% surge in first-quarter sales on Thursday, sustaining a rapid growth rate from the previous quarter including in China, and
May 10, 2024
Rudy Giuliani, a former lawyer for Donald Trump, is among 18 people charged in Arizona with illegally seeking to claim the state's 2020 electoral
May 10, 2024
Britain's King Charles has given his assent to legislation central to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda.
May 10, 2024
Hungary's Integrity Authority, an anti-fraud body tasked with overseeing European Union funds, lacks the proper investigative authority to expose possible
May 10, 2024
American Airlines forecast current-quarter profit largely above analysts' expectations on Thursday, amid a rebound in business travel and expectations of strong demand in the upcoming
May 10, 2024
Hawaii health officials say testing on west Maui residents shows no evidence of widespread lead exposure from last summer’s wildfires
May 10, 2024
An annual survey of more than 500 European companies has found that slowing growth in China is weighing on company plans to expand their businesses in the world’s second largest economy
May 09, 2024
The Minnesota Timberwolves did the hard part by winning the first two games of their Western Conference semifinal series in Denver against the defending champion Nuggets
May 09, 2024
Kenya's government has advised lawmakers against banning TikTok over concerns about content shared on the platform, and instead recommended stricter oversight by
May 09, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is limited in what he can publicly say as his hush money trial is underway in New York
May 09, 2024
Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Deby Itno, has been declared the winner of this week’s presidential election
May 09, 2024
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria will start a special officer training later this year to deepen her military training, the Royal Court said on Thursday.
May 09, 2024
Japan's Toyota Motor will pair up with China's Tencent while Nissan will team up with Baidu, the companies said on Thursday, cross-border partnerships that
May 09, 2024
BHP Group's proposed $39 billion buyout of Anglo American is a big bet on copper that could spark a scramble for mining assets as a bullish demand
May 09, 2024
Britain's WPP became a clear laggard among global ad companies with a drop in organic revenue drop in the first quarter, hurt by less spending from tech clients, a
May 09, 2024
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co warned on Thursday of intensifying competition and uncertain global economic conditions after posting a 2.4%
May 09, 2024
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is among individuals being investigated in connection with a graft probe involving his sons, the head of Malaysia's Anti-
May 09, 2024
The sails of the landmark red windmill atop the Moulin Rouge, the most celebrated cabaret club in Paris, fell to the ground overnight in the early hours of Thursday
May 09, 2024
Several people have been detained by police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after demonstrators blocked a parking garage in their ongoing protest movement connected to the Israel-Hamas war
May 09, 2024
A new Biden administration rule aims to speed up asylum processing at the southern border, enabling it to quickly reject a limited group of people believed to have committed serious crimes or who have terrorist links
May 09, 2024
A horse that was perilously stranded on a rooftop by Brazil's deadly floods has been rescued
May 09, 2024
The U.S. government has updated its rules for bringing a dog into the country
May 09, 2024
Two backcountry skiers were killed and one was rescued after an avalanche Thursday in the mountains outside of Salt Lake City
May 09, 2024
A New Hampshire man convicted of killing his 5-year-old daughter and moving her corpse around for months before disposing of it has been sentenced to a minimum of 56 years in prison on murder and other charges
May 09, 2024
Lawmakers in Ohio have failed to come to an agreement on adjusting a state election deadline that stands to prevent President Joe Biden from appearing on the 2024 ballot
May 09, 2024
Xavier University of Louisiana has reversed course and canceled Saturday’s planned commencement address by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield
May 09, 2024
Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive back Jimmy Johnson, a three-time All-Pro and member of the All-Decade Team of the 1970s, has died
May 09, 2024
Delays and flight cancellations were set to impact swathes of Europe on Thursday, after authorities failed to reach a deal with some French air traffic control workers to
May 09, 2024
Real estate deals in Europe fell through in their highest numbers since the global financial crisis in the first quarter of 2024, data firm MSCI Real Assets said on
May 09, 2024
South Korean flat-screen maker LG Display returned to an operating loss in the first quarter, hit by weakening demand for large display panels for TVs and small panels
May 09, 2024
The Ukrainian government, further tightening regulations as it seeks to address a shortage of troops, approved rules temporarily barring military-age men from applying for passports abroad.
May 09, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery maker CATL on Thursday unveiled a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery with a driving range of more than 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) on a
May 09, 2024
Equinor posted a sharp fall in first-quarter profit on Thursday, hit by tumbling natural gas prices in Europe, though strong energy trading and rising output limited the decline.
May 09, 2024
A small number of people in the United Arab Emirates have shown symptoms associated with contaminated water after heavy rains and floods, the health ministry said.
May 09, 2024
The South Korean economy grew at the fastest pace in more than two years in the first quarter beating all estimates with a pick-up in domestic
May 09, 2024
Nissan Motor and Mazda Motor unveiled new cars tailored for Chinese drivers on Thursday, signalling a fresh push by Japanese automakers to regain ground in the
May 09, 2024
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi has locked in 75,723 orders for its sporty SU7 electric sedan as of April 24, and aims to deliver over 10,000 units in June, founder Lei Jun said on
May 09, 2024
A third man has been detained in a bribery investigation centring on Deputy Russian Defence Minister Timur Ivanov, the Moscow court service said on Thursday.
May 09, 2024
Venice became the first city in the world on Thursday to introduce a payment system for visitors in an experiment aimed at dissuading tourists from arriving during peak periods.
May 09, 2024
A former senior White House aide with deep political connections is running for Congress in her home state of New Hampshire
May 09, 2024
Police say suspected militants bombed a girls school in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure
May 09, 2024
The U.S. is warning that Israel will be dealing a strategic victory to Hamas if it carries through with plans for an all-out assault on Rafah
May 09, 2024
The Philadelphia Phillies are off to one of their hottest starts in years and have the best winning percentage in baseball
May 09, 2024
Beijing and Washington have quietly resumed cooperation on the deportation of Chinese immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally
May 09, 2024
A big crowd of protesters gathered in the Armenian capital Yerevan on Thursday to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his decision to cede several border
May 09, 2024
The U.S. Justice Department sued Iowa over its new law that would give the state the authority to arrest and deport some migrants
May 09, 2024
Pope Francis started the countdown on Thursday to the 2025 Holy Year, or Jubilee, which is one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important events and is expected to draw
May 09, 2024
Pope Francis formally proclaimed on Thursday a Holy Year starting in late December, which will stress the need for hope in a world beset by hunger, poverty
May 09, 2024
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country’s army is facing “a really difficult situation” in eastern regions
May 09, 2024
The Islamist movement Hamas published a video on Wednesday apparently showing Hersh Goldberg-Polin, an Israeli-American seized during Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel and taken
May 09, 2024
Singapore's Keppel said on Thursday its first-quarter net profit excluding the effects of legacy offshore and marine assets was higher, boosted by strong performance in the global asset
May 09, 2024
Thousands gathered across Australia and New Zealand on Thursday at Anzac Day services to commemorate those who fought and died in major conflicts in the nations' history.
May 09, 2024
South Korean battery maker LG Energy Solution (LGES) said on Thursday it plans to minimise capital expenditure this year due to slowing global
May 09, 2024
Morgan Stanley Private Equity Asia (PEA) is reorganising its teams in the region as its current chief executive of Asia Chin Chou is retiring, according to an internal
May 09, 2024
Apple lost its crown as China's biggest smartphone seller in the first quarter of 2024 as its smartphone shipments fell 6.6% from a year ago amid intense competition, preliminary data from
May 09, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD unveiled the U7, its third ultra-luxury model under the Yangwang brand, on Thursday, as it makes a push upmarket to increase profitability amid
May 09, 2024
Thai banks will cut lending rates by 25 basis points for vulnerable groups for a period of six months, a bankers' association said on Thursday, responding to a government request
May 09, 2024
China is providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to
May 09, 2024
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are protesting in Malmo, Sweden against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest
May 09, 2024
The Slovenian government on Thursday initiated the procedure for the recognition of a Palestinian state as a form of leverage to end the conflict in Gaza, a move it announced in
May 09, 2024
India says Canada has shared no evidence to back its allegation that the Indian government was involved in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada last year, despite the recent arrests of three Indian men in the crime
May 09, 2024
A Ukrainian gymnast has led a group of European athletes carrying the torch for the Paris Olympics through Marseille, a gesture of European unity and solidarity with her country amid its war with Russia
May 09, 2024
A research group that's trying to lay the groundwork for a second Trump administration if the former president wins in November is out with a new policy book that aims to articulate an “America First” national security agenda
May 09, 2024
A criminal case against the governor of Moldova's region of Gagauzia has been sent to court, prosecutors said on Wednesday, setting up the prospect of the
May 09, 2024
North Macedonian presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova held a big lead over incumbent Stevo Pendarovski with votes counted from almost 70% of polling stations on
May 09, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 09, 2024
A U.S. appeals court revived a lawsuit accusing Whole Foods of illegally firing a worker who refused to remove her "Black Lives Matter" facemask and
May 09, 2024
Gathered around a banner emblazoned with the words “stop arming Israel,” thousands of protesters joined with Jewish-led peace groups in Brooklyn, New York, on
May 09, 2024
One major land crossing into Gaza was shut down after a Hamas rocket attack, another by an Israeli incursion
May 09, 2024
Body camera video shows a Florida sheriff’s deputy announced himself as law enforcement just before fatally shooting a Black U.S. Air Force airman inside his apartment in the state’s Panhandle
May 09, 2024
The award-winning Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison and lashings ahead of his planned trip to the Cannes film festival, his lawyer tells The Associated Press
May 09, 2024
Loaves of bread have been taken off store shelves in Japan after the remains of “a small animal” believed to be a rat were found
May 09, 2024
The head of a center-right 22-party coalition that emerged victorious in North Macedonia’s parliamentary election has fallen just short of gaining a parliamentary majority, leaving it reliant on entering a partnership with another party to form a government
May 09, 2024
Here are some milestones in Israel's ties with the United States, now strained by Israeli government plans for a major assault on Rafah in southern Gaza and a warning by President Joe
May 09, 2024
The Taliban are warning journalists and experts against working with Afghanistan International TV
May 09, 2024
Hungary and China have signed agreements to deepen their economic and cultural cooperation during a visit to the Central European country by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a trip meant to solidify China’s economic footprint in the region
May 09, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that a U.S. threat to withhold some arms would not prevent Israel from continuing its offensive in Gaza, indicating it might proceed with an invasion of the packed city of Rafah against the wishes of its closest ally
May 09, 2024
Senegal’s transport minister says a Boeing 737 carrying 85 people caught fire and skidded off a runway at an airport near the capital and 10 people were injured
May 09, 2024
A made-in-China electric vehicle will hit U.S. dealers this summer offering power and efficiency similar to the Tesla Model Y, the world's best-
May 09, 2024
The Gaza Strip could surpass famine thresholds of food insecurity, malnutrition and mortality in six weeks, an official from the World Food Programme
May 09, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would do its best to make up for half a year lost to U.S. congressional debate as he thanked President Joe
May 09, 2024
Russian missiles damaged residential buildings and injured six people in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, early on Wednesday, Governor Oleh Synehubov said on Telegram.
May 09, 2024
Legalizing settler outposts in the Israeli-occupied West Bank would be "dangerous and reckless," the U.S.
May 09, 2024
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has left King Faisal Specialist hospital in Jeddah after completing "a routine check up", Saudi state media reported on Wednesday citing the
May 09, 2024
An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges linked to Iran's 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told Iranian newspaper Sharq on
May 09, 2024
The yen dropped against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday to its weakest since mid-1990 above the key 155 area, with markets alert to any signs of
May 09, 2024
Brazilian Supreme Court justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday closed an investigation into whether former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro sought asylum at the Hungarian
May 09, 2024
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a U.S.-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution that called on countries to prevent an arms race in outer space, a
May 09, 2024
The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country
May 09, 2024
Japan’s Fisheries Agency has proposed expanding commercial whaling to fin whales, a larger species than the three allowed now
May 09, 2024
Air Vanuatu has cancelled international flights for four days and is considering bankruptcy protection for the South Pacific state-owned carrier
May 09, 2024
Nissan’s profit for the fiscal year through March has jumped 92% to 426.6 billion yen, or $2.7 billion, as the Japanese automaker’s sales grew in all major global markets except China
May 09, 2024
Russia is warning its Western adversaries that it feels obliged to boost its nuclear deterrent due to what it sees as their "escalatory" course, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei
May 09, 2024
Brazil's central bank director Gabriel Galipolo said on Wednesday that the monetary authority should not get spooked with "short-term" market fluctuations and will need time to
May 09, 2024
Italy will sign an agreement with Ukraine and the United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO to rebuild the city of Odesa and its cathedral which was badly damaged by a Russian attack,
May 09, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday allegations that the aide to a prominent far-right politician had been spying for China were "
May 09, 2024
The European Commission is expected to propose sanctions on ships delivering North Korean military equipment to Russia as well as tankers that flout
May 09, 2024
U.S.
May 09, 2024
Tensions in Tunisia have ratcheted up as demonstrators seeking better rights for migrants staged a sit-in before European Union headquarters, capping a week in which Tunisian authorities targeted migrant communities from the coast to the capital with arrests and the demolition of tent camps
May 09, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is calling for an end to “antisemitic abuse” at U.K. universities as protests against the war in Gaza expand and the government tries to prevent the type of unrest seen on American campuses in recent weeks
May 09, 2024
Tens of thousands of displaced and exhausted Palestinians have packed up their tents and other belongings and fled the southern city of Rafah for other parts of Gaza
May 09, 2024
Former Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama has been sentenced to a year in prison for interfering in a criminal investigation while leading the government of his South Pacific island nation
May 09, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for two missile attacks in the Gulf of Aden on two Panama-flagged container ships that caused no damage
May 09, 2024
The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday
May 09, 2024
A 10-year-old boy is in grave condition in Tennessee after being swept into a storm drain in a community southeast of Nashville
May 09, 2024
Iran will change its nuclear doctrine if Israel threatens its existence, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader said, the latest comment by an Iranian official that raises questions
May 09, 2024
The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted the first EU-wide rules on combating domestic abuse and violence against women.
May 09, 2024
Turkey on Wednesday accused the United States of having a policy of double standards on human rights, saying Washington's annual rights report failed to reflect Israel's assaults in
May 09, 2024
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund will meet on April 29 to discuss the approval of $1.1 billion funding for Pakistan, the fund
May 09, 2024
A Ukrainian air attack on Russia's Belgorod region injured eight people and damaged scores of residential buildings and cars, the governor of the region bordering with Ukraine said on
May 09, 2024
Torchbearers are carrying the Olympic flame through the streets of France’s southern port city of Marseille, the first leg of an 11-week journey across the country
May 09, 2024
Russia wrapped itself in patriotic pageantry for Victory Day, as President Vladimir Putin celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II by hailing his forces in Ukraine and blasting the West for fueling conflicts around the world
May 09, 2024
The Vatican has crossed a key milestone in the runup to its 2025 Jubilee with the promulgation of the official decree establishing the Holy Year
May 09, 2024
A Russian Orthodox priest who led a memorial service last month at the grave of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been suspended from clerical duties and ordered
May 09, 2024
Drones sent by Ukraine's SBU security service struck two Rosneft-owned oil depots in Russia's Smolensk region in an overnight attack on Wednesday, a Ukrainian intelligence source said
May 09, 2024
German email service Tuta Mail has complained to European Union tech regulators about what it described as a sudden drop in Google search results on the day the
May 09, 2024
A wildfire blazed early on Wednesday outside the picturesque western Cuba valley town of Vinales, state-run media said, threatening a region considered to be among the island's most
May 09, 2024
Mexico's consumer prices unexpectedly rose in the first half of April, national statistics agency INEGI said on Wednesday, reinforcing bets that the country's central bank will hold its
May 09, 2024
Stress scenarios from Russia's economy ministry envisage GDP and real income growth almost grinding to a halt next year and the rouble diving from around 93 per
May 09, 2024
Germany slightly raised its forecast for economic growth this year on Wednesday and eased its inflation outlook, but its economy and finance ministers said structural changes were
May 09, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron Trump, has been chosen to serve as a Florida delegate to the Republican National Convention
May 09, 2024
China's military is accusing the U.S. of playing up for maximum political effect its warship's passage through the Taiwan Strait
May 09, 2024
Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, as Prime
May 09, 2024
A transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for Haiti is changing the way it operates in a move that is surprising many as gang violence consumes the country
May 09, 2024
For nearly six decades, the fate of a Vietnam War missing pilot had become an unsolvable mystery. But thanks to modern science and hours of investigative efforts, that pilot has now finally been accounted for, and his remains have been identified after vanishing without a trace in 1967. On August 22, 1967, 35-year-old pilot John C.G. Kerr’s aircraft simply went dark without any radio calls on a covert night time armed reconnaissance mission over the jungles of Laos. There were no distress signals or last communications, and Kerr and his plane seemed to have completely disappeared into the thick foliage.
May 08, 2024
Fiji's former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama was on Thursday sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the
May 08, 2024
An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling junta from whom rebel fighters wrested the key trading
May 08, 2024
The former leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), Jeffrey Donaldson, faces 11 historical sex offence charges, including one
May 08, 2024
Leaked discussions about a mass deportation plan. A trial for using Nazi language.
May 08, 2024
Ukraine received a new 1.5-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) tranche of financial support from the European Union on Wednesday and hopes to get another 10 billion euros later this year,
May 08, 2024
South Sudanese authorities are holding up United Nations fuel tankers over a tax dispute, jeopardising the delivery of millions of dollars of aid during a
May 08, 2024
The yen fell on Wednesday to its weakest levels against the dollar since 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop up their currency.
May 08, 2024
Tornado emergencies have been called in Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa and more states over the past few weeks during recent periods of severe weather
May 08, 2024
A civil rights attorney says deputies responding to a disturbance call at a Florida apartment complex burst into the wrong unit and fatally shot a Black U.S. Air Force airman
May 08, 2024
Bayern Munich defender Matthijs de Ligt has said the linesman apologized to him for raising the flag for offside before he scored what would have been a late equalizer in the Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid
May 08, 2024
President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah,
May 08, 2024
Indiana Fever rookie Caitlin Clark may be as recognizable as any established WNBA star
May 08, 2024
Veteran military officer Captain Joaquim Correia Bernardo, 84, remembers the revolution that toppled Portugal's fascist
May 08, 2024
An Australian counter terrorism team arrested seven teenagers on Wednesday linked to a boy charged with a religiously-motivated terror attack on a Sydney bishop and
May 08, 2024
Iran and Pakistan called on the United Nations Security Council in a joint statement issued on Wednesday to take action against Israel, saying it had "
May 08, 2024
The German debt-to-GDP ratio is likely to rise slightly this year but then fall steadily until 2028, the finance ministry said on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024
Former California Congressman Pete McCloskey, who ran as a Republican challenging President Richard Nixon in 1972, has died
May 08, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed "firm support and solidarity" for Russia in his congratulatory message to Russian President Vladimir Putin over Victory Day, which marks
May 08, 2024
Real Madrid has defeated Bayern Munich 2-1 to reach the Champions League final for the second time in three seasons
May 08, 2024
The Biden administration plans to propose a new rule Thursday aimed at speeding up the asylum claims process for some migrants
May 08, 2024
In sometimes violent confrontations, police have broken up a protest by pro-Palestinian activists at the University of Amsterdam Wednesday in a second straight day of unrest over the war in Gaza
May 08, 2024
Bayern Munich forward Serge Gnabry has been replaced because of an injury in the first half of the Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid
May 08, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping has arrived in Hungary, the final stop on his five-day European tour
May 08, 2024
Swedish automaker Volvo Cars said on Wednesday it expects good demand for its vehicles this year after a rise in first-quarter unit sales, though operating earnings missed
May 08, 2024
Achieving her career ambitions in Spain has proved remarkably easy for Sara Hernandez, a systems architect from Venezuela who found her skills were in hot demand
May 08, 2024
Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said the country will continue to build overwhelming and the strongest military power to protect its sovereignty
May 08, 2024
Japan's ruling party is not yet in active discussion on what yen levels would be deemed worth intervening in the market, though the currency's
May 08, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities,
May 08, 2024
Chinese firm Ant Group's Alipay+ has not formally requested a permit for operations in Indonesia, central bank deputy governor Filianingsih Hendarta told a news conference on
May 08, 2024
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said late on Tuesday that Portugal was responsible for crimes committed during transatlantic slavery and the colonial era, and
May 08, 2024
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday she was happy the U.S.
May 08, 2024
Thailand's 500 billion baht ($13.53 billion) handout scheme aims to reach the wider population and boost the overall economy through stimulus, a finance official said on Wednesday,
May 08, 2024
Indonesia's central bank delivered a surprise rate hike on Wednesday, stepping up efforts to support the rupiah currency which has fallen to
May 08, 2024
The U.S.
May 08, 2024
Voting rights advocates have created a new initiative to increase Black voter turnout ahead of this fall's general election
May 08, 2024
The U.S. has paused a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel over concerns that the country has not adequately taken civilian safety into account in its upcoming military operation in Rafah, and that the massive weapon would inflict additional civilian casualties
May 08, 2024
No matter whether Nemo wins the Eurovision Song Contest this weekend — which would make them the first nonbinary contestant to take home the crystal microphone — the Swiss singer is already a success
May 08, 2024
Kenya's public hospital doctors union has called off a national strike that had left patients in limbo for almost two months
May 08, 2024
Authorities in southern Brazil are rushing to rescue survivors of massive flooding that has killed at least 100 people, but some residents are refusing to leave belongings behind while others are returning to evacuated homes despite the risk of new storms
May 08, 2024
U.S. lawmakers reacted to President Joe Biden's decision to suspend delivery of certain munitions to Israel that appeared to be a possible shift in U.S. policy, although the
May 08, 2024
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare said he narrowly won his seat and still exercises power over security in the Pacific Islands nation, as he vies with
May 08, 2024
Standard Chartered has cut its forecast for Vietnam's economic growth this year to 6.0% from 6.7%, the bank said on Wednesday, citing lower-than-expected growth in the first quarter
May 08, 2024
Scandal-hit Toyota Motor subsidiary Daihatsu aims to fully resume developing vehicles by as early as the end of this year, the president of the compact carmaker told
May 08, 2024
The Spanish government has distanced itself from letters written by a minister from the left-wing junior coalition partner urging Spanish companies in Israel to ensure they did not
May 08, 2024
Families of the victims of last week's bombings at two camps of displaced people in eastern Congo, which killed at least sixteen people, have mourned their loved ones at a ceremony in the city of Goma
May 08, 2024
The Texas Rangers have reacquired switch-hitting outfielder Robbie Grossman in a trade with the Chicago White Sox
May 08, 2024
President Joe Biden says he won't supply offensive weapons Israel can use to launch an all-out assault on Rafah — the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza — over concern for the well-being of the more than 1 million civilians sheltering there
May 08, 2024
New U.S. rules require all dogs coming into the U.S. to be at least 6 months old and microchipped to help prevent the spread of rabies
May 08, 2024
European Union nations have reached a tentative breakthrough deal to provide Ukraine with billions in additional funds for arms and ammunitions coming from the profits raised from frozen Russian central bank assets held in the bloc
May 08, 2024
The main maternity hospital in the Gaza Strip's crowded southern city of Rafah has stopped admitting patients, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said on
May 08, 2024
Civil rights groups and Democratic lawmakers are concerned about a push by some House Republicans to include a citizenship question on the once-a-decade census
May 08, 2024
Poland's prime minister wants to revive a Polish commission investigating Russian influence, he said on Wednesday, amid heightened fears about espionage after a Polish judge who had
May 08, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 08, 2024
Turkey's poor human rights record and economic factors are undermining the effectiveness of the European Union's migration deal with Ankara, EU auditors said
May 08, 2024
Ecuador is scoping out new debt-for-nature swaps, one to funnel funds into the Amazon rainforest and another for a giant ocean protection zone backed by Hollywood star
May 08, 2024
A German court on Tuesday handed down suspended eight-month prison sentences to three climate activists who sprayed orange paint on the columns of Berlin's
May 08, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he is willing to receive an envoy from the United Nations' human rights office, after his government asked staff to leave the
May 08, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces competing pressures at home and abroad when he weighs how far to push the operation to defeat Hamas in Rafah that
May 08, 2024
There is only enough fuel to run health services in the south of Gaza for three more days, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
May 08, 2024
Britain says it is expelling Russia’s defense attaché after accusing him of being a spy
May 08, 2024
An attorney for Donald Trump says the former president looks forward to presenting arguments to a Georgia appeals court that will review a ruling letting Fani Willis keep prosecuting the election interference case against him
May 08, 2024
Distress about the Earth’s future is driving many young people to act
May 08, 2024
A Catalan separatist leader, running to regain the presidency of the restive Spanish region, is bussing supporters to his election rallies over the border in France
May 08, 2024
As battles raged on the outskirts of Rafah on Wednesday with Israeli forces closing in, Palestinians were on the move again, abandoning
May 08, 2024
The prime minister of Thailand says he wants to outlaw the cannabis over concerns the lack of regulation had made it available to children and increased crimes
May 08, 2024
After beating Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Borussia Dortmund got the better of the French club on social media as well
May 08, 2024
A Russian court on Tuesday rejected the latest in a series of appeals by Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich against his pre-trial detention on charges of espionage.
May 08, 2024
Egypt's economy will grow slower than previously expected this year after it signed an $8 billion financial support package with the IMF that came with conditions,
May 08, 2024
Mexican headline inflation likely ticked up in the first half of April as core inflation eased, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, boosting expectations that Mexico's central
May 08, 2024
Newly installed Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa announced a package of reforms on Tuesday aimed at strengthening the Palestinian Authority (PA) amid
May 08, 2024
Countries are under pressure to make progress on a first-ever global plastics treaty this week, but they face tense negotiations in the Canadian capital with parties
May 08, 2024
The U.S. government on Tuesday announced criminal charges and sanctions against four Iranians over an alleged multi-year cyber
May 08, 2024
Canada's Competition Bureau on Tuesday said it found major competition concerns around U.S. grains merchant Bunge's proposed acquisition of Glencore
May 08, 2024
The yen dropped to multi-year lows against the U.S. dollar and euro on Tuesday, keeping investors on heightened Japanese intervention watch ahead of
May 08, 2024
Israel has taken significant steps in recent weeks on allowing aid into Gaza, the U.S. special envoy for humanitarian issues said on Tuesday, but considerable
May 08, 2024
The U.S. military called on Iraq's government on Tuesday to take steps to safeguard American troops in both Iraq and Syria after failed attacks a
May 08, 2024
Italy's Senate gave final approval on Tuesday to a contested government plan to allow groups who "support motherhood" into abortion clinics to try to deter women terminating
May 08, 2024
Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones at Ukraine on Wednesday, hitting nearly a dozen energy infrastructure facilities across the country, in the latest in
May 08, 2024
Kenya’s President William Ruto has declared Friday a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died due to ongoing flooding
May 08, 2024
Spanish state prosecutors have recommended that an investigating judge shelve a probe into another alleged case of tax fraud by pop star Shakira
May 08, 2024
Rescue teams are continuing to search for dozens of construction workers who are believed to be buried in the rubble of an unfinished five-story apartment building that collapsed in South Africa on Monday
May 08, 2024
Republicans are welcoming a police crackdown that cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and led to the arrests of 33 protesters
May 08, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that sending NATO troops into Ukraine would potentially be extremely dangerous, and Moscow was closely watching a Ukrainian petition that called for such an
May 08, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that the war in Gaza was escalating due to Israel's incursion into Rafah and that Moscow so far saw no prospect for a peace settlement in
May 08, 2024
Cambodia’s Defense Ministry is insisting that the months-long presence of two Chinese warships at a strategically important naval base that is being expanded with funding from Beijing does not constitute a permanent deployment of the Chinese military in the country
May 08, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it
May 08, 2024
Russia warned France on Wednesday that if President Emmanuel Macron sent troops to Ukraine then they would be seen as legitimate targets by the Russian military.
May 08, 2024
Spain is to set up a fund, to be financed largely by the Catholic Church, to compensate an estimated 440,000 victims of decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, staff or teachers,
May 08, 2024
Spain's High Court on Tuesday reopened an investigation into the use of Israeli cyber-intelligence firm NSO Group's Pegasus software to spy on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and other
May 08, 2024
Apple's smartphone shipments in China tumbled 19% in the first quarter of the year, the worst performance since 2020, as the iPhone maker took a hit from
May 08, 2024
Norway's sovereign wealth fund has backed UBS' plan to make its Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bonds, a form of debt, more appealing to investors by protecting them
May 08, 2024
"Exercise, exercise, exercise", read an emergency text message which alerted people on the island of Crete of a mock earthquake measuring 7.2 off the
May 08, 2024
Norway called on international donors on Tuesday to resume payments to the UN agency for Palestinians refugees (UNRWA) after a report found Israel had yet to provide evidence that
May 08, 2024
The United States is preparing a $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, the first to be sourced from the yet to be signed Ukraine-Israel
May 08, 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday he would lift defence spending to 2.5% of GDP a year by 2030, saying the British arms industry must be on a "war footing
May 08, 2024
JD Sports Fashion has proposed to buy American athletic fashion retailer Hibbett Inc for about $1.08 billion, the companies said on Tuesday, as Britain's biggest
May 08, 2024
U.N. rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves
May 08, 2024
A Peruvian woman suffering from a degenerative illness has died by euthanasia after a lengthy court battle ended in a landmark ruling allowing her to end her life with medical
May 08, 2024
China and European Union candidate Serbia have signed an agreement to build a “shared future” between the two states, making the Balkan country the first in Europe to agree on such a document with Beijing
May 08, 2024
Maximilian Fischer, 20, is one of the new recruits to an institution that has been protecting popes since the 16th century - the Swiss Guard.
May 08, 2024
Ukraine's president says Russia has launched a massive nighttime attack on energy facilities across Ukraine, targeting seven regions with more than 50 missiles and drones
May 08, 2024
The Colorado Avalanche had gone a full week since wrapping up their first-round series, and were down three goals in the first period on the road against the top-seeded team
May 08, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street’s lull stretched into a second day
May 08, 2024
An appeals court has granted the Hong Kong government’s request to ban a protest song, overturning an earlier ruling and deepening concerns over the erosion of freedoms in the city
May 08, 2024
The Israeli military says it has reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza but a United Nations agency says no aid has yet entered
May 08, 2024
A'ja Wilson and the “resilient” Las Vegas Aces are healthy and and ready to defend their WNBA crown
May 08, 2024
The U.N. World Health Organization says it has only three days of fuel for its medical operations in southern Gaza, and shortages have already forced one of three hospitals in the city of Rafah to shut down
May 08, 2024
Tens of thousands welcomed the Olympic torch in the southern French city of Marseille, marking another milestone in the lead-up to the Summer Games in Paris
May 08, 2024
U.S. soldier Gordon Black, who has been detained the Russian city of Vladivostok until July 2, has been charged with theft causing significant damage, a Russian court said.
May 08, 2024
The decision by Boy Scouts of America to rebrand after 114 years and become Scouting America marks another major shakeup for an organization that once proudly resisted change
May 08, 2024
Miles Wood scored on a backhander 11:03 into overtime into overtime and the Colorado Avalanche, after trailing by three goals in the first period, beat the top-seeded Dallas Stars 4-3 in the opener of their second-round Western Conference series
May 08, 2024
Severe storms are tearing through the central and southeast U.S., spawning damaging tornadoes, producing massive hail, and killing two people in Tennessee and another in North Carolina
May 08, 2024
Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three
May 08, 2024
Grief, anger, humor, defiance and fear are some of the emotions Ukrainians are grappling with as they face a third year of war
May 08, 2024
A settlement has been reached in a civil lawsuit seeking damages from a 23-year-old man and his parents in the shooting of a Native American activist in northern New Mexico amid confrontations about a statue of a Spanish conquistador and aborted plans to reinstall it in public
May 08, 2024
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 29 points to help the top-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder defeat the Dallas Mavericks 117-95 in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series
May 08, 2024
French emergency services rescued 47 migrants from an attempt to cross the English Channel that left five people dead, including a 7-year-old girl, local official Jacques Billant
May 08, 2024
Russia will intensify strikes on Ukrainian storage bases that house Western-supplied weapons, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday, as the United States prepares to approve
May 08, 2024
Greece's economy will grow by 2.1% this year under a baseline scenario, the country's influential think tank IOBE said on Tuesday, revising down its previous estimate of 2.4% made in
May 08, 2024
Alphabet-owned Google is investing 600 million euros ($640.62 million) in a new data centre in the Dutch city of Groningen, it said on Tuesday, adding the investment will create
May 08, 2024
Russia's economy ministry improved its expectations for 2024 gross domestic product (GDP) growth to 2.8% from 2.3% in new forecasts published on Tuesday, while envisaging a weaker rouble
May 08, 2024
Saudi Arabia's economy will grow at a slower pace this year than previously predicted as oil prices drop from recent peaks, according to a Reuters poll which
May 08, 2024
A Palestinian rights group's legal challenge to try to stop British arms exports to Israel over allegations of breaches of international law in the war in Gaza will be
May 08, 2024
The Biden administration is due to deliver a first-of-its-kind verdict on whether Israel's conduct of its war in Gaza complies with international and U.S. laws
May 08, 2024
Germany's economy will stagnate in 2024 despite a stronger than expected start to the year, and will continue to lag behind European peers, according to German
May 08, 2024
U.S. and Philippine forces, backed by an Australian air force surveillance aircraft, have unleashed a barrage of high-precision rockets, artillery fire and airstrikes and sank a mock enemy ship as part of largescale war drills in and near the disputed South China Sea that have antagonized Beijing
May 08, 2024
North Korea says Kim Ki Nam, the propaganda chief who helped build personality cults around the country’s three dynastic leaders, has died at 94
May 08, 2024
Taiwan's military is prepared for any moves China may make around the time President-elect Lai Ching-te takes office later this month, the island's deputy defence minister said on
May 08, 2024
The U.S. paused a shipment of bombs to Israel last week over concerns that Israel was approaching a decision on launching a full-scale assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah against the wishes of the U.S. That's according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter
May 08, 2024
Jaylen Brown scored 32 points and the Boston Celtics powered past the Cleveland Cavaliers 120-95 in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series
May 08, 2024
Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday it was unwilling to make more concessions to
May 08, 2024
Azerbaijan asked the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Tuesday to move forward with a case accusing Armenia of carrying out a campaign of ethnic cleansing, one of two
May 08, 2024
Relations between Beijing and Washington are stabilising despite U.S. actions that harm Chinese interests, a Chinese foreign ministry official has said ahead of a visit by U.S.
May 08, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets have cheered up a bit this week, but ailing Tesla's tanking stock price faces a critical earnings test later on Tuesday
May 08, 2024
Chinese regulators are inspecting the use of a cross-border mechanism to invest in debt-laden local governments' offshore bonds, two sources said, indicating a ramping
May 08, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party have begun attacking opposition rivals, saying they favour minority Muslims, in
May 07, 2024
Cardinals catcher Willson Contreras broke his left forearm when he was hit by a swing during their game against the New York Mets
May 07, 2024
Soccer fans around the globe will now have a day to celebrate the world’s most popular sport every year – May 25
May 07, 2024
Transgender activists have flooded a Utah tip line created to alert state officials to possible violations of a new bathroom law with thousands of hoax reports
May 07, 2024
Brazil’s bid for the 2027 Women’s World Cup has been ranked higher than the bid submitted by Germany, Netherlands and Belgium in an evaluation report released by FIFA
May 07, 2024
Despite pleas from Democrats and gut-wrenching testimony from doctors and rape survivors, a GOP-controlled legislative committee rejected a bill that would have added cases of rape and incest as exceptions to Louisiana’s abortion ban
May 07, 2024
One-time movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was returned to a New York City jail in what his publicist said was a move resulting from a published report saying he was getting VIP treatment during his 10-day stay at a hospital
May 07, 2024
An ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Europe on Tuesday that Russia has already drafted legislation to retaliate if nearly $300 billion of Russian assets were seized by the
May 07, 2024
Major North Korean hacking groups have mounted "all-out" cyber attacks against South Korean defence companies for more than a year, breaching the firms' internal networks
May 07, 2024
Pakistan could secure a staff-level agreement on a new long-term larger loan with the International Monetary Fund by early July, its finance minister said on
May 07, 2024
France's dominant services sector expanded in April for the first time in almost a year, helping offset continued weakness in manufacturing, according to a monthly
May 07, 2024
Germany's private sector unexpectedly returned to growth in April, driven by a solid rise in activity in the country’s service sector, a preliminary survey showed
May 07, 2024
Russia's Belgorod region which borders Ukraine said that 120 civilians had been killed there in Ukrainian strikes and 651 people injured since the start of the war over two years
May 07, 2024
The increase in China's defence spending is concerning given its economy is "failing", the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
A top U.S. arms control official said on Tuesday the country was likely, although not guaranteed, to meet a new deadline to finalise trade exemptions for the AUKUS
May 07, 2024
The U.S.
May 07, 2024
AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a "surplus of available updated vaccines" since the pandemic.
May 07, 2024
The Chinese state-owned company at the center of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru's Pacific coast insisted on Tuesday on terms agreed
May 07, 2024
Officials say the body of the last missing construction worker killed in the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March has been recovered
May 07, 2024
The 2024 Met Gala raised more than $26 million, a record sum for the party that has become an annual gathering for mega-celebrities in fashion, film, TV, sports, music, business and more
May 07, 2024
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday he was open to discussing sending a Patriot missile system to Ukraine after German appeals to European Union and NATO member
May 07, 2024
An announcement by Hamas that it had accepted a cease-fire proposal sent people in the streets of Rafah into temporary jubilation
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden has hosted Klaus Iohannis, the president of Romania, at the White House
May 07, 2024
Vietnam's gross domestic product is seen growing 5.5% this year, the World Bank said on Tuesday, faster than an expansion of 5.05% last year.
May 07, 2024
European Union sanctions announced following Iran's attack against Israel are "regrettable" because the country was acting in self-defence, Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein
May 07, 2024
Singapore's key consumer price gauge rose 3.1% in March on a yearly basis, lower than economists' forecasts, official data showed on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
A key measure of Japan's trend inflation slowed to 1.3% in March, marking the smallest year-on-year increase in 11 months, data showed on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
South Korean and Romanian leaders pledged on Tuesday to boost defence industry cooperation as Seoul pushes to establish itself as the world's fourth-largest
May 07, 2024
Indonesia President Joko Widodo and his son, incoming vice president Gibran Rakabuming Raka, are no longer members of the country's largest party after they
May 07, 2024
India's business activity expanded at its fastest pace in nearly 14 years this month thanks to robust demand, according to a survey released on Tuesday that also
May 07, 2024
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region by climate related hazards last year, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said, with floods and storms causing the highest
May 07, 2024
Caitlin Clark’s first WNBA game in Los Angeles is being moved to a bigger stage
May 07, 2024
Clashes broke out between police and protesters during a pro-Palestinian rally in central Athens on Tuesday, a day after the Israeli military launched a ground and air operation in
May 07, 2024
Hamas official Osama Hamdan warned on Tuesday that if Israel's military aggression continues in Rafah, there will be no ceasefire deal.
May 07, 2024
Israel has launched an operation on Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, and seized control of the Gaza side of the key Rafah border crossing with Egypt
May 07, 2024
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he is calling a special meeting of the secret services to discuss alleged Russian and Belarusian influence
May 07, 2024
Israel and Hamas militants should be able to close the remaining gaps in their positions in order to reach a ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, the White House said on Tuesday
May 07, 2024
Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains
May 07, 2024
The U.S. Army says the soldier arrested in Russia late last week is being held in a pretrial detention facility
May 07, 2024
Fearful medics and patients are fleeing a hospital in Rafah and transfers of the sick and injured via a border crossing with Egypt are at a standstill due to
May 07, 2024
TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, are suing the U.S. government over a law that would ban the popular video-sharing app unless it’s sold to an approved buyer
May 07, 2024
The PGA Championship field next week at Valhalla includes everyone from the top 100 in the world
May 07, 2024
Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa said on Monday his party, which is now in opposition, will support security measures widely backed by voters in a weekend referendum but will
May 07, 2024
The U.S.
May 07, 2024
Israel has yet to provide evidence for its accusations that hundreds of staff with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA)
May 07, 2024
South Korea's economy likely grew 0.6% last quarter, maintaining the same pace of expansion as in the previous three months, as improving exports
May 07, 2024
The Bank of Japan is expected to project inflation will stay around its 2% target for the next three years in new forecasts due on Friday, signalling
May 07, 2024
Japan Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday last week's trilateral meeting with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts likely laid the groundwork for Tokyo to take
May 07, 2024
Blackstone-owned Crown Resorts was found suitable to retain its Sydney casino's licence after nearly three years of intensive remediation, a gambling regulator said on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
Prince Harry has arrived in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the Invictus Games but he won't see his father on this visit
May 07, 2024
Police are investigating a shooting outside rapper Drake’s mansion that left a security guard seriously wounded
May 07, 2024
Before his arrest in Russia, U.S. soldier Gordon Black not only broke Army rules by traveling to the Russian city of Vladivostok without
May 07, 2024
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos
May 07, 2024
Founded in 1910, the Boy Scouts of America achieved a vaunted status in the United States
May 07, 2024
The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history
May 07, 2024
German police cleared a pro-Palestinian protest camp on Tuesday at a courtyard of the Freie Universitaet Berlin, which had called for a stop to Israel's military
May 07, 2024
Competition in the 68th Eurovision Song Contest kicked off Tuesday in Sweden
May 07, 2024
More than 80% of residents in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre don't have running water one week after major flooding
May 07, 2024
Chile's state-run copper miner Codelco must focus on boosting its production, but it has a global prestige that would not
May 07, 2024
Chilean President Gabriel Boric told a major copper industry conference on Wednesday he expects production at state-
May 07, 2024
The Malian Supreme Court should annul the ruling junta's order to suspend political activities, a group of Malian political parties and civil society organisations said in an appeal
May 07, 2024
A Russian missile strike that broke in half a 240-metre (787-foot) television tower in Kharkiv on Monday is part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine's second
May 07, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 07, 2024
President Joe Biden on Monday met with U.S.
May 07, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he expressed gratitude to U.S. President Joe Biden for support and leadership in a telephone conversation.
May 07, 2024
U.S. and South Korean officials will meet in Hawaii this week for talks on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea, with the U.S. seeking "a fair and
May 07, 2024
A sharp selloff in U.S. bonds so far in April is prompting some investors to consider allocating more funds to the asset class to lock in
May 07, 2024
Chile's state-run copper miner Codelco is poised to improve production this year and begin to climb from its lowest dip in a quarter century,
May 07, 2024
European Union ministers said on Monday they were looking urgently at how to provide more air defences to Ukraine but they stopped short of concrete pledges of the
May 07, 2024
A bad season just keeps on getting worse for Manchester United
May 07, 2024
The United States has repatriated 11 of its citizens from sprawling camps in northeastern Syria that house tens of thousands of family members of suspected Islamic State militants
May 07, 2024
The U.S. Air Force says a 23-year-old airman supporting its Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, was shot and killed during an incident involving the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office
May 07, 2024
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a Maine woman who accused school officials of encouraging her teen’s gender expression without consulting her
May 07, 2024
Colombia's four main illegal armed groups grew during 2023 as they consolidated territorial control financed by drug trafficking and illicit gold extraction,
May 07, 2024
The Czech Constitutional Court has struck down a legal requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery before they are able to officially complete their transition, the court
May 07, 2024
A team of mid-ranking Israeli officials has arrived in Cairo to assess whether the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas can be persuaded to shift on its latest
May 07, 2024
Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators say they have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures
May 07, 2024
The United States repatriated 11 U.S. citizens, including five minors, from northeastern Syria, the State Department said on Tuesday, in the largest single return of Americans
May 07, 2024
Belgium's Princess Elisabeth will attend Harvard University later this year to study for a two year Master's degree in public policy, said the Belgian Royal Palace on Tuesday.
May 07, 2024
Ukraine's state security service said it caught two agents for Russia plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other top officials as "a gift" for Vladimir Putin as
May 07, 2024
The FBI has laid out a detailed case showing why agents believe a Florida man is behind his estranged wife's disappearance in Spain, but gave no indication about what they believe happened to her
May 07, 2024
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other at the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague of using banned toxins on the battlefield, the organisation said
May 07, 2024
Iran and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog are still negotiating over how to implement a deal struck last year to expand inspections of the Islamic Republic’s rapidly advancing atomic program
May 07, 2024
Exiled Russian opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya urged supporters on Tuesday to keep up the fight against President Vladimir Putin, describing him on the day of
May 07, 2024
France’s president has hosted China’s leader at a remote mountain pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings
May 07, 2024
Rumbling out of its forest hideout, the hulking German-supplied howitzer has only a few minutes to fire before slipping back under cover to evade
May 07, 2024
U.N. agencies said on Tuesday the two main crossings into the southern Gaza Strip remained shut, virtually cutting off the Palestinian enclave from outside aid with few
May 07, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping left France on Tuesday after a two-day trip during which he offered no major concessions
May 07, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called on China to play a bigger role in helping poor countries with their debt burdens and said that he raised the issue with Chinese
May 07, 2024
Pakistan is considering raising its retirement age to reduce burgeoning pension payments ahead of the annual budget and International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission visit, the country's
May 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said it was up the West to choose between confrontation and cooperation as he was sworn in for a new six-year
May 07, 2024
Australian police say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man had been engaged in a deradicalization program since he detonated a homemade explosive device in a school toilet block two years ago
May 07, 2024
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has accepted the recommendations from an independent review of U.N.
May 07, 2024
Italy last year posted by far the highest budget deficit-to-GDP ratio in the European Union, the bloc's statistics arm Eurostat reported on Monday, after Rome's 2023
May 07, 2024
Norway's 87-year-old King Harald will permanently reduce the number of official activities in which he takes part out of consideration for his age, the royal
May 07, 2024
North Korea fired "several" short-range ballistic missiles on Monday toward the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military said, drawing a swift condemnation from
May 07, 2024
Germany's domestic spy agency urged Berlin on Monday to give it more powers to monitor financial flows amid growing concerns over potential Russian financing of
May 07, 2024
The Biden administration wants to start moving weapons and equipment into Ukraine
May 07, 2024
Thailand's central bank, under pressure from the government to cut interest rates, could adjust monetary policy if the outlook
May 07, 2024
The European Central Bank will cut its deposit rate in June, three months earlier than an expected move by the U.S.
May 07, 2024
Brazil's government will launch measures on Monday aimed at renegotiating debts and reducing the cost of new loans for small businesses and low-income families, besides
May 07, 2024
Israeli troops fought their way back into an eastern section of Khan Younis in a surprise raid, residents said on Monday
May 07, 2024
A United Nations expert on Monday warned there was a risk that mental illnesses could manifest themselves years from now among the people of Gaza due to the current conflict.
May 07, 2024
Floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta following record-breaking rains, sparking worries
May 07, 2024
Israeli leaders said they will fight against sanctions being imposed on any Israeli military units for alleged human rights abuses after media reports said
May 07, 2024
For the exhausted Ukrainian artillery gunners holding off Russian forces near the eastern town of Kupiansk, the U.S. aid
May 07, 2024
U.S.
May 07, 2024
Relatives of Israeli hostages held in Gaza will mark the start of Passover, a week-long festival that celebrates freedom, with a renewed plea to the government
May 07, 2024
Three Germans have been arrested on suspicion of working with the Chinese secret service to hand over technology that could be used for military
May 07, 2024
Former President Donald Trump agreed on Monday to additional restrictions on the $175 million bond in the former U.S. president's New York civil fraud case, resolving
May 07, 2024
Russia has a force of 20,000-25,000 troops trying to storm the eastern Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar and surrounding villages, Ukraine's military said on Monday, describing the
May 07, 2024
The yen weakened on Monday to its weakest levels against the dollar since June 1990, with markets alert to any signs of intervention from the Japanese authorities to prop up the yen.
May 07, 2024
Gay dating app Grindr is facing a mass data protection lawsuit in London from hundreds of users who allegedly had their private information, including HIV status, shared with third
May 07, 2024
The U.S. dollar climbed to a fresh 34-year peak against the yen in quiet trading on Monday, with investors taking their cue from the
May 07, 2024
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party earned a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, local media reported on Monday, a result set to move the Indian Ocean
May 07, 2024
British officials say the names and bank details of thousands of serving British soldiers, sailors and air force members have been exposed in a data breach at a payroll system
May 07, 2024
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had taken operational control of the Palestinian side of Gaza's southern Rafah Crossing,
May 07, 2024
Rescue teams searching for dozens of construction workers missing after a multi-story apartment complex collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa have brought out more survivors as the operation entered a second night of desperate work to find anyone alive in the mangled wreckage
May 07, 2024
Israel's offensive on Rafah will likely kill more civilians and is being carried out despite explicit warnings against it from European Union member states and the United States,
May 07, 2024
Israeli forces have taken control of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in the Gaza Strip, pressing on with an offensive in the southern city as cease-fire negotiations with Hamas remain precarious
May 07, 2024
The United States sees Iran's capacity to move its oil as reliant on service providers based in Malaysia, with oil being transferred near Singapore and throughout
May 07, 2024
Campus protests by pro-Palestinian activists have spread across Europe as some call for a break in academic ties with Israel over the war in Gaza
May 07, 2024
By Mohammad Salem and Nidal al-Mughrabi RAFAH, Gaza Strip/CAIRO -The U.S. said negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire should be able to close the gaps between Israel and Hamas while Israeli forces seized
May 07, 2024
Having the option of choosing their playoff opponent wasn’t taken lightly by the staff and players of the Professional Women’s Hockey League’s team in Toronto as a reward for clinching first place in the standings
May 07, 2024
The Olympic torch will finally enter France
May 07, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks held relatively steady on Wall Street
May 07, 2024
Police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters as thousands marched in the Dutch capital on Tuesday, a day after riot police violently broke up an encampment at
May 07, 2024
Israeli troops have seized control of Gaza’s vital Rafah border crossing in what the White House described as a limited operation
May 07, 2024
Armenia asked the International Court of Justice to throw out a case brought by its neighbour Azerbaijan accusing it of anti-Azeri ethnic cleansing in violation of a U.N. anti-
May 07, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The so-called 'Magnificent 7' of U.S. megacap tech stocks has retreated sharply as first-quarter earnings updates kick off this week,
May 07, 2024
Any move by the United States to seize frozen Russian assets would be illegal, set a dangerous precedent and be challenged in court, the Kremlin said on Monday, promising that it
May 07, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday the first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda would leave in 10-12 weeks, as he set out plans for for his flagship policy to
May 07, 2024
Russia said on Monday that U.S., British and French military support for Ukraine has pushed the world to the brink of a direct clash between the world's biggest
May 07, 2024
The United Auto Workers has made history by winning its first unionization vote at an auto factory in the U.S. South.
May 07, 2024
Panzer's delicatessen in north west London has lost 37 suppliers from the European Union since Britain left the bloc's single market in 2021, and owner David Josephs
May 07, 2024
Norway's 87-year-old King Harald will permanently scale back the number of official activities in which he takes part following his recent illness, the royal household said on Monday.
May 07, 2024
German industrial production is set to fall again this year and exports will stagnate, lobby group BDI forecast on Monday, flanked by other industry groups that also painted an
May 07, 2024
The head of Israeli military intelligence has resigned after accepting responsibility for the failures that allowed the devastating Hamas-led attack on Israel
May 07, 2024
The U.S. travel sector will have to wait at least two more years for lucrative Chinese tourism to recover to pre-pandemic levels as slow growth and high costs in the
May 07, 2024
Two WNBA players were among a dozen Americans who opted to play in Russia this past offseason following Brittney Griner’s incarceration in 2022
May 07, 2024
A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s family poisonous mushrooms with lunch has pleaded not guilty in an Australian court to three charges of murder and five charges of attempted murder
May 07, 2024
Millions of Indians across 93 constituencies are voting as Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mounted an increasingly shrill election campaign, ramping up polarizing rhetoric against Muslims
May 07, 2024
Severe storms have battered parts of the Midwest, unleashing a curtain of heavy rain, gusty winds and tornadoes in the region
May 07, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s visit to European ally Serbia falls on a symbolic date: the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy during NATO’s air war over Kosovo
May 07, 2024
Russian authorities said on Tuesday they had detained two U.S. nationals, including a serving U.S. soldier, in separate criminal cases.
May 07, 2024
Vladimir Putin began his fifth term as Russian president at a glittering Kremlin ceremony, after destroying his political opposition, launching a devastating war in Ukraine and consolidating power
May 07, 2024
Police in riot gear blocked access to the University of Chicago’s Quad early Tuesday
May 07, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has exercised near-total control over Indian politics since coming to power 10 years ago, with one exception: He has failed to win over the country’s wealthier southern region
May 07, 2024
By Idrees Ali ABOARD A U.S.
May 07, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday said that calls to impose a blockade of Gaza similar to Nazi Germany's siege of Leningrad during World War Two were unacceptable and
May 07, 2024
South Korean authorities cited the risk of Chinese economic retaliation when they charged marine technology firm SI Innotec last year with violating trade laws for its
May 07, 2024
A U.S. judge on Friday asked former President Donald Trump whether he wants to appear on television when he stands trial in federal court on charges of
May 07, 2024
Russia will confiscate assets belonging to European Union states it deems unfriendly if the bloc "steals" frozen Russian funds in a drive to fund Ukraine, a top ally of President
May 07, 2024
Chinese warplanes buzzed a Canadian helicopter over international waters in the South China Sea last weekend and then fired flares at it, Defence Minister Bill Blair said on Friday,
May 07, 2024
Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk voiced support on Monday for Israel after it came under attack by Palestinian Hamas militants, saying one challenge was "ultimately stopping the
May 07, 2024
Mexico's army appears to be raiding only a handful of active drug labs every month, despite U.S. pressure to crack down on fentanyl
May 07, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador criticized YouTube on Sunday night after the tech company removed the video of a news conference in which the leader revealed the
May 07, 2024
The World Bank's private investment arm expects to finance $1.9 billion in projects in Ukraine over the next 18 months, an official from the organization
May 07, 2024
An American man was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for the rape and murder of a tourist and the attempted murder of
May 07, 2024
China expressed strong opposition on Monday to a ritual offering made by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that China and South Korea view as
May 07, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as "extraordinary" on Monday a decision by social media platform X to challenge in court a cyber regulators' order
May 07, 2024
North Korea has released a new song praising leader Kim Jong Un for being a "friendly father" and a "great leader", in a move that appears to be part of a propaganda drive to enhance
May 07, 2024
Tesla has cut prices in a number of its major markets, including China and Germany, following price cuts in the United
May 07, 2024
The first group of Iranian pilgrims in nine years made its way to Saudi Arabia on Monday for the umrah, or minor pilgrimage, Iran's official news agency reported, as a result of
May 07, 2024
Russia now has grounds to confiscate Western assets after the U.S.
May 07, 2024
The European Union's next package of sanctions should include steps against a shadow fleet of tankers moving Russian oil to circumvent sanctions, Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias
May 07, 2024
Xiaomi's CEO said the company will offer more details about its production capacity and delivery plan for the SU7 vehicle at the Beijing Auto Show, according to a Weibo post on
May 07, 2024
The holding company of Italy's Agnelli family has overseen a shakeup at the top of two of its major industrial groups, with Scott Wine quitting his post as CEO of farm and construction
May 07, 2024
Russia has defended its veto of a U.N. resolution calling on all nations to prevent a nuclear arms race in outer space
May 06, 2024
Donald Trump is accusing Joe Biden of offering a weak response to antisemitism, wielding the clashes on colleges campuses over the war in Gaza as a campaign issue
May 06, 2024
The chip powering the Mate 60 Pro phone of sanctioned Chinese company Huawei is not as advanced as American chips, U.S.
May 06, 2024
Hamas sent on Monday to mediators its response to a truce proposal which could be described as positive, a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry said early on Tuesday.
May 06, 2024
Well before the year began, Associated Press journalists knew that surging migration through the Americas was a major story
May 06, 2024
U.S. authorities have arrested a Florida man in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife in Spain three months ago
May 06, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his war cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to
May 06, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it had agreed to a three-phased deal for a ceasefire and hostages-for-prisoners swap, although an Israeli official said the deal was not
May 06, 2024
Aid groups said on Monday their medical services in Rafah have been affected by the start of Israel's operation in the southern Gaza city, with some services suspended and medical
May 06, 2024
An American soldier has been arrested in Russia's port city of Vladivostok and accused of stealing from a Russian girlfriend
May 06, 2024
A lawsuit alleges that child sexual abuse at Illinois juvenile detention centers was pervasive and systemic for decades
May 06, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday he welcomed the decision by militant group Hamas to accept a ceasefire in Gaza, which he said was made in line with Ankara's
May 06, 2024
A U.S. soldier has been detained in Russia on charges of criminal misconduct, the U.S.
May 06, 2024
Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, taking home the breaking news photography award for searing images of the Israel-Gaza conflict as well as the national reporting
May 06, 2024
Janet Jackson will make her fourth appearance at the 2024 Essence Festival of Culture this summer in New Orleans
May 06, 2024
How do you smooth over trade tensions with the all-powerful leader of economic powerhouse China
May 06, 2024
The Ukrainian Olympic Committee says two-time European weightlifting champion Oleksandr Pielieshenko has died on the front line in the war in Ukraine
May 06, 2024
Hamas agreed to the latest proposal that Israel had made on April 27 and there were no major changes since then, an official briefed on the ceasefire talks said, adding the Qatari
May 06, 2024
Two Australians and an American were doing what they loved on the stunning, largely isolated stretch of Baja California’s Pacific coast
May 06, 2024
The success of Japan and South Korea at inserting language voicing concern over their currencies in a joint statement with the U.S. this week underscores the
May 06, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
May 06, 2024
Colorado lawmakers have passed a sweeping bill to overhaul the state’s lax oversight over funeral homes after a series of horrific incidents, including sold body parts, fake ashes and the discovery of 190 decaying bodies
May 06, 2024
The head of the United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has entered “full-blown famine” after nearly seven months of war between Israel and Hamas
May 06, 2024
President Joe Biden has recognized the United States Military Academy with the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy for besting other service academies in football
May 06, 2024
Hamas said on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar.
May 06, 2024
Israeli orders to relocate Palestinians from Rafah are inhumane and risked exposing them to further danger and misery, the U.N. human rights chief said on Monday, warning that such
May 06, 2024
King Charles III's coronation anniversary has been marked in London under soggy skies with ceremonial gunfire
May 06, 2024
South Africa faces upside risks to its inflation outlook, Central Bank Governor Lesetja Kganyago said, but the latest data has not shown evidence of price
May 06, 2024
Moldova's pro-European government faces a new challenge from its restive pro-Moscow Gagauzia region after its leaders denounced proposed judicial reforms and
May 06, 2024
A North Korean delegation led by a high-ranking agricultural official is visiting Russia, the North's official KCNA news agency said on Sunday, in the latest exchange by Moscow and
May 06, 2024
Russia said on Sunday U.S. lawmakers' support for $60.84 billion more in aid for Ukraine showed that Washington was wading much deeper into a hybrid war against
May 06, 2024
Polish prosecutors have ended an investigation into skeletons found at a site where German dictator Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders spent time during World War II because the advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death
May 06, 2024
Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma as large hail pelted parts of Kansas
May 06, 2024
President Joe Biden has urgently warned Israeli's Benjamin Netanyahu against launching an offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the divide between the two leaders continues to grow along with the mounting Palestinian death toll
May 06, 2024
Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders is running for re-election, squelching speculation that he might retire at a difficult moment for Democrats The 82-year-old liberal icon from Vermont announced Monday that he's seeking his fourth term in the U.S. Senate
May 06, 2024
China's President Xi Jingping on Monday called for a global truce during the Olympic Games in Paris this summer after the French president and the
May 06, 2024
U.S. university presidents have joined Holocaust survivors and thousands of Israelis for a yearly memorial march at the site of Auschwitz
May 06, 2024
In an interview with The Associated Press, the new head of Liberia's forest management authority, Rudolph Merab, said he would work to increase timber exports and cut regulations
May 06, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has formally opened a former Byzantine church in Istanbul as a mosque
May 06, 2024
Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct.
May 06, 2024
Some journalists at Italy’s state-run RAI are on strike to protest budget streamlining and what they say is an increasingly repressive atmosphere in Italy for media
May 06, 2024
Minnesota lawmakers have launched their debate on far-reaching legislation that would amend the state's constitution to protect abortion and LGBTQ rights
May 06, 2024
Russia's Defense Ministry has declared that the military will hold drills involving tactical nuclear weapons
May 06, 2024
China's foreign minister Wang Yi on Saturday said efforts to admit a Palestinian state into the United Nations were a move to rectify a prolonged injustice, state media Xinhua
May 06, 2024
China's foreign minister Wang Yi on Saturday said the South Pacific region should not become an arena for major power rivalries and that its assistance to countries there is free
May 06, 2024
The steering committee for both International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on Saturday emphasized the need for broader accountability as the institutions implemented reforms
May 06, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told NATO members on Friday that Ukraine needed a minimum of seven Patriot or other high-end air defence systems to
May 06, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza and reach a fair and lasting peace in the region during a meeting with Hamas leader Ismail
May 06, 2024
The U.S. is prepared to act against Chinese companies supporting Russia's war in Ukraine, a senior U.S. official told reporters, highlighting
May 06, 2024
Monetary policy should remain focused on price stability, Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan said in remarks aired on Saturday.
May 06, 2024
The Inter-American Development Bank on Saturday said leaders of 10 multilateral development banks committed to take action in five critical areas, including
May 06, 2024
As time was running out, Venezuela's opposition chose low-profile former diplomat Edmundo Gonzalez to run against President Nicolas Maduro in a July election that
May 06, 2024
Thousands of Israeli demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday to call for new elections and demand more action from the government to bring the hostages held
May 06, 2024
Lashed by the rain and fearful of Israeli bombs, Palestinian civilians headed out of sodden tented camps or family homes in Rafah on
May 06, 2024
A former head of the Scottish National Party is expected to be Scotland's next leader
May 06, 2024
A report into a building fire that killed 76 people in South Africa last year has concluded that city authorities should be held responsible because they were aware of serious safety issues at the apartment block at least four years before the blaze
May 06, 2024
U.S. Marines and their Filipino counterparts have staged joint combat drills on the Philippines’ northernmost island along the strategic Bashi Channel off southern Taiwan, a flashpoint in the Washington-Beijing military rivalry
May 06, 2024
Spain’s Prado Museum has confirmed that a painting that was due to be auctioned in Madrid in 2021 is in fact a work by Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio that was considered lost
May 06, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi flew to Iran on Monday hoping to bolster his agency's oversight of Tehran's atomic activities after various setbacks,
May 06, 2024
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Friday that Iran will respond at an immediate and "maximum level" if Israel acts against its interests.
May 06, 2024
Ukraine shot down a Russian strategic bomber on Friday after the warplane took part in a long-range airstrike that killed eight
May 06, 2024
The U.S. military's success helping Israel stop a massive wave of Iranian missiles and drones last weekend might suggest Washington is well
May 06, 2024
Shareholders of the International Monetary Fund agreed this week on the importance of addressing challenges faced by low-income countries, many
May 06, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa declared a second state of emergency on Friday over an energy crisis that has already led to rationing in the South American country.
May 06, 2024
The U.S.
May 06, 2024
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his parliamentary seat, results showed on Saturday, but it will be days before vote counting determines
May 06, 2024
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his parliamentary seat, results showed on Saturday, but it will be days before vote counting determines
May 06, 2024
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen on Saturday offered her congratulations to the Taiwanese drag queen Nymphia Wind for winning RuPaul's Drag Race, the first person from East Asia to
May 06, 2024
Turkey's central bank said on Saturday it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazil's central bank to lay groundwork for enhanced cooperation.
May 06, 2024
British interior minister James Cleverly has written to London's Metropolitan Police after an officer stopped a man who was wearing a traditional kippah cap from crossing a road
May 06, 2024
Authorities in the region of Kurgan in Russia's Urals mountains ordered an evacuation from several districts on Saturday due to rising river levels, after large snowfalls melted and
May 06, 2024
Voters in Chad have headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a long delayed presidential election that is set to end three years of military rule under the interim president
May 06, 2024
Russia's tactical nuclear weapon drills are a response to statements from the West about sending troops to Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday.
May 06, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah told U.S.
May 06, 2024
The Islamist Hamas militant group said on Monday it had accepted a proposal by mediators from Egypt and Qatar for a ceasefire in Gaza, while Israel played down that likelihood and still
May 06, 2024
Israel’s military says it is conducting “targeted strikes” against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 06, 2024
Russia is threatening to strike British military facilities and says it plans to hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons
May 06, 2024
Mexican presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum on Friday said that if elected, her administration would focus on water management and renewable energy as
May 06, 2024
The Dutch privacy watchdog AP on Friday said it was recommending that government organizations should stop using Facebook as long as it is unclear what happens with personal data
May 06, 2024
More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of 2023, the United Nations
May 06, 2024
Japanese automaker Honda will invest 4.2 billion reais ($807.74 million) in its Itirapina plant in Brazil by 2030, an executive said on Friday, adding the company aims to develop a
May 06, 2024
Palestinian militant group Hamas on Monday agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators,
May 06, 2024
Italy's mafia rarely dirties its hands with blood these days.
May 06, 2024
Italy's Defence Minister said on Monday economic sanctions against Russia had failed and called on the West to try harder to negotiate a diplomatic solution with President Vladimir
May 06, 2024
Hamas says it's accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal, but Israel says the deal did not meet its core demands and has pushed ahead with an assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 06, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continent’s eastern half
May 06, 2024
Asian markets are mostly higher, although Chinese shares faltered
May 06, 2024
Brittney Griner says since her release from a Russian prison 17 months ago that she has used her platform as a WNBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist to advocate for the return of other Americans detained overseas
May 06, 2024
Israel's military said on Monday it had begun encouraging residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city as part of a 'limited scope' operation, but did not immediately
May 06, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has put trade disputes and Ukraine-related diplomatic efforts at the top of the agenda for talks with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping
May 06, 2024
Floodwaters in the Houston area and parts of Southeast Texas are starting to recede, allowing residents to begin returning to their homes and assess damages after days of heavy rainfall
May 06, 2024
American officials say foreign countries including China and Iran intimidate, harass and sometimes plot attacks against political opponents and activists in the U.S. A series of cases brought by the Justice Department shows the frightening consequences geopolitical tensions can have for ordinary citizens as governments historically intolerant of dissent inside their own borders are increasingly keeping a threatening watch on those who speak out thousands of miles away
May 06, 2024
In a historic and tumultuous election in Panama, José Raúl Mulino has landed in the role of president-elect despite not even expecting to be the candidate a few months ago
May 06, 2024
Qantas Airways has agreed to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling tickets on thousands of cancelled flights
May 06, 2024
Stronger macroeconomic policy is partly behind the resilience of economies across Latin America and the Caribbean, the International Monetary Fund said Friday in its
May 06, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday authorities would take appropriate action against excessive currency market moves, repeating his warning to investors
May 06, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron met Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the country's army chief Joseph Aoun in Paris on Friday for talks on how to end cross-border fighting
May 06, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo should file a complaint with the International Court of Justice over
May 06, 2024
For the first time since leader Kim Jong Un took power in 2011, North Koreans were asked to take loyalty oaths on his birthday, a South Korean research
May 06, 2024
Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division
May 06, 2024
Kyle Larson beat Chris Buescher to the line at Kansas Speedway on Sunday in the closest finish in NASCAR history
May 06, 2024
Oil futures ended largely unchanged on Monday as a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel continued to elude negotiators.
May 06, 2024
Authorities say a 16-year-old boy who was shot dead by police after stabbing a man in western Australia had been in a deradicalization program for two years but had no ties to an alleged network of teen extremists in Sydney
May 06, 2024
French train manufacturer Alstom has agreed to sell its North American conventional rail signalling business to German rail systems manufacturer Knorr-Bremse AG for around 630 million
May 06, 2024
The U.S.
May 06, 2024
A second juror who awarded a New Hampshire man $38 million in a landmark lawsuit over abuse at the state's youth detention center has contacted attorneys with concerns about the outcome
May 05, 2024
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said drones that sources say Israel fired at the city of Isfahan on Friday caused no damage or casualties, in comments made to the
May 05, 2024
Shohei Ohtani went 4 for 4 with two home runs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Atlanta Braves, 5-1, on Sunday afternoon to sweep the three-game series
May 05, 2024
Europe’s Airbus had established a clear sales lead over Boeing even before the American company encountered more fallout from manufacturing troubles and ongoing safety concerns
May 05, 2024
This year’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting gave shareholders their best chance yet to hear from the man who will one day take over as CEO when Warren Buffett is gone
May 05, 2024
Mexican authorities on Sunday confirmed the American and two Australian tourists who went missing in northern Mexico last week are dead after
May 05, 2024
Armenia has agreed to return several villages to Azerbaijan in what both sides said on Friday was an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after
May 05, 2024
Five Japanese nationals in Pakistan escaped when a suicide bomber detonated their device on Friday, and police shot dead a gunman accompanying the bomber,
May 05, 2024
A weekend spring storm that drenched the San Francisco Bay area and closed Northern California mountain highways also set a single-day snowfall record in the Sierra Nevada
May 05, 2024
Interstate 95 in Connecticut has reopened
May 05, 2024
Donovan Mitchell scored 39 points, Caris LeVert added 15 and the Cleveland Cavaliers avoided a potentially franchise-shifting loss by rallying for a 106-94 win over the Orlando Magic in Game 7
May 05, 2024
Back when the New York Knicks would annually march on in the playoffs, they’d almost always run into the Indiana Pacers
May 05, 2024
Mexican authorities say relatives have positively identified three bodies found in a well as those of two Australian surfers and one American who went missing last weekend
May 05, 2024
Airlines changed flight paths over Iran, cancelled some flights, diverted others to alternate airports or returned planes to their departure points on Friday due to airspace
May 05, 2024
Plentiful supplies of some of the biggest crude grades are limiting the impact on benchmark oil futures prices of conflict in the Middle East,
May 05, 2024
A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a
May 05, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected international pressure to halt the war in Gaza in a fiery speech marking the country’s annual Holocaust memorial day
May 05, 2024
Russian attacks on Orthodox Easter Sunday killed a woman buried under rubble and injured 24 in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv and the surrounding
May 05, 2024
Authorities say massive floods in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state have killed at least 75 people over the last seven days and another 103 are reported missing
May 05, 2024
The Biden administration's threat to impose more tariffs on China is the latest election-year signal that frostier relations with China are likely to follow regardless
May 05, 2024
Hedge funds globally have turned the most bearish they've been on equities this year, a Goldman Sachs note said, as sticky inflation and renewed geopolitical
May 05, 2024
The World Health Organization is likely to issue a wider warning about contaminated Johnson and Johnson-made children's cough syrup found in Nigeria last week, it
May 05, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping is kicking off a three-country trip to Europe with the continent divided over how to deal with Beijing’s growing power and the U.S.-China rivalry
May 05, 2024
Ukrainians in the embattled east flocked to church on Sunday to mark their third wartime Easter as Russian troops inched closer to threatening some
May 05, 2024
When the United Methodist Church removed anti-gay language from its official rules last week, it marked the end of a half-century of debates over LGBTQ inclusion in America's mainline Protestant denominations
May 05, 2024
Hamas says the latest round of Gaza cease-fire talks has ended in Cairo
May 05, 2024
Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas armed wing, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, where Palestinian health officials
May 05, 2024
The American refugee program long served as a haven for people fleeing violence around the world
May 05, 2024
NATO allies on Friday agreed to provide Kyiv with additional air defence systems, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said after a special meeting of allied defence ministers with
May 05, 2024
An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case
May 05, 2024
The European Union's top officials must be replaced as they do not deserve another chance after the impending European Parliament elections,
May 05, 2024
U.S. lawmakers have tucked sanctions on Iran's oil exports in the House of Representatives' aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo-Pacific after
May 05, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hardened his rejection of Hamas demands for an end to the Gaza war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, saying on Sunday that would keep the
May 05, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed four members of a family in a house in a border village in southern Lebanon on Sunday, civil defence and security sources said.
May 05, 2024
Israel has ordered the local offices of Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network to close
May 05, 2024
Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations on
May 05, 2024
Israel's Holocaust commemorations this year have a searing significance for six elderly survivors now deeply scarred by the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7 that sparked
May 05, 2024
Russia has launched a barrage of drones on eastern Ukraine and claimed its troops took control of a village they had been targeting as Ukraine marks its third Easter at war
May 05, 2024
Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire appeared slim on Sunday as Hamas reiterated its demand for an end to the war in exchange for the freeing of hostages, and
May 05, 2024
Police in the nation's capital say a driver has died after a vehicle crashed into an outer perimeter gate of the White House complex
May 05, 2024
The "hostile line" of the Baltic countries have led to the severance of most of their ties with Russia, the Russian foreign ministry said in remarks published on Sunday, warning also that
May 05, 2024
San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood is notorious for its open-air drug use and congested sidewalks
May 05, 2024
Panama's former security minister Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, the
May 05, 2024
Just a few months short of a quarter-century as Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin starts another six-year term as president holding extraordinary power
May 05, 2024
Israel will start marking Holocaust Remembrance Day on Sunday evening
May 05, 2024
From marches and art exhibitions to candlelight vigils, people are gathering across the U.S. to spotlight the high rate of disappearances and killings in Native American communities
May 05, 2024
José Raúl Mulino, the stand-in for former President Ricardo Martinelli in Panama's presidential election, is on his way to becoming the new leader of the Central American nation
May 05, 2024
King Charles III’s decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey
May 05, 2024
Storms in Texas are bringing additional rain to the already saturated Houston area, where hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads
May 05, 2024
David Pastrnak scored on a feed from Hampus Lindholm 1:54 into overtime and the Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-1 in Game 7 to clinch their first-round series and advance in the NHL playoffs
May 05, 2024
Australian officials say a 16-year-old boy armed with a knife has been shot dead by police after he stabbed a man in the west coast city of Perth
May 05, 2024
Taylor Pendrith has a one-shot lead going into the final round of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson
May 04, 2024
President Xi Jinping lauded China's ties with France as an international model on Sunday as he arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of
May 04, 2024
A Belarusian has been detained in Poland on suspicion of ordering an attack, on Russia's behalf, on Leonid Volkov, an exiled top aide to late Russian opposition leader Alexei
May 04, 2024
An Italian anti-fascist activist held in Hungary for allegedly assaulting far-right militants will be a candidate for a left-wing party at European elections in June, possibly
May 04, 2024
Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Leonid Volkov, an exiled top aide to late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Polish and Lithuanian police
May 04, 2024
Deaths from heavy rains earlier this week in the United Arab Emirates rose to four, authorities said on Friday, as well as flooding roads and jamming Dubai's international airport.
May 04, 2024
Lufthansa executives and lawyers will attend a day-long hearing in Brussels on Friday to try to convince EU antitrust regulators to clear the company's bid for a
May 04, 2024
Several thousand Georgians have marked Orthodox Easter with a candlelight vigil outside Parliament in the capital, Tbilisi
May 04, 2024
It wasn't supposed to be this comfortable for Real Madrid to win the Spanish league after Karim Benzema left for Saudi Arabia and its defense was badly hit by injuries
May 04, 2024
Thousands of Israelis protested on Saturday, demanding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accept a ceasefire agreement with the Islamist movement Hamas that would see the remaining
May 04, 2024
Iga Swiatek avenged her loss in last year’s final to Aryna Sabalenka and won the Madrid Open after a third-set tiebreaker
May 04, 2024
The state prosecutor’s office says three bodies recovered in an area of Mexico's Baja California state are likely to be those of the two Australians and an American who went missing last weekend during a camping and surfing trip
May 04, 2024
The three dead bodies found in Mexico's Baja California state are highly likely to be the American and two Australian tourists who went missing last week, a
May 04, 2024
Workers have demolished a bridge over a Connecticut highway that was damaged in a fiery crash involving a gasoline tanker truck
May 04, 2024
Japan and India have decried remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden describing them as “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants while he was speaking during a campaign fundraising event earlier in the week
May 04, 2024
Authorities say a student who was killed by police outside a Wisconsin school pointed a pellet rifle at officers and had refused to drop the weapon
May 04, 2024
Weekend commencement ceremonies at some U.S. universities went off with few interruptions despite the national wave of protests over the Israel-Hamas war
May 04, 2024
Twenty-five people have been arrested for trespassing at the University of Virginia after police clashed with pro-Palestinian protesters who refused to remove tents from campus
May 04, 2024
Real Madrid has won its record-extending 36th Spanish league title after securing an insurmountable 13-point lead over second-place Girona with four games remaining
May 04, 2024
Russian state media say Moscow has put Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on its wanted list, citing the interior ministry's database
May 04, 2024
Erling Haaland scored four goals in another win for Manchester City in its bid to capture an unprecedented fourth straight Premier League crown
May 04, 2024
Airport security officers in Miami found a slithering surprise last week
May 04, 2024
The student protest movement over the war in Gaza is roiling Senate contests in an election year when control of the chamber is at stake in November
May 04, 2024
The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo
May 04, 2024
A British Palestinian surgeon who volunteered in Gaza hospitals says he was denied entry to France to speak at the French Senate
May 04, 2024
Israeli forces killed five Palestinians, including four fighters from the militant group Hamas, in an overnight raid near the city of Tulkarm in the
May 04, 2024
Ipswich will play in the Premier League for the first time since 2002 after securing the second automatic promotion spot from the second-tier Championship
May 04, 2024
Arsenal has maintained its pursuit of the Premier League title with a 3-0 win over Bournemouth that lifted Mikel Arteta’s team four points clear of second-place Manchester City
May 04, 2024
A makeshift national network of abortion doulas, navigators at clinics and individual volunteers are helping people who live in restrictive states and need or want an abortion
May 04, 2024
A makeshift national network of abortion doulas, navigators at clinics and individual volunteers are helping people who live in restrictive states and need or want an abortion
May 04, 2024
A Hamas delegation is in Cairo and Egyptian state media say there has been “noticeable progress” in cease-fire talks for Gaza
May 04, 2024
Hamas negotiators began intensified talks on Saturday on a possible Gaza truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a
May 04, 2024
Sadiq Khan, the Labour Party’s mayor of London, has romped to victory, securing a record third straight term at City Hall, on another hugely disappointing day for the U.K.’s governing Conservatives ahead of a looming general election
May 04, 2024
Drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows the devastation inflicted on the Ukranian village of Ocheretyne
May 04, 2024
Kyrie Irving's big second half has helped carry the Dallas Mavericks into the second round
May 04, 2024
Indian foreign minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar rejected U.S.
May 04, 2024
High waters flooded neighborhoods around Houston on Saturday following heavy rains that have already resulted in crews rescuing more than 400 people from homes, rooftops and roads engulfed in murky water
May 04, 2024
The United Nations food agency is warning Sudan’s warring parties that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region
May 04, 2024
Donovan Mitchell went for 50 points on Orlando Magic, but it wasn't enough to help the Cleveland Cavaliers close out the first-round NBA playoff series between the teams
May 04, 2024
Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in connection with a federal probe into their ties with the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
May 04, 2024
Warren Buffett has come face to face with the downside of AI
May 04, 2024
Officials say 14 people are dead after a flood and landslide hit Indonesia’s Sulawesi island
May 04, 2024
Chris Paddack pitched six scoreless innings to carry the Minnesota Twins to their 11th consecutive victory with a 5-2 decision over the Boston Red Sox
May 04, 2024
Taiwan said on Friday China's decision to open new air routes that run close to two Taiwanese-controlled islands was a flight safety risk taken
May 04, 2024
Kazakhstan braced on Friday for levels on the Ural River to rise sharply, something that could threaten two of its western regions and key oil infrastructure, while
May 04, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan It was hardly unexpected, but Israel's missile strike on Iran on Friday confirms fears of a dangerous series of tit-for-tat
May 04, 2024
The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again in 2024, according to two-thirds of economists polled by Reuters, but there was no clear consensus on when
May 04, 2024
Western states have sought to send Iran messages via Turkey in recent days to reiterate appeals for de-escalation, a Western diplomat said on Friday.
May 04, 2024
A senior figure in Japan's ruling party will travel to New York next week and is seeking a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump,
May 04, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday that staff in some government departments were banned from travelling abroad for security reasons, while some departments required people to provide
May 04, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa looks set to win a referendum on Sunday that asks voters to support new security measures to fight rising violence, although
May 04, 2024
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies have identified "specific steps" needed to help Ukraine fight Russia, Kyiv's foreign minister said on Friday,
May 04, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he visited a Ukrainian military command post used by troops defending the embattled eastern town of Chasiv Yar that Russian forces are
May 04, 2024
President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on April 22, the Kremlin said on Friday.
May 04, 2024
U.S.
May 04, 2024
Incomes in Sub-Saharan Africa are falling further behind the rest of the world amid a "tepid" economic recovery, the
May 04, 2024
U.S.
May 04, 2024
A Basque separatist party with origins in the political wing of the now-defunct armed group ETA could win a regional election in Spain's Basque Country for the first time on
May 04, 2024
Merchant ships and seafarers are increasingly in peril at sea as attacks escalate in the Middle East and the United Nations must do more to protect supply chains, the industry said
May 04, 2024
The European Union said on Friday it had agreed to impose sanctions against four people and two entities over violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.
May 04, 2024
The German government will raise its economic growth forecast for this year to 0.3%, from 0.2% previously, and lower its forecast for inflation by 0.4 percentage
May 04, 2024
The Solomon Islands' pro-China Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has retained his seat in the national election, local media reported late on Friday but it won't be known
May 04, 2024
The Ukrainian military said its anti-missile units succeeded for the first time on Friday in shooting down a Russian Tu-22M3 bomber plane.
May 04, 2024
Fans lined up outside the arena more than three hours before Caitlin Clark made her WNBA debut for the Indiana Fever in a preseason game against the Dallas Wings
May 03, 2024
Russian attacks on Ukraine's Kharkiv and Dnipro regions and the Black Sea port city of Odesa killed at least two civilians, set a food factory ablaze and damaged
May 03, 2024
Mexican authorities say three bodies have been recovered in an area of Baja California near where two Australians and an American went missing last weekend
May 03, 2024
King Charles and other senior British royals are to relinquish patronages of almost 200 charities and organisations after a review of their association with more than 1,000 groups,
May 03, 2024
Israel this week briefed Biden administration officials on a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians ahead of a potential Rafah operation to root out Hamas militants in the southern Gaza city
May 03, 2024
Arizona’s new heat officer said Friday that he is working with local governments and nonprofit groups to open more cooling centers and ensure homes have working air conditioners in a more unified effort to prevent another ghastly toll of heat-related deaths this summer
May 03, 2024
The Republican National Committee is suing to stop Nevada from being able to count mail ballots received in election offices after Election Day
May 03, 2024
Canadian police say they arrested three suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India, and are investigating possible ties between the detainees and the Indian government
May 03, 2024
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on the celebrations of same-sex marriages or unions by its clergy
May 03, 2024
Kent State University is marking another solemn anniversary of the National Guard shootings that killed four unarmed students and wounded nine others on May 4, 1970
May 03, 2024
Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger waded into Louisiana politics during the band's performance at The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 03, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice says it plans to sue Iowa over the state's new immigration law
May 03, 2024
Mexican authorities have located three bodies in the state of Baja California where one American and two Australian tourists were reported missing, the local
May 03, 2024
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem claims in a new book to have met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during her time in Congress
May 03, 2024
Canadian police on Friday arrested and charged three Indian men with the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year and said
May 03, 2024
The civil defense agency in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul says heavy rains have killed 39 people, with another 68 still missing
May 03, 2024
Democratic U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas and his wife have been indicted on conspiracy and bribery charges in connection with a federal probe into their ties with the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan
May 03, 2024
Hamas said on Friday it was sending a delegation to Cairo to discuss a deal for a truce and the release of hostages in Gaza, hours after
May 03, 2024
A former government employee has been charged with repeatedly submitting fake tips to the FBI reporting that several of his co-workers in the intelligence community were part of a mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
May 03, 2024
A top U.N. official says hard-hit northern Gaza is now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory
May 03, 2024
San Francisco’s famed Fisherman’s Wharf district is seeing a surge in sea lions
May 03, 2024
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin says new rules governing electric vehicle tax credits are a giveaway to China
May 03, 2024
Heavy storms have continued to slam the Houston area
May 03, 2024
Attacks at two displacement camps in eastern Congo's North Kivu province have killed at least 12 people, including children
May 03, 2024
Five human skeletons - all missing their hands and feet - have been discovered at Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s eastern front military headquarters in present-day Poland, buried inside
May 03, 2024
The Kremlin’s spokesman says recent statements by France’s president and Britain’s foreign secretary about the war in Ukraine are “dangerous” and will deepen international tension around the conflict
May 03, 2024
The race for the White House tops the ballot Tuesday in Indiana’s presidential and state primaries
May 03, 2024
Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino
May 03, 2024
The Indonesian government will permanently relocate almost 10,000 residents after a series of explosive eruptions of the Ruang volcano has raised concerns about the dangers of
May 03, 2024
Panama’s Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional challenge to the candidacy of leading presidential contender José Raúl Mulino
May 03, 2024
Panama's top court on Friday ruled the presidential candidacy of ex-President Ricardo Martinelli's former running mate Jose Raul Mulino is constitutional, days before the election.
May 03, 2024
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze rejected on Friday criticism from the United States and European Union of a draft "foreign agents" law, saying opponents of the bill were
May 03, 2024
Three-time U.S. Olympian Emma Coburn says her “dream of Paris is over” after breaking her ankle at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai and undergoing surgery
May 03, 2024
Nigerian military authorities say two military personnel will face a court martial over the killing of 85 villagers in a drone attack in the West African nation’s conflict-battered north four months earlier
May 03, 2024
Nippon Steel says it has postponed the expected closing of its $14.1 billion takeover of U.S. Steel by three months after the U.S. Department of Justice requested more documentation related to the deal
May 03, 2024
Hundreds of people are laying flowers and lighting candles to commemorate the victims of Serbia’s first-ever school shooting a year ago that left nine children and a school guard dead and six people wounded
May 03, 2024
An Israeli incursion in Rafah would put the lives of hundreds of thousands of Gazans at risk and be a huge blow to the aid operations of the entire enclave, the U.N.
May 03, 2024
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended
May 03, 2024
Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year
May 03, 2024
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers and actor Michelle Yeoh are among a diverse group of 19 people who have received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Joe Biden
May 03, 2024
Republican attorneys general from 25 states on Thursday sued the U.S.
May 03, 2024
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva bemoaned the slow pace of global growth on Thursday, saying that Europe
May 03, 2024
The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the
May 03, 2024
The King’s Trust has celebrated its new name, an update of King Charles III’s long-running charity The Prince’s Trust
May 03, 2024
The European Union sees signs that China is supplying components to Russia that could be used to make weapons, and fears China could be emboldened to increase
May 03, 2024
L'Oreal reported a 9.4% rise in first quarter sales on a like-for-like basis on Thursday, beating expectations and easing concerns about a
May 03, 2024
Germany says Russia will face consequences after accusing its military intelligence service of masterminding an “absolutely intolerable” cyberespionage campaign
May 03, 2024
The World Bank Group on Thursday unveiled a new goal to help countries deliver affordable healthcare to 1.5 billion people by 2030 by expanding services to
May 03, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will soon host the British prime minister in Poland, Tusk told reporters Thursday evening as European countries eye initiatives to improve their
May 03, 2024
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank may raise interest rates again if the yen's declines significantly push up inflation,
May 03, 2024
The U.N.'s nuclear watchdog said on Thursday that officials at Ukraine's Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant had reported a new attempted drone attack on the facility's training
May 03, 2024
Senior U.S. officials raised concerns with their Israeli counterparts on Thursday about Israel's plans for military operations in the
May 03, 2024
The leader of Moldova's leftist opposition urged voters on Thursday to boycott a referendum on backing the country's drive to join the European Union, saying
May 03, 2024
U.S. financial firms facilitated investments worth billions of dollars in index funds that included blacklisted Chinese companies, according to a
May 03, 2024
The International Monetary Fund urged Asian central banks on Thursday to focus on domestic inflation and avoid tying their policy decisions too closely to
May 03, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape said on Friday he looked forward to visits by China's foreign minister and Australia's prime minister in the coming days that
May 03, 2024
Latin American nations must be on high alert as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino rapidly switches over to La Nina, experts said on Thursday, leaving populations and
May 03, 2024
Iran's first direct attack on Israel on April 13 has brought renewed focus on their air-defence capabilities as Israeli leaders decide how best to respond.
May 03, 2024
Large parts of the outer walls of Denmark's landmark 400-year-old stock exchange building collapsed on Thursday afternoon, two days after a
May 03, 2024
NATO is working to send more air defence systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday, adding that delays in providing such aid
May 03, 2024
The White House on Thursday announced the nomination of Curtis Ried as the U.S. representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
May 03, 2024
Any national-security review of the deal for Japan's Nippon Steel to acquire U.S.
May 03, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially recognized two more Indigenous territories on Thursday, but said he decided not to sign off on four others because they
May 03, 2024
Maine lawmakers on Thursday sent a draft of gun safety measures to the governor to sign into law, fulfilling a promise to take swift action designed to prevent mass
May 03, 2024
Israel's commitments to improve aid access in the Gaza Strip have had limited and sometimes no impact, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres
May 03, 2024
India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, set off on the world's largest electoral exercise on Friday.
May 03, 2024
Nearly 1 billion Indians will be eligible to vote in the world's biggest election starting this month.
May 03, 2024
The day after the United States announced it would reimpose costly limits on Venezuela's oil sector, the South American nation braced
May 03, 2024
Japan's core inflation slowed in March and an index gauging broader price trends fell below 3% for the first time in over a year, data showed
May 03, 2024
Oil and gold prices rose and Japan's yen rallied on Friday on reports Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran.
May 03, 2024
Some of the world's biggest investors are staying away from France's government debt, feeling underpaid to take on exposure to its deteriorating
May 03, 2024
South Korea's finance ministry said on Friday that authorities would take immediate and decisive action if it became necessary to respond to excessive volatility in the foreign
May 03, 2024
Pakistan hopes to agree the contours of a new International Monetary Fund loan in May, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told Reuters, and has kicked off
May 03, 2024
Cryptocurrencies fell heavily and bitcoin broke below $60,000 on Friday in a rush out of risky assets following reports of an Israeli missile strike on Iran.
May 03, 2024
TSMC's Taipei-listed shares tumbled 6.7% on Friday following the company's first-quarter earnings report in which it dialled back its expectations for chip sector growth and did not
May 03, 2024
China is widely expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, as encouraging first quarter economic data reduces the urgency for further
May 03, 2024
North Korean officials met with a visiting Belarusian delegation and vowed deeper cooperation, as Pyongyang criticized the United States for trying to increase "lawless
May 03, 2024
The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
May 03, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he would not speculate on reports Israel had carried out an attack on Iranian soil on Friday.
May 03, 2024
Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of "beating a war drum" over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans
May 03, 2024
Hundreds of people protesting Israel's war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia's top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel,
May 03, 2024
Josh Hart made a go-ahead 3-pointer from the top of the arc with 24.4 seconds left, and the New York Knicks beat the Philadelphia 76ers 118-115 in Game 6 to advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals
May 03, 2024
Britain’s governing Conservative Party is suffering heavy losses as local election results pour in
May 03, 2024
The Premier League season is down to its final two weeks and there’s still plenty at stake from top to bottom
May 03, 2024
Georgia has been engulfed by huge protests triggered by a proposed law that critics see as a threat to media freedom and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union
May 03, 2024
An extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka this Orthodox Easter season
May 03, 2024
In 2018, the censors who oversee Chinese media issued a directive to the nation’s entertainment industry
May 03, 2024
A weekly newspaper in a rural Oklahoma community was at the center of a path of destruction
May 03, 2024
From its earliest days, the Soviet Union’s intelligence services — whether known as the Cheka or the names of any of its successor agencies like the KGB — kept the government in power by pursuing its opponents no matter where they lived
May 03, 2024
Demonstrations have ceased at a small number of U.S. universities after school leaders struck deals with pro-Palestinian protesters
May 03, 2024
China has launched a lunar probe to land on the far side of the moon and return with samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side
May 03, 2024
Larry Demeritte has run horses on Kentucky Derby day in the past, just never in the big race
May 03, 2024
Denver Nuggets point guard Jamal Murray scuffled with his shot in the first round of the NBA playoffs against the Los Angeles Lakers
May 03, 2024
Colombia has become the latest Latin American country to announce it will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its military campaign in Gaza
May 03, 2024
Some U.S. universities with weekend graduation ceremonies are taking steps to contain any disruptions amid tension over the Israel-Hamas war
May 03, 2024
Since President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine, attacks and harassment of Russians abroad have been blamed on Moscow’s intelligence operatives across Europe and elsewhere
May 03, 2024
The retirement of Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow has opened a Senate seat in Michigan
May 03, 2024
Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday
May 03, 2024
Mississippi’s Republican-led Legislature has completed a last-ditch effort to revive a bill to regulate transgender people’s use of bathrooms, locker rooms and dormitories in public education buildings
May 02, 2024
Mexican authorities said on Thursday they were searching at sea and on land for two Australians and one American reported missing in Baja California, one of the
May 02, 2024
Nearly two months after the election, a recount settled the outcome in a Northern California U.S. House primary contest
May 02, 2024
Global Citizen NOW says it wants 2024 conference attendees to invest long-term in the African continent's fast-growing youth population and increase outreach to young changemakers
May 02, 2024
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says her state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation's schools
May 02, 2024
The United Nations says the world hasn’t seen anything like the unprecedented destruction of housing in Gaza since World War II, and it would take at least until 2040 to restore the homes devastated in Israel’s bombing and ground offensive if the conflict ended today
May 02, 2024
Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer’s deadly wildfire
May 02, 2024
Georgia’s Kirby Smart has agreed to a contract extension that makes him the highest-paid coach in college football with an annual salary of $13 million
May 02, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he doesn’t see a significant issue with Russia moving some troops onto an airbase in Niger where a small number of U.S. forces remain
May 02, 2024
New Zealand's foreign minister on Friday described the country's relationship with China as "complex," and called out the hardening rhetoric across the Taiwan
May 02, 2024
Wisconsin authorities are promising a thorough investigation into a police shooting that they said killed an armed student outside a middle school
May 02, 2024
A wave of student protests has spread across U.S. campuses over the last two weeks, led by students who have pitched tents or occupied buildings in protest of the Israel-Hamas war
May 02, 2024
Bayer Leverkusen silenced the Stadio Olimpico with a 2-0 win at Roma in the first leg of the Europa League semifinals to extend its record unbeaten streak to 47 matches across all competitions
May 02, 2024
Apple has posted its steepest quarterly decline in iPhone sales since the pandemic’s outset
May 02, 2024
Hamas has formally accepted a cease-fire deal that could end the war in Gaza
May 02, 2024
The U.S. military said an airstrike in Syria in May 2023 that was targeting an al-Qaida leader killed an innocent civilian instead
May 02, 2024
Liberian President Joseph Boakai has signed an executive order to create a long-awaited war crimes court to deliver justice to the victims of Liberia's two civil wars
May 02, 2024
Georgia’s governor has signed a bill putting new regulations on the production and sale of products containing kratom, a plant-based supplement
May 02, 2024
Torrential rain is causing flooding in the Houston area
May 02, 2024
Russian military personnel have entered an air base in Niger that is hosting U.S. troops, a senior U.S. defense official told Reuters, a move that
May 02, 2024
The start of the first civil trial stemming from the deadly crowd surge at the 2021 Astroworld festival in Texas has been delayed
May 02, 2024
Pedestrians who are not white ended up in the emergency room for traffic-related injuries at higher rates than white people
May 02, 2024
Gangs in Haiti have laid siege to several neighborhoods in the capital, burning homes and exchanging gunfire with police for hours in one of the biggest attacks since Haiti’s new prime minister was announced
May 02, 2024
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías has pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor domestic battery
May 02, 2024
Turkey stopped all exports and imports to and from Israel as of Thursday, the Turkish trade ministry said, citing "worsening humanitarian tragedy" in the Palestinian territories.
May 02, 2024
A senior Palestinian doctor died in an Israeli prison after more than four months of detention, two Palestinian prisoner
May 02, 2024
The government of the African island nation of Sao Tome and Principe will ask Portugal to repair the moral damages caused by colonialism, the country's education
May 02, 2024
A Pennsylvania nurse who administered lethal or potentially lethal doses of insulin to numerous patients has pleaded guilty to three counts of murder and other charges and been sentenced to life in prison
May 02, 2024
Serbian lawmakers have voted into office a new government that reinstated two pro-Russia officials who are sanctioned by the United States
May 02, 2024
The White House says Russia is shipping refined petroleum to North Korea at levels that exceed U.N. Security Council limits
May 02, 2024
Iga Swiatek has cruised to a straight-sets win over Madison Keys to reach the Madrid Open final for the second consecutive year
May 02, 2024
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont says the major traffic artery linking New England with New York will be closed for days around the area where a tanker fire damaged a bridge over Interstate 95
May 02, 2024
Researchers say an orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant
May 02, 2024
Ukrainian energy workers are struggling to repair the damage from intensifying airstrikes aimed at pulverizing Ukraine’s energy grid
May 02, 2024
Prince William and his wife, Kate, have marked their daughter Charlotte’s 9th birthday by posting a picture of her smiling for the camera as she posed near a plant with pink flowers
May 02, 2024
Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel's offensive in Gaza, but some in the
May 02, 2024
President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia as he tried to explain the four countries’ economic circumstances and contrasted them with the U.S. on immigration
May 02, 2024
The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the fourth straight time as inflation dropped and the economy has shown signs of recovery
May 02, 2024
The Refugee Team for the Paris Olympics will feature 36 athletes from 11 countries in 12 sports
May 02, 2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue
May 02, 2024
The number of people arrested in connection with protests on college campuses against the Israel-Hamas war has now topped 2,000
May 02, 2024
The European Union and U.S. on Thursday condemned legislation making its way through Georgia's parliament on "foreign agents" and thousands of protesters snarled
May 02, 2024
Germany has beaten the English Premier League to a bonus fifth Champions League place in next season’s revamped and expanded competition
May 02, 2024
India on Thursday deported the first group of Myanmar refugees who had sought shelter after a 2021 military coup, a top state minister said, following
May 02, 2024
Hamas says it's sending a delegation to Egypt as soon as possible to continue talks in the latest sign of progress in the fragile cease-fire process
May 02, 2024
Airport authorities in Dubai say several flights have been cancelled and diverted as heavy rains hit the United Arab Emirates for the second time in a month
May 02, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry on Thursday said that China had carried out a "joint combat readiness patrol" near the island for the second time in a week.
May 02, 2024
Top Israeli ministers were discussing on Thursday what a government source said was a Gaza truce proposal to free some hostages held by Hamas, as well as prospects for an army
May 02, 2024
A senior Ukrainian military official says the situation on the front line in eastern Ukraine is worsening but local defenders are so far holding firm against a concerted push by Russia’s bigger and better-equipped forces
May 02, 2024
The European Union has announced an aid package for Lebanon of 1 billion euros — about $1.06 billion — that will mostly go to strengthening border control to halt the flow of asylum seekers and migrants from the small, crisis-wracked country across the Mediterranean Sea to Cyprus and Italy
May 02, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has unveiled an international framework for regulation and use of generative AI
May 02, 2024
Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden
May 02, 2024
South Korea's foreign ministry on Thursday raised the terrorism alert level for five diplomatic offices in the region citing intelligence that North Korea may attempt
May 02, 2024
Hamas said Thursday that it will send a delegation to Cairo as soon as possible to keep working on cease-fire talks, in response to Egypt’s latest proposal
May 02, 2024
A European court has upheld Italy’s right to seize a prized Greek statue from the J
May 02, 2024
Georgia's parliament canceled Thursday's session following massive protests against a proposed law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s bid for membership in the European Union
May 02, 2024
The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China has climbed to 48 as searchers dug for a second day through a treacherous and mountainous area
May 02, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher ahead of a report on the U.S. jobs market
May 02, 2024
Cambodia's Defense Ministry says a huge explosion at a military base in the southwest that killed 20 soldiers and injured many others was an accident caused by a “technical issue” from the old and degraded ammunition that was being moved
May 02, 2024
Millions of voters in England and Wales have cast their ballots in an array of local elections
May 02, 2024
A convicted sex offender is asking the Norwegian Supreme Court to declare social media access is a human right
May 02, 2024
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in new cloud and artificial intelligence infrastructure in Malaysia
May 02, 2024
Misinformation about India's election is surging online as the world's most populous country votes
May 02, 2024
Scientists say a new form of mpox detected in a mining town in Congo might more easily spread among people
May 02, 2024
A federal judge in Los Angeles has sentenced a scuba dive boat captain to four years in prison and three years supervised release for criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel in 2019
May 02, 2024
The Boston Celtics ran away from the rest of the NBA in the regular season
May 02, 2024
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has signed a bill to repeal a ban on most abortions
May 02, 2024
Luka Doncic scored 20 of his 35 points in the second half and added 10 assists and seven rebounds, propelling the Dallas Mavericks to a 123-93 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers in Game 5 and a 3-2 lead in the first-round series
May 02, 2024
The Philippines summoned a Chinese diplomat on Thursday to protest Beijing's use of water cannon against Filipino vessels at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, describing it
May 02, 2024
The Rolling Stones made their first appearance at the 54-year-old New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
May 02, 2024
Serbia is preparing to mark the anniversary of a school shooting last year that killed 10 people
May 02, 2024
Arizona’s 1864 abortion ban will soon be gone from the law books, but not from the campaign trail
May 02, 2024
New government data suggests U.S. maternal deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels
May 02, 2024
Holocaust survivors are participating in a digital campaign called #CancelHate which features videos of them reading Holocaust denial posts from different social media platforms
May 02, 2024
Without wielding the gavel or holding a formal job laid out in the Constitution, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries might very well be the most powerful person in Congress right now
May 02, 2024
Jurors in the hush money trial of Donald Trump have heard a recording of him discussing with his then-lawyer and personal fixer a plan to purchase the silence of a Playboy model who has said she had an affair with the former president
May 02, 2024
Police have arrested more than 2,100 people during pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the United States in recent weeks
May 02, 2024
Jaylen Brown and Derrick White each scored 25 points and the Boston Celtics advanced to the Eastern Conference semifinals, beating the short-handed Miami Heat 118-84 in Game 5 on Wednesday night
May 02, 2024
A federal appeals court has rejected a bid to release from jail a former FBI informant who is charged with fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family
May 02, 2024
Solomon Islands lawmakers have elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China
May 02, 2024
Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building
May 01, 2024
Russia has circulated a U.N. resolution calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a U.S.-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space
May 01, 2024
Before and after police officers arrested more than 100 people at Columbia University who were protesting the war in Gaza, New York Mayor Eric Adams blamed “outside agitators” for leading the demonstrations
May 01, 2024
The Big 12 is about to play its first season without Oklahoma and Texas
May 01, 2024
Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, who pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges for leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets, will face a military justice proceeding later this month
May 01, 2024
A new Pew Research Center report shows that about 4 in 10 Americans now label China as an enemy, up from a quarter two years ago and reaching the highest level in five years
May 01, 2024
The Biden administration is weighing measures to help Palestinians living in the United States who want to bring family from the war-torn region
May 01, 2024
Niclas Füllkrug scored and Borussia Dortmund earned a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal
May 01, 2024
JPMorgan Chase said in a filing on Wednesday that its assets in Russia may be seized after lawsuits in Russian and U.S. courts.
May 01, 2024
Paris Saint-Germain defender Lucas Hernández has had to go off injured during the team’s Champions League semifinal first leg at Borussia Dortmund
May 01, 2024
Former President Donald Trump will speak at the Libertarian National Convention later this month as he tries to woo voters beyond the Republican base
May 01, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro says his government will break diplomatic relations with Israel effective Thursday in the latest escalation of tensions between both countries over the Israel-Hamas war
May 01, 2024
Kylian Mbappé leads an attacking trio including Ousmane Dembelé and Bradley Barcola for Paris Saint-Germain as the French champions have a full-strength squad for the Champions League semifinal first leg at Borussia Dortmund
May 01, 2024
President Joe Biden is expected to travel to North Carolina on Thursday to meet with the family members of four officers killed earlier this week in the deadliest attack on U.S. law enforcement since 2016
May 01, 2024
The United States on Wednesday issued hundreds of fresh sanctions targeting Russia over the war in Ukraine in action that took aim at Moscow's circumvention
May 01, 2024
The United States has imposed new sanctions on hundreds of companies and people tied to Russia’s weapons development program, as well as more than a dozen Chinese entities accused of helping Moscow find workarounds to earlier penalties
May 01, 2024
Authorities are expanding their investigation of clergy sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church in New Orleans to include church leaders suspected of shielding predatory priests and failing to report crimes to law enforcement
May 01, 2024
After weeks of nonstop coverage of destruction and death across the Gaza Strip, media across the wider Middle East has latched onto the demonstrations roiling American university campuses over the Israel-Hamas war
May 01, 2024
The U.S. military plans to return to Chad within a month for talks about revising an agreement that allows it to keep troops based there
May 01, 2024
Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday at an exhibition the Russian military said showed Western
May 01, 2024
A student protest movement has washed over the country since police first tried to end an encampment at Columbia University in New York nearly two weeks ago
May 01, 2024
Volunteers have searched on the fringes of Mexico City for what they thought could be a clandestine crematorium
May 01, 2024
United Methodist delegates have repealed their church’s longstanding ban on LGBTQ clergy with no debate
May 01, 2024
Ten people died and 21 are missing due to heavy rains this week in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, with the local government warning that the situation is critical and could
May 01, 2024
Poland's chief rabbi says that Warsaw’s main synagogue was attacked with firebombs during the night by an unknown perpetrator, but sustained minimal damage and nobody was hurt
May 01, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog will travel to Iran next week as Tehran’s nuclear program enriches uranium a step away from weapons-grade levels and international oversight remains limited
May 01, 2024
An exhibition of Western military equipment captured from Kyiv forces during the fighting in Ukraine has opened in the Russian capital
May 01, 2024
The 30th anniversary of three-time F1 champion Ayrton Senna’s death is being commemorated with a memorial on the Imola track where he crashed during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix
May 01, 2024
The European Union and United Nations abruptly rescheduled the launch of an anti-human trafficking program this week after being confronted with questions on the choice of venue: a Phnom Penh hotel owned by a Cambodian tycoon who has another property that has been used by human traffickers
May 01, 2024
Georgia's parliament on Wednesday approved the second reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has been criticised as Kremlin-inspired, as police fired tear gas
May 01, 2024
Drone footage exclusively obtained by The Associated Press shows months of Russian artillery pounding have devastated a strategic city in eastern Ukraine
May 01, 2024
Ecuador is defending its storming of Mexico’s Embassy in Quito last month
May 01, 2024
Solomon Islands lawmakers will select a new prime minister in a secret ballot on Thursday, choosing between foreign minister Jeremiah Manele and opposition leader Matthew
May 01, 2024
Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City’s two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border
May 01, 2024
Georgia’s Parliament has moved a step closer to passing a law that critics fear will stifle media freedom and endanger the country’s European Union membership bid
May 01, 2024
Ukrainian forces defending the strategic eastern stronghold of Chasiv Yar say they are still waiting for fresh ammunition after the United
May 01, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Israeli leaders in his push for a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas to impress on them that “the time is now" for an agreement that would free hostages and bring a pause in the nearly seven months of war
May 01, 2024
U_S_ Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Israel to press for a cease-fire deal with Hamas, saying “the time is now.”
May 01, 2024
Workers and activists around the world are marking May Day with largely peaceful rallies against rising prices and calling for greater rights
May 01, 2024
U.S.
May 01, 2024
Russia's defence minister on Wednesday ordered a hike in weapons production and said deliveries needed to be faster for the war in Ukraine, a week after U.S.
May 01, 2024
Tensions are growing on the UCLA campus as law enforcement officers order a large group of pro-Palestinian demonstrators to disperse
May 01, 2024
A South African aquarium is stretched beyond capacity after more than 500 baby sea turtles were washed up on beaches by a rare and powerful storm and rescued by members of the public
May 01, 2024
A Minnesota man who once fought for the Islamic State group in Syria but now expresses remorse and has been cooperating with authorities will have to wait to learn how much prison time he faces
May 01, 2024
The Arizona Legislature has approved a repeal of a long-dormant ban on nearly all abortions
May 01, 2024
A section of a highway collapsed after heavy rains in a mountainous area in southern China, sending cars tumbling down a slope and leaving at least 36 people dead
May 01, 2024
A surprise announcement that revealed Haiti’s new prime minister is dividing a recently installed transitional council tasked with choosing new leaders for the gang-riddled Caribbean country
May 01, 2024
Prosecutors have asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein, who was back in a New York courtroom for the first time since his 2020 rape conviction was overturned by an appeals court last week
May 01, 2024
Florida’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy has gone into effect, and some doctors are concerned that women in the state will no longer have access to needed health care
May 01, 2024
Under pressure to cope with the impact of rising temperatures, Greece's emergency response planners are shifting tactics this summer
May 01, 2024
The Philippines on Wednesday accused China's coast guard of elevating tensions in the South China Sea after two vessels suffered damage from water cannon use by Beijing, an official
May 01, 2024
Taiwan is on alert for China to carry out military exercises after the inauguration of President-elect Lai Ching-te this month, the island's top security official
May 01, 2024
South Korea's exports rose for a seventh straight month in April, trade data showed on Wednesday, as strong demand for chips continued to lead growth while automobile sales and U.S.
April 30, 2024
The U.S. Senate approved on Tuesday legislation to bar imports of Russian uranium, as the United States continues to seek to disrupt Russia's efforts in its war against Ukraine.
April 30, 2024
A new Louisiana congressional map giving the state a second majority-Black House district has been rejected by a panel of federal judges
April 30, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff thanked a Vatican envoy on Tuesday for his efforts in trying to bring home thousands of children forcibly taken to Russia and asked
April 30, 2024
Florida is on the verge of repealing what’s left of a 16-year-old law that puts climate change as a priority when making energy policy decisions
April 30, 2024
The population of California grew last year for the first time since 2020, thanks to a drop in mortality and a rebound in legal foreign immigration, the state's Department of
April 30, 2024
Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday that an inventory of military weapons showed over a million bullets, thousands of explosives, including grenades, and some missiles
April 30, 2024
Dozens of Google workers who were fired after internal protests surrounding a lucrative contract that the internet company has with the Israeli government have filed a complaint with labor regulators in an attempt to get their jobs back
April 30, 2024
A Silicon Valley-backed campaign to build a new city in California for up to 400,000 people says it submitted enough signatures to qualify the initiative for the November election
April 30, 2024
Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to more than a million Palestinian civilians sheltering there
April 30, 2024
Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator Deanne Criswell says “our heart aches for the loss of life” in tornadoes that left four dead and about 100 injured in Oklahoma
April 30, 2024
The U.S.
April 30, 2024
A Portuguese-flagged container ship has come under attack by a drone in the far reaches of the Arabian Sea
April 30, 2024
United Methodist delegates have begun making historic policy changes on sexuality, voting without debate to reverse a series of anti-LGBTQ policies
April 30, 2024
A 98-year-old woman in Ukraine has escaped Russian-occupied territory by walking almost 10 kilometers, or 6 miles, alone, wearing a pair of slippers and supported by a cane
April 30, 2024
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects across the country
April 30, 2024
South African police are investigating if former President Jacob Zuma’s new political party forged supporters’ signatures to register for national elections next month
April 30, 2024
Families of Americans still detained in foreign countries despite recent prisoner swaps arranged by the Biden administration pleaded on Tuesday at least for
April 30, 2024
The torrential rains and deadly floods that have hit Kenya since March have been some of the most catastrophic in the country in recent years
April 30, 2024
Haiti’s newly installed transitional council has chosen a little known former sports minister as the Caribbean country’s prime minister, as it tries to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence
April 30, 2024
The U.S.
April 30, 2024
Estonia has accused neighbouring Russia of jamming GPS navigation devices in airspace above the Baltic
April 30, 2024
The White House denounced non-peaceful efforts to protest the war in Gaza on Tuesday as students at Columbia University occupied a campus building, saying it was "the wrong
April 30, 2024
Argentina's oilseed sector workers lifted their two-day strike late on Tuesday after the lower house of Congress approved contentious reforms backed by
April 30, 2024
Zimbabwe has started circulating a new currency to replace one that has been battered by depreciation and often outright rejection by the people
April 30, 2024
A group of Palestinian students disrupted a meeting of European Union diplomats in the West Bank on Tuesday and attacked some of their cars with stones, smashing the
April 30, 2024
Rain-swollen water levels at two Kenyan hydroelectric dams are at “historic highs” and people downstream are being told to move away
April 30, 2024
The U.S. and allies are scrambling to pull together a complex system that will move tons of humanitarian aid into Gaza by sea
April 30, 2024
Judges at the International Court of Justice on Tuesday ruled against issuing emergency orders to stop German arms exports to Israel, while expressing
April 30, 2024
Nations finished a round of negotiations early Tuesday on a treaty to end plastic pollution and made more progress than they have in three prior meetings
April 30, 2024
Mali's army says a senior Islamic State group commander wanted in connection with the deaths of U.S. forces in Niger has been killed in an operation by Malian state forces
April 30, 2024
A Finnish court has sentenced a 26-year-old man to more than six years in prison for hacking thousands of patient records at a private psychotherapy center and seeking ransom from some patients over the sensitive data
April 30, 2024
Hundreds of students gathered at university campuses in Lebanon on Tuesday to protest against Israel, the country's first coordinated university
April 30, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump does not rule out building detention camps on U.S. soil for migrants in the country illegally if he wins
April 30, 2024
A utility owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway faces $30 billion of new claims blaming it for causing Oregon wildfires in 2020, nearly four times the maximum
April 30, 2024
The world's biggest live music event, Eurovision Song Contest, will take place in Sweden in the second week of May with 37 participating countries.
April 30, 2024
U.S. climate change diplomat John Podesta will meet his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhenmin in Washington in May, resuming bilateral talks on climate cooperation
April 30, 2024
Chinese coast guard ships have fired water cannons at two Philippine patrol vessels near a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, damaging both, in the latest flareup in an increasingly tense territorial conflict
April 30, 2024
A Chinese spacecraft has returned to Earth with three astronauts who lived for six months on the country’s space station
April 30, 2024
Israel will carry out an operation against Hamas in the southern Gaza city of Rafah regardless of whether or not a ceasefire and hostage release deal is reached, Prime Minister
April 30, 2024
Restaurant Brands International beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly results on Tuesday, driven by a revival in demand at its Burger King outlets as well as
April 30, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged to launch an incursion into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are sheltering from the almost 7-month-long war
April 30, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday he was "troubled" by heavy-handed actions taken by U.S. security forces during attempts to break up pro-Palestinian protests on college
April 30, 2024
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets stalled on Tuesday as another heavy earnings week for megacap stocks cranked up, with renewed slippage in Japan's yen
April 30, 2024
The judge overseeing Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial fined the former U.S. president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday and said he
April 30, 2024
U.S. stocks ended lower on Tuesday as markets weighed economic data showing rising labor costs and deteriorating consumer confidence on the day of a key Federal
April 30, 2024
Twenty years after Poland joined the European Union, its finance minister says the country is still not ready to adopt the euro currency
April 30, 2024
Euro zone inflation held steady as expected in April but a crucial indicator on underlying price pressures slowed, solidifying an already strong case for the European Central
April 30, 2024
Georgian security forces used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades against protesters outside parliament late on Tuesday, sharply escalating a crackdown after
April 30, 2024
A 14-year-old boy was killed and four other people were injured after a stabbing in London on Tuesday involving a man with a sword.
April 30, 2024
A 14-year-old boy has been killed and four others have been injured by a man wielding a sword who attacked members of the public and police officers in a northeast London suburb
April 30, 2024
The German economy skirted a recession at the start of the year, growing more than expected thanks to the construction sector and exports, preliminary data showed
April 30, 2024
Israel plans on opening a major humanitarian aid crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza
April 30, 2024
The Chinese Communist Party's central committee will gather in July for a key meeting known as a plenum, the third since the body of elite decision makers was elected in 2022,
April 30, 2024
Arnaud Lagardere, the chairman and CEO of French publishing group Lagardere SA, has resigned from his executive roles as a result of an indictment against which he
April 30, 2024
Mexico's taking control of its oil from U.S. and British companies is taught in schools and celebrated every year
April 30, 2024
Mexico is taking Ecuador to the top U.N. court, accusing the nation of violating international law by storming the Mexican Embassy in Quito to arrest a former vice president who had just been granted asylum in Mexico
April 30, 2024
Asian stocks fall with most of the markets in the region closed for a holiday after U.S. stocks closed out their worst month since September
April 30, 2024
Uganda has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia's Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for a $295 million loan to fund road construction and other projects, the east African country's
April 30, 2024
Indonesia’s Mount Ruang volcano has erupted for a second time in two weeks, spewing ash more than a mile into the sky, closing an airport and peppering nearby villages with debris
April 30, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee: A data heavy session, headlined by euro zone inflation figures for April, awaits Europe in an action-packed week that got
April 30, 2024
The top United Nations court has rejected a request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military and other aid to Israel and renew funding to the U.N. aid agency in Gaza
April 30, 2024
An immigrant from Laos who has been battling cancer won an enormous $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot in Oregon earlier this month
April 30, 2024
Police have cleared 30 to 40 people from inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall after pro-Palestinian protesters occupied the administration building in New York earlier in the day
April 30, 2024
Manasseh Sogavare, the Solomon Islands prime minister who drew his nation close to China, sharpening the United States' focus on the strategic importance of the
April 30, 2024
The Philippines on Tuesday accused China's coast guard of harassment and of damaging two of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea, rejecting Beijing's position
April 30, 2024
Actor Ashley Judd, whose allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein helped spark the #MeToo movement, is speaking out on the right of women and girls to control their own bodies and be free from male violence
April 30, 2024
Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported a 10-fold increase in operating profit for the last quarter as the expansion of artificial intelligence technologies drives a rebound in the markets for computer memory chips
April 30, 2024
Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava as lightning flashes lit up its crater, prompting authorities to raise the alert status and evacuate more than 12,000
April 30, 2024
Japan's jobless rate in March was unchanged at 2.6% compared to February, government data showed on Tuesday.
April 29, 2024
A retired Roman Catholic Bishop who was famous for trying to mediate between drug cartels in Mexico has been kidnapped
April 29, 2024
Japan stands ready to deal with foreign exchange matters around the clock, top currency diplomat Masato Kanda said on Tuesday, as money market
April 29, 2024
Britain's military says one of the horses that galloped through the streets of London last week is expected to make a full recovery while another remains under observation following its injuries
April 29, 2024
An explosive device detonated and killed six troops loyal to a United Arab Emirates-backed secessionist group Monday in southern Yemen, a military spokesman said
April 29, 2024
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi received a phone call on Monday from U.S.
April 29, 2024
Sophie, Britain's Duchess of Edinburgh, has visited Ukraine, meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his wife in the first trip to the country by a British royal since the
April 29, 2024
Jose Mujica, Uruguay's former president and one of Latin America's best-known leaders, announced a cancer diagnosis on Monday that doctors say will be
April 29, 2024
The International Criminal Court could soon issue arrest warrants for leaders of Israel and Hamas more than seven months into their war
April 29, 2024
The debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile, United
April 29, 2024
The United States found five units of Israel's security forces responsible for gross violations of human rights, the first time Washington
April 29, 2024
For the first time, negotiators from most of the world’s nations are discussing actual text for what is supposed to become a global treaty to end plastic pollution
April 29, 2024
The most recent criminal case involving artificial intelligence emerged from a high school in Baltimore County, Maryland
April 29, 2024
Ecuador has filed a complaint at the top U.N. court over what it called Mexico’s illegal decision to grant political asylum to a former Ecuadorian vice president, which led to Ecuador’s highly criticized raid on the Mexican Embassy earlier this month
April 29, 2024
President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, spoke on Sunday about cooperating on migration policy
April 29, 2024
Ecuador said on Monday it is suing Mexico at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), asking the U.N. tribunal known as the World Court to rule that Mexico's
April 29, 2024
United Methodist delegates are heading into the homestretch of a legislative gathering that appears on track to make historic changes in lifting their church’s longstanding bans on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy
April 29, 2024
India summoned the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner on Monday and expressed "deep concern and strong protest" after separatist slogans in support of a Sikh homeland were
April 29, 2024
Dozens of students have gathered near the Sorbonne university in Paris to protest in support of the Palestinians, echoing similar demonstrations on campuses in the United States
April 29, 2024
Columbia University on Monday began suspending pro-Palestinian student activists who refused to dismantle a protest camp on the New York City
April 29, 2024
Kenya Airways said it would suspend flights to the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital Kinshasa from Tuesday, after military authorities there failed to release its employees
April 29, 2024
The U.S. military's cost estimate to build a pier off Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid has risen to $320 million, a U.S. defense official
April 29, 2024
NATO's chief says the alliance's member countries have failed to deliver in good time what they promised to Ukraine
April 29, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that vital U.S. weapons were starting to arrive in Ukraine in small amounts but deliveries needed to be
April 29, 2024
Police moved in to clear dozens of protesters who had set up tents in a courtyard at the Sorbonne University in Paris on Monday to protest against the war in Gaza,
April 29, 2024
Russian forces advanced at points along the front line in Ukraine on Monday, taking a village in the Donetsk region, gaining better positions in the Kharkiv region and repelling a
April 29, 2024
A senior Turkish official says Ankara will back the outgoing Dutch prime minister's candidacy for the position of NATO secretary general
April 29, 2024
Far-right allies of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are raising pressure on the embattled leader to reject a new Gaza ceasefire, jeopardising his
April 29, 2024
Norwegian police say the father and former coach of Olympic champion runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen has been charged with abusing one of his other children
April 29, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker BYD posted its weakest quarterly profit growth since 2022 on Monday while its revenue growth slowed to the lowest level in nearly four years, hit
April 29, 2024
A court has convicted five former firefighters and disaster response officials over a 2018 wildfire outside Athens that killed more than 100 people
April 29, 2024
People in Togo have voted in parliamentary elections that tested support for a proposed new constitution that would scrap presidential elections and give lawmakers the power to choose the president
April 29, 2024
Chinese shoppers are spending a little more on diapers and some Colgate toothpastes, according to executives at the makers of these products, even as consumers
April 29, 2024
Polish farmers called off their protest at the last border crossing with Ukraine on Monday, lifting a blockade that has dragged on for months,
April 29, 2024
French media are reporting that police have summoned actor Gérard Depardieu for questioning about allegations made by two women that he sexually assaulted them on movie sets
April 29, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted a vessel in the Red Sea, the latest assault in their campaign against international shipping in the crucial maritime route
April 29, 2024
The European Union has decided to restrict its visa provisions for Ethiopian nationals due to a lack of co-operation from Ethiopia's government over repatriating those who stay
April 29, 2024
Israeli officials appear to be increasingly concerned that the International Criminal Court may issue arrest warrants against the country’s leaders, as international pressure mounts over its ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip
April 29, 2024
Police in Kenya say at least 40 people have died after a dam collapsed in the country’s west
April 29, 2024
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday he had decided to stay in office after days of publicly weighing his future, generating relief amongst leftist allies,
April 29, 2024
A Hong Kong transgender activist has received a new ID card reflecting his gender change, after a yearslong legal battle to change the document, and he vowed to continue working for equality for the LGBTQ+ community
April 29, 2024
A professor who helped save Europe's largest saltwater lagoon is one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, known as the “Green Nobel."
April 29, 2024
The historic Versailles Palace Gardens will soon host the Paris Olympics equestrian sports
April 29, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah have killed at least 22 people, including six women and five children
April 29, 2024
Scotland’s first minister, Humza Yousaf, has resigned rather than face a no-confidence vote just days after he torpedoed a coalition with the Green Party by ditching a target for fighting climate change
April 29, 2024
Kenya has postponed the reopening of its schools by one week due to ongoing flooding caused by heavy rains, as flood-related deaths since mid-March in the East African country neared 100
April 29, 2024
Protests are roiling college campuses across the U.S. as upcoming graduation ceremonies are threatened by disruptive demonstrators, with students and others sparring over Israel’s military offensive in Gaza and its mounting death toll
April 29, 2024
U.S. Rep. Victoria Spartz is the first and only Ukrainian-born member of Congress
April 29, 2024
Spain is in suspense as it waits for Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to announce whether he will continue in office or leave
April 29, 2024
Students protested what they saw as injustice and demanded change
April 29, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is beginning his seventh diplomatic mission to the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war began more than six months ago
April 29, 2024
Asian shares are higher amid optimism over the rally that ended the week on Wall Street, although eyes are on the Federal Reserve policy meeting set for later this week
April 29, 2024
Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production,
April 29, 2024
Japan's currency surged as much as 5 yen against the dollar from a fresh 34-year low hit earlier on Monday, with traders citing yen-
April 28, 2024
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has described domestic violence as a national crisis after thousands rallied around the country against violence toward women
April 28, 2024
Israeli airstrikes killed dozens of Palestinians on Monday as Hamas leaders visited Cairo for a new round of truce talks, with more than half the dead in the
April 28, 2024
The lead suspect in the case against nine men accused of plotting a violent coup against the German state was targeted by prosecutors for his role in
April 28, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 28, 2024
U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin likely didn’t order the death of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny in February
April 28, 2024
Thousands of Georgians marched through the capital, Tbilisi, on Sunday, as protests built against a bill on "foreign agents" that the country's opposition and
April 28, 2024
Protests at U.S. universities showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with more arrests on campuses across the country and skirmishes
April 28, 2024
The amount of humanitarian aid going into the Gaza Strip will be ramped up in coming days, Israel's military said on Sunday, citing new corridors that use an Israeli seaport and
April 28, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s governing party appears to have lost all three seats in Sunday’s parliamentary by-elections
April 28, 2024
France's nuclear weapons should be part of the European defence debate, French President Emmanuel Macron told a group of regional newspapers on Sunday, in
April 28, 2024
German police say two Ukrainian men have been stabbed to death and a Russian man has been arrested by authorities as a possible suspect in the killings
April 28, 2024
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif discussed a new loan programme with IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva on Sunday, his office said in a statement.
April 28, 2024
A Democratic senator on Sunday questioned whether the Biden administration was properly assessing whether Israel was complying with international law, following
April 28, 2024
Dozens of people in northern Italy have raised their arms in the fascist salute to honor Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on the 79th anniversary of his execution
April 28, 2024
Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104
April 28, 2024
French Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné has arrived in Lebanon as part of diplomatic attempts to broker a de-escalation in the conflict on the Lebanon-Israel border
April 28, 2024
Human rights groups and diplomat have criticized a law that was quietly passed by the Iraqi parliament over the weekend that would impose heavy prison sentences on gay and transgender people
April 28, 2024
China's coast guard confronted Japanese lawmakers in waters claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, China's embassy in Tokyo and Japanese media said on Sunday, the
April 28, 2024
In the days since police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University on April 18, a protest encampment has been re-established on the New York campus and
April 28, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday only the United States could stop Israel attacking the border city of Rafah in Gaza, adding that the assault, which he expects
April 28, 2024
Russian officials threatened the West on Sunday with a "severe" response in the event that frozen Russian assets are confiscated, promising "endless" legal challenges and tit-for-
April 28, 2024
Oleksandr Taran's mobile artillery unit isn't officially part of Ukraine's military, but that hasn't stopped his men from destroying Russian
April 28, 2024
Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara has resigned, the government said on Sunday, after being removed from the post of deputy prime minister in a cabinet reshuffle, at a
April 28, 2024
France's foreign minister said on Sunday there had been progress in discussions with senior officials in Lebanon aimed at easing tensions between Hezbollah
April 28, 2024
Officials in Ukraine say Russian drones struck the Black Sea city of Mykolaiv, setting a hotel ablaze and damaging energy infrastructure while ammunition shortages continue to hobble Kyiv’s troops in the more than 2-year-old war
April 28, 2024
Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest for international travel, will move its operations to the city-state’s second, sprawling airfield in its southern desert reaches “within the next 10 years” in a project worth nearly $35 billion
April 28, 2024
A senior Qatari official has urged both Israel and Hamas to show “more commitment and more seriousness” in cease-fire negotiations
April 28, 2024
Famed for its blue seas, breathtaking views and cove-studded coastline, the Mediterranean island of Capri has been a tourist haven since the early years of
April 28, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. college campuses are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while some universities have moved to shut down encampments after reports of antisemitic activity among the protesters
April 28, 2024
Security is tight around a military base in southwestern Cambodia, a day after a huge explosion there killed 20 soldiers, wounded others and damaged nearby houses
April 28, 2024
Pope Francis is traveling to Venice to visit the Holy See’s pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale
April 28, 2024
Two Russian journalists were arrested by their government on “extremism” charges and ordered by courts there to remain in custody pending investigation and trial on accusations of working for a group founded by the late Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny
April 27, 2024
Pope Francis made his first trip out of Rome for seven months on Sunday with a packed visit to Venice that took in an art exhibition, a prison and a Mass, with the 87-
April 27, 2024
Haiti's transition council on Saturday said it will vote for the country's next president on Tuesday as part of efforts to bring the Caribbean country under control amid rampant gang
April 27, 2024
Police in Benin fired tear gas to break up a protest over the cost of living called by trade unions and they arrested several senior union figures on Saturday,
April 27, 2024
Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of U.S. university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel's war
April 27, 2024
Lebanon has moved towards accepting the International Criminal Court's jurisdiction to prosecute violations on Lebanese territory since October, in what Human Rights Watch said on Saturday
April 27, 2024
Some senior U.S. officials have advised Secretary of State Antony Blinken that they do not find "credible or reliable" Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.
April 27, 2024
The State Department says Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the Middle East on his seventh diplomatic mission to the region since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began more than six months ago
April 27, 2024
Hamas released a new video on Saturday that appeared to show two Israeli hostages who have been held in the Gaza Strip since the Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel.
April 27, 2024
Several German parties have kicked off their campaigns for the election of the European Parliament in June with a focus on issues such as the war in Ukraine and many European voters’ support for far-right nationalist parties across the continent
April 27, 2024
The U.S.
April 27, 2024
Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home in central Baghdad
April 27, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have claimed shooting down another of the U.S. military’s MQ-9 Reaper drones
April 27, 2024
South Africa has marked 30 years since the end of apartheid with a ceremony in the capital
April 27, 2024
Cambodia’s prime minister says 20 soldiers have been killed and several others injured in an ammunition explosion at a base in the west of the country
April 27, 2024
The coincidence of presidential elections in the U.S. and Mexico every 12 years provides a valuable way to compare the two countries
April 27, 2024
If a woman wins Mexico’s presidency during the June 2 elections, would she rule with gender in mind
April 27, 2024
North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of politicizing human rights in the East Asian country, denouncing what it called political provocation and conspiracy.
April 27, 2024
Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968"
April 27, 2024
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States have peacefully evacuated a campus building at a prestigious French university after days of tensions
April 27, 2024
Meetings with foreign dignitaries at Trump Tower. A staged visit to a convenience store in the New York City Democratic stronghold of Harlem.
April 27, 2024
Hamas says it is reviewing a new Israeli proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, as Egypt intensifies efforts to broker a deal to end the months-long war and stave off a possible Israeli ground offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 27, 2024
Russia has launched a barrage of missiles against Ukraine directed at energy facilities
April 27, 2024
Hamas said it had received on Saturday Israel's official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group's
April 27, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrapped up his just-concluded latest visit to China with a stop at a Beijing record store where he bought albums by Taylor Swift and Chinese rocker Dou Wei in a symbolic nod to cross-cultural exchanges and understanding he had been promoting for three days
April 27, 2024
Russian missiles pounded power facilities in central and western Ukraine on Saturday, increasing pressure on the ailing energy system as the country
April 27, 2024
Student anti-war protesters at U.S. universities are digging in and vowing to keep their demonstrations going, while several school faculties have condemned university presidents for calling law enforcement
April 27, 2024
South Africans celebrate their “Freedom Day” every April 27
April 27, 2024
Alejandro Fonseca stood in line for several hours outside a bank in Havana hoping to withdraw Cuban pesos from an ATM
April 27, 2024
Kristi Noem, a contender to become Republican Donald Trump'svice presidential running mate, defended herself on Friday against Democratic attacks over her account of
April 27, 2024
A federal judge in Manhattan dismissed for good a lawsuit accusing Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler of sexually assaulting a former teenage model twice in one
April 27, 2024
The Philippines on Saturday denied a Chinese claim that the two countries had reached an agreement over an escalating maritime dispute in the South China Sea, calling the claim
April 27, 2024
Four cargo ships, stuck for about a month at the Port of Baltimore by the ruins of the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge, have exited this week via a
April 27, 2024
China's industrial profits fell in March and slowed gains for the quarter compared to the first two months, official data showed on Saturday, raising
April 27, 2024
China will host Palestinian unity talks between Islamist militant group Hamas and its rivals Fatah, the two groups and a Beijing-based
April 27, 2024
Thousands took to the streets in downtown Budapest on Friday to demand child-protection reform, led by Peter Magyar, a former government insider who recently
April 27, 2024
The current overall public health risk posed by the H5N1 bird flu virus is low, the World Health Organization said on Friday, but urged countries to stay alert for cases of animal-to-human
April 26, 2024
Britain's King Charles will return to public duties on April 30 following nearly three months of treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace said on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Britain's King Charles will return to public duties next week for the first time since being diagnosed with cancer as he makes good progress following treatment and
April 26, 2024
U.N. investigators examining Israeli accusations that 12 staff from the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA took part in the Oct.
April 26, 2024
Ohio police released video of a Black man who died at a local hospital after repeatedly telling officers "I can't breathe" as they pinned him to the floor of a bar and
April 26, 2024
Israel's hardline national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was slightly hurt in a car accident and taken to hospital on Friday, police said, adding that they
April 26, 2024
U.N. investigators are looking into allegations against 14 of the 19 staffers from the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians who Israel claims were involved in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants that spurred the latest war in Gaza
April 26, 2024
Berlin police on Friday began clearing a pro-Palestinian camp set up in front of the German parliament by activists demanding the government stop arms exports to
April 26, 2024
The Commerce Department is announcing new restrictions on U.S. firearms exports in an effort to prevent the guns from ending up in the hands of drug traffickers and criminals in other nations
April 26, 2024
The trial of internet personality Andrew Tate on human trafficking charges can go ahead, a Romanian court ruled on Friday, 10 months after he was first indicted, although his
April 26, 2024
At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours of Friday morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil's southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do
April 26, 2024
An Egyptian delegation met Israeli counterparts on Friday, looking for a way to restart talks to end the war in Gaza and return the remaining Israeli hostages, an official
April 26, 2024
A Belarusian hacker activist group claims to have infiltrated the network of the country’s main security agency and obtained access to personal files of over 8,600 staffers of the KGB, the security service that still goes under its Soviet name
April 26, 2024
Tensions flared in front of Paris' prestigious Sciences Po university over the war in Gaza on Friday as pro-Israeli protesters came to challenge pro-Palestinian
April 26, 2024
The British Army says the military horses that bolted and ran loose when spooked by construction noise in central London earlier this week “continue to be cared for and closely observed."
April 26, 2024
Two men accused of spying for China, including a former researcher for a prominent British lawmaker in the governing Conservative Party, appeared in a London court on Friday.
April 26, 2024
U.S. and European politicians have raised alarms that their domestic auto industries could be destroyed by a wave of cheap Chinese electric vehicles.
April 26, 2024
It’s been only a day since the transitional presidential council was installed in Haiti, and the list of demands on its members is rapidly growing
April 26, 2024
A private security firm says missiles suspected to have been fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels landed a distance away from a ship traveling through the Red Sea
April 26, 2024
China's Bank of Communications Co Ltd (BoCom), reported a 1.44% rise in first-quarter net profit amid a slowing economy.
April 26, 2024
Euro zone lending continued to stagnate in March and consumers trimmed their inflation expectations as record-high borrowing costs kept putting the brakes on the euro zone's
April 26, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has determined that an Israeli military unit committed gross human-rights abuses against Palestinians in the West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago
April 26, 2024
British police have charged two men with immigration offences after five migrants, including a child, died when a small boat crossed the English Channel from France earlier this
April 26, 2024
Russia's dominant lender Sberbank on Friday reported an 11.3% increase in first-quarter net profit to 397.4 billion roubles ($4.32 billion) and sharply raised its retail loan growth
April 26, 2024
Italy's government has given a conditional green light to Vitol's plan to take over oil refiner Saras, the global commodity trader said in a statement on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine’s foreign minister has doubled down on the government’s move to bolster the pool of fighting forces by cutting off consular services to conscription-age men outside the country
April 26, 2024
A court in Romania’s capital has ruled that a trial can start in the case of influencer Andrew Tate, who is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
April 26, 2024
Nomura Holdings, Japan's biggest brokerage and investment bank, reported on Friday a 670% jump in quarterly net profit compared to a year earlier as its retail and
April 26, 2024
A police crackdown that aims to clear a poor suburb of petty crime and street vendors before the Paris 2024 Olympics is putting pressure on an
April 26, 2024
Paris has a new king of the crusty baguette
April 26, 2024
Thailand called on Friday for the regional bloc ASEAN to take a more proactive role in trying to resolve the crisis in military-ruled Myanmar, after weeks of fighting near its
April 26, 2024
China's largest auto show opened in Beijing with the biggest names showing off their latest electric vehicles (EVs), underlining how the world's largest auto market is already in
April 26, 2024
A Ukrainian court has ordered the detention of the country’s farm minister in the latest high-profile corruption investigation
April 26, 2024
Scotland’s leader has cancelled a speech as he fights for his political life in the wake of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement
April 26, 2024
Turkey’s state-run news agency has reported that a court sentenced a Syrian woman to life in prison for a deadly explosion on a busy shopping district in Istanbul in 2022
April 26, 2024
Vietnamese state media outlet VN Express reports that the head of Vietnam’s Parliament, Vuong Dinh Hue, has resigned
April 26, 2024
Students at a prestigious university in Paris have resumed pro-Palestinian protests, days after French police broke up a similar demonstration inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses around the United States
April 26, 2024
The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged on Friday and issued fresh estimates projecting inflation to stay near its 2% target in the next three years, signalling its readiness
April 26, 2024
A Colorado judge on Friday sentenced a paramedic convicted in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain to 14 months in a work-release program and four years of
April 26, 2024
A former researcher working in the U.K. Parliament and another man charged with spying for China have been granted bail after a court appearance in London
April 26, 2024
Egypt has sent a high-level delegation to Israel with the hope of brokering a cease-fire agreement with Hamas in Gaza
April 26, 2024
South Korean police have searched the office of the hard-line incoming leader of a doctors association and confiscated his mobile phone
April 26, 2024
Philippine forces have killed an Abu Sayyaf militant who had been implicated in past beheadings including of 10 Filipino marines and two kidnapped Vietnamese
April 26, 2024
Burkina Faso has suspended the BBC and Voice of America radio stations for their coverage of a report by Human Rights Watch on a mass killing of civilians carried out by the country’s armed forces
April 26, 2024
TikTok is banned in a handful of countries and not allowed on government-issued devices in a number of others
April 26, 2024
China’s vision of the future of the automobile — electrified and digitally connected — is on display at the ongoing Beijing auto show
April 26, 2024
A relative says a premature Palestinian infant, who was rescued from her mother’s womb shortly after the woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike, has died
April 26, 2024
China passed a law on Friday strengthening its trade defence capabilities as the United States and the European Union take aim at Beijing over excess industrial capacity.
April 26, 2024
Japan’s space agency says it's planning to launch a major upgrade to its satellite imaging system, as a new flagship rocket is put to the test for a third time
April 26, 2024
Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters fired anti-tank missiles and artillery shells at an Israeli military convoy in a disputed area along the border, killing an Israeli civilian
April 26, 2024
A lab in a Dutch zoo has presented special corals that bred themselves and nestled them in Europe's largest coral reef
April 26, 2024
Oil prices settled higher on Friday, garnering support from tensions in the Middle East, but a strong dollar and U.S. inflation data quashed hopes that the
April 26, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher despite worries about the economic outlook and inflation in the U.S. and globally
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the mostly peaceful protests on U.S. college campuses over Israel's war in Gaza, describing them as "tremendous hate," while saying that
April 26, 2024
A pro-Palestinian U.S. group filed a federal civil rights complaint against Columbia University following last week's mass arrest of anti-war protesters after
April 26, 2024
A selection of South African artworks produced during the country’s apartheid era which ended up in foreign art collections is on display in Johannesburg
April 26, 2024
Several thousand Indigenous demonstrators marched chanting to drum beats on Thursday to the seat of power in Brazil's capital to protest against the government's
April 26, 2024
Actor Paola Cortellesi has long been a staple on the Italian pop culture scene, mostly known for her work as a comedian
April 26, 2024
South Africa this week celebrates 30 years of freedom after a historic 1994 election that saw the end of white minority rule and racial segregation
April 26, 2024
Students protesting the Israel-Hamas war are digging in at Columbia University for a 10th day, part of a number of demonstrations roiling campuses from California to Connecticut
April 26, 2024
Millions of Indians are voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections with some big names in the contest
April 26, 2024
The United States and China are butting heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Group of Seven members are discussing using nearly $300 billion in frozen Russian assets as collateral to provide loans to Ukraine, European Commission Executive Vice President
April 26, 2024
Russia is making overseas travel harder for some officials due to fears that foreign powers may try to gain access to state secrets during the worst crisis in relations with the
April 26, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda discussed Ukraine and the Middle East with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a meeting in New York on Wednesday at which the former
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be invited to the 80th anniversary of the 1944 D-Day landings in June, the French organisers said, although some Russian representatives
April 26, 2024
Police in Canada and the United States have arrested six people and are seeking three others in connection with the theft of over C$22 million ($16 million)
April 26, 2024
An editorial in a Chinese state-controlled newspaper on Thursday admonished "two-faced" Japan for inaccurately portraying it as a regional security threat while chasing more stable
April 26, 2024
Ukraine needs $42 billion in budgetary support this year as it continues to fight against Russia's invasion, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday, adding
April 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund's Board has backed a key change to give it more freedom to support crisis-hit countries even if debt renegotiations with big creditor
April 26, 2024
Deputy U.S.
April 26, 2024
The European Union is facing a final opportunity to take the steps required to allow it to compete effectively with the United States, China and other rivals,
April 26, 2024
The Netherlands on Wednesday will hand over another three F-16 fighter jets to a training facility in Romania, where Ukrainian pilots and ground staff are being taught how
April 26, 2024
Counting was underway on Thursday in the Solomon Islands after a national election a day earlier, although electoral officials said they were searching for a larger venue
April 26, 2024
A high-level Caribbean ambassador said on Wednesday it was crucial to establish a new international special tribunal to seek reparations for transatlantic slavery and
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea's bad behaviour and
April 26, 2024
The number of antisemitic incidents of assault, vandalism and harassment in the U.S. hit a record high in 2023 as anti-Jewish sentiment spiked after the start of the Israel-Hamas war,
April 26, 2024
The U.S., South Korea and Japan are pushing for a new multi-national panel of experts, possibly outside the U.N., to ensure sanctions enforcement against North Korea
April 26, 2024
A United Nations forum on people of African descent opened on Tuesday with calls for extra funding to support its work and progress towards reparations for transatlantic
April 26, 2024
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli leadership are solely responsible for the recent escalation of tensions in the Middle East, Turkish President Tayyip
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's homegrown submarine programme will remain on track, the defence minister said on Wednesday, after the head of the programme resigned due to what he said were unfair attacks
April 26, 2024
Soon after Maria Rosa Sanchez reported her neighbour for renting her building's rooftop in Tenerife as a campsite on Airbnb, police officers
April 26, 2024
Portugal's far-right party Chega will take legal action against Meta Platforms' decision to restrict the party's Facebook account for 10 years, a party
April 26, 2024
A senior official at Nigeria's drug regulator said on Tuesday that the regulator had no record of children dying from a batch of cough syrup manufactured by Johnson & Johnson which
April 26, 2024
China and the United States should explore ways for a pragmatic and cooperative relationship between their militaries, and "gradually accumulate mutual trust", the Chinese defence
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Half of the world's 75 poorest countries are experiencing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time this century in a historical
April 26, 2024
The World Health Organization issued an alert on Monday warning drugmakers of five contaminated batches of propylene glycol, an ingredient used in medicinal syrups,
April 26, 2024
The United States on Sunday will announce an additional $100 million in aid to respond to the conflict in Sudan, according to a statement seen by Reuters,
April 26, 2024
Britain rejects an assertion by Iran that it provided advance notice before attacking Israel, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Monday the trilateral agreement signed between his country and the United States and Japan was not directed at anyone, but merely a
April 26, 2024
Israel's repelling of a massive Iranian drone and missile salvo was fully coordinated with the Pentagon, which had a U.S. operational liaison officer in the
April 26, 2024
Israel has moved in a "significant way" but Hamas is the barrier to a deal that would see fighting in Gaza paused and hostages released, State Department spokesperson Matthew
April 26, 2024
Top diplomats from France, Germany and the European Union will push for more funding for Sudan on Monday when they meet in Paris to mark the first anniversary of the conflict
April 26, 2024
Russia has been able to swiftly repair some of key oil refineries hit by Ukrainian drones, reducing capacity idled by the attacks to about 10% from almost 14% at the end of March,
April 26, 2024
China's top official on Hong Kong affairs said the city should "tightly hold" onto the bottom line of national security to safeguard development, in
April 26, 2024
Washington and allies are looking for new avenues to enforce Security Council sanctions against North Korea, U.S.
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Friday there is no reason for China to see a U.S. summit this week with Japan and the Philippines as a threat.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday issued sanctions aimed at a Hamas spokesperson and leaders of the group's drone unit, the Treasury Department said.
April 26, 2024
A cooperation agreement by the Philippines, the United States and Japan will change the dynamic in the South China Sea and the region, Philippine President Ferdinand
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday announced an entry ban on former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse and six former military officials, citing alleged involvement in the extrajudicial killings
April 26, 2024
South Africa's health regulator said on Saturday it is recalling batches of Johnson & Johnson's children's cough syrup after detection of high levels of diethylene glycol.
April 26, 2024
A national election in the Solomon Islands, the first since Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare signed a security pact with Beijing, will be watched next
April 26, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko warned the Japanese ambassador on Friday that "dangerous trends" in Tokyo's military cooperation with the United States were posing a
April 26, 2024
New Zealand is facing the most unstable global environment in decades, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Friday, as he pledged to boost ties with the United States amid
April 26, 2024
Malian political parties and civil society groups jointly rejected on Thursday the ruling junta's order to suspend political activities and vowed to mount a legal challenge to what
April 26, 2024
Israel said on Saturday that a salvo of Iranian pilotless aircraft had been launched at it and that defence systems were poised to shoot them down or to sound sirens ordering
April 26, 2024
Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains precarious but the shift to a cold shutdown of all six reactor units, completed on Saturday, is positive
April 26, 2024
Hundreds took to the streets of Niger's capital on Saturday to demand the departure of U.S. troops, after the ruling junta further shifted
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal, saying on Saturday it had handed to mediators in Egypt and Qatar its response to
April 26, 2024
China summoned Japanese and Philippine diplomats on Friday to express dissatisfaction over negative comments about it aired during a summit of the leaders of the United States,
April 26, 2024
Russell Bentley, an American who fought against Ukrainian forces, is missing in the Russian-controlled Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, police there said on Friday, adding that a
April 26, 2024
The United States government is arranging a summit between President Joe Biden and his Japanese and South Korean counterparts in July, on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Washington
April 26, 2024
An American aviation executive has had British judgments worth more than $4 million against him thrown out after a judge ruled that his legal opponent had covered up its
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in a phone call on Sunday that Ankara would back a candidate to be NATO's new chief based on its expectations
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's outgoing President Tsai Ing-wen plans to flee in a U.S. plane if war erupts with China, according to an unsubstantiated report first
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the speaker of the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States in recent days authorized the transfer of billions of dollars worth of bombs and fighter jets to Israel even as it publicly expresses concerns about an
April 26, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan will visit the United States on May 9, a Turkish security official said on Friday, setting the stage for his first White House meeting during the
April 26, 2024
Russian investigators said on Thursday they had uncovered evidence that the gunmen who killed more than 140 people in an attack on a concert hall near Moscow last week were linked
April 26, 2024
Canada's Niagara region has proactively declared a state of emergency ahead of a rare total solar eclipse on April 8 that is expected to gather massive crowds to areas in and
April 26, 2024
France has asked about 45 foreign countries to contribute several thousand extra military, police and civilian personnel to help safeguard the
April 26, 2024
The United States and Britain imposed sanctions on a fund-raising network aligned with the Palestinian group Hamas that carried out an Oct. 7 attack on Israel, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Wednesday announced sanctions on six individuals and two entities based in Russia, China and the United Arab Emirates, accusing them of channeling funds to North
April 26, 2024
Like many Parisians, Martin Cassan will be heading the other way when the tidal wave of Olympics visitors hits the French capital in late July, taking the opportunity to make some
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday his cancellation of a planned visit to Washington by top aides this week was meant to show Hamas that Israel would not
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has told the White House it wants to reschedule a canceled meeting on a planned Israeli military operation in the southern Gaza city of
April 26, 2024
Israeli soldiers have been posting photos and videos of themselves toying with lingerie found in Palestinian homes, creating a dissonant visual record
April 26, 2024
Nearly 500 immigration and human rights organizations signed a letter urging the U.S. government to halt deportations of Haitians and expand migration protections as a
April 26, 2024
WikiLeaks' Julian Assange was given permission by the High Court in London to take his challenge against extradition to the United States to another hearing on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
The United States and South Korea this week launched a new task force aimed at preventing North Korea from procuring illicit oil, as deadlock at the United Nations
April 26, 2024
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, accused by Russia of spying, had his pre-trial detention extended by three months on Tuesday to June 30, a Moscow court said.
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan held a second day of talks on Tuesday with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as the U.S
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has so far not reached a conclusion that Israel has violated the international laws of war but the processes to assess
April 26, 2024
A U.N. humanitarian office spokesperson called on Tuesday for Israel to revoke a decision barring food deliveries to northern Gaza from the U.N.
April 26, 2024
South Korea's foreign ministry on Tuesday expressed "grave concerns" over China's recent use of water cannons against Philippine ships, saying it stokes tension in
April 26, 2024
Some of the deadliest diseases to stalk humankind have come from pathogens that jumped from animals to people.
April 26, 2024
The Ukraine conflict has been characterised by drone deployment of an unprecedented scale.
April 26, 2024
Hong Kong is seeking to revive its arts scene to become a regional cultural hub, but some art critics have said they were concerned that a new
April 26, 2024
China has responded to hacking allegations by the United Kingdom stating that evidence the country provided was insufficient, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said
April 26, 2024
Russia and Western countries have traded barbs over a deadly attack by gunmen that killed 137 people in a concert hall outside Moscow.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is closely following reports of the arrest of Indian opposition figure Arvind Kejriwal and encourages a fair legal process, a State Department spokesperson said on
April 26, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would have reacted the same way Israel did after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, but that Israel was losing international support and
April 26, 2024
A Russian spacecraft carrying a Russian, a Belarusian and an American successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday, live TV images showed.
April 26, 2024
The only effective and efficient way to deliver heavy goods to meet Gaza's humanitarian needs is by road and includes an exponential increase in commercial
April 26, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Monday that countries should pressure Israel to stop attacking Lebanon following a U.N.
April 26, 2024
Israel signalled openness on Sunday to allowing the return of Palestinians displaced from the northern Gaza Strip as part of truce talks, an apparent accommodation of a core
April 26, 2024
The diplomatic crisis that erupted one month ago when Brazil's president likened the Israeli war against Hamas in Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War Two
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Monday it has informed mediators that it will stick to its original proposal on reaching a comprehensive ceasefire, which includes the
April 26, 2024
Canada on Monday began evacuating from Haiti Canadians who want to leave as gang violence spreads, prioritizing those who are vulnerable, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said.
April 26, 2024
Wartime relations between President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sank to a new low on Monday with the U.S. allowing passage of a Gaza
April 26, 2024
The United States has made a "bridging proposal" for the number of jailed Palestinians that should be released by Israel in exchange
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on 15 Sinaloa Cartel members and six Mexico-based entities involved in the illicit manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl and
April 26, 2024
The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit Egypt's border with Gaza on Saturday to renew pleas for a ceasefire that could bring relief to a territory devastated by
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's nuclear power company said on Friday the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which requires constant external power to prevent a disaster, was on the verge of
April 26, 2024
China interrupted an attempt by several non-governmental groups on Friday to pay homage to a late Chinese human rights activist in a tense incident at a U.N. rights
April 26, 2024
There is "a strong possibility" Russia will veto a UN resolution on Friday calling for continuation of the current sanctions regime on North Korea, a UN diplomat told Reuters.
April 26, 2024
A problem that forced the last-minute cancellation of a crew launch to the International Space Station has been successfully resolved and it will now take off on Saturday and dock
April 26, 2024
Russia's newly appointed ambassador to Japan has warned Tokyo of serious consequences and retaliatory steps if Patriot missile systems manufactured under U.S. licence in Japan end
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Friday it had launched a massive attack on Ukraine using land, sea and air-launched missiles and drones, part of what it said was a series of "revenge strikes" to
April 26, 2024
Russia pounded Ukrainian power facilities on Friday in an attack described by Kyiv as the largest airstrike on its energy infrastructure in two years
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military will not be involved in development of a port in the Philippines' remote northernmost islands near Taiwan, the local governor said on Friday,
April 26, 2024
Montenegro's top court on Friday decided to delay the extradition of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon to South Korea until it clarifies prosecution complaints about the legality of its
April 26, 2024
Russia regards itself to be at war due to the West's intervention on Ukraine's side and cannot allow a state to exist on its borders that has shown itself ready to use any method to
April 26, 2024
Japan will work to strengthen its defence and diplomatic capabilities to maintain peace, Prime Minister Kishida Fumio said on Saturday, according to public broadcaster NHK, adding
April 26, 2024
The four suspected gunmen detained after a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow are all foreign citizens, Russia's interior ministry said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
European far-right parties met in Italy on Saturday vowing to curb immigration to the continent and to oppose a second five-year term for European Commission
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry warned the Philippines against "provocative" actions and said China would safeguard its territorial sovereignty on Sunday, a day after an incident in
April 26, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Friday the UK would work with whomever becomes U.S. president in November, when asked whether the election of Donald Trump would
April 26, 2024
The World Trade Organization is struggling to find an ambassador to lead negotiations on fixing its hobbled dispute system by the year-end, trade sources said, as the
April 26, 2024
The United States hopes for a relaunch of talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan and opening up humanitarian access soon after Ramadan ends in mid-April, Washington's
April 26, 2024
Officials from 36 countries and U.N. agencies gathered in Cyprus on Thursday to discuss how to expedite aid to besieged Palestinians in Gaza via a sea route launched last
April 26, 2024
Pupils across Russia have taken part in a history quiz this month that involved watching extracts of President Vladimir Putin's interview
April 26, 2024
Mexico signed an agreement with Venezuela to deport migrants, Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Thursday at a press conference, in the midst of concerns over large
April 26, 2024
Israel will take control of Rafah even if it causes a rift with the United States, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday, describing the Gazan city packed
April 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Thursday approved a third review of Ukraine's $15.6 billion loan program, allowing the release of $880
April 26, 2024
Ukraine could dismantle within days its "sponsors of war" blacklist, central to Kyiv's campaign to expose companies doing business with
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's top security official said on Thursday he does not currently recommend President Tsai Ing-wen visit the South China Sea given the possible risk to her flight from "
April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating on Thursday and highlighted Beijing's desire for U.S. ally Australia
April 26, 2024
Beijing is under unprecedented U.S. and EU pressure to be tough on Moscow, the Kremlin said on Thursday, commenting on the refusal of some Chinese banks to accept payments from
April 26, 2024
China strongly opposes the United States saying Arunachal Pradesh is part of India, a spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday, as tensions simmer over a
April 26, 2024
The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on two people and two companies it accused of supporting disinformation efforts directed by the Russian
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's foreign minister said on Wednesday that China has built "enormous" military bases on three islands surrounding Taiwan's main holding in the South China Sea
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that it knew about U.S. intelligence efforts to use commercial satellite operators such as SpaceX and cautioned that such moves made their satellites
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday that it would only discuss nuclear arms control with the United States as part of a broader debate, saying that Washington would not get away with trying to
April 26, 2024
Russia slammed a decision by the International Olympic Committee to ban its athletes from the opening parade of the Paris Olympics in July, calling it a violation of the ideal of
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Wednesday its soldiers were pushing Ukrainian forces back and that Moscow would bolster its military by adding two new armies and 30 new
April 26, 2024
Vietnam is seeking its third president in little more than a year after its ruling Communist Party on Wednesday forced the resignation of Vo Van
April 26, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sharply criticized a Texas law that would empower state law enforcement authorities to arrest people suspected of illegally
April 26, 2024
The United States is pressing Austria's Raiffeisen Bank International, the biggest Western bank in Russia, to drop plans to buy a
April 26, 2024
China said the United States must refrain from "stirring up trouble" or taking sides on the South China Sea issue, after U.S.
April 26, 2024
China said on Thursday it is strongly dissatisfied and resolutely opposed to the "denigration and smearing" by the United States of the new Hong Kong security law passed earlier
April 26, 2024
Hong Kong's new national security law "fails to safeguard" human rights and basic freedoms, Canada said on Wednesday, joining the European Union, the United States, the
April 26, 2024
Australia's government backed its ambassador to Washington, the former prime minister Kevin Rudd, after U.S. presidential contender Donald Trump called the key diplomat "a little
April 26, 2024
Fierce resistance mounted by Australian unions against plans for a new submarine base shows the challenge facing the high-stakes defence project with the United
April 26, 2024
A lawyer for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said on Wednesday his legal team saw no indication of resolution to U.S. charges against him, following the
April 26, 2024
Arab foreign ministers and a top Palestinian official will meet U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russian Admiral Alexander Moiseev was presented at an official ceremony on Tuesday as acting chief of the navy, Russia's state RIA news agency reported.
April 26, 2024
Cooperation between the U.S. and China on methane is advancing, the deputy U.S. special envoy on climate change said on Tuesday, saying there was an opportunity for
April 26, 2024
The United States, Britain and Norway on Tuesday called on South Sudan's leaders to take urgent steps to ensure genuine and peaceful elections in December.
April 26, 2024
The U.N.
April 26, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said he visited Damascus on Tuesday to restart talks focused on fostering confidence in the peaceful use of atomic energy by Syria.
April 26, 2024
The British government will introduce a bill in parliament on Wednesday to fulfill its promise to phase out smoking among young people by banning tobacco sales for future
April 26, 2024
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reiterated that the United States would only help protect NATO members from a future attack by Russia if its
April 26, 2024
Saudi Arabia's government plans to create a fund of about $40 billion to invest in artificial intelligence, the New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on the plans
April 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has overseen firing drills by artillery units in the western region involving "newly-equipped super-large" multiple rocket launchers,
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin, commenting on a visit by NATO head Jens Stoltenberg to the South Caucasus region, said on Tuesday that the bloc's efforts to expand its presence in the area were
April 26, 2024
Extreme food shortages in parts of the Gaza Strip have already exceeded famine levels, and mass death is now
April 26, 2024
The development of unmanned systems, or drones, is key to give Kyiv an advantage over "a numerically superior" Russian forces, Ukraine's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said late on
April 26, 2024
When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Around 9,000 children will be evacuated from the Russian city of Belgorod and from several districts in the wider region of the same name due to Ukrainian shelling, Vyacheslav
April 26, 2024
A New Mexico jury on Monday found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three 2022 ambush-style shootings that terrified Muslims in the
April 26, 2024
The U.N. children's agency said on Sunday over 13,000 children have been killed in Gaza in Israel's offensive, adding many kids were suffering from severe
April 26, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol on Monday called fake news and disinformation based on AI and digital technology threats to democracy, as his country
April 26, 2024
Russia will be asked to observe a ceasefire in Ukraine during the Paris Olympics, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview from Paris shown on Ukrainian television and
April 26, 2024
Famine is expected between now and May in the north of the Gaza Strip where 300,000 people remain trapped by fighting, a U.N.-backed report said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Vladimir Putin has won six more years in the Kremlin with a landslide victory in an election where he faced no serious competition.
April 26, 2024
European Union foreign ministers agreed in principle on Monday to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers for attacking Palestinians in the West Bank and to add further sanctions on
April 26, 2024
Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday the U.S. should make clear to Israel what the consequences of a military push into the south Gaza city of Rafah on the border with Egypt would
April 26, 2024
Chinese military and state-run media on Sunday accused the United States of threatening global security, days after a Reuters report which found Elon Musk's SpaceX was building
April 26, 2024
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev said on Sunday his country is "closer than ever" to a peace with Armenia, half a year after Azerbaijan recaptured its Karabakh region from its ethnic Armenian
April 26, 2024
An Australian regulator has sent legal letters to social media platforms from YouTube, X and Facebook to Telegram and Reddit, demanding they hand over information
April 26, 2024
British maritime security firm Ambrey and the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported on Friday an incident near Yemen's Hodeidah where the Iran-aligned Houthis
April 26, 2024
Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is facing increasing pressure from her allies to choose a substitute to potentially run in her
April 26, 2024
The United States is working intensively with Israel and intermediaries Qatar and Egypt to bridge remaining gaps for a hostage deal that would see a pause in
April 26, 2024
U.S. lawmakers are refusing to release millions of dollars in funding that Washington views as critical to help tackle spiraling
April 26, 2024
U.S. special operations troops in South Korea are training and preparing for unexpected threats at a time when global crises are more interconnected than
April 26, 2024
South Korea is poised to host the third Summit for Democracy next week, taking up a U.S.-led initiative aimed at discussing ways to stop democratic backsliding and
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will host his French and Polish counterparts in Berlin on Friday in a bid to project European unity on
April 26, 2024
Russia's ambassador to the United States said on Thursday his embassy had received a number of threats in connection with the Russian presidential election this week.
April 26, 2024
A power blackout forced Venezuela's largest refining complex, the 955,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Paraguana Refining Center, to shut down on Thursday, five sources close
April 26, 2024
North Koreans defectors spoke at a U.N. event in Geneva on Friday to expose human rights violations in a country one of them described as "hell"
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin on Friday said that the United States has been trying to conduct a covert influence campaign against the Russian authorities, but that Moscow's security services had
April 26, 2024
G7 nations are prepared to respond with severe new penalties that could include a ban on Iran Air flights to Europe if Iran proceeds with the transfer of close-
April 26, 2024
Comments by the United States expressing concern about India's implementation of a contentious citizenship law based on religion are "misplaced, misinformed, and unwarranted",
April 26, 2024
The Islamist group Hamas on Friday criticized the "unilateral" designation by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of an ally and leading business figure as prime
April 26, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday Europe should prepare for war if it wants peace, calling President Vladimir Putin's Russia an adversary that would not stop in
April 26, 2024
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday after meetings in Washington that the United States should put more pressure on Israel to allow
April 26, 2024
The EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Thursday after holding meetings in Washington that the outcome of the war in Ukraine will be decided this spring and summer,
April 26, 2024
U.S.-South Korean talks on sharing the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea are on track and ahead of schedule, but the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian Justice Minister Denys Maliuska said on Wednesday that he had received "quite optimistic" messages from lawmakers in the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways in which a microgravity environment and other factors can meddle with the human body
April 26, 2024
Congolese law student Stephanie Mbafumoja was exhilarated to sit for the photo for a voter identity card that would allow her, for the first time, to have a say in the
April 26, 2024
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) will not boycott this year's Paris Olympics, its president said on Thursday, despite restrictions on athletes imposed by the International
April 26, 2024
Royal Caribbean Group has suspended cruise visits to Labadee, a secluded peninsula in Haiti, for the next seven days following months of escalating gang violence in the country, a senior
April 26, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. will meet U.S.
April 26, 2024
Haiti's capital was calm on Wednesday for the second day following the prime minister's announcement that he would step down, with political leaders in the
April 26, 2024
As a U.S C-130 aircraft flew over the Gaza Strip to drop food to people facing famine, there were few visible signs of life in the jumbled rubble of what
April 26, 2024
The U.S. government and the United Nations on Tuesday expressed concerns about a contentious religion-based citizenship law in India, with the UN calling the
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on four individuals in Iran for aiding the Bahrain-based, U.S.-designated terrorist group al-Ashtar Brigades, the Treasury
April 26, 2024
A U.S. congressional commission has called on the Biden administration to act against alleged forced labor involving North Korean workers in China's fishing industry, saying
April 26, 2024
Britain will deploy its HMS Diamond warship to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to take over from HMS Richmond in defending commercial shipping in the region, the government said on
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday any steps that would exacerbate the war in Ukraine and possibly spread the conflict to NATO must be avoided, adding he would host
April 26, 2024
Turkey views the airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza and a plan to deliver aid via a maritime route as positive developments, but thinks they fall short of resolving the core
April 26, 2024
Talks between the United States and Iraq on ending the U.S.-led military coalition in the country may not be concluded until after U.S. presidential elections in
April 26, 2024
Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies urgently pressed members of the House of Representatives on Tuesday to approve additional military
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Wednesday that Russia does not interfere in any elections and it will work with any leader the American people elect.
April 26, 2024
Kenya has said its police officers will soon be in Haiti to confront rampaging gangs controlling the capital, but worsening insecurity and uncertainty about financing
April 26, 2024
The German Air Force will take part in humanitarian airdrops into Gaza, amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe, at the request of the foreign ministry in Berlin, government
April 26, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday in Berlin, German and French government sources told
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider
March 13, 2024
Western officials are edging toward confiscating some of the $300-350 billion worth of frozen Russian financial assets to help support Ukraine, but how it will be done
April 26, 2024
The U.S. may urge partners and allies to fund a privately run operation to send aid by sea to Gaza that could begin before a
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders are ready to respond with new and significant measures against Iran amid reports that Tehran may transfer ballistic missiles to Russia for use against
April 26, 2024
Australia is confident the U.S. will follow through with the sale of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS deal, a minister said on Wednesday, after
April 26, 2024
Yemen's port city of Hodeidah and other western coastal areas were hit on Monday by a dozen airstrikes attributed to a U.S.-British coalition defending
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for a truce in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and the conflict in Sudan as the holy Muslim fasting
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian director Mstyslav Chernov, who on Sunday won the first Academy Award for his country for the "20 Days in Mariupol" documentary about the Russian siege of the port city, said he
April 26, 2024
Poland's president will propose during a visit to the United States that NATO members spend 3% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence, he said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday restrictions imposed by Israel on Muslim worshippers' access to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis targeted bulk carrier Propel Fortune in the Gulf of Aden, the group's military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised speech early on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Turkish and U.S. officials held comprehensive talks about the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and various bilateral issues during meetings in Washington, Turkey's foreign minister said
April 26, 2024
The Russian embassy in Washington is in "close contact" with the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Egypt was in contact with senior Hamas and Israeli figures as well as other mediators on Sunday in an effort to restart negotiations for a truce in the Gaza Strip during the Muslim
April 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Friday called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in Sudan, prompting China to remind it not to forget about
April 26, 2024
The United States on Thursday accused the Venezuelan government of failing to deliver on some of its key commitments that resulted in
April 26, 2024
A temporary port system that the U.S. is seeking to build to speed up aid to Gaza will take "likely up to 60 days" to complete and involve
April 26, 2024
U.S. military aid to Ukraine, blocked by Republican leaders in Congress, is needed to provide a bridge until European nations can ramp up their own defense production, a senior
April 26, 2024
A U.N. expert on Friday criticised U.S. efforts to boost humanitarian aid to Gaza, such as plans for a temporary port and recent air drops, which he said were "absurd"
April 26, 2024
Spain will give the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA an additional 20 million euros ($21.88 million) in aid, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
Elections set to be held in South Sudan in December are not on a path for a credible process without urgent action, a senior U.S.
April 26, 2024
South Korea is waiting for Montenegro to extradite Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon, the justice minister said on Friday, after reports that a court in the Balkan nation had
April 26, 2024
Safety at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) in Ukraine is worsening daily, Ukraine's energy minister said on Friday, pledging to keep
April 26, 2024
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors voted on Thursday to demand Russia withdraw from Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), in a resolution passed days after
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Teruko Yahata was eight when she saw a blueish-white light envelop the sky over her home city of Hiroshima one summer morning, moments before the first atomic bomb
April 26, 2024
Communist Party-ruled Vietnam upgraded ties with Australia on Thursday, in the latest success for its "bamboo diplomacy", after it boosted relations last year with the world's
April 26, 2024
The U.S. and Turkey are set to kick off comprehensive talks on Thursday to discuss if the NATO allies can move beyond deep rooted disagreements over issues such
April 26, 2024
The United States continues to believe obstacles in the talks to achieve a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas are not
April 26, 2024
A senior Russian military officer has warned that the conflict in Ukraine could escalate into a full-scale war in Europe and said the probability of Moscow's forces becoming
April 26, 2024
An Israeli tank crew killed a Reuters reporter in Lebanon in October by firing two shells at a clearly identified group of journalists
April 26, 2024
China has stepped up grey-zone warfare against Taiwan, aiming to make the areas around the democratic island "saturated" with balloons, drones and civilian boats, a
April 26, 2024
The United States called on Iran on Wednesday to dilute all of the uranium it has enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the weapons-grade level of roughly 90%,
April 26, 2024
The U.S. government is urging the Netherlands, Germany, South Korea and Japan to further tighten curbs on China's access to semiconductor technology, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
U.S. prosecutors have charged a prominent South Sudanese economist and Harvard fellow with conspiring to export Stinger missile systems, grenade launchers and automatic rifles
April 26, 2024
Many countries that paused funding to the U.N.
April 26, 2024
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom will travel to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, the government said in a brief statement.
April 26, 2024
A recent collision of Philippine and Chinese vessels in the South China Sea is not the time or reason to invoke a Mutual Defense Treaty with the United States, Philippines President
April 26, 2024
The Dominican Republic said on Wednesday it was maintaining strict security measures on its border with Haiti after Jimmy Cherizier, a gang member seeking to topple the
April 26, 2024
The United States is working to get aid into Gaza through as many channels as possible to remedy the humanitarian disaster amid Israel's war
April 26, 2024
The United States supports the United Nations doing a review into an aid-related incident in Gaza last week where dozens of people were
April 26, 2024
The Arleigh-Burke guided missile class destroyer USS John Finn conducted a routine south-to-north Taiwan Strait transit on March 5, the U.S. Navy said in a statement on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
The United States and Jordan carried out a new air drop of humanitarian aid to Gaza's Palestinians on Tuesday, parachuting in more than 36,800
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's defence minister said on Monday that he and the commander of its armed forces discussed with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Swiss weapons exports fell by more than a quarter last year, the government said on Tuesday, with critics blaming the country's neutral stance which has blocked the re-
April 26, 2024
In the snows of Finland, Swedish and Finnish soldiers take part in NATO's biggest exercise since the end of the Cold War, intended to test the military alliance's ability to
April 26, 2024
South Korea and the United States have named envoys to launch a new early round of talks on ways to share the cost of keeping American troops in South Korea, the
April 26, 2024
The Communists of Russia party has asked the FSB security service and top prosecutors to investigate the possible involvement of Western intelligence services in the death of Soviet leader
April 26, 2024
Swedish armed forces joined NATO for exercises on Monday, contributing troops, helicopters and fighter jets as the alliance carries out its largest set of
April 26, 2024
Hungary's President Tamas Sulyok has signed the bill that approved Sweden's accession to the NATO military alliance, the president's office said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez took the witness stand in his own defense on Tuesday at his U.S. trial on drug trafficking charges, testifying that
April 26, 2024
A far-left militant group calling itself "Vulkangruppe Tesla Abschalten", or "Volcano group shutting down Tesla", has claimed responsibility for the suspected arson attack on a
April 26, 2024
As Beijing-based diplomats attend the annual session of China's parliament this week, one Chinese official drawing attention is a charismatic Oxford
April 26, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva sent a bill to congress on Monday to regulate labor rights of workers from ride-hailing apps in the country, which includes
April 26, 2024
The United States called for its citizens to leave Haiti "as soon as possible" after an escalation of violence over the weekend, which saw 15,000 more people flee their
April 26, 2024
The United States on Monday terminated a Zimbabwe sanctions program and reimposed curbs on nine people and three entities, including the country's president, over their alleged
April 26, 2024
Russia's Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov entered the Qatari port of Hamad where it will take part in the DIMDEX-2024 defence exhibition, Interfax news agency reported on Monday,
April 26, 2024
Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council and an ally of President Vladimir Putin, said on Monday that Ukraine was part of Russia and ruled out peace talks with
April 26, 2024
North Korea's hacking groups have broken into at least two South Korean manufacturers of chipmaking equipment, as the country looks to evade sanctions and turn out
April 26, 2024
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Sunday discussed bilateral relations, energy cooperation, trade and Gaza with Algeria's leader Abdelmadjid Tebboune in a one-day state visit,
April 26, 2024
U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday he intends to discuss Russia's plans for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant it is occupying in Ukraine when he meets
April 26, 2024
Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai is on trial accused of endangering China's national security.
April 26, 2024
The European Union is set to call for the fossil fuel industry to help pay for fighting climate change in poorer countries under a United Nations target, a draft
April 26, 2024
Ending discriminatory laws and practices that prevent women from working or starting businesses could raise global gross domestic product by more than 20%,
April 26, 2024
Australia said on Monday the Pacific and Southeast Asian countries are facing serious defence threats as it set aside more funds for a maritime security pact with ASEAN countries
April 26, 2024
Greece, host of the headquarters of the EU operation to shield ships from Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, hopes to play a more central role
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The White House on Friday said the U.S. government was taking seriously an internal watchdog report that the U.S. ambassador to Singapore threatened his staff and failed to
April 26, 2024
Two buildings were damaged and people were evacuated in Russia's St Petersburg on Saturday morning after local residents reported a loud explosion that blew out windows.
April 26, 2024
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin and China's special representative for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, said it is impossible to discuss a Ukraine settlement without Moscow's
April 26, 2024
More than a billion people globally are now considered obese, a condition linked to an increased risk of numerous serious health problems, according to updated
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday said it would honour former Japan Self-Defense Forces soldier Rina Gonoi with the International Women of Courage Award for bringing about
April 26, 2024
Senior leaders at multiple global media outlets signed a letter urging Israeli authorities to protect journalists in Gaza, saying reporters have been working
April 26, 2024
Finland's new president Alexander Stubb said NATO'S nuclear deterrent must be real for Finland, as he took office on Friday after winning a close-fought presidential election on
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is urgently seeking information on what took place in northern Gaza on Thursday, where health authorities said more than 100 Palestinians had been shot
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked the Republican-led state's new law giving officials broad powers to arrest, prosecute and order the removal of people who
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops from the village of Orlivka, west of Avdiivka, but the situation on the eastern front remains difficult, Ukrainian army chief
April 26, 2024
The United States has sent Turkey draft letters of offer and acceptance regarding its request to buy Block-70 F-16 fighter jets and modernisation kits, Turkey's defence ministry
April 26, 2024
Taiwan is facing a steady "drip, drip" of Chinese pressure ahead of the inauguration of its next president in May, with officials in Taipei fearing
April 26, 2024
Thirty-one members of the U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by a Russian-American woman against her detention on a treason charge.
April 26, 2024
Israel appropriated on Thursday several tracts of land near a major Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, but a source briefed on the decision told Reuters that there was
April 26, 2024
Iran elects a new parliament on Friday in a vote that will test the popularity of the country's hardline clerical rulers, with mounting public dissent over economic woes and
April 26, 2024
Iranians will vote in a parliamentary election on March 1 seen as a litmus test of the clerical establishment's popularity amid growing discontent over economic, political and social
April 26, 2024
China on Thursday criticised British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and other foreign politicians for "smearing" an upcoming Hong Kong security
April 26, 2024
The United States embassy in Russia said on Wednesday that U.S. consular officials visited Paul Whelan, a U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy tried to drum up Balkan support for his vision of peace in Ukraine and promoted the idea of joint arms production at a two-day summit
April 26, 2024
Israel's plan to add thousands more homes to settlements in the occupied West Bank announced last week was the final push the Biden
April 26, 2024
Turkey's Halkbank drew skepticism from a U.S. appeals court panel on Wednesday, as the state-owned lender renewed its push to escape U.S. criminal charges that
April 26, 2024
Germany is hosting two days of peace talks between Azerbaijan and Armenia five months after Azerbaijan recaptured its Karabakh region from its ethnic Armenian majority, prompting a
April 26, 2024
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner favours using the interest accrued from frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine in its war against Moscow, he said on Wednesday on the
April 26, 2024
French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire on Wednesday publicly challenged U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that without new U.S. military aid his country would be unable to defend a Black Sea shipping corridor
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States does not want to see tensions rise further between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Monday cautioned Pacific Islands nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after Reuters
April 26, 2024
A senior Ukrainian official on Tuesday welcomed talk of European nations sending troops to Ukraine, but the Kremlin said a conflict between Russia and NATO would become inevitable if
April 26, 2024
South Korea and the United States will begin their annual spring military drills next week with a focus on heading off North Korea's potential use of nuclear weapons,
April 26, 2024
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Tuesday its forces had made further progress in eastern Ukraine by taking control of the village of Severne near Avdiivka, a Ukrainian town it
April 26, 2024
The United States' Indo-Pacific strategy will unlikely change should Donald Trump win in the presidential race, the Philippines' longtime ambassador to Washington said
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he had consistently resisted pressure to end the Gaza war prematurely and that this stand has popular U.S. support that
April 26, 2024
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrived in South Korea late on Tuesday, where he is expected to hold talks on artificial intelligence and have meetings with President Yoon Suk Yeol and the
April 26, 2024
Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they could only reconsider their missile and drone attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea once
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas has received a draft proposal from Gaza truce talks in Paris for a pause in military operations and the exchange of Palestinian prisoners for Israeli
April 26, 2024
A Chilean environmental court partially reversed a permit allowing Google to build a data center in the country on Tuesday, asking the U.S. company to revise its application to
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Sweden's final hurdle to joining NATO was swept away on Monday after hold-out Hungary's ratification, ending 200 years during which Stockholm's military self-
April 26, 2024
Mexican avocados grown on illegal orchards should not be exported to the United States, the largest importer of the popular staple used in guacamole, the U.S. ambassador to
April 26, 2024
Mauritius will allow a ship belonging to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings to dock after no trace of cholera was found in samples taken from passengers on board, a senior health
April 26, 2024
Iran's stock of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade has shrunk, bringing it below the theoretical threshold at which it could produce three atom bombs, but
April 26, 2024
Washington's threat to hit foreign financial institutions with sanctions has made a significant difference in financial
April 26, 2024
Benin has offered 2,000 troops to support a planned Kenyan-led international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Sunday that its forces had taken more advantageous positions near Avdiivka and Donetsk after President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to push further into
April 26, 2024
Mauritius stopped a ship belonging to Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings from docking at its ports due to what it said was a health risk and took samples from about 15 passengers
April 26, 2024
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa on Saturday, said Germany was still discussing whether to supply long-range weapons to Ukraine.
April 26, 2024
At the upcoming Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meeting in Guyana, the United States will push for more support for a security mission to Haiti, State Department official Brian Nichols said
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
A top U.S. official on North Korea held a video call this week with China's envoy on Korean Peninsula affairs in which they discussed
April 26, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago's government on Friday confirmed the refined product leaking from a barge that struck a reef and overturned off the coast of Tobago was tested and determined to be a
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. diplomat Richard Verma on Friday met Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Foreign Minister Ali Sabry in Colombo, and discussed Sri Lanka's economic
April 26, 2024
Iran denied on Friday that it had provided ballistic missiles to Russia, after the United States said there would be a severe international response to any such move.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday issued sweeping sanctions against Russia over the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny and to
April 26, 2024
Ecuador's government has canceled a plan to trade outdated Soviet weapons for new arms from the United States, President Daniel Noboa said, after learning the old weapons would have
April 26, 2024
China aims to "contain" foreign interference over Taiwan and "resolutely combat" any efforts towards the island's formal independence this year, which is the sensitive 75th
April 26, 2024
A senior U.S. diplomat said on Thursday the United States will impose "hundreds and hundreds and hundreds" of sanctions against Russia
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Joe Biden's "crazy SOB" remark showed why the Kremlin felt that for Russia, Biden would be a preferable future U.S. president
April 26, 2024
There was "excellent progress" in talks with Egypt to enhance its IMF loan program, and "comprehensive support" was needed to help the country deal with
April 26, 2024
A stalled U.S. bill on military aid to Ukraine which will also help fund weapons for Taiwan was discussed this week during a visit to Taipei by U.S. lawmakers, two of the
April 26, 2024
Foreign ministers at the G20 group of nations meeting in Brazil were of one opinion on the need for a two-state solution as the only path to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian
April 26, 2024
Revelations that a North Korean missile fired by Russia in Ukraine contained a large number of components linked to U.S.-based companies underline the
April 26, 2024
Canada, Benin, France and Jamaica have offered support to a U.N.-backed international security force aimed at tackling rampant gang violence in Haiti,
April 26, 2024
Two missiles were fired at a vessel in an attack southeast of the Yemeni port city of Aden on Thursday, causing a fire onboard, Britain's maritime agency said.
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military and Hezbollah have a window to de-escalate tensions along Lebanon's southern border before a possible Israeli military offensive against the
April 26, 2024
United Airlines said on Wednesday it plans to resume direct U.S. flights to Israel early next month, becoming the first American carrier to resume direct
April 26, 2024
Police in Ukraine said on Wednesday they had arrested a father-son duo who belonged to the cybercrime gang Lockbit, which was disrupted by an
April 26, 2024
Russian troops will go much further into Ukraine, taking the southern city of Odesa and may even one day push on to the capital Kyiv, a senior ally of Russian President Vladimir
April 26, 2024
Israel stepped up its bombardment of the southern city of Rafah, residents said on Wednesday, as the
April 26, 2024
Iran has provided Russia with a large number of powerful surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, six sources told
April 26, 2024
China's Wildlife Conservation Association is working with the National Zoo in Washington in an arrangement that could bring more pandas back to
April 26, 2024
China's AVIC displayed its Z-10 attack helicopter for the first time outside its home country at the Singapore Airshow - the only non-Western design on display in
April 26, 2024
There is significant momentum in relations between the United States and Turkey upon which the two NATO allies can capitalise, U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States and Russia will present arguments on Wednesday in proceedings at the U.N.'s highest court examining the legality of Israel's occupation of the Palestinian
April 26, 2024
Two senior U.S lawmakers who held talks with Israeli and Arab leaders said on Tuesday that they were hopeful a deal could be struck allowing a humanitarian
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday again vetoed a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, blocking a demand for an immediate
April 26, 2024
Former U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia was against the deployment of nuclear weapons in space and his defence minister flatly denied U.S. claims that Russia was
April 26, 2024
Foreign ministers from the G20 group of nations gathered in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss world tensions and ways to
April 26, 2024
Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, made his first high profile appearance in months on Tuesday at the firm's 50th birthday, following the ending of
April 26, 2024
Unidentified sources in the United States say Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite nuclear weapon but President
April 26, 2024
The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday it was vital for the United States to maintain its funding of humanitarian agencies to ease the refugee crisis caused by Russia's
April 26, 2024
Canada has secured the surrender of the last remaining permits for oil and gas development off its Pacific Coast, the federal natural resources minister said on Wednesday,
April 26, 2024
Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko called on law enforcement agencies on Tuesday to organise patrols with small arms on the streets of Belarusian cities to ensure the safety of people.
April 26, 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being prosecuted for publishing sources' names and not his political opinions, lawyers representing the United States said on Wednesday as
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden spent months wanting a "pause" in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Russia is exploiting delays in aid to Ukraine, and the situation in areas where Moscow's troops are concentrated is "extremely difficult", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on
April 26, 2024
Israel expects to continue full-scale military operations in Gaza for another six to eight weeks as it prepares to mount a ground
April 26, 2024
A visit by the commander of Iran's elite Quds Force to Baghdad has led to a pause in attacks on U.S. troops by Iran-aligned groups in Iraq, multiple Iranian and Iraqi sources told
April 26, 2024
Iran continues to enrich uranium well beyond the needs for commercial nuclear use despite U.N. pressure to stop it, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday, adding
April 26, 2024
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said that U.S.
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S., Arab and European officials met in Munich on Friday to discus progress on formulating a plan for post-war Gaza that would be linked to
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump's stark comments on NATO show that Europeans should take more responsibility for their security, but they will still need the transatlantic military
April 26, 2024
Nine days after a slick was first spotted by Trinidad and Tobago's Coast Guard, an oil leak from a capsized barge remains unplugged, according to
April 26, 2024
Talk of a potential European nuclear deterrent that would not involve the United States is "not helpful", NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Uruguay's main port received two cargo scanners sixteen years ago to detect drugs and other suspicious loads.
April 26, 2024
Norway is "ready to stand up and be counted" on defence spending ahead of a NATO Washington summit in July, the Nordic country’s prime minister told Reuters on
April 26, 2024
The United States has not contacted Russia since rumours about Russia's new nuclear capabilities in space surfaced, but Moscow is ready to work with Washington on developing anti-
April 26, 2024
Italy is ready to offer more military aid to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
As part of a security agreement signed between Germany and Ukraine, Berlin has prepared a further military support package worth 1.13 billion euros ($1.22 billion) that is focused
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed a security agreement at a ceremony in the German capital on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Two longtime associates of Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson have petitioned a court, at his family's behest, to place him under a
April 26, 2024
Egypt's foreign minister said on Saturday that while his country would deal with civilians humanely, the displacement of Palestinians remained unacceptable.
April 26, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed lifting sanctions against Chinese companies and individuals in a meeting with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Trinidad and Tobago is considering declaring an international emergency to deal with an oil spill that has stained miles of its shores and threatens to spread to its
April 26, 2024
There is an "extraordinary opportunity" in the months ahead for Israel to be integrated into the Middle East as Arab countries are willing to normalize ties with the country, U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States is concerned about reports of intimidation and voter suppression in Pakistan's election, the White House said on Thursday after reports of protests in some
April 26, 2024
Russian troops in Ukraine are using thousands of Starlink satellite communications terminals made by Elon Musk's SpaceX, the Ukrainian military intelligence chief told the Wall Street
April 26, 2024
Japan will try again this weekend to launch its new flagship rocket, the H3, in a bid to restore its space program after the booster's failed inaugural flight last
April 26, 2024
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) agency said on Thursday it had received a report of an explosion near a vessel 85 nautical miles east of Yemen's port city of
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese voted in favour of a motion in parliament's lower house calling for the return of WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to
April 26, 2024
The top U.S. official for arms control said on Wednesday she is "very confident" the United States will certify Australia and Britain as eligible for
April 26, 2024
The United States is reviewing reports that Israel has harmed civilians in its war in Gaza under a set of guidelines aimed at ensuring countries
April 26, 2024
The United States on Wednesday said it had imposed sanctions on an Iranian subsidiary of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), two entities based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE),
April 26, 2024
The United Nations fears that a U.S. decision to return Yemen's Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups could harm the war-torn country's economy,
April 26, 2024
Ukraine Defence Minister Rustem Umerov and newly appointed armed forces commander Oleksandr Syrskyi discussed Kyiv's military plans for 2024 with the supreme commander of the NATO Armed
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected 14 Chinese air force planes operating around Taiwan and carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols" with Chinese warships on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
Sweden's foreign minister said on Wednesday that he expects that Hungary will soon approve the Swedish NATO membership application.
April 26, 2024
Nahla Jarwan fled her home in the central Gaza Strip to seek refuge in Rafah - like more than 1 million other Palestinians escaping Israel's military
April 26, 2024
Shehbaz Sharif is set to begin a second term as Pakistan's prime minister in coming days, returning to the role he had until August
April 26, 2024
Russia has suspended annual payments to the Arctic Council until "real work" resumes with the participation of all member countries, Russia's RIA state news agency reported, citing the
April 26, 2024
Russia's parliament will vote on Feb. 21 on suspending the country's participation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Co-operation (OSCE), Duma Speaker
April 26, 2024
NATO boss Jens Stoltenberg urged the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering visiting South Korea on March 20, broadcaster Fuji TV reported on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that it might be possible to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is awaiting trial in Moscow on spying charges, in
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin's suggestion of a ceasefire in Ukraine to freeze the war was rejected by the United States after
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israeli airstrikes in Rafah should not affect negotiations toward a deal between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas on the release of
April 26, 2024
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh are among hundreds of high-ranking officials due to attend the
April 26, 2024
The International Monetary Fund on Monday warned that any decisions taken about seizing frozen Russian assets should be backed with "sufficient legal support"
April 26, 2024
Israel is planning to expand its ground assault into the city of Rafah, where over 1 million Palestinians have sought refuge from the offensive that has laid waste to much of the Gaza
April 26, 2024
Police in Democratic Republic of Congo fired tear gas on Monday to disperse protesters who burned tyres and U.S. and Belgian flags near Western embassies and U.N.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's air defence systems destroyed 14 out of 17 drones that Russia launched overnight and one Kh-59 cruise missile, Ukraine's Air Force said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Syria has extended permission for the United Nations to deliver aid to opposition-held areas in the northwest of the country via two Turkish border crossings
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet system was neither certified for use in, nor officially supplied to, Russia, and therefore could not be used.
April 26, 2024
At least 28,064 Palestinians have been killed and 67,611 others injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza since Oct. 7, the health ministry in Gaza said in a statement on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
NATO cannot be an 'a la carte' military alliance dependent on the whims of the U.S. president, the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday, as he
April 26, 2024
A film about frontline Taiwanese islands repeatedly fought over with China during the height of the Cold War is vying to win an Oscar this year,
April 26, 2024
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said in an interview published on Sunday that his country was not Russia' ally in its war against Ukraine, but stressed its military cooperation
April 26, 2024
British maritime security firm Ambrey said on Monday that a Marshall Islands-flagged, Greece-owned bulk carrier was targeted by missiles in two separate incidents within two minutes
April 26, 2024
The United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday separately expressed concerns about Pakistan's electoral process in the wake of a vote on Thursday
April 26, 2024
A U.S. museum has returned a batch of royal regalia to Ghana that was looted by British colonial soldiers 150 years ago, marking the first major return
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on Thursday that it might be possible to free Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who is awaiting
April 26, 2024
Trapped in and around Rafah amid fears of a "bloodbath," more than 1 million terrified Palestinians waited for Israel to complete a plan
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday it had not yet reviewed an assessment by Human Rights Watch on how many people had been killed in the city of Mariupol, but accused Ukrainian forces of
April 26, 2024
A bipartisan delegation of U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke in an interview published on Friday about war and peace in Ukraine, the risks of advances in genetics and artificial
April 26, 2024
The man Russian President Vladimir Putin wants in exchange for releasing American journalist Evan Gershkovich is Vadim Krasikov, serving a life sentence for murdering an exiled
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado on Friday said she hoped the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Australia will spend an additional A$400 million ($260 million) to manufacture next-generation military drones - one of a number of locally manufactured projects
April 26, 2024
The United States is aware of reports that two Americans in Gaza were detained by Israeli forces in a raid early on Thursday and is seeking more information, the State
April 26, 2024
South Korea's intelligence agency says poor conditions for North Koreans working overseas have led to "incidents and accidents", while researchers report rare protests
April 26, 2024
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Thursday that Republican senators in the United States should be ashamed for blocking a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine, saying former
April 26, 2024
The population of monarch butterflies in the Mexican forests where they spend the winter fell to the second-lowest figure on record this season, offering a
April 26, 2024
Israeli forces are "peeling back" Hamas infrastructure in Khan Younis, more than two months after entering the Gaza Strip's main southern city, and believe the
April 26, 2024
Repeated U.S. strikes against Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq are pushing the government to end the mission of the U.S.-led coalition in the country, the prime minister's military
April 26, 2024
Efforts by Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott to stem a record number of migrants illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border has set off a series of legal battles with
April 26, 2024
The European Union's executive has started to compile guidelines for Big Tech platforms to prevent disinformation, hate speech and counterfeits from disrupting the process of
April 26, 2024
Senior Nordic and Baltic lawmakers visiting Washington on Thursday expressed alarm at what they called a lack of urgency and a clear strategy by the United
April 26, 2024
U.S. officials made their most pointed criticism so far of Israel's civilian casualties in Gaza as it turns the focus of its offensive to Rafah, but there was
April 26, 2024
The United States faces heightened risk from Russia, which is trying to acquire goods with military applications, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia's air defence systems destroyed seven Ukraine-launched rockets and two drones over the southwestern region of Belgorod, the Russian defence ministry said on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the goals of what Russia calls its "special military operation" in Ukraine remain unchanged nearly two years after President Vladimir Putin sent
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Fika Juliana Putri, a 19-year-old shopkeeper in East Jakarta, plans to vote in Indonesia's presidential election next week for a once-
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has submitted a ceasefire proposal to end the four-month conflict in Gaza. Israel said it was studying the proposal.
April 26, 2024
Main Street in downtown Eagle Pass, Texas, is quiet as Laurel Cadena pushes a stroller with her 3-week-old daughter nestled inside, a stark contrast from
April 26, 2024
More than 100 websites disguised as local news outlets in Europe, Asia and Latin America are pushing pro-China content in a widespread influence campaign
April 26, 2024
Russia and North Korea are working on a "very good" package of agreements to be signed when President Vladimir Putin visits Pyongyang, Russia's envoy to North Korea told the Russian TASS
April 26, 2024
The United States accused Russia on Tuesday of firing at least nine North Korean-supplied missiles at Ukraine, while Moscow labeled Washington a "direct
April 26, 2024
When El Salvador President Nayib Bukele published a private WhatsApp conversation with the top U.S. diplomat in the Central
April 26, 2024
The head of the United Nations political mission in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, told the Security Council on Tuesday she expected to step down at
April 26, 2024
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Reuters on Tuesday that the group intends for the release of the largest number possible of Palestinians who are being held in Israeli prisons.
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will highlight Europe's efforts to help Ukraine repel a Russian invasion during his trip to Washington this week,
April 26, 2024
Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said Tuesday that his country had received a "positive response" from Hamas on a framework deal.
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday it will pay public sector workers 60% of their December salaries this week as it grapples with the longrunning fallout of
April 26, 2024
Displaced again and again by Israel's military offensive on Gaza, Mahmoud Amer and his family have now pitched their tent close to gravestones in a cemetery in
April 26, 2024
Israel's chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that 31 of the remaining hostages held in Gaza were pronounced dead.
April 26, 2024
Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, who helped lay the foundations for Northern Ireland's 1998 peace deal and later served as the European Union's ambassador to Washington,
April 26, 2024
Belgium has proposed to Group of Seven (G7) countries to use immobilised Russian central bank assets as collateral to raise debt for the reconstruction of
April 26, 2024
China's financial officials expressed concerns to visiting U.S.
April 26, 2024
Venezuela has received all the parts it needs to begin a maintenance program at the 146,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) El Palito refinery, with work expected
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration would redirect any funds for UNRWA to other aid agencies working in Gaza if Congress passes legislation that would bar funding of the
April 26, 2024
A federal judge in Texas has rejected the Biden administration's bid to dismiss a lawsuit by a Republican congressman and three others seeking to block U.S. aid to the West
April 26, 2024
The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees expects a preliminary report into Israeli claims that a dozen of its employees took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel to be
April 26, 2024
Britain's minister for Northern Ireland, Chris Heaton-Harris, will travel to Washington to discuss the restoration of the province's devolved government with U.S. lawmakers and
April 26, 2024
A cargo ship in the Red Sea suffered minor damage after being hit by a projectile while sailing off the coast of Yemen's Hodeidah, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO
April 26, 2024
Israeli banks said on Monday they were heeding U.S. sanctions against four West Bank settlers accused of violence against Palestinians, despite
April 26, 2024
Sweden's NATO bid could be ratified when Hungary's parliament reconvenes for a normal session, the ruling Fidesz party's parliamentary group said on Monday,
April 26, 2024
The landslide re-election of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele was cheered by supporters of his gang crackdown, but has worried
April 26, 2024
A senior U.S. state department official urged Papua New Guinea(PNG) to turn down China's offer of a potential security pact, warning the Pacific nation that any security guarantee
April 26, 2024
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko is expected to set a world record on Sunday for the duration of space flights with nearly 2-1/2 years in total, Russian news agencies reported.
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military said on Saturday that since the outbreak of the Gaza war
April 26, 2024
Iraq has banned eight local commercial banks from engaging in U.S. dollar transactions, taking action to reduce fraud, money laundering and other illegal uses of
April 26, 2024
Humanitarian issues in Gaza will be a top priority for U.S.
April 26, 2024
Japan’s Eisai aims to roll out its groundbreaking Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi to 1,500 people in China later this year, but expects
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that the European Union's approval of a major aid deal for Ukraine was a "clear signal" both to Russia and the United States, where an
April 26, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "start talking about the things a Palestinian state can be rather than the things
April 26, 2024
Some members of the Palestinian American community who received an invite to meet U.S.
April 26, 2024
North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast, South Korea's military said on Friday, the fourth time in just over a week Pyongyang has launched such missiles.
April 26, 2024
Japan, America's closest ally in Asia, has been trying to send a message to U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump: don't try to
April 26, 2024
The United States has assessed that Iran manufactured the drone that slammed into a U.S. base in Jordan over the weekend, killing three U.S.
April 26, 2024
Algeria has drafted a U.N.
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that European officials talking up the prospect of a war with Russia were seeking to demonise Moscow as an enemy and warned that
April 26, 2024
Some 70 U.S. cities have passed resolutions on the Israel-Gaza war with most calling for a ceasefire, a Reuters analysis of city data shows, placing more pressure on
April 26, 2024
Turkey is still interested in buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets, a Turkish defence ministry official said on Thursday after the United States advanced the $23 billion sale of its F
April 26, 2024
Russian investigators said on Thursday they had evidence showing that Ukraine's military shot down a Russian Il-76 military transport plane last week with U.S.-made Patriot surface-
April 26, 2024
For Ukrainian armed forces commander General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, even his status as national hero for leading the war effort against Moscow's invading forces is not enough to quash
April 26, 2024
Hamas is unlikely to reject a Gaza ceasefire proposal it received from mediators this week, but will not sign it without assurances that Israel has committed to ending
April 26, 2024
Talks between the U.S. and Chinese officials on stemming the flow of chemicals used for the production of deadly fentanyl have been "substantive" but "much
April 26, 2024
When U.S. and Australian troops practiced amphibious landings, ground combat and air operations last summer, they drew headlines about the allies
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's military on Wednesday simulated a scenario where China suddenly turns one of its regular drills around the island into an actual attack, on the
April 26, 2024
Chancellor Olaf Scholz reminded Germans of their Nazi past on Wednesday as he called on citizens to reject the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) which is second in most
April 26, 2024
Pacific Islands nations that want to connect to U.S.-funded undersea cables will need to secure their digital ecosystems to guard against data risks from China, a
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan will meet on Wednesday with top Israeli official Ron Dermer on the Gaza conflict, a White House official said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday he was hopeful it could be decided later in the day which member state could lead the upcoming EU mission to protect
April 26, 2024
Ukraine will likely face a tough year fighting Russia in 2024, CIA Director Bill Burns said on Tuesday, arguing that to cut off U.S. aid
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado on Monday said she would not move aside in favor of a substitute despite a decision by the country's supreme court last week to
April 26, 2024
The United States and Britain are taking action against a network of people who targeted Iranian dissidents and opposition activists for assassination at Iran's direction, the
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's air force showed off its armed-to-the-teeth submarine hunters and early warning and control aircraft on Tuesday, demonstrating how it keeps
April 26, 2024
Allegations that some staff from the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel should be investigated, Russian Foreign Minister
April 26, 2024
Prince Harry wants London's High Court to resolve the remainder of his lawsuit against Britain's Mirror Group Newspapers as soon as possible following the ruling
April 26, 2024
An Israeli intelligence dossier that prompted a cascade of countries to halt funds for a U.N.
April 26, 2024
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor told the U.N.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. and China launched a joint counter-narcotics working group on Tuesday in the first overt sign of cooperation in tackling the spread of fentanyl since late 2019, before
April 26, 2024
Australia is the "security partner of choice" for neighbouring Papua New Guinea (PNG), Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday, after the biggest Pacific Island nation said
April 26, 2024
The Philippines and the United States intend to hold a "2-plus-2 meeting" of top diplomatic and defence officials in Manila in March, the Philippine ambassador to Washington said on
April 26, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday he will present a constitutional reform to ban consumption of chemical drugs such as fentanyl.
April 26, 2024
Data gathered by NASA's rover Perseverance has confirmed the existence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water that once filled a giant basin on Mars
April 26, 2024
Iran on Saturday dismissed three European countries’ condemnation of its launch of the Soraya satellite, saying peaceful technological advancement in the aerospace field was the country’s
April 26, 2024
The first joint meeting of the U.S.-China working group on fentanyl precursor chemicals will be held on Jan. 30 in Beijing, a senior U.S.
April 26, 2024
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered Israel on Friday to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip but stopped
April 26, 2024
Canada and Turkey have reached a deal to restart Canadian exports of drone parts in exchange for more transparency on where they are used, and it would take
April 26, 2024
Former central bank Governor Mark Carney on Sunday said he supported Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau leading the Liberal Party into the next federal election, quashing speculation
April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi had "candid, substantive and fruitful strategic communication" with U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on Feb. 9 in a bid to rally support for additional
April 26, 2024
India is seeking to distance itself from its largest arms supplier after Russia's ability to supply munitions and spares was hobbled by the war in Ukraine, but
April 26, 2024
The head of the United Nation's drugs and crime office on Thursday warned of a "vicious cycle" of arms trafficking to increasingly powerful Haitian gangs, fueling an
April 26, 2024
Russia has accused Ukraine of shooting down a military transport plane carrying 65 captured Ukrainian soldiers to a prisoner exchange.
April 26, 2024
The United States has created a channel with Israel to discuss concerns over incidents in Gaza in which civilians have been killed or injured by the Israeli
April 26, 2024
Voting began on Friday in the tiny Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu in a national election that is being closely watched by China, Taiwan, the US and its ally
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Turkey said he anticipates that President Tayyip Erdogan will give a final sign-off on Sweden's NATO membership within days, triggering
April 26, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia has called for an emergency U.N.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Navy dock landing ship Gunston Hall left port on Wednesday to mark the first movement for the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War, officials said.
April 26, 2024
Namibia's President Hage Geingob will travel to the United States on Wednesday to undergo cancer treatment, the presidency has announced.
April 26, 2024
An unusually large delegation of about 200 Japanese business leaders arrived in China this week to bolster economic relations in the first such visit in more than four years and in
April 26, 2024
Rather than stretch out under the Caribbean sun, Mark Landsman has been spending his vacation picking tomatoes in Israel, unpaid and in striking range
April 26, 2024
Ukraine expects to start construction work on four new nuclear power reactors this summer or autumn, Energy Minister German Galushchenko told Reuters on Thursday, as
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy thanked Ukrainians abroad on Monday for their support during Russia's invasion, and proposed changing the constitution to allow dual citizenship.
April 26, 2024
Mexican, U.S. and Guatemalan officials will meet as soon as possible for talks on migration, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Monday after her government held
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday about the Red Sea, Gaza, and Ukraine, White House spokesman John Kirby said.
April 26, 2024
Meetings between U.S.
April 26, 2024
At a dinner in the Swiss ski resort of Davos this week, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani hosted business and political
April 26, 2024
Iran said on Friday that it successfully carried out an air defence drill using drones designed to intercept hostile targets in an area stretching from its southwestern to southeastern
April 26, 2024
The European Union expressed concern on Friday about the detention of a number of journalists in Kyrgyzstan and searches at the offices of media outlets which have been critical of
April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday welcomed Brazil's support for Beijing's "One China policy" that states Taiwan is an inseparable part of China, a move
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden signaled on Friday that he is hopeful a deal over the U.S.-Mexico border could be worked out next week at least in the Senate, controlled by his Democratic Party,
April 26, 2024
The United States believes Russia will conduct "information operations" aimed at turning opinion in Europe against Ukraine as countries across the continent go to
April 26, 2024
The United States does not expect formal nuclear arms-control negotiations with China anytime soon, but does want to see a start of discussions on practical risk-reduction
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
British maritime security firm Ambrey on Thursday said that a Marshall Islands-flagged US-owned bulk carrier reported that four unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) approached and circled
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. diplomat Victoria Nuland met Nigerian National Security Adviser Nuhu Ribadu and discussed "promoting accountability and transparency" in the
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged Iran and Pakistan to "exercise maximum restraint to avoid a further escalation of tensions" after an exchange of
April 26, 2024
The nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States, and Japan condemned North Korea for its recent missile tests, arms trade with Russia and increasingly hostile rhetoric at a
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Thursday it was impossible to discuss nuclear arms control with the United States without taking into account the situation in Ukraine, accusing Washington of seeking
April 26, 2024
Russian state prosecutors asked a Moscow court on Thursday to sentence prominent nationalist Igor Girkin to five years in prison for inciting extremism, the RIA news agency reported
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis met a delegation from Vietnam's Communist Party on Thursday and the Vatican's foreign minister said the pontiff was keen to visit the Southeast
April 26, 2024
Historical drama "Oppenheimer", one of last year's biggest movies, led nominations for the BAFTA Film Awards on Thursday, securing 13 nods.
April 26, 2024
The nature of the security threat posed by North Korea could change "drastically" in the coming decade as a result of its unprecedented
April 26, 2024
Former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei has been barred from entering the U.S. over allegations of "his involvement in significant corruption," the
April 26, 2024
Japan and the United States are working to reschedule a summit in Washington between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and President Joe Biden around April 10, the Yomiuri newspaper
April 26, 2024
Poland's new government is looking into how it can make more ammunition and military equipment as it works on a new aid package for Ukraine, Foreign
April 26, 2024
Jordan's Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawaneh said on Tuesday that peace with Israel remained a strategic choice but any push to drive Palestinians to the kingdom would pose an "
April 26, 2024
Italy would like a political decision made to create an EU maritime security mission for the Red Sea by next week so that it can become operational as soon as possible, Italy's
April 26, 2024
El Salvador's Nayib Bukele holds a large lead ahead of his bid next month to win reelection as president, a poll showed on Tuesday, as one Latin America's
April 26, 2024
Belgium does not oppose the confiscation of 280 billion euros worth of frozen Russian central bank assets, but there needs to be a clear mechanism
April 26, 2024
If Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election in November, it will be "a step back" that makes life tough for Canada, Prime Minister
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed defence cooperation with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Davos on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Almost 140,000 visitors from the United States brought the number of foreign tourists in Portugal to a record high last November, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on
April 26, 2024
Houthi militants struck a U.S.-owned ship carrying steel products with a ballistic missile on Monday south of the port of Aden as the group
April 26, 2024
U.S. military forces in Japan are set to deploy to the earthquake-hit Noto peninsula to help with relief efforts, sources familiar with the matter said.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wants China to take part in a global peace conference to resolve the conflict with Russia, he told a press conference on Monday.
April 26, 2024
South Korea and the United States have agreed to start early talks on how to share the cost of keeping U.S. forces in the country in a bid to reach a deal before the
April 26, 2024
Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo took office as Guatemala's president early on Monday after a chaotic inauguration caused by a last-minute attempt by opposition
April 26, 2024
Disruptions to Red Sea shipping caused by Houthi attacks will push up prices of consumer goods, an executive from port and freight
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin, running for a new six-year term in an election that his opponents say is a parody of democracy, said on Tuesday that past U.S. elections had been rigged
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call on Monday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, discussing Ukraine and wishing each other well in upcoming elections, the
April 26, 2024
North Korean hackers are sharing money-laundering and underground banking networks with fraudsters and drug traffickers in Southeast Asia, according to a United
April 26, 2024
The U.S. official who heads the body that handles unofficial ties with Taiwan said on Tuesday that Nauru's decision to break ties
April 26, 2024
An Iranian missile strike on targets in northern Iraq set off an unusual dispute between the neighbouring allies on Tuesday, with Baghdad
April 26, 2024
North Korea said on Monday it had tested a new solid-fuel hypersonic missile with intermediate range, amid an intensifying race for the next generation of long-range
April 26, 2024
About two-thirds of Canadians surveyed this month said American democracy cannot survive another four years of Donald Trump in the White House, and about half said
April 26, 2024
Arab countries are not keen to get involved in the rebuilding of Gaza if the Palestinian enclave will be "leveled" again in a few years and stress the importance of
April 26, 2024
China's muted response to the weekend victory by Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te signals what some analysts see as the start of an uneasy four
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday he was more positive now than he was last month that his country will secure new financial aid from the United States.
April 26, 2024
The U.N. special envoy for Yemen on Saturday urged maximum restraint by all parties involved in Yemen and warned of an increasingly uncertain situation in the region.
April 26, 2024
The plight of Tibet has become less discussed internationally but repression continues and China is applying what it did there to other regions, a former head of the Tibetan
April 26, 2024
U.S.-British strikes on Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen had "good effects," Pentagon spokesman Patrick Ryder said on Friday, and their militaries will continue to monitor the
April 26, 2024
Strikes by the U.S. and British militaries against Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen were "defensive, and designed to preserve freedom of navigation in one of the world’s most vital
April 26, 2024
Spain will not intervene militarily in the Red Sea region out of "a commitment to peace" and any country doing so will have to answer for its actions, Defence Minister Margarita
April 26, 2024
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday that Moscow would regard any move by Britain to deploy a military contingent to Ukraine as a declaration of war against
April 26, 2024
A Mexican delegation will visit Washington later this month to continue migration talks, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday in a regular press
April 26, 2024
Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arevalo met with Taiwan's foreign minister to discuss strengthening commercial ties on Saturday, the Central American nation's incoming
April 26, 2024
Houthi militants mistakenly targeted a tanker carrying Russian oil in a missile attack on Friday off Yemen, British maritime security firm Ambrey said.
April 26, 2024
Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo is due to be sworn in Sunday for a four-year term, pledging to banish deep-rooted corruption, though he will come
April 26, 2024
Two former senior U.S. officials will arrive in Taiwan on Sunday for post-election talks and underscore the U.S. government's "longstanding interest" in peace across the Taiwan
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's ground forces commander said on Friday that Kyiv needed more military aircraft for its war effort, such as U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday slammed the U.S. and British strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen as a disproportionate use of force and accused the two countries of trying
April 26, 2024
The United States does not want war with Yemen but will not hesitate to take further action, the White House said on Friday, adding President Joe Biden approved the
April 26, 2024
The Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen vowed to respond to attacks by the United States and Britain but the prospects of these Western strikes igniting
April 26, 2024
U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Thursday he was hopeful diplomacy could calm tensions on the disputed border between Lebanon and Israel, where the Israeli military and
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkey is pushing the United Nations and others for an extension of aid deliveries into rebel-held northwest Syria as global interest and
April 26, 2024
The presidential candidate for the small Taiwan People's Party (TPP) said on Friday he is willing to set politics aside and work with other parties if he wins Saturday's election,
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday it detected five Chinese balloons flying over the Taiwan Strait over the past 24 hours, one of which crossed the island, the latest in a
April 26, 2024
Hundreds of thousands of people attended final pre-election rallies in Taiwan on Friday ahead of critical presidential and parliamentary
April 26, 2024
The Pentagon's inspector general released a report on Thursday that said the United States military had not properly tracked about $1 billion in weapons sent to Ukraine.
April 26, 2024
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites inside Russia with arms supplied by the United States and its allies
April 26, 2024
Iran said on Friday it condemns the U.S.-Britain attack on Houthis in Yemen warning that it will fuel "insecurity and instability" in the region, Iranian state media reported.
April 26, 2024
The Chilean government announced a partnership with Alphabet's Google on Wednesday to build the first undersea fiber-optic cable between South America and Asia Pacific.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. State Department has approved the possible sale of Tomahawk weapons system support services and related equipment to Australia for $250 million, U.S.
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. and Chinese officials, in a virtual meeting on Wednesday, discussed cooperating on law enforcement issues including the illicit flow of synthetic drugs such as
April 26, 2024
A protest by several hundred people in northern Chile on Wednesday blocked access to the Atacama salt flat, the world's largest lithium deposit where domestic producer SQM and U.S
April 26, 2024
North Korea may be poised to provide a new type of missiles to Russia, and may conduct further weapons tests to escalate tensions ahead of South Korean and U.S. elections, South
April 26, 2024
NATO allies in a meeting with Ukraine have made it clear they will continue to provide the country with major military, economic, and humanitarian aid in the face of Russia's
April 26, 2024
A former South Korean prime minister announced on Thursday his plan to launch a new political party in a move that aims to challenge the domination of the two leading
April 26, 2024
The United States and China concluded two days of military talks in Washington on Tuesday, the Pentagon said, the latest engagement between the two countries since they agreed
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to U.S. boxer Kevin Johnson and Canadian ice hockey player Brendan Leipsic under a decree published on a Russian government
April 26, 2024
Yemen's Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping must be stopped without triggering a new war, the Italian defence minister said on Wednesday, as the Iranian-backed militia
April 26, 2024
Lebanon's caretaker prime minister Najib Mikati told a senior United Nations official on Tuesday that his country was ready for talks on long-term stability on its southern border
April 26, 2024
Taiwan goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and parliament.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Palestinians see little respite from Israeli bombardment that has shattered Gaza despite Israel's announcement of a new "more targeted" phase of its war
April 26, 2024
A top U.S. defense official will visit Guyana on Monday and Tuesday, the U.S. embassy in the South American country said, as tensions between Guyana and neighboring Venezuela simmer in a
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday the majority of countries in the European Union were not delivering sufficient weapons to Ukraine to help it battle a Russian invasion,
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis, tackling conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine in his yearly address to diplomats, said on Monday that "indiscriminately striking"
April 26, 2024
Russia plans to produce more than 32,000 drones each year by 2030 and for domestic producers to account for 70% of the market, the TASS news agency cited First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei
April 26, 2024
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on Thursday he felt members of the Muslim and Arab communities in the tech industry were uncomfortable speaking about their recent
April 26, 2024
Japan plans to accept a relief team from the United States but no aid from other governments, the daily Nikkei reported on Friday, four days after an earthquake killed 91 people and
April 26, 2024
Insured losses from the devastating earthquake in Japan could reach $6.4 billion, according to an estimate from U.S.-based catastrophe modeling firm Karen Clark & Co (KCC).
April 26, 2024
The Iraqi government is forming a committee to prepare the closing down of the U.S.-led international coalition's mission in the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's
April 26, 2024
Iran's president and the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp on Friday vowed revenge at the funeral for the victims of twin Islamic State bombings two days earlier.
April 26, 2024
The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards vowed on Saturday to reach "the enemy" far and near as tensions soar on key shipping routes where Tehran’s allies have been attacking vessels.
April 26, 2024
Communications intercepts collected by the United States confirmed that Islamic State’s (ISIS) Afghanistan-based branch carried out twin
April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday that the most urgent task for Sino-U.S. relations is to establish a correct understanding and cooperation
April 26, 2024
North Korea recently provided Russia with ballistic missiles and launchers for use in Moscow's war against Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday, citing newly declassified
April 26, 2024
U.S. aviation safety officials will provide assistance to Japan in the reading of airplane recorders after a deadly collision between a Japan Airlines widebody jet and a small Coast Guard
April 26, 2024
The U.S. has not observed acts in Gaza that constitute genocide, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Wednesday, after South
April 26, 2024
U.S. spy agencies assess that Islamist group Hamas and another Palestinian group fighting Israel used Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital to command
April 26, 2024
Members of the U.N.
April 26, 2024
Until three months ago, University of Pennsylvania psychology professor Michael Kahana said he had never felt the need to wear a yarmulke, or Jewish skullcap, to
April 26, 2024
Ukraine is considering no alternative to securing stalled U.S. military assistance for its war against Russia and is confident the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Donald Trump's campaign on Wednesday night held one of the largest events of the Iowa presidential caucuses this January --
April 26, 2024
Taiwan is documenting its experiences with China's alleged attempts to interfere in elections next week and will publish its analysis soon after the vote.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said it had detected three more Chinese balloons flying across the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, and one of those flew over the island, the second day in a
April 26, 2024
The arms race across the Taiwan Strait and Chinese military pressure against the island Beijing claims as its "sacred" territory is
April 26, 2024
The U.N.
April 26, 2024
Several overseas activists, right campaigners and politicians named in Hong Kong's national security trial of democrat Jimmy Lai have rejected
April 26, 2024
A powerful earthquake that hit Japan on New Year's Day killed at least 55 people, with rescue teams struggling in
April 26, 2024
The Indonesian government has delayed a plan to purchase 12 Mirage 2000-5 fighter jets previously used by Qatar, due to limited fiscal capacity, a spokesperson for the defence
April 26, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday urged Chinese ambassadors to forge a "
April 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council was set to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Friday afternoon after Ukraine and its supporters requested an urgent meeting to address missile and
April 26, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Sunday he had made clear in a call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian that Iran shared responsibility for
April 26, 2024
A letter from Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal requesting an emergency meeting with international donors and seen by Bloomberg news agency was part of "systemic work" with the
April 26, 2024
The death toll from what Moscow said was an "indiscriminate" Ukrainian air attack on the city of Belgorod just north of Ukraine's border has risen to 22, a Russian official said on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
Russian courts have sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian fighters to prison terms since
April 26, 2024
France, Germany, Britain and the United States condemned Iran's increase in production of highly enriched uranium following the IAEA report from earlier this week.
April 26, 2024
The former leader of a Hong Kong pro-independence group, who was sentenced under a national security law imposed by China, fled to Britain and will seek asylum
April 26, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping exchanged congratulations with U.S.
April 26, 2024
China's government called the frontrunner for Taiwan's next president "confrontational" and a destroyer of peace after he spoke at a presidential debate and said the island's
April 26, 2024
A sweeping purge of Chinese generals has weakened the People's Liberation Army, exposing deep-rooted corruption that could take more time to fix and
April 26, 2024
The United States welcomed reports on Monday that jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny had been located but remained "deeply concerned" about
April 26, 2024
The U.S. will provide up to $250 million in arms and equipment to Ukraine in the final package of aid this year to help Kyiv in its war with Russia, Secretary of State Antony
April 26, 2024
The United States has proposed that working groups from G7 countries explore ways to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
Many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have followed Israeli army evacuation orders and sought safety in designated areas only to find there is little space left in the
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a call on Wednesday that Turkey expected the United States to act in line with their NATO alliance
April 26, 2024
Taiwan is not seeing any signs of large-scale Chinese military activity before elections next month but is keeping a close watch on China, the island's defence ministry said on
April 26, 2024
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday in a key step towards enlarging the Western bloc after 19
April 26, 2024
More than 1,000 South Korean military, police and emergency personnel joined rare defence drills on Wednesday that simulated an attack by North Korea
April 26, 2024
A move by Japan to provide Patriot air defence systems to Ukraine will have "grave consequences" for Russia-Japan ties, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on
April 26, 2024
Russia will soon deploy its newest howitzers against Ukrainian forces as part of what Moscow calls its "special military operation," the head of the Rostec state defence conglomerate said
April 26, 2024
Russia and India have made tangible progress in talks on plans to jointly produce military equipment, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, after talks with his
April 26, 2024
Nicaraguan migrants sent relatives back home record remittances this year through November, data from the country's central bank showed on Wednesday, fueled by massive waves of
April 26, 2024
Qatar Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a phone call on Tuesday from U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that any fresh European Union aid to Ukraine would not affect the outcome of the conflict there and that such spending would only hurt Europe's economy
April 26, 2024
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant hinted on Tuesday that the country had retaliated in Iraq, Yemen and Iran for attacks carried out against it as the war with Hamas-led
April 26, 2024
Iran has reversed a slowdown in the rate at which it is enriching uranium to up to 60% purity, close to weapons grade, returning to a rate of around 9 kg a month from the reduced
April 26, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led prayers on Thursday at the funeral of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior Revolutionary Guards adviser who was killed in what Iran said was an Israeli air
April 26, 2024
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Ankara on Jan. 4 to meet his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan for talks likely to focus on the situations in Gaza and Syria as well as
April 26, 2024
Germany and its European Union partners are examining whether they could mount a new maritime mission to protect commercial vessels under threat of attack in the Red Sea, a foreign
April 26, 2024
After President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies prohibited transactions with Russia's
April 26, 2024
Pakistan's huge deportation drive has forcibly repatriated scores of Afghans awaiting resettlement in the United States, an
April 26, 2024
Egypt confirmed on Thursday that it had put forward a framework proposal to end the conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip that includes three stages ending with a
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry on Thursday urged the Asia-Pacific to be on high alert as the United States steps up forward military deployment in the region, after reports of a U.S.
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry lashed out at the United States on Thursday, a week after their top military officials resumed high-level talks, criticising its continued
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry accused Taiwan's government on Thursday of deliberately "hyping up" a military threat from China for electoral gain
April 26, 2024
Canada's government is willing to sign off on multimillion-dollar settlement packages for Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig to compensate them for the near three years they were
April 26, 2024
The White House on Friday said it was closely monitoring Houthi attacks on ships in the Red Sea, but did not expect the situation to have a significant impact
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Iran was "deeply involved" in planning operations against commercial vessels in the Red Sea and its intelligence was critical to enable Yemen's Houthi movement to target ships,
April 26, 2024
The U.N.
April 26, 2024
Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission will convene on Dec. 26, Tuesday to resume talks on Sweden's NATO membership bid, the parliament website showed on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said on Sunday that over the previous 24 hours it had detected eight Chinese fighter jets crossing over the median line of the Taiwan Strait, as well as
April 26, 2024
The Netherlands will deliver 18 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine to help its battle against Russia's invasion, the Dutch government said on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Moldova's pro-European President Maia Sandu said on Sunday she intends to run for a second presidential term in late 2024 to bring the issue of the country's European integration
April 26, 2024
As the war in Gaza enters an 11th week, Israelis appear resigned to a long road before the military achieves its stated aim of destroying Hamas and bringing
April 26, 2024
Iran denied on Saturday U.S. accusations that it was involved in planning attacks by Yemen's Tehran-aligned Houthi movement on commercial vessels in the Red Sea, the semi-official
April 26, 2024
A former Colombian soldier pleaded guilty in a U.S. court on Friday to charges related to his accused role in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
April 26, 2024
The widow of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been granted political asylum in the U.S., the Washington Post newspaper reported on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan on Wednesday condemned North Korea's recent ballistic missile launches and urged Pyongyang to
April 26, 2024
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) foreign minister has met a senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official in Abu Dhabi where they discussed international efforts to achieve a ceasefire in
April 26, 2024
A reactor at North Korea's Yongbyon nuclear complex appears for the first time to be using atomic fuel, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said late on Thursday, which would mean the country
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin accused the Wall Street Journal of publishing "pulp fiction" on Friday after it reported that the death of mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in a plane crash had been
April 26, 2024
Russia may cut diplomatic ties with the United States if Washington confiscates Russian assets frozen over the Ukrainian war, the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister
April 26, 2024
A top Russian diplomat said Moscow and Washington were still engaged in sensitive negotiations over a prisoner exchange, but accused the U.S. side of leaking details to the media.
April 26, 2024
A total of more than 20 countries have agreed to participate in the new U.S.-led coalition safeguarding commercial traffic in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen's
April 26, 2024
A Hong Kong court on Friday rejected a bid by the legal team for pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai to have sedition charge against him dropped, in a closely watched national security
April 26, 2024
China and the Philippines have ramped up rhetoric on defending territorial claims in the South China Sea, despite both calling for dialogue to settle tensions over that strategic waterway.
April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned the Philippines to address through dialogue what China sees as "serious difficulties" in their relations over the South China Sea,
April 26, 2024
Ahead of a likely vote on Thursday, the United States said there are "serious and widespread concerns" that the current draft of a U.N.
April 26, 2024
A law passed in Hungary's parliament last week gives the government "draconian tools" to intimidate those with views not shared by the ruling party, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The international coalition formed by the U.S. to protect maritime navigation in the Red Sea is part of the aggression against the Palestinian people, the political bureau of Yemen's
April 26, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited the Gerald R.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan will "handle" Chinese balloons flying nearby based on threat assessments, though officials believe the current wave is for weather purposes, driven by the prevailing winds at
April 26, 2024
India will look into any information it receives on its alleged links to a foiled plot to murder a Sikh separatist leader in the United States, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the
April 26, 2024
The leader of Yemen's Houthis warned on Wednesday they would strike U.S. warships if the Iranian-backed militia was targeted by Washington, which this week set up a multinational
April 26, 2024
Greece has advised commercial vessels sailing in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden to avoid Yemeni waters, keep only the necessary crew on the bridge and follow alerts issued by
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he senses a change in India's tone with Ottawa after the United States warned New Delhi about its involvement in a thwarted plot to
April 26, 2024
The U.S. wants and expects Israel to shift its military operations in Gaza to a lower-intensity phase during which there will be more
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was confident the U.S. would not "betray" his country by withholding crucial wartime funding as it fights off a Russian
April 26, 2024
A suspected Chinese weather balloon flew across the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Monday but stayed well north of Taiwan, the island's defence ministry said on Tuesday, the third time
April 26, 2024
The Italian navy will "in the coming hours" send one of its frigates to help protect the Red Sea shipping route against attacks by Yemen's Houthi
April 26, 2024
The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Tuesday deplored the conflict in Gaza as a "moral failure" of the international community and urged
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the U.S. sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada's arms embargo, would help
April 26, 2024
Russia's Vladimir Putin looks set to remain in power until at least 2030; India's Narendra Modi seems certain to extend his rule to 2029; and Donald Trump could return to
April 26, 2024
The United States will continue to closely cooperate with Vietnam, a U.S. official said after Hanoi announced last week strengthened ties with China, including
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan asked his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a call on Sunday for Washington to use its influence over Israel to halt Israeli attacks on Gaza
April 26, 2024
Russia has no interest in extending the Black Sea grain deal, the RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing Russia's agriculture minister Dmitry Patrushev.
April 26, 2024
Vladimir Putin said U.S.
April 26, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said tensions in the South China Sea have "increased rather than diminished" in recent months, warning that a "more assertive China" posed a
April 26, 2024
Italy is considering whether to join a Western naval coalition meant to protect ships in the Red Sea from attacks by the Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen, a source close
April 26, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi held high-level talks with a North Korean vice foreign minister in Beijing on Monday, coinciding with Pyongyang's launch of a missile capable of
April 26, 2024
The U.S. embassy for Venezuela said on Friday it applauds opposition figures, including presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado, for appealing bans which bar them from holding
April 26, 2024
Ukraine has agreed dozens of contracts for joint production or technology exchanges with Western partners, Kyiv said on Friday, as it strives to reduce its dependence on military supplies
April 26, 2024
Turkey strongly condemns "provocations" by Israeli forces during raids on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin and the desecration of a mosque there, Turkey's
April 26, 2024
Shipping companies should use caution when deploying private armed guards onboard vessels sailing through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden because of the risk of
April 26, 2024
Russia plans to test launch seven intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2024, Sergei Karakayev, the commander of Russia's Strategic Missile Forces has said, the Interfax news
April 26, 2024
Vladimir Putin will run for president again as an independent candidate with a wide support base but not on a party ticket, the state-backed RIA news agency cited two senior pro-
April 26, 2024
Mexico's government said Friday it temporarily closed a cantaloupe processing plant while investigating the source of a salmonella contamination that has killed at least nine
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Friday that the European Union's decision to open membership talks with Ukraine and Moldova was a politicised decision that could destabilise the bloc.
April 26, 2024
A former top Mexican law enforcement official convicted earlier this year on US charges that he took millions of dollars in bribes from drug traffickers is seeking a
April 26, 2024
Any hostile move against Yemen will have dire consequences and great costs, Ali al-Qahoum, a member of the Houthi group's Ansarullah politburo, told Al Mayadeen TV late on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the
April 26, 2024
The conflict in Ukraine is significantly impacting Russia's economy, raising domestic prices, and forcing Moscow to devote a third of its budget on defense, the Financial Times reported on
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration is delaying the sale of more than 20,000 U.S.-made rifles to Israel over concerns about attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Thursday that governance of the West Bank and Gaza Strip needs to be connected under a "revamped and revitalized"
April 26, 2024
Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in
April 26, 2024
Iraq has identified links between several of the perpetrators of a Dec. 7 multiple rocket attack on the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and some of the country's security services, a
April 26, 2024
Iran's Defence Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani warned that a proposed U.S.-backed multinational task force to protect shipping in the Red Sea would face "extraordinary problems",
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke about Sweden's application to join the NATO alliance, White House spokesperson John Kirby said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged governments to treat e-cigarettes similarly to tobacco and ban all flavours, threatening cigarette companies' bets on smoking
April 26, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed U.S.
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. officials from the National Security Council and the Treasury will visit Argentina later this week, an
April 26, 2024
The United States has been coordinating with Beijing to arrange military-to-military talks, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, though it did not have any announcements on any talks.
April 26, 2024
Israeli citizens said on Wednesday the army should not back off from its unrelenting offensive to crush Hamas, despite the U.N.
April 26, 2024
A Chinese chip designer, part-owned by the country's top sanctioned chipmaker, is purchasing U.S. software and has American financial
April 26, 2024
The Arctic experienced the warmest summer on record this year, contributing to extraordinary wildfires and melting glaciers while threatening the rest
April 26, 2024
The United States is concerned about human rights in Burkina Faso and condemns the "violence committed by terrorist groups against civilians, military, and police" in the West
April 26, 2024
South Korea and the United States will hold talks on nuclear deterrence on Friday as part of Washington's commitment to share more insight with Seoul into planning in the event of
April 26, 2024
The new Slovak government's planned criminal law reforms, being pushed through parliament in a fast-track process, will impact some of the country's biggest ongoing corruption cases, the
April 26, 2024
Russia and Iran will speed up work on a "major new interstate agreement", the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Russian investigators have opened a new criminal case against a Russian-American journalist being held in detention, accusing her of spreading false information about the Russian army, a
April 26, 2024
Israel enjoys U.S. support for its goals of destroying Hamas and recovering hostages held by the Palestinian militants, but the allies differ about what might follow the Gaza war
April 26, 2024
The United States cannot turn the tide of war in Ukraine by pumping tens of billions more dollars into the country, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, ahead of planned talks between
April 26, 2024
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Kristalina Georgieva will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Washington on Monday, an IMF spokesperson
April 26, 2024
Attacks on commercial vessels by Yemen’s Houthis are a threat to global shipping routes and seaborne traffic to Israel although there has been no direct impact on port activity,
April 26, 2024
Guatemala's outgoing President Alejandro Giammattei on Tuesday rejected what he described as "intimidating actions" that undercut national sovereignty, a day after the U.S.
April 26, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping starts a two-day visit to Vietnam on Tuesday to build a "community with shared future", three months after U.S.
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said on Sunday the United States should also be held responsible for Israeli attacks on Gaza and the loss of Palestinian lives.
April 26, 2024
A U.S. delegation gave its support to Argentine President-elect Javier Milei over talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and developing its lithium
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's military sent forces to watch a Chinese naval formation, led by the aircraft carrier Shandong, sailing through the Taiwan Strait on Monday, Taiwan's defence ministry said,
April 26, 2024
Spain, Ireland, Belgium and Malta want EU leaders to debate the situation in Gaza next week and jointly call for a lasting humanitarian ceasefire that would end the conflict, a
April 26, 2024
Russians who have been banned from travelling abroad will have to hand over their passports to authorities within five days after being notified, according to a government decree that
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin attended a televised flag-raising ceremony on Monday for two nuclear submarines that he said were part of a strategic drive to project Russian naval power.
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the United States' veto of a U.N.
April 26, 2024
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday he would draw the country closer to intelligence partners the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia, part
April 26, 2024
The COP28 climate summit has generated a lot of words over the past two weeks and some clear favourites have emerged.
April 26, 2024
The impact of the Israel-Hamas conflict on Gaza's healthcare sector has been "catastrophic", the World Health Organization chief said on Sunday at an emergency board meeting, saying
April 26, 2024
The United States has called out China for interfering in the Philippines' maritime operations and undermining regional stability, urging Beijing to stop "its dangerous and
April 26, 2024
Negotiators at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai remained far apart on the future role of fossil fuels on Sunday as talks at the Dubai summit
April 26, 2024
There needs to be an immediate end to the fighting in Gaza but governments worldwide do not seem to see it as a priority, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Friday in
April 26, 2024
There is still willingness among the key players of the U.S.-led talks to normalize ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel to restart the process even after the
April 26, 2024
The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are set to meet in Seoul on Friday and Saturday to discuss North Korea and other global issues as they step
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday slapped sanctions on dozens of people over human rights abuses, including Iranian officers it accused of
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Canada and the United States were insisting that Ankara ratify Sweden's NATO membership bid before Canada resumes the export of drone cameras
April 26, 2024
Romania's objective to boost the monthly transit capacity for Ukrainian grain through its Black Sea port of Constanta to four million metric tons is edging closer as
April 26, 2024
Volunteers waded through stagnant water to hand out food and supplies, and some manufacturing plants remained shut in India's southern tech-and-auto hub
April 26, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron is lobbying other European leaders to agree on former European Central Bank president and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi as the next president
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he will seek another six years in the Kremlin by standing in an election in March where his victory is widely assumed to be a
April 26, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron and U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. energy envoy Amos Hochstein said on Thursday he did not think hope should be lost with regards to normalisation of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel and it remains a
April 26, 2024
The White House on Thursday reiterated the United States' "unwavering support" for Guyana's sovereignty amid growing border tensions between
April 26, 2024
Up to 600 North Koreans have "vanished" after being forcibly deported by China in October, a Seoul-based human rights group said on Thursday, warning they may face
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's latest list of U.S. weapons it says it needs to fight the Russian military includes sophisticated air defense systems, F-18 "Hornet" fighter jets, drones
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine has agreed with two American companies on joint production of vital 155mm artillery shells, a Ukrainian official said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan reported rare nighttime Chinese military activity around the island on Thursday, including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing
April 26, 2024
FBI Director Christopher Wray will visit India next week, officials said, days after Washington accused an Indian government official of directing an unsuccessful plot to
April 26, 2024
It is essential the United States moves ahead in approving new agreements with three Pacific island states, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday he would authorize oil exploration in an area around the Esequibo river, even though the territory is the subject of dispute
April 26, 2024
The U.S. would object to any proposed buffer zone inside the Gaza Strip as it would violate Washington's position that the size of the Palestinian enclave must not be reduced
April 26, 2024
The U.S. continues to engage with representatives from the government of President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela, State Department
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a rare move on Wednesday to formally warn the Security Council of a global threat from the Gaza
April 26, 2024
Turkey rejects plans to establish a post-war buffer zone in Gaza because it would be disrespectful to Palestinians, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
Saudi and U.S.-brokered talks aimed at halting fighting between Sudan's warring parties have faltered again, and the country's army and
April 26, 2024
Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo is still in remission from the rare blood disorder known as myelodysplastic syndrome, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Kyiv was ramping up domestic military production in cooperation with partners as it aims to guarantee its own defence
April 26, 2024
Top EU officials will raise an array of concerns from Russia's invasion of Ukraine to trade irritants in a summit with Chinese leaders on Thursday that is expected to be long on
April 26, 2024
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Tuesday it had paused general food distribution in north Yemen due to limited funding and disagreement with local authorities over how to
April 26, 2024
Russia in recent weeks rejected a new proposal for the release of Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, two Americans considered by Washington to be "wrongfully detained" by Russia,
April 26, 2024
The United States on Monday expanded a visa restriction policy on Ugandan officials to include those it believes are responsible for undermining democracy and
April 26, 2024
U.S. aid chief Samantha Power arrived in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday, where she is expected to announce more than $21 million in additional
April 26, 2024
The U.S. envoy to Budapest sharply criticised the Hungarian government on Tuesday for "disregarding" the interests of its NATO allies and strengthening ties with Russia at a time
April 26, 2024
U.S. special climate envoy John Kerry on Tuesday launched an
April 26, 2024
Sonkichi Sakihara recalls chancing upon some of the last refugees to arrive on Yonaguni: four men who had sailed more than
April 26, 2024
Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal
April 26, 2024
Fearful of being killed in an Israeli bombardment, families in Gaza were packing up and fleeing on Tuesday, heading for a pocket of land further
April 26, 2024
Ukraine relies heavily on economic assistance from the West and has received more than $68.5 billion in budgetary support during the war started by Russia in February
April 26, 2024
A former chief executive officer at U.S. oil refiner Citgo Petroleum helped alleged Venezuelan drug trafficker Carlos Orense move money in the mid-2000s, a witness at
April 26, 2024
After two days of back-to-back speeches by world leaders, the COP28 climate summit turns its attention on Sunday to the reality of climate change fuelling more sickness and disease.
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would eventually be tried as a war criminal over Israel's ongoing offensive in the
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's 2024 election must be free from "outside interference", Washington's top diplomat in Taipei said on Monday, adding that U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday that cooperation between Moscow and Berlin had been disrupted by blasts in September 2022 affecting Nord Stream pipelines that had
April 26, 2024
Yemen's Houthis have stepped up their role in the conflict in the Middle East, targeting vessels in the southern Red Sea in attacks the Iran-aligned group says aim to support the
April 26, 2024
China's military on Monday said a U.S. combat ship illegally entered waters adjacent to the Second Thomas Shoal, a disputed South China Sea atoll.
April 26, 2024
How to sum up the most important news of the year past? The obvious answer in 2023 is to use Artificial Intelligence.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has informed Israel that Washington will impose visa bans in the next few weeks on Israeli extremist settlers engaged in violence against
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is sticking to its threat to "reconsider" steps taken in October to ease sanctions on OPEC member Venezuela if President Nicolas Maduro fails to
April 26, 2024
The White House said on Friday it was prepared to "pause" sanctions relief for OPEC member Venezuela in coming days unless there is further
April 26, 2024
Israelis interviewed on Tel Aviv's streets backed their army's resumption of fighting in the Gaza Strip on Friday, acknowledging the dangers but blaming Hamas
April 26, 2024
EU tech regulators on Friday ordered Meta Platforms to provide details on measures taken to tackle child sexual abuse material on Instagram by Dec. 22.
April 26, 2024
Japan is "concerned" that the U.S. military continues to fly the Osprey aircraft despite the government's request to ground them until their safety is confirmed, Japan's top
April 26, 2024
Israel could secure the freedom of hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip through talks or by "other means", an Israeli official told Reuters on Friday.
April 26, 2024
European Union increased imports from Russia of nuclear fuel and services for the bloc's Russian-designed reactors again in 2023 compared to 2021, the year
April 26, 2024
The United States on Thursday targeted North Korea with fresh sanctions after its launch of a spy satellite last week, designating foreign-based agents it accused of
April 26, 2024
A bipartisan group of 11 U.S.
April 26, 2024
Brazil "has intensified defensive actions" along its northern border as it monitors a territorial dispute between its neighbors, Guyana and Venezuela, the country's defense
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told NATO counterparts on Tuesday he was working hard on Sweden's NATO ratification which is currently being debated by the Turkish parliament
April 26, 2024
Turkey has said it expects to ratify Sweden's long-delayed accession to NATO within weeks, Sweden's foreign minister told journalists on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan on Wednesday appointed a veteran diplomat as its new de facto ambassador to the United States, Taipei's highest-profile global posting despite a lack of formal diplomatic
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis has removed some of the Vatican privileges of conservative American Cardinal Raymond Burke, including a large subsidized apartment and his
April 26, 2024
People in
April 26, 2024
North Korea said it will never sit face to face with the United States for negotiations over its sovereignty, state media KCNA reported on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
A landmark national security trial for 16 Hong Kong democracy activists entered its final stretch on Wednesday, with a verdict expected in early
April 26, 2024
U.S. allegations that an Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist on U.S. soil underscores the need for India to take similar
April 26, 2024
A Hamas senior official invited U.S. billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday to visit the Palestinian Gaza strip to see the extent of destruction caused by the Israeli bombardment.
April 26, 2024
Turkey has told Sweden it expects to ratify its accession to the NATO military alliance within weeks, Sweden's foreign minister said on Wednesday, offering a
April 26, 2024
Argentina's president-elect Javier Milei met on Tuesday with top U.S. officials in Washington and his economic team huddled with IMF officers
April 26, 2024
The Venezuelan government may allow appeals from opposition politicians seeking to remove bans barring them from public posts to progress in court, as a way to
April 26, 2024
The U.S. said on Monday that after Hamas' assault on Israel last month, it and several allied nations established an international task force aimed countering the flow of money
April 26, 2024
The December inauguration of Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei will likely not count former U.S.
April 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un received photos of the White House, Pentagon and U.S. aircraft carriers in the naval base of Norfolk, taken by its recently launched spy satellite,
April 26, 2024
The 57 member states of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed on Monday that Malta should take over the organization's rotating
April 26, 2024
The French helicopter carrier Dixmude has docked in Egypt and could start treating wounded children from Gaza later this week, Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu said
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Beijing is fretting that a split in Taiwan's opposition could pave the way for the island's ruling party - which the Chinese government despises - to stay in power, as China
April 26, 2024
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev told U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Indo Pacific region is in the midst of a substantial arms race that Australia is responding to, not fuelling, with its planned acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines,
April 26, 2024
Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei will meet with a top security aide to U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday said Ukraine needed to secure three key "victories" abroad, including the approval of major aid packages from the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The top diplomats of the United States, South Korea and Japan held a call on Friday to discuss North Korea's recent launch of a spy satellite which they
April 26, 2024
The Philippines' joint patrols with the United States in the South China Sea are within Manila's rights, and it will continue to support a free and open Indo-Pacific, its national
April 26, 2024
Residents of the Tahitian village that will host the 2024 Olympic surfing event remain opposed to plans to build a new smaller judging tower on the reef, saying it will
April 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected photos taken by the country's new spy satellite of "major target regions", state media reported on Saturday, including the South Korean
April 26, 2024
North Korea warned on Monday it would continue to exercise its sovereign rights, including satellite launches, state media KCNA reported, citing the foreign ministry.
April 26, 2024
A court in Montenegro said on Friday it had approved the extradition of cryptocurrency entrepreneur Do Kwon, leaving a minister to decide if he will be handed over to South Korea
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday that NATO's desire to have a military analogue of the Schengen Zone in Europe to allow the alliance's armed forces to move around freely to counter Russia
April 26, 2024
Israel's Mossad intelligence service is hosting its Qatari counterparts to confer on the recovery of hostages held by Hamas and other elements of a Gaza truce that was mediated
April 26, 2024
Canada's Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday said his main political rival on the right was abandoning Ukraine under the influence
April 26, 2024
British troops are patrolling the Kosovo-Serbia border as part of a NATO peacekeeping presence being bolstered amid concern that the former wartime foes
April 26, 2024
Britain came out on top when 21 teams from around the world gathered in Tokyo this week to collect litter in the inaugural SpoGomi World Cup, an initiative aimed at raising awareness
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Bahrain has been walking a political tightrope since war erupted in Gaza as it seeks to ease public fury at a conflict that has killed thousands of
April 26, 2024
Inside Israeli defence headquarters, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu monitored the first release of Hamas-held hostages while outside, their families in a Tel
April 26, 2024
Turkey has informed NATO that ratification of Sweden's membership bid will not be completed in time to allow the country's accession
April 26, 2024
Turkey began discussing buying 40 Eurofighter Typhoon jets with European states after it saw that its request for F-16 jets from the United States may not work out, a Turkish
April 26, 2024
Taiwan again reported Chinese military activity around the island on Wednesday, with 11 aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait as the island's election
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's opposition parties rushed to register their candidates for president on Friday with hours to go before a deadline, after talks on running a joint ticket collapsed in
April 26, 2024
A South Korean appellate court on Thursday ordered Japan to compensate a group of 16 women who were forced to work in Japanese wartime brothels, overturning a lower
April 26, 2024
A political campaign by Hungary's government that vilifies the head of the European Commission and the son of financier George Soros is "propaganda deeply tainted by antisemitism"
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin told the Group of 20 leading economies on Wednesday that it was necessary to think about how to stop "the tragedy" of the war in Ukraine, and said
April 26, 2024
Organisers of the Brazilian leg of Taylor Swift's "The Eras Tour" acknowledged on Thursday they could have taken more measures to help fans cope with the extreme heat they faced
April 26, 2024
Novo Nordisk said on Thursday it will launch its hugely popular Wegovy obesity drug in Japan on Feb. 22 next year.
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the United Nations on Thursday of being slow to attend to the spiralling humanitarian crisis in Gaza, saying its relief workers
April 26, 2024
Technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions to keep them from the atmosphere are central to the climate strategies of many world governments as they seek to follow
April 26, 2024
Leading scientists urged caution over fears of another pandemic on Thursday after the World Health Organization requested more information from China on a rise of
April 26, 2024
Former U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States will provide over $4.1 million in aid for people affected by the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the United States Agency for International
April 26, 2024
The United States is reviewing "potential terrorist designations" for Yemen's Houthi rebel group in response to its seizure of a cargo ship,
April 26, 2024
Russia has deployed a new Yars intercontinental ballistic missile at the Kozelsk base in the Kaluga region, southwest of Moscow, the RIA news agency cited the defence ministry as saying on
April 26, 2024
Qatari foreign ministry said on Wednesday Hamas and Israel have agreed on a humanitarian pause in Gaza hostilities for four days, subject to extension, the starting time of the which
April 26, 2024
South Korea said on Wednesday it would suspend parts of a 2018 military agreement with North Korea designed to curb the risk of inadvertent clashes along their shared border, in
April 26, 2024
A group of U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson arrived at a port in the South Korean city of Busan on Tuesday, in a show of extended deterrence against North Korea's nuclear and missile
April 26, 2024
Two commercial ships that diverted their course in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden were connected to the same maritime group whose vessel was seized by Yemen's Houthis
April 26, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated libertarian Javier Milei, an outsider with radical views to fix the economy, on being elected president in Argentina on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
South Korea said on Tuesday some tours of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas will restart for selected guests for the first time since they were
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch in the Ukrainian capital in what Kyiv said on Monday was a "very important signal" of support at a time when global
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden's energy security adviser Amos Hochstein was traveling to Israel on Monday to discuss issues related to the northern border with Lebanon, including how to
April 26, 2024
Ukraine and the United States will hold a military industry conference in December, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday.
April 26, 2024
Venezuela's National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez on Friday said the country would not accept "ultimatums from anyone," after the U.S. warned it would review plans to ease
April 26, 2024
The United States, United Kingdom and Norway on Friday condemned escalating violence and human rights abuses in Sudan, especially in the Darfur region, the three countries said
April 26, 2024
Israel, the United States and Hamas are close to an agreement to free dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, in exchange for a five-day pause in fighting, the Washington Post
April 26, 2024
Israel's war cabinet has agreed to allow 140,000 liters (36,985 gallons) of fuel into Gaza every two days after a request from
April 26, 2024
Iraq's Kataeb Hezbollah (KH) militia, a powerful armed faction with close ties to Iran, brushed off U.S. sanctions on the group over attacks against U.S. forces in
April 26, 2024
International rebuke swelled on Saturday over what observers say are efforts to use a politicized justice system to keep Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo out
April 26, 2024
John, a tech executive who has been battling weight gain since his 30s, has a nine-month supply in his refrigerator.
April 26, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro, visiting Venezuela on Saturday, said he had proposed to the United States that it pay an "economic stabilization" bonus to Venezuelan migrants
April 26, 2024
A potential joint bid for Taiwan's presidency by the island's two main opposition parties was in disarray on Saturday as they bickered on how to agree on who will
April 26, 2024
Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity around the island on Sunday, with nine aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait and warships carrying out "
April 26, 2024
An Israeli military push into the crowded south of the Gaza Strip, expected in the coming days, may prove more complicated than its
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has vowed to continue negotiating an ambitious Asia trade deal, but election-year pressures and resistance to tough commitments from
April 26, 2024
The United States and the Philippines on Friday signed a landmark deal that would allow Washington to export nuclear technology and material to Manila, which is exploring the use of
April 26, 2024
The U.S. and its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework partners need to regroup and "recalibrate" their trade pillar negotiations early next year after three
April 26, 2024
The United States expressed deep concern on Thursday that Jordanian medics were wounded in shelling near their field hospital in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission delayed a vote on Sweden's NATO membership bid on Thursday, in a rare move putting off enlarging the
April 26, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida promised to push for deeper cooperation as they met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
April 26, 2024
Mexico and China's leaders met on Thursday and committed to working together and strengthening ties, while agreeing to battle illegal drug trafficking between their nations and
April 26, 2024
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday in San Francisco that he had been invited by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to hold their first face-to-face talks in a year on the sidelines of the APEC summit in San Francisco on
April 26, 2024
The Indonesian Hospital in Gaza has shut down and about 45 patients who urgently need surgery have been left in the reception area, hospital chief Atef al-Kahlout told al Jazeera on
April 26, 2024
China said it hopes Fiji will continue to give 'firm' support to it on issues concerning Chinese core interests and major concerns, Chinese state media cited President Xi Jinping
April 26, 2024
Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said on Thursday it could not take part in a meeting with Armenia's foreign minister planned for Nov. 20 in Washington because of the "one-sided approach of
April 26, 2024
The United States and its allies have few routes left to rein in Iran's nuclear work with prospects for talks
April 26, 2024
Defence ministers and officials from the United States, China, Russia and Southeast Asia gathered in Indonesia on Thursday for a meeting where they are expected to discuss
April 26, 2024
Trade ministers from members of an Asian free trade pact abandoned by the United States affirmed on Wednesday a desire for more countries to join the bloc if
April 26, 2024
A top leader of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang will stand trial in New York on terrorism charges, the U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
North Korea on Thursday criticised a recent visit to South Korea by top U.S. defence officials and vowed more "offensive" responses to what it called military
April 26, 2024
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Israel cannot leave a vacuum in Gaza and would have to maintain a strong force there for the near future to prevent Hamas from re-emerging in the
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Turkish parliament commission is set to debate and likely approve Sweden's NATO membership bid on Thursday, in the latest step toward expanding the Western
April 26, 2024
British Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch plans to attend a meeting of a major trans-Pacific trade pact, which does not include the United States, on
April 26, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol heads to the United States on Wednesday to attend an APEC summit where he plans to seek support from other leaders for a
April 26, 2024
Russia is not exporting its Lancet drones due to high domestic demand, TASS agency quoted a top Russian arms export official as saying on Wednesday, as the weapon emerges as one of the
April 26, 2024
NATO will replace its ageing fleet of AWACS surveillance planes, in service since the Cold War in the 1980s, with a militarised version of the Boeing 737 commercial jet, the
April 26, 2024
The husband of a Russian-American journalist being held in a Russian prison on suspicion of violating Moscow’s law on “foreign agents” urged the U.S. government on
April 26, 2024
The Israel-Gaza conflict is a "worrying manifestation" of geopolitical challenges for the U.S.-backed multinational economic corridor, India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on
April 26, 2024
Cuban and U.S. officials met Tuesday in Havana to discuss migration, the second such meeting this year as both countries grapple with how best to slow the record-
April 26, 2024
Lawyers representing a group of Colorado voters are set to deliver closing arguments on Wednesday in a lawsuit seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday imposed a third round of sanctions aimed at Palestinian militant group Hamas following its attack last month on Israel,
April 26, 2024
Top business leaders in the United States are expected to dine with Chinese President Xi Jinping in San Francisco on Wednesday as he seeks to court
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russia was acting in its own interests when asked about a probe by the United States into alleged violations of Western oil sanctions on Moscow.
April 26, 2024
The commerce chiefs of the United States and China will meet at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum this week, one of a series of cabinet-level
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky has been formally notified that he is suspected of treason for allegedly spreading misinformation about the political leadership and cooperation with
April 26, 2024
Australia scored a significant win for influence in the Pacific Islands region with a trump card that China, seeking to expand
April 26, 2024
Defence chiefs from South Korea, Japan and the United States have agreed to start as planned a real-time data sharing scheme on North
April 26, 2024
The defence ministers of South Korea and the United States met on Monday for security talks, with discussions set to focus on jointly countering threats by North
April 26, 2024
North Korea on Monday called for the United Nations Command to be dissolved calling it an "illegal war organization" over a meeting which is scheduled to take place between the
April 26, 2024
At least three Russian officers were killed in the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian city of Melitopol in a blast Ukraine's intelligence said
April 26, 2024
More than 1,000 officials in the U.S.
April 26, 2024
North Korea's foreign ministry condemned U.S.
April 26, 2024
About 5-1/2 years from now, astronomers predict, an asteroid about as wide as the Empire State Building is tall will streak through space within 20,000 miles (32,200 km) of
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's presidential chief of staff said he hoped a conference on joint Ukrainian-U.S. weapons production would be held in December in the United States, Kyiv's most important supplier
April 26, 2024
The Gaza war has dramatically increased the sense of solidarity with Israel among its 21% Arab minority, who often identify as Palestinian and have long complained of
April 26, 2024
The executive director of Israeli media advocacy group HonestReporting said on
April 26, 2024
The United Arab Emirates plans to maintain diplomatic ties with Israel despite international outcry over the mounting toll of the war in Gaza and hopes to
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Venezuelan government will be in a strong position to increase social spending to woo voters in 2024 as relief from some U.S. sanctions
April 26, 2024
The United States and China have reached "understandings and agreements" on climate issues that will help ensure progress is made at the COP28 talks starting
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan will stress the importance of peace in the region at next week's APEC summit, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday, one of the few international bodies both
April 26, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol plans to attend a roundtable on technological cooperation with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at Stanford University on Nov.
April 26, 2024
If humankind is ever to establish long-term bases on the moon, there will be a need for a regular source of food.
April 26, 2024
A Russian court fined three foreign companies on Thursday a total of 15 million roubles ($163,200) for what it said was a repeated failure to comply with data storage law, Russian
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday his country does not seek to conquer, occupy or govern Gaza after its war against Hamas but a "credible force" would be needed to
April 26, 2024
Indonesia's leader Joko Widodo said on Thursday he would convey to United States President Joe Biden in their meeting on Monday that the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas should
April 26, 2024
Top cabinet officials of India and the United States held talks on Friday, stressing the need to further strengthen their friendship to be able to deal with urgent global,
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis will have nearly an entire day of bilateral meetings with world leaders attending the COP28 climate conference in Dubai next month, according
April 26, 2024
The European Commission is aiming to reach an agreement on steel and aluminium with the United States by the end of the year to bring a definitive end to U.S. import tariffs on
April 26, 2024
El Nino weather conditions will continue through the Northern Hemisphere during April-June 2024 with a 62% chance, a U.S. government weather forecaster said on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
The Bulgarian parliament on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion purchase of Stryker fighting vehicles from the United States to modernise the country's army and bring it in line with
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's military has sent forces to keep watch on a Chinese naval formation led by the aircraft carrier Shandong sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, Taiwan's defence
April 26, 2024
The Rafah border crossing into Gaza was closed on Wednesday due to an unspecified "security circumstance," U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin signed on Wednesday a decree transferring to Russia's state nuclear power company Rosatom state-owned shares of the Far Eastern Shipping Company, parent company of
April 26, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is considering holding talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sideline of APEC summit in San Francisco around November 16, public
April 26, 2024
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa said on Thursday his voyage around the moon with Elon Musk's SpaceX had been delayed to 2024 or later.
April 26, 2024
Powerful Russian anti-ship missiles acquired by Hezbollah give it the means to deliver on its leader's veiled threat against U.S. warships and
April 26, 2024
Street battles raged in Gaza City with Hamas fighters using tunnels to ambush Israeli forces, as the United
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday accused Russia of financing a Latin America-wide disinformation campaign that feeds media contacts with propaganda and fake news
April 26, 2024
There was no way for the U.S. to stay in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, a key post-Cold War agreement, after Russia pulled out, White house national security
April 26, 2024
Turkey's parliament removed Coca Cola and Nestle products from its restaurants on Tuesday over their alleged support for Israel amid the conflict in Gaza, according to a parliament
April 26, 2024
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks in Moscow on Wednesday with a senior Chinese military official and said they would discuss steps to deepen cooperation, Interfax
April 26, 2024
Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Wednesday that the "destructive" policies of the United States and its allies were increasing the risk that nuclear,
April 26, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Wednesday of provoking crises on the global oil and gas market by rushing to switch to green energy and imposing pressure
April 26, 2024
Russia on Tuesday formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty which limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the
April 26, 2024
NATO allies on Tuesday condemned a decision by Russia to withdraw from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which was a key post-Cold War treaty, adding that, as a
April 26, 2024
The United States has helped more than 400 U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and other eligible people to leave the Gaza Strip, the State Department said on Tuesday, but
April 26, 2024
Malaysia said on Tuesday it will not recognise unilateral sanctions, in response to a proposed U.S. law to level sanctions against foreign supporters of militant groups
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that strategic dialogue with the United States over nuclear weapons was "definitely necessary" but that such talks could not
April 26, 2024
The formation of a base for a multi-polar world order is proceeding with extreme difficulty amid conflict in different parts of the world, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said in an
April 26, 2024
China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, said maritime disputes should be resolved through talks and warned against "camp" confrontations, but stopped short of naming the
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the U.S. to provide more funding to help his forces counter Russia, and invited former U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration is sending a high level delegation to Australia for a series of meetings this week to review the progress of the trilateral AUKUS defense
April 26, 2024
As the death toll in Gaza tops 10,000, the Biden administration faces growing pressure at home and abroad to compel Israel to take steps to
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's defence minister ordered on Saturday an investigation into an alleged Russian ballistic missile attack on Ukrainian assault brigade, after reports
April 26, 2024
Slovakia's new Prime Minister Robert Fico, who has pledged to halt the country's military aid for neighbouring Ukraine, said on Monday he had no intention of preventing private defence
April 26, 2024
Russia and Ukraine gave clashing accounts over the weekend about what is going on along the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region, with Moscow saying it has stopped Kyiv's counter-offensive
April 26, 2024
Ahead of an expected meeting between U.S.
April 26, 2024
Peru's foreign minister, Ana Cecilia Gervasi, has resigned from office, amid criticism of President Dina Boluarte's trip last week to the United States, according to a source
April 26, 2024
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will travel to Saudi Arabia on Sunday, the Etemadonline news website reported on Monday, the first visit by an Iranian head of state since Tehran and
April 26, 2024
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has met with the leader of Tehran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, a
April 26, 2024
The border authority in Hamas-controlled Gaza on Monday said that the Rafah border crossing is open only for evacuations by Egyptians and foreigners listed since Nov. 1.
April 26, 2024
Vladimir Putin has decided to run in the March presidential election, a move that will keep him in power until least 2030, as the Kremlin chief feels he must
April 26, 2024
U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken made an unannounced visit to the occupied West Bank on Sunday and met with the Palestinian Authority president as he continues a
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States has begun sending smaller military aid packages to Ukraine in order to stretch out support given a stalemate in Congress over providing funding for
April 26, 2024
Several U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. and European officials have spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war, NBC quoted an unidentified senior U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration plans to announce a $425 million military aid package for Ukraine on Friday including counter drone rockets and munitions, two U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States and China held "candid" talks on maritime issues, including on the contested South China Sea, and the U.S. side underscored its concerns about "dangerous and
April 26, 2024
The United Nations aid chief said on Friday that there had been "some progress" in ongoing negotiations to allow fuel into the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip for the first time since
April 26, 2024
Istoryk, a 26-year-old soldier in eastern Ukraine, finally managed to fall asleep one morning, exhausted from the relentless battles against Russian
April 26, 2024
State-organised rallies were held across Iran on Saturday marking the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy with cries of "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" in support of Palestinians
April 26, 2024
South Korea President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday said he hoped for a significant increase in trade and investment with Ireland as the two countries work to strengthen cooperation in bio
April 26, 2024
Russia's top arms control negotiator warned the United States on Friday that Moscow would scrap a proposed moratorium on the deployment of short and medium range missiles if
April 26, 2024
Russia on Friday dismissed new U.S. sanctions over the war in Ukraine, saying that the United States would never defeat Moscow, while the boss of Russia's
April 26, 2024
Royal Caribbean Group is removing Israel from its 2024 itineraries due to the Israel-Hamas war, according to an email sent to travel agents on Thursday seen
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that some Western weapons supplied to
April 26, 2024
Palestinians reported a deadly Israeli air strike on a U.N.-run school in northern Gaza serving as a shelter on
April 26, 2024
North Korea vowed to continue military action while criticizing the United States over a recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, state media KCNA said on
April 26, 2024
North Korea confirmed on Friday it is shutting some embassies in an effort to "rearrange its diplomatic capacity efficiently", closures that South Korea says indicates the North is
April 26, 2024
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi will tell U.S.
April 26, 2024
The leaders of Japan and the Philippines on Friday agreed to start negotiations on a reciprocal troop access deal, strengthening military
April 26, 2024
Israeli forces on Thursday encircled Gaza City - the Gaza Strip's main city - in their assault on Hamas, the military said, but the
April 26, 2024
Israel has asked foreign countries to send hospital ships to help treat wounded Palestinians who are allowed to leave the
April 26, 2024
The United States and rights groups complained on Thursday that it was "insulting" to allow Iran's envoy to chair a U.N. human rights council meeting in Geneva, citing
April 26, 2024
Here is a snapshot of the main battlefield developments in Ukraine since the start of Kyiv's latest counteroffensive in early June.
April 26, 2024
A collapse in the yen is forcing Japan to scale back a historic five-year, 43.5-trillion-yen defence build-up aimed at helping to
April 26, 2024
After hitting statutory limits on import-export lending, South Korea is gathering local banks to help Poland buy $22 billion worth of weapons in Seoul's
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he would try to facilitate the parliamentary ratification of Sweden's NATO membership as much as possible, but added that Stockhom had still
April 26, 2024
Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency project set up by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, aims to establish a global ID network akin to India's Aadhaar
April 26, 2024
Walmart Foundation, the philanthropy arm of the U.S. retailer, has pledged $1 million to an Israeli disaster relief and emergency medical service organization.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday will announce new development financing for countries hosting migrants in the Western Hemisphere as part of an effort
April 26, 2024
The United States remains focused on the Indo-Pacific despite other global challenges, top U.S. diplomats said on Thursday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken prepared to go to
April 26, 2024
Dozens of U.S. agriculture industry representatives gathered in Beijing on Thursday to meet Chinese counterparts amid growing U.S. efforts to bolster farm trade
April 26, 2024
The United States does not believe the pro-Iranian Palestinian militant group Hamas can be involved in the future governance of the Gaza Strip when
April 26, 2024
South Korea is marking the 70th anniversary of its U.S. alliance with much fanfare, including a public information campaign featuring a K-pop-inspired rap song, with
April 26, 2024
Russia on Thursday said Ukraine was risking a nuclear disaster after nine Ukrainian drones were shot down by Russian forces near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear station, Europe's largest
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Thursday that Moldova's pro-European president, Maia Sandu, was a disgrace and accused the Moldovan government of trying to distract from its own failings ahead of
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a law withdrawing Russia's ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests, a step condemned by the
April 26, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza sheltering from an intensifying Israeli bombardment that has killed thousands of people are running out of clean water and face growing
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that it expected the West to impose ever tougher sanctions on it over the war in Ukraine, but that there was a growing sense that such penalties hurt
April 26, 2024
Mourning his father and brother, Mohammed Wadi says armed Israeli settlers from outposts overlooking his olive-growing West Bank village no longer aim low
April 26, 2024
Ruling party lawmakers in Honduras elected an interim attorney general on Wednesday, but opposition legislators accused the allies of leftist President
April 26, 2024
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will on Friday make his first public comments since the Palestinian group Hamas and Israel went to war, a speech which will be closely
April 26, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday it mounted multiple strikes on Israeli army positions including its first using explosive drones, and Israel launched air strikes on southern
April 26, 2024
At least 195 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Hamas-run government media office said.
April 26, 2024
The Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday a leading official from its department of arms control affairs will lead a delegation in China-U.S. nuclear talks.
April 26, 2024
The official websites of Bosnia’s separatist Serb Republic (RS) government have been reactivated after being shut down as part of U.S. sanctions imposed against its top officials,
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Africa wants the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Teams for U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States has made "real progress" in the last few hours in negotiations to secure a safe passage for Americans and other foreigners who
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration has called a seventh negotiating round for its Indo-Pacific Economic Framework arrangements in San Francisco next week, just ahead of a
April 26, 2024
A Russian drone attack set ablaze the Kremenchuk oil refinery in central Ukraine and knocked out power supply in three villages, while falling debris from downed drones damaged
April 26, 2024
The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs committee will discuss ratifying Sweden's NATO membership bid as part of its regular agenda as the issue was not so
April 26, 2024
Seismologists have recognized since the 1970s that two mysterious continent-sized blobs reside in the deepest part of Earth's mantle, one under Africa and the
April 26, 2024
In Los Angeles, a man screaming "kill Jews" attempts to break into a family's home.
April 26, 2024
North Korea is in the final stages of preparations for the launch of a spy satellite and the chances of the third attempt succeeding are high, Yonhap news agency reported on
April 26, 2024
A deal to restore political power sharing in Northern Ireland is possible in the coming weeks, thanks in part to the prospect of significant investment in the region,
April 26, 2024
A Las Vegas man faces federal criminal charges after threatening to kill Democratic U.S.
April 26, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian warned on Wednesday of "harsh consequences" if attacks continue on the Gaza Strip, the latest in a series of warnings from the country
April 26, 2024
Hong Kong's financial secretary Paul Chan will attend an APEC meeting on Nov. 15-17 in San Francisco, it said on Tuesday, standing in for Chief Executive John Lee and smoothing
April 26, 2024
The only cancer treatment hospital in the Gaza Strip has gone out of service after it ran out of fuel, health officials said on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024
South Africa will host the annual African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum in Johannesburg from Nov 2-4 to discuss the United States' flagship trade programme for
April 26, 2024
Authorities and civil society groups in many countries have reported a surge in antisemitism since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on southern Israel and subsequent bombardment of the Gaza
April 26, 2024
Leaders from the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will meet in San Francisco next week for the 30th APEC summit, the first hosted by the
April 26, 2024
The White House on Tuesday said 66 trucks of humanitarian assistance entered Gaza in the last 24 hours and that dozens more are expected to be cleared for deliveries.
April 26, 2024
China's veteran climate change envoy, Xie Zhenhua, is set to retire in December at the end of this year's COP28 climate talks in Dubai, a government official
April 26, 2024
Two Chinese icebreaker research vessels and a cargo ship set sail on Wednesday for the Antarctic with more than 460 personnel on board to help complete construction of China's
April 26, 2024
At least 320 foreign passport holders crossed on Wednesday to Egypt from Gaza in a first batch of evacuations from the besieged enclave, three Egyptian security sources and a
April 26, 2024
Two of President Joe Biden's top advisers will try to convince U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that it is in the country's best interest to provide billions more
April 26, 2024
The White House on Monday expressed concern at reports of antisemitic threats at Cornell University in response to the Israel-Hamas crisis in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Hong Kong court acquitted U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States and South Korea began major air exercises on Monday, involving 130 warplanes from both countries to simulate 24-hour wartime operations.
April 26, 2024
Biden administration officials voiced alarm at data showing a rise in anti-Jewish incidents at U.S. universities and planned to meet American Jewish leaders on
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Sunday would not acknowledge differences between the U.S. and Israel over the military assault on Gaza, but emphasized
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Monday he was confident the U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Monday met with Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud and confirmed President Joe Biden’s commitment to support
April 26, 2024
The Norwegian defence ministry on Tuesday said it had agreed a new collaboration with U.S. based RTX unit Raytheon and Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen on further development of the
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday sought to blame the West for the crisis in the Middle East, where Israel is bombing the Gaza Strip to try to eradicate Hamas militants who
April 26, 2024
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte said on Monday that she would discuss a plan to tackle drug trafficking in an upcoming meeting with her U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, as she travels to
April 26, 2024
Western embassies and the United Nations are urging Pakistan to incorporate into its plan to deport hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants a way to identify and protect
April 26, 2024
North Korea's recent closing of its diplomatic missions in Angola and Uganda was a sign that the reclusive country is struggling to make money overseas because of
April 26, 2024
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and would press ahead with its
April 26, 2024
Israel urged Russian authorities on Sunday to protect Israelis and Jews in their jurisdictions following media reports of potential reprisals by pro-Palestinian protesters in
April 26, 2024
Israel summoned the Russian ambassador on Sunday to lodge a protest at Moscow's hosting last week of a delegation from Hamas, the Palestinian militant group whose Oct. 7 attack
April 26, 2024
China's economy tsar He Lifeng has been appointed director of a key ruling Communist Party economic body, matching his high-profile predecessor Liu He with a
April 26, 2024
Israeli forces and Lebanon's Hezbollah have engaged in increasingly heavy exchanges of cross-border fire since early October, in the biggest escalation on the frontier since the Iran-
April 26, 2024
Twenty people were injured when hundreds of anti-Israeli protesters stormed on Sunday an airport in Russia's Dagestan region before security forces closed the airport and removed the
April 26, 2024
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the border since its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza and Israel went to war on Oct. 7.
April 26, 2024
With dozens of Hezbollah fighters killed in three weeks of border clashes with Israel, the Lebanese group is working to stem its losses as it prepares
April 26, 2024
The first U.S.-made F-16 combat aircraft the Netherlands is donating Ukraine will arrive in Romania's training centre within two weeks, outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said
April 26, 2024
Two armed drones targeted Iraq’s Ain al-Asad airbase, which hosts U.S forces and other international forces in western Iraq, a security source and a government source told
April 26, 2024
The presidency of next month's COP28 climate summit and two renewable energy organisations on Monday urged governments to triple renewable
April 26, 2024
The management company of White Island, where a volcano eruption killed 22 people, mostly tourists, in 2019, was found guilty of one charge of breaching health
April 26, 2024
China and the United States should have an objective understanding of each other's strategic intention and take the correct view of competitive factors in future exchanges, China's
April 26, 2024
Forty countries in a U.S.-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers' funding
April 26, 2024
The United States, Saudi Arabia and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, together with the African Union, have relaunched humanitarian and ceasefire talks between the
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday said some firms in the digital asset space were not doing enough to stop the flow of illicit finance.
April 26, 2024
A U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly called for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas
April 26, 2024
U.N.
April 26, 2024
Palestinians traumatized by Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip in a bid to destroy militant group Hamas were struggling to make contact with family and friends on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
South Korean and U.S. troops held joint future combat drills involving drones, an unmanned vehicle and wearable laser sensors this week
April 26, 2024
Saudi Arabian Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman is expected to visit Washington on Monday for meetings with senior Biden administration officials, Axios reported on
April 26, 2024
Qatar-mediated negotiations between Israel and Hamas aimed at de-escalating fighting in Gaza continued on Saturday, a source briefed on the negotiations said, even as Israel intensified
April 26, 2024
North Korea said on Saturday it was the "steadfast will" of Pyongyang to expand ties with Russia, criticising a recent condemnation by the United States and its allies on Pyongyang's
April 26, 2024
Elon Musk said on Saturday that SpaceX's Starlink will support communication links in Gaza with "internationally recognized aid organizations".
April 26, 2024
Israel would allow a dramatic increase in aid to Gaza in the coming days, an official said on Sunday, calling on Palestinian civilians to head to what he described as a "
April 26, 2024
Israel is rejecting calls for respite in Gaza as its closest allies in the West have coalesced around the idea of "humanitarian pauses",
April 26, 2024
Israel's military has told international news organisations Reuters and Agence France Presse that it cannot guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, under
April 26, 2024
Schools will move to an online regime starting Monday in Ukraine's central city of Vinnytsia after a Hepatitis A outbreak sent scores of children and adults to the hospital, the country's
April 26, 2024
Hamas said on Saturday its militants in Gaza were ready to confront Israeli attacks with "full force" after Israel's military widened its air and ground attacks
April 26, 2024
Germany's purchase of Patriot air defence missile systems to replace those given to Ukraine is taking longer than initially planned, the German defence ministry said in response to
April 26, 2024
Former Colombian army colonel German Rivera was on Friday sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. court for his role in the plot to kill Haitian President Jovenel Moise, whose 2021
April 26, 2024
A Chinese communist party delegation has visited the Solomon Islands, calling the "flourishing" cooperation between China and the Pacific nation a show of how diplomatic ties were
April 26, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said the "road to the San Francisco summit will not be a smooth one", the foreign ministry said on Sunday, in an apparent reference to an expected
April 26, 2024
Russia and Ukraine are locked in a stalemate on the frontlines of their war and the two sides need to sit down and negotiate an end to the conflict, Alexander Lukashenko, the authoritarian
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis presided on Friday at a special prayer service for peace in the Middle East and other areas of conflict.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military on Thursday carried out strikes against two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and groups it backs, the Pentagon said
April 26, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine said on Thursday that Ukrainian pilots were undergoing training in the United States on F-16 fighter aircraft, a key element on Kyiv's wish list to secure
April 26, 2024
A senior Ukrainian official said on Thursday the election of Mike Johnson, a U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan told Pope Francis in a phone call on Thursday that Israel's attacks on Gaza amounted to a massacre, and that the silence of international community
April 26, 2024
South Korea, Japan and the United States strongly condemned the supply of arms and military equipment by North Korea to Russia and said they had confirmed "several" deliveries of
April 26, 2024
Russia said on Thursday that it planned to build close ties with North Korea in all areas, a day after South Korea, Japan and the United States condemned what they said were weapons
April 26, 2024
North Korea's foreign ministry accused Israel of bombing a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Oct 17., saying it had openly committed a war crime "under the undisguised patronage of the
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi begins a long-anticipated visit to Washington on Thursday, as the U.S. and China seek
April 26, 2024
Police in Maine extended their round-the-clock search for suspected Lewiston mass shooter Robert R.
April 26, 2024
Former lawmaker Maria Corina Machado was formally declared the victor of the Venezuelan opposition's weekend presidential primary on Thursday, as a government official warned
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that efforts to agree on what it called a balanced U.N. resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict should continue, but said it was wrong for any such
April 26, 2024
A Pacific atoll 2,000 miles west of Hawaii appears set for a construction boom, with the United States and Australia on Thursday pledging a wharf for remote Kanton
April 26, 2024
Israeli efforts to rehabilitate southern communities ravaged by the Oct.
April 26, 2024
Almost half of Israelis want to hold off on any invasion of Gaza, according to a poll published on Friday, in what may indicate a dip in support for the planned next stage of the
April 26, 2024
SeaWorld San Diego has welcomed the hatching of an emperor penguin for the first time in 13 years, announcing on Wednesday that the female chick came out of its shell with help from zoo
April 26, 2024
Belarus this week joined China's International Lunar Research Station (ILRS) programme, the third country to sign up this month for a plan to eventually set up a permanently
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden is expected to speak with Wang Yi when China's top diplomat visits the White House this week, according to two U.S. officials familiar
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders agreed at a summit on Thursday to call for the establishment of "humanitarian corridors and pauses" to get urgently needed aid into Gaza.
April 26, 2024
The United States does not have the right to get involved in problems between China and the Philippines, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Thursday at a regular press briefing.
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden delivered a direct message to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei against targeting U.S. personnel in the region, the White House said on Thursday
April 26, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met the new speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday and said he hoped the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minster Hossein Amirabdollahian warned at the United Nations on Thursday that if Israel's retaliation against Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip
April 26, 2024
Armenia hopes to conclude a peace agreement with Azerbaijan in the coming months and establish diplomatic relations with it, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on
April 26, 2024
About 900 more U.S. troops have arrived in the Middle East or are heading there to bolster air defenses for U.S. personnel amid a surge in attacks
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado easily won Sunday's presidential primary contest with 93% of the vote, the latest tally showed on Wednesday, though questions
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
Nearly 600,000 internally displaced people are sheltering in 150 facilities of the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, while at least 40 UNRWA installations
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejected accusations that he had justified Hamas attacks on Israel in his statement to the Security Council on
April 26, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded on Tuesday for civilians to be protected in the war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas
April 26, 2024
Turkey's parliamentary speaker sent a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament's foreign affairs commission on Wednesday, the assembly's website showed, in another
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, in his strongest comments yet on the Gaza conflict, said on Wednesday the Palestinian militant group Hamas
April 26, 2024
The Freedoms Committee in the Tunisian Parliament on Tuesday approved a draft law criminalizing the normalization of relations with Israel, amid ongoing protests in solidarity with
April 26, 2024
Seismic waves generated by a meteorite impact on the other side of Mars from where NASA's InSight lander sits have provided new clues about the Red Planet's deep
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was not concerned by China increasing the capabilities of its nuclear arsenal, stressing Moscow's "advanced strategic partnership" with Beijing and
April 26, 2024
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected command posts of Russian troops in Ukraine's Donetsk region, his ministry said on Wednesday, during a working visit close to the war's
April 26, 2024
Russia and China vetoed on Wednesday a U.S.-drafted U.N. Security Council resolution on the war between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
April 26, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah told French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday that ending Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza is an urgent necessity and warned there could
April 26, 2024
Israel has agreed to delay the invasion of Gaza for now, so the U.S. can rush missile defences to the region, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing U.S. and Israeli
April 26, 2024
Hong Kong leader John Lee began delivering his annual policy statement on Wednesday, with a focus on measures to bolster the ailing property market and stabilising an economy
April 26, 2024
Former Venezuelan lawmaker Maria Corina Machado, who has declared victory in a primary to choose the opposition's 2024 presidential candidate,
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military is taking new steps to protect its troops in the Middle East as concerns mount about attacks by Iran-backed groups, and it is leaving open the
April 26, 2024
The sister of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to remain focused on trying to bring him home from a
April 26, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China is willing to promote cooperation with the United States as both sides manage their differences and work together to
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry on Wednesday denounced the U.S.
April 26, 2024
California governor Gavin Newsom met Chinese president Xi Jinping on Wednesday to discuss climate change and other issues, Newsom told reporters.
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Carnival Corp's Australian unit has been ordered to pay the medical expenses of a woman who contracted COVID-19, with a judge ruling that the cruise ship operator misled passengers
April 26, 2024
Antarctica has not always been a desolate land of ice and snow. Earth's southernmost continent once was home to rivers and forests teeming with life.
April 26, 2024
The White House on Monday said Iran was in some cases "actively facilitating" rocket
April 26, 2024
The U.S. State Department approved three potential arms sales to the United Kingdom, Finland and Lithuania, the Pentagon said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
The United States has concluded that a military coup has taken place in Gabon, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. defense department will send a delegation to attend China's regional security dialogue, the Xiangshan forum, state media China Daily reported on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
The United States has advised Israel to hold off on a ground assault in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and is keeping Qatar
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday submitted a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership bid to parliament for ratification, his
April 26, 2024
Russia and Iran are firming up bilateral relations in a 'trusting' atmosphere, Russia's foreign ministry said early on Tuesday after its chief, Sergei Lavrov, was received by Iranian
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the Israel-Hamas conflict and other wars in a telephone conversation on Sunday, the Vatican said.
April 26, 2024
Some of Israel's actions in its war against Hamas, like cutting off food and water for Gaza, could "harden Palestinian attitudes for generations" and weaken
April 26, 2024
The United States has not seen a direct order from Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to attack U.S. troops in the region, the Pentagon
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that French President Emmanuel Macron and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will visit Israel this week.
April 26, 2024
The head of Haiti's democratic transition council on Monday urged action on a plan to deploy foreign troops to the Caribbean island nation to help police restore security amid a worsening
April 26, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday he would press his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to open dialogue with Cuba after hosting talks at the weekend aimed
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado held an overwhelming lead in the vote count on Monday evening for the South American country's opposition presidential primary
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that it agreed with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Russia's economy has adapted well to years of Western sanctions and so it does not fear the prospect of more such measures, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday that any threats made against Russia were "unacceptable" after Latvia's president said NATO should shut the Baltic Sea to shipping if Moscow were found
April 26, 2024
Israel will not hold off on a possible ground invasion of Gaza over the issue of captives being held there, Israel's energy minister told German tabloid newspaper Bild.
April 26, 2024
Israel's military said on Monday that ground forces mounted limited raids into the Gaza Strip overnight to fight Palestinian gunmen and that air strikes were being focussed on
April 26, 2024
Israel's Military Spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Tuesday that the military was "ready and determined" for the next stage in the war and was awaiting political instruction.
April 26, 2024
Israeli military said on Sunday that one of its tanks accidentally hit an Egyptian position near the border with the Gaza Strip.
April 26, 2024
Iraq's prime minister has ordered security forces to pursue the perpetrators of attacks on military bases hosting international coalition advisers, a government
April 26, 2024
Hamas fighters engaged with an Israeli force that infiltrated the Gaza Strip and returned to their base after destroying some Israeli military equipment, the Palestinian group's armed
April 26, 2024
Industrial engineer Maria Corina Machado declared victory overnight in the Venezuelan opposition's presidential primary, after she tallied a huge
April 26, 2024
European Union leaders will call this week for a "humanitarian pause" in the Israel-Hamas war so that humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza can safely reach those in need,
April 26, 2024
China's top diplomat Wang Yi will travel to the United States later this week, senior Biden administration officials said on Monday, in a long-
April 26, 2024
China removed its defence minister on Tuesday, the second ousting of a senior leader in three months, raising questions about the stability of the leadership team
April 26, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday separately met US leaders from the Jewish as well as Arab and Palestinian-American communities amid war in the
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Australia and the United States will announce plans to cooperate on critical minerals and bolster Pacific Islands infrastructure when Prime Minister Anthony
April 26, 2024
Bipartisan support from the United States is "incredibly encouraging" for Ukraine and its troops, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said following a phone call with U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. credibility rallying support for issues like Ukraine may have been compromised, some diplomats said, after Washington this week blocked United
April 26, 2024
The United States is concerned about Hungary's relationship with Russia, and finds Prime Minister Viktor Orban's decision to meet with Russian President
April 26, 2024
The United States proposed on Saturday a draft U.N.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on individuals and entities related to Bosnian Serb nationalist and pro-Russian leader Milorad Dodik, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Friday that a visit by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Several thousand people gathered in Sarajevo city centre on Sunday, waving Palestinian and Bosnian flags and demanding a halt to the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
South Korea, together with Japan and the United States, held a joint aerial exercise near the Korean peninsula on Sunday, the South Korean military said, marking the first such
April 26, 2024
Russian forces have foiled several attempts by Ukrainian units to cross the Dnipro River in the southern Kherson region over the past day, Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin visited the headquarters of Russian forces in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don late on Thursday to hear a report on the progress of operations in Ukraine,
April 26, 2024
North Korea on Saturday condemned the United States for supplying Ukraine with long-range ballistic missiles known as ATACMS, saying any strike on Russia with them will only hamper
April 26, 2024
Israel's military has warned Gaza residents that they risk being identified as accomplices "in a terrorist organisation" if they do not move south, Palestinians
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Friday that remarks by U.S. President Joe Biden comparing Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Palestinian militant group Hamas were "unacceptable".
April 26, 2024
Canada's National Department of Defence said on Saturday that Israel was not behind the Al-Ahli hospital strike in Gaza on Oct. 17.
April 26, 2024
One Israeli objective of its military campaign in the Gaza Strip is to end Israel's responsibility over the Palestinian coastal enclave, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on
April 26, 2024
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel that killed about 1,400 people aimed to disrupt a potential normalization of ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia, U.S.
April 26, 2024
France's President Emmanuel Macron on Friday welcomed the release of two American hostages in Gaza, highlighting Qatar's role and saying he hoped similar initiatives
April 26, 2024
Former U.S.
April 26, 2024
A pill for dengue fever developed by Johnson & Johnson appeared to protect against a form of the virus in a handful of patients in a small human challenge trial in the
April 26, 2024
The Pentagon this week released its annual report on China's military, which touches on wide-ranging issues related to some of the most important developments in China's
April 26, 2024
Egypt is planning to host an international conference on Saturday to discuss the escalating war between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza.
April 26, 2024
Egypt holds a summit on the Gaza crisis on Saturday amid growing fears of a wider Middle East war but the absence of a top official from Israel's main ally the U.S. and some other leaders
April 26, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping told Vietnam's second-highest ranking official on Friday that both countries must not forget the "original intention" of their traditional friendship.
April 26, 2024
China's defence ministry said on Friday that a U.S.
April 26, 2024
Egypt opens a summit on the Gaza crisis on Saturday to try to head off a wider regional war but assembled Middle Eastern and European leaders are
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek progress on the AUKUS defence technology partnership and critical mineral
April 26, 2024
Astronomers have detected an intense flash of radio waves coming from what looks like a merger of galaxies dating to about 8 billion years ago - the oldest-known
April 26, 2024
With anger building across the Middle East over Israel's strikes in Gaza, China and Russia are finding common cause with
April 26, 2024
Violence in the occupied West Bank has surged since Israel began bombarding the Gaza Strip and clashing with Hezbollah at the Lebanon
April 26, 2024
Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA has begun contacting customers with crude supply contracts amid the temporary lifting of U.S. sanctions, two people
April 26, 2024
U.S. troops have been repeatedly attacked in Iraq and Syria in recent days, U.S. officials said on Thursday, as Washington is on heightened alert for activity by
April 26, 2024
The Pentagon plans to send the two Iron Dome missile defense systems it had previously purchased from Israel back to that country to defend itself against inbound
April 26, 2024
The United States said on Thursday it was working with Ecuador to open offices in the "coming weeks" to help migrants apply for legal U.S. entry in the hopes of discouraging
April 26, 2024
U.S. senators from both parties are readying legislation to help the federal government enforce oil sanctions on Iran, the office of Senator Joni Ernst, a
April 26, 2024
The United States was "closely monitoring follow up steps" from the Indian government after India's Supreme Court declined to legalise same-sex marriage, the U.S.
April 26, 2024
An unclassified U.S. intelligence report, seen by Reuters on Thursday, estimated the death toll from a blast at a Gaza hospital was "probably at the low end
April 26, 2024
The Republican failure to pick a new House speaker that has handcuffed the U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States "strongly" encouraged Afghanistan's neighbors, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking protection and urged
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is deeply concerned by reports that the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have intensified shelling in South Darfur and Omdurman, State Department
April 26, 2024
The United States said on Wednesday it has seized 17 website domains used by North Korean information technology workers in a scheme to allegedly defraud
April 26, 2024
Ukraine will receive U.S.-supplied long-range ATACMS missiles on a regular basis, its foreign minister said on Thursday, two days after Kyiv confirmed using them for the first time.
April 26, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak landed in Tel Aviv on Thursday, a Reuters witness said, beginning a visit in which he plans to offer condolences to Israeli counterpart
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley urged Canada on Thursday to help Caribbean countries reinforce their security by helping with coastal patrols as the
April 26, 2024
Taiwan's defence ministry said that it had detected 13 Chinese air force planes entering Taiwan's air defence zone on Thursday morning, including fighter jets and drones,
April 26, 2024
Russia has detained an editor at U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for failing to register as a foreign agent while visiting for a family
April 26, 2024
Drones and rockets targeted on Thursday evening the Ain al-Asad air base, which hosts U.S. and other international forces in western Iraq, and multiple blasts were heard inside
April 26, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un expressed his resolve to fulfil agreements made at his summit last month with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he met visiting Russian Foreign
April 26, 2024
Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight
April 26, 2024
Guatemala's attorney general, a steadfast opponent of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, has crafted a complex strategy to weaken his mandate or prevent him
April 26, 2024
The first U.S. deportation flight to Venezuela under a new Biden administration initiative landed in Caracas on Wednesday, as part
April 26, 2024
The Biden administration on Wednesday broadly eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector in response to a deal reached between the
April 26, 2024
By Gloria Dickie LONDON - With climate warming leading to more air conditioning use worldwide, dozens of countries including China, India and the United States are being asked to commit to a global
April 26, 2024
Machinery to repair roads has been sent through the Rafah border crossing from Egypt into the Gaza Strip in preparation for the delivery of some of the aid stockpiled in Egypt's
April 26, 2024
Around 300 Chinese "decision makers" are attending Saudi Arabia's flagship investment conference this year, organisers said on Thursday, double last year's attendance
April 26, 2024
California governor Gavin Newsom will visit China next week to discuss climate cooperation, promote bilateral economic development and tourism and encourage cultural exchanges, his office
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will ask Congress for $60 billion for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel, a source familiar with his plan told Reuters.
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
The United States vetoed on Wednesday a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and
April 26, 2024
The United States on Wednesday tried to limit Iran's missile and drone programs by imposing new sanctions, warning companies how to avoid
April 26, 2024
Chinese military aircraft have carried out risky or reckless maneuvers close to U.S. aircraft nearly 200 times since 2021, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, putting a figure on
April 26, 2024
Washington's decision to send long-range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine was a grave mistake that will have serious consequences, Russia's ambassador to the U.S. said on Wednesday, after Kyiv
April 26, 2024
A U.S. analysis of currently available data indicates that "Israel is not responsible for the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday," a spokeswoman for the White House
April 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council will now vote on Wednesday on a Brazilian-drafted resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses in the conflict
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday slammed the United Nations Security Council which was unable to pass a resolution for a humanitarian pause in the conflict between
April 26, 2024
Turkey is in talks with the Palestinian militant group Hamas to secure the release of hostages it seized in Israel and took to Gaza, but there "is nothing concrete" for now, Foreign
April 26, 2024
On May 4, 2022, NASA's InSight lander detected the largest quake yet recorded on Mars, one with a 4.7 magnitude - fairly modest by Earth standards but strong for
April 26, 2024
Russia's parliament moved swiftly to fulfil the wish of President Vladimir Putin by completing the passage of a bill that shifts Moscow's legal stance
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the United States was wading deeper into the Ukraine conflict and making a mistake by providing Kyiv with long-range ATACMS
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday rejected comments by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Lebanese security forces used teargas and water cannon to repel scores of protesters demonstrating on Wednesday near the U.S. embassy in Beirut against what they said was Israel's
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked visiting U.S.
April 26, 2024
South Korea, the United States and Japan will hold a joint aerial exercise near the Korean peninsula, which would be the first time the three countries are conducting such a drill,
April 26, 2024
More migrants crossed into Mexico last month, led by a sharp increase from Venezuela but also significant numbers from Guatemala and Honduras, Mexico's top diplomat told
April 26, 2024
Jordan on Wednesday will host a four-party summit in Amman with U.S.
April 26, 2024
Israel will not allow humanitarian supplies into Gaza from the Israeli side of the border but will not block aid coming from Egypt, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military said on Wednesday that humanitarian aid would be made available to Palestinians who flee Gaza City southward, but did not immediately provide details on
April 26, 2024
Israel's military said on Wednesday it had seen no evidence of a direct hit on a hospital in the Gaza Strip the day before, where
April 26, 2024
Israeli and Lebanese residents on both sides of escalating border clashes say they have never felt such tension.
April 26, 2024
Israeli air strike killed senior Hamas armed commander Ayman Nofal in Gaza, the Hamas armed wing Izz el-Deen Al-Qassam Brigades said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
A man who was shot by Hong Kong police during mass pro-democracy protests in 2019 was sentenced to 47 months imprisonment by a district court on Wednesday on
April 26, 2024
Islamic Jihad, a Palestinian militant group that is an ally of Hamas and took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel from Gaza, has denied Israel's accusations that it was behind a strike on
April 26, 2024
A blast at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of Palestinians just before U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into
April 26, 2024
The head of the Democratic Republic of Congo's election commission promised to hold an inclusive vote in December during a "rebranding" tour of the United States
April 26, 2024
The head of Britain's Royal Navy joined Australia on Tuesday in questioning U.S. bureaucratic hurdles facing the three-country AUKUS project to supply
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Turkey is willing to hold off ratifying Sweden's bid to join NATO this month as it awaits signs of U.S. support for its own
April 26, 2024
The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it needs urgent access to Gaza to deliver aid and medical supplies, as the UN agency warned of a humanitarian crisis in the Israeli-
April 26, 2024
Venezuela's government and the country's opposition will return to political negotiations, the two sides said on
April 26, 2024
Some members of the Venezuelan opposition said on Monday, the eve of the planned signing of an agreement on presidential elections next
April 26, 2024
U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of a visit to Israel soon by U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg met on Monday with his Mexican counterpart to discuss a number of sticking points regarding Mexico's aviation industry.
April 26, 2024
The United States is bolstering its firepower in the Middle East to prevent the spread of the conflict between Israel and
April 26, 2024
Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov will visit North Korea on Wednesday and Thursday this week, North Korea's state media KCNA and Russia's foreign ministry said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
A Russian-drafted U.N.
April 26, 2024
Russia's defence ministry on Tuesday said two Tu-95 strategic bombers had carried out a seven-hour flight over the Sea of Japan, accompanied by Su-35 fighter jets.
April 26, 2024
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, approved revoking the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in the first of three readings on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Supporting the Palestinians is Iran's foreign policy priority but the "resistance" groups make their own independent decisions, President Ebrahim Raisi told his Russian counterpart
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Moscow wanted to help prevent a humanitarian
April 26, 2024
The war between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will not affect the security plans for next year's Olympic Games in France, the chief of the
April 26, 2024
When China launched its Belt and Road Initiative 10 years ago, it touted huge infrastructure spending linking it with Western Europe, which as recently as 2019,
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western allegations that North Korea was supplying weapons to Russia were not based on evidence, the TASS news agency cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
April 26, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah on Tuesday warned against trying to push Palestinian refugees into Egypt or Jordan, adding that the humanitarian situation must to be dealt with inside Gaza
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis' representative in the Holy Land said on Monday he was willing to exchange himself for Israeli children taken hostage by Hamas and held in Gaza
April 26, 2024
Japan's Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa is in the final process of arranging a telephone discussion with her Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian on Tuesday, Japan's Chief
April 26, 2024
An Israeli military spokesman said on Tuesday that the status of the Gaza Strip after Israel's planned assault on the Palestinian enclave would be a "global issue" for
April 26, 2024
Israel has activated a plan to evacuate residents of 28 villages within 2 km (1 mile) of the Lebanese border, the military said on Monday following hostilities with Hezbollah in
April 26, 2024
The head of Israel's Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency on Monday took responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas from carrying out its deadly rampage through Israeli towns.
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military accused Iran on Monday of having ordered attacks by Hezbollah at the Lebanon-Israel border on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
The United States is already heavily involved in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians and must be held to account, an Iranian official said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Hamas said on Monday that Israel had not resumed water supplies for the Gaza Strip despite pledging to do so, while an Israeli official responded that some water was being
April 26, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday called for preventing an escalation in the Middle East and warned Hezbollah and Iran against intervening in the conflict between Israel and
April 26, 2024
At least 2,750 Palestinians have been killed and 9,700 wounded in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, the enclave's health ministry said on Monday.
April 26, 2024
An Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza is expected to reopen amid diplomatic efforts to get aid into
April 26, 2024
The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Tuesday that Washington had asked Moscow via the United Nations to not revoke its ratification of the
April 26, 2024
China's foreign minister on Monday called for a ceasefire to halt the bloodshed in Israel, suggesting at a meeting with his Russian counterpart that major world powers
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden said he is "confident" Israel will act under the rules of war in its conflict with Palestine, and added deploying U.S. troops is not necessary.
April 26, 2024
China has been striking a softer tone in its dealings with the world recently, releasing an Australian journalist from prison,
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
Israeli security forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded dozens in confrontations across the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian
April 26, 2024
A group of U.S. senators will travel to the Middle East to encourage Israel and Saudi Arabia to continue talks on normalizing relations, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
The U.S. government is encouraging its citizens in Gaza to move south toward the Rafah crossing with Egypt to be ready for its possible reopening amid the humanitarian crisis in
April 26, 2024
Saudi Arabia is putting U.S.-backed plans to normalise ties with Israel on ice, two sources familiar with Riyadh's thinking said, signalling a
April 26, 2024
Moscow does not violate United Nations sanctions against North Korea, but is categorically against new restrictive measures on Pyongyang, a high-ranking Russian diplomat told the RIA state
April 26, 2024
Russia has asked the United Nations Security Council to vote Monday on a draft resolution on the Israel-Hamas conflict that calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and condemns
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United
April 26, 2024
Russia President Vladimir Putin said that he sees China's One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative as a desire to cooperate on the global arena, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Friday said he believed a peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan was achievable if both sides showed goodwill, playing down the difficulty of reaching
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian United Nations envoy appealed to U.N.
April 26, 2024
Thousands of Palestinians fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday from the path
April 26, 2024
Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched in central London on Saturday, calling for an end to Israel's military action in the Gaza Strip which was triggered by last
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel's week-old retaliation for the Hamas assault from Gaza was "only the beginning," though he did not elaborate on what
April 26, 2024
Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador confirmed his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro's attendance at a regional summit later this month where participants will
April 26, 2024
Jordan on Saturday said any move by Israel to impose a new displacement of Palestinians would push the region to the "abyss" of a wider regional conflict.
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military said on Sunday it would continue to allow Gazans to evacuate south ahead of an expected ground assault by its forces
April 26, 2024
Israel's defence minister said on Sunday that Israel has no interest in waging war on its northern front and that if the Lebanese group Hezbollah restrains itself then Israel
April 26, 2024
Israel's communications minister said on Sunday he was seeking a possible closure of Al Jazeera's local bureau, and accused the Qatari news station of pro-Hamas incitement and of
April 26, 2024
Iran warned on Saturday that if Israel's "war crimes and genocide" are not halted immediately, "the situation could spiral out of control & ricochet far-reaching
April 26, 2024
Palestinian militant group Hamas uses a global financing network to funnel support from charities and friendly
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
EU industry chief Thierry Breton on Friday warned Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai to be very vigilant on the company's compliance with EU tech rules after the
April 26, 2024
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned on Sunday of the risk of conflict escalating in the Middle East, and said the
April 26, 2024
China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken by phone on Saturday on the crisis in Israel and Gaza, a statement from his ministry said.
April 26, 2024
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April 26, 2024
U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken is telling Middle Eastern leaders there can be "no more business as usual" with Palestinian militant
April 26, 2024
As an unrelenting Israeli bombardment intensified on Saturday, bakeries in Gaza were running out of bread, drinking water was in short supply and power outages
April 26, 2024
Israel's call for more than 1 million civilians in northern Gaza to move within 24 hours is going to be a "tall order," White House national security spokesman John Kirby said
April 26, 2024
The U.S. says it has accepted an invitation to attend China's top annual security forum in late October, the latest sign of potentially warming
April 26, 2024
The United States is providing $12 million in immediate humanitarian assistance to respond to earthquakes in Afghanistan this month that have killed and injured
April 26, 2024
The United States on Thursday criticised remarks made by Colombian President Gustavo Petro in which he compared Israeli government comments to those made by Nazis, and called on him
April 26, 2024
The United States signaled on Thursday that it would not grant Iran access to $6 billion in Iranian funds parked in a Qatar bank
April 26, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers will travel to Israel this weekend to meet with its new unity government and discuss U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States has not ruled out any option related to securing the release of hostages being held by the militant group Hamas, White House national security spokesman John
April 26, 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain was aligned the United States' view that Israel should take precaution to protect civilians in Gaza, after the Israeli military called for
April 26, 2024
Tens of thousands of protesters rallied across the Middle East and beyond on Friday in support of Palestinians and condemnation of Israel as it intensified its strikes on
April 26, 2024
Talks between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and negotiators for the SAG-AFTRA actors' union have been suspended after the union presented its most recent
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in Kyrgyzstan on Thursday, a Central Asian nation with strong ties to Moscow, during what was his first foreign trip since the
April 26, 2024
Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, will vote next week on withdrawing Moscow's ratification of the global treaty that bans nuclear tests, lawmakers said on Thursday
April 26, 2024
A jury in Colorado on Thursday found police officer Randy Roedema guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain, a young Black man who died
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military is placing no conditions on its security assistance to Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024
North Korea denounced on Friday a U.S. aircraft carrier's visit to South Korea, calling it a provocation that could bring "irrevocable, catastrophic circumstances".
April 26, 2024
North Korea denied on Friday its weapons were used by Hamas in the attack against Israel, saying the claim made in some media reports was a bid by Washington to divert the blame for
April 26, 2024
Some were on their honeymoon, others were studying abroad, many were building new lives in foreign countries.
April 26, 2024
Israel is waging all-out war on Hamas militants to effect permanent change and safeguard its future as a prosperous democracy, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Friday,
April 26, 2024
An Israeli invasion of Gaza will face an enemy that has built a formidable armoury with Iran's help, dug a vast tunnel network to
April 26, 2024
Iran's foreign minister Hossein Amirabdollahian starts a regional tour on Thursday to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict involving trips to Iraq and Lebanon, Iranian state
April 26, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian on Friday discussed Israel's war against Hamas with the head of the powerful Tehran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which has
April 26, 2024
State-organised rallies were held across Iran on Friday in support of Tehran's Palestinian Islamist ally Hamas and against the ongoing Israeli bombardment of the blockaded Gaza Strip,
April 26, 2024
A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed her six children in the isolated village of
April 26, 2024
Over 700 people from the entertainment industry, including actors Gal Gadot, Michael Douglas and Jerry Seinfeld, signed an open letter in support of Israel in its conflict with
April 26, 2024
Hamas armed wing Al Qassam Brigades said in a statement that 13 captives were killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza in the last 24 hours.
April 26, 2024
Berlin will allow Israel to use two Heron drones the German air force has in use in the country, defence minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday ahead of a NATO meeting in Brussels
April 26, 2024
Germany will ban the pro-Palestinian group Samidoun, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday, adding that its members were celebrating Islamist Hamas "terror" in Israel on German
April 26, 2024
G7 finance leaders on Thursday condemned "terror attacks" on Israel by Hamas and voiced "unwavering" support for Ukraine in its
April 26, 2024
General Liu Zhenli, the head of the military body responsible for China's combat operations and planning, has emerged as the top contender to replace the country's defence minister
April 26, 2024
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk's X social media platform to see whether it complies with new EU tech rules on illegal and harmful content
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
After Russian drones dropped a mortar round and then a grenade on an American volunteer fighting for Ukraine, the former U.S. Marine thought he might lose use of his fingers.
April 26, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be traveling on Wednesday to meet with senior Israeli leaders, U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States is talking to Israeli officials and others about the idea of a safe passage for Gaza civilians after Israel's air strikes
April 26, 2024
The U.S Embassy in Tunisia said on Wednesday it would close to the public for routine services on Thursday and Friday in an abundance caution, due to expected pro-Palestinian
April 26, 2024
The United States on Tuesday condemned what it called a reported "military attack" in Myanmar on a refugee camp that led to the killing of several civilians.
April 26, 2024
Ukraine received a $1.15 billion grant from the United States on Wednesday as part of the PEACE in Ukraine program, the Ukrainian finance ministry said.
April 26, 2024
Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday criticised the United States for moving a carrier strike group closer to Israel, saying that it would commit "serious massacres" in Gaza
April 26, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israel's blockade and bombing of Gaza in retaliation for Palestinian militant group Hamas' attack was a
April 26, 2024
Guatemalan prosecutors are seeking to block the landslide winner of the country's presidential election from taking office, the head of the Organization of
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the United States on Wednesday of inflaming the Middle East by sending an aircraft carrier group to the region, saying "compromise solutions
April 26, 2024
Blasts that destroyed the Nord Stream gas pipeline connecting Russia and Europe could not have been carried out without the backing of some government, Russian President Vladimir
April 26, 2024
North Korea leader Kim Jong Un exchanged letters with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, vowing to advance their ties and wishing him victory over what he
April 26, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence chief and centrist opposition party leader Benny Gantz have agreed to form an emergency government, a joint statement
April 26, 2024
NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that while Israel has the right to defend itself against attacks, he expects the response to Hamas' weekend assault to
April 26, 2024
NASA was set on Wednesday to provide a first peek for the public at what scientists found inside a tightly sealed canister that was returned to Earth last month carrying
April 26, 2024
Israeli troops have killed at least 1,000 Palestinian gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza in incursions that began at the weekend, and have reinforced all communities in Israel as
April 26, 2024
Israeli shelling hit southern Lebanese towns on Wednesday in response to anti-tank rockets fired from Lebanon, as cross-border violence extended into a fourth day.
April 26, 2024
Governments and airlines scrambled to lay on flights to evacuate thousands of tourists from Israel and repatriate the country's citizens, as
April 26, 2024
Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia added more flights on Tuesday to bring home reservists, according to their websites and
April 26, 2024
Initial U.S. intelligence reports show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the unprecedented attacks on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas,
April 26, 2024
Israel calls last week's devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian militant Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood.
April 26, 2024
Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced nations may discuss the impact escalating tensions in the Middle East could have on the global
April 26, 2024
The EU's industry chief told Elon Musk that disinformation was spreading on his X messaging platform since Palestinian Islamist group Hamas'
April 26, 2024
The United States is continuing to monitor the situation in Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Armenia's prime minister said on Tuesday that plans were proceeding for a meeting with the president of Azerbaijan to discuss a durable peace accord, after Azeri forces took control of the
April 26, 2024
Until last weekend, the Biden administration was counting on the Middle East to remain relatively calm while it quietly pursued
April 26, 2024
Israel's military has rallied after an initial chaotic scramble to halt an assault by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and is
April 26, 2024
U.S. senators met with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday, state media reported.
April 26, 2024
The U.S. military is "surging" fresh supplies of air defenses, munitions and other security assistance to Israel to help it respond to an
April 26, 2024
The United States on Monday led a moment of silence at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva to commemorate the lives of people killed in the major Hamas attack on
April 26, 2024
The United States has assessed that a July takeover in Niger was a military coup d'etat, senior administration officials said on Tuesday,
April 26, 2024
The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan is expected to dock at the South Korean port of Busan this week, South Korea's defence ministry said on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
Top United Nations trade official Rebeca Grynspan met with Russian officials in Moscow on Monday for talks aimed at enabling the "unimpeded access" to global markets for
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had "good news" on artillery and air defence supplies after talks with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in Bucharest, but gave
April 26, 2024
Taiwan seeks "peaceful coexistence" with China with free and unrestricted interaction between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday in
April 26, 2024
Taiwan needs to work hard to "control its own destiny" and is determined to protect itself with its own defence programme, President Tsai Ing-wen will
April 26, 2024
Several U.S. nationals have died since the start of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on Saturday, a National Security Council spokesman said Sunday, adding that U.S. officials remained in
April 26, 2024
Law enforcement officers fatally shot the driver of a vehicle that plowed through the Chinese consulate in San Francisco and into the lobby of the
April 26, 2024
Russia failed in its bid to return to the United Nations' top human rights body on Tuesday, with rivals winning considerably more votes at the General Assembly in an election seen
April 26, 2024
Russia launched 36 overnight drone attacks on Ukraine, Ukraine's Air Force said on Tuesday, adding that its air defence systems destroyed 27 of the air weapons.
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani in the Kremlin on Tuesday and praised cooperation between their countries at the OPEC+ group of
April 26, 2024
North Korea's spy satellite program is an "indispensable" measure to counter U.S. space militarisation aimed at beefing up the United States' preemptive nuclear
April 26, 2024
North Korean state media on Tuesday blamed Israel for causing bloodshed in Gaza, weighing in the military clashes between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas for the first time.
April 26, 2024
All partners in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition approved on Tuesday a proposed expansion of the government to include politicians now in the opposition, a
April 26, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he will discuss the possibility of setting up centers to process migrants in an Oct. 22 meeting with other Latin
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday said it was extremely concerned about recent events in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, warning that the situation could escalate into a wider conflict
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin believes Russia's presidential and parliamentary elections should be held on schedule irrespective of the "special military operation" in Ukraine, presidential spokesman
April 26, 2024
Israel said on Monday its troops backed by helicopters had killed armed infiltrators entering the country from Lebanon, raising fears
April 26, 2024
U.S. naval deployments close to Israel as it battles Hamas in the Gaza Strip may stave off any regional escalation, an Israeli military spokesperson said on Tuesday, adding that
April 26, 2024
The Israeli military revised on Tuesday a recommendation by one of its spokespeople that Palestinians fleeing its air strikes in the Gaza Strip head to Egypt, saying in a follow-
April 26, 2024
Israel would on Tuesday begin distributing thousands of assault rifles to volunteer first-response teams in border communities and mixed Jewish-Arab towns, National Security
April 26, 2024
Iran's mission to the United Nations said on Sunday that Tehran was not involved in one of the bloodiest attacks in Israel's history when Islamist group Hamas killed 700 Israelis
April 26, 2024
Iran is complicit even though the United States has no intelligence or evidence that points to Iran's direct participation in attacks in Israel by Palestinian Islamist group
April 26, 2024
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday that he has decided after all to meet with his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden between Nov. 14-15 on the sidelines of
April 26, 2024
Members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) approved a new three-year contract with major studios on Monday, five months after the union called a strike that plunged
April 26, 2024
Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with the fiercest air strikes in its 75-year conflict with the
April 26, 2024
Russia missed out on a bid to return to the United Nations' top human rights body on Tuesday, losing a vote to Albania and Bulgaria at the General Assembly in New York.
April 26, 2024
The Palestinian group Hamas's surprise assault on Israel Saturday and Israel's retaliation have killed more than 1,100 people and focused attention on the Iran-backed Islamist
April 26, 2024
China has said it would "look into" appointing a senior official responsible for the fentanyl issue that has become a major sticking point in U.S.-China
April 26, 2024
The leaders of the United States, Britain, France and Germany are expected to discuss the situation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories on Monday evening, German Chancellor
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed U.S. support for Israel in a call with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, the State Department said in a statement early Tuesday.
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that at least 11 American citizens were among those killed in Israel following the weekend's attacks by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
April 26, 2024
Russia may be paving the way to conduct a nuclear test, a move that would sharply raise tensions with the West and likely prompt other world powers to resume
April 26, 2024
When China announced a surprise deal restoring ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran this year, it signalled Beijing's
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
A submarine arms race is intensifying as China embarks on production of a new generation of nuclear-armed submarines that for the first time are expected to pose a
April 26, 2024
The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said,
April 26, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is due to meet on Sunday after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched the biggest attack on Israel in years on Saturday, diplomats said. U.N.
April 26, 2024
Britain on Friday reaffirmed its position that all countries should respect sovereignty and the rule of law, after reports said that India had asked Canada to withdraw 41 diplomats.
April 26, 2024
Turkish forces have "neutralised" at least 14 Kurdish militants in northern Syria in overnight attacks on militant targets, the Defence Ministry said on Saturday, as conflict in the
April 26, 2024
Major international air carriers suspended or scaled back flights to or from Tel Aviv after a surprise attack by Hamas militants on
April 26, 2024
Poland's military security depends on its own army and on an alliance with the United States, deputy prime minister and ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday there was a need to intensify diplomatic efforts to prevent escalating Israel-Palestinian violence with "dangerous repercussions" for the
April 26, 2024
Israel's ambassador to the United Nations on Sunday accused Palestinian Islamist group Hamas of committing war crimes, vowing that it was time to "obliterate"
April 26, 2024
Israel told the United Nations Security Council on Saturday that Palestinian Islamist group Hamas "holds the sole responsibility and will bear the results" of its attack on the country.
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, CNN reported. U.S.
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
Despite a planned increase in deportation flights from the U.S. in an attempt to stem growing numbers of migrants arriving through the border with Mexico,
April 26, 2024
Arab League Chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit headed to Moscow on Sunday for talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the situation in Gaza after Palestinian Islamist group Hamas
April 26, 2024
When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at
April 26, 2024
The U.S. government does not want to build new sections of wall on its border with Mexico, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday, expressing doubt that
April 26, 2024
The U.S. Commerce Department said Friday it is adding 42 Chinese companies to a government export control list over support for Russia’s military and defense industrial base.
April 26, 2024
Taiwan has shown it is already independent and sovereign by electing its own president and has no need for a separate declaration of independence, the frontrunner to be the island's
April 26, 2024
Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a
April 26, 2024
Russia exchanged views with the United States and the European Union on the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh ahead of the lightning military operation by Azerbaijan last month, Russian
April 26, 2024
Russia unleashed new air strikes on Ukraine early on Friday, killing a 10-year-old boy in the northeastern city of Kharkiv and damaging grain and port
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated his position that Russia did not start the war in Ukraine but launched what it calls a "special military operation" to try to stop it.
April 26, 2024
The head of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) said on Friday that for Russia to consider pulling out of the treaty would be "
April 26, 2024
Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday "for his innovative plays and prose which give
April 26, 2024
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi said in a statement to the New York Times on Friday that global support and recognition of her human rights advocacy makes her "more
April 26, 2024
Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms
April 26, 2024
Mexico's national migration institute (INM) on Friday said it has asked the foreign ministry to make diplomatic arrangements with Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Nicaragua and
April 26, 2024
The aim of revoking Russia's ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) would be to place it on level terms with the United States, not to signal an intention
April 26, 2024
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier will meet Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns on Friday during his surprise trip to Washington to hold talks with U.S.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia has successfully tested its new Burevestnik missile.
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday declined to rule out that Russia might resume nuclear testing, saying it could withdraw ratification of a landmark nuclear
April 26, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held out the possibility that Russia could resume nuclear testing for the first time in over three decades, withdrawing its ratification of a
April 26, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told more than 40 European leaders gathered in Spain he was confident of America's continued support, and asked for their continued assistance
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis on Wednesday appealed to climate change deniers and foot-dragging politicians to have a change of heart, saying they cannot gloss over its
April 26, 2024
China plans to expand its space station to six modules from three in coming years, offering astronauts from other nations an alternative platform for near-Earth missions as the
April 26, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said it is possible that he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping next month in San Francisco but nothing has been set up yet.
April 26, 2024
Early in the Biden administration, U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States is resuming food aid to refugees in Ethiopia after assistance was paused earlier this year because donations were being diverted, a senior U.S.
April 26, 2024
A 45-day stopgap measure passed by the U.S.
April 26, 2024
A former gang member charged in the 1996 murder of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur made his first appearance in a Las Vegas court on Wednesday and was granted a two-week delay to
April 26, 2024
Trucks attempting to enter the United States from Mexico queued for miles on Wednesday amid delays related to record migration at the
April 26, 2024
President Joe Biden expressed fears on Wednesday that U.S. aid to Ukraine could be hurt by congressional chaos and said he will give a major speech soon to make
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a speech released on Sunday that nothing would weaken his country's fight against Russia, a day after the U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Ukrainian victory in the war with Russia depends on cooperation with the European Union, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told EU foreign ministers gathered in Kyiv on Monday.
April 26, 2024
The U.S.
April 26, 2024
The new head of the UN migration agency on Monday voiced concern that the deaths of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean were being "normalised" and vowed to work with
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's parliament and its speaker taunted billionaire Elon Musk on Monday after he posted a meme on his social media platform mocking President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's pleas for
April 26, 2024
Ukraine's top diplomat said on Monday Washington's support for Kyiv was not weakening, and played down the significance of a stopgap funding bill passed by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Forces from Manila, Britain, Canada, Japan and the United States kicked off on Monday two weeks of joint naval exercises in Philippine waters as a "show of force", amid flaring
April 26, 2024
North Korea on Monday denounced the U.N. atomic watchdog for joining a U.S.-led pressure campaign and "cooking up" a resolution over its nuclear programmes, calling
April 26, 2024
Live Aid, the transatlantic concert that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia, is being turned
April 26, 2024
The Kremlin said on Monday it believed a decision by U.S.
April 26, 2024
Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries enabling the development of COVID-19 vaccines, the award-giving
April 26, 2024
France started vaccinating ducks against bird flu on Monday to try and stem the virus that killed millions of birds around the world, a move that prompted the United States to impose
April 26, 2024
The Nobel prizes, arguably the world's most prestigious awards, are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday.
April 26, 2024
EU foreign ministers held their first ever meeting outside the bloc in Ukraine on Monday, a show of support for the country after a pro-Russian candidate won an
April 26, 2024
Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024
China hopes the United States will "do more things" conducive to Sino-U.S. dialogue, the foreign ministry said on Monday, days after Washington angered Beijing with accusations of
April 26, 2024
British defence minister Grant Shapps said he believed that the United States and Poland would maintain their strong support for Ukraine despite domestic pressures
April 26, 2024
The United States, Britain, Norway and Germany plan to submit a motion to the U.N. rights body to set up an investigation into alleged atrocities in Sudan, a draft motion showed on
April 26, 2024
The United States is monitoring a troubling Serbian military deployment along the border of Kosovo that is destabilizing the area, the White House said on Friday and called for
April 26, 2024
The United States on Friday condemned a reported life sentence handed down in China to a high-profile Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut.
April 26, 2024
The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he had asked the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Specialists will arrive in Ukraine in the near future to draw up plans to establish production of military equipment including air defences, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff
April 26, 2024
Pope Francis on Saturday further cemented his legacy, elevating 21 prelates to the high rank of cardinal and significantly raising the percentage of
April 26, 2024
Torrential downpours after a week of mostly steady rainfall that brought flash flooding to New York City on Friday was an impact of climate change and likely reflects a "
April 26, 2024
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday he was confident that Poland will find ways to address disagreements with Ukraine without impacting military support for
April 26, 2024
The Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Migrants were stranded in Mexico on Friday miles from the U.S. border after the freight train they were traveling on top of abruptly stopped, amid the ongoing
April 26, 2024
There has been a "crisis" at the U.S.-Mexico border, Mexican Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said at a press conference on Friday in Washington, speaking alongside senior
April 26, 2024
Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial integrity.
April 26, 2024
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday there was a "climate of violence" and an "atmosphere of intimidation" against Indian diplomats
April 26, 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk waded into German politics on Friday, sharing the post of another account on his social media platform X that attacked the
April 26, 2024
U.S.
April 26, 2024
The United States on Thursday will announce it has deployed a Disaster Assistance Response Team in the South Caucasus region to coordinate the U.S.
April 26, 2024
Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody and heading home after being
April 26, 2024
The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of those behind the killing of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, Secretary
April 26, 2024
Beijing and Washington are paving the way for Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the U.S., the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
April 26, 2024
The United States is backing a new undersea internet cable connecting several Pacific islands, according to a plan for the project seen by Reuters, boosting
April 26, 2024
Senior Biden administration officials arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday amid a humanitarian crisis and an exodus of tens of thousands of people after
April 26, 2024
China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the United States said on Thursday,
April 26, 2024
Ukrainian tank crews in the eastern front see the first delivery of U.S.
April 26, 2024
A Spanish court has ruled John McAfee died by suicide, a court document seen by Reuters showed on Friday, bringing to a close a probe about the death of the software entrepreneur.
April 26, 2024
Two senior U.S. and Chinese diplomats met in Washington and held what the U.S. side described as "candid, in-depth, and constructive consultation," the latest in a series of
April 26, 2024
Romania is moving air defences closer to its Danube villages across the river from Ukraine where Russian drones have been attacking grain facilities, and is adding
April 26, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin met Andrei Troshev, formerly a top Wagner mercenary commander, to discuss how voluntary fighting units are used in the Ukraine war, the Kremlin said
April 26, 2024
Senior U.S. officials said on Friday that a White House summit with a dozen Pacific Islands leaders this week was successful, and that Washington was listening to
April 26, 2024
The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data
April 26, 2024
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's new chairman on Thursday said he would look at Turkey's $20 billion Lockheed Martin F-16 fighter jet deal and that
April 26, 2024
The tentative deal Hollywood writers reached with the major studios and streaming services could serve as a template for actors, who have
April 26, 2024
Germany on Thursday signed a letter of commitment with Israel to buy its Arrow-3 missile defence system for nearly 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion), the defence ministers of the two
April 26, 2024
Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody after North Korea expelled him into China, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, following rare
April 26, 2024
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here are some past winners - and one person who did not but should have.
April 26, 2024
The winner of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Oct. 6 in Oslo. Here is a look at how the award works: WHO CAN WIN?
April 26, 2024
The Nobel prizes, arguably the world's most prestigious awards, are to be announced this week, starting with the award for medicine or physiology on Monday.
April 26, 2024
Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a military pact requiring the United States to defend the kingdom in return for
April 26, 2024
Kosovo's president Vjosa Osmani has accused Serbia and its president Aleksandar Vucic of being behind a shootout between armed men and Kosovar police in the north
April 26, 2024
Billionaire Elon Musk waded into the U.S. immigration debate on Thursday, paying a visit to the Texas border with Mexico to meet with local politicians
April 26, 2024
China's ambassador to the United States said the Biden administration could help restore fraught relations by starting with "practical" steps, such as renewing a decades-old pact
April 26, 2024
Guatemalan prosecutors have raided the offices of the charity Save the Children, citing a complaint alleging the violation of migrant children’s rights
April 26, 2024
The University of Southern California's decision to cancel its main graduation ceremony has left students and alumni stunned as protests spread on campuses nationwide
April 25, 2024
Harvey Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer who transformed the independent film world with Oscar-winning movies such as "Shakespeare in Love" and "The English Patient," was convicted
April 25, 2024
U.S. officials say the Pentagon is expected to announce that it will provide about $6 billion in long-term military aid to Ukraine
April 25, 2024
Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia
April 25, 2024
During arguments before the U.S.
April 25, 2024
The Palestinian militant group Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one
April 25, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 25, 2024
When the U.S.
April 25, 2024
Haiti's transition council took power in a ceremony on Thursday, formalizing the resignation of former Prime Minster Ariel Henry as the Caribbean country seeks to establish
April 25, 2024
The United States could announce as soon as Friday new weapons purchases for Ukraine worth $6 billion, a U.S. official said on Thursday.
April 25, 2024
The United States hopes its new deliveries of weaponry will help Ukraine rebuild defenses and refit its forces as it recovers from a gap in U.S.
April 25, 2024
Special anti-terrorism measures being put in place to safeguard the unprecedented opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics on the River Seine will also apply to all buildings along the route
April 25, 2024
Two U.S. officials say the United States will pull the majority of its troops from Chad and Niger as it works to restore key agreements governing what role there might be for the American military and its counterterrorism operations
April 25, 2024
Organizers behind the "uncommitted" political movement against President Joe Biden's staunch support for Israel's war against Hamas will travel to the University
April 25, 2024
United Methodist delegates have overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment seen by advocates as a way of defusing debates over the role of LGBTQ people in the church
April 25, 2024
Thousands of Indigenous people, frustrated with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, are marching in Brazil's capital to demand official recognition of lands they live on
April 25, 2024
Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of southeastern Myanmar's frontier town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling junta and rebels jostle for control of the outpost
April 25, 2024
Even amid war, Ukraine finds time for the glittery, pop-filled Eurovision Song Contest
April 25, 2024
TikTok is gearing up for a legal fight against a U.S. law that would force the social media platform to break ties with its China-based parent company or face a ban
April 25, 2024
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April 25, 2024
Renewed clashes between police and students opposed to Israel's war in Gaza broke out on Thursday, raising questions about forceful methods
April 25, 2024
A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings
April 25, 2024
Burkina Faso's military in February summarily executed about 223 villagers, including at least 56 children, as part of a campaign against civilians accused of collaborating with
April 25, 2024
A new port is being built in the Gaza Strip ahead of a U.S. military-led operation to bring more desperately needed food and other aid into the besieged enclave as Israel’s war on Hamas grinds on
April 25, 2024
A U.S. citizen arrested on drug charges in Moscow amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions has appeared in court and had his case adjourned until mid-May
April 25, 2024
Authorities in Finland say a Chinese container ship remains the focus of an investigation into what caused damage last year to a Baltic Sea gas pipeline between NATO members Finland and Estonia
April 25, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reminded prosecutors that seizing assets and turning them over to state ownership is only justified in cases where failing to act might
April 25, 2024
Congo’s government is questioning Apple about the tech company’s knowledge of “blood minerals” from a conflict zone in the African country that could be smuggled into supply chains
April 25, 2024
Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has left Spain in suspense after announcing he may step down because of what he called an “unprecedented” smear campaign against his wife
April 25, 2024
The iconic windmill sails of the Moulin Rouge, a vibrant emblem of Paris’s bohemian lifestyle, has collapsed after a show
April 25, 2024
Ariel Henry has resigned as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power
April 25, 2024
Tanzania's prime minister says flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others
April 25, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday appointed Lise Grande as the new special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues, the State Department said in a statement.
April 25, 2024
China launched a three-member crew to its orbiting space station as part of its ambitious program that aims to put astronauts on the moon by 2030
April 25, 2024
Israel stepped up airstrikes on Rafah overnight after saying it would evacuate civilians from the southern Gazan city and launch an all-out assault despite allies
April 25, 2024
A rapper in Iran who came to fame over his lyrics about the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini and criticizing the Islamic Republic has been reportedly sentenced to death
April 25, 2024
Sweden will move ahead with plans to send troops to Latvia as part of NATO's deployment in the Baltic countries, which share land borders with Russia and its ally Belarus,
April 25, 2024
A Palestinian civil defence team on Thursday called on the United Nations to investigate what it said were war crimes at a Gaza hospital, saying nearly 400 bodies were
April 25, 2024
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister has called for right-wing forces to take power in upcoming European and U.S. elections, and expressed support for former President Donald Trump in his ongoing criminal trial
April 25, 2024
A Moscow court has imposed a 50,000-ruble ($560) fine on a TV presenter and actress who gained notoriety for hosting an “almost naked” party, saying her social media posts calling for peace discredited the military
April 25, 2024
Democratic Republic of Congo is pushing Apple Inc for more information about its supply chain over concerns it may be tainted with conflict minerals sourced from the country,
April 25, 2024
Indonesian president elect Prabowo Subianto received a boost on Thursday after a prominent political party that backed another candidate pledged its support for his administration,
April 25, 2024
Lawyers for Ryan Corbett, an American held by the Taliban for nearly two years without charge, on Thursday sought U.N. help to secure his immediate release,
April 25, 2024
Scotland’s leader is facing a potential battle for survival after ending a three-year power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Green Party following a clash over climate change policies
April 25, 2024
Ukraine is scrambling to get much-needed new supplies of weapons and ammunition from a huge U.S. aid package to its eastern front line
April 25, 2024
A top European Union top military officer says a frigate that’s part of an EU miliary mission in the Red Sea to protect merchant shipping has destroyed a drone launched from an area in Yemen controlled by Houthi rebels
April 25, 2024
Lawyers for an American believed to be held by the Taliban for nearly two years are asking a United Nations human rights investigator to intervene, citing what they call cruel and inhumane treatment
April 25, 2024
A U.K. government official says two riderless military horses that bolted and ran miles through the streets of London after being spooked by construction noise are in serious condition after undergoing operations
April 25, 2024
British police said on Thursday they had arrested an additional individual over the deaths of five migrants, including a child, who died attempting to cross the Channel from France
April 25, 2024
A court in Turkey sentenced nine rail officials to more than 108 years’ imprisonment over a crash six years ago that killed 25 people, local media reported on Thursday
April 25, 2024
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April 25, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that deliveries of U.S. long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to Ukraine would not change the outcome of the war but would create more
April 25, 2024
At least 118 inmates escaped from prison after heavy rains on Wednesday night damaged the facility in Suleja near the Nigerian capital, a prison
April 25, 2024
Italy is marking its liberation from Nazi occupation and fascist rule amid a fresh media controversy over the legacy of Italian fascist complicity in the Holocaust and World War II-era crimes
April 25, 2024
A ship traveling in the Gulf of Aden has come under attack, the latest assault likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels over Israel’s ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
April 25, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to outline his vision for Europe to become a more assertive global power at the backdrop of war in Ukraine and other security and economic challenges in a speech on Thursday, ahead of pivotal European Parliament elections in June
April 25, 2024
Moscow's court service says a third man has been detained in a major bribery case involving one of Russian's most senior defense officials
April 25, 2024
Venezuela’s government has repeatedly broken its promise to provide vaccines against HPV for free, and many public-school teachers ignore the requirement to teach sex ed
April 25, 2024
Adrift on the Atlantic Ocean, the migrants from West Africa resorted to drinking seawater to quench their unbearable thirst.
April 25, 2024
India's Election Commission said on Thursday it has sought responses from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the opposition Congress on alleged violations of poll rules
April 25, 2024
Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip have killed at least five people
April 25, 2024
Global automakers and EV startups are unveiling new models and concept cars at China’s largest auto show, with a focus on the nation’s transformation into a major market and production base for digitally connected, new-energy vehicles
April 25, 2024
With graduations looming, student protesters continue to doubled down on their discontent of the Israel-Hamas war on campuses across the country as universities, including ones in California and Texas, have become quick to call in the police to end the demonstrations and make arrests
April 25, 2024
BHP Group said it made an offer to buy London-listed miner Anglo American, valuing its share capital at 31.1 billion pounds ($38.84 billion), a deal that would create the world's biggest
April 25, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower as investors look ahead to a flood of global earnings reports, including from U_S_ companies known as the “Magnificent Seven.”
April 25, 2024
A new report says nearly 282 million people in 59 countries suffered from acute hunger in 2023, with war-torn Gaza hosting the largest number of people facing famine
April 25, 2024
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told parliament on Thursday that the government wants to return to the group of countries which sets the agenda of the European Union
April 25, 2024
A strong showing by North Macedonia's right-wing opposition in the first round of presidential elections bodes well for them in next month's
April 25, 2024
Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help
April 25, 2024
London-listed miner Anglo American said on Thursday it had received an all-share buyout proposal from BHP Group, a deal that would make the world's biggest listed miner also the
April 25, 2024
China defended the veracity of its economic numbers and asserted its military spending was "transparent and reasonable", while dismissing as "typical double standards"
April 25, 2024
A memorial at the National Cathedral in Washington will honor seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza earlier this month
April 25, 2024
Mercedes-Benz is planning to launch a luxury electric van for the Chinese market based on its VAN.EA platform, the head of the carmaker's vans division told German magazine
April 25, 2024
The fragile lagoon city of Venice launches a pilot program Thursday to charge day-trippers a 5-euro entry fee that authorities hope will discourage visitors from arriving on peak days and make the city more livable for its dwindling residents
April 25, 2024
The number of births in the United States fell by 2% in 2023 from the previous year, driven in part by a marked birth rate decline among older teenagers and women
April 25, 2024
Military vehicles and red carnations return to the streets and squares of downtown Lisbon on Thursday as Portugal reenacts dramatic moments from the army coup that brought democracy 50 years ago
April 25, 2024
Human Rights Watch says military forces in Burkina Faso killed 223 civilians, including babies and many children, in attacks on two villages accused of cooperating with militants
April 25, 2024
A trial of a former government official charged with killing his wife has riveted Kazakhstan with lurid video of the attack, sparking a national conversation about domestic violence and leading to the government enacting a tougher law on spousal abuse
April 25, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker XPeng said on Thursday an ongoing European probe into Chinese-made EVs and regulatory changes could steer it to invest in plants or
April 25, 2024
Vietnamese billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong said on Thursday he planned to invest $1 billion more from his own fortune into Nasdaq-listed electric vehicle (EV) maker
April 25, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has opened his first full day of meetings in China by talking with local government officials in Shanghai
April 25, 2024
Mercedes-Benz executives said on Thursday the company would continue to invest in tie-ups with Chinese partners including automaker BAIC Group, underscoring the
April 25, 2024
Oil prices settled higher on Thursday on worries of supply disruptions in Middle East supply as Israel stepped up airstrikes on Gaza's Rafah and on the U.S.
April 24, 2024
Tens of thousands of people marched through Lisbon on Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Portugal's "Carnation Revolution" that
April 24, 2024
North Korea will take more action to maintain its military power despite U.S. sanctions pressure that has only made the country stronger, a North Korean foreign ministry official
April 24, 2024
A top U.S. military official says there's been no final decision on whether or not all U.S. troops will leave Niger and Chad
April 24, 2024
Chinese EV maker BYD will showcase its premium brand's first sedan at the Beijing auto show from Thursday, in a challenge to the likes of Germany's Mercedes-Benz which three years
April 24, 2024
A former senior U.S. official who until recently helped oversee human-rights compliance by foreign militaries receiving American military assistance says he repeatedly observed Israel receiving “special treatment” from U.S. officials when it came to scrutiny of allegations of military abuses of Palestinian civilians
April 24, 2024
BHP Group bid $38.8 billion for Anglo American on Thursday, offering a deal to forge the world's biggest copper miner
April 24, 2024
Walmart's Mexico and Central America unit posted a 14.4% year-on-year rise in first-quarter net profit on Wednesday, fueled by strong sales across its markets which it
April 24, 2024
President Joe Biden has met at the White House with Abigail Edan, the 4-year-old American girl who was held hostage in Gaza for several weeks at the start of Israel's war with Hamas
April 24, 2024
Hamas has released a hostage video showing a well-known Israeli-American who was among scores of people abducted by the militants in the attack that ignited the war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
The big U.S. aid package for Ukraine and other allies that President Joe Biden signed Wednesday also allows the administration to seize Russian state assets located in the U.S. and use them for the benefit of Kyiv
April 24, 2024
Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state
April 24, 2024
Rwanda says it’s ready to receive migrants from the United Kingdom after British Parliament this week approved a long-stalled bill seeking to stem the tide of people crossing the English Channel in small boats by deporting some of them to the East African country
April 24, 2024
A Chinese music student was sentenced on Wednesday to nine months in a U.S. prison for harassing an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in
April 24, 2024
Providing Ukraine with weapons and other U.S. aid as it fends off a Russian invasion is rooted in the earliest and most formative political memories of the two top Republicans in Congress
April 24, 2024
Donald Payne Jr., a Democrat in the U.S.
April 24, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday "more has to be done" to stop pro-Palestinian protests that have spread across U.S. campuses in recent weeks.
April 24, 2024
Cuba apologized to Canada on Wednesday after authorities accidentally delivered the remains of another man to a Canadian family grieving the loss of a loved one who died while
April 24, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution calling on all nations to prevent a dangerous nuclear arms race in outer space
April 24, 2024
British army veteran Bill Gladden, who survived a glider landing on D-Day and a bullet that tore through his ankle a few days later, wanted to return to France for the 80th anniversary of the invasion so he could honor the men who didn’t come home
April 24, 2024
U.S. officials say Ukraine for the first time has begun using long-range ballistic missiles, striking a Russian military airfield in Crimea and Russian troops in another occupied area overnight
April 24, 2024
The United States in recent weeks secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine for use in its battle to fight off Russian invaders, and Ukraine
April 24, 2024
Italy’s Ministry of Culture has banned art loans to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the United States following a long-running dispute over an ancient marble statue believed to have been looted from Italy almost a half-century ago
April 24, 2024
Guerrilla fighters from the main ethnic Karen fighting force battling Myanmar’s military government have withdrawn from the eastern border town of Myawaddy two weeks after forcing the army to give up its defense
April 24, 2024
Poland’s prosecutor general has told the parliament that powerful Pegasus spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in Poland
April 24, 2024
President Joe Biden secured another union's backing on Wednesday as the organization representing American construction workers lined up behind the Democratic
April 24, 2024
Former Mexico City mayor and ruling party candidate Claudia Sheinbaum increased her lead in the race for the presidency, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday, some 40 days
April 24, 2024
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has denied corruption allegations against his wife but says he will consider resigning after a judicial investigation was launched into accusations by a right-wing legal platform that she used her position to influence business deals
April 24, 2024
The head of the Paris airports operator says skies over the French capital will be closed completely for six hours as part of the massive security operation for the July 26 opening ceremony of the Olympic Games
April 24, 2024
Three ministers from the largest party in Poland's government will stand in European parliament elections, officials said, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk urged Poles to vote in a
April 24, 2024
Columbia University students heckled U.S.
April 24, 2024
British competition regulators say they’ll scrutinize recent artificial intelligence deals by Microsoft and Amazon over concerns that the moves could thwart competition in the AI industry
April 24, 2024
Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said on Wednesday he is committed to carrying out a transition that will allow exiled people to return to the
April 24, 2024
Police in the U.K. say a teenage girl has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after stabbing a student and two teachers at a secondary school in Wales
April 24, 2024
A warship — part of a U.S.-led coalition protecting shipping in the Mideast — intercepted an anti-ship ballistic missile fired over the Gulf of Aden
April 24, 2024
Greece’s parliamentary speaker says he will seek criminal charges against a lawmaker who allegedly punched a colleague during a debate
April 24, 2024
Tech giant Cisco Systems has joined Microsoft and IBM in signing onto a Vatican-sponsored pledge to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
April 24, 2024
Japan Airlines will continue using both Airbus and Boeing aircraft, President Mitsuko Tottori said on Wednesday.
April 24, 2024
The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny
April 24, 2024
Jordan's independent electoral commission on Wednesday set Sept. 10 as the date for a parliamentary election after King Abdullah said earlier he hoped the polls
April 24, 2024
Donald Trump's attorney Todd Blanche took a risk giving up a plush career at a New York law firm to become the first attorney in history to
April 24, 2024
Authorities in Europe have recovered bodies of people who attempted to migrate across both the English Channel and the Mediterranean Sea this week
April 24, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York on criminal charges of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money
April 24, 2024
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April 24, 2024
The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way to President Biden for his signature
April 24, 2024
Russia will need to push Ukrainian forces further back and expand what it regards as a "buffer zone" if Kyiv takes delivery of advanced longer-range ATACM guided missile systems from
April 24, 2024
Foreign automakers have been caught flat-footed in China by an electric vehicle boom that has shaken up the market over the last three years
April 24, 2024
London police say they have contained two horses that were seen running around loose without riders in the heart of the capital
April 24, 2024
Ukrainian officials are expressing thanks for a fresh batch of U.S. military aid that threw Kyiv’s armed forces a lifeline in their war with Russia, even though the vital new supplies aren’t expected to have an immediate impact on the battlefield
April 24, 2024
A Russian court has ordered the seizure of funds in JPMorgan Chase bank accounts in Russia, court filings showed on Wednesday, in a lawsuit filed by state-owned bank VTB as it seeks
April 24, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a critical trip to China armed with a strengthened diplomatic hand following Senate approval of a foreign aid package that will provide billions of dollars in assistance to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan as well as force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform -– all areas of contention between Washington and Beijing
April 24, 2024
President Joe Biden signed a hard-fought bill into law on Wednesday that provides billions of dollars of new U.S. aid to Ukraine for its war
April 24, 2024
President Joe Biden has reached the end of a long, painful battle with Republicans to secure urgently needed replenishment of aid for Ukraine
April 24, 2024
A prominent German far-right lawmaker says he will dismiss an assistant who was arrested on suspicion of spying for China, but will remain the Alternative for Germany party’s top candidate in the upcoming European Parliament elections
April 24, 2024
A top Russian military official arrested on suspicion of accepting a bribe has been sent to pre-trial detention after appearing before a court in central Moscow
April 24, 2024
China blasted the latest package of U_S_ military assistance to Taiwan, saying such funding was pushing the self-governing island republic into a “dangerous situation.”
April 24, 2024
Sweden said it plans to host a dazzling Eurovision Song Contest, watched by 200 million people worldwide, but visitors face heightened security
April 24, 2024
China’s space agency is making final preparations to send the Shenzhou-18 crew into low-Earth orbit on Thursday as part of its ambitious space program that aims to put people on the moon by 2030
April 24, 2024
Asian shares have tracked Wall Street's rally, led by a 2.4% advance for Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index
April 24, 2024
Germany said that it plans to follow several other countries in resuming cooperation with the U.N. relief agency for Palestinians in Gaza after the publication of an independent review of its neutrality
April 24, 2024
Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 24, 2024
Israel's military is poised to evacuate Palestinian civilians from Rafah and assault Hamas hold-outs in the southern Gaza Strip city, a senior Israeli defence
April 24, 2024
Germany said on Wednesday it would resume cooperation with the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), signalling a resumption of funding that was frozen after Israel accused
April 24, 2024
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto vowed on Wednesday to fight for all Indonesians and he called for unity among political elites to take the country
April 24, 2024
Iran is ready to strengthen ties with Sri Lanka and other Asian countries, its president, Ebrahim Raisi, said on Wednesday, during a short visit to the island
April 24, 2024
A new package of $61 billion in U.S. aid may prevent Ukraine from losing its war against Russia
April 24, 2024
Dozens of protestors have barricaded themselves inside two buildings on a Northern California campus in protest of Israel’s war with Hamas
April 24, 2024
Australian police say they have arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids around Sydney to protect the community from a potential attack
April 24, 2024
Japan’s first moon lander has survived a third freezing lunar night, Japan’s space agency said after receiving an image from the device three months after it landed on the moon
April 24, 2024
Hong Kong's bourse operator reported a 13% drop in first-quarter profit on Wednesday, as sluggish trading and muted listing activities weighed on its businesses.
April 24, 2024
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza
April 24, 2024
As Mexico’s drought drags on, angry subsistence farmers have begun taking direct action against thirsty avocado orchards and berry fields of commercial farms that are drying up streams in the mountains west of Mexico City
April 24, 2024
Presidential elections are being held in North Macedonia
April 24, 2024
The $95 billion foreign aid package approved by the U.S. Congress provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 24, 2024
Chinese tech company Huawei unveiled on Wednesday a new software brand for intelligent driving, marking its latest push to become a major player in the
April 24, 2024
Thailand's economy is projected to grow at a faster pace in 2024 than 2023 supported by private consumption and tourism, but uncertainties remain, minutes of the Bank of Thailand's
April 24, 2024
An Australian senator said on Wednesday that police feared Elon Musk's decision to ignore a regulator order and leave footage on his social media platform X of a
April 24, 2024
Haitian police deployed tear gas to move people back from a security perimeter around the National Palace while soldiers gripping rifles
April 23, 2024
Amnesty International says the world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar
April 23, 2024
A North Korean delegation led by the cabinet minister for international trade is visiting Iran, the North's official media said on Wednesday in a rare public report of an exchange
April 23, 2024
Former Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country's ruling party, met with Donald Trump on Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S. ally seeking to establish
April 23, 2024
Elon Musk's X appealed the dismissal of its lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate, which faulted him for letting hate speech spread on the social media platform
April 23, 2024
The United Nations is calling for “a clear, transparent and credible investigation” of mass graves uncovered at two major hospitals in war-torn Gaza that were raided by Israeli troops
April 23, 2024
The United States and Russia are set to face off over nuclear weapons in space on Wednesday at the United Nations Security
April 23, 2024
A worsening budget crisis at Argentina's public universities is sending thousands of protestors into the streets as libertarian President Javier Milei pushes ahead with radical austerity measures
April 23, 2024
Recently, an event occurred at NYU that descended into chaos: a pro-Palestine rally erupted in the vicinity of the business school. Hundreds of enraged professors and students are taking to the streets in support of the Palestinian cause. Initially, the atmosphere was harmonious, as individuals carried signs and engaged in chanting to denounce Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. However, as more individuals passed by, the atmosphere changed and counter-protesters began to applaud in response. At that juncture, the po-po was compelled to implement some restraints. At least six demonstrators reportedly received handcuffs for failing to disperse when officers instructed them to
April 23, 2024Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Tuesday he hopes to present a new fund aimed at boosting the lower pensions in the system on May 1, a month ahead of
April 23, 2024
Officials say a large alligator that made its way onto the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been captured and moved to a nearby river
April 23, 2024
A transitional council charged with selecting a new prime minister and Cabinet for Haiti is demanding that its members be sworn in at the National Palace, raising concerns about their safety
April 23, 2024
Student protests in the U.S. over the war in Gaza have intensified and expanded over the past week, with a number of encampments now in place at colleges including Columbia, Yale, and New
April 23, 2024
Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, some of which included Jewish Passover
April 23, 2024
Skies over southern Greece have turned an orange hue as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks
April 23, 2024
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man and wounded two people including a child during raids in the occupied West Bank city of Jericho and adjacent refugee camps, Palestinian
April 23, 2024
The administration of U.S.
April 23, 2024
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April 23, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Finance Minister Christian Lindner both expressed scepticism on Tuesday about reforming the country's 'debt
April 23, 2024
GoFundMe is expanding into Mexico, the company announced Tuesday
April 23, 2024
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer
April 23, 2024
Moroccan officials are aiming to turn the country into an aviation hub, luring investors aiming to spread out their supply chains to more nations with available and affordable workers
April 23, 2024
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June
April 23, 2024
A group of 22 states led by California and five cities are backing the U.S.
April 23, 2024
Sales of new U.S. single-family homes rebounded in March from February's downwardly revised level, drawing support from a persistent shortage of previously
April 23, 2024
Thousands of United Methodists are gathering Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin an 11-day denominational General Conference
April 23, 2024
An Israeli attack on Iranian territory could radically change dynamics and result in there being nothing left of the "Zionist regime", Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi was quoted as
April 23, 2024
Russian troops will strike in unexpected parts of the front when they conduct their summer offensive in Ukraine and could try to advance on the northeastern city of Kharkiv, the commander
April 23, 2024
The European Parliament approved rules on Tuesday to ban in the EU the sale, import and export of goods made using forced labour.
April 23, 2024
Dams holding vast amounts of uranium mine tailings above the fertile Fergana valley in Central Asia are unstable, threatening a possible Chernobyl-scale nuclear
April 23, 2024
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right-led government has scored a victory with the Senate approving a law allowing anti-abortion groups access to women considering ending their pregnancies
April 23, 2024
One of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party has said at his trial on charges of using a Nazi slogan that he is “completely innocent.”
April 23, 2024
European Union voters are set to be bombarded with lies and disinformation from outside and within the bloc in the June election for the new European
April 23, 2024
Columbia University’s main campus will switch to hybrid learning for the rest of the semester amid protests over Israel’s war with Hamas that have roiled colleges across the U.S. University officials announced the move late Monday after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia’s New York City campus were arrested last week
April 23, 2024
The U.K. has pledged an additional $620 million in new military supplies for Ukraine, including long-range missiles and four millions rounds of ammunition
April 23, 2024
Thailand's cabinet on Tuesday approved a plan to select a new slate of senators who will no longer be allowed to vote on who becomes prime minister, removing what has effectively
April 23, 2024
Israeli strikes intensified across Gaza on Tuesday in some of the heaviest shelling in weeks, residents said, and the army ordered fresh evacuations in the north of the
April 23, 2024
The first witness in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified on Tuesday that
April 23, 2024
The U.S.
April 23, 2024
When Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's hush money trial began in a Manhattan courthouse on Monday, cable TV news coverage of the
April 23, 2024
A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the U.S.
April 23, 2024
French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River
April 23, 2024
Britain’s plans to send some asylum-seekers to Rwanda were swiftly condemned by international humanitarian organizations after Parliament approved legislation allowing the deportation flights to begin later this year
April 23, 2024
President Joe Biden on Tuesday blamed his Republican opponent Donald Trump for new Florida abortion restrictions during a campaign stop in Tampa, as Democrats double
April 23, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a Russian missile strike that smashed a television tower in Kharkiv was part of the Kremlin’s ongoing effort to intimidate Ukraine’s second-largest city
April 23, 2024
At least 5 people have died while crossing the English Channel, according to French media, hours after the UK approved the migrant deportation bill
April 23, 2024
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed that nothing would prevent him from sending asylum seekers to Rwanda after parliament finally approved the divisive policy
April 23, 2024
A dollar surge propelled by a strong economy, sticky inflation and geopolitical tensions have unnerved policymakers from Tokyo to Beijing and
April 23, 2024
Five migrants, including a child, died in an attempt to cross the English Channel from France to Britain in an overcrowded
April 23, 2024
The European Central Bank will cut interest rates in June but needs to be very cautious about subsequent moves and take into account signals from the U.S.
April 23, 2024
German prosecutors say a man who works for a German lawmaker in the European Parliament has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China
April 23, 2024
Asian benchmarks are mostly higher after U.S. stocks clawed back some of their losses from last week
April 23, 2024
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press appear to show a new compound of tents being built near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military continues to signal it plans an offensive targeting the city of Rafah
April 23, 2024
An aide to a member of the European Parliament for the far-right Alternative for Germany has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of "especially
April 23, 2024
The same day Iran launched its first ever direct attack on Israel it embarked on a less-noticed confrontation at home, ordering police in several cities to take to
April 23, 2024
India’s main opposition party is accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of hate speech after he called Muslims “infiltrators” and used some of his most incendiary rhetoric to date about the minority faith
April 23, 2024
The 68th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden
April 23, 2024
Cuban writer Leonardo Padura has managed to turn his series of detective novels into a social and political chronicle of Cuba, especially his native Havana
April 23, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week
April 23, 2024
Far from the trenches, at orderly new centres across Ukraine, civilian recruiters armed with laptops and info packs offer patriotic volunteers
April 23, 2024
Thailand's 500 billion baht ($13.51 billion) "digital wallet" stimulus policy gained cabinet approval on Tuesday, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said, clearing another hurdle for
April 23, 2024
The Senate is returning to Washington to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine and Israel
April 23, 2024
Malaysia’s navy says two military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session, killing all 10 people on board
April 23, 2024
Thousands of negotiators and observers representing most of the world’s nations are gathering in the Canadian city of Ottawa this week to craft a treaty to end the rapidly escalating problem of plastic pollution
April 23, 2024
Tech billionaire Elon Musk has accused Australia of censorship after an Australian judge ruled that his social media platform X must block users worldwide from accessing video of a bishop being stabbed in a Sydney church
April 23, 2024
Life-saving medication and equipment is dwindling or altogether absent at hospitals and clinics across Haiti's capital as brutal gangs tighten their grip on Port-au-Prince and beyond
April 23, 2024
Two Malaysian navy helicopters collided in mid-air during a rehearsal for a naval parade on Tuesday, killing all 10 crew members aboard, the navy said in a statement.
April 23, 2024
Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine that injured nine people in the Black Sea port of Odesa, four of them children, and also targeted Kyiv, the capital, Ukraine's military officials
April 23, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin on Tuesday said he had asked the country's four largest lenders to lower interest rates to help small businesses and the economy.
April 23, 2024
A report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for U.S. companies operating in China
April 23, 2024
Vietnam aims to transform its rice sector, making it more resilient to climate change while also reducing its emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide
April 23, 2024
The Bank of Japan will raise interest rates again if trend inflation accelerates toward its 2% target as expected, governor Kazuo Ueda said, keeping alive market
April 23, 2024
Argentine President Javier Milei boasted on Monday that his government is successfully taming profligate public spending, touting a rare first quarter surplus that he argues
April 23, 2024
Taiwan's quake-hit eastern county of Hualien was rattled by more than 200 aftershocks late on Monday and early on Tuesday, but only minor damage was reported and no casualties and
April 22, 2024
Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said last week's meeting with his U.S. and South Korean counterparts has laid the groundwork for Tokyo to
April 22, 2024
Japan's factory activity contracted but approached the break-even point in April, a business survey showed on Tuesday, suggesting the key sector is finally picking up after months of
April 22, 2024
Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X take down footage of an alleged terrorist
April 22, 2024
Solomon Islands faces a nervous wait to establish a government as opposition parties vie with incumbent Prime Minister Manesseh Sogavare's OUR party to form a
April 22, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised salvo launches of the country’s “super-large” multiple rocket launchers that simulated a nuclear counterattack against enemy targets, state media said Tuesday, adding to his belligerent testing activities and threats that have raised tensions in the region
April 22, 2024
An independent panel reviewed the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees after Israel alleged that a dozen of its employees in Gaza had participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks
April 22, 2024
A Peruvian psychologist who suffered from an incurable disease that weakened her muscles and had her confined to her bed for several years, died by euthanasia, becoming the first person in the country to obtain the right to die with medical assistance
April 22, 2024
Haiti's capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid
April 22, 2024
From sunny shores to America’s heartland, discovering our nation’s diverse Asian American and Pacific Islander narratives is made richer through cultural landmarks. As Asian Americans travel across the United States, they uncover a rich tapestry of historical sites and cultural landmarks that bring their diverse narratives and experiences vividly to life. From coastal cities to the heartland, these powerful places allow visitors to connect with the struggles, triumphs, and resilience that have defined Asian American and Pacific Islander communities for generations. Whether exploring an abandoned rural Chinatown, a serene Japanese garden, or an ancient Native Hawaiian village, Asian Americans Travel
April 22, 2024
North Korea carried out its first nuclear counterattack drills to simulate its "nuclear trigger" management system, guided by leader Kim Jong Un, as a clear warning to its enemies,
April 22, 2024
Panama recalled its ambassador to Nicaragua on Monday for consultations, citing the government's "energetic protest" against what it called the illegal protection afforded to a
April 22, 2024
A cluster of earthquakes has struck Taiwan, the strongest measuring 6.1 magnitude
April 22, 2024
Thousands of Indigenous people are gathering in Brazil's capial for what is expected to become a protest against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's unfulfilled promises to create reserves and expel illegal miners and land-grabbers from their territories
April 22, 2024
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing allies have kept control of the small southern region of Basilicata, election results on Monday showed, defeating their centre
April 22, 2024
Opening statements kicked off on Monday in the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump and the first prosecution witness, the former publisher of the
April 22, 2024
A new report finds that the Mexican government has largely abandoned protection and enforcement measures for loggerhead sea turtles
April 22, 2024
Beijing is continuing to commit genocide and crimes against humanity against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang province, U.S.
April 22, 2024
President Joe Biden has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the U.S. will send badly needed air defense weaponry once the Senate approves a massive national security aid package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine
April 22, 2024
A lawyer for a military contractor being sued by three survivors of the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq says the plaintiffs are suing the wrong people
April 22, 2024
In the two years before the World Anti-Doping Agency cleared 23 Chinese swimmers of doping allegations, that country’s government contributed nearly $2 million in additional funding to WADA programs, including one designed to strengthen the agency’s investigations and intelligence unit
April 22, 2024
An independent review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees has found that Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it has received annually since 2011
April 22, 2024
Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa said on Monday his party, which is now in opposition, will support security measures widely backed by voters in a
April 22, 2024
Former JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes has been named as the new head of Airbus' operations in North America, the European planemaker said Monday.
April 22, 2024
The European Union is demanding TikTok provide more information about a new app that pays users to watch videos and warned that it could order the video sharing platform to suspend addictive features that pose a risk to kids
April 22, 2024
Brazil's central bank governor reiterated on Monday that significant uncertainties made it difficult to provide guidance on monetary policy, indicating policymakers are no longer
April 22, 2024
Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country's ruling party, will meet Donald Trump on Tuesday, a
April 22, 2024
The European Space Agency has added five new members to its astronaut corps
April 22, 2024
An independent Russian news site has reported that a court in Russia convicted the spokesperson of U.S. technology company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, of justifying terrorism and sentenced him to six years in prison in absentia
April 22, 2024
The Supreme Court is allowing a soccer promoter’s antitrust lawsuit to go forward against FIFA and the U.S. Soccer Federation over the world governing body’s policy of not permitting a country to host league matches involving teams from other countries
April 22, 2024
The U.S.
April 22, 2024
Israel expects its top ally, the United States, to announce that it’s blocking military aid to an Israeli army unit over gross human rights abuses in the Israeli-occupied West Bank before the war in Gaza began six months ago
April 22, 2024
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria faced two separate rocket and explosive drone attacks in less than 24 hours, Iraqi security sources and U.S. officials told Reuters on Monday, in the
April 22, 2024
Automotive seating supplier Adient plc on Monday said it was restructuring its Europe business by cutting jobs and transferring work to countries with lower labor expenses, in a bid to cut
April 22, 2024
Russians living in flood-hit areas have taken to social media to complain that local officials are doing too little to compensate them for lost property nearly
April 22, 2024
Russia will keep interest rates on hold at 16% for the third meeting running on Friday, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, with inflation's
April 22, 2024
A military court in Moscow on Monday sentenced Meta Platforms spokesperson Andy Stone to six years in prison for "publicly defending terrorism", a verdict handed down in absentia,
April 22, 2024
Police arrested dozens of people at pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Yale University in Connecticut and New York University in Manhattan on
April 22, 2024
Indonesia’s top court has rejected appeals by two losing presidential candidates who demanded a revote, alleging widespread irregularities and fraud in the February polls
April 22, 2024
By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president
April 22, 2024
Russia said on Monday its forces had taken control of Novomykhailivka in eastern Ukraine- the second advance Moscow has announced in two days - but Ukraine's military fighting there
April 22, 2024
Mexico's economy is set to grow steadily after June's presidential election, in line with a decent performance in the United States, while the fiscal front
April 22, 2024
European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems appear hesitant to give any to Ukraine
April 22, 2024
Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York has barely begun but one of the highest-profile court cases in U.S. history has already highlighted the challenges of
April 22, 2024
Indonesia reported a $4.47 billion trade surplus in March, data from the statistics bureau showed on Monday, larger than a forecast surplus of $1.13 billion in a Reuters poll as
April 22, 2024
Police say four Germans were caught laying white roses in memory of Adolf Hitler at the house where the Nazi dictator was born in western Austria on the anniversary of his birth, and one gave a Hitler salute as they posed for photos
April 22, 2024
More than 80 earthquakes, the strongest of 6.3 magnitude, struck Taiwan's east coast starting Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday and some caused shaking of buildings in
April 22, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged that the country’s first deportation flights could leave in 10-12 weeks as he promised to end the Parliamentary deadlock over the measure
April 22, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said relations with Iraq were entering a new phase after the neighbours agreed to cooperate against
April 22, 2024
Japan’s antitrust watchdog says U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo
April 22, 2024
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has criticized social media platform X for refusing to remove graphic posts about a knife attack on a bishop and priest in a Sydney church last week
April 22, 2024
Just a few years ago, lucrative business prospects in China on the back of a booming economy led to a scramble among Western financial firms, from
April 22, 2024
American and Filipino forces have launched their largest combat exercises in years in a show of allied firepower that will include joint sails with the French navy and a ship-sinking drill near the disputed South China Sea that has alarmed Beijing
April 22, 2024
The Israeli military say the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
April 22, 2024
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi and Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed on Monday to boost trade between the neighbouring nations to $10 billion a year, as Raisi
April 22, 2024
North Korean animators may have helped create popular television cartoons for big Western firms, including Amazon and HBO Max, despite international
April 22, 2024
Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has accused Joe Biden of disparaging the South Pacific island nation by implying that an uncle of the U.S. president had been eaten by “cannibals” there during World War II
April 22, 2024
Indonesian authorities reopened an international airport near a volcano that erupted last week as they lowered warnings
April 22, 2024
An Indonesian court on Monday rejected challenges from both losing candidates seeking a re-run of February's presidential election and the
April 22, 2024
Israeli police said a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem, wounding three people lightly
April 22, 2024
Global military expenditure grew 7% to $2.43 trillion in 2023, the steepest annual rise since 2009 as international peace and security deteriorated, a leading think-tank said on
April 22, 2024
Iranian and Pakistani leaders vowed to strengthen economic and security cooperation as the two countries seek to smooth over a diplomatic rift
April 22, 2024
Fashion retailer Express Inc has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States and intends to close more than 100 stores, it said on Monday.
April 22, 2024
The Solomon Islands election, watched by China and the U.S. for its impact on regional security, is shaping up as a tight race with opposition parties gaining seats and
April 22, 2024
South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast
April 22, 2024
One of China’s top military leaders has taken a harsh line on regional territorial disputes, telling an international naval gathering in northeastern China that the country would strike back with force if its interests came under threat
April 22, 2024
On April 30, the second phase of Britain's new post-Brexit border controls for food imports from the European Union will begin - three years after Britain left the
April 22, 2024
Bank Indonesia will cut its key interest rate next quarter and again in the fourth quarter, later than previously expected, as inflation rises and the rupiah
April 22, 2024
On a visit to China this week, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski said his focus will be on increasing agri-food exports to the world's second largest
April 22, 2024
Voters at some polling places in a northeastern Indian state went back to the polls amid tight security on Monday after violence disrupted the vote last week
April 22, 2024
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to make his first official visit to Iraq in more than a decade
April 22, 2024
Japan's defense ministry says an initial analysis of flight data recorders recovered from the crash of two Japanese navy helicopters showed no sign of mechanical problems, indicating likely human error
April 22, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland The relief rally spreading through Asian markets is set to sweep into Europe at the open, with the FTSE in particular set for
April 22, 2024
Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial in New York is set to feature a colorful cast of witnesses.
April 22, 2024
Approval by the U.S. House of Representatives of a $61 billion package for Ukraine puts the country a step closer to getting an infusion of new firepower
April 22, 2024
Donald Trump will be judged in his historic New York criminal trial by 12 jurors selected last week after a painstaking search for people who could be fair and impartial to
April 22, 2024
Markets in Asia apart from Shanghai’s are broadly higher, shrugging off the blues on Wall Street after big technology stocks logged their worst week since the COVID crash in 2020
April 22, 2024
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s political party has swept parliamentary elections in a strong endorsement of his pro-China foreign policy
April 22, 2024
The world’s top anti-doping regulator says after reviewing a documentary and other media reports that it stands by its decision to clear 23 Chinese swimmers to compete at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics despite testing positive for a banned heart medication
April 22, 2024
China remains committed to resolving maritime disputes with other countries through dialogue but will not allow itself to be "abused," a top military official
April 22, 2024
Two top climate monitoring organizations are reporting that Europe is the fastest-warming continent and its temperatures are rising at roughly twice the global average
April 22, 2024
Air New Zealand trimmed its annual earnings estimates on Monday, citing economic headwinds and a cost-of-living crisis leading to softer revenue in domestic and North
April 22, 2024
India's rupee and government bonds will move this week based on developments in the Middle East crisis as well as a key U.S. inflation gauge that
April 22, 2024
Nearly 17,000 Filipino and American troops kicked off a three-week joint combat training exercise in the Philippines on Monday that includes maritime drills in the South China Sea
April 21, 2024
Oil futures fell on Monday as traders focused on market fundamentals, seeing little near-term risk that the Middle East conflict would impact supply.
April 21, 2024
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his nation does not deserve to be labelled cannibals, and urged the U.S. to clear up the remnants of World War Two
April 21, 2024
Armed gangs launched fresh attacks on parts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince ahead of the installation of a transitional council set to usher in a new
April 21, 2024
Australia's treasurer warned on Monday that events in the Middle East are fueling concerns for the global economy and will shape the government's budget in May, with near-term
April 21, 2024
Prices of homes being sold in Britain are close to their record highs after the biggest annual increase in a year, according to an industry survey that suggested the momentum in the
April 21, 2024
The coalition ruling Spain's Basque Country looked set to stay in power as the conservative nationalists tied with their left-wing separatist rivals in Sunday's
April 21, 2024
Egypt welcomed home a 3,400-year-old statue depicting the head of King Ramses II after it was stolen and smuggled out of the country more than three decades ago, the country's
April 21, 2024
A court in Indonesia will on Monday deliver its verdict on two challenges to the outcome of February's presidential election, after losing candidates petitioned
April 21, 2024
Terry Anderson, a U.S. journalist who was held captive by Islamist militants for almost seven years in Lebanon and came to symbolize the plight of Western hostages during
April 21, 2024
Moldovan opposition parties denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu's drive to secure European Union membership said on Sunday they were forming an
April 21, 2024
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday rallied thousands of supporters in Rio de Janeiro in a bid to
April 21, 2024
Conservative Brazilians heaped praise on Elon Musk at a rally in the capital of Rio de Janeiro supporting far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro
April 21, 2024
Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it
April 21, 2024
Thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda
April 21, 2024
Tension in the Middle East is unlikely to drive up energy prices and should not affect the European Central Bank's plans to start cutting interest rates in June, French central bank
April 21, 2024
Tens of thousands of Colombians marched on Sunday to reject economic and social reforms being proposed by the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro, the
April 21, 2024
London’s police commissioner will meet with senior members of the Jewish community on Monday after the force bungled its apology for suggesting an “openly Jewish″ man’s presence along the route of a pro-Palestinian march risked provoking the demonstrators
April 21, 2024
Portuguese oil company Galp Energia said on Sunday it had concluded the first phase of exploration in the Mopane field off the coast of Namibia and estimated it
April 21, 2024
Officials say a race car veered off the track during a competition in Sri Lanka and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others
April 21, 2024
Chinese ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, who has served since 2019, has left his post and returned to China, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday, with the
April 21, 2024
Israeli leaders are harshly criticizing an expected decision by the U.S. to impose sanctions on a unit of ultra-Orthodox soldiers in the Israeli military
April 21, 2024
A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Paris against racism, Islamophobia and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed
April 21, 2024
Ghana's Finance Minister expects a draft Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) from the country's bilateral creditors in May on a restructuring deal, he
April 21, 2024
A British lawmaker who allegedly used campaign funds to pay off people who were holding him hostage says that he won't seek reelection after the governing Conservative Party found his behavior fell below the standard expected of members of Parliament
April 21, 2024
Tesla is cutting prices of some models in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, a spokesperson said on Sunday.
April 21, 2024
A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in
April 21, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he would fight against sanctions being imposed on any Israeli military units for alleged rights
April 21, 2024
Andrew Davis, an acclaimed British conductor who was music director of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on three continents, has died at age 80
April 21, 2024
Most Serbs in volatile north Kosovo boycotted a local referendum on Sunday on whether to remove ethnic Albanian mayors in four municipalities whose appointment led to violence
April 21, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday welcomed the passage of $60 billion in aid for Ukraine by the U.S.
April 21, 2024
Most stock markets in the Gulf were subdued on Sunday amid geopolitical strife and uncertainties surrounding U.S. Federal Reserve policy.
April 21, 2024
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has arrived in Cambodia for a three-day official visit to reaffirm ties with Beijing’s closest ally in Southeast Asia
April 21, 2024
Iran’s supreme leader has dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there
April 21, 2024
Israel's State Attorney on Sunday indicted the sister of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on charges of incitement and showing solidarity with a terror group, after she allegedly
April 21, 2024
Hundreds gathered on Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday evening, lighting candles as the sun set, to mourn the six people killed in a knife attack in the area's
April 21, 2024
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei thanked the country's armed forces for their attack this month on Israel, saying the country had demonstrated its power regardless of how many
April 21, 2024
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has won significant voter support for a raft of security measures he says will help him fight sharply increased crime, a quick
April 21, 2024
China's ambassador to the United States urged the two superpowers to cooperate on improving relations even as they "face severe challenges" on a range of issues.
April 21, 2024
Thin with a boyish face and earrings in both ears, 23-year-old Isayah Turner does not look like a stereotypical Trump supporter, who tend
April 21, 2024
Ukrainian and Western leaders have welcomed the passing of a desperately needed aid package for Ukraine by the U.S. House of Representatives
April 21, 2024
Israel's military said its soldiers opened fire at three Palestinians who attacked them on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, where
April 21, 2024
The Maldives' ruling party is set to win a two-thirds majority in Sunday's parliamentary election, local media said, a result likely to push the Indian Ocean island
April 21, 2024
Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13 people, including nine children
April 21, 2024
Residents of four Serb-majority municipalities have overwhelmingly boycotted a vote on removing their ethnic Albanian mayors from office following last year’s mayoral elections
April 21, 2024
The Israeli settlers who rampaged through the West Bank village of al-Mughayyer on April 12 came in greater numbers and carried more weapons than
April 21, 2024
Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to
April 21, 2024
Life in Port-au-Prince has become a game of survival, pushing Haitians to new limits as they scramble to stay safe and alive while gangs overwhelm the police and the government remains largely absent
April 21, 2024
Polish voters are casting ballots to chose mayors in hundreds of cities and towns where no candidate won outright in the first round of local election voting two weeks ago
April 21, 2024
Maldivians are voting in parliamentary elections, in a ballot crucial for President Mohamed Muizzu, whose policies are keenly watched by India and China as they vie for influence in the archipelago nation
April 21, 2024
Ecuadorians head to the polls in a referendum touted by the country’s fledgling leader as a way to crack down on criminal gangs behind a spiraling wave of violence
April 21, 2024
The Chinese Navy on Sunday kicked off a biennial meeting of top foreign naval officials in the port city of Qingdao, in a show of military diplomacy that will
April 21, 2024
Two Japanese navy helicopters crashed into the sea during a training exercise, killing at least one of the eight crew members on board, the defence minister said on Sunday.
April 21, 2024
Taiwan's military said on Sunday it will discuss with the United States how to use funding for Taipei included in a $95 billion legislative package mostly providing
April 20, 2024
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Saturday that U.S. House of Representatives' approval of security aid to Ukraine would lead to more damage and deaths in the conflict there.
April 20, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed gratitude on Saturday for the passage by the U.S.
April 20, 2024
The House's $95 billion foreign aid package provides military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenishes U.S. weapons systems and gives humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 20, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China this coming week as Washington and Beijing try to keep ties on an even keel despite major differences on a range of issue, from the Middle East to opioids
April 20, 2024
Japan’s Defense Minister says two Maritime Self Defense Force helicopters are believed to have crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during night-time training
April 20, 2024
An artisan roastery based in the Finnish capital has introduced a coffee blend that has been developed by artificial intelligence in a trial in which it’s hoped that technology can ease the workload in a sector that traditionally prides itself on manual work
April 20, 2024
Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in
April 20, 2024
U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no timeline
April 20, 2024
Tension between Israel and Iran should not distract from the situation in Gaza and the first priority of the international community should be ending the Israeli occupation of
April 20, 2024
A Pakistani province has issued a flood alert because of glacial melting and is warning of a heavy loss of life if timely safety measures aren't undertaken
April 20, 2024
Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year
April 20, 2024
Dubai's flagship carrier Emirates and sister airline flydubai have restored normal operations after heavy rains caused severe flooding across the United Arab Emirates earlier this
April 20, 2024
Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as
April 20, 2024
The U.S.
April 20, 2024
Gaza hospital officials say an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the territory's southernmost city of Rafah has killed at least nine people, six of them children
April 20, 2024
Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure
April 20, 2024
Officials in Thailand say about 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas
April 20, 2024
Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday, both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up
April 20, 2024
Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition
April 20, 2024
China's exports of gallium and germanium products in March declined from year-ago levels, customs data showed on Saturday, underlining the impact of export controls in place since
April 20, 2024
The House is preparing to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies
April 20, 2024
The Senate has voted to reauthorize a key U.S. surveillance law after divisions over whether the FBI should be restricted from using the program to search for Americans’ data nearly forced the statute to lapse
April 20, 2024
This month’s unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries
April 20, 2024
The public portion of a Panamanian trial of more than two-dozen associates accused of helping some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth has come to an unexpectedly speedy conclusion
April 20, 2024
The U.N. World Food Program has agreed to help deliver aid for the starving civilians of Gaza once the U.S. military completes a pier for transporting the humanitarian assistance by sea
April 19, 2024
Iran's foreign minister on Friday said Tehran was investigating an overnight attack on Iran, adding that so far a link to Israel had
April 19, 2024
Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout
April 19, 2024
On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
April 19, 2024
Staring down a decision so consequential it could alter the course of history -- but also end his own career -- House Speaker Mike Johnson prayed for guidance
April 19, 2024
A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 violations of Iran sanctions
April 19, 2024
An annual Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia's Djerba synagogue and celebration has been cancelled due to the war in Gaza, the head of the organising committee, Perez Trabelsi, told
April 19, 2024
Viewers don't have to be young or a parent to appreciate the Australian kids' television program “Bluey,” as this week’s release of a special episode proved
April 19, 2024
A person was covered in flames outside the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial is underway, CNN reported on Friday.
April 19, 2024
The man who will run this year’s United Nations climate talks in November views the upcoming negotiations as a key link in international efforts to curb worsening global warming — if they can be successful
April 19, 2024
South Korea's central bank chief on Friday said odds for any further policy action to stabilize the slumping Korean won now depend on how
April 19, 2024
The United Nations human rights chief called for countries to take concrete steps on reparations for people of African descent at a U.N. meeting on Friday, adding his
April 19, 2024
California prosecutors announced involuntary manslaughter charges against three police officers for the 2021 death of a man in their custody, reversing the outcome of a previous
April 19, 2024
The U.S.
April 19, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing the allies to give more Patriot missile batteries and other equipment to Ukraine
April 19, 2024
Prosecutors say 15 former British soldiers won’t face charges for perjury at an inquiry into Bloody Sunday, one of the deadliest days of the decades-long Northern Ireland conflict
April 19, 2024
Nearly two years after the shocking knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same
April 19, 2024
Donald Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a program on Friday to combat voter fraud in the lead-up to the November election, even as
April 19, 2024
Israel's apparent strike on Iran after days of vacillation was small and appeared calibrated to dial back risks of a
April 19, 2024
The House is preparing to push a $95 billion national security aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies closer to passage
April 19, 2024
Apple says it has removed Meta’s WhatsApp messaging app and its Threads social media app from the App Store in China on Beijing’s orders
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration is imposing sanctions on two entities accused of fundraising for extremist Israeli-occupied West Bank settlers who have harassed and attacked Palestinians
April 19, 2024
A UN report says drug seizures have soared in the West African Sahel region in recent years, indicating the conflict-ridden region is becoming an influential hotspot for trafficking
April 19, 2024
Group of Seven (G7) major powers pledged on Friday to bolster Ukraine's air defences to counter increasingly deadly Russian attacks and
April 19, 2024
French police on Friday arrested a man who had threatened to blow himself up at Iran's consulate in Paris, but on being searched was found not to be carrying any explosives.
April 19, 2024
Reports of an Israeli attack on Iranian soil that possibly drags the Middle East into a deeper conflict has jolted world markets with
April 19, 2024
A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to achieve a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon
April 19, 2024
The American envoy to the United Nations has called for countries armed with atomic weapons to pursue nuclear disarmament as she visited the atomic bomb museum in Nagasaki, Japan
April 19, 2024
The Pentagon could get weapons moving to Ukraine quickly if Congress passes a long-delayed aid bill because it has a network of storage sites in the U.S. and Europe
April 19, 2024
Group of Seven foreign ministers warned of new sanctions against Iran on Friday for its drone and missile attack on Israel, and urged both sides to avoid an escalation of the conflict
April 19, 2024
At Donald Trump's criminal trial, there is no dispute about a central underlying fact: the month before the 2016 presidential election, his personal lawyer and fixer
April 19, 2024
The head of the European Union’s executive branch says that Finland’s decision to close its border crossings with Russia over a surge in migrants was a security matter for the whole 27-member bloc to consider
April 19, 2024
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April 19, 2024
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that the country was ramping up manufacturing of tanks and heavy flamethrower systems, but more work was needed to increase
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration took steps on
April 19, 2024
An important ally of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif demanded the government lift a two-month-old ban on the social media platform X, saying it violates citizens’ right to speech and expression
April 19, 2024
More people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island are being evacuated
April 19, 2024
Ukraine’s air force is claiming it shot down a Russian strategic bomber
April 19, 2024
A group of Japanese doctors has filed a civil lawsuit against U.S. search giant Google, demanding damages for what they say are results showing unpoliced derogatory and often false comments
April 19, 2024
Lithuania's president says that two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, in Vilnius
April 19, 2024
An opposition war monitor and a pro-government media outlet say an attack on pro-government fighters by suspected members of the Islamic State group in central Syria killed 22 pro-government fighters
April 19, 2024
San Francisco is the latest U_S_ city preparing to receive a pair of pandas from China, in a continuation of Beijing’s famed “panda diplomacy.”
April 19, 2024
The European Union will help Finland guard its eastern border from neighbouring Russia's attempt to "instrumentalise migrants" to destabilise it,
April 19, 2024
A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel
April 19, 2024
Shoppers and workers have returned to a “really quiet” Sydney mall, where six days earlier an assailant stabbed six people to death in an attack that police believe targeted women
April 19, 2024
Israel carried out an attack on Iranian territory on Friday, sources said, days after Iran struck Israel with a barrage of drones and missiles.
April 19, 2024
Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency, on Friday completed its "halving," a phenomenon that happens roughly every four years, according to according to
April 19, 2024
Asian stocks have tumbled, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights
April 19, 2024
Street vendors in Mali’s capital of Bamako peddle water sachets, ubiquitous for this part of West Africa during the hottest months
April 19, 2024
Vietnam's central bank said on Friday it had continued providing support to Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), which it put under special supervision in October 2022 after a
April 19, 2024
Five Japanese autoworkers have narrowly escaped an attack by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive-laden vest near their vehicle in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi
April 19, 2024
Russian troops are ramping up pressure on exhausted Ukrainian forces across the front line to prepare to grab more land this spring and summer
April 19, 2024
Iran has fired air defense batteries after reports of explosions near a major airbase and nuclear site where drones were spotted
April 19, 2024
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook: Escalation in the Middle East has rounded out a rough week for financial markets.
April 19, 2024
Eight years after 11 million leaked secret financial documents revealed how some of the world’s richest people hide their wealth, more than two dozen defendants are on trial in Panama for their alleged roles
April 19, 2024
Israel's national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the 2024 European Amputee Football Championships in June
April 19, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Friday that she hoped to find a new way to ensure sanctions enforcement on North Korea by next month after Russia and China thwarted the
April 19, 2024
Commercial flights have begun diverting their routes over western Iran without explanation as one semiofficial news agency in the Islamic Republic claimed there had been “explosions” heard over the city of Isfahan
April 19, 2024
Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources said was an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and
April 19, 2024
Apple said on Friday it had removed Meta Platforms' WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China after being ordered to do so by the Chinese government, which
April 19, 2024
Millions of Indians are voting in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi
April 19, 2024
Oil settled slightly higher on Friday, but posted a weekly decline, after Iran played down a reported Israeli attack on its soil, a sign that an escalation of
April 19, 2024
The Biden administration says it has sent about 50 Haitians back to their country, marking its first deportation flight in months to the Caribbean nation struggling under surging gang violence
April 18, 2024
More than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on
April 18, 2024
A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X
April 18, 2024
Thousands of Muslims gathered in mosques across Sydney for regular prayers on Friday despite concerns about retaliatory attacks after police charged a
April 18, 2024
Argentina has requested to join NATO as a global partner, a status that would clear the way for greater political and security cooperation at a time when the right-wing government of President Javier Milei aims to boost ties with Western powers and attract investment
April 18, 2024
A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.
April 18, 2024
The world's poorest countries are facing debt distress and fiscal crises as foreign investment wanes and the gap with richer economies widens, risking political
April 18, 2024
Donald Trump said on Thursday the survival of Ukraine is important to the United States, a shift in tone days before the Republican-led U.S.
April 18, 2024
A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job
April 18, 2024
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating
April 18, 2024
The first of India's almost one billion voters cast ballots on Friday in the country's multi-day election, as
April 18, 2024
It's a full agenda for Ajay Banga as he nears the end of his first year as World Bank president
April 18, 2024
New York police have arrested numerous protesters at Columbia University who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment
April 18, 2024
Indigenous tribes from 35 countries are criticizing the lack of informed consent for mining on or near their lands
April 18, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution that would allow the state of Palestine to join the United Nations as a full member
April 18, 2024
Prince Harry, the son of King Charles III and fifth in line to the British throne, has formally confirmed he is now a U.S. resident
April 18, 2024
Thousands of Bosnian Serbs have rallied to deny that genocide was committed in Srebrenica in 1995, despite rulings to the contrary by two United Nations courts
April 18, 2024
Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Israel "must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests"
April 18, 2024
Kenya’s military chief Gen. Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced
April 18, 2024
The husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested again in a probe into the finances of Scotland's pro-independence governing party
April 18, 2024
Legislation that could ban TikTok if its China-based owner doesn’t sell its stake has won a major boost as House Republicans included it in a package of bills that would send U.S. aid to Ukraine and Israel
April 18, 2024
A British man who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit has received an “unreserved apology” from the U.K.’s review body that twice rejected his attempts to have his case referred to the Court of Appeal
April 18, 2024
France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for
April 18, 2024
The World Health Organization has approved a new version of a widely used cholera vaccine that could help address a surge in cases that has depleted the global vaccine stockpile
April 18, 2024
Poland's prosecutors say that a Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to assist an alleged plot by Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
April 18, 2024
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners in an independence day amnesty
April 18, 2024
Bosnian Serb lawmakers on Thursday adopted a report denying that the killing of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica during the Bosnian war constituted genocide, and thousands of Serbs
April 18, 2024
The U.S. is further restricting Iran's access to "low-level technology," in response to Iran's April 13 attack on Israel and its military support for Russia,
April 18, 2024
The United States on Thursday effectively stopped the United Nations from recognizing a Palestinian state by casting a veto in the Security Council to
April 18, 2024
A human rights organization representing ethnic Armenians has submitted evidence to the International Criminal Court arguing that Azerbaijan is committing an ongoing genocide against them
April 18, 2024
The European Commission is proposing to open negotiations with the United Kingdom to allow young people to move freely, work and study in both regions after Brexit — the U.K.’s departure from the EU four years ago
April 18, 2024
As its 2015 nuclear deal with major powers has eroded over the years, Iran has expanded and accelerated its nuclear programme, reducing the time it would need to
April 18, 2024
The U.S. and U.K. have imposed a new round of sanctions on Iran as concern grows that Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel could fuel a wider war in the Middle East
April 18, 2024
Traumatised 10-year-old students stare at their destroyed schools in Gaza, a grim reminder of the education and time with friends in the playground lost since the war
April 18, 2024
Nigeria's army says soldiers rescued a pregnant woman who was abducted by extremists a decade ago while she was a schoolgirl in the village of Chibok
April 18, 2024
Croatia’s ruling conservatives says that talks are already underway on the formation of a new governing majority following a highly contested parliamentary election that saw a far-right party emerge as a potential kingmaker
April 18, 2024
Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack
April 18, 2024
Jeffrey Gibson’s takeover of the U.S. pavilion for this year’s Venice Biennale contemporary art show is a celebration of color, pattern and craft
April 18, 2024
The leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic are warning their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections
April 18, 2024
Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company's cloud contract with the Israeli government.
April 18, 2024
Russia’s defense ministry says air defenses have downed what authorities describe as five Ukrainian balloons
April 18, 2024
Prince William is returning to public duties for the first time since his wife’s cancer diagnosis
April 18, 2024
Lawyers in Donald Trump's historic criminal trial on Thursday selected 12 jurors who will assess his guilt or innocence over the coming weeks in a case
April 18, 2024
Calls for action against Israel in international soccer because of the conflict with Hamas will be stepped up by Palestinian officials at the annual FIFA congress next month
April 18, 2024
Ukraine warned foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major powers on Thursday they had to change strategy if they wanted Kyiv to
April 18, 2024
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem captured this year’s prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award Thursday with his heartrending image of a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece — a powerful depiction of loss and sorrow in Gaza
April 18, 2024
Copenhagen's mayor says she has been in touch with her Paris counterpart to see what could be learned from the reconstruction of the Notre Dame cathedral in the French capital, after a fire devastated the Danish city’s 400-year-old stock exchange building
April 18, 2024
The European Union’s top diplomat is urging the Group of Seven to take quick and concrete steps to provide more air defense systems to Ukraine
April 18, 2024
Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country's southwest Japan has left nine people with minor injuries
April 18, 2024
Britain’s governing Conservative Party suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have misused campaign funds
April 18, 2024
Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband then walked into her village in eastern Serbia to
April 18, 2024
China's foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed U.S.
April 18, 2024
Asian shares have advanced even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again
April 18, 2024
Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine
April 18, 2024
Indonesian authorities closed an international airport and residents left homes near an erupting volcano due to spreading ash, falling rocks and the possibility of a tsunami
April 18, 2024
A political push to raise the first-ever "Amazonia Bond" has ramped up during talks to agree a "roadmap", yet the
April 18, 2024
The United Arab Emirates is struggling to recover from the heaviest recorded rainfall ever to hit the desert nation, as its main airport worked to restore normal operations even as floodwater still covered portions of major highways and roads
April 18, 2024
America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation
April 18, 2024
The Chinese and Indonesian foreign ministers called for an immediate and lasting cease-fire in Gaza after a meeting in Jakarta on Thursday, condemning the humanitarian costs of the ongoing war that has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians
April 18, 2024
South Africa faces an unusual national election this year, its seventh vote since transitioning from white minority rule to a democracy 30 years ago
April 18, 2024
A Muslim community leader says a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics during a Sydney church service might have “anger management and behavioral issues” and a “short fuse” but had shown no signs of being radicalized on Thursday, after authorities declared the stabbing a terrorist attack
April 18, 2024
One of the most prominent figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party is going on trial Thursday on charges of twice using a Nazi slogan, months before a regional election in which he is running to become his state’s governor
April 18, 2024
Jews around the world will soon celebrate Passover, recounting the biblical story of their exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery
April 18, 2024
Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress
April 18, 2024
Dubai, a city in the desert proud of its modern gloss, faced the towering task on Thursday of clearing its waterclogged roads and drying out flooded homes two days after a record
April 18, 2024
The head of the U.N. agency that has helped millions of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for decades is urging the U.N. Security Council to ensure its survival as Israel again demands its dissolution
April 18, 2024
The Philippines' decision to ramp up ties with Japan and the United States is a "sovereign choice", its foreign ministry said on Thursday, urging China to "reflect upon its own
April 18, 2024
Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence
April 18, 2024
A Sydney shopping mall has opened to the public for the first time since the mass stabbing in which six people died
April 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump has met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda
April 18, 2024
Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a long-awaited package of bills that will provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and give humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza
April 17, 2024
With cloud seeding, it may rain, but it doesn’t really pour or flood — at least nothing like what drenched the United Arab Emirates and paralyzed Dubai
April 17, 2024
A fire engine arrived within five minutes of the first reports of a wildfire last August on the edge of Lahaina, the historic Hawaiian resort town, according to the most
April 17, 2024
Lebanon's Interior Minister says Israeli agents were most likely behind this month's killing of a U
April 17, 2024
The Biden administration has reimposed crushing oil sanctions on Venezuela in a rebuke to President Nicolas Maduro’s attempts to consolidate his rule just six months after the U.S. eased restrictions in a bid to support now fading hopes for a democratic opening in the OPEC nation
April 17, 2024
Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high
April 17, 2024
Pentagon leaders are telling Congress that Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the military weapons that are being held up by Congress’ failure to pass a funding package
April 17, 2024
A makeshift burial ground for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned after years of neglect
April 17, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is forging ahead toward a vote later this week on a package of Ukraine funding that also includes Israel and Taiwan
April 17, 2024
A storm hit the United Arab Emirates and Oman this week bringing record rainfall that flooded highways, inundated houses, grid-locked traffic and trapped people
April 17, 2024
Canadian police say nine people are facing charges in the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago
April 17, 2024
The United Nations Security Council is scheduled to vote on Friday on a Palestinian request for full U.N. membership, said diplomats, a move that Israel's ally the United
April 17, 2024
Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most prestigious and historic opera houses, has named Fortunato Ortombina as its new director
April 17, 2024
A new study says climate change will reduce future global income by about 19% in the next 25 years compared to a fictional world that’s not warming, with the poorest areas and those least responsible for heat-trapping gases taking the biggest monetary hit
April 17, 2024
The Swedish parliament has passed a law lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
April 17, 2024
The International Monetary Fund urged countries on Wednesday to rein in fiscal spending and rebuild their buffers, but said that could prove difficult in the
April 17, 2024
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said she made clear during talks in Israel with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others that the Middle East must not be allowed to
April 17, 2024
Hugh Grant says he received “an enormous sum of money” to settle a lawsuit accusing the publisher of The Sun tabloid of unlawfully tapping his phone, bugging his car and breaking into his home to snoop on him
April 17, 2024
European Union leaders will meet on Wednesday to discuss stepping up sanctions against Iran after Tehran's missile and drone attack on Israel.
April 17, 2024
A major show of Caspar David Friedrich’s iconic landscapes that marks the 250th anniversary of his birth is opening in Berlin, where he made his breakthrough and where a 1906 exhibition kicked off an enduring revival of interest in the German Romantic master
April 17, 2024
Amnesty International says it has documented widespread abuses, including torture and deprivation of medical care, in detention facilities holding thousands of suspected Islamic State members and their relatives in northeast Syria
April 17, 2024
The European Union warned Georgia on Wednesday that the adoption of its 'foreign agent' law would negatively impact progress on the path to membership of the bloc.
April 17, 2024
Georgia's parliament on Wednesday approved the first reading of a bill on "foreign agents" that has provoked several days of protests by critics who see it as
April 17, 2024
Pakistan's interior ministry said on Wednesday it ordered the temporary blockage of social media platform X in February on national security concerns, confirming a long-suspected
April 17, 2024
The U.N. population fund says in a new study that an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from pregnancy and childbirth complications than a woman in Europe or North America
April 17, 2024
The Kremlin refused to confirm or deny on Wednesday if Moscow had been forewarned of Iran's strikes against Israel, but urged all sides in the Middle East to step back from conflict
April 17, 2024
Democrats in the Arizona House of Representatives tried repeatedly to repeal an 1864 ban on abortion on Wednesday but failed to get the
April 17, 2024
Danish firefighters were still at work extinguishing the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark a day after the blaze began
April 17, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron says Israel “is making a decision to act” in response to Iran’s missile and drone attack over the weekend
April 17, 2024
President Joe Biden wants to triple U.S. tariffs on steel from China
April 17, 2024
Dozens of Russian athletes will likely be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics
April 17, 2024
Local officials say three Russian missiles have slammed into a downtown area of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, hitting an eight-floor apartment building and killing at least eight people
April 17, 2024
Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries and public transport services in Athens and other cities
April 17, 2024
The U.S. 7th Fleet says a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since Nov. 2022
April 17, 2024
Heavy thunderstorms have lashed the United Arab Emirates, dumping the heaviest rain ever recorded in the country in the span of hours as it flooded out portions of major highways and Dubai’s international airport
April 17, 2024
Iran’s president has warned that the “tiniest invasion” by Israel would bring a “massive and harsh” response, as the region braces for potential Israeli retaliation after Iran’s attack over the weekend
April 17, 2024
A Muslim community leader in Australia says the father of a boy accused of stabbing two Christian clerics saw no signs of his son’s extremism
April 17, 2024
A gathering of far-right politicians and supporters has resumed, a day after police shut the event down citing concerns about public order
April 17, 2024
Lightning and heavy rains led to 14 deaths in Pakistan, officials said Wednesday, bringing the death toll from four days of extreme weather to at least 63
April 17, 2024
Tensions in the Middle East and the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine top the agenda of European Union leaders at their summit in Brussels
April 17, 2024
Inflation in the U.K. fell to its lowest level in two and a half years in March after a further easing in food prices
April 17, 2024
Authorities in Ivory Coast's largest city are demolishing homes in low-income areas over what they say are public health concerns, leaving thousands without shelter and with nowhere to go
April 17, 2024
Croatia is voting in a parliamentary election after a campaign that centered on a bitter rivalry between the president and prime minister of the small European Union and NATO member
April 17, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed after most U.S. stocks slipped on firmer expectations that the Fed is committed to its current rate practices
April 17, 2024
The Biden administration has signaled that it could reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday in
April 17, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is “looking at” manufacturing in Indonesia as he met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday
April 17, 2024
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says America and its allies are discussing options “both inside and outside the U
April 17, 2024
Group of Seven foreign ministers are meeting on the resort island of Capri
April 17, 2024
Senate Democrats could end the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before arguments even begin
April 17, 2024
The United Nations is appealing for $2.8 billion to provide desperately needed aid to 3 million Palestinians, stressing that tackling looming famine in war-torn Gaza requires not only food but sanitation, water and health facilities
April 17, 2024
The U.S. and its allies planned fresh sanctions against Iran over its unprecedented attack on Israel, seeking to dissuade Israel
April 17, 2024
Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest
April 17, 2024
Japan recorded a trade deficit for the third straight fiscal year as the costs of energy and other imports rose and the yen remained weak
April 17, 2024
Voting has begun across the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific nation’s first general election since the government switched diplomatic allegiances from Taiwan to Beijing and struck a secret security pact that has raised fears of the Chinese navy gaining a foothold in the region
April 17, 2024
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York
April 16, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal government
April 16, 2024
Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán now claims he can’t get phone calls or visits in the maximum security U.S. prison where the once most powerful Mexican drug lord is serving a life sentence
April 16, 2024
Ecuador has started to ration electricity in its main cities as a drought linked to the El Niño weather pattern depletes reservoirs and limits output at hydroelectric plants
April 16, 2024
Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated
April 16, 2024
The United States has warned it will impose new sanctions on Iran following its unprecedented attack on Israel. U.S.
April 16, 2024
Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran even though such a mission carries many risks
April 16, 2024
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani on Tuesday said Iraq has not received any reports or indications that missiles or drones were launched from Iraq during Iran's attack
April 16, 2024
Some EU member states have asked for sanctions against Iran to be expanded in response to Tehran's attack on Israel and the bloc's diplomatic service will begin working on the
April 16, 2024
The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs
April 16, 2024
Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash
April 16, 2024
A congressional committee is accusing China of fueling the fentanyl crisis in the U.S. A report released Tuesday by a House select committee says China is directly subsidizing the manufacturing of materials used by drug traffickers to make fentanyl outside the country
April 16, 2024
Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the closure of his country’s embassy and consulates in Ecuador in solidarity with Mexico in its protest over a raid by Ecuadorian authorities on the Mexican embassy in Quito
April 16, 2024
A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction
April 16, 2024
Defiant and determined, House Speaker Mike Johnson has pushed back against mounting Republican anger over his proposed U.S. aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies
April 16, 2024
The United States has provided assurances requested by the High Court in London to pave the way for WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange to be extradited from Britain
April 16, 2024
Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns about public order
April 16, 2024
Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in a technology firm based in the United Arab Emirates and overseen by the country’s powerful national security adviser
April 16, 2024
When Israel responds to the unprecedented weekend Iranian drone and missile salvoes, its aim will be to send a message of deterrence to Tehran while drawing a
April 16, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from rising tensions in the Middle East
April 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a controversial law, days after it was passed by parliament, potentially helping Kyiv to boost conscription to replenish depleted forces to fend off Russia’s continued aggression
April 16, 2024
The operations of the European Union's naval mission to the Red Sea have not been affected by Iran's first-ever direct attack on Israel but the force
April 16, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has spoken with China’s national defense minister in the latest in a series of U.S. steps to improve communications with the Chinese military and reduce unsafe and aggressive incidents in the Indo-Pacific
April 16, 2024
Israeli tanks pushed back into some areas of the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday which they had left weeks ago, while warplanes conducted air strikes on Rafah,
April 16, 2024
A report from the website 38 North says that North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely
April 16, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda will meet Donald Trump during a visit to New York this week, Polish media cited sources as saying on Tuesday, as European leaders prepare for the
April 16, 2024
British lawmakers are set to vote on the government’s plans to introduce a landmark smoking ban that aims to stop young people from ever smoking
April 16, 2024
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam a day after the company announced it would spending on suppliers in the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub
April 16, 2024
The talk before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games ideally should be about its grandiose backdrop: a summer sun setting on the Seine River as athletes drift by in boats and wave to cheering crowds
April 16, 2024
The United Nations human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to settler attacks on Palestinians
April 16, 2024
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will travel to Israel on Tuesday for discussions on how to prevent an escalation of tensions in the region following Iran's attack over the
April 16, 2024
Water levels in some overflowing rivers in Russia were starting to drop on Monday, but flooding remains widespread, Russian state TV reports said
April 16, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is launching a program that will help 50 countries identify and respond to infectious diseases, with the goal of preventing pandemics like the COVID-19 outbreak
April 16, 2024
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is preparing fresh sanctions on Iran in response to Iran's attack on Israel, Axios reported on Tuesday, citing a copy of her remarks.
April 16, 2024
Greece aims to create two large marine parks as part of an $830 million program to protect biodiversity and marine ecosystems, with the plans to be formally announced at an international oceans conference starting in Athens Tuesday
April 16, 2024
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza
April 16, 2024
The artist and curators representing Israel at this year’s Venice Biennale have announced they won’t open the Israeli exhibition until there's a cease-fire in Gaza and an agreement to release hostages
April 16, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has told Chinese leader Xi Jinping who hosted him in Beijing that Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine threatens global security, in an apparent call for China to apply greater pressure on its neighbor to end the war
April 16, 2024
Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania
April 16, 2024
Asian shares have skidded following a slump on Wall Street after higher yields in the U.S. bond market cranked up pressure on stocks
April 16, 2024
Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai
April 16, 2024
One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed
April 16, 2024
Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029
April 16, 2024
Iran will respond to any action against its interests, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday, according to the Iranian Student News Agency, a day after Israel warned it will
April 16, 2024
Israel's foreign minister said on Tuesday he was urging countries to place sanctions on Iran's missile programme and proscribe its Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist
April 16, 2024
A teenager has been accused of wounding a Christian bishop and priest during a church service in a second high-profile knife attack to rock Sydney in recent days
April 16, 2024
The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece
April 16, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says police have seized the largest haul of methamphetamine in the country in years without anybody being killed, in a subtle criticism of his predecessor’s notoriously deadly crackdown on illegal drugs
April 16, 2024
Salman Rushdie's first book since the 2022 stabbing he thought might end his life is both explicit in the violence Rushdie sustains and heroic in the will to live that Rushdie retains
April 16, 2024
China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and an increase in demand
April 16, 2024
Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew
April 15, 2024
The state of California sued the city of Huntington Beach over its voter identification law on Monday, saying the measure violates state law and that state election
April 15, 2024
Russia and Ukraine are trading blame before the United Nations Security Council for the attacks on Europe's largest nuclear power plant
April 15, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing wartime aid for Ukraine
April 15, 2024
The mayor of Colombia’s capital has announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods and ask residents to change their showering habits
April 15, 2024
President Joe Biden called on the House to immediately take up the Senate-passed supplemental legislation for Ukraine and Israel funding on Monday as he hosted Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala in the Oval Office
April 15, 2024
Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill
April 15, 2024
For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024
In a meticulously choreographed ceremony on Tuesday, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics will be lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece
April 15, 2024
Israel’s military chief says Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike
April 15, 2024
The prospect of Israeli retaliation against Iran for its drone and missile attack at the weekend has alarmed many Iranians already facing economic pain and tighter
April 15, 2024
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators blocked a freeway leading to three Chicago O’Hare International Airport terminals, temporarily stopping vehicle traffic into one of the nation’s busiest airports
April 15, 2024
An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of Palestinian family in a deeply contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem
April 15, 2024
Iraq called on all parties to show restraint amid soaring tensions between neighboring Iran and Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Muhammad Ali Tamim said on Monday,
April 15, 2024
Canada is imposing another round of sanctions against Belarus officials over continuing human rights violations after a 2020 presidential election that the opposition denounced as
April 15, 2024
Reef scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans
April 15, 2024
The coffee that picked you up this morning is 600,000 old
April 15, 2024
The U.S.
April 15, 2024
Ukraine’s foreign minister says the success of Israel and its allies in largely thwarting a massive Iranian missile and drone attack shows what Ukraine could achieve against Russian aerial barrages if it had more support from its partners
April 15, 2024
April 17 marks the 100 days countdown to the Paris Olympics ambitious opening ceremony
April 15, 2024
The FBI has opened a federal criminal probe into the March 26 bridge collapse in Maryland, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing two U.S. officials familiar with the
April 15, 2024
Police say a man has been arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney
April 15, 2024
A new review says the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed U.S. troops and Afghans in August 2021 was not preventable, and the “bald man in black” spotted by U.S. service members the morning of the attack was not the bomber
April 15, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for fair competition in trade relations with China while warning about dumping and overproduction as he spoke to students in Shanghai on Monday
April 15, 2024
The Israeli military has renewed warnings for Palestinians in Gaza not to return to the embattled territory’s north
April 15, 2024
Israel's European allies urged it on Monday to show restraint over Iran's weekend missile and drone attack, calling on Israeli leaders to step away from "the
April 15, 2024
An independent experts commission has recommended that abortion in Germany should no longer fall under the country’s penal code and be made legal during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy
April 15, 2024
World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles
April 15, 2024
A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in Tokyo District Court
April 15, 2024
Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will relinquish his office on May 15 and hand the post to his deputy Lawrence Wong, his office said Monday
April 15, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced that world donors are pledging more than 2 billion euros in aid for Sudan after a year of war that has pushed its population to the brink of famine
April 15, 2024
The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women
April 15, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security threat is deemed too high
April 15, 2024
The country in which China has gained most influence in the South Pacific, Solomon Islands, goes to the polls on Wednesday in an election that could shape the region’s future
April 15, 2024
France will do all it can to avoid further escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran in the Middle East, President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday, urging Israel to show
April 15, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urged Israel not to retaliate after Iran's drone and missile attack, saying Tehran's move had been a near-total failure and the focus should
April 15, 2024
Global airlines faced disruptions to flights on Monday after Iran's missile and drone attacks on Israel further narrowed options for planes navigating between Europe
April 15, 2024
Australian police are examining why a lone assailant who stabbed six people to death in a busy Sydney shopping mall and injured more than a dozen others targeted women while avoiding men
April 15, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly lower as worries about potentially escalating tensions in the Middle East rattle financial markets
April 15, 2024
Every two years, a countdown to the Olympic Games is launched from its ancient birthplace with a flame-lighting ceremony in southern Greece at ancient Olympia
April 15, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government are increasingly wielding strong-arm tactics to subdue political opponents and critics of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party
April 15, 2024
Croatia holds an early parliamentary election Wednesday following a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials
April 15, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to host Iraq's leader this week for talks that come as tensions across the Middle East have soared over the war in Gaza and Iran's attack on Israel in retaliation for an Israeli military strike against an Iranian facility in Syria
April 15, 2024
U.S. forces, supported by U.S.
April 14, 2024
Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games
April 14, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday issued a reminder that acts of reprisal involving the use of force are barred under
April 14, 2024
More than 250 survivors of the suicide bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England are taking legal action against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency
April 14, 2024
Winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards, handed out Sunday for achievement in London theater, opera and dance include “Sunset Boulevard,” which won seven prizes including best musical revival
April 14, 2024
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah received a phone call from his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian late on Sunday, during which they
April 14, 2024
A U.S. judge has tossed out a series of civil lawsuits against a Libyan military commander who used to live in Virginia and was accused of killing innocent civilians in that country’s civil war
April 14, 2024
Iran’s dramatic aerial attack on Israel follows years of enmity between the countries and marks the first time Iran has launched a direct military assault on Israel
April 14, 2024
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry expressed the need for restraint in phone calls with the foreign ministers of Iran and Israel on Sunday, Egypt said.
April 14, 2024
Pakistani police are investigated the shooting death of a suspect in the killing of accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in prison in 2013
April 14, 2024
Leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) nations issued the following statement on Sunday after a video call to discuss Iran's attack on Israel.
April 14, 2024
Israel has been bracing for possible retaliation for the assassination of Iran's close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week.
April 14, 2024
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told his U.S. counterpart Antony Blinken in a call on Sunday that Ankara was worried about the potential spread and escalation of the crisis in
April 14, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this week
April 14, 2024
President Joe Biden has convened the Group of Seven advanced democracies to coordinate a rebuke to Iran for its unprecedented aerial attack on Israel and to prevent a wider regional escalation
April 14, 2024
Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel marks a change in approach for Tehran, which had relied on proxies across the Middle East since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October
April 14, 2024
An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel’s war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who've criticized the conflict
April 14, 2024
Israel launched a strike on Iranian soil on Friday, sources said, in the latest of the tit-for-tat exchanges between the regional arch foes whose long-running shadow war has broken into the
April 14, 2024
More civilians have died across Ukraine as analysts warn that delays in U.S. aid would see Kyiv struggle to fight off Russian offensives
April 14, 2024
Elevated by Pope Francis to the top hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini has kept up his unflinching focus on the poor, the Indigenous and the migrant in Central America
April 14, 2024
Polish opponents of abortion are marching in Warsaw to protest recent steps by the new government to liberalize the predominantly Catholic nation's strict laws and allow termination of pregnancy until the 12th week
April 14, 2024
Iran's attack on Israel drew applause from many Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday as rare payback for the Israeli offensive on their enclave, although some said
April 14, 2024
Iran's foreign ministry summoned on Sunday the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany to question what it referred to as their "irresponsible stance" regarding Tehran's
April 14, 2024
The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions
April 14, 2024
Jordan's Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said on Sunday any escalation in the region would lead to "dangerous paths" and said that there was a need to reduce escalation by all
April 14, 2024
Israeli airlines said operations were returning to normal on Sunday after an overnight attack by Iranian missiles and drones closed the airspace and led to flight cancellations.
April 14, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has vowed to boost social spending, develop infrastructure and make India a global manufacturing hub as companies shift away from China
April 14, 2024
Israel has hailed the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran
April 14, 2024
A police officer and several bystanders are being hailed for running “towards danger” to confront the attacker who stabbed and killed six people at a suburban Sydney shopping center
April 14, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday his country would achieve victory after the military said it shot down
April 14, 2024
Israel is hailing the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles
April 14, 2024
Japan strongly condemned a retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel, calling it an escalation of events and saying it was deeply concerned at the situation, in a statement released by
April 14, 2024
More than half of the estimated 7.7 million Venezuelans who have left their homeland during the complex crisis that has marked Nicolás Maduro’s 11-year presidency are estimated to be registered to vote in Venezuela
April 14, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday condemned Iranian airstrikes on Israel "in the strongest possible terms," a spokesperson said during a visit by Scholz to China.
April 14, 2024
The United Nations Security Council aims to hold a meeting on Sunday, a diplomat said, after Israel requested the council condemn Iran's attack on Israel and designate the Iranian
April 14, 2024
Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot by a police officer
April 13, 2024
Israel has deployed a multilayered air-defense system
April 13, 2024
Iran launched its first full-scale military attack against Israel on Saturday, sending drones toward Israel
April 13, 2024
Israel called off on Saturday school trips and other youth activities planned for the coming days, the beginning of the Passover festival, and placed the armed forces on full
April 13, 2024
The Holy See has formally protested to France after a French court ruled that a former high-ranking Vatican official was liable for what the court determined to be the wrongful dismissal of a nun from a religious order
April 13, 2024
The United Methodist Church lost one-fourth of its U.S. churches in a recent schism, with conservatives departing over disputes on sexuality and theology
April 13, 2024
The Israeli army says the body of missing Israeli boy has been found in the occupied West Bank after he was killed in a “terrorist attack."
April 13, 2024
A Kremlin-installed official says at least 10 people including children have died in shelling that struck a Russian-occupied town in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region
April 13, 2024
It’s water festival time in Thailand where many are marking the country’s traditional New Year, splashing each other with colorful water guns and buckets in an often raucous celebration that draws thousands of people, even as this year the Southeast Asian nation marks record-high temperatures causing concern
April 13, 2024
More than 40 people remain stranded in cable cars high above a mountain in southern Turkey, 19 hours after one pod hit a pole and burst open, killing 1 person and injuring 7
April 13, 2024
The British says a vessel may have been boarded by an unknown party near the crucial Strait of Hormuz
April 13, 2024
Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at a Sydney shopping center
April 13, 2024
The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education
April 13, 2024
Tech executive Elon Musk and Argentine President Javier Milei have sealed their budding bromance at a Tesla electric car factory in Texas — their first meeting after months of mutual admiration on social media
April 13, 2024
A severe drought has pushed Colombia's capital to start rationing tap water
April 12, 2024
A Pakistani police official says a search is underway for gunmen who killed eight people after abducting them from a bus on a highway in the country’s southwest
April 12, 2024
Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico
April 12, 2024
A former U.S. diplomat was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Friday after admitting to acting as an agent of Cuba in what the Justice Department has called
April 12, 2024
Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of “Apocalypse Now,” and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died
April 12, 2024
The U.S. and U.K. will begin restricting the trade of new Russian-origin metals — including aluminum, copper and nickel — on global metal exchanges and in derivatives trading
April 12, 2024
An orphaned killer whale stranded in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon is proving difficult for rescuers to catch
April 12, 2024
A former career U.S. diplomat has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison after admitting he worked for decades as a secret agent for communist Cuba
April 12, 2024
China is backing Russia's war
April 12, 2024
Local media in Turkey say one person was killed and seven injured when a cable car in the south of the country hit a pole and burst open, sending the passengers plummeting to the mountainside below
April 12, 2024
China has surged sales to Russia of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow in turn is using to produce missiles, tanks, aircraft and other weaponry
April 12, 2024
Palestinian health officials say dozens of Israeli settlers have rampaged through a village in the West Bank, killing one man and wounding at least 25 others
April 12, 2024
The Biden administration is again reassuring the Philippines the U.S. commitment to the islands’ defense is steadfast amid increasing concerns about provocative Chinese actions in disputed areas of the South China Sea
April 12, 2024
Thailand’s foreign minister says he has urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents
April 12, 2024
Berlin’s zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world
April 12, 2024
As PEN America begins its annual spring tradition of high-profile events, the organization faces criticisms from numerous writers who are unhappy with its stance on the war in Gaza
April 12, 2024
The United Nations say heavy rains pounding different parts of Kenya have led to the deaths of at least 13 people and displaced some 15,000 people
April 12, 2024
Two Palestinians have been killed early Friday in confrontations with Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
April 12, 2024
The Kremlin says that a draft agreement between Russia and Ukraine negotiated in 2022 could serve as a starting point for prospective talks to end the fighting that has dragged into a third year
April 12, 2024
The Vatican says Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September
April 12, 2024
Polish lawmakers are to vote on whether to lift the country’s near total abortion ban, a divisive issue in the traditionally Roman Catholic country, which has one of the most restrictive laws in Europe
April 12, 2024
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced an investigation into suspected Russian interference in Europe-wide elections in June
April 12, 2024
State television in Niger has broadcast footage of Russian military trainers arriving in the country aboard a plane equipped with security supplies
April 12, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly lower after gains for Big Tech shares helped U.S. stock indexes claw back much of their slide from the day before
April 12, 2024
German lawmakers are expected to vote on a government plan to make it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official documents
April 12, 2024
The war in Sudan began a year ago
April 12, 2024
When O.J. Simpson's death from prostate cancer was announced, the University of Southern California made no public acknowledgement of it
April 12, 2024
Argentina’s highest criminal court has reported a new development in the elusive quest for justice in the country’s deadliest attack in history — the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center headquarters
April 12, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House
April 12, 2024
Twenty years ago this month, photos of abused prisoners and smiling U.S. soldiers guarding them at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were released, shocking the world
April 12, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is scheduled to tour different parts of North Carolina to spotlight his nation's title as the state's biggest foreign investor
April 12, 2024
A U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt held a three-day joint exercise with its allies Japan and South Korea, as U.S. President Joe Biden pledged an ironclad defense commitment to leaders from Japan and the Philippines at the White House
April 12, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House
April 11, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House
April 11, 2024
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday called for the country to take further action to stop the flow of firearms to Haiti and to halt the forced return of migrants seeking to flee
April 11, 2024
Mali’s ruling junta has banned the media from reporting on the activities of political parties and associations in the country
April 11, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson is negotiating with the White House as he prepares for the treacherous task of advancing wartime funding for Ukraine and Israel through the House
April 11, 2024
U.S. Treasury wants to enhance the power of a little-known, secretive government committee to review deals made between U.S. firms and foreign investors
April 11, 2024
The security and defense relationship between the U.S. and Iraq will be an important part of talks when Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-
April 11, 2024
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has mocked a planned round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not accept any enforced agreements ignoring its interests
April 11, 2024
Under heavy U.S. pressure, Israel has promised to ramp up aid to Gaza dramatically, saying last week it would open another cargo crossing and surge more trucks than ever before into the besieged enclave
April 11, 2024
A Haitian human rights group has released a new report that details the horrific violence unleashed this year by gangs who kill, rape and maim with impunity amid a political vacuum
April 11, 2024
Officials say a massive missile and drone attack has destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others
April 11, 2024
Experts say messages by two influential Taliban leaders in Afghanistan this week showed tensions between hardliners and more moderate elements who want to scrap harsher policies and attract more outside support
April 11, 2024
Mexico’s president says his country wants the United Nations to suspend Ecuador from the world body as part of a complaint to the top U.N. court over Ecuador’s police raid last week on the Mexican embassy in Quito
April 11, 2024
The wife of Julian Assange says her husband’s legal case “could be moving in the right direction.”
April 11, 2024
A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall
April 11, 2024
Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War
April 11, 2024
The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year
April 11, 2024
A Vietnamese real estate tycoon was sentenced to death in the country’s biggest ever financial fraud case, underlining an intensifying anti-corruption drive in the southeast Asian nation
April 11, 2024
South Korean voters have handed liberals extended opposition control of parliament in what looks like a massive political setback to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol
April 11, 2024
An Australian court has rejected a case brought by five women seeking compensation from Qatar Airways over invasive gynecological examinations conducted on passengers at Doha’s airport in 2020
April 11, 2024
China has sanctioned two U.S. companies over what it says is their support for arms sales to Taiwan, the self governing island democracy Beijing claims as its own territory to be recovered by force if necessary
April 11, 2024
Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip
April 11, 2024
Russia, Germany and Britain on Thursday urged countries in the Middle East to show restraint and Israel said it was preparing to "meet all its security needs" in a region on edge over an
April 11, 2024
The start of the Masters has been delayed by at least one hour because of bad weather
April 11, 2024
Russia has successfully test-launched a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex, a lift-off that comes after two aborted attempts earlier this week
April 11, 2024
President Joe Biden is gathering Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House for a first-of-its-kind White House summit
April 11, 2024
A Vietnam court has sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death in the country’s largest financial fraud case ever, state media Thanh Nien said
April 11, 2024
Lufthansa and a union representing cabin crew have reached a pay deal, concluding the last of several major disputes that have led to recent strikes at Germany’s biggest airline and in the country’s wider aviation sector
April 11, 2024
Ukraine’s parliament has passed a law that will govern how the country recruits new conscripts following months of delay and after thousands of amendments were submitted to water down the initial draft
April 11, 2024
Markets are waiting to hear what European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has to say about the timing of a first interest rate cut
April 11, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks fell on worries that what seemed like a blip in the battle to bring down inflation is turning into a troubling trend
April 11, 2024
The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in Africa's most populous country
April 11, 2024
Poland's parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law
April 11, 2024
Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand champion, has died
April 11, 2024
It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks and three support vehicles started their journey into Gaza
April 11, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is heading to Congress to address U.S. lawmakers on the importance of keeping a strong partnership between the two countries at a time of tension in the Asia-Pacific
April 11, 2024
A new study has found that voters in 19 countries, including in three of the world’s largest democracies, are widely skeptical about whether their political elections are free and fair
April 11, 2024
Cambodia's program to relocate people living on the famous Angkor archaeological site is drawing international concern over possible human rights abuses, while authorities maintain they're doing nothing more than protecting the UNESCO World Heritage Site from illegal squatters
April 11, 2024
China has accused the European Union of protectionism and “reckless distortion” of the definition of subsidies in response to a new EU investigation into Chinese wind turbine makers
April 11, 2024
South Korean media report that the prime minster and top presidential advisers have offered to resign in the wake of the parliamentary election defeat
April 11, 2024
Officials have confirmed the identities of an Australian bomber and the remains of two air crew members more than 80 years after they crashed in flames off the coast of Papua New Guinea
April 11, 2024
A U.S. Air Force veteran who fled a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army
April 10, 2024
A confrontation between Argentine authorities and anti-government protesters outraged over President Javier Milei’s deep cuts to state spending has escalated, as protesters blocking the capital’s key thoroughfare were forcibly dispersed and eight of the movement’s participants arrested
April 10, 2024
The U.S. assistant secretary for Western Hemisphere affairs says the creation of a transitional council responsible for choosing Haiti’s next leaders is imminent
April 10, 2024
President Javier Milei of Argentina has kicked off a visit to the United States, where he'll meet with tech billionaire Elon Musk, as the libertarian leader seeks an infusion of cash to overhaul Argentina’s embattled economy
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says Japan’s attempts to set up a leader-to-leader summit with North Korea is “a good thing,” and reiterated his administration’s willingness for its own talks without preconditions
April 10, 2024
Jill Biden is honoring the friendship between the United States and Japan by transforming the State Floor of the White House into a vibrant spring garden for a glamorous dinner that she and President Joe Biden are hosting for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida
April 10, 2024
The House is considering whether to take up a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program
April 10, 2024
The top general for U.S. forces in Europe told Congress Wednesday that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to one by Russia within a matter of weeks if Congress does not find a way to approve sending more ammunition and weapons to Kyiv soon
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says he's considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long U.S. push to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange for publishing American classified documents
April 10, 2024
A court in Germany has sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his 1-year-old daughter’s foot
April 10, 2024
The Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil on Sept. 6
April 10, 2024
Authorities say a Russian attack has hit a grocery store and a pharmacy in a Ukrainian village close to the border with Russia, killing three people including a 14-year-old girl
April 10, 2024
Switzerland says it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two years of war, in hopes that Russia might join in the peace process one day
April 10, 2024
The Swiss government has announced steps to bolster its “too big to fail” rules aimed to avoid potentially disastrous fallout from banking sector turmoil
April 10, 2024
Two-time Grand Slam champion Simona Halep tells The Associated Press she was nervous while flying to her first tennis tournament in 1 1/2 years
April 10, 2024
The United Nations climate chief says humanity has only two years left “to save the world” by making dramatic changes in the way it spews heat-trapping emissions
April 10, 2024
France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal medication
April 10, 2024
A report from a senior doctor in England says children who question their gender identity are being let down by lack of evidence and a toxic political debate
April 10, 2024
In the small town of Comitancillo in Guatemala’s mostly Indigenous highlands, two murals memorialize the nearly two dozen local migrants who died in mass tragedies en route to the United States recently
April 10, 2024
Russian officials are scrambling to help homeowners displaced by floods, as water levels have risen in the Ural River
April 10, 2024
Lawmakers have approved a major revamp of the European Union’s migration regulations
April 10, 2024
Elevated levels of inflation and the impact of the war in Ukraine have forced companies across Europe to freeze hiring or cut jobs.
April 10, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping has met with former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou in Beijing in a bid to promote unification between the sides that separated amid civil war in 1949
April 10, 2024
Russia’s second attempt to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex has been aborted
April 10, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for talks on the delicate security situation in the Pacific and a glitzy state dinner
April 10, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake
April 10, 2024
A Florence appeals court on Wednesday opens a new slander trial against Amanda Knox based on a 2016 European Court of Human Rights decision that her rights were violated during a long night of questioning into the murder of her British roommate without a lawyer and official translator
April 10, 2024
Shares are mixed in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead of some potentially market-moving reports
April 10, 2024
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reiterating a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings of Iranian generals in Syria
April 10, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel has not informed the U.S. of any specific date for the start of a major offensive into the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 10, 2024
The Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan is being celebrated by Muslims with family reunions, new clothes and sweet treats
April 10, 2024
At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong
April 10, 2024
Nearly half a century after Francis Ford Coppola won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for “Apocalypse Now,” he will return to the French Riviera festival to premiere his self-financed epic “Megalopolis.”
April 09, 2024
The State Department has greenlighted an emergency $138 million in foreign military sales for Ukraine to provide critical support and repairs for Kyiv's Hawk missile systems
April 09, 2024
The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024
Mexico has released security camera video of the moments when Ecuadorian authorities forced their way into Mexico’s embassy, pushed a Mexican diplomat to the ground and carried out Ecuador’s former vice president who had been holed up there
April 09, 2024
Venezuela’s government says the country’s former oil minister has been arrested on allegations of corruption
April 09, 2024
A public hospital in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has laid off 100 doctors who are taking part in a nationwide strike for almost one month
April 09, 2024
Fresh gunfire has erupted in Haiti's capital, forcing aid workers in downtown Port-au-Prince to halt urgently needed care for thousands of people
April 09, 2024
The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of the Higgs boson particle, has died at 94
April 09, 2024
Members of Congress on Tuesday are calling for the immediate release of Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. The renewed calls from lawmakers have come on the second anniversary of his imprisonment, part of the Kremlin’s relentless crackdown on critics of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
April 09, 2024
Italian officials say an explosion at a hydroelectric plant Tuesday in the Apennine Mountains south of Bologna has left at least three people dead and another four reported missing
April 09, 2024
South Africa’s Electoral Court has ruled that former President Jacob Zuma can run for office as a lawmaker in the upcoming election, overturning an earlier decision that had barred him from contesting the polls
April 09, 2024
South Koreans vote Wednesday for a new parliament in a hotly contested election that's seen as a referendum on conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol
April 09, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. CQ Brown Jr. are urging Capitol Hill to support the Pentagon’s $850 billion budget for 2025 as questions remain as to whether lawmakers will support current spending needs for Israel or Ukraine
April 09, 2024
This week’s Champions League soccer games will go ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat
April 09, 2024
Amanda Knox faces another trial for slander this week in Italy in a case that could remove the last allegation against her eight years after Italy’s highest court threw out her conviction for the murder of her 21-year-old British roommate
April 09, 2024
The U.N.’s atomic watchdog says an explosion caused by an alleged drone attack at Europe’s largest nuclear plant in Ukraine poses no direct threat to its safety
April 09, 2024
Turkey and Israel have announced tit-for-tat trade barriers as relations between them further deteriorated amid the war in Gaza
April 09, 2024
The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says he is “very, very concerned” about China’s aggression toward Philippine forces near disputed islands in the South China Sea
April 09, 2024
Myanmar’s military has begun basic training at military bases and schools across the country for draftees called up under the country’s recently activated conscription law
April 09, 2024
Chinese leader Xi Jinping met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in a sign of mutual support amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine and shared opposition to Western democracies led by the U.S. No details of the meeting were immediately released, although Lavrov held a news conference earlier Tuesday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at which they reaffirmed solidarity in international affairs
April 09, 2024
Germany is strongly rejecting a case brought by Nicaragua at the United Nations’ top court accusing Berlin of facilitating breaches of the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law by providing arms and other support to Israel in its deadly assault on Gaza
April 09, 2024
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is in Washington to press senior Republicans to unlock money for Ukraine
April 09, 2024
Russian space officials have aborted a test launch of a new heavy-lift rocket from a far-eastern launch pad just moments before the planned blastoff
April 09, 2024
A top Chinese leader will lead a delegation to North Korea this week
April 09, 2024
Six northern Europe countries bordering the North Sea have signed an agreement to work together to protect underwater infrastructure in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean from an increased risk of sabotage
April 09, 2024
Asia stocks are mostly higher, with investors mainly focusing on a U.S. inflation report and what it means for interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve
April 09, 2024
Police and Red Cross workers are engaged in a rescue operation at a swollen river in northern Kenya after a bus carrying an unknown number of passengers was swept away by floodwaters
April 09, 2024
Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges
April 09, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated his pledge to invade Rafah
April 09, 2024
The chairman of Japan’s Nippon Foundation says the charity will spend $2 million to help move tens of thousands more Rohingya refugees to a remote island in Bangladesh and provide them with skills training
April 09, 2024
Istanbul Airport has made five new hires to provide a stress-free travel experience for anxious passengers: therapy dogs that are ready to offer support with snuggles, belly rubs and sloppy kisses
April 09, 2024
Europe’s highest human rights court will rule on a group of landmark climate change cases aimed at forcing countries to meet international obligations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
April 09, 2024
Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site
April 09, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set for his much-anticipated visit to Washington
April 09, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her team are returning to Washington after a visit to China where they tried to tackle the biggest economic issues between the countries
April 09, 2024
The European climate agency says Earth was record hot for the 10th consecutive month in March
April 09, 2024
While world leaders have expressed shock over Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa’s decision to raid Mexico’s embassy, the unusual move — and Noboa’s relative silence about it — is unlikely to hurt him with constituents
April 08, 2024
The U.N. Security Council has revived the Palestinian Authority's hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member
April 08, 2024
Pope Francis has met with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7
April 08, 2024
Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024
Kevin Costner’s multi-episode epic “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Monday
April 08, 2024
Iran’s foreign minister has accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials, including two generals
April 08, 2024
Panama has started the trial of 27 people charged in the worldwide “Panama Papers” money laundering case
April 08, 2024
Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan
April 08, 2024
The Spanish government says it will scrap so-called “golden visas” that allow wealthy people from outside the European Union to obtain residency permits on investing more than half a million euros (dollars) in real estate
April 08, 2024
Haiti’s National Police says it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours
April 08, 2024
Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority are claiming to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand
April 08, 2024
Ever since she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects in Beijing last July, Janet Yellen has united Americans and Chinese in wanting to know what she will eat next
April 08, 2024
Austria faces its biggest espionage scandal in decades as the arrest of a former intelligence officer brings to light evidence of extensive Russian infiltration, lax official oversight and behavior worthy of a spy novel
April 08, 2024
The commander of a European Union naval mission in the Red Sea wants to significantly increase its size to better defend against attacks by Houthi rebels
April 08, 2024
The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024
As South Koreans head to the polls to elect a new 300-member parliament on this week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic concerns as the most important election issues
April 08, 2024
A senior Ukrainian official has denied Russian accusations that his country’s army fired drones at a nuclear reactor at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant
April 08, 2024
Streams of Palestinians have filed into the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis to salvage what they could from the vast destruction left in the wake of Israel’s offensive
April 08, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making an official visit to the United States this week
April 08, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is visiting Beijing to display the strength of ties with close diplomatic ally China amid Moscow's grinding war against Ukraine
April 08, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is opening hearings in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel
April 08, 2024
China’s burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight
April 08, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Biden administration will push China to change an industrial policy that poses a threat to U.S. jobs
April 08, 2024
Israel’s military says it has withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the Hamas militant group and bringing its troop presence in the territory to one of the lowest levels since the six-month war began
April 08, 2024
The new president of Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu says its parent company will oversee model certification to regain trust after a safety testing scandal
April 08, 2024
Local media reports in Mozambique say that more than 90 people including children have died after a makeshift ferry sank off the country's northern coast
April 08, 2024
In Mexico’s first presidential debate ahead of June 2 elections, former Mexico City Mayor and frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum appeared comfortable with her lead, remaining calm amid ex-Senator Xóchitl Gálvez’s personal attacks
April 08, 2024
A Malaysian shoe company has apologized and stopped selling some of its footwear after some Muslims said the logo resembled the Arabic writing for the word God
April 08, 2024
The U.S. has denounced Hong Kong’s new national security law as a tool to potentially silence dissent both at home and abroad, but so far the action from Washington has been notably muted
April 08, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher as investors looked ahead to earnings reports from top global companies and a consumer prices report that will be a gauge for U.S. inflation
April 08, 2024
South Korea has launched its second military spy satellite into space, days after North Korea reaffirmed its plan to launch multiple reconnaissance satellites this year
April 08, 2024
A crusading Brazilian Supreme Court justice is adding Elon Musk to an investigation over the dissemination of fake news and investigating him separately for alleged obstruction
April 08, 2024
A spat between Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador spiraled into a full-blown diplomatic crisis when Ecuadorian police raided Mexico’s embassy Friday night in an extremely rare show of force that international law experts, presidents and diplomats have deemed a violation of long-established international accords
April 07, 2024
A grieving father who lost his son, Jacob Flickinger, after Israeli airstrikes killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers spoke to U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken with a clear message
April 07, 2024
Officials at the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant say the site has been attacked by Ukrainian military drones, including a strike on the dome of the plant’s sixth power unit
April 07, 2024
A top Iranian military adviser has warned Israel that none of its embassies are safe following a strike in Damascus last week that killed two elite Iranian generals
April 07, 2024
International leaders have condemned Ecuador after police in the country's capital broke into the Mexican Embassy on Friday to arrest a former vice president who had been granted political asylum
April 07, 2024
The United Nations’ top court is hearing a case on Monday that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel
April 07, 2024
State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency
April 07, 2024
China’s military says it has conducted air and sea patrols and that all activities that “disrupt the South China Sea” are under control
April 07, 2024
Rwandans are commemorating 30 years since the genocide in which an estimated 800,000 people were killed by government-backed extremists, shattering the small East African country that continues to grapple with the legacy of the massacres
April 07, 2024
A raft of agreements between African countries and Dubai-based company Blue Carbon could give the company control over large swaths of land for conservation projects
April 07, 2024
A bespoke globe in the age of Google Earth
April 07, 2024
An exit poll released after Poland’s local and regional elections show Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-EU party slightly trailing the conservative opposition party that governed Poland for eight years until December
April 07, 2024
Feral cats have long wandered the gardens and elegant halls of Mexicos' presidential palace
April 07, 2024
Amal Al-Taweel and Rola Sager gave birth in a Gaza hospital on Oct. 7 — the day Hamas militants streamed across the border in a deadly attack that kicked off the war with Israel
April 07, 2024
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang and sent a message of mutual cooperation despite the nations’ differences
April 07, 2024
India's southern Andhra Pradesh state has become a positive example of the benefits of natural farming, a process of using organic matter as fertilizers and pesticides that makes crops more resilient to bad weather, and advocates say active government support is the primary driver for the state’s success
April 07, 2024
On Friday night, diplomatic relations between Mexico and Ecuador dramatically imploded after Ecuadorian police burst into Mexico’s embassy in Quito and arrested Jorge Glas, Ecuador’s former vice president
April 06, 2024
Ecuadorian authorities have taken the extraordinarily unusual step of breaking into a foreign embassy to arrest a former vice president facing corruption charges
April 06, 2024
A top military commander has renewed Iran’s promise to retaliate after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel
April 06, 2024
The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday
April 06, 2024
In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women
April 06, 2024
A Virgin Atlantic jet collided with another plane while it was being towed at Heathrow Airport on Saturday, but there were no reports of injuries
April 06, 2024
Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza
April 06, 2024
Climate activist Greta Thunberg is among dozens of people who have been detained by police in The Hague as they removed protesters who were partially blocking a road in the Dutch city
April 06, 2024
Floods caused by rising water levels in the Ural River broke a dam in a city near Russia’s border with Kazakhstan, forcing some 2,000 people to evacuate, local authorities said
April 06, 2024
A Russian space capsule with two women and one man has safely landed in a steppe in Kazakhstan after their missions aboard the International Space Station
April 06, 2024
Russian forces overnight attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles, killing at least six people and wounding 11 more in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, local officials reported
April 06, 2024
The United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines will hold their first joint naval exercises, including anti-submarine warfare training, in a show of force Sunday in the South China Sea where Beijing’s aggressive actions to assert its territorial claims have caused alarm
April 06, 2024
Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the genocide against its minority Tutsi as new mass graves are still being discovered across the country in a grim reminder of the scale of the killings
April 06, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visited a new semiconductor plant for which his government has pledged more than 1 trillion yen ($7 billion) of support to secure a steady supply of chips on Saturday
April 06, 2024
The now-aging hippies who took over a derelict naval base in Copenhagen more than 50 years ago and turned it into a freewheeling community known as Christiania want to boot out criminals who control the community’s lucrative market for hashish by ripping up the cobblestoned street where it openly changes hands
April 06, 2024
Muslims around the world will soon bid farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr
April 06, 2024
The Israeli military says two basic mistakes led to the series of drone strikes that killed seven staffers from the World Central Kitchen charity
April 06, 2024
It’s the last wish of a dying mother, to see her daughter once more
April 06, 2024
As two women candidates lead the polls in the race toward Mexico's June 2 presidential election, one question has been splashed across polls, debates, media and conversations across Mexico
April 06, 2024
The Israeli military’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has triggered unprecedented criticism from European leaders
April 06, 2024
Mexico is breaking off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who has sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption
April 06, 2024
Rescuers are planning to bring in heavy equipment to try to recover two bodies buried under boulders on a hiking trail, three days after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in 25 years
April 06, 2024
As U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen appeals to Chinese leaders to change their domestic manufacturing policies on the second day of an official visit, state media are receiving her message with skepticism, and anxiety about more U.S. tariffs on green energy products
April 06, 2024
Two weeks after Hong Kong introduced a new national security law, life in the city appears unchanged
April 06, 2024
It was a monumental week for Brazil’s Krenak Indigenous group after decades of being overlooked at best, and at worst, subjugated and tortured
April 05, 2024
President Joe Biden has written to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel
April 05, 2024
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico's old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America
April 05, 2024
The Israel-Hamas war has stretched on for half a year and has become one of the most destructive, deadly, and intractable conflicts of the 21st century
April 05, 2024
The European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal migrant arrivals, spurring some member countries to temporarily reintroduce border checks within what is normally a wide
April 05, 2024
Italian police say that underpaid and exploited Chinese workers working for an unauthorized subcontractor made handbags and accessories for the Giorgio Armani fashion house
April 05, 2024
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says the levels of the crucial heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere reached historic highs last year, growing at near-record fast paces
April 05, 2024
The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months following two successful cross-border operations but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives
April 05, 2024
McDonald’s is buying its restaurants in Israel from a longtime franchisee, hoping to reset sales that have slumped due to boycotts in the region
April 05, 2024
U.S. and Chinese defense officials are meeting for the first time in nearly two years to discuss unsafe and aggressive ship and aircraft incidents between the two militaries in the Pacific region
April 05, 2024
It has been 21 years since Sean Paul’s dancehall anthem “Get Busy” topped the Billboard Hot 100 and introduced new audiences to his Jamaican genres
April 05, 2024
An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024
Russian authorities have again tried to link the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall to Ukraine, saying one of the detained suspects had photos on his phone depicting troops in camouflage uniforms with the Ukrainian flag
April 05, 2024
British lawmakers who may have been targeted in a sexting scam were urged Friday to go to police, after a senior Conservative admitted disclosing the personal phone numbers of some colleagues to an unknown individual who held “compromising” material on him
April 05, 2024
Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years
April 05, 2024
India’s main opposition party vowed to boost social spending and reverse what it views as a slide into autocracy as it laid out its campaign promises on Friday, two weeks before the start of a weeks-long, multi-phase general election
April 05, 2024
A pro-Western career diplomat and a close ally of Slovakia’s populist Prime Minister Robert Fico are facing each other in a presidential runoff to determine who will be the country's next head of state
April 05, 2024
The Israeli military has dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission
April 05, 2024
A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport
April 05, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says that measures the Israeli government has announced to expand the flow of aid into Gaza are welcome but may not be enough to meet the Biden administration’s demands for dramatic improvements in humanitarian conditions in the territory
April 05, 2024
The bodies of the seven Revolutionary Guard members killed in an airstrike widely attributed to Israel that destroyed Iran’s Consulate in the Syrian capital were laid to rest in Tehran amid nationwide protests
April 05, 2024
Moscow defense officials say Ukraine have fired more than 40 drones into Russia’s bordering Rostov region in what appeared to be one of its biggest aerial attacks in the war and as Kyiv’s forces step up their assaults on Russian soil
April 05, 2024
Asian shares are mostly declining after a Federal Reserve official said the central bank might not deliver any of the cuts to interest rates this year that Wall Street has been counting on
April 05, 2024
Israel says it’s taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza
April 05, 2024
A new film in Nigeria is being screened to remember the nearly 100 schoolgirls who are still in captivity 10 years after they were seized from their school in the country’s northeast
April 05, 2024
Russia is renewing its strikes on Ukraine's energy system
April 05, 2024
Crowds are gathering in Tokyo to enjoy Japan’s famed cherry blossoms, which are blooming later than expected in the capital because of cold weather
April 05, 2024
Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years
April 05, 2024
When Israel declared war against Hamas last October, it stood unified at home and enjoyed broad backing from around the world following an unprecedented attack by the Islamic militant group
April 05, 2024
As South Koreans prepare to vote for a new 300-member parliament next week, many are choosing their livelihoods and other domestic topics as their most important election issues
April 05, 2024
The U.S. treasury secretary has started her trip to China with a morning meeting with American, European and Japanese business representatives in the world’s second-largest economy
April 05, 2024
A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury
April 04, 2024
Former President Donald Trump offered a tough message to Israel in its war against Hamas on Thursday, urging the country to: “Get it over with.”
April 04, 2024
President Joe Biden has told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that future U.S. support for Gaza war depends on new steps to protect civilians and aid workers
April 04, 2024
Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel is making his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with the action thriller, “Monkey Man.”
April 04, 2024
A judge has ruled that migrant children in makeshift camps along the U.S.-Mexico border waiting to be processed by Border Patrol are in the agency’s custody
April 04, 2024
Day-trippers to Venice who fail to pay 5 euros ($5.43) to enter the lagoon city’s historic center during a time-limited pilot program launching later this month will face steep fines
April 04, 2024
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune's surprise decision to schedule elections earlier than expected in Algeria is prompting suspicion and appears to be awakening discouraged political parties from a deep lethargy
April 04, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
April 04, 2024
Human Rights Watch says an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza last October killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children
April 04, 2024
Nigerian authorities has asked in court for cryptocurrency exchange Binance and two of its executives to be tried for alleged money laundering and tax evasion, the first legal step following weeks of a criminal investigation into the trading platform
April 04, 2024
Finland says it will extend the closure of its border crossing points with Russia beyond the current April 14 deadline “until further notice” due to a high risk of organized migration orchestrated by Moscow
April 04, 2024
Police in Italy, Austria, Romania and Slovakia have arrested 22 people as part of an investigation into the suspected theft of hundreds millions of euros in post-pandemic relief funds from the European Union
April 04, 2024
The British government will grant extensions to several large U.K. airports unable to meet the June 1 deadline to fully install new scanning technology
April 04, 2024
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that prospective negotiations to end the fighting in Ukraine could be successful only if they take Moscow’s interests in the account
April 04, 2024
Throughout history, solar eclipses have had profound impact on adherents of various religions around the world
April 04, 2024
The U.N.’s leading human rights body has agreed to measures aimed at putting pressure on Myanmar and Iran, whose governments have been accused of using violence against their own people
April 04, 2024
Ugandan gay rights activists asked the international community to mount more pressure on the government of Uganda to repeal an anti-gay law which the country’s Constitutional Court refused to nullify on Wednesday
April 04, 2024
More than 600 British jurists are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel
April 04, 2024
South Korea’s president has met the leader of thousands of striking junior doctors and promised to respect their position during future talks over the government's contentious push to sharply increase medical school admissions
April 04, 2024
Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group says its armed wing launched drone attacks on the airport and a military headquarters in the capital, Naypyitaw, but the country’s ruling military said it destroyed the drones as they attacked
April 04, 2024
Lebanon's billionaire caretaker prime minister has denied all allegations of money laundering after a complaint was formally filed in France by two anti-corruption groups this week
April 04, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher after a firm finish on Wall Street, as expectations remained solid for U.S. interest rate cuts this year
April 04, 2024
Israel says it’s taking steps to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza, including reopening a key border crossing into hard-hit northern Gaza
April 04, 2024
Panicked passengers have jumped into the sea to escape a raging ferry fire in the Gulf of Thailand, and all 108 people on board are safe
April 04, 2024
A Ukrainian regional governor says a Russian drone attack on Kharkiv has killed four people and wounded 12
April 04, 2024
NATO is marking its 75th anniversary
April 04, 2024
The attack on a Moscow concert hall, the bloodiest assault on the Russian soil in two decades, appears to be setting the stage for an increasingly harsh response by President Vladimir Putin after his tightly orchestrated electoral landslide last month
April 04, 2024
The United States and its Western allies are feuding with Russia over its diamond production, but they joined forces to keep supporting the Kimberley Process, which aims to eliminate the trade in “blood diamonds” that helped fuel devastating conflicts in Africa
April 04, 2024
More than 250 Holocaust survivors have joined an international initiative to share their stories of loss and survival with students around the world during a time of rising antisemitism following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the war in the Gaza Strip
April 04, 2024
Senior finance and central bank officials from Southeast Asia and major economies are meeting in the scenic Laotian city of Luang Prabang to discuss ways to help the region build resilience against shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and natural disasters brought on by climate change
April 04, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to a China that is determined to avoid open conflict with the United States
April 04, 2024
Rescuers are searching for dozens of people out of contact a day after Taiwan’s strongest earthquake in a quarter century damaged buildings, caused multiple rockslides and killed nine people
April 04, 2024
The Palestinians want the Security Council to vote later this month on their revived request for full membership in the United Nations, despite the United States reiterating that Israel and the Palestinians must first negotiate a peace agreement
April 04, 2024
Plans are underway to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off Canada's northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite the young orca with its extended family
April 03, 2024
Russia’s defense minister has warned his French counterpart against deploying troops to Ukraine in a rare phone call and noted that Moscow stands ready to take part in talks to end the fighting
April 03, 2024
Saudi Arabia will host the WTA Finals as part of a three-year deal with the women’s professional tennis tour that will increase the prize money for this November’s season-ending championship to a record $15.25 million
April 03, 2024
A top U.S. commander in the Middle East is acknowledging concern about retaliatory attacks on American forces there
April 03, 2024
Argentina says that it had cut 15,000 state jobs as part of President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending
April 03, 2024
A top U.S. commander says Houthi rebels in Yemen may be running through their supplies of drone swarms and anti-ship ballistic missiles as the pace of their attacks has slowed a bit
April 03, 2024
A $62 million project to dredge Puerto Rico’s biggest and most important seaport has started amid fierce opposition from environmentalists and a pending lawsuit
April 03, 2024
On April 4, 2014, outside a heavily guarded government compound in eastern Afghanistan, Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus was killed by an Afghan police officer as she sat in her car
April 03, 2024
Britain’s main opposition parties are demanding that the Conservative government publish legal advice it has received on whether Israel has broken international humanitarian law during the war in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Police in Paris have removed about 50 migrants, including families with young children, from the Paris City Hall plaza as the capital prepares to mark 100 days to the start of the Olympic Games
April 03, 2024
Egyptian state media say the bodies of six foreign aid workers killed in a series of Israeli strikes have been transported out of the Gaza Strip before their repatriation
April 03, 2024
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the organization is debating a plan to provide more predictable military support to Ukraine as better armed Russian troops assert control on the battlefield
April 03, 2024
Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of disaster over a devastating El Nino drought sweeping across much of southern Africa
April 03, 2024
Luis Rubiales is reportedly returning from the Dominican Republic amid a judicial probe into the business deal to hold the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia
April 03, 2024
Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century
April 03, 2024
Uganda’s constitutional court has upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
April 03, 2024
Thai wildlife officials laid out a plan on Wednesday to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict
April 03, 2024
Pope Francis has led thousands of people in a moment of silence to pray for the aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Inflation has fallen again in Europe, to 2.4% in March
April 03, 2024
Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic since a disarmament program launched nearly a decade ago
April 03, 2024
Ukraine has lowered the military conscription age from 27 to 25 in an effort to replenish its depleted ranks after more than two years of war following Russia’s full-scale invasion
April 03, 2024
Israeli airstrikes have killed aid workers delivering food in Gaza
April 03, 2024
Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on a visit to Japan that he wants to “further strengthen” relations between the countries
April 03, 2024
Asian shares are mostly declining after Wall Street broke its record-breaking run-up
April 03, 2024
Human Rights Watch says Colombia and Panama are failing to protect the hundreds of thousands of migrants who cross the Darien jungle on their way to the United States and have become increasingly exposed to robberies and sexual violence
April 03, 2024
A crowd of people, some weeping, has gathered at an amusement park in South Korea to bid farewell to a giant panda before her departure to China
April 03, 2024
A Biden administration-appointed review board has issued a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency
April 03, 2024
A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck off Taiwan, and Japan issued a tsunami alert for the southern Japanese island group of Okinawa
April 02, 2024
North Korea says it tested another new hypersonic intermediate-range missile powered with solid propellants as it continues to expand its nuclear and missile program while tensions deepen with its neighbors and the United States
April 02, 2024
The deaths of seven World Central Kitchen workers in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza was a tragic turn for an American homegrown charity that, in less than 15 years, has mushroomed from the grassroots brainchild of a celebrity chef into one of the world’s most recognized food relief organizations
April 02, 2024
Several humanitarian aid organizations have suspended operations in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers
April 02, 2024
Pepe Aguilar says he feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit
April 02, 2024
More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks as deadly gang violence continues
April 02, 2024
An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world Tuesday
April 02, 2024
The Biden administration approved a new wind project off the Massachusetts coast Tuesday that is large enough it will provide more electricity than the state’s former coal-fired generating station
April 02, 2024
Google’s widely used Chrome browser has offered a private browsing mode called “Incognito” for nearly a decade
April 02, 2024
Stevie Wonder, Miranda Lambert, Billie Eilish, Nicki Minaj, Peter Frampton, Katy Perry, Smokey Robinson and J Balvin are just some of the over 200 names featured on a new open letter submitted by the Artist Rights Alliance non-profit, calling on artificial intelligence tech companies, developers, platforms, digital music services and platforms to stop using AI “to infringe upon and devalue the rights of human artists."
April 02, 2024
Comedian Joe Flaherty has died
April 02, 2024
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have discussed Taiwan, artificial intelligence and security issues in a call meant to demonstrate a return to regular leader-to-leader dialogue between the two powers
April 02, 2024
Klaus Mäkelä has been hired to succeed Riccardo Muti as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and will become the youngest head since its start in 1891
April 02, 2024
A prize-winning author from Guadeloupe who was known as the ‘Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature has died
April 02, 2024
A fire has broken out at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations and 15 people are dead
April 02, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall massacre that left 144 people dead
April 02, 2024
World Central Kitchen, the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, announced it is immediately pausing its work in the Gaza Strip after an apparent Israeli strike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners
April 02, 2024
Senegal is inaugurating Bassirou Diomaye Faye as its new president, completing the previously little-known opposition figure’s dramatic ascent from prison to the palace in recent weeks
April 02, 2024
A failed Australian taxi-industry disruptor has told a court that Uber began illegally operating its ridesharing service in Australia a decade ago to gain an unfair advantage over competitors
April 02, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street retreated as surprisingly strong U.S. manufacturing data cast doubts over how soon the Federal Reserve might cut interest rates
April 02, 2024
Finnish police say a number of people were wounded in a shooting at a school in Helsinki and a suspect was detained
April 02, 2024
Iran and one of its key proxies have vowed to respond to a strike widely attributed to Israel that demolished Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital of Damascus and killed seven, including two Iranian generals
April 02, 2024
Hong Kong stocks are leading gains in Asian markets while investors evaluate economic data from South Korea and Australia
April 02, 2024
An aid group says an Israeli airstrike on its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024
An aid group says an Israeli strike that hit its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024
More than 20 countries across Africa have loosened restrictions on abortion in recent years, but experts say many women probably don’t realize they are entitled to a legal abortion
April 02, 2024
Peruvian President Dina Boluarte has replaced six ministers after they resigned as her government is rocked by a political crisis fueled by an alleged illicit enrichment scandal involving luxury watches
April 02, 2024
When the French Riviera town of Menton prepares to host its lemon festival each year, it needs more than 140 tons of citrus for the showy floats and park displays that attract thousands of spectators
April 02, 2024
A top official in Russia's Security Council said the United States was imposing economic obligations on its NATO partners and setting conditions for buying specific weapons and equipment.
April 01, 2024
South Korea's military says North Korea test-fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward waters off its eastern coast, as it pushes to advance its weapons aimed at U.S. targets in the Pacific
April 01, 2024
Heavy gunfire erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours
April 01, 2024
On Monday, the Israeli military withdrew from its second devastating raid on Gaza’s largest hospital, Shifa, leaving it in ruins, with the walls blown out and frame blackened
April 01, 2024
The mayor of Colombia’s second largest city has issued a six-month ban on prostitution in two of the city’s most famous neighborhoods, arguing that it is a necessary step to prevent the sexual exploitation of children
April 01, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is weighing whether to go ahead with an $18 billion arms transfer package to Israel
April 01, 2024
Florida residents are raising concerns about family and friends in Haiti amid ongoing violence in the Caribbean island nation
April 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to shut down Al Jazeera’s operations in Israel, calling it a “terror channel” that spreads incitement, after parliament passed a law clearing the way for the closure
April 01, 2024
A Russian court extended the pre-trial detention of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5, a Reuters witness reported from the courtroom.
April 01, 2024
The Pentagon confirms that a senior Defense Department official who attended last years’ NATO summit in Lithuania had symptoms similar to those reported by U_S_ officials who have experienced “Havana syndrome."
April 01, 2024
Syrian state media says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside
April 01, 2024
Senior U.S. and Israeli officials planned to hold a virtual meeting on Monday to discuss the Biden administration's alternative proposals to an Israeli military invasion of
April 01, 2024
American and Israeli officials are planning talks to discuss the potential expansion of Israel’s war against Hamas to the southern Gaza city of Rafah
April 01, 2024
Israeli high-tech startups are still raising funds despite the country's war with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, although at a slightly slower pace, Startup
April 01, 2024
Russia’s top security agency says it has broken up what it called a “terrorist cell” in southern Russia whose members had provided weapons and cash to suspected attackers of the Moscow concert hall
April 01, 2024
Officials say a Pakistani appeals court has suspended a 14-year prison sentence for former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife in a corruption case
April 01, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revived moves on Monday to shutter Qatari satellite television station Al Jazeera in Israel, pledging to take "immediate action" to close the
April 01, 2024
British royalty and the media can be an explosive mix, as recent weeks of speculation over the health of Kate, Princess of Wales, have shown
April 01, 2024
The opposition’s surprise success in Turkey’s local elections, which saw it outperform President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party and add to municipalities gained five years ago, has left many wondering if it’s a turning point for the country reeling from economic hardship
April 01, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious "Havana syndrome" ailment that has afflicted U.S. diplomats and spies
April 01, 2024
Germany has legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana
April 01, 2024
Japan’s imperial family has made an Instagram debut with a barrage of posts, hoping to shake off their reclusive image and reach out to younger people on social media
April 01, 2024
The French foreign minister has pressed China on trade issues and the war in Ukraine ahead of a planned visit to France by Chinese leader Xi Jinping later this spring
April 01, 2024
With a population of over 1.4 billion people and close to 970 million voters, India’s general election pits Prime Minister Narendra Modi, an avowed Hindu nationalist, against a broad alliance of opposition parties that are struggling to play catch up
April 01, 2024
Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction
April 01, 2024
The mysterious "Havana syndrome" ailment that has afflicted U.S. diplomats and spies across the world may be linked to energy weapons wielded by members of a Russian military
April 01, 2024
Palestinian residents say the Israeli military has withdrawn from Gaza’s main hospital after a two-week raid, leaving behind a vast swath of destruction
April 01, 2024
South Korea’s president has vowed not to back down in the face of vehement protests by doctors seeking to derail his plan to drastically increase medical school admissions
April 01, 2024
A group in Taiwan is focusing on seniors as it tries to combat fake news, one conversation at a time
April 01, 2024
Asian shares are mixed, with Shanghai gaining 1% after surveys showed improvements in manufacturing conditions in China
April 01, 2024
Dr. John Nkengasong has spent decades working in Africa on HIV and AIDS, his career intertwined with a U.S. program that has transformed care in some of the hardest-hit countries and saved an estimated 25 million lives
April 01, 2024
A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of its forces recently attacked U.S. troops
April 01, 2024
The U.S. military says its forces have destroyed two unmanned aerial vehicles in the Houthi-held areas in Yemen and over the crucial shipping route in the Red Sea
March 31, 2024
Ecuador's Interior Ministry says armed gunmen have attacked a group of people in the coastal city of Guayaquil, killing eight people and injuring eight others
March 31, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia
March 31, 2024
An Israeli airstrike has hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding another 15
March 31, 2024
Israeli military strikes killed dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new
March 31, 2024
A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region has left one dead
March 31, 2024
King Charles III is joining the queen and other members of the royal family for an Easter service at Windsor Castle in what will be his most significant public appearance since he was diagnosed with cancer last month
March 31, 2024
Thousands of people have attended a rally by an alliance of India’s opposition parties that criticized the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of stifling opponents and undermining democracy ahead of a national election next month
March 31, 2024
Pope Francis appears to have overcome concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass
March 31, 2024
Romania and Bulgaria partially joined Europe’s Schengen ID-check-free travel zone, marking a new step in the two countries’ integration with the European Union
March 31, 2024
A new drought has left millions facing hunger in southern Africa as they experience the effects of extreme weather that scientists say is becoming more frequent and more damaging
March 31, 2024
Manufacturing in China expanded in March after contracting for five consecutive months
March 31, 2024
The race is on for control of Istanbul and other key cities as Turkey holds local elections
March 31, 2024
Actor Chance Perdomo has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash
March 30, 2024
Truce talks between Israel and Hamas will resume on Sunday in Cairo, the latest attempt to bring about a pause after nearly six months of war
March 30, 2024
Napoli’s players have taken a knee before their Serie A game against Atalanta in a public show of support for teammate Juan Jesus
March 30, 2024
Ambassadors from a number of foreign countries took part in a ceremony on Saturday in memory of the victims of this month's concert hall attack near Moscow which left dozens dead,
March 30, 2024
Foreign diplomats in Russia have laid flowers at the site of last week’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 144 people
March 30, 2024
After more than 40 years, Macao’s horse racing track has hosted its final races, bringing an end to the sport in the city famous for its massive casinos
March 30, 2024
The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night
March 30, 2024
Each Holy Week, thousands of residents of the colonial, volcano-fringed city of Antigua participate in some of Guatemala’s oldest and most popular Easter traditions
March 30, 2024
After the 1959 revolution, Cuba repressed gay people and many were sent to labor camps
March 30, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight
March 30, 2024
Four United Nations military observers have been wounded while patrolling the southern Lebanese border after a shell exploded near them
March 30, 2024
Heavily armed police have cordoned off part of a Dutch town and say that multiple people are being held hostage in a building there
March 30, 2024
Preparations are underway for the gardens of the Versailles Palace to welcome Olympic horse riders and tens of thousands of visitors when it hosts equestrian and modern pentathlon events during this summer’s Paris Games
March 30, 2024
The United States has welcomed the formation of a new Palestinian autonomy government, signaling it is accepting the new lineup as a step toward political reform
March 30, 2024
Televised images have swept Peru of government agents from an investigative team breaking into the president’s residence with a sledgehammer
March 30, 2024
A dramatic decision by Israel's Supreme Court on drafting ultra-Orthodox men into the Israeli military could spell political trouble for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 30, 2024
Representatives of two armed groups in Congo signed solemn pledges this week to both their violence-wracked country and the wider world: We will do better to respect and protect civilians
March 30, 2024
Japanese government health officials are raiding a factory that produces health supplements they say have killed at least five people and hospitalized more than 100 others
March 30, 2024
In Indonesia, environmental groups continue to point to deforestation and environmental degradation worsening the effects of natural disasters such as floods, landslides, drought and forest fires
March 30, 2024
Ontario’s Niagara Region has declared a state of emergency as it prepares to welcome up to a million visitors for the solar eclipse in early April
March 30, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview published on Friday that if Ukraine does not get promised U.S. military aid blocked by disputes in Congress, its forces will have to
March 29, 2024
A federal judge sharply questions the Biden administration’s position that it bears no responsibility for housing and feeding migrant children who are waiting for agents in makeshift camps
March 29, 2024
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland is a multi-layered tragedy: For the families and friends of those killed or presumed dead, it’s a profound and personal loss
March 29, 2024
The Vatican says Pope Francis is skipping the traditional Good Friday procession at Rome’s Colosseum to protect his health, adding to concerns about his frail condition during a particularly busy liturgical period
March 29, 2024
Joe Biden on Friday acknowledged "the pain being felt" by many Arab Americans over the war in Gaza and over U.S. support of Israel and its military offensive
March 29, 2024
The United States said on Friday it is taking steps to impose new visa restrictions on multiple Hong Kong officials over the crackdown on rights and freedoms in the Chinese-
March 29, 2024
Wrexham, the fourth-tier Welsh team co-owned by actor Ryan Reynolds, took a step toward another promotion with a 2-0 victory over Mansfield
March 29, 2024
The office of Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he has vetoed a law that would have allowed over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill for girls and women ages 15 and above
March 29, 2024
Famine is both a risk and "quite possibly" present in at least some areas in northern Gaza, a senior State Department official told Reuters on Friday, while adding that the
March 29, 2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas
March 29, 2024
The president of U.S.-funded Radio Free Asia says its Hong Kong bureau has been closed because of safety concerns under a new national security law, deepening concerns about the city’s media freedoms
March 29, 2024
The Democratic Unionist Party says its leader has stepped down after being charged with allegations of a historic nature
March 29, 2024
Israel sustained its aerial and ground bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing dozens of Palestinians, as fighting raged around Gaza City's main Al
March 29, 2024
Hundreds of Christians have joined the Good Friday procession in Jerusalem’s Old City, commemorating one of the faith’s most sacred days with noticeably thinner crowds amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
March 29, 2024
President Joe Biden says the U.S. is working every day to secure the release of a Wall Street Journal reporter detained in Russia
March 29, 2024
France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics
March 29, 2024
On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn
March 29, 2024
Emergency workers in South Africa are searching for the bodies of victims after a bus carrying pilgrims to an Easter gathering plunged off a bridge and caught fire
March 29, 2024
Russia said on Friday that major powers needed a new approach to North Korea, accusing the United States and its allies of ratchetting up military tensions in
March 29, 2024
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti says nine people have been detained by Tajikistan’s state security service over suspected contact with the perpetrators of last week’s attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 143 people
March 29, 2024
Best picture winner "Oppenheimer" finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its
March 29, 2024
Ukraine's armed forces say Moscow launched a large-scale attack on energy infrastructure Friday, with a mass barrage of 99 drones and missiles hitting regions across the country
March 29, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher in quiet, Good Friday holiday trading
March 29, 2024
Chinese telecoms gear company Huawei Technologies has reported its profit more than doubled last year as its cloud and digital businesses thrived in spite of U.S. sanctions
March 29, 2024
In the week since a line of Japanese health supplements began being recalled, five people have died and more than 100 people are hospitalized as of Friday
March 29, 2024
“Oppenheimer” has finally opened in the nation where two cities were obliterated by the nuclear weapons invented by the American scientist at the center of the film
March 29, 2024
A video showing a Lebanese nun asking young students to pray for the “men of the resistance,” a reference to Hezbollah fighters, has sparked controversy in Lebanon
March 29, 2024
When a French minister compared Italy's nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last year to the leader of the French far
March 29, 2024
China’s first generation of migrant workers played an integral role in the country's transformation from an impoverished nation to an economic powerhouse
March 29, 2024
U.S. citizens jailed in Russia include a Wall Street Journal reporter, a vacationing corporate security executive and a dual national visiting her family in Tatarstan
March 29, 2024
The Moscow concert hall attack a week ago that left more than 140 people dead was a major blunder for Russia’s law enforcement agencies
March 29, 2024
Americans are more worried about legal immigrants committing crimes in the U.S. than they were a few years ago, a change driven largely by increased concern among Republicans
March 29, 2024
A Filipino villager says he has signed up to be nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he says he will devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea
March 29, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview published on Friday, said Ukraine's proposed peace plan was pointless as it was based on unacceptable notions like Moscow's
March 29, 2024
King Charles, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, told Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis on Thursday that he hopes to visit the Commonwealth nation next
March 29, 2024
The U.S. is asking American companies to stop shipping goods to more than 600 foreign parties over fears the items could be diverted to Russia for use in its
March 28, 2024
Authorities say a bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa, killing at least 45 people
March 28, 2024
A mob in the Mexican tourist city of Taxco has brutally beat a woman to death because she was suspected of kidnapping and killing a young girl, rampaging just hours before the city's Holy Week procession
March 28, 2024
Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered an end to government subsidies for many ultra-Orthodox men who don't serve in the army
March 28, 2024
Bristol Myers Squibb said on Thursday its experimental drug to treat Crohn's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel condition, failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage study.
March 28, 2024
British-American filmmaker Christopher Nolan, fresh from his Oscar victory for historical drama "Oppenheimer", will receive a knighthood from Britain for services to film.
March 28, 2024
Several central and Eastern European countries have begun marking the 20th anniversary of the largest expansion of the NATO military alliance when formerly socialist countries became members of the bloc
March 28, 2024
A nonprofit organization has sued the U.S. National Park Service over a plan to remove Puerto Rico’s famous stray cats from a historic district in the U.S. territory
March 28, 2024
The United States' top general said on Thursday that Israel had not received every weapon that it has asked for, in part because President Joe Biden's administration was not
March 28, 2024
Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil
March 28, 2024
The U.K. government says that the Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” director Christopher Nolan and his producer wife Emma Thomas will receive a knighthood and damehood for their services to film
March 28, 2024
Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik said on Thursday that Serbs would block the work of Bosnia's national government unless election laws imposed by
March 28, 2024
A new study in Hungary shows that dogs, beyond being able to respond to commands like “sit” and “stay,” can learn to associate words with specific objects
March 28, 2024
Less than a minute before Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed from the impact of a colliding cargo ship, a first responder on emergency radio answered the crew's
March 28, 2024
The top United Nations court has ordered Israel to take measures including opening more land crossings to allow food, water, fuel and other supplies into Gaza to tackle crippling shortages in the war-ravaged enclave
March 28, 2024
Russia’s top investigative body says that another suspect has been detained as an accomplice in the attack by gunmen on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 143 people
March 28, 2024
The White House on Thursday dismissed as "nonsense" Russia's charge of Ukraine's involvement in last week's attack on Moscow's Crocus City concert hall that claimed more than
March 28, 2024
The former Gucci designer Alessandro Michele has been named the new creative director at Valentino, following the sudden departure last week of Pierpaolo Piccioli after 25 years
March 28, 2024
Emergency services in Spain say that two people have died after falling into the Atlantic Ocean on its northern coast
March 28, 2024
Russia has vetoed a U.N. resolution, effectively abolishing the monitoring of U.N. sanctions against North Korea by a panel of U.N. experts
March 28, 2024
French lawmakers have condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a “bloody and murderous repression."
March 28, 2024
A shortage of eggs in shops during Holy Week has led Norwegians to flock to supermarkets across the border in Sweden and hoard the traditional Easter food
March 28, 2024
The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform
March 28, 2024
The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director
March 28, 2024
Four of the largest school boards in the Canadian province of Ontario have launched lawsuits against TikTok, Meta and SnapChat alleging the social media platforms are disrupting student learning
March 28, 2024
King Charles III stressed the importance of friendship and acts of caring in a recorded message delivered to a traditional pre-Easter church service, which the monarch skipped as he undergoes cancer treatment
March 28, 2024
A British comedian has been ordered to remove a picture of a hot dog from a poster in London subway stations for his new standup show
March 28, 2024
Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year while dozens have been lynched by so-called self-defence brigades, the U.N. human rights office said on Thursday
March 28, 2024
The Philippine president says his government will enforce a “countermeasure package” in response to “aggressive and dangerous attacks” by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships in the disputed South China Sea
March 28, 2024
Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison
March 28, 2024
Authorities say Russia has fired salvoes of drones and missiles overnight at southern and eastern regions of Ukraine, injuring more than a dozen people as the Kremlin’s forces persevered with attritional attacks designed to wear down Ukrainian defenses
March 28, 2024
The owner, operator and charterer of the container ship that struck Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday are likely to face lawsuits over its collapse and
March 28, 2024
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia was working with partners amid unprecedented pressure from the United States and European Union after Reuters reported
March 28, 2024
The coach of Oxford’s crew taking part in the Boat Race has described the pollution in London’s River Thames as a “national disgrace” as the company responsible for its upkeep faces mounting financial difficulties that critics say will need it to be taken back into state hands
March 28, 2024
Lawmakers in France’s lower house of parliament have approved a bill that would ban discrimination over the texture, length, color or style of someone’s hair
March 28, 2024
China says it will lift tariffs placed on Australian wine over three years ago, in a sign of improving ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024
Asian shares have opened mixed after U.S. stocks broke out of a three-day lull to close at a record
March 28, 2024
A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics
March 28, 2024
Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year
March 28, 2024
Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country’s booming but crowded market for electric cars
March 28, 2024
Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504
March 28, 2024
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich marks a year behind bars on Friday following his arrest by Russian authorities who accuse him of espionage but have offered no supporting evidence
March 28, 2024
With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they’ll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote
March 28, 2024
Ukraine's foreign minister has arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024
An immigration crackdown in Mexico has hit Venezuelans especially hard
March 28, 2024
An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza
March 28, 2024
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March 28, 2024
Taiwan's foreign ministry said on Thursday it believes U.S. support will remain unchanged no matter who wins the presidential election, but it will stay on guard for Taiwan-China
March 28, 2024
The special U_N_ envoy for Congo says security in the African nation’s mineral-rich east has deteriorated since recent elections, with a rebel group allegedly linked to neighboring Rwanda making “significant advances and expanding its territory.”
March 27, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has told Brazilian executives that a proposed deal between the European Union and the South American trade bloc Mercosur is bad for both parties
March 27, 2024
Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister for Haiti have issued their first official statement
March 27, 2024
Results from Senegal’s tightly contested presidential election show a previously little-known opposition figure won over 54% of the votes
March 27, 2024
Protesters in Slovakia have formed a human chain around the country’s public television and radio building in anger over a takeover plan by the government whose populist, pro-Russia prime minister recently labeled several private media outlets his enemies
March 27, 2024
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro claimed victory in the country's presidential election in the early hours of Monday morning, even as the country's opposition said its candidate
March 27, 2024
Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza
March 27, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson has sat on a funding package that would send desperately needed ammunition and weaponry to Ukraine for over a month
March 27, 2024
The missing workers from the Baltimore bridge collapse all hailed from Mexico or Central America before they settled in the Maryland area
March 27, 2024
Venezuela presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales said on Wednesday he is willing to hand over his place on the ballot to a unity candidate, amid uncertainty over who
March 27, 2024
An exhibit in the French capital before this summer's Paris Olympics shows how the games have been a “mirror of society” since the beginning of the 20th century
March 27, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas
March 27, 2024
Two large portraits of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been spray-prainted on a property owned by the family of a former Czech foreign minister behind a monument to Soviet soldiers in Vienna
March 27, 2024
Since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, fears have risen in neighboring Moldova that it could also be in Moscow’s crosshairs
March 27, 2024
Parents of more than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren who were rescued after more than two weeks in captivity say they saw them and that they couldn't hold back tears of joy during the reunion
March 27, 2024
Russian state investigators said on Wednesday they had received 143 reports about people who had gone missing as a result of last Friday's mass shooting in Moscow.
March 27, 2024
A British financial trader described as the ringleader in the manipulation of a key interest rate before and after the global financial crisis has lost his appeal to have his conviction quashed
March 27, 2024
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is calling out China’s excess production in green energy, calling it unfair competition that “distorts global prices” and hurts companies and workers around the world
March 27, 2024
An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has told a newspaper in the country that he would seek asylum in neighboring Norway in the wake of a deportation order by authorities in Stockholm
March 27, 2024
Pope Francis appears in better health, walking into the Vatican audience hall on his own with a cane for his weekly audience and delivering his prepared text with a clear voice
March 27, 2024
The death toll in last week’s Moscow concert hall attack rose to 140 on Wednesday after another victim died in a hospital, Russian officials said
March 27, 2024
A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022
March 27, 2024
China’s nationalist leader Xi Jinping has called for closer trade ties with the U.S. during a meeting with top American business leaders in Beijing
March 27, 2024
A minor South Korean opposition party launched by disgraced former justice minister Cho Kuk has emerged as potentially the strongest spoiler to the chances of either
March 27, 2024
Tom Hayes, the first trader jailed worldwide for interest rate rigging, lost his appeal against his conviction in a London court on Wednesday.
March 27, 2024
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of his top security officials
March 27, 2024
Health supplement products believed to have caused two deaths and sickened more than 100 people have been ordered to be taken off store shelves in Japan
March 27, 2024
India has strongly objected to remarks made by the United States on the arrest of key opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, the foreign ministry said on
March 27, 2024
Taiwan has commissioned two new navy ships as a safeguard against the rising threat from China, which has been ratcheting up its naval and air force missions around the island that it claims as its own territory to be annexed by force if necessary
March 27, 2024
Around 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, according to the Israeli military
March 27, 2024
An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon has killed seven of its members
March 27, 2024
Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street slipped a bit further from its record highs
March 27, 2024
Lawmakers in Thailand’s lower house of Parliament have overwhelmingly approved a marriage equality bill hat would make the country the first in Southeast Asia to legalize equal rights for marriage partners of any gender
March 27, 2024
Indonesia’s top court is hearing appeals against the presidential election results lodged by two losing candidates who are alleging widespread irregularities and fraud at the polls and demanding a revote
March 27, 2024
China has won a nearly three-year-long dispute with Australia at the World Trade Organization over tariffs on steel products that began during a low point of bilateral relations between the countries
March 27, 2024
Months after Hamas attackers killed 1,200 people, a string of Israeli farming communities they targeted just across the border fence with Gaza remain all but empty
March 27, 2024
Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia
March 27, 2024
The British royal family learned the hard way: in the modern media world, if you don't fill an information vacuum, others will fill it for you, and it's not likely to be pretty
March 27, 2024
The Brazilian and the French presidents announced on Tuesday a plan to invest 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) on the Amazon, including its part in neighboring French Guiana
March 27, 2024
American artist Richard Serra, whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversized galleries in the world's
March 27, 2024
Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina have convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity
March 27, 2024
A day after the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the release of hostages, the war
March 26, 2024
A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the country’s leading human rights group
March 26, 2024
Dozens of kids and teenagers from Rio de Janeiro’s Mare neighborhood gathered for the launch of a book in which they show, with their own words and pictures, how violence in their poor, bayside community weighs on their young lives
March 26, 2024
The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen almost 2,000 artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online
March 26, 2024
A 420-meter or quarter-mile white steel tube running alongside a railway line in the windswept northern Netherlands could usher in a new era in the transportation of people and freight
March 26, 2024
Gangs have intensified their rampage in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital, setting fire to a school and looting pharmacies near the country’s largest public hospital
March 26, 2024
A Greek opposition party has submitted a motion of no-confidence in the government over its handling of a deadly railway disaster last year
March 26, 2024
Bruce Springsteen is the first international songwriter to be named a fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U
March 26, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has threatened to break off diplomatic ties with Israel if the country doesn't comply with a U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip
March 26, 2024
The United States is eyeing April 18 for a possible resumption of peace talks on Sudan in Saudi Arabia, U.S.
March 26, 2024
The U.S. is seeking to forfeit two New York City apartments a former Mongolian prime minister bought with stolen mining funds, prosecutors said on Tuesday, as U.S.
March 26, 2024
The head of a Lebanese Sunni political and militant group that has joined the Shiite militant group Hezbollah in its fight against Israel on Lebanon’s border says the conflict has helped strengthen cooperation between the two groups
March 26, 2024
As Israel battles a prolonged war in Gaza, exemptions from mandatory military service for ultra-Orthodox men have reopened a divide in the country and rattled the government coalition
March 26, 2024
Ukraine's navy spokesman says that Ukrainian forces have sunk or disabled a third of all Russian warships in the Black Sea, a major blow to Moscow’s military capability as the war has dragged into a third year
March 26, 2024
France's defense minister says it will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine
March 26, 2024
The ship that caused the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early on Tuesday was also involved in an accident in the port of Antwerp, Belgium, in 2016.
March 26, 2024
Vienna police say Austrian police officers who provided security around the Russian Embassy on the day of that country’s presidential election were given small presents as they left
March 26, 2024
Kenya's government has begun handing over to relatives the bodies of 429 members of a doomsday cult at the center of a legal case that has shocked the country
March 26, 2024
Russia remanded in custody on Tuesday a Kyrgyzstan-born man suspected of involvement in Friday's mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall, and sent investigators to
March 26, 2024
Standing in front of a tank on the edge of the Gaza Strip, an Israeli general interrupted his speech on the war against Hamas to deliver a televised rebuke to
March 26, 2024
Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed early on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into the four-lane span, plunging cars into the river.
March 26, 2024
Buckingham Palace officials say King Charles III and Queen Camilla will attend an Easter service at the chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday
March 26, 2024
Chinese electric vehicle makers are showcasing their latest models, including a flying car, as they take on global rivals at the Bangkok International Motor Show
March 26, 2024
A former Hungarian government insider has published an audio recording that he says is proof of official misconduct within high levels of the government of populist Minister Viktor Orbán
March 26, 2024
Russian state news agency Tass says 22 victims of the concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people remain in serious condition in the hospital
March 26, 2024
Senegal woke up to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political novice
March 26, 2024
A British court says Julian Assange can’t immediately be extradited to the U.S. on espionage charges, in a partial victory for the WikiLeaks founder
March 26, 2024
Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the northwest of the country
March 26, 2024
China said Tuesday that it has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization over US subsidies for electric vehicles
March 26, 2024
Meta's oversight board on Tuesday called on the company to end its blanket ban on the Arabic word "shaheed," or "martyr" in English, after a year-long review found the Facebook
March 26, 2024
Vietnamese automaker VinFast plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand
March 26, 2024
A Moscow court has ordered Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June
March 26, 2024
Racism has long permeated the world’s most popular sport, with soccer players subjected to racist chants and taunts
March 26, 2024
Indian police have detained dozens of opposition protesters to stop them from marching to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence to demand the release of their leader and top elected official of New Delhi arrested last week in a bribery case
March 26, 2024
Dozens of tractors have sealed off streets close to European Union headquarters where the 27 EU agriculture ministers are planning to the crisis in the sector that has led to months of protests
March 26, 2024
The owners of a Malaysian convenience store chain and one of its suppliers were charged Tuesday with offending the religious feelings of Muslims after socks printed with the word “Allah” were found for sale on its shelves
March 26, 2024
Hamas has rejected the latest proposal put forward by international mediators for a cease-fire and hostage release
March 26, 2024
Asian shares were mixed in muted trading, as buying in some markets was soon erased by profit-taking
March 26, 2024
Hamas has rejected the latest cease-fire proposal, accusing Israel of ignoring its core demands, which include an end to the war and a full withdrawal from Gaza
March 26, 2024
The main Venezuelan opposition coalition has said that electoral authorities didn’t let it register its candidate for the presidential election as the deadline ended, in what it called the latest violation to the citizens’ right to vote for a change in the South American country
March 26, 2024
On Sunday, millions of voters in Turkey head to the polls to elect mayors and administrators in local elections which will gauge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s popularity as his ruling party tries to win back key cities it lost five years ago
March 26, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping will meet with American business leaders in Beijing on Wednesday, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter, in a follow up to his
March 26, 2024
A little-known U.S. intelligence principle called the “duty to warn” came into play ahead of the deadly attack on Moscow’s outskirts
March 26, 2024
A woman jailed in Maine is facing extradition to the United Kingdom after victims say she ran numerous scams claiming be a psychic and Irish heiress
March 26, 2024
The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with Israel’s minister of defense and discuss ways to address the Hamas threat other than conducting a ground invasion of the southern Gaza city of Rafah
March 26, 2024
Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory
March 26, 2024
A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges
March 26, 2024
Sunao Takao was the loyal interpreter at Shinzo Abe's side, helping Japan's then-leader to understand Donald Trump as they navigated contentious issues
March 26, 2024
Japan’s Cabinet OK’d a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets to other countries on Tuesday, its latest step away from the pacifist principles the country adopted at the end of World War II
March 25, 2024
Japan’s Cabinet has approved a plan to sell future next-generation fighter jets that it’s developing with Britain and Italy to other countries
March 25, 2024
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Tuesday whether the High Court in London will allow him to appeal against his extradition from Britain to the
March 25, 2024
New Zealand says hackers linked to the Chinese government targeted its Parliament in 2021
March 25, 2024
Brazil’s Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaro’s two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest
March 25, 2024
Immediately after the Friday evening attack in Moscow that killed at least 137 people, Russian officials were suggesting, without presenting evidence, that Ukraine was responsible
March 25, 2024
A union representing many of Germany's train drivers says it and the country's main railway operator have reached a deal in a long dispute over working hours and pay that was marked by a string of strikes
March 25, 2024
Former President Donald Trump says he would have responded the same way as Israel did after the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas but urged the country to “finish up” its offensive and “get this over with,” warning about international support fading
March 25, 2024
The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name
March 25, 2024
The deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow was conducted by Islamist militants, but the shooting fits in a wider campaign of intimidation by Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir
March 25, 2024
U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths is stepping down for health reasons after nearly three years of trying to tackle mounting crises in Ukraine, Gaza and Africa
March 25, 2024
The world’s governments have agreed they want to triple renewable energy by 2030, a goal laid out at the U.N. climate summit in December
March 25, 2024
Throng of supporters of President Nicolas Maduro rallied Monday at a giant stage outside the downtown electoral council headquarters where he is expected to make official his candidacy for a third term
March 25, 2024
Tens of thousands of people have celebrated the Jewish holiday of Purim in Jerusalem, though the traditionally boisterous celebrations have been muted this year by the Israel-Hamas war
March 25, 2024
The last few years haven’t been kind to Shakira
March 25, 2024
Farmers are driving dozens of tractors in a slow-motion convoy towards Britain’s Parliament to protest post-Brexit rules and trade deals that they say are endangering livelihoods and food security
March 25, 2024
A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges
March 25, 2024
The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan
March 25, 2024
Authorities in Kenya say that an explosion at a small hotel located near a police station in the northeast of the country has killed four people
March 25, 2024
The White House said on Monday it was very disappointed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had canceled a high-level Israeli delegation's planned visit to Washington after
March 25, 2024
The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on a China-based firm it said was a Ministry of State Security front company, accusing it of serving
March 25, 2024
A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts has successfully docked at the International Space Station
March 25, 2024
These are turbulent times for wind and solar energy
March 25, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the immediate and
March 25, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he will not send a delegation as planned to Washington if the United States does not veto a U.N.
March 25, 2024
Calls are mounting to harshly punish those behind the Russia concert hall attack that killed more than 130 people, as authorities combed the burned-out ruins of the shopping and entertainment complex for more bodies
March 25, 2024
Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has pleaded not guilty in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges
March 25, 2024
South African prosecutors say they intend to charge the parliamentary speaker with corruption
March 25, 2024
Britain’s government is expected to blame a string of cyberattacks targeting the U.K.’s election watchdog and lawmakers on hackers linked to the Chinese government
March 25, 2024
Claudia Poblete and Pedro Alejandro Sandoval are two of the 133 “recovered grandchildren” of Argentina
March 25, 2024
A star South Korean soccer player who was detained and investigated in China for nearly a year over bribery allegations has been released and returned home
March 25, 2024
A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed
March 25, 2024
In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometers along a desert road near a crossing point from
March 25, 2024
Israel's military killed dozens of people in new attacks in Gaza, Palestinian medics said on Monday, and its forces maintained a blockade of two hospitals where
March 25, 2024
The Philippines has lodged its “strongest protest” against Beijing over a water cannon assault by the Chinese coast guard that injured Filipino navy crew members and heavily damaged their boat in the disputed South China Sea
March 25, 2024
European Union regulators have opened investigations into Apple, Google and Meta, in the first cases under a sweeping new law designed to stop Big Tech companies from cornering digital markets that took effect earlier this month
March 25, 2024
Multiple explosions have been heard in Kyiv in what appears to be a third Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital in five days
March 25, 2024
Nissan has announced plans to expand its electric vehicle lineup, develop more powerful batteries and cut production costs
March 25, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed as investors await further indications of future U.S. interest rate cuts
March 25, 2024
Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital have described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated
March 25, 2024
Russia on Monday cast doubt on assertions by the United States that the Islamic State militant group was responsible for a gun attack on a concert hall outside Moscow which killed
March 25, 2024
Senegalese anxiously are awaiting the results of Sunday's presidential election, following months of uncertainty and unrest that tested its reputation as a stable democracy in a region rife with coups
March 25, 2024
Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on Monday, sending ten trucks over the border from the northern province of Tak in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting
March 25, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed as investors await further indications of future U.S. interest rate cuts
March 25, 2024
It was minutes before the start of a concert by the popular rock band, Picnic, at a massive auditorium at Crocus City Hall, an entertainment complex on the northwestern outskirts of Moscow
March 25, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
March 25, 2024
Senior doctors at dozens of hospitals in South Korea plan to submit their resignations in support of medical interns and residents who have been on a strike over the government’s push to sharply increase medical school admissions
March 25, 2024
North Korea says Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
March 25, 2024
Argentina’s annual March 24 commemoration of the 1976 military coup that ushered in the country’s violent right-wing dictatorship is acquiring new urgency under the government of President Javier Milei
March 24, 2024
The attack on a Moscow-area concert hall that killed scores of people has dealt a major blow to President Vladimir Putin's image as a tough guy who is able to defend Russia from all threats
March 24, 2024
New York City’s mayor has nixed a planned trip to the U.S.-Mexico over security concerns
March 24, 2024
The Islamic State still poses a threat in Iraq and the U.S.-led military coalition's work with Iraq to fully defeat the group is not done, United States Ambassador
March 24, 2024
Ireland is poised to get its youngest-ever premier after Simon Harris secured the leadership of the Fine Gael party on Sunday, He replaces Leo Varadkar who announced his surprise resignation last week
March 24, 2024
Thousands of Christian faithful attended Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives on the first day of Holy Week
March 24, 2024
Brazil’s federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018
March 24, 2024
Iran’s currency fell to a record low on Sunday, plunging to 613,500 to the dollar, as its people celebrated the Persian New Year
March 24, 2024
Palestinians who fled during an ongoing Israeli raid in and around the Gaza Strip’s main hospital describe days of heavy fighting, mass arrests and forced marches past dead bodies and flattened buildings
March 24, 2024
Kate, the Princess of Wales, and her husband, Prince William, are said to be “extremely moved” by the public’s warmth and support following her shocking cancer announcement as tributes continued to pour in from around the world
March 24, 2024
Pope Francis has decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square
March 24, 2024
The bodies of three Rohingya refugees were found in the sea as the Indonesian authorities ended a search for survivors from a boat that capsized near Aceh province, the provincial search and rescue agency said Sunday
March 24, 2024
Russia observed a national day of mourning on Sunday, following Friday night’s attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed over 130 people
March 24, 2024
Ukrainian authorities say that Russia launched its third massive missile attack on Ukraine in the past four days, and the second to target the capital of Kyiv
March 24, 2024
A state official in northwest Nigeria says nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in have been released more than two weeks after the children were seized from their school
March 24, 2024
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz had ended Red Bull’s Formula 1 winning streak when the Spaniard took advantage of Max Verstappen’s early retirement to win the Australian Grand Prix just two weeks after missing the previous race in Saudi Arabia due to an emergency appendectomy
March 24, 2024
Senegalese head to the polls to vote in a tightly contested presidential election marred by months of unrest that has threatened democracy in one of West Africa’s most stable nations
March 24, 2024
It will be a very tiny big-game hunt for one of the largest animals in North America
March 24, 2024
The World Bank will publish more of its proprietary data, including on debt defaults, starting next week as part of a push to attract more private sector investment to
March 24, 2024
Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died
March 23, 2024
An Islamic State group affiliate has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people
March 23, 2024
Shocked Russians are bringing flowers and teddy bears to the Crocus City concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow to pay their respects to more than 100 people who died in a grisly attack claimed by the Islamic State group
March 23, 2024
The U.S.-backed force that defeated the Islamic State group in Syria five years ago is warning that the extremists still pose grave dangers throughout the world
March 23, 2024
The attack on a Moscow concert hall in which armed men opened fire and set the building ablaze, killing at least 133 people, was the latest in a long series of bombings and sieges that have unsettled and outraged Russians during Vladimir Putin’s nearly quarter-century as either prime minister or president
March 23, 2024
Heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro state have killed at least seven people while a 4-year-old girl was rescued after more than 16 hours under mud
March 23, 2024
Estonia's defense officials say the U.S. Congress has passed a bill that involves a total of $228 million in military and defense aid to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this year under the Baltic Security Initiative
March 23, 2024
Politicians, dignitaries and celebrities joined members of the public at a state funeral to honor Brian Mulroney, one of Canada’s most consequential prime ministers who in the 1980s solidified trade ties with the U.S. and spoke out against South Africa’s apartheid
March 23, 2024
U_N_ Secretary-General António Guterres says it's time to “truly flood Gaza with lifesaving aid" and calls the starvation inside the enclave a “moral outrage.”
March 23, 2024
The Princess of Wales’ disclosure that she has cancer has prompted an outpouring of goodwill
March 23, 2024
The Associated Press has learned that a former Venezuelan fighter pilot jailed in Venezuela in February for his ties to a prominent human rights attorney is an employee of U.S. oil firm Chevron
March 23, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that all those responsible for the deadly attack on a concert near Moscow would be punished.
March 23, 2024
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station has blasted off two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute
March 23, 2024
Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide this Sunday
March 23, 2024
Support has poured in from around the world for Kate, the Princess of Wales, after she revealed in a candid video message that she is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer following major abdominal surgery
March 23, 2024
Air Force One with President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton aboard was on its final approach to Manila on Nov. 23, 1996, when their U.S.
March 23, 2024
Voters in Slovakia are electing a successor to Zuzana Čaputová
March 23, 2024
Hundreds of protesters in India’s capital have taken to the streets for a second day, demanding the immediate release of one of the top rivals of the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as the country gears up for a national election next month
March 23, 2024
The head of Russia’s Federal Security Service told President Vladimir Putin Saturday that 11 people have been detained after gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow and opened fire on the crowd, according to Russian state news agency Tass
March 23, 2024
Two people suspected of carrying out a deadly attack near Moscow on Friday have been detained in Russia's Bryansk region following a car chase, lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said on
March 23, 2024
The Defense Department this month found $300 million for weapons for Ukraine, even though the bill to fund the military aid is stalled in Congress
March 23, 2024
Two Chinese coast guard ships fired at a Philippine supply boat with water cannon Saturday in the latest confrontation near a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing heavy damage to the wooden vessel, Philippine officials said
March 23, 2024
Speculation about the actor who will be tapped as the next James Bond grew this week with reports that the role would go to Aaron Taylor-Johnson
March 23, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a resolution demanding a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, but the United States warned the measure could hurt negotiations to halt Israeli-Hamas hostilities
March 23, 2024
The head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, said on Saturday there have been "reckless" American-British attacks on Yemen.
March 23, 2024
The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month
March 22, 2024
The United States has intelligence confirming Islamic State's claim of responsibility for a deadly shooting at a concert near Moscow, a U.S. official said on Friday.
March 22, 2024
U.S. fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier struck three underground storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen late Friday
March 22, 2024
Major League Baseball has opened a formal investigation into illegal gambling and theft allegations involving Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara
March 22, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is receiving regular updates about the shooting at the Crocus City Hall concert near Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.
March 22, 2024
Yulia Navalnaya, widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on Friday expressed condolences to the victims of the shooting at the Crocus City Hall concert centre near Moscow
March 22, 2024
Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer but hasn't said what kind
March 22, 2024
Russia said on Friday that if the United States knew for sure that Ukraine was not involved in a mass shooting incident at a concert hall near Moscow Washington should share any
March 22, 2024
One of the most famous, photographed and talked-about women in the world is fighting a very personal battle
March 22, 2024
Mexico’s president says he won’t fight drug cartels on U.S. orders, in the clearest explanation yet of his refusal to confront the gangs
March 22, 2024
Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a statement saying she has been diagnosed with cancer
March 22, 2024
British political leaders and the United States' White House offered support to Kate, Britain's Princess of Wales, after she said tests following abdominal surgery showed cancer had
March 22, 2024
The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month
March 22, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has once again left the Middle East empty-handed
March 22, 2024
Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy
March 22, 2024
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Puerto Rico as part of a whirlwind trip to tout the federal aid the U.S. territory has received following deadly hurricanes and attend a Democratic fundraiser
March 22, 2024
Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency says several gunmen fired shots at a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, leaving a number of people injured
March 22, 2024
The online auction of a trove of letters, photos and other items that Pattie Boyd, who was at the heart of the Swinging 60s, has surpassed all expectations
March 22, 2024
Elite hackers tied to Russian intelligence last month targeted several German political parties with an eye toward burrowing into their networks and stealing data, according to an alert
March 22, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron says he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada
March 22, 2024
U.N. officials say more than 33,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in a span of nearly two weeks as gangs continue to pillage homes and attack state institutions
March 22, 2024
The decision by Nike to change the color of the St. George’s Cross on the new England men's soccer shirt from the traditional red and white is causing controversy
March 22, 2024
The United Nations Security Council on Friday failed to pass a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as part of a hostage deal after Russia and China, who are
March 22, 2024
Holi is the Hindu festival of colors, which is celebrated to mark the start of spring in India, Nepal and the diaspora
March 22, 2024
Ukraine hopes to sign a deal in June to buy two nuclear reactors from Bulgaria as it seeks to compensate for the loss of its vast Russian-occupied six-reactor
March 22, 2024
A Ukrainian deputy prime minister said on Friday Russian oil refineries were legitimate targets for its forces, after a media report said the United States, a close ally, had asked
March 22, 2024
Police say they are investigating whether the largest donor to Britain’s Conservative government committed a crime when he reportedly said a Black member of Parliament made him “want to hate all Black women” and that she “should be shot.”
March 22, 2024
The European Commission wants to prevent Russia from using agriculture products as a tool to wreak havoc on the EU market and will impose tariffs on grain imports from Russia and Belarus
March 22, 2024
The Russian-controlled management of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, said on Friday that a high-voltage line supplying it with electricity has been
March 22, 2024
A former executive at Yoozoo Games has been sentenced to death in the poisoning of the founder of the high-profile Chinese gaming company
March 22, 2024
Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian situation caused by the spillover from the conflict in Sudan
March 22, 2024
Russia has attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages
March 22, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel, on the final stop in his sixth urgent trip to the region since the start of the war
March 22, 2024
Stocks are mixed in Asia after Wall Street tapped fresh records, led by big gains in chipmakers
March 22, 2024
Supporters of an anti-corruption crusader and one of India’s most consequential politicians of the last decade in India are protesting against his arrest
March 22, 2024
A cluster of Bollywood films based on polarizing issues that promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government’s Hindu nationalist agenda are coming out
March 22, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is set to vote on a U.S.-sponsored resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war is “imperative” to protect civilians and allow the delivery of humanitarian aid to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians
March 22, 2024
Vietnam's president has resigned as the ruling communist party in the latest episode of a “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign
March 22, 2024
Australia is set to provide $3 billion to British industry to support the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and ensure its new fleet arrives on time
March 22, 2024
Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution
March 21, 2024
Mexico filed a U.S. court brief supporting the U.S.
March 21, 2024
The nine hours that Texas was allowed to arrest and deport migrants who illegally enter the U.S. provided a glimpse at what sort of obstacles law enforcement agencies in the state face
March 21, 2024
The United States is calling for a vote Friday on a newly revised and tougher U.N. resolution declaring that “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war is “imperative” to protect civilians and enable humanitarian aid to be delivered to more than 2 million hungry Palestinians
March 21, 2024
A top Pentagon official says that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger’s junta to depart the country, saying instead it has received mixed signals on whether the hundreds of U.S. troops based there are no longer welcome
March 21, 2024
A federal appeals court has ordered Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case to be returned to a lower court to probe claims of juror bias
March 21, 2024
Gunfire has erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital
March 21, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron is raising eyebrows after photos of him hammering a punching bag were posted to his official photographer's social media
March 21, 2024
A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a three-decade scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation's 1994 genocide to
March 21, 2024
The United States and Saudi Arabia have made "good progress" in talks on normalising ties between the kingdom and Israel, U.S.
March 21, 2024
Sports and gambling are once again in the spotlight in the wake of the Los Angeles Dodgers firing Ippei Mizuhara, the interpreter and close friend of newly acquired star player Shohei Ohtani
March 21, 2024
A study by an environmental scientist and the European Central Bank finds that food prices and overall inflation will rise as temperatures climb with climate change
March 21, 2024
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says that a Texas law giving state authorities the power to arrest and deport migrants who have entered the country illegally is unconstitutional
March 21, 2024
Canadian officials say they will set targets to decrease the number of new temporary residents in the country
March 21, 2024
A lawyer for The Wall Street Journal says Russia must face consequences for its detention of Evan Gershkovich, one of the newspaper's reporters
March 21, 2024
Algeria will hold its next presidential election on Sept. 7, giving first-term President Abdelmajid Tebboune more than five months to campaign should he choose to seek a second term leading the oil-rich north African nation
March 21, 2024
Prince Harry alleges that the publisher of The Sun tabloid unlawfully intercepted phone calls of his late mother, Princess Diana, and father, now King Charles III
March 21, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is huddling with top Arab diplomats in Cairo to discuss post-conflict plans for Gaza as relations between the United States and Israel are souring further over Israel's war against Hamas
March 21, 2024
Portugal said on Thursday it would give 10 million euros ($10.89 million) to the U.N.
March 21, 2024
House Speaker Mike Johnson says he plans to invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, a show of support from Republicans amid growing Democratic criticism of Netanyahu’s leadership
March 21, 2024
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire,” in theaters everywhere March 29, is a sequel to “Godzilla vs
March 21, 2024
Pope Francis has defrocked a notorious Belgian bishop who admitted 14 years ago that he sexually abused his nephew but faced no Vatican punishment
March 21, 2024
Japan’s space agency and its prime contractor say they hope to be able to forge a profitable launch business with their new H3 rocket after its first successful flight last month in an increasingly competitive market dominated by Space X
March 21, 2024
European Union leaders are set to agree on the opening of membership negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina, even though the Western Balkan country must still do a lot of work before talks can begin
March 21, 2024
Shohei Ohtani is referred to in Japan as “kanpeki no hito” — the perfect person — because of his manners and impeccable behavior
March 21, 2024
A dramatic story of survival and rescue off Indonesia’s west coast is a reminder of the plight of ethnic Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar who make extremely dangerous voyages across the Indian Ocean to seek better lives
March 21, 2024
Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has aborted the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station about 20 seconds before they were scheduled to lift off
March 21, 2024
The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was aborted just seconds before scheduled lift-off to the International Space Station (ISS
March 21, 2024
After the military kidnapped their children during Argentina's dictatorship in the 1970s, each Mother of Plaza de Mayo made a commitment: I will search for you until my last breath
March 21, 2024
Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by 5 percentage points, resuming a policy of rate hikes aimed at combating soaring inflation that is causing households severe economic pain
March 21, 2024
President Vladimir Putin has thanked Russians for casting ballots in a presidential vote in which he cemented his grip on the country for another six years after the harshest crackdown on dissent since Soviet times
March 21, 2024
After days of delay, U.S. congressional leaders unveiled a $1.1 trillion bipartisan spending measure for defense, homeland security and other
March 21, 2024
Russia will take retaliatory measures in accordance with its own interests and use every legal mechanism at its disposal if the European Union uses profits from frozen Russian
March 21, 2024
The Swiss National Bank says it's trimming its key interest rate, a surprise move that makes Switzerland the first major financial center to announce a cut in recent months
March 21, 2024
South Korea is poised to start suspending the licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors as a punitive measure against their weekslong walkouts that have shaken hospital operations
March 21, 2024
Over 30 leaders and delegations from around the world are backing the idea to use nuclear energy to help achieve the goal of a climate-neutral globe while giving more countries an added sense of economic and security independence
March 21, 2024
European Union leaders are gathering to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine
March 21, 2024
Kenyan doctors have stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week
March 21, 2024
Shohei Ohtani's interpreter and close friend Ippei Mizuhara has been fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers following allegations of illegal gambling and theft from the Japanese star
March 21, 2024
Ukraine’s capital was attacked by Russia for the first time in 44 days as Kyiv residents woke early to loud explosions
March 21, 2024
A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin
March 21, 2024
A Communist Party newspaper says Vietnam’s Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will be acting president after the previous president’s resignation
March 21, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the “gaps are narrowing” in indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over another cease-fire and hostage release that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have spent several weeks trying to broker
March 21, 2024
Asian benchmarks are mostly higher after U.S. stocks rallied to records following the Federal Reserve's indication that it expects to deliver interest rate cuts later this year
March 21, 2024
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it killed more than 50 Palestinian gunmen over the past day in fighting around the Gaza Strip's Shifa hospital.
March 21, 2024
An Indonesian search and rescue ship has located a capsized wooden boat that had been carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslim refugees, and began pulling survivors who had been standing on its hull to safety
March 21, 2024
AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online
March 21, 2024
Thousands of South Africans are lining up for water as the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, confronts an unprecedented collapse of its water system affecting millions of people
March 21, 2024
A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air
March 21, 2024
The Bank of England is expected to indicate that interest rates could be cut in the coming months following news that inflation across the U.K. is falling faster than expected
March 21, 2024
The General Assembly is set to vote on what would be the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence
March 21, 2024
As Venezuela’s government would have it, President Nicolas Maduro and members of his inner circle have been the target of several conspiracies since last year that could have left them injured or worse
March 21, 2024
Senegal will head to the polls Sunday to vote in a tightly contested race that has fired up political tensions and tested one of West Africa’s most stable democracies
March 21, 2024
South Korea’s government says it will start suspending the licenses of striking junior doctors next week
March 21, 2024
New Zealand has entered its second recession in 18 months after the latest round of GDP figures confirmed its economy contracted in the last quarter of 2023
March 20, 2024
Residents in the upscale neighborhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince barricaded themselves in their homes on Wednesday, local media
March 20, 2024
Fertility rates in nearly all countries will be too low to sustain population levels by the end of the century, and most of the world's live births will be occurring in
March 20, 2024
The European Union could use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine within a few months under a plan that includes buying arms
March 20, 2024
A New York City police officer once charged with spying for China says he is fighting the commissioner's decision to fire him
March 20, 2024
Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter and close friend has been fired by the Los Angeles Dodgers following allegations of illegal gambling and theft from the Japanese baseball star
March 20, 2024
President Joe Biden’s top foreign policy adviser Jake Sullivan sought to reassure Ukrainians during an unannounced visit to Kyiv Wednesday that the U.S. will continue to support their efforts to fend off Russia’s two-year-old invasion
March 20, 2024
An expected long legal battle has begun over a new rule that requires companies to disclose some emissions and climate-related information
March 20, 2024
Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said on Wednesday two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado have been arrested for alleged involvement in planned
March 20, 2024
Israel is determined to launch an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town, a plan that has raised global alarm because of the potential for harm to the hundreds of thousands of civilians sheltering there
March 20, 2024
Prince Harry's lawyer says the cover-up of unlawful information gathering at British tabloids owned by Rupert Murdoch went all the way to the top
March 20, 2024
Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Wednesday it is now up to the market and not the government to decide on the future of former phone monopoly Telecom Italia (TIM).
March 20, 2024
Armed gangs are launching new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital
March 20, 2024
Russia’s Belgorod region has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks this month as the invasion by Moscow grinds into its third year
March 20, 2024
A fractured U.S.
March 20, 2024
Wales has become the first part of the U.K. to get a Black leader, following the election of Vaughan Gething as first minister
March 20, 2024
Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should consider electing more women in countries’ national elections this year
March 20, 2024
The Dutch parliament has named two new go-betweens to lead negotiations to form the next ruling coalition
March 20, 2024
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday began hearing arguments on whether to continue blocking a Republican-backed Texas law that would empower state authorities to arrest
March 20, 2024
Indonesia’s electoral commission has confirmed Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president
March 20, 2024
Former special forces general Prabowo Subianto has been confirmed the victor of Indonesia's presidential election
March 20, 2024
U.N. agencies have warned that waste from electronics is piling up worldwide while recycling rates remain low and are likely to fall even further
March 20, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Israel this week as part of his sixth urgent mission to the Middle East since Israel's war with Hamas began in October
March 20, 2024
The Czech Republic's central bank has cut its key interest rate for a third straight time amid falling inflation and an effort to help the economy
March 20, 2024
Tennis could be on the verge of massive structural change if one of two separate proposals formulated by the four Grand Slam tournaments and the WTA and ATP professional tours ends up moving forward
March 20, 2024
A Dutch court says the government has systematically put the interests of the aviation sector above those of people who live near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport
March 20, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address U.S.
March 20, 2024
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he will step down as leader of the country as soon as a successor is chosen
March 20, 2024
A Russian border region being pounded by Ukrainian shelling and drones is expanding its closure of schools and colleges amid a major evacuation plan
March 20, 2024
Leaders in the emerging Western nuclear fusion industry are convening in Washington, D.C. this week seeking ways to attract more money for research to avoid
March 20, 2024
France’s competition watchdog has hit Google with another big fine tied to a long-running dispute over payments to French publishers for their news
March 20, 2024
Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong resigned after a little over a year in the job, according to a statement released Wednesday by the Communist Party
March 20, 2024
A British privacy watchdog is looking into a report that staff at a private London hospital tried to snoop on the Princess of Wales’ medical records while she was a patient for abdominal surgery
March 20, 2024
A wooden boat carrying dozens of Rohingya Muslims capsized about 16 miles from the coastline of Kuala Bubon beach in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh on Wednesday
March 20, 2024
European Union lawmakers have agreed to renew Ukraine’s import rates, which have been in place since shortly after Russia invaded while adding protective measures for agricultural products such as grain and honey to address the concerns of farmers across the 27-nation bloc
March 20, 2024
No bidders appeared at a court-ordered auction of the family home of Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, where she had been held under house arrest for nearly 15 years
March 20, 2024
The school year in Afghanistan has started but without girls whom the Taliban barred from attending classes beyond the sixth grade, making it the only country with restrictions on female education
March 20, 2024
Price rises in the U.K. eased by more than anticipated in February, raising expectations that the Bank of England may start cutting interest rates in the next few months
March 20, 2024
Asian markets are mostly higher ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on the timing of cuts to interest rates
March 20, 2024
Mourners were holding funeral prayers Wednesday morning outside a hospital in central Gaza for 28 people killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps
March 20, 2024
Purim is widely depicted as the most joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits and noisemakers
March 20, 2024
Senegal’s only female presidential candidate may stand no chance of winning in Sunday's election, but activists say her presence alone is helping to advance a decadeslong campaign to achieve equality in the West African nation
March 20, 2024
A Dubai sovereign wealth fund that’s the single-largest shareholder in the Nasdaq stock index plans to sell a third of its shares in the exchange
March 20, 2024
New Zealand says it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors
March 20, 2024
Legislators in at least two U.S. states are citing a recent decision by England's public health service to restrict puberty blockers for transgender youths as support for their own related proposals
March 20, 2024
As Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s term wound down in the final days of December 2022, he had decided to skip the ritual of handing over the presidential sash to his successor, and instead made plans to travel abroad
March 20, 2024
A South Korean tanker has capsized off a southwestern Japanese island, and Japan's coast guard has rescued four of its crew
March 20, 2024
Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in dozens of countries head to the polls
March 20, 2024
South Korean police say they’ve found no explosives at Seoul’s Gocheok Sky Dome after searching the site following a reported bomb threat against Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani
March 20, 2024
A report by a European business group says that uncertainty and “draconian regulations” have drastically raised risks for foreign businesses in China
March 20, 2024
North Korea says it has successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile
March 19, 2024
Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, praised the “very valuable” potential of Gaza’s “waterfront property.”
March 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin said late on Tuesday that he will consider China for his first overseas trip during his new presidential term that he secured in weekend election.
March 19, 2024
An agreement reached by U.S. congressional leaders and the White House on a massive bill funding military, State Department and a range of other government
March 19, 2024
Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who
March 19, 2024
The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan
March 19, 2024
An unprecedented exhibition opening Wednesday at the Poldi Pezzoli Museum in Milan reunites for the first time in over 450 years eight surviving panels of the Augustinian Altarpiece by the early Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, while possibly solving one of its enduring mysteries
March 19, 2024
USA Basketball’s men’s team is assured of seeing Serbia and South Sudan in the group stage of the Paris Olympics, while the U.S. women are guaranteed of a gold-medal-game rematch against Japan in France this summer
March 19, 2024
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen blew up a house in a town southeast of the capital, Sanaa, killing at least nine people from the same family, officials and residents said
March 19, 2024
Jon Rahm is serving up quite the Spanish menu for the Masters Club dinner for champions
March 19, 2024
Heavy fighting is raging around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital and surrounding neighborhoods during the second day of the Israeli military's raid on the facility
March 19, 2024
The IOC says Russian and Belarusian athletes will not be allowed to take part in the traditional parade at the opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics, the IOC
March 19, 2024
U.S. and Israeli officials will likely meet early next week in Washington to discuss Israel's military operation in Rafah, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre
March 19, 2024
The British government says it will hold the next meeting of the European Political Community on July 18
March 19, 2024
Caribbean leaders say all groups and political parties except one have submitted nominees for a transitional presidential council charged with selecting an interim prime minister for Haiti
March 19, 2024
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a ban on musical horns, after videos posted on social media showed people dancing on roads and roadsides as passing trucks blasted rhythmic little tunes
March 19, 2024
Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert
March 19, 2024
The European Union's top diplomat says he's pressing ahead with a plan to use the profits generated from billions of euros of Russian assets frozen in Europe to help provide weapons for Ukraine
March 19, 2024
A sex offender who is the first person in England and Wales convicted under a new cyber-flashing law has been imprisoned for more than five years
March 19, 2024
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress is taking the independent electoral body and a rival political party fronted by the country’s former leader to court
March 19, 2024
Brazil’s Federal Police have accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of criminal association and falsifying his own COVID-19 vaccination data, marking the first indictment for the embattled far-right leader with others potentially in store
March 19, 2024
Destroying Hamas in Rafah would required a ground incursion by Israeli forces, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday following a call by the White House to rethink
March 19, 2024
An artificial intelligence robot is a new high-tech weapon in the battle to root out disease from Dutch tulip fields as they erupt into a riot of springtime color
March 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday called on the Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, to help Russian companies
March 19, 2024
The U.N. weather agency is sounding a “red alert” about global warming, citing record-smashing increases last year in greenhouse gases, land and water temperatures and melting of glaciers and sea ice
March 19, 2024
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed concern over the escalating violence in Myanmar after reports and residents of the country's western Rakhine state said military airstrikes killed at least 25 members of the country’s Muslim Rohingya minority, including children
March 19, 2024
Russia's plan to hold the 'Friendship Games' is a political action that violates the Olympic Charter, and countries should not take part in them, the International Olympic Committee
March 19, 2024
Israel killed 14 people in air strikes in Rafah on Tuesday, Palestinian medical officials said, as the United States urged a rethink
March 19, 2024
Hong Kong has passed a new national security law that could redefine the liberties of its citizens, and its role on the world stage
March 19, 2024
India's main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this
March 19, 2024
Hong Kong lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security bill within a fortnight of it being tabled, fast-tracking a major piece
March 19, 2024
Officials say a Russian border region plans to evacuate some 9,000 children from the area that is being continuously shelled from the Ukrainian side
March 19, 2024
Unilever, the company that makes Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, Dove soaps and Vaseline, says it's cutting 7,500 jobs and spinning off its ice cream business to reduce costs and boost profits
March 19, 2024
The incoming Palestinian prime minister has laid out wide-ranging plans for a revitalized Palestinian Authority and an independent trust fund to oversee Gaza’s reconstruction in a mission statement acquired Tuesday by The Associated Press
March 19, 2024
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is vowing that the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia, even as the U.S. Congress remains stalled over funding to send additional weapons to the front
March 19, 2024
A British newspaper says Prince William and his wife Catherine have been filmed at a farm shop near their Windsor home
March 19, 2024
U.S. officials say newly-approved legislation providing billions of dollars in funding for three strategically important Pacific island nations is an important sign of American commitment, which comes amid warnings China is actively trying to pry them away from Washington’s sphere of influence
March 19, 2024
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions unanswered, underscoring the daunting task of decommissioning the plant
March 19, 2024
The U.N. labor agency says illegal profits from forced labor globally have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year
March 19, 2024
Shares are mixed in Asia after the Bank of Japan hiked its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding negative rate policy
March 19, 2024
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East this week, the U.S.
March 19, 2024
Hong Kong’s lawmakers met in a special session to resume debate on a proposed national security law Tuesday, paving the way to grant the government more power to quash dissent in the southern Chinese city
March 19, 2024
The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral following a tragic blaze in April 2019 is a story of dedication and recovery
March 19, 2024
The U.S. State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken will underscore Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to its alliance with the Philippines on Tuesday as he meets with top officials in Manila
March 19, 2024
Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home
March 19, 2024
Japan's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding policy of negative rates meant to boost the economy
March 19, 2024
Taiwan's vice president-elect and former de facto ambassador to Washington, Hsiao Bi-khim, is on a visit to the Czech Republic following a low-key trip to the United States, the
March 19, 2024
The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space
March 19, 2024
President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month
March 19, 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday extended its block on a Texas law that would give police broad powers to arrest migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. while the legal battle it sparked over immigration authority plays out
March 18, 2024
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham said on Monday, after meeting Ukraine's president, that he was confident an aid package stalled in the U.S.
March 18, 2024
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S.
March 18, 2024
The mansion that was Freddie Mercury's sanctuary in London and where he lived the final decade of his life is on sale for the first time in nearly 45 years
March 18, 2024
To no one’s surprise, President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power in a preordained election landslide that comes amid the harshest crackdown on the opposition and free speech since Soviet times
March 18, 2024
An Afghan refugee has been found guilty of first-degree murder in one of three fatal shootings that shook Albuquerque’s Muslim community during the summer of 2022
March 18, 2024
Cuba's government confirmed on Monday that five protests had taken place across the island on Sunday and warned citizens against what it said were lies and exaggerations on social
March 18, 2024
The Pentagon is working through all channels with Niger officials on whether there is a viable way for U.S. troops to stay in the country following a March 16 directive that they leave
March 18, 2024
The Biden administration sided with a promoter who filed an antitrust suit against FIFA and the U.S. Soccer Federation over the world governing body’s policy against hosting league matches from other countries, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the case to proceed to trial
March 18, 2024
President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his grip on power, though thousands of opponents staged a noon protest at
March 18, 2024
President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have spoken in their first interaction in more than a month as the divide has grown between allies over food crisis in Gaza, conduct of war
March 18, 2024
Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza
March 18, 2024
A senior U.S. official has visited Montenegro to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union
March 18, 2024
The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda
March 18, 2024
Gangs have attacked two upscale neighborhoods in Haiti’s capital in a rampage that left at least a dozen people dead in surrounding areas
March 18, 2024
Three teens have been detained over the gruesome murder of a 13-year-old boy in China, sparking debate over bullying and mental health in China’s countryside
March 18, 2024
Croatia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Zoran Milanović can't run for prime minister or take part in the parliamentary preelection activities of an opposition party unless he resigns immediately from his current post
March 18, 2024
A new Banksy mural has drawn crowds to a London street, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed the work was his
March 18, 2024
Lawmakers in Gambia are voting Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a 2015 ban on female genital cutting
March 18, 2024
Vladimir Putin has secured an unprecedented fifth term as president of Russia
March 18, 2024
Western governments lined up on Monday to condemn Vladimir Putin's landslide election victory as unfair and undemocratic, but China and North Korea
March 18, 2024
South Korean authorities have suspended the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations
March 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country won’t relent in its invasion of Ukraine, with one of its goals being to establish a buffer zone along the border to protect against long-range Ukrainian strikes and cross-border raids
March 18, 2024
North Korea has shipped around 7,000 containers filled with munitions and other military equipment to Russia since last year to help support its war in Ukraine
March 18, 2024
An Arizona migrant shelter that has housed thousands of asylum seekers plans to halt most operations in two weeks when funding
March 18, 2024
From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians are eligible to vote in general elections
March 18, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the need to ensure that technologies sustain democratic values
March 18, 2024
Israel will send a high-level delegation headed by its Mossad chief to Qatar on Monday for mediated talks with Hamas designed to secure a six-week Gaza truce under which the
March 18, 2024
Asian stocks have gained ahead of policy decisions this week by Japan's central bank and the Federal Reserve
March 18, 2024
Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, accusing Hamas militants of using it as a base
March 18, 2024
Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital
March 18, 2024
Officials say Pakistan has targeted multiple suspected hideouts of Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan
March 18, 2024
A decade ago, President Vladimir Putin seized Crimea from Ukraine, a bold land grab that set the stage for Russia to invade its neighbor in 2022
March 18, 2024
President Vladimir Putin is basking in a victory early that was never in doubt, as partial election results underlined the Russian leader’s total control of the country’s political system
March 18, 2024
Asian stocks are higher ahead of policy decisions this week by Japan's central bank and the Federal Reserve
March 18, 2024
Millions of Germans have been protesting against the rise of the far-right in huge rallies all over the country for weeks in a row, attending events with slogans such as “Never Again is Now.”
March 18, 2024
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suspended a ceasefire with one of the handful of armed groups with which he hoped to negotiate peace accords
March 18, 2024
Small groups of protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern Cuba city of Santiago decryng power outages lasting up to eight hours across the Caribbean nation
March 18, 2024
A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti has landed in Miami
March 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Monday that a direct conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would mean the planet
March 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that he supported an idea to release late opposition leader Alexei Navalny in a prisoner exchange just days before the man who was his biggest foe died
March 17, 2024
South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast
March 17, 2024
British musician Steve Harley, whose band Cockney Rebel had a huge hit with the song “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me),” has died
March 17, 2024
The U.S. is scrambling to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel region of Africa after the ruling junta in Niger announced it was ending military cooperation with Washington
March 17, 2024
Vaughan Gething’s election as the next leader of Wales marks a milestone: For the first time, none of the U.K.’s four main governments is led by a white man
March 17, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that U.S.
March 17, 2024
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against international criticism of his government amid the devasting war with Hamas
March 17, 2024
The European Union has announced a $8 billion aid package for cash-strapped Egypt amid concerns that economic pressure and conflicts and chaos in neighboring countries could drive more migrants to European shores
March 17, 2024
South Sudan is shutting all its schools and warning of an extreme heat wave that's expected to last two weeks
March 17, 2024
Ukraine has launched a new massive wave of drone attacks as Russians cast ballots on the final day of a presidential vote set to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule for another six years
March 17, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is poised to extend his near-quarter-century rule for six more years in a vote that follows a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent
March 17, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship in the Gulf of Aden, potentially marking their latest assault on shipping through the crucial waterway leading to the Red Sea
March 17, 2024
Bengaluru in southern India is witnessing an unusually hot February and March, and in the last few years, it has received little rainfall in part due to human-caused climate change
March 17, 2024
Russia started its final day of presidential voting on Sunday with Moscow accusing Ukraine of using air attacks to try to sabotage the election that is expected to keep
March 17, 2024
A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence
March 16, 2024
Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in southern Syria wounding a soldier
March 16, 2024
A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky
March 16, 2024
Media reports in Latvia say that the country's state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of cooperating with Russian intelligence and security services
March 16, 2024
After the pandemic, young Chinese are again looking to study abroad
March 16, 2024
Republicans and Israeli officials were quick to express outrage after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer lashed out at Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza and called for Israel to hold new elections
March 16, 2024
India has announced its 6-week-long general elections will start on April 19, with most surveys predicting a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party
March 16, 2024
Vaughan Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government
March 16, 2024
Stalled talks aimed at securing a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas are expected to restart in earnest in Qatar as soon as Sunday
March 16, 2024
Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani says the upcoming Major League Baseball opener with the San Diego Padres in Seoul will be “great memories” for him and his wife
March 16, 2024
A Russian regional governor says two people have been killed in Ukrainian shelling of the city of Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine
March 16, 2024
When Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died suddenly last month in an Arctic prison, his team was left with a monumental challenge: sustaining an opposition movement against President Vladimir Putin without the living example of their defiant and charismatic leader
March 16, 2024
Voters across Russia cast ballots Saturday on the second day of an election set to formalize six more years of power for President Vladimir Putin, who faces no serious challengers after crushing political dissent over his nearly 25 years of rule
March 16, 2024
If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day
March 16, 2024
Some 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than 4 million require food aid, sometimes eating only once a day or not at all
March 16, 2024
Residents braced for another tense night in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Friday, as attacks continued across parts of the city in the aftermath of the resignation of
March 16, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's new ride is a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin
March 16, 2024
Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight
March 16, 2024
Two AP journalists aboard an American aid flight to Gaza observed the wreckage to the strip's north as the plane delivered much-needed food aid to Palestinians below
March 15, 2024
The new documentary “High & Low — John Galliano” covers all the complexities of the famous British designer, one of the most celebrated and controversial figures in the fashion industry
March 15, 2024
Judicial documents show that top Brazilian military leaders declared to police that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented to them a plan to reverse the results of the 2022 election he lost, but they refused and warned him that they would arrest him if he tried it
March 15, 2024
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Russian efforts to conduct its presidential election in occupied areas of Ukraine, a U.N spokesperson said on Friday.
March 15, 2024
Most of the parties for Haiti's transition council have named their representative but a couple still have yet to do so, U.S.
March 15, 2024
President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel
March 15, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France and its allies will continue to support Ukraine as long as it takes.
March 15, 2024
The Group of Seven (G7) industrialised powers told Iran on Friday not to transfer ballistic missiles to Russia to use in its conflict with Ukraine, warning that they
March 15, 2024
The United States and allies are warning Iran that major Western economies will pile new sanctions on Tehran if it moves forward with an emerging plan to provide ballistic missiles to Russia for its war with Ukraine
March 15, 2024
France’s parliament has unanimously approved a pioneering bill to curb the environmental impact of fast fashion, marking a significant step towards sustainability in the global fashion industry
March 15, 2024
A German court says former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn will go on trial in September on charges of fraud and market manipulation linked to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal
March 15, 2024
U.S. aid chief Samantha Power is set to announce $25 million in humanitarian assistance for Haiti on Friday, according to a statement seen by Reuters in
March 15, 2024
Syria’s civil war has entered its 14th year, a somber anniversary in a long-frozen conflict
March 15, 2024
British cellphone company Vodafone has confirmed that it's selling its Italian business to Switzerland’s Swisscom for about $8.7 billion
March 15, 2024
The European Union is close to agreeing sanctions on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank after Hungary signalled an end to
March 15, 2024
A Russian missile strike on Odesa in southern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 46 others, local officials said
March 15, 2024
Pattie Boyd was at the epicenter of the Swinging 60s, but not always the center of attention
March 15, 2024
The first ship carrying food aid reached the coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday, where hopes for a ceasefire to
March 15, 2024
A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus
March 15, 2024
Pope Francis, at 87 increasingly weak and wobbly, takes a trip down memory lane and speaks of his hopes for the Roman Catholic Church's future in a new book
March 15, 2024
An official says a rubber dinghy carrying migrants has sunk off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast, leaving at least 21 people dead
March 15, 2024
Reports of system outages at McDonald’s are growing around the world, shuttering restaurants and leading to social media complaints
March 15, 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden will host Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday for the annual St.
March 15, 2024
U.N.-backed human rights experts say they have gathered new evidence of “horrific” torture of Ukrainian prisoners of war by their Russian jailers, saying such practices could amount to war crimes
March 15, 2024
Gerald Levin, who led Time Warner Media into a disastrous $182 billion merger with the internet provider America Online, has died at the age of 84
March 15, 2024
The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza is accusing Israeli forces of launching an attack near an aid distribution point in war-wracked northern Gaza, killing 20 people and wounding 155 others
March 15, 2024
Asian markets have retreated after a mixed batch of data on the U.S. economy dashed hopes that easier interest rates are coming soon
March 15, 2024
Nissan and Honda have agreed to work together on developing electric vehicles and auto intelligence technology to pool resources in a sector where Japanese automakers have fallen behind
March 15, 2024
Shohei Ohtani and his wife have arrived in South Korea with his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates ahead of their season-opening Major League Baseball games against the San Diego Padres next week
March 15, 2024
The United States has circulated the final draft of a United Nations Security Council resolution that would support international efforts to establish “an immediate and sustained cease-fire” in the Israel-Hamas war
March 15, 2024
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a ship in the Red Sea, causing damage to the vessel
March 15, 2024
Seventy-eight protesters have been ordered to do five hours of community service and pay restitution to avoid criminal proceedings for allegedly blocking traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge for hours in November to demand a cease-fire in Gaza
March 15, 2024
Senegal’s top opposition leader was released from jail late, just ahead of the presidential election scheduled to be held at the end of the month
March 14, 2024
The U.S. on Thursday finalized its draft U.N.
March 14, 2024
Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking muddy puddle by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness
March 14, 2024
Honduras’ former first lady Ana García de Hernández says her decision to seek the presidency next year is about showing the world the injustice that was done to her recently convicted husband, not an attempt to protect herself from prosecution as some allege
March 14, 2024
Voters are heading to the polls in Russia for a three-day presidential election that is all but certain to extend President Vladimir Putin’s rule by six more years after he stifled dissent
March 14, 2024
The Somali extremist group al-Shabab says its fighters have attacked a hotel in the capital Mogadishu, where a loud explosion and gunfire have been heard
March 14, 2024
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has returned to Instagram to tease a new brand that records show could feature jams, household items, cookbooks and cutlery
March 14, 2024
A major deadline under the half-century-old War Powers Resolution came this week for President Joe Biden to obtain Congress’ approval to keep waging his military campaign against Yemen’s Houthis
March 14, 2024
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister
March 14, 2024
Caribbean officials say a plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country
March 14, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has reiterated his position that sending Western troops into Ukraine should not be ruled out, but also says that today’s situation doesn’t require that
March 14, 2024
Ukrainians living in regions illegally annexed by Russia are being coerced to vote in the presidential election of their wartime occupier, Vladimir Putin, an exercise denounced by Ukraine as an illegitimate effort by Moscow to tighten control over its neighbor
March 14, 2024
Nigeria’s president has urged security agencies not to pay ransoms to rescue nearly 300 schoolchildren abducted from their school in the conflict-hit north a week ago
March 14, 2024
The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a group of three extremist Israeli West Bank settlers who are accused of harassing and attacking Palestinians in an attempt to pressure them to leave their land
March 14, 2024
A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw has been laid to rest
March 14, 2024
Air drops and a maritime corridor will not be enough to make up for supplies transported by trucks into Gaza, where people are on the
March 14, 2024
Britain’s high court has ruled that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency
March 14, 2024
SpaceX's Starship rocket, designed to eventually send astronauts to the moon and beyond, completed nearly an entire test flight on its third try on Thursday, making it
March 14, 2024
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections
March 14, 2024
The health ministry says the Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions
March 14, 2024
Egypt’s top diplomat has appealed for an urgent increase in aid going into Gaza by land, even as a ship loaded with some 200 tons of food was on its way to the enclave, where hundreds of thousands have been driven to the brink of starvation
March 14, 2024
A rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a potential showdown between the two leaders, raising questions about
March 14, 2024
A humanitarian rescue group says survivors aboard a deflating rubber dinghy rescued in the central Mediterranean Sea have reported that some 60 people who departed Libya with them more than a week ago perished during the journey
March 14, 2024
European Union regulators are ratcheting up scrutiny of big tech companies including Google, Facebook and TikTok by looking into how they’re dealing with risks from generative artificial intelligence, such as the viral spread of deepfakes
March 14, 2024
Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so
March 14, 2024
Liberians are gathering to mark a decade since the country was hit by a devastating Ebola outbreak that killed more than 10,000 people in West Africa, adding to the region’s economic and political troubles
March 14, 2024
Anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders says it is unfair and “constitutionally wrong” that he had to sacrifice his leadership aspirations in order to pave the way for a right-wing ruling coalition in the Netherlands after his party won elections in November
March 14, 2024
The Kremlin said on Thursday that comments on nuclear weapons that Russian President Vladimir Putin made in an interview with state media did not constitute a threat to use them,
March 14, 2024
The inhabitants of Copenhagen’s freewheeling Christiania neighborhood are planning to dig up the aptly named Pusher Street, in their latest attempt to stop illegal hashish sales which have led to deadly gang turf wars and sometimes violent confrontations with the police
March 14, 2024
Spain’s Parliament is set to give its initial approval Thursday to a controversial amnesty bill aimed at forgiving crimes — both proved and alleged — committed by Catalan separatists during a chaotic attempt to hold an independence referendum six years ago
March 14, 2024
Russian officials say Ukraine has fired at least eight missiles at the Belgorod border region, killing one person and wounding six
March 14, 2024
Senators from both major political parties are urging congressional leaders to ensure that more visas are made available to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. troops in America’s longest war
March 14, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal
March 14, 2024
Israeli fire killed six Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as crowds of residents awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza health ministry officials said on
March 14, 2024
The camps of the two presidential candidates who appear to have lost in Indonesia’s election last month say they plan to challenge the official results at the Constitutional Court with allegations of widespread fraud
March 14, 2024
The purple pieces of vulcanized rubber track being produced at a factory in northern Italy will soon be run on by the world’s fastest athletes at the Paris Olympics
March 14, 2024
The British government on Thursday published an official definition of “extremism.”
March 14, 2024
A Japanese high court has ruled that denying same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and called for urgent government action to address the lack of any law allowing for such unions
March 14, 2024
Asian shares are mixed in lackluster trading
March 14, 2024
Indian farmers are protesting in the Indian capital to press their demand for new legislation that would guarantee minimum profitable prices for their crops
March 14, 2024
With each passing day, the relatives of hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 face a deepening despair
March 14, 2024
SpaceX's Starship, a futuristic vehicle designed to eventually carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was poised for a
March 14, 2024
Artificial intelligence is supercharging the threat of election disinformation worldwide, making it easy for anyone with a smartphone to create fake – but convincing – content aimed at fooling voters
March 14, 2024
As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little electoral drama in the race
March 14, 2024
Thailand’s paroled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has launched a series of public appearances with an early morning visit to a holy shrine in the capital Bangkok before flying to his home province of Chiang Mai in the country’s north
March 14, 2024
Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland China
March 14, 2024
An uneasy quiet hung over Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince on Wednesday after the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, a 74-year-old neurosurgeon who came to power
March 14, 2024
A U.N. report says many countries are bouncing back from the COVID-19 pandemic, but the poorest are not and a significant number are seeing their conditions deteriorate
March 14, 2024
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has joined his troops in training to operate newly developed battle tanks and called for bigger efforts to prepare for war
March 13, 2024
Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious sect compound
March 13, 2024
Federal prosecutors say a Montana rancher illegally used tissue and testicles from wild sheep that were killed by hunters in central Asia and the U.S. to breed “giant” sheep hybrids for sale to private hunting preserves in Texas
March 13, 2024
A senior United Nations official says intensifying violence in Congo's eastern region has pushed a humanitarian crisis in the region to “unprecedented” levels
March 13, 2024
The U.K. government says it will back legislation banning foreign state ownership of British newspapers and magazines, a move that could upend a planned takeover by a United Arab Emirates consortium of the Telegraph Media Group
March 13, 2024
The regional president of Catalonia has called an early election for May 12 after his minority government failed to pass a budget for Spain’s wealthy northeast region that includes Barcelona
March 13, 2024
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March 13, 2024
The Israeli military says it plans to direct many of the 1.4 million displaced Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip’s southernmost town of Rafah toward “humanitarian islands” in the center of the territory ahead of its planned offensive there
March 13, 2024
After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition
March 13, 2024
A pair of Ukrainian justice ministers in Washington this week said they were “quite optimistic” about the U.S. coming up with a way to financially support Ukraine
March 13, 2024
A proposal to install new leadership in Haiti appears to be crumbling as some political parties rejected the plan to create a presidential council that would manage the transition
March 13, 2024
South Africa’s foreign minister says her country’s citizens who fight in the Israeli armed forces or alongside them in Gaza will be arrested when they return home
March 13, 2024
The United States has not adjusted its nuclear posture as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's new nuclear saber-rattling, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
March 13, 2024
Exceeding expectations, the biopic “ Bob Marley: One Love ” has been a box office hit in the United States and several other countries
March 13, 2024
Russia warned on Wednesday that the war in Ukraine could spin out of control and expand geographically due to the ill-considered actions of one or two member states from the NATO
March 13, 2024
Anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders says he doesn’t have the support of his prospective coalition partners to become the next Dutch prime minister
March 13, 2024
Japanese officials say the U.S. and Japanese militaries will resume flights of Osprey aircraft in Japan after completing necessary maintenance and training following a fatal crash last November
March 13, 2024
The father of an Israeli soldier killed during the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7 said he was going through a living hell a day after learning of the death and called for
March 13, 2024
A South Korean Christian aid group says that a South Korean national held in Russia on an espionage allegation is one of its missionaries dispatched there to support the needy and spread the gospel
March 13, 2024
Three and a half years after hundreds of tons of improperly stored ammonium nitrate ignited at the Beirut port, setting off one of the world’s biggest non-nuclear explosions, Lebanese and French officials have put forward a plan for reconstruction and reorganization of the port
March 13, 2024
One religious icon unites Cubans: The Virgin of Charity of Cobre
March 13, 2024
Cubans are often divided on many issues
March 13, 2024
A minister in Britain’s Conservative government says the party does not plan to give back 10 million pounds ($12.8 million) it received in the past year from a donor who made comments that have been condemned as racist
March 13, 2024
Adidas says it’s donated or is planning to give away more than $150 million to groups fighting antisemitism and other forms of hate from the sales of Yeezy shoes last year
March 13, 2024
Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former member of The Waterboys, has died at age 66
March 13, 2024
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is visiting the electric car maker’s first European plant as production resumes at the factory just outside Berlin about a week after a suspected arson attack cut its power supply
March 13, 2024
Denmark's government wants to increase the number of Danes doing military service by making conscription mandatory for women and by increasing the time of service to 11 months for both genders
March 13, 2024
Leonid Volkov, the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s close associate and top strategist, has Wednesday Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “henchmen” of being behind a brutal attack that left him hospitalized in Lithuania’s capital and vowed to “not give up
March 13, 2024
A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia after officials in the kingdom ordered a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public
March 13, 2024
Violent clashes overnight have left multiple Palestinians dead in the West Bank, and Israeli police say a Palestinian stabbed two people at a checkpoint near Jerusalem before being shot Wednesday
March 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin says that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty, or independence
March 13, 2024
President Vladimir Putin gave a wide-ranging interview to Russia's RIA state news agency and Rossiya-1 state television, days before a March 15-17 election that is certain to give him
March 13, 2024
Asian shares are mostly rising, encouraged by a record rally on Wall Street
March 13, 2024
Some investors in a troubled Chinese trust fund are facing financial ruin under a government plan to return a fraction of their money back
March 13, 2024
European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law
March 13, 2024
Vladimir Putin is poised to sweep to another six-year term in this week’s presidential election, even though Russians are dying in Ukraine in a war that is grinding through its third year and his country is more isolated than ever
March 13, 2024
Evangelicals have been among Israel’s fiercest foreign supporters for years
March 13, 2024
The head of the U.N. atomic agency has told local Japanese representatives at a meeting in Fukushima that the ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater at the ruined nuclear power plant has met safety standards and that any restrictions on products from the region are not scientific
March 13, 2024
China stocks are mixed as the country scrambles to avoid major real estate developer bankruptcy
March 13, 2024
A bill that could lead to a ban of the popular video app TikTok is expected to pass the House as lawmakers act on concerns that the company’s ownership structure is an unacceptable threat to American national security
March 13, 2024
Russia remains in a state of combat readiness and is fully ready for a nuclear war, but not "everything is rushing to it" at present, President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on
March 13, 2024
A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff
March 13, 2024
The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
March 13, 2024
A woman has sued director Roman Polanski in a Los Angeles court, saying the director raped her when she was a minor in 1973
March 12, 2024
A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a
March 12, 2024
Argentina’s inflation slowed down for a second consecutive month in February, as right-wing President Javier Milei continues to push austerity and deregulation measures in an effort to revive the country’s struggling economy
March 12, 2024
Four U.S. Army boats, loaded with tons of equipment and steel pier segments, have left Virginia and are heading to Gaza
March 12, 2024
Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power of gangs
March 12, 2024
Associates of the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny reported on Tuesday night that the politician’s close ally and top strategist was attacked near his home in Lithuania
March 12, 2024
Karl Wallinger, the multi-instrumentalist and solo force behind the band World Party and former member of The Waterboys, has died at age 66
March 12, 2024
Lawmakers are facing their latest lobbyists — online influencers from TikTok
March 12, 2024
Brazilian police say several passengers are being held hostage in a bus in Rio de Janeiro, and two were injured from gunshots
March 12, 2024
The United States is spearheading the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence, aimed at ensuring the new technology is “safe, secure and trustworthy” and that all countries, especially those in the developing world, have equal access
March 12, 2024
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called for increased international pressure on Israel to ensure more humanitarian aid is allowed into Gaza, and said Ankara will increase
March 12, 2024
“Pics, or it didn't happen” has been a common refrain when seeking proof that someone’s story or some event actually took place
March 12, 2024
Senior U.S. defense officials say the Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts
March 12, 2024
The shortened version of the international broadcast of the 96th Oscars has faced harsh criticism in Ukraine for omitting the segment announcing the documentary feature category, which went to Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol.”
March 12, 2024
An acclaimed revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Sunset Boulevard” and a play about the travails of England’s national soccer team lead the race for the Olivier Awards recognizing work on the London stage
March 12, 2024
House Democrats are launching a long-shot effort to push $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote
March 12, 2024
The scandal over Kate, Princess of Wales’ family snapshot is a new chapter in the thorny relationship between the media and Britain’s royal family
March 12, 2024
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said on Tuesday he has decided to run for NATO's leadership, a position for which many member states support Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
March 12, 2024
The United States is preparing a new military aid package for Ukraine that could be worth as much as $400 million, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday, the first such
March 12, 2024
Some of the most closely watched news conferences happen during China's annual meetings of its ceremonial legislature
March 12, 2024
Hungary summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest over remarks by President Joe Biden at a campaign stop saying Prime Minister Viktor Orban was seeking dictatorship, Foreign
March 12, 2024
John Barnett, a former Boeing employee who had reportedly raised concerns about the company's production issues, was found dead of an apparent suicide, according to authorities in South
March 12, 2024
Russia's elite is expecting President Vladimir Putin to reshuffle government positions to bring in younger people after what it sees as the
March 12, 2024
A formidable opponent of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro who twice tried to mount coups against the socialist leader spoke to The Associated Press as a Manhattan federal judge is deciding whether to punish him with a long prison sentence
March 12, 2024
Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according
March 12, 2024
The trial has begun in Norway for a man accused of aggravated terrorism for the deadly shooting at an LGBTQ+ festival in Oslo’s nightlife district
March 12, 2024
His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China
March 12, 2024
Germany’s vice chancellor has launched a program initially worth up to 4 billion euros to help heavy industry shift to more climate-friendly production over a 15-year period
March 12, 2024
The Russian Defense Ministry says that a military transport plane with 15 people on board has crashed while taking off from an air base in western Russia
March 12, 2024
The head of the African Development Bank is calling for an end to loans given in exchange for oil or critical minerals used in smartphones and electric car batteries
March 12, 2024
Philippine trade officials say they have received assurances that the United States will address their concerns after American authorities held up shipments of garments on suspicion that cotton was produced by forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region
March 12, 2024
Russian officials say Ukraine has launched a wave of long-range drones against targets deep inside Russia
March 12, 2024
The head of the United Nations’ atomic agency is in Japan to examine discharges of treated radioactive wastewater from the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, and to discuss further cooperation with Japan to promote peaceful use of nuclear energy and non-proliferation
March 12, 2024
Europe’s oldest monarch, Norwegian King Harald V is getting a permanent pacemaker
March 12, 2024
China, Iran and Russia have begun a joint naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, a crucial waterway near the mouth of the Persian Gulf
March 12, 2024
Spanish maritime rescuers and the Red Cross say two bodies have been found in a migrant boat making the risky but increasingly popular voyage from West Africa toward Spain’s Canary Islands
March 12, 2024
The European Union’s executive arm says it will recommend that member countries open accession negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina
March 12, 2024
A network operator says power has been restored to electric car manufacturer Tesla’s factory near Berlin after a nearly one-week outage believed to have been caused by arson
March 12, 2024
Officials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand
March 12, 2024
India has implemented a controversial citizenship law that has been widely criticized for excluding Muslims, a minority community whose concerns have heightened under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government
March 12, 2024
Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania and handed an arrest warrant issued by British authorities
March 12, 2024
Haiti's embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation late on Monday, effective once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed.
March 12, 2024
Shares are mostly higher in Asia ahead of a report on inflation in the U.S. that could sway the Federal Reserve's timing on cutting interest rates
March 12, 2024
An international charity says its aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus
March 12, 2024
South Korea’s government criticized senior doctors at a major hospital for threatening to resign in support of the weekslong walkouts by thousands of medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations
March 12, 2024
The Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when the faithful fast from dawn to dusk, began at sunrise Tuesday in much of Asia, a day after many Muslims in the Middle East began their fasts
March 12, 2024
The Israeli military says about 100 projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israel on Tuesday, a day after Palestinians in Gaza began fasting for the holy month of Ramadan
March 12, 2024
Russia's economy is holding up despite massive Western sanctions and foreign businesses pulling out of the country
March 12, 2024
The U_N_ envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict is warning Israel that the finding of “clear and convincing information” that some hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct_ 7 attack in southern Israel were subjected to sexual violence “does not in any way legitimize further hostilities.”
March 12, 2024
Caribbean leaders say that they “acknowledge the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry” once a transitional presidential council is created and an interim premier named
March 12, 2024
Poland’s president and prime minister are due to meet with President Joe Biden at the White House and with congressional leaders who they hope will spur Washington to invest more in Ukraine’s defense at a critical moment in the war in Europe
March 12, 2024
Sixteen years ago, mass protests in Nepal forced then-King Gyanendra Shah to give up the throne and clear the way for a republic
March 12, 2024
For Muslims around the world, Ramadan combines religious reflection and charity with festive celebrations as families gather for the evening meal breaking the fast
March 12, 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has issued his resignation as the Caribbean nation's head of government, the chair of the Caribbean Community said on Monday, leaving an
March 12, 2024
The U.N.’s preeminent body promoting equality for women and girls has opened its annual meeting with five male speakers in a row
March 12, 2024
Russians who own frozen foreign securities will be able to apply from March 25 to sell them to foreigners with frozen assets in Russia, the Russian finance ministry said on Monday,
March 11, 2024
The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy
March 11, 2024
The French government says that several of its services are being targeted by cyberattacks of "unprecedented intensity" and a special crisis center was activated to restore online services
March 11, 2024
The United Nations cultural and scientific agency says Ukraine will need more than a billion dollars to rebuild its scientific infrastructure that was damaged or destroyed during two years of Russia's war on its neighbor
March 11, 2024
Poland’s president is calling on other other members of the NATO alliance to raise their spending on defense to 3% of their GDP as Russia puts its economy on a war footing and pushes forward with its invasion of Ukraine
March 11, 2024
The U.S., Canada and several indigenous groups have agreed to address pollution from coal mining in British Columbia that's been contaminating waterways on both sides of the border for many years
March 11, 2024
Russia will hold a presidential election on March 15-17 which President Vladimir Putin is certain to win, barring an unexpected development.
March 11, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has announced rules to implement a 2019 citizenship law that excludes Muslims, weeks before the Hindu nationalist leader seeks a third term in office
March 11, 2024
Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared
March 11, 2024
King Felipe VI of Spain says victims of terror attacks are a symbol of the constant need to guard freedom and the rule of law against threats
March 11, 2024
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to meet Monday with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica as part of an urgent push to solve Haiti’s spiraling crisis
March 11, 2024
More than 20 progressive groups are coming together to forcefully reject pro-Israel groups’ efforts to primary challenge liberal members who've been critics of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza
March 11, 2024
India says it has successfully conducted its first test flight of a domestically developed missile that can carry multiple warheads
March 11, 2024
The U.S. commerce secretary says Washington is constantly assessing the need to expand export controls to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and manufacturing equipment that can be used to boost its military
March 11, 2024
An American man has been convicted of murder and other charges for attacking two American women near Germany’s famed Neuschwanstein castle last summer and pushing them into a ravine, fatally injuring one of them
March 11, 2024
An explosion that took place near a ship in the Red Sea on Monday is suspected to have been an attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, though the blast caused no damage, authorities said
March 11, 2024
With no end to fighting in sight, Palestinians in Gaza have begun fasting for the holy month of Ramadan as hunger worsens across the strip and pressure grows on Israel over the growing humanitarian crisis
March 11, 2024
President Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence service on Monday accused the United States of trying to meddle in Russia's presidential election and said that Washington even had
March 11, 2024
Ukraine awoke to another day of war with Russia but also a bit of good news
March 11, 2024
Sweden’s national flag has been raised at NATO headquarters, cementing the Nordic country’s place as the 32nd member of the alliance two years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine persuaded its reluctant public to seek safety under NATO’s security umbrella
March 11, 2024
The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been sworn into office
March 11, 2024
Vanity Fair's post-Academy Awards party had its usual decadent food, dancing and opulent fashions where the most popular accessory is an Oscar
March 11, 2024
The Princess of Wales has apologized for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace
March 11, 2024
Japan marked the 13th anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear meltdown and left parts of Fukushima prefecture uninhabitable on Monday with a minute of silence and memorial events, where officials pledged continued support for rebuilding
March 11, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced new legislation to legalize “aid in dying” that will allow adults facing end-of-life illness to take lethal medication
March 11, 2024
The Kremlin on Monday declined to comment on a CNN report that the United States began preparing rigorously in late 2022 for Russia potentially striking Ukraine with a nuclear
March 11, 2024
Half a world away from Hollywood, citizens in Hiroshima, Japan, reacted to the best picture win for "Oppenheimer", the blockbuster that depicted the race to develop
March 11, 2024
Japan’s economy managed to grow in the fourth quarter of last year, averting a recession, according to revised government data released Monday that had previously shown a contraction
March 11, 2024
Palestinians have begun fasting for Ramadan
March 11, 2024
There was talk of war, and pleas for peace
March 11, 2024
Officials say at least 50 people have been injured by what they described as a “strong movement” on a Chilean plane traveling from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand
March 11, 2024
Japan is marking 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts, killing nearly 20,000 people, wiping out whole towns and destroying the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
March 11, 2024
In the heart of Istanbul, on top of the towering minarets that dot the city’s skyline, 68-year-old Kahraman Yildiz toils away at a craft that has illuminated the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for generations
March 11, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power almost 25 years ago and since then he's eliminated nearly all independent media — a process he ramped up after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
March 11, 2024
China's national congress is wrapping up its annual session with the usual show of near-unanimous support for the ruling Communist Party's blueprint for the year
March 11, 2024
As India’s booming youth population outpaces the growth of its education system, historic numbers of students are turning abroad for higher education
March 11, 2024
By Dawn Chmielewski Comcast Corp's Universal Pictures dominated Sunday's Academy Awards, propelled by the historical drama "Oppenheimer," which won seven Oscars, including best picture.
March 11, 2024
The first official photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, since she underwent abdominal surgery nearly two months ago was pulled from circulation by The Associated Press and other news organizations because it appeared to have been manipulated
March 11, 2024
Asian shares are mostly lower after Wall Street's huge rally faltered last week
March 11, 2024
The following is a complete list of Oscar winners at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, presented at a live, televised ceremony from Hollywood.
March 11, 2024
Emma Stone claimed her second Academy Award on Sunday, winning the best actress trophy for her role as a woman revived from the dead in the dark
March 11, 2024
Cillian Murphy earned his first Academy Award for his portrayal in “Oppenheimer” of the physicist who led the United States’ development of the atomic bomb during
March 11, 2024
The leader of Yemen’s branch of al-Qaida is dead
March 11, 2024
A harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, “20 Days in Mariupol” has won the best documentary Oscar
March 11, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in "Oppenheimer," where he played a villainous bureaucrat who seeks
March 10, 2024
The harrowing Holocaust drama “The Zone of Interest,” which explores questions of complicity while depicting the mundane lives of a Nazi family in their home adjacent to the Auschwitz death camp, won the Academy Award for best international film
March 10, 2024
Britain's "The Zone of Interest," about a German officer's family living next door to the Auschwitz extermination camp during World War Two, won the Oscar for best
March 10, 2024
Hollywood's biggest stars gathered on Sunday to celebrate the year's best accomplishments in film at the annual Academy Awards. Here are some takeaways from the 96th Oscars ceremony.
March 10, 2024
Da’Vine Joy Randolph won the best supporting actress Oscar on Sunday for her role as the grieving mother Mary Lamb in the boarding school drama “
March 10, 2024
Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh blamed Israel on Sunday for stalling ceasefire talks and rejecting Hamas's demand to end the war on Gaza, but said the group was still
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden has stepped up public pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, warning he's “hurting Israel” and speaking candidly about “come to Jesus” conversations with the leader over the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza
March 10, 2024
Just before an opera-ballet set in conflict, La Scala’s principal dancer Roberto Bolle, general manager Dominique Meyer and other members of the dance company, orchestra and stage crew faced the audience as the curtain rose
March 10, 2024
Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco has died at the age of 75
March 10, 2024
Police in northern England say they have removed 34 bodies from a funeral home and arrested a man and woman on suspicion of fraud and preventing lawful burials
March 10, 2024
A religious procession in downtown Barcelona has celebrated the appearance of long-awaited rain after nine days of praying for relief from a severe drought
March 10, 2024
London police say they have arrested a driver who plowed a car into the gates of Buckingham Palace
March 10, 2024
The U.S. military has flown forces in to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel
March 10, 2024
Officials have seen the crescent moon in Saudi Arabia, home to the holiest sites in Islam, marking the start of the holy fasting month of Ramadan for many of the world’s 1.8 billion Muslims
March 10, 2024
Muslims around the world are welcoming the arrival of Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, intense prayer, charity and feasts
March 10, 2024
The United States and Jordan carried out a new airdrop of humanitarian aid to Gaza's Palestinians on Sunday, parachuting in more than 11,500 meals, the U.S. military said.
March 10, 2024
Ukrainian and allied officials have criticized Pope Francis for saying that Kyiv should have the “courage” to negotiate an end to the war with Russia, a statement many interpreted as a call on Ukraine to surrender
March 10, 2024
The U.S. military said on Sunday it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S. forces bolster embassy
March 10, 2024
"Oppenheimer," the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed the prestigious best picture trophy at the Academy Awards on
March 10, 2024
Moldova's foreign minister says the past two years for his country have been the hardest and most tumultuous for European Union candidate Moldova in more than three decades as it faces threats from Russia in multiple spheres of public life
March 10, 2024
The first photo of Kate, the Princess of Wales, since her abdominal surgery nearly two months ago has been issued along with a statement thanking the public for its support
March 10, 2024
The Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum is opening in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king
March 10, 2024
A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza is on its way to the Mediterranean
March 10, 2024
Saudi oil giant Aramco has reported a $121 billion profit last year, down from its 2022 record due to lower energy prices
March 10, 2024
It’s easy to blame the latest spasm of violence in Haiti on longstanding poverty, the legacy of colonialism, and European and U.S. interference with the West’s first free Black republic
March 10, 2024
Portugal is holding a general election Sunday against a backdrop of corruption scandals and economic hardship that have eroded faith in moderate mainstream parties
March 10, 2024
Hi, “Oppenheimer.”
March 10, 2024
Once-lush fields lie barren
March 10, 2024
Rashidat Hamza is in despair
March 10, 2024
President Joe Biden says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “hurting Israel more than helping Israel” in how he is approaching its war against Hamas in Gaza
March 09, 2024
Media magnate Rupert Murdoch turns 93 next week and is planning to get married again
March 09, 2024
Interest in the late scientist J
March 09, 2024
Pope Francis has said in an interview that Ukraine, facing possible defeat, should have the courage to negotiate an end to the war with Russia and not be ashamed to sit at the same table to carry out peace talks
March 09, 2024
Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding
March 09, 2024
Spain's prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state
March 09, 2024
Hundreds of giant paper-mache bulls stuffed with fireworks are erected in the front yards of the Mexican town of Tultepec every year in the first week of March
March 09, 2024
Police in Nigeria say armed men have invaded a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children
March 09, 2024
El Salvador’s lawmakers have granted a request by President Nayib Bukele for the 24th consecutive one-month extension of an anti-gang emergency decree
March 09, 2024
A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict has endorsed a resolution by the U.N. Security Council calling for a cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan
March 09, 2024
Police and palace guards are working to retake some streets in Haiti's capital after gangs launched massive attacks on at least three police stations in the capital
March 09, 2024
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has conceded defeat in the vote over two constitutional amendments that would have broadened the definition of family and removed language about a woman’s role in the home
March 09, 2024
On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity
March 09, 2024
Large NATO drills in the frigid fjords of northern Norway may be just war games meant to hone the skills of the newly expanded 32-nation military alliance in the event of conflict
March 09, 2024
Pakistan's lawmakers have chosen Asif Ali Zardari as the country's new president
March 09, 2024
Torrential rains have triggered flash floods and a landslide on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 19 people and leaving seven others missing
March 09, 2024
Poland’s foreign minister says the presence of NATO forces “is not unthinkable” and that he appreciates the French president for not ruling out that idea
March 09, 2024
Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods
March 09, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to secure his fifth term in power this month on the heels of opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in prison
March 09, 2024
Portugal is holding an early general election on Sunday when 10.8 million registered voters will elect 230 lawmakers, who will then choose a new government
March 09, 2024
Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili
March 09, 2024
A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio
March 09, 2024
Pressure is building on authorities in Italy to close a notorious Rome migrant detention center where a 19-year-old Guinean allegedly hanged himself last month
March 09, 2024
A massive floating pier that will allow ships to sail up to Gaza and offload aid will soon sail from the U.S. to the Mediterranean Sea as the U.S. looks at ways to address Gaza's dire food needs
March 09, 2024
The United Nations chief says legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality has become an uphill struggle against rank discrimination and gross human human rights abuses
March 09, 2024
Police in Peru have announced the arrest of an Iranian citizen who was purportedly a member of the Iranian Quds Force and had allegedly planned to kill an Israeli citizen in the South American country
March 08, 2024
A panel featuring Meghan the Duchess of Sussex came together on International Women’s Day to discuss how women and mothers are portrayed in traditional media and across social media, among other issues
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden has endorsed legislation that could lead to the popular video-sharing app TikTok being banned in the United States, a move that comes amid growing concern in Washington about keeping Americans' private data out of China’s hands
March 08, 2024
The U.N. Security Council is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow desperately needed aid to reach 25 million people
March 08, 2024
Scores of foreigners are stranded in Haiti, unable to leave the country under siege by violent gangs that have shuttered its international airports, trapping citizens from the U.S., Canada and beyond
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden said he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the two of them were headed for a "come to Jesus" meeting over the issue of
March 08, 2024
Former President Donald Trump is meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a conservative populist whose crackdowns in Hungary have sparked criticism that he's eroding that country's democracy
March 08, 2024
Former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez was found guilty on Friday of drug trafficking conspiracy by a U.S. jury, cementing the onetime U.S. ally's fall from
March 08, 2024
Ariana Cubillos is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela
March 08, 2024
The U.S. military carried out its fourth airdrop of aid into Gaza on Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters, amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal
March 08, 2024
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been convicted in New York of charges that he conspired with drug traffickers, his military and police to enable tons of cocaine to make it unhindered into the United States
March 08, 2024
Women across Latin America are bathing their city streets in purple in commemoration of International Women’s Day at a time when gender rights advocates in the region face both historic steps forward and setbacks
March 08, 2024
A new survey says one-third of Italians have reduced their consumption of extra virgin olive oil due to skyrocketing prices
March 08, 2024
Germany’s top prosecutor has taken over the investigation into an alleged arson attack on the power supply of the electric car company Tesla near Berlin
March 08, 2024
Security forces are searching large forests in Nigeria’s northwest region for nearly 300 children who were abducted from their school a day earlier
March 08, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
March 08, 2024
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command has issued a flight clearance for the V-22 Osprey, three months after the military aircraft was grounded following a fatal crash in Japan, the U.S.
March 08, 2024
The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend,
March 08, 2024
The military has greenlighted its Osprey to return to flight, three months after a part failure led to the deaths of eight service members in a crash in Japan in November
March 08, 2024
The U.N. human rights office says in a report that the establishment and expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem amount to a war crime
March 08, 2024
Last October, an Idaho farmer using a backhoe punched a hole into a 22-inch (56-cm) pipeline buried under a field, sending more than 51 million cubic feet of natural gas
March 08, 2024
Efforts are ramping up to deliver more desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza, with the United States and Europe focusing on opening a sea route in a signal of the West’s growing frustration with Israel’s conduct in the war
March 08, 2024
The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week
March 08, 2024
Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, called Joe Biden a "mad" disgrace to the United States on Friday and said the U.S. president had no right to compare
March 08, 2024
Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children’s agency
March 08, 2024
A U.N. fact-finding mission says Iran is responsible for the “physical violence” that led to the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 and sparked nationwide protests against the country’s mandatory headscarf laws and its ruling theocracy
March 08, 2024
A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea
March 08, 2024
Hong Kong's government on Friday unveiled its proposed national security bill, following a month-long public consultation that ended last week.
March 08, 2024
The studio of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama says he has died at age 68
March 08, 2024
Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks climbed to records, with easier interest rates beckoning on the horizon
March 08, 2024
Observant Muslims the world over will soon be united in a ritual of daily fasting from dawn to sunset as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan starts
March 08, 2024
Ten years on, families of Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysian Airline flight still are searching for answers
March 08, 2024
China’s hacking industry, leaked internal documents reveal, is vast in size and scope but also suffers from shady business practices, disgruntlement over pay and work quality, and poor security protocols
March 08, 2024
Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their activism by writing letters to political prisoners
March 08, 2024
France’s leaders will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution
March 08, 2024
After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die
March 08, 2024
Venezuela’s presidential election so far is a one-horse race for incumbent President Nicolás Maduro
March 08, 2024
Irish voters will vote in twin referendums on Friday to decide whether to amend the constitution and remove passages the government says are outdated and sexist
March 08, 2024
Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto has long been a popular destination for tourists, but visitors will no longer be able to venture into some private-property alleys in the city's famous geisha district
March 08, 2024
President Joe Biden on Thursday attacked former President Donald Trump's vision for America in his last State of the Union address before the two men face off in the
March 08, 2024
Karol G made history at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony
March 08, 2024
Hong Kong's new national security bill proposes up to life imprisonment for offenses like treason and insurrection
March 08, 2024
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March 07, 2024
Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars
March 07, 2024
Police say that three escaped inmates from the eastern Caribbean island of Grenada have been charged in the killing of a U.S. couple whose catamaran they hijacked
March 07, 2024
Britain says it's providing 10,000 drones to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia
March 07, 2024
Authorities and locals in Nigeria say gunmen attacked a primary school in the northwest of the country on Thursday morning and abducted at least 100 pupils as they were about to start classes
March 07, 2024
International focus should be on large-scale distribution and entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza by land, but any way to deliver more aid is "obviously
March 07, 2024
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been ordered to pay legal fees to a company founded by a former British spy that he sued for making what he claimed were “shocking and scandalous" false claims that harmed his reputation
March 07, 2024
The United Nations chief is urging Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country’s unity and “could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.”
March 07, 2024
A Greek novelist and his partner have become the first same-sex couple to be married in Athens’ city hall following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Orthodox Christian Greece
March 07, 2024
Haiti’s government says it is extending a state of emergency and nighttime curfew to try and curb violent gang attacks that have paralyzed the capital of Port-au-Prince amid a fierce political battle for power
March 07, 2024
When Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry filled the void left by the assassination of the country’s president in 2021, he did so over the protest of wide segments of the population but with the full-throated support of the Biden administration
March 07, 2024
President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on
March 07, 2024
President Joe Biden will announce a plan in his State of the Union address to establish a temporary port on the Gaza coast to boost humanitarian aid for the beleaguered territory
March 07, 2024
Scientists are getting a better taste of the early history of the domestication and use of cacao - the source of chocolate - thanks to residues detected on a
March 07, 2024
A coalition of humanitarian and nongovernmental groups has slammed Israel's halt in renewing visas for international aid workers in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank
March 07, 2024
Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
March 07, 2024
A Montenegrin court has ruled that cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon should be handed over to his native South Korea, the latest twist in the months-long legal procedure that followed the arrest of the Terraform Labs founder in the Balkan nation last year
March 07, 2024
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for a cessation of hostilities in Sudan during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins early
March 07, 2024
Leading British economic think tanks are warning that whoever wins the country’s general election this year will face some very tough choices on tax and spending if they want to make sure the public finances don’t deteriorate further
March 07, 2024
The U.S. military carried out its third airdrop of aid into Gaza on Thursday, dropping more than 38,000 meals amid an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in the crowded coastal
March 07, 2024
Police in Canada’s capital capital of Ottawa are investigating the deaths of six people including four children and two adults found in a house in a southern suburb
March 07, 2024
Sweden's government will on Thursday make a formal decision for the country to join NATO, it said in a statement, giving a green light to its foreign minister and prime minister
March 07, 2024
The United States on Thursday threatened future action against Iran at the U.N. nuclear watchdog if Tehran keeps "stonewalling" the watchdog by denying it the
March 07, 2024
Old Masters, Roman statues, modern furniture, tribal masks and vintage watches are vying for the attention of well-heeled collectors at the annual TEFAF art fair that opened in the southern Netherlands
March 07, 2024
The military juntas ruling Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger say they have agreed to create a joint force to fight extremist violence in their nations
March 07, 2024
The United Nations’ refugee chief has raised a new alert over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique
March 07, 2024
A Hamas delegation left Cairo on Thursday, but will continue with Gaza ceasefire talks until an agreement is reached with Israel, the Palestinian group said in a
March 07, 2024
A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics
March 07, 2024
Hamas says its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week
March 07, 2024
European Union regulators want to question Apple over accusations that it blocked video game company Epic Games from setting up its own app store
March 07, 2024
Apple is opening small cracks in the iPhone’s digital fortress as part of a regulatory clampdown in Europe that’s striving to give consumers more choices
March 07, 2024
Millions of travelers across Germany are being affected by strikes again after two unions called for two-day walkouts over wages and work conditions
March 07, 2024
The top American diplomat for East Asia and the Pacific is criticizing China for using intimidation tactics against other countries in the region to press its sweeping maritime claims in the South China Sea
March 07, 2024
China reiterated calls to admit Palestine to the U.N. on Thursday, and Norway warned companies against doing business in Israeli settlements, as international criticism of Israel’s war in Gaza mounted
March 07, 2024
Asian shares are trading mixed after Wall Street recovered some losses from the day before
March 07, 2024
Once again, most Americans will set their clocks forward by one hour this weekend, losing perhaps a bit of sleep but gaining more glorious sunlight in the evenings as the days warm into summer
March 07, 2024
Criticizing laws or chanting anti-government slogans can be enough to jail someone for sedition in Hong Kong, an appeal court ruled Thursday in a landmark case brought under a colonial-era law increasingly used to crush dissent
March 07, 2024
Women across the world will demand equal pay, reproductive rights, education, justice, decision-making jobs and other essential needs during demonstrations marking International Women’s Day Friday
March 07, 2024
It was a heart-pounding moment far out in the disputed South China Sea: One of at least five Chinese coast guard ships aggressively approached and sideswiped a Philippine patrol ship, creating a loud, jarring noise that sent its Filipino crew scrambling to lower rubber fenders to cushion the boat's hull
March 07, 2024
China’s exports and imports for the first two months of the year beat estimates, an indication that demand may be improving as Beijing attempts to boost economic recovery
March 07, 2024
Europe's outburst of inflation is receding
March 07, 2024
At least 71 women have been killed in Turkey this year as activists say the country has made little progress in protecting women from abusers
March 07, 2024
It’s not just opposition politicians who are targeted in the crackdown by the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years
March 07, 2024
Corruption is a key issue in Portugal's early general election on Sunday
March 07, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to use his State of the Union address to promote his vision for a second term to a dispirited electorate who questions whether he’s up to the job and to warn that GOP front-runner Donald Trump would be a dangerous alternative
March 07, 2024
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is making his first official visit to Kashmir’s main city since India stripped the disputed region’s semi-autonomy in 2019
March 07, 2024
China’s foreign minister is accusing the U.S. of devising tactics to suppress China’s rise and he has criticized the Biden administration for adding more Chinese companies to its sanctions lists
March 07, 2024
Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records
March 07, 2024
Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon
March 07, 2024
Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies
March 07, 2024
North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea
March 07, 2024
In his victory speech Tuesday, former president Donald Trump echoed false statements on social media that the Biden administration had secretly flown hundreds of thousands of migrants to the United States
March 06, 2024
The Senegalese government has announced March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election
March 06, 2024
With just a few days to go until the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, the show’s producers are feeling good about what they’ve put together
March 06, 2024
The Justice Department says a former software engineer at Google has been charged with stealing artificial intelligence technology from the company while secretly working with two companies based in China
March 06, 2024
Mourners in Poland have paid tribute to a young Belarusian woman who died after being brutally attacked and raped on the streets of Warsaw last month, a crime that has shocked the country
March 06, 2024
A male bastion from its founding in 1842 until 1997, the Vienna Philharmonic has 24 female players among 145 members with three vacancies as it tours the United States this week
March 06, 2024
Aid agencies and local authorities say a surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in northern Mozambique has left more than 70 children missing and caused 100,000 people to flee their homes
March 06, 2024
Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza are gaining momentum
March 06, 2024
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry is struggling to stay in power as he tries to return home, where gang attacks have shuttered his country's main international airport and freed more than 4,000 inmates in recent days
March 06, 2024
The Czech Parliament has approved changes in the gun law that tighten requirements for owning a weapon following the worst mass killing in the nation’s history
March 06, 2024
Hondurans call it the “Trial of the Century,” but it’s occurring in a New York courtroom some 3,500 miles away
March 06, 2024
The sound of a large explosion reverberated around the Ukrainian port of Odesa as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Greece’s prime minister ended a tour of the war-ravaged southern city Wednesday
March 06, 2024
The French president is appealing to the public to collect photos, films, personal journals and testimony from witnesses to liberation from the Nazis, as the country prepares to mark the 80th anniversary of the Normandy landings in 1944
March 06, 2024
Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe
March 06, 2024
A U.S.-based disarmament organization has seized on public attention surrounding the Academy Awards-nominated film "Oppenheimer" and enlisted support from
March 06, 2024
The James Webb Space Telescope since becoming operational in 2022 has uncovered numerous surprises about what things were like in the universe's early stages.
March 06, 2024
A dating method based on cosmic rays has identified stone tools found in western Ukraine as the oldest-known evidence of human occupation in Europe - 1.4 million years ago -
March 06, 2024
A top U.S. sanctions official will visit Austrian authorities as well as Raiffeisen Bank International on March 7-8, the U.S.
March 06, 2024
Haitian politicians started pursuing new alliances Wednesday, seeking a coalition that could lead the country out of the gang violence that has closed the main airport and prevented embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry from returning home
March 06, 2024
Syria's activists and pro-government media say Islamic State militants have killed at least 18 people in an attack on villagers collecting truffles in eastern Syria
March 06, 2024
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's widow has called on his supporters to join a protest of this month’s presidential election that Navalny devised shortly before his still-unexplained death
March 06, 2024
The U.N. migration agency says more than 8,500 migrants died on land and sea routes worldwide last year, a record high since it began tallying deaths a decade ago
March 06, 2024
The Philippine navy says it will not allow China to remove a Philippine military outpost in a fiercely disputed South China Sea shoal where four Filipino navy personnel were injured in a confrontation between Chinese and Philippine ships
March 06, 2024
The Kremlin on Wednesday said that Russia will not meddle in the November U.S. presidential election, and dismissed American findings that Moscow orchestrated
March 06, 2024
Top Chinese financial officials have outlined details of the ruling Communist Party's plans for the year, saying a 5% target for economic growth is within reach after a strong start to the year
March 06, 2024
Egypt has floated its currency and announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase its bailout loan to $8 billion
March 06, 2024
A painting by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe, who stunned the public by abdicating earlier this year, has been sold at auction in Copenhagen for $23,300 — exceeding the estimated price
March 06, 2024
Nearly five months of fighting has left much of Gaza in ruins and created a worsening humanitarian catastrophe
March 06, 2024
South Korea’s president vows that he won't tolerate the prolonged walkouts by junior doctors, calling them “an illegal collective action” that threatens public health
March 06, 2024
The U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s director has arrived in Russia for talks on nuclear safety in Ukraine, where Europe's largest nuclear power plant is at risk amid fighting, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported Tuesday night
March 06, 2024
Moscow on Wednesday dismissed the issuance of International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants against two top Russian commanders as a spurious provocation
March 06, 2024
Asia stocks are mixed after tumbling Big Tech stocks dragged Wall Street to its worst day in three weeks
March 06, 2024
Hundreds of Czechs and a handful of Ukrainians are working round the clock in eastern Czech Republic to transform a collection
March 06, 2024
The winner of the 2nd Frederic Chopin Competition on Period Instruments all but traveled through time to commune with the Romantic-era piano virtuoso and composer on the day marked as his birthday
March 06, 2024
The Tirelli atelier in Rome's Prati neighborhood has woven itself into the fabric of Italian and international film history, with its costume designs behind 17 Academy Awards for costume design
March 06, 2024
Russian authorities have adopted a slew of laws restricting fundamental human rights, including freedom of speech and assembly, as well as the rights of minorities and religious groups
March 06, 2024
Over the last decade, Vladimir Putin’s government has evolved from tolerating dissent to ruthlessly suppressing any activities or people who dared challenge it
March 06, 2024
Europeans scrolling their phones and computers this week will get new choices for default browsers and search engines, where to download iPhone apps and how their personal online data is used
March 06, 2024
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote Wednesday on a rule that formalizes what companies have to report publicly about their greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks
March 06, 2024
Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt will seek to regain political initiative by announcing tax cuts during his annual budget statement
March 06, 2024
Over the last five months, Israel has killed thousands of Hamas fighters, destroyed dozens of their tunnels and wreaked unprecedented destruction on the Gaza Strip
March 06, 2024
Six Chinese fishing boats were found to be violating Vanuatu's fisheries law after being inspected by local police who were on board the first U.S.
March 06, 2024
A Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, becoming one of aviation’s biggest mysteries
March 06, 2024
Jason Palmer, a previously unknown candidate, won the Democratic caucus in American Samoa on Tuesday
March 06, 2024
A U.S. destroyer shot down drones and a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels toward it in the Red Sea
March 06, 2024
The United States on Tuesday revised language in a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to back "an immediate ceasefire of roughly six-weeks
March 06, 2024
Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs has vetoed a bill approved by the Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature that would have made it a crime for noncitizens to enter the state through Mexico at a location other than a port entry
March 05, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will be held on March 23 in Montreal
March 05, 2024
Venezuela’s top electoral official has announced that the country's highly anticipated presidential election will take place July 28
March 05, 2024
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández took the witness stand in his defense at his New York trial, denying that he teamed up with drug dealers to protect them in return for millions of dollars in bribes
March 05, 2024
Ukrainian sea drones have reportedly sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea, the latest in a series of strikes that has crippled Moscow’s naval capability and limited its operations with the war now in its third year
March 05, 2024
More of President Joe Biden’s top Senate allies are demanding that the U.S. act directly to ease Palestinian civilian suffering in Gaza and are joining calls to cut military aid if Israel refuses to change course
March 05, 2024
Six people have been arrested in New York on charges of illegally importing goose and duck intestines from China
March 05, 2024
An exchange of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages in Gaza can only happen after a ceasefire, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said on Tuesday, as ceasefire talks in Cairo
March 05, 2024
As increasingly powerful alliances of heavily armed gangs expand their influence over Haiti's capital, its government formally requested a multinational force be deployed
March 05, 2024
It’s the one question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the world is Prime Minister Ariel Henry
March 05, 2024
Where the buffaloes roam can be a problem in South Africa
March 05, 2024
Frontex chief Hans Leijtens says the European Union’s border and coast agency has a duty to inform the Libyan authorities about migrant boats in trouble the country’s waters and will continue to do so
March 05, 2024
The French government says tourists won’t be allowed to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics for free as initially promised
March 05, 2024
In a cinematic homage blurring fashion and film, Chanel transported its audience at Paris Fashion Week to a fictional Deauville for its latest showcase
March 05, 2024
A high-level military call on Ukraine intercepted by Russia made clear that no political decision on sending Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv has been made, Defence Minister Boris
March 05, 2024
Hungary’s president has formally signed a bill approving Sweden’s NATO bid, removing the last obstacle after 18 months of delays that frustrated the alliance
March 05, 2024
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March 05, 2024
Russia has strengthened its military forces in the north and west of the country to counter what Moscow perceives as a build-up of NATO forces near Russia, Defence Minister Sergei
March 05, 2024
One of the original momagers, Mary Villiers knew how to use her son to get wealth, power and prestige
March 05, 2024
An appeals court in Montenegro has overturned a ruling that Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon should be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges rather than to his native South Korea
March 05, 2024
The third-highest ranking U.S. diplomat and frequent target of criticism for her hawkish views on Russia and its actions in Ukraine will be leaving her post
March 05, 2024
The Middle East franchisee of Starbucks has begun firing staff at its coffee shops across the region after the brand found itself targeted by activists during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip
March 05, 2024
Spain’s Catalonia region rolled out this week a pioneering women’s health initiative that offers millions of women and girls reusable menstruation products for free
March 05, 2024
Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto is the 2024 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the field
March 05, 2024
Uncrewed, remote-controlled boats have been around since the end of World War II
March 05, 2024
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two high-ranking Russian military officers on charges linked to attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine
March 05, 2024
Egyptian officials say three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages have ended without a breakthrough
March 05, 2024
British officials say that Kate, the Princess of Wales, will attend a Trooping the Color ceremony in June
March 05, 2024
What’s arguably the most famous wet shirt in television history is up for sale
March 05, 2024
China's blueprint for its economy in 2024 is replete with goals and promises, but it's also notable for not spelling out specific moves to attain long-promised reforms that foreign businesses and investors have been hoping for
March 05, 2024
Turkey's foreign minister will visit the U.S. on March 7-8 for talks on the Gaza and Ukraine wars and defence and energy, a Turkish diplomatic source said on Tuesday, as relations
March 05, 2024
To create the look of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the big screen, his trademark hat had to be just right.
March 05, 2024
Germany’s defense minister says a military officer used an unsecured phone line at a Singapore hotel to join a conference call that was hacked by Russians and leaked to the public
March 05, 2024
Police in India have arrested three men in the alleged gang rape of a foreign tourist, in a case that has highlighted the country’s long-standing problem of sexual violence against women
March 05, 2024
Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Tuesday one of the participants on the military call on Ukraine intercepted by Russia had dialed in via a non-secure line and
March 05, 2024
Ceasefire talks between Hamas and mediators broke up on Tuesday in Cairo with no breakthrough, with just days left to halt
March 05, 2024
A United Nations report has found credible allegations that sexual assaults took place during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel
March 05, 2024
Ukraine claims it has sunk another Russian warship in the Black Sea using high-tech sea drones as Kyiv’s forces continue to take aim at targets deep behind the war’s front line
March 05, 2024
Singapore’s prime minister says Southeast Asian countries’ quest to reach agreement with China on a code of conduct in the contested South China Sea will take time, with difficult issues yet to be resolved despite recent efforts to accelerate the process
March 05, 2024
An electricity pylon caught fire near Tesla's German plant on Tuesday, police said, knocking out power in the area.
March 05, 2024
Shares are mixed in Asia after China's premier said the country's target for economic growth this year is around 5%, in line with expectations
March 05, 2024
China’s Premier Li Qiang promoted an image of confidence as he announced modest economic growth goals for the country at one of its most important political gatherings
March 05, 2024
Thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea are facing proceedings to suspend their medical licenses Tuesday
March 05, 2024
The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing a minor collision
March 05, 2024
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has defended an exclusive deal his city-state struck with Taylor Swift that prevents the pop star taking her current Eras Tour to anywhere else in Southeast Asia
March 05, 2024
China is increasing its defense budget 7.2% this year in a similar increase to last year's
March 05, 2024
Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced that China’s economic growth target for this year is around 5%, in line with last year’s performance despite forecasts for a slowdown
March 05, 2024
North Korea has called the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military drills a plot to invade the country, as it threatens to take unspecified “responsible” military steps in response
March 05, 2024
Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 11
March 04, 2024
Migrants bound for the U.S. are once again crossing the Darien Gap in large numbers after being stranded for much of last week in a small Colombian town due to a work stoppage by local boat captains
March 04, 2024
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress on April 11, congressional leaders said in a statement on Monday.
March 04, 2024
The Justice Department says a civilian U.S. Air Force employee has been charged in federal court in Nebraska with transmitting classified information about Russia’s war with Ukraine on a foreign online dating platform
March 04, 2024
A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and threatened with legal action by regional scout leaders
March 04, 2024
Ships will have to obtain a permit from Yemen's Houthi-controlled Maritime Affairs Authority before entering Yemeni waters, Houthi Telecommunications Minister Misfer
March 04, 2024
Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees
March 04, 2024
A key hearing over the future of Puerto Rico’s crumbling power company and its staggering $9 billion debt has begun following years of acrimonious talks between the U.S. territory’s government and creditors seeking to recover their investments
March 04, 2024
Thousands of Belarusians have been convicted on politically-driven charges over the last three years as part of the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent
March 04, 2024
Gangs in Haiti are increasingly powerful, and they've been attacking prisons and the main international airport
March 04, 2024
France has become the only country to explicitly guarantee the right to abortion in its constitution and other Europeans wonder whether a rollback of rights like the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision could happen in their countries
March 04, 2024
The White House on Monday said a temporary ceasefire in Gaza was essential to a hostage deal and called on Hamas to accept the terms currently on the table, as talks to secure a
March 04, 2024
The U.N. envoy focusing on sexual violence in conflict says there are “reasonable grounds” to believe Hamas committed rape, “sexualized torture,” and other cruel and inhuman treatment of women during its surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7 that left about 1,200 people dead and some 250 others taken hostage
March 04, 2024
Two Palestinian toddlers with sunken eyes and emaciated faces, one in a yellow cardigan and the other in a stripy top, were lying side
March 04, 2024
On the day that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was laid to rest in Moscow, Russian state media leaked an audio recording of German military officers discussing the hypothetical use of Taurus long-range missiles in Ukraine
March 04, 2024
Israel's foreign minister said on Monday he has recalled the country's UN ambassador for consultation over alleged UN attempts to keep quiet a report on sexual violence
March 04, 2024
First lady Jill Biden is hosting a White House ceremony honoring “women of courage” from around the world
March 04, 2024
Benny Gantz, who is in Washington this week for meetings with U.S. leaders, is a crucial member of Israel’s War Cabinet
March 04, 2024
The South African navy has been brought in to help with a search for a 6-year-old girl who has been missing for two weeks in a case that has captured national attention
March 04, 2024
The United States has sanctioned Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the First Lady and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human rights abuses
March 04, 2024
Late Irish singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor's label demanded Donald Trump to stop using her music in political rallies, adding her to a list of artists from Taylor Swift to
March 04, 2024
Scientists in the United Kingdom have created mini organs from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb
March 04, 2024
Turnout in Iran's parliamentary election was around 41%, the country's interior minister said on Monday, the lowest participation since Iran's 1979 Islamic
March 04, 2024
Senior U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein, who is visiting Beirut, says if a truce is reached in the Gaza Strip, it will not automatically translate to calm along the volatile Lebanon-Israel border which has witnessed a rise in tensions
March 04, 2024
The U.N. atomic watchdog agency’s director said that he’s due to depart for a trip to Moscow on Tuesday for high-level talks with Russian officials to discuss the issue of nuclear safety in Ukraine
March 04, 2024
The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies
March 04, 2024
Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris and other top U.S. officials in Washington on Monday as the White House ramps up
March 04, 2024
An incident in the Red Sea has cut three underwater sea cables providing internet and telecommunications around the world as the waterway remains a target of Yemen’s Houthi rebels
March 04, 2024
Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election
March 04, 2024
Nepal's two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government that would include smaller parties as partners
March 04, 2024
British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago
March 04, 2024
Benny Gantz, the Israeli war cabinet member visiting Washington this week, tells a story of how his mother, a Holocaust survivor, once had an operation in
March 04, 2024
The European Union has fined Apple nearly $2 billion for breaking competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals
March 04, 2024
Hamas said on Monday it was pressing on with talks on securing a ceasefire in Gaza despite Israel's decision not to attend,
March 04, 2024
A top member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet is meeting with U.S. officials in Washington while talks are underway in Egypt to broker a cease-fire in Gaza before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week
March 04, 2024
A bill to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French constitution goes to a historic vote on Monday, as lawmakers gather for a joint session of parliament at the Palace of Versailles
March 04, 2024
French lawmakers meet on Monday for a final vote to include the right to abortion into the constitution, a world first welcomed by women's
March 04, 2024
The U.N. human rights chief has called for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution” of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month
March 04, 2024
South Korea’s government is pressing ahead with its vow to suspend the licenses of thousands of junior doctors who ignore its repeated demands to end their collective walkouts
March 04, 2024
Moscow has summoned Germany’s ambassador to Russia’s foreign ministry, days after Russian state media released an audio recording purporting to show German officers discussing support for Ukraine
March 04, 2024
A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly $6.3 million)
March 04, 2024
Iranian hard-line politicians dominated the country’s vote for parliament, according to results released Monday
March 04, 2024
Asian stocks are mostly higher ahead of China’s top annual political gathering, while Japan’s benchmark closed above 40,000 for the first time
March 04, 2024
China's efforts to restore confidence and rev up the economy will top the agenda during this month’s meeting of the ceremonial national legislature
March 04, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet former U.S. President Donald Trump on March 8 in Florida, Orban's press chief told Hungarian state news agency MTI late on Sunday.
March 04, 2024
A Thai court on Monday dropped a charge against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, now living in exile, for mishandling government project expenditure in 2013
March 04, 2024
The Chinese government says it is eliminating an annual news conference by the premier that was one of the only times a top Chinese leader took questions from the news media
March 04, 2024
The Massachusetts Air National Guard member accused of leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other national security secrets is expected to plead guilty
March 04, 2024
The flow of millions of small parcels into the U.S. from China thanks to the explosive growth of online shopping has caught the attention of Congress
March 04, 2024
Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president
March 04, 2024
A severely wounded 4-year-old boy from Gaza has come to the U.S. for medical care and a prosthetic arm after an Israeli airstrike killed his family
March 04, 2024
Vice President Kamala Harris is planning to host a member of Israel’s wartime Cabinet who is visiting Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 04, 2024
NATO will kick off an exercise on Monday to defend its newly expanded Nordic territory when more than 20,000 soldiers from 13 nations take part in drills lasting for nearly two weeks in the northern regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden
March 04, 2024
Haiti’s government has declared an emergency and a nighttime curfew in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend in which armed gang members stormed the country’s two biggest prisons
March 04, 2024
South Korea’s government has begun steps to suspend the medical licenses of thousands of striking junior doctors, days after they missed a government-set deadline to end their joint walkouts, which have disrupted hospital operations
March 04, 2024
Japan's Nikkei 225 share benchmark has topped 40,000 for the first time as strong demand for technology shares keeps pushing the index higher
March 04, 2024
South Korean and U.S. militaries kicked off their spring drills on Monday with twice the number of troops joining compared to last year, officials said, as the allies
March 04, 2024
An increasingly assertive China and a humanitarian crisis in Myanmar are likely to be high on the agenda when Southeast Asian leaders meet in Australia for a rare summit this week
March 04, 2024
South Korea and the United States have begun large military exercises to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats
March 04, 2024
A volcano on an uninhabited island in the Galapagos has begun erupting and lighting up the nighttime sky as lava tumbles down its sides toward the sea
March 03, 2024
Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia have won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics following nine days of volatile weather
March 03, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein is due to visit Beirut on Monday to continue diplomatic efforts aimed at de-escalating the conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border and bringing
March 03, 2024
Germany’s defense minister has described Russia’s leak of a conversation by ranking German military officers as part of Russia’s “information war” against the West
March 03, 2024
At least three people have been killed and hundreds of inmates have fled Haiti’s main prison after armed gangs stormed the facility overnight
March 03, 2024
It took 10 years and three rounds of in vitro fertilization for Rania Abu Anza to become pregnant, and only seconds for her to lose her five-month-old twins, a boy and a girl
March 03, 2024
French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday
March 03, 2024
Malaysia is pushing for a renewed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the transport minister said on Sunday, as the 10th anniversary of
March 03, 2024
Malaysia’s government says it may renew the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 after a U.S. technology firm proposed a fresh search in the southern Indian Ocean where the plane is believed to have crashed
March 03, 2024
An Israeli official says a top Israeli Cabinet minister's trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 03, 2024
The death toll has risen to 10 from a Russian drone strike that destroyed an apartment block in Ukraine's southern port city of Odesa
March 03, 2024
Israel's military has completed a preliminary review of civilian deaths at a Gaza aid convoy last week, which determined that forces did not strike the convoy and that most
March 03, 2024
Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time
March 03, 2024
Thousands of senior doctors have rallied in Seoul to express their support for junior doctors who have been on strike for nearly two weeks over a government plan to sharply increase the number of medical school admissions
March 03, 2024
One burning issue dominates as the 2024 session of China’s legislature gets underway this week: the economy
March 03, 2024
As Mexico prepares for the largest elections in its history, organized crime is once again preying on local candidates across swaths of the country where cartels dominate, raising concerns among experts that these could be Mexico’s bloodiest elections ever
March 03, 2024
An airplane believed to be carrying Norway’s King Harald has departed Malaysia, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker
March 03, 2024
Police in Haiti are urgently appealing for help as they struggle to hold back gangs trying to storm the country’s main prison in a major escalation of violence sweeping the troubled Caribbean nation
March 03, 2024
Armed groups were closing in on Haiti's largest prison on Saturday night, defying police forces who called for help after days of gunfire in parts of the capital as a major
March 03, 2024
Mediators expected to reconvene in Cairo as soon as Sunday and search for a formula acceptable to Israel and Hamas for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, sources with
March 03, 2024
A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs and desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water
March 02, 2024
The Israeli military on Saturday promised an exhaustive and truthful investigation into the deaths of Palestinians queuing for aid in Gaza this week, an incident that has drawn
March 02, 2024
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will meet with Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz, a White House official told Reuters.
March 02, 2024
Since Rio de Janeiro declared a public health emergency after an outbreak of dengue fever last month, the city has ramped up testing capacities, opened up a dozen of dengue health centers and trained medical staff to attend the ever-growing needs of its population
March 02, 2024
The U.S. military on Saturday carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, two U.S. officials said.
March 02, 2024
At least 11 Palestinians were killed when an Israeli airstrike hit a tent in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, the Gaza health ministry said, in an area where
March 02, 2024
The royal house of Norway says King Harald has been implanted with a temporary pacemaker at a hospital in Malaysia’s resort island of Langkawi
March 02, 2024
Norway's King Harald had a temporary pacemaker implanted on Saturday at a hospital in Malaysia after falling ill while on holiday there, the Norwegian royal household said.
March 02, 2024
The chaos punctuated by heavy Israeli fire that killed 115 people trying to get bags of flour from an aid convoy is a sign of the desperation of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians struggling to survive in northern Gaza
March 02, 2024
Officials say a ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water
March 02, 2024
The mother and mother-in-law of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were among mourners who brought flowers to his grave in Moscow a day after thousands turned his funeral into one of the largest recent displays of dissent
March 02, 2024
Gaza ceasefire negotiations are due to resume in Cairo on Sunday, two Egyptian security sources said on Saturday.
March 02, 2024
Three people were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment block in the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa overnight, regional Gov. Oleh Kiper said Saturday morning
March 02, 2024
A day after parliamentary election concluded in Iran, hard-liners are leading in initial vote counting in the capital of Tehran, state media reported
March 02, 2024
The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest says the world’s highest peak is too crowded and too dirty and the mountain is a god that needs to be respected
March 02, 2024
Only 1,100 lucky audience members were there to hear the yet-to-be published short story “Kaho,” read aloud by bestselling Japanese author Haruki Murakami himself
March 02, 2024
Tycoons from around the world, heads of state, as well as Hollywood and Bollywood stars have descended on the small western Indian city of Jamnagar where billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani is kickstarting a big fat wedding celebration for his youngest son
March 02, 2024
Shortages of ammo and supplies are quickly resulting in Ukraine losing ground, U.S. congressional leaders warn
March 02, 2024
Palestinians in Gaza returning from wartime detention in Israeli custody are reporting physical abuse and medical neglect inside Israel's network of prisons
March 02, 2024
Negotiators taking part in a World Trade Organization meeting in the United Arab Emirates have ended their summit after failing to reach agreements on several major initiatives
March 02, 2024
Peru is suffering a growing problem of dengue cases
March 01, 2024
The U.S. military will start carrying out airdrops of food and supplies into Gaza in the coming days, joining other countries like France, Jordan and Egypt that have done the
March 01, 2024
Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government offices by a cyberattack a month ago
March 01, 2024
Thousands of mourners gathered in Moscow to bid farewell to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny two weeks after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony
March 01, 2024
President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will begin airdropping sorely needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
March 01, 2024
The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios
March 01, 2024
Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor said Friday that it has reached $661 million settlement with U.S. and Swiss prosecutors after a conviction for bribery of foreign officials in connection with the petroleum industry in Ecuador
March 01, 2024
U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that the Pentagon will lift the ban on flights by the grounded V-22 Osprey next week
March 01, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Friday the U.S. military would drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the coming days, and that Washington would be doing everything it could
March 01, 2024
Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, a veteran Cuban dissident and leading proponent of human rights who was imprisoned twice but never left the island, will be awarded the 2024 International Women of Courage Award, a recognition granted by the U.S. Department of State
March 01, 2024
A Turkish official has rejected allegations by a human rights group that Turkey bears responsibility for some of the abuses and possible war crimes carried out mostly against Kurdish residents in northern in Syria
March 01, 2024
A Ukrainian official says Russia is accumulating large forces around Chasiv Yar as it seeks to make a push on the key eastern city to the west of Bakhmut, which fell to Moscow last May
March 01, 2024
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there will be a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, though no date has been set yet
March 01, 2024
President Joe Biden is expected to announce on Friday his intention to order a military air drop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, four U.S. officials told Reuters, speaking on
March 01, 2024
Prince Harry has scored a tactical victory in his battles with British tabloids
March 01, 2024
Mexico’s presidential campaigns have officially begun with underdog opposition coalition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez leveraging the country’s ongoing security problems to differentiate herself from Claudia Sheinbaum, the choice of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador
March 01, 2024
Aaron Zigman’s ”Émigré,” an oratorio portraying Jews who fled Nazi Germany for Shanghai, was given its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic on Thursday
March 01, 2024
Chinese Vice President Han Zheng has pledged to provide more opportunities for foreign companies in China as the government tries to restore confidence in the world’s second largest economy
March 01, 2024
From air drops of humanitarian aid to supply ships from Cyprus, the United States is urgently seeking ways to feed the people
March 01, 2024
An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. first lady Jill Biden has been sentenced to more than three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini
March 01, 2024
The European Union says it will pay $54 million to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week
March 01, 2024
At Paris Fashion Week, Loewe presented a serene, green labyrinthine art gallery at Chateau de Vincennes, immersing guests in woodland tranquility
March 01, 2024
After some rough patches, the Oscars may have finally met the moment with a diverse, global membership and a batch of best picture nominees that reflect global cinema
March 01, 2024
Standing under grey skies holding red and white bouquets, Russians lined up patiently along pavements leading towards opposition politician Alexei Navalny's funeral on Friday, two
March 01, 2024
The head of a Gaza hospital where some of the wounded from bloodshed surrounding an aid convoy were taken says more than 80% percent had been struck by gunfire, suggesting heavy shooting by Israeli troops
March 01, 2024
An official says that a bomb scare has shut down Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls Airport that forced the country’s president to cancel a planned address at a conference on renewable energy
March 01, 2024
A commission charged with reviewing the Olympic system in the United States recommended Congress rework key facets of the U.S. Center for SafeSport, including making it completely independent of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee and reimagining the way it deals with cases in the grassroots
March 01, 2024
Pope Francis, who has been suffering from the flu, asked an aide to read out his prepared speech at a conference in the Vatican Friday, saying he was not yet well and becomes fatigued
March 01, 2024
France and Germany joined calls on Friday for an independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza, an
March 01, 2024
Environmental activists are staging a protest in a forest near Berlin against plans to expand the grounds of electric car maker Tesla’s first plant in Europe and are vowing to stay in place for weeks
March 01, 2024
Alexander Stubb has been sworn in as Finland’s new president
March 01, 2024
The United Kingdom is poised to hold its first election in five years in a country battered by the cost-of-living crisis, the fallout from Israel-Hamas conflict and deep divisions over how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers crossing the English Channel from Europe on small inflatable boats
March 01, 2024
A veteran British political disruptor has won a special election in a heavily Muslim town in northern England following a contest that has been mired in chaos and controversy and dominated by the war in Gaza
March 01, 2024
Bangladesh's prime minister says a six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the country's capital had no fire exits
March 01, 2024
Local buses, subway trains and trams have ground to a halt in much of Germany, at the peak of a week of walkouts by employees demanding better working conditions
March 01, 2024
Turkey has joined Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan in condemning Israeli forces firing on Palestinians waiting for the delivery of aid, with its foreign ministry calling the event “yet another crime against humanity.”
March 01, 2024
A private airplane carrying singer Karol G has made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport
March 01, 2024
Asia stocks gain after U.S. stocks climbed to all-time highs
March 01, 2024
It could be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen
March 01, 2024
A Scandinavian Airlines medical evacuation plane has arrived in Malaysia’s northern resort island of Langkawi, where the Norwegian king is being treated at a hospital for an infection
March 01, 2024
A new report from United Nations experts says paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity
March 01, 2024
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol lambasted North Korea Friday, for what he called its repressive rule and vowed to achieve a free, unified Korean Peninsula
March 01, 2024
Campaigning formally starts Friday for Mexico’s biggest election in history
March 01, 2024
If legend is to be believed, Barney Chandler has just got the most important job in England
March 01, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron appears isolated on the European stage after saying he could not rule out the possibility of Western troops being sent to Ukraine
March 01, 2024
Relatives and supporters of Alexei Navalny are bidding farewell to the opposition leader at a funeral in southeastern Moscow, following a battle with authorities over the release of his body after his still-unexplained death in an Arctic penal colony
March 01, 2024
President Joe Biden is set to host Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni for talks at the White House
March 01, 2024
Iran has begun voting in its first parliamentary elections since the mass 2022 protests over its mandatory hijab laws after the death of Mahsa Amini
March 01, 2024
The central African nation of Congo is known for its mineral riches
March 01, 2024
Tourist operators of a New Zealand island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people have been ordered to pay nearly $7.8 million in fines and reparations
March 01, 2024
A New Zealand court on Friday ordered the tour booking agents and managers of an island where a volcanic eruption killed 22 people to pay survivors more than NZ$10 million ($6.1
March 01, 2024
Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is dead at the age of 84
February 29, 2024
U.S. senators have declined to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey
February 29, 2024
Brazil’s finance minister told his peers during a G20 meeting in Sao Paulo that countries should implement a global tax on the super-rich in an effort to tackle rampant tax evasion
February 29, 2024
Heavy gunfire has paralyzed Haiti’s capital as a powerful gang leader announced he will try to capture the country’s police chief and government ministers
February 29, 2024
Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world are expressing solidarity with reporters doing the dangerous work of covering the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
February 29, 2024
A former U.S. ambassador will plead guilty to charges of spying for Cuba for decades, court records showed on Thursday, in what the Justice Department
February 29, 2024
A Palestinian-American detained by Israel for three weeks has been released on bail after a military judge's ruling
February 29, 2024
Bangladesh's health minister says a fire in a six-story commercial complex in the nation's capital, Dhaka, has killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others
February 29, 2024
The flow of thousands of migrants daily through the treacherous migratory highway, the Darien Gap, has been cut off following the capture of a number of boat captains who had been ferrying the migrants to the starting point of their jungle trek
February 29, 2024
A former U.S. ambassador says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades
February 29, 2024
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February 29, 2024
French actor Judith Godrèche is urging lawmakers to establish a commission to investigate sex crimes and sexism in France’s cinema industry
February 29, 2024
Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema has declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency
February 29, 2024
A halt to fighting in the Gaza Strip as early as next week would trigger indirect talks to end hostilities along Lebanon's southern border with
February 29, 2024
President Joe Biden said on Thursday the United States was checking reports of Israeli troops firing on people waiting for food aid in Gaza and that he believes the deadly
February 29, 2024
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will visit former President Donald Trump next week at Mar-a-Lago, according to a person briefed on the plans
February 29, 2024
Canada will reinstate some visa requirements for Mexican nationals from Thursday to stem the flow of asylum seekers from the Latin American country, the Canadian immigration
February 29, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday urged Palestinian groups holding talks in Moscow about the formation of a unified government to set aside their differences and
February 29, 2024
Canada's immigration minister says his country is reimposing the visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada
February 29, 2024
A bill which criminalizes LGBTQ+ people in Ghana and their supporters has drawn international condemnation after it was passed by parliament, with the United Nations calling it “profoundly disturbing” and urging for it not to become law
February 29, 2024
The editor-in-chief of the renowned Russian independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta has been detained in Moscow after being accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces
February 29, 2024
Prince William has condemned antisemitism during a visit to a London synagogue, the first time he appeared in public after he unexpectedly pulled out of a royal event earlier in the week
February 29, 2024
Chloe has revisited its vibrant 1970s essence, infused with Karl Lagerfeld’s indelible influence, propelling the brand into a new era while honoring its pioneering ready-to-wear legacy under new designer Chemena Kamali
February 29, 2024
It's been a stellar year in film, and not just because of the convergence of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” and their release dates
February 29, 2024
A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change
February 29, 2024
Aid groups are appealing to the European Union to release tens of millions of euros in funding due to the main U.N. agency that helps most people in Gaza
February 29, 2024
From pathos to praise of Hamas, songs written by musicians across the Middle East in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza are putting
February 29, 2024
Japanese authorities say they had to abandon plans to send in drones for a second day to probe one of the damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant because of equipment failure
February 29, 2024
Three decades have passed since the worst bombing attack on civilians in the history of Argentina, and no one has been convicted yet
February 29, 2024
An audit says the Dutch government has spent more than 166 million euros ($180 million) dealing with the aftermath of the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014
February 29, 2024
On Oct. 7, when Hamas militants stormed numerous Israeli locations, killing hundreds and abducting others, Marina Degtiar and other members of Argentina's Jewish community felt like traveling back in time, to July 18, 1994
February 29, 2024
An off-duty police officer who abducted and murdered a 33-year-old woman in south London three years ago should never have been employed in the first place after three police forces failed to spot clear signs of his unsuitability, according to an official inquiry
February 29, 2024
Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years
February 29, 2024
Iran holds a parliamentary election on Friday seen as a test of the clerical establishment's popularity at a time of growing dissent over an array of political,
February 29, 2024
Multinational beer and beverage company Anheuser-Busch InBev, maker of Budweiser, Bud Light, Stella Artois and Corona, has reported a 7% increase in operating profit for last year, even as as sales sagged in the United States due to a decline in demand for Bud Light
February 29, 2024
Kyiv officials say Russian forces are pushing hard against more Ukrainian towns and villages in eastern and southeastern Ukraine as Moscow tries to press its current advantage in weapons and troops
February 29, 2024
The European Union’s powerful Commission says it will begin releasing billions of euros to Poland that were frozen over the previous government’s policies that the bloc said amounted to widespread backsliding on fundamental democratic principles
February 29, 2024
Ukraine's military said on Thursday it had shot down three more Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers, the latest successes it has reported against Moscow's air force.
February 29, 2024
Gaza health officials say more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas war nearly five months ago
February 29, 2024
Police say a hand grenade and other dangerous objects have been found in searches of the Berlin apartment where a suspected former member of the left-wing militant Red Army Faction group was arrested this week after more than three decades in hiding
February 29, 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Britain is descending into “mob rule” because of the pressures created by protests against the Israel-Hamas war
February 29, 2024
Austria’s foreign minister has urged Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group against escalating the conflict along the volatile Israel-Lebanon border
February 29, 2024
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed Russian national unity amid the fighting in Ukraine in a state-of-the-nation address ahead of next month’s election he’s all but certain to win
February 29, 2024
Hospital officials say an apparent Israeli strike on a crowd of Palestinians waiting for humanitarian aid in Gaza City has killed and wounded dozens
February 29, 2024
A Russian rocket has successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlines increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran
February 29, 2024
Baseball star Shohei Ohtani announced on his Instagram account that he is married
February 29, 2024
A panel of U_N_-backed human rights experts has accused Nicaragua’s government of committing “serious systematic human rights violations, tantamount to crimes against humanity.”
February 29, 2024
Pakistan’s National Assembly swore in newly elected members on Thursday in a chaotic scene, as allies of jailed former Premier Imran Khan protested what they claim was a rigged election
February 29, 2024
Shares are mixed in Asia after a lackluster day on Wall Street, where selling of technology stocks pulled benchmarks lower
February 29, 2024
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has told Australia’s Parliament that the strategic partnership between the two nations is more important than ever with the rule of law and peace in the region under threat from China
February 29, 2024
Australia's Pacific Minister Pat Conroy said there should be "no role" for China in policing the Pacific Islands, and Australia will train more local security
February 29, 2024
South Korea’s government is making a last appeal to junior doctors to end a walkout, with hours left to go before the Thursday deadline on its threats to suspend medical licenses and prosecute the strikers
February 29, 2024
A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that U.S. adults have become fractured along party lines in their support for military aid for Ukraine
February 29, 2024
Legendary pop icon Cyndi Lauper, who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits such as “Time After Time” and “Girls Just Want To Have Fun,” has entered a partnership with the Swedish masterminds behind the immersive virtual concert ABBA Voyage
February 29, 2024
Two scientists at a high-security infectious disease laboratory in Canada lost their jobs after security reviews found they failed to protect sensitive assets and information, newly released records show
February 29, 2024
Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for one match for making an alleged offensive gesture during a Saudi Arabia league game while playing for Al Nassr in the Saudi Pro League
February 29, 2024
An official familiar with the matter says the Canadian government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada
February 29, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration is considering airdropping aid from U.S. military planes into Gaza as land deliveries become increasingly difficult
February 29, 2024
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