China says US accusation of 'risky' aerial intercepts politically motivated
China's defence ministry said on Friday that a U.S.
April 26, 2024China's defence ministry said on Friday that a U.S.
April 26, 2024Egypt 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will seek progress on the AUKUS defence technology partnership and critical mineral
April 26, 2024Astronomers 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, 2024With anger building across the Middle East over Israel's strikes in Gaza, China and Russia are finding common cause with
April 26, 2024Violence in the occupied West Bank has surged since Israel began bombarding the Gaza Strip and clashing with Hezbollah at the Lebanon
April 26, 2024Venezuelan 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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024The Republican failure to pick a new House speaker that has handcuffed the U.S.
April 26, 2024The United States "strongly" encouraged Afghanistan's neighbors, including Pakistan, to allow entry for Afghans seeking protection and urged
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024British 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, 2024Prime 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, 2024Taiwan'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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Drones 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, 2024North 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, 2024Israel is vowing to wipe out Hamas in a relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip but has no obvious endgame in sight
April 26, 2024Guatemala'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, 2024The first U.S. deportation flight to Venezuela under a new Biden administration initiative landed in Caracas on Wednesday, as part
April 26, 2024The Biden administration on Wednesday broadly eased sanctions on Venezuela's oil sector in response to a deal reached between the
April 26, 2024By 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, 2024Machinery 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, 2024Around 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, 2024California 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, 2024U.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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The United States on Wednesday tried to limit Iran's missile and drone programs by imposing new sanctions, warning companies how to avoid
April 26, 2024Chinese 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, 2024Washington'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, 2024A 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, 2024The United Nations Security Council will now vote on Wednesday on a Brazilian-drafted resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses in the conflict
April 26, 2024Turkish 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, 2024Turkey 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, 2024On 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, 2024Russia'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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday rejected comments by U.S.
April 26, 2024Lebanese 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, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked visiting U.S.
April 26, 2024South 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, 2024More 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, 2024Jordan on Wednesday will host a four-party summit in Amman with U.S.
April 26, 2024Israel 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, 2024The 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, 2024Israel'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, 2024Israeli and Lebanese residents on both sides of escalating border clashes say they have never felt such tension.
April 26, 2024Israeli 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, 2024A 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, 2024Islamic 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, 2024A blast at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of Palestinians just before U.S.
April 26, 2024President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egyptians in their millions would reject the forced displacement of Palestinians into
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Turkey 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, 2024The 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, 2024Venezuela's government and the country's opposition will return to political negotiations, the two sides said on
April 26, 2024Some members of the Venezuelan opposition said on Monday, the eve of the planned signing of an agreement on presidential elections next
April 26, 2024U.S. and Israelis officials are discussing the possibility of a visit to Israel soon by U.S.
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024The United States is bolstering its firepower in the Middle East to prevent the spread of the conflict between Israel and
April 26, 2024Russia'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, 2024A Russian-drafted U.N.
April 26, 2024Russia'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, 2024Russia'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, 2024Supporting 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, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday that Moscow wanted to help prevent a humanitarian
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024When 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, 2024The 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, 2024Jordan'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, 2024Pope 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, 2024Japan'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, 2024An 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024The 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, 2024The Israeli military accused Iran on Monday of having ordered attacks by Hezbollah at the Lebanon-Israel border on Sunday.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Hamas 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, 2024German 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, 2024At 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, 2024An Egyptian-controlled border crossing into Gaza is expected to reopen amid diplomatic efforts to get aid into
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024China'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, 2024President 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, 2024China has been striking a softer tone in its dealings with the world recently, releasing an Australian journalist from prison,
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Israeli security forces killed nine Palestinians and wounded dozens in confrontations across the West Bank on Friday, the Palestinian
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024The U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Saudi 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, 2024Moscow 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Xi Jinping in China this week in a bid to deepen a partnership forged between the United
April 26, 2024Russia 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, 2024President 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, 2024The Palestinian United Nations envoy appealed to U.N.
April 26, 2024Thousands of Palestinians fled the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday from the path
April 26, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Prime 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, 2024Mexico'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, 2024Jordan 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, 2024The 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, 2024Israel'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, 2024Israel'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, 2024Iran 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, 2024Palestinian militant group Hamas uses a global financing network to funnel support from charities and friendly
April 26, 2024By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO, Calif.
April 26, 2024EU 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, 2024White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned on Sunday of the risk of conflict escalating in the Middle East, and said the
April 26, 2024China'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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken is telling Middle Eastern leaders there can be "no more business as usual" with Palestinian militant
April 26, 2024As 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, 2024Israel'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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Senate 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, 2024The 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, 2024Prime 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, 2024Tens 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, 2024Talks 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Russia'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, 2024A 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, 2024The U.S. military is placing no conditions on its security assistance to Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024North 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, 2024North 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, 2024Some were on their honeymoon, others were studying abroad, many were building new lives in foreign countries.
April 26, 2024Israel 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, 2024An 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, 2024Iran'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, 2024Iran'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, 2024State-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, 2024A 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, 2024Over 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, 2024Hamas 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, 2024Berlin 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, 2024Germany 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, 2024G7 finance leaders on Thursday condemned "terror attacks" on Israel by Hamas and voiced "unwavering" support for Ukraine in its
April 26, 2024General 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024After 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, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will be traveling on Wednesday to meet with senior Israeli leaders, U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024Turkey'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, 2024Turkish 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, 2024Guatemalan 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Blasts 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, 2024North 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, 2024Israeli 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, 2024NATO'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, 2024NASA 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, 2024Israeli 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, 2024Israeli 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, 2024Governments and airlines scrambled to lay on flights to evacuate thousands of tourists from Israel and repatriate the country's citizens, as
April 26, 2024Israeli airlines El Al, Israir and Arkia added more flights on Tuesday to bring home reservists, according to their websites and
April 26, 2024Initial U.S. intelligence reports show that key Iranian leaders were surprised by the unprecedented attacks on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas,
April 26, 2024Israel 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, 2024Finance 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, 2024The EU's industry chief told Elon Musk that disinformation was spreading on his X messaging platform since Palestinian Islamist group Hamas'
April 26, 2024The United States is continuing to monitor the situation in Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Armenia'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, 2024Until last weekend, the Biden administration was counting on the Middle East to remain relatively calm while it quietly pursued
April 26, 2024Israel's military has rallied after an initial chaotic scramble to halt an assault by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and is
April 26, 2024U.S. senators met with China's top diplomat Wang Yi in Beijing on Monday, state media reported.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The United States has assessed that a July takeover in Niger was a military coup d'etat, senior administration officials said on Tuesday,
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Top 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024Taiwan 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, 2024Taiwan 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, 2024Several 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, 2024Law 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024North 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, 2024North 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, 2024All 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, 2024Mexican 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Israel said on Monday its troops backed by helicopters had killed armed infiltrators entering the country from Lebanon, raising fears
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024Iran'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, 2024Iran 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, 2024Mexican 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, 2024Members 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, 2024Israel pounded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday with the fiercest air strikes in its 75-year conflict with the
April 26, 2024Russia 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, 2024The 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, 2024China 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024U.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, 2024Russia 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, 2024When China announced a surprise deal restoring ties between Saudi Arabia and Iran this year, it signalled Beijing's
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024The United States will send multiple military ships and aircraft closer to Israel as a show of support, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said,
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Britain 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, 2024Turkish 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, 2024Major international air carriers suspended or scaled back flights to or from Tel Aviv after a surprise attack by Hamas militants on
April 26, 2024Poland'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, 2024Jordan'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, 2024Israel'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, 2024Israel 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, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, CNN reported. U.S.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Despite 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, 2024Arab 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, 2024When Islamist group Hamas launched a spectacular attack against Israel, it also took aim at
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Taiwan 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, 2024Since 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024President 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, 2024The 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, 2024Norwegian author and dramatist Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday "for his innovative plays and prose which give
April 26, 2024Iranian 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, 2024Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Aleksey Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms
April 26, 2024Mexico'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, 2024The 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, 2024German 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, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia has successfully tested its new Burevestnik missile.
April 26, 2024President 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, 2024President 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, 2024President 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, 2024Pope 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, 2024China 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, 2024U.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, 2024Early in the Biden administration, U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024A 45-day stopgap measure passed by the U.S.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Trucks attempting to enter the United States from Mexico queued for miles on Wednesday amid delays related to record migration at the
April 26, 2024President 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024A 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, 2024The U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Ukraine'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, 2024Ukraine'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, 2024Forces 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, 2024North 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, 2024Live Aid, the transatlantic concert that raised millions for famine relief in Ethiopia, is being turned
April 26, 2024The Kremlin said on Monday it believed a decision by U.S.
April 26, 2024Scientists 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, 2024France 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, 2024The 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, 2024EU 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, 2024Conservative Catholics have launched a barrage of challenges before a big Vatican meeting, with five cardinals demanding clarifications on same-sex couples
April 26, 2024China 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, 2024British 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The United States on Friday condemned a reported life sentence handed down in China to a high-profile Uyghur academic Rahile Dawut.
April 26, 2024The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he had asked the U.S.
April 26, 2024Specialists 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, 2024Pope Francis on Saturday further cemented his legacy, elevating 21 prelates to the high rank of cardinal and significantly raising the percentage of
April 26, 2024Torrential 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, 2024NATO 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, 2024The Democratic and Republican leaders of the U.S.
April 26, 2024Migrants 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, 2024There 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, 2024Kosovo on Saturday demanded that Serbia withdraw its troops from their common border, saying it was ready to protect its territorial integrity.
April 26, 2024Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday there was a "climate of violence" and an "atmosphere of intimidation" against Indian diplomats
April 26, 2024Billionaire 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Private 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, 2024The 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, 2024Beijing 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, 2024The 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, 2024Senior Biden administration officials arrived in Azerbaijan on Wednesday amid a humanitarian crisis and an exodus of tens of thousands of people after
April 26, 2024China is manipulating global media through censorship, data harvesting and covert purchases of foreign news outlets, the United States said on Thursday,
April 26, 2024Ukrainian tank crews in the eastern front see the first delivery of U.S.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Two 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, 2024Romania 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Senior 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The tentative deal Hollywood writers reached with the major studios and streaming services could serve as a template for actors, who have
April 26, 2024Germany 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, 2024Private 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Saudi Arabia is determined to secure a military pact requiring the United States to defend the kingdom in return for
April 26, 2024Kosovo'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, 2024Billionaire 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, 2024China'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, 2024Guatemalan prosecutors have raided the offices of the charity Save the Children, citing a complaint alleging the violation of migrant children’s rights
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024U.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, 2024Two U.S. officials say Ukraine has sidelined U.S.-provided Abrams M1A1 battle tanks for now in its fight against Russia
April 25, 2024The 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, 2024When the U.S.
April 25, 2024Special 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, 2024Two 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, 2024United 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, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Even amid war, Ukraine finds time for the glittery, pop-filled Eurovision Song Contest
April 25, 2024TikTok 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, 2024A new report says circumstantial evidence points to climate change as worsening the deadly deluge that flooded Dubai and surroundings
April 25, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Authorities 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, 2024Congo’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, 2024Socialist 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, 2024The iconic windmill sails of the Moulin Rouge, a vibrant emblem of Paris’s bohemian lifestyle, has collapsed after a show
April 25, 2024Ariel Henry has resigned as prime minister of Haiti, paving the way for a new government to take power
April 25, 2024Tanzania's prime minister says flooding caused by weeks of heavy rain has killed 155 people and affected more than 200,000 others
April 25, 2024China 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, 2024A 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, 2024Hungary’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, 2024A 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, 2024Democratic 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, 2024Indonesian 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, 2024Scotland’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, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024A 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, 2024Lawyers 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Italy 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, 2024A 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, 2024French 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, 2024Moscow'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, 2024Venezuela’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, 2024Palestinian hospital officials say Israeli airstrikes on the southern city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip have killed at least five people
April 25, 2024Global 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, 2024With 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024A 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, 2024Poland’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, 2024Malaria is still a significant public health challenge in Kenya, but an important pilot of the world’s first malaria vaccine may help
April 25, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Military 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, 2024Human 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, 2024A 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, 2024U.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, 2024North 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024President 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, 2024Hamas 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, 2024The 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, 2024Student protests over the Israel-Hamas war have popped up at many college campuses after the arrest of demonstrators at Columbia University
April 24, 2024Rwanda 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, 2024Providing 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, 2024The 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, 2024British 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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Italy’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, 2024Guerrilla 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, 2024Poland’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, 2024Spanish 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, 2024The 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, 2024Columbia University students heckled U.S.
April 24, 2024British 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, 2024Venezuelan 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, 2024Police 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, 2024A 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, 2024Greece’s parliamentary speaker says he will seek criminal charges against a lawmaker who allegedly punched a colleague during a debate
April 24, 2024Tech 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, 2024The patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Chuch has suspended a priest who participated in services for the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny
April 24, 2024Jordan'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, 2024Authorities in Europe have recovered bodies of people who attempted to migrate across both the English Channel and the Mediterranean Sea this week
April 24, 2024The 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Foreign 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, 2024London police say they have contained two horses that were seen running around loose without riders in the heart of the capital
April 24, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024U.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, 2024President Joe Biden has reached the end of a long, painful battle with Republicans to secure urgently needed replenishment of aid for Ukraine
April 24, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024China 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, 2024China’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, 2024Asian shares have tracked Wall Street's rally, led by a 2.4% advance for Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei 225 index
April 24, 2024Germany 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, 2024Novels that tell complex and surprising stories of migration are among six finalists for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction
April 24, 2024Indonesian 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, 2024Iran 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, 2024A new package of $61 billion in U.S. aid may prevent Ukraine from losing its war against Russia
April 24, 2024Dozens of protestors have barricaded themselves inside two buildings on a Northern California campus in protest of Israel’s war with Hamas
April 24, 2024Australian 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, 2024Japan’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, 2024Hong 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, 2024Students 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, 2024As 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, 2024Presidential elections are being held in North Macedonia
April 24, 2024The $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, 2024Thailand'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, 2024Amnesty 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, 2024A 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, 2024Elon 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Recently, 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, 2024Officials 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, 2024A 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, 2024Skies 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, 2024The U.S.
April 23, 2024GoFundMe is expanding into Mexico, the company announced Tuesday
April 23, 2024Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo said she is confident water quality will be up to the Olympics standards this summer
April 23, 2024Moroccan 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, 2024Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich will remain jailed on espionage charges until at least late June
April 23, 2024Thousands of United Methodists are gathering Tuesday in Charlotte, North Carolina, to begin an 11-day denominational General Conference
April 23, 2024Russian 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, 2024Dams 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, 2024Italian 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, 2024One 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, 2024Columbia 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, 2024The 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, 2024Thailand'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, 2024Israeli 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, 2024French police have evicted migrants from a makeshift camp in Paris a few steps away from the Seine River
April 23, 2024Britain’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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024At 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, 2024British 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, 2024German 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, 2024Asian benchmarks are mostly higher after U.S. stocks clawed back some of their losses from last week
April 23, 2024Satellite 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, 2024India’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, 2024The 68th Eurovision Song Contest is taking place in May in Malmö, Sweden
April 23, 2024Cuban 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, 2024Secretary of State Antony Blinken is starting three days of talks with senior Chinese officials in Shanghai and Beijing this week
April 23, 2024Far from the trenches, at orderly new centres across Ukraine, civilian recruiters armed with laptops and info packs offer patriotic volunteers
April 23, 2024The Senate is returning to Washington to vote on $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine and Israel
April 23, 2024Malaysia’s navy says two military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session, killing all 10 people on board
April 23, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Tech 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, 2024Life-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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Thailand'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, 2024A 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, 2024Vietnam 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, 2024Argentine 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, 2024Taiwan'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, 2024Japan'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, 2024North 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, 2024An 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, 2024A 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, 2024Haiti's capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid
April 22, 2024From 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, 2024A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father’s remains didn’t make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received the remains of another man
April 22, 2024North 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, 2024A cluster of earthquakes has struck Taiwan, the strongest measuring 6.1 magnitude
April 22, 2024Thousands 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, 2024A new report finds that the Mexican government has largely abandoned protection and enforcement measures for loggerhead sea turtles
April 22, 2024President 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, 2024A 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, 2024In 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, 2024An 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, 2024Ecuador'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, 2024Former JetBlue Airways CEO Robin Hayes has been named as the new head of Airbus' operations in North America, the European planemaker said Monday.
May 07, 2024The 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, 2024Former Japanese prime minister Taro Aso, a senior figure in the country's ruling party, will meet Donald Trump on Tuesday, a
April 22, 2024The European Space Agency has added five new members to its astronaut corps
April 22, 2024An 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, 2024The 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024U.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, 2024Automotive 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, 2024Russians 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, 2024Russia will keep interest rates on hold at 16% for the third meeting running on Friday, a Reuters poll showed on Monday, with inflation's
May 07, 2024Indonesia’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, 2024By mid-2024, Claudia Sheinbaum will most likely become Mexico’s first female president
April 22, 2024European Union countries possessing Patriot air defense systems appear hesitant to give any to Ukraine
April 22, 2024Police 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, 2024More 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, 2024U.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, 2024Japan’s antitrust watchdog says U.S. search giant Google must fix its advertising search restrictions affecting Yahoo
April 22, 2024Australian 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, 2024American 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, 2024The Israeli military say the head of its intelligence corps has resigned over Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack
April 22, 2024Papua 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, 2024Indonesian authorities reopened an international airport near a volcano that erupted last week as they lowered warnings
April 22, 2024Israeli police said a car slammed into pedestrians in Jerusalem, wounding three people lightly
April 22, 2024Global 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, 2024Iranian and Pakistani leaders vowed to strengthen economic and security cooperation as the two countries seek to smooth over a diplomatic rift
April 22, 2024South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile off the North’s east coast
April 22, 2024One 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, 2024On 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, 2024Bank 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, 2024On 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, 2024Voters 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, 2024Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to make his first official visit to Iraq in more than a decade
April 22, 2024Japan'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, 2024A 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, 2024Approval 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, 2024Markets 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, 2024Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu’s political party has swept parliamentary elections in a strong endorsement of his pro-China foreign policy
April 22, 2024The 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, 2024China 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, 2024Two 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, 2024Air 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, 2024India'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, 2024Nearly 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, 2024Australia'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, 2024Prices 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, 2024The 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, 2024Egypt 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, 2024Moldovan opposition parties denouncing pro-European President Maia Sandu's drive to secure European Union membership said on Sunday they were forming an
April 21, 2024Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Sunday rallied thousands of supporters in Rio de Janeiro in a bid to
April 21, 2024Conservative 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, 2024Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it
April 21, 2024Thousands of Colombians have taken to the streets in the latest rebuke of leftist President Gustavo Petro’s reform agenda
April 21, 2024Tension 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, 2024Tens 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, 2024London’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, 2024Portuguese 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, 2024Officials 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, 2024Chinese 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, 2024Israeli 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, 2024A crowd of around 2,000 people protested in Paris against racism, Islamophobia and violence against children on Sunday after a court allowed
April 21, 2024Ghana'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, 2024A 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, 2024A baby girl was delivered from the womb of a Palestinian killed along with her husband and daughter by an Israeli attack in
April 21, 2024Andrew 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, 2024Most 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, 2024Most stock markets in the Gulf were subdued on Sunday amid geopolitical strife and uncertainties surrounding U.S. Federal Reserve policy.
April 21, 2024Chinese 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, 2024Iran’s supreme leader has dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there
April 21, 2024Israel'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, 2024Hundreds 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, 2024Iran'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, 2024Ecuador'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, 2024China'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, 2024Ukrainian and Western leaders have welcomed the passing of a desperately needed aid package for Ukraine by the U.S. House of Representatives
April 21, 2024Israel's military said its soldiers opened fire at three Palestinians who attacked them on Sunday in the occupied West Bank, where
April 21, 2024The 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, 2024Palestinian health officials say Israeli strikes on the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight killed 13 people, including nine children
April 21, 2024Residents 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, 2024The 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, 2024Major rivers, waterways and reservoirs in China's Guangdong province are threatening to unleash dangerous floods, forcing the government on Sunday to
April 21, 2024Life 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, 2024Polish 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, 2024Maldivians 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, 2024Ecuadorians 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, 2024Two 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, 2024Taiwan'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, 2024The 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, 2024Secretary 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, 2024Japan’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, 2024An 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, 2024Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday, calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals to stem a boom in
April 20, 2024U.S. officials said that they will begin to withdraw troops from Niger but there is no timeline
April 20, 2024A 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, 2024Passover is a major Jewish holiday, celebrated over seven or eight days each year
April 20, 2024Israeli forces killed 14 Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, while an ambulance driver was killed as
April 20, 2024Gaza 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, 2024Ukraine has launched a barrage of drones across Russia overnight in attacks that appeared to target the country’s energy infrastructure
April 20, 2024Officials 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, 2024Fighting 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, 2024Outsider, queer and Indigenous artists are getting an overdue platform at the 60th Venice Biennale contemporary art exhibition
April 20, 2024China'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, 2024The House is preparing to vote on approval of $95 billion in foreign aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies
April 20, 2024The 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, 2024This month’s unprecedented direct attacks between Iran and Israel are revealing deeper insights into both militaries
April 20, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024On Friday, Taylor Swift released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.”
April 19, 2024Staring 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, 2024A Bangkok-based plastics firm has agreed to pay $20 million to settle with the U.S. over 467 violations of Iran sanctions
April 19, 2024Viewers 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, 2024The 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, 2024South 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, 2024California 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, 2024NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing the allies to give more Patriot missile batteries and other equipment to Ukraine
April 19, 2024Prosecutors 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, 2024Nearly two years after the shocking knife attack that nearly killed him, Salman Rushdie appears both changed and very much the same
April 19, 2024The 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, 2024Apple 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate is attempting to achieve a Guinness World Record for the longest chess marathon
April 19, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Group 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, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024More people living near an erupting volcano on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island are being evacuated
April 19, 2024Ukraine’s air force is claiming it shot down a Russian strategic bomber
April 19, 2024A 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, 2024Lithuania'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, 2024An 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, 2024San 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, 2024The European Union will help Finland guard its eastern border from neighbouring Russia's attempt to "instrumentalise migrants" to destabilise it,
April 19, 2024A pair of nude feet — dirty, wounded and vulnerable — are painted on the façade of the Venice women’s prison chapel
April 19, 2024Shoppers 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, 2024Asian stocks have tumbled, with Japan’s Nikkei slumping 2.4% on heavy selling of semiconductor-related shares and other market heavyweights
April 19, 2024Street vendors in Mali’s capital of Bamako peddle water sachets, ubiquitous for this part of West Africa during the hottest months
April 19, 2024Five 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Iran has fired air defense batteries after reports of explosions near a major airbase and nuclear site where drones were spotted
April 19, 2024Eight 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, 2024Israel's national amputee soccer team is heading to France for the 2024 European Amputee Football Championships in June
April 19, 2024Commercial 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, 2024Millions of Indians are voting in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi
April 19, 2024The 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, 2024More than 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on
April 18, 2024A U.S. congressional committee has released confidential Brazilian court orders to suspend accounts on the social media platform X
April 18, 2024Argentina 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, 2024A 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, 2024Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into U.S. critical infrastructure and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating
April 18, 2024It's a full agenda for Ajay Banga as he nears the end of his first year as World Bank president
April 18, 2024New York police have arrested numerous protesters at Columbia University who had set up a pro-Palestinian encampment
April 18, 2024Indigenous tribes from 35 countries are criticizing the lack of informed consent for mining on or near their lands
April 18, 2024The 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, 2024Prince 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, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Kenya’s military chief Gen. Francis Ogolla died in a helicopter crash west of the country, President William Ruto announced
April 18, 2024The 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, 2024Legislation 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, 2024A 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, 2024France should repay billions of dollars in reparations to Haiti to cover a debt formerly enslaved people were forced to pay in return for
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Poland'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, 2024Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners in an independence day amnesty
April 18, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024As 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 26, 2024The 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, 2024Nigeria'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, 2024Croatia’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, 2024Israel has vowed to respond to Iran’s unprecedented weekend attack
April 18, 2024Jeffrey 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, 2024The 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, 2024Russia’s defense ministry says air defenses have downed what authorities describe as five Ukrainian balloons
April 18, 2024Prince William is returning to public duties for the first time since his wife’s cancer diagnosis
April 18, 2024Calls 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, 2024Reuters 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, 2024Copenhagen'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, 2024The 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, 2024Japanese authorities say that a strong earthquake that struck the country's southwest Japan has left nine people with minor injuries
April 18, 2024Britain’s governing Conservative Party suspended a lawmaker who is alleged to have misused campaign funds
April 18, 2024China's foreign ministry on Thursday welcomed U.S.
April 26, 2024Asian shares have advanced even after sinking technology stocks sent Wall Street lower again
April 18, 2024Europe wants two things from China: First, a shift in its relatively pro-Russia position on the war in Ukraine
April 18, 2024Indonesian 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, 2024The 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, 2024America stands with Japan until all Japanese abducted by North Korea decades ago return home to end their painful separation
April 18, 2024The 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, 2024South 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, 2024A 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, 2024One 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, 2024Jews around the world will soon celebrate Passover, recounting the biblical story of their exodus from Egypt after hundreds of years of slavery
April 18, 2024Iran’s attack against Israel over the weekend has spurred a flurry of bipartisan legislative action in Congress
April 18, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Formula 1 returns to China this weekend after a five-year absence
April 18, 2024A Sydney shopping mall has opened to the public for the first time since the mass stabbing in which six people died
April 18, 2024Former President Donald Trump has met in New York with Polish President Andrzej Duda
April 18, 2024Speaker 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, 2024With 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, 2024A 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 26, 2024Lebanon's Interior Minister says Israeli agents were most likely behind this month's killing of a U
April 17, 2024The 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, 2024Indonesian authorities have issued a tsunami alert after eruptions at Ruang mountain sent ash thousands of feet high
April 17, 2024Pentagon 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, 2024A makeshift burial ground for migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos has been cleaned up and redesigned after years of neglect
April 17, 2024House 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, 2024Canadian 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Milan’s La Scala, one of the world’s most prestigious and historic opera houses, has named Fortunato Ortombina as its new director
April 17, 2024A 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, 2024The Swedish parliament has passed a law lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16
April 17, 2024The 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 26, 2024German 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 26, 2024Hugh 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, 2024European Union leaders will meet on Wednesday to discuss stepping up sanctions against Iran after Tehran's missile and drone attack on Israel.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Amnesty 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Georgia'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
July 02, 2024Pakistan'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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Danish 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, 2024British 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, 2024President Joe Biden wants to triple U.S. tariffs on steel from China
April 17, 2024Dozens of Russian athletes will likely be allowed to compete at the Paris Olympics
April 17, 2024Local 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, 2024Strikes called by Greece’s largest labor union have halted ferries and public transport services in Athens and other cities
April 17, 2024The 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, 2024Heavy 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, 2024Iran’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, 2024A 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, 2024A gathering of far-right politicians and supporters has resumed, a day after police shut the event down citing concerns about public order
April 17, 2024Lightning 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, 2024Tensions 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, 2024Inflation 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, 2024Authorities 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, 2024Croatia 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024The Biden administration has signaled that it could reimpose oil sanctions on Venezuela on Thursday in
April 26, 2024Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company is “looking at” manufacturing in Indonesia as he met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday
April 17, 2024The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says America and its allies are discussing options “both inside and outside the U
April 17, 2024Group of Seven foreign ministers are meeting on the resort island of Capri
April 17, 2024Senate Democrats could end the impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas before arguments even begin
April 17, 2024The 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, 2024The U.S. and its allies planned fresh sanctions against Iran over its unprecedented attack on Israel, seeking to dissuade Israel
July 02, 2024Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been moved from prison to house arrest
April 17, 2024Japan 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, 2024Voting 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, 2024Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is scheduled to meet with Polish President Andrzej Duda on Wednesday in New York
April 16, 2024Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is imposing higher taxes on the wealthiest Canadians as part of the federal government
April 16, 2024Joaquín “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, 2024Ecuador 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, 2024Performing in the U.S. for international musicians just got a lot more complicated
April 16, 2024The United States has warned it will impose new sanctions on Iran following its unprecedented attack on Israel. U.S.
April 26, 2024Israel is vowing to retaliate against Iran even though such a mission carries many risks
April 16, 2024Iraqi 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 26, 2024Some 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 26, 2024The world is not doing enough to protect coral reefs
April 16, 2024Athletes in plenty of sports compete for plenty of cash
April 16, 2024A 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, 2024Venezuelan 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, 2024A portrait of Winston Churchill by an artist whose work the British leader loathed is going up for auction
April 16, 2024Defiant 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns about public order
April 16, 2024Microsoft 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, 2024When 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
July 02, 2024Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is warning of potential global “economic spillovers” from rising tensions in the Middle East
April 16, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Defense 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, 2024Israeli 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 26, 2024A 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, 2024Polish 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 26, 2024British 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, 2024Apple 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, 2024The 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, 2024The United Nations human rights office says Israeli security forces must immediately put an end to settler attacks on Palestinians
April 16, 2024German 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 26, 2024Water levels in some overflowing rivers in Russia were starting to drop on Monday, but flooding remains widespread, Russian state TV reports said
April 16, 2024President 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, 2024U.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, 2024Greece 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, 2024Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have called for an immediate cease-fire and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid in Gaza
April 16, 2024The 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, 2024German 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, 2024Brazilian police investigating the discovery of a boat full of corpses say the dead were likely African migrants from Mali and Mauritania
April 16, 2024Asian 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, 2024Heavy rains have lashed the United Arab Emirates, flooding out portions of major highways and leaving vehicles abandoned on roadways across Dubai
April 16, 2024One of Copenhagen’s oldest buildings is on fire and its iconic spire has collapsed
April 16, 2024Nissan says it expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029
April 16, 2024Iran 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 26, 2024Israel'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 26, 2024A 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, 2024The flame that is to burn at the Paris Olympics has been kindled at the site of the ancient games in southern Greece
April 16, 2024Philippine 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, 2024Salman 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, 2024China’s economy beat expectations in the first quarter of the year with help from policies and an increase in demand
April 16, 2024Israelis awaited word on how Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond to Iran's first-ever direct attack as international pressure for restraint grew
July 02, 2024The 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
July 02, 2024Russia and Ukraine are trading blame before the United Nations Security Council for the attacks on Europe's largest nuclear power plant
April 15, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson is leaving uncertain his plan for advancing wartime aid for Ukraine
April 15, 2024The 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, 2024President 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, 2024Lawmakers in Georgia’s legislature have scuffled as the parliament started debating a divisive new law dubbed the foreign agent bill
April 15, 2024For decades, Vietnamese people often been relegated to the background in popular cinematic depictions of the Vietnam War
April 15, 2024In 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, 2024Israel’s military chief says Israel will respond to Iran’s weekend missile strike
April 15, 2024The 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 26, 2024Pro-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, 2024An Israeli court has ordered the eviction of Palestinian family in a deeply contested neighborhood of east Jerusalem
April 15, 2024Iraq 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, 2024Canada 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 26, 2024Reef scientists say coral reefs around the world are experiencing global bleaching for the fourth time due to prolonged warming of the oceans
April 15, 2024The coffee that picked you up this morning is 600,000 old
April 15, 2024The U.S.
April 15, 2024Ukraine’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, 2024April 17 marks the 100 days countdown to the Paris Olympics ambitious opening ceremony
April 15, 2024The 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 26, 2024Police say a man has been arrested after reportedly stabbing a bishop and churchgoers in Sydney
April 15, 2024A 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, 2024German 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, 2024The Israeli military has renewed warnings for Palestinians in Gaza not to return to the embattled territory’s north
April 15, 2024Israel'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 26, 2024An 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, 2024World leaders are urging Israel not to retaliate after Iran launched an attack involving hundreds of drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles
April 15, 2024A civil lawsuit demanding damages for alleged racial discrimination by police in Japan has opened in Tokyo District Court
April 15, 2024Singapore 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, 2024French 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, 2024The people killed and wounded by an assailant at a Sydney shopping mall were mostly women
April 15, 2024French 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, 2024The 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, 2024France 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 26, 2024British 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 26, 2024Global 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 26, 2024Australian 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, 2024Asia stocks are mostly lower as worries about potentially escalating tensions in the Middle East rattle financial markets
April 15, 2024Every 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, 2024Indian 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, 2024Croatia holds an early parliamentary election Wednesday following a campaign that was marked by heated exchanges between the country’s two top officials
April 15, 2024President 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, 2024U.S. forces, supported by U.S.
April 26, 2024Fans will be seeing purple at the Olympics when athletes try to set records at this summer’s Paris Games
April 14, 2024United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday issued a reminder that acts of reprisal involving the use of force are barred under
April 26, 2024More 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, 2024Winners 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, 2024Saudi 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 26, 2024A 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, 2024Iran’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, 2024Egyptian 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 26, 2024Pakistani police are investigated the shooting death of a suspect in the killing of accused Indian spy Sarabjit Singh in prison in 2013
April 14, 2024Leaders 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 26, 2024Israel has been bracing for possible retaliation for the assassination of Iran's close ally Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last week.
April 14, 2024Turkish 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 26, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson says he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this week
April 14, 2024President 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, 2024Iran’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, 2024An 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, 2024More 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, 2024Elevated 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, 2024Polish 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, 2024Iran'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 26, 2024Iran'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 26, 2024The unprecedented attack by Iran on Israel early Sunday ratcheted up regional tensions
April 14, 2024Jordan'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 26, 2024Israeli 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 26, 2024Indian 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, 2024Israel has hailed the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran
April 14, 2024A 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, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday his country would achieve victory after the military said it shot down
July 02, 2024Israel 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, 2024Japan 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 26, 2024More 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, 2024German 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 26, 2024The 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 26, 2024Police 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, 2024Israel has deployed a multilayered air-defense system
April 13, 2024Iran launched its first full-scale military attack against Israel on Saturday, sending drones toward Israel
April 13, 2024Israel 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 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024It’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, 2024More 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, 2024The British says a vessel may have been boarded by an unknown party near the crucial Strait of Hormuz
April 13, 2024Media reports say multiple people have been stabbed and that the police shot a person at a Sydney shopping center
April 13, 2024The imbalance in the U.S.-China relationship extends beyond trade to the world of higher education
April 13, 2024Tech 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, 2024A severe drought has pushed Colombia's capital to start rationing tap water
April 12, 2024A 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, 2024Arrests for crossing the U.S. border illegally fell slightly in March, bucking a usual spring increase amid increased immigration enforcement in Mexico
April 12, 2024A 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 26, 2024Eleanor 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, 2024The 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, 2024An orphaned killer whale stranded in a remote Vancouver Island lagoon is proving difficult for rescuers to catch
April 12, 2024A 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, 2024China is backing Russia's war
April 26, 2024Local 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, 2024China 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, 2024Palestinian 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, 2024The 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, 2024Thailand’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, 2024Berlin’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, 2024As 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, 2024The 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, 2024Two Palestinians have been killed early Friday in confrontations with Israeli forces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank
April 12, 2024The 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, 2024The Vatican says Pope Francis will visit Indonesia, East Timor, Papua New Guinea and Singapore in September
April 12, 2024Polish 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, 2024Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced an investigation into suspected Russian interference in Europe-wide elections in June
April 12, 2024State television in Niger has broadcast footage of Russian military trainers arriving in the country aboard a plane equipped with security supplies
April 12, 2024Asia 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, 2024German 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, 2024The war in Sudan began a year ago
April 12, 2024When O.J. Simpson's death from prostate cancer was announced, the University of Southern California made no public acknowledgement of it
April 12, 2024Argentina’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, 2024House 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, 2024Twenty 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, 2024Japanese 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, 2024A 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, 2024House 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, 2024House 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, 2024U.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, 2024Mali’s ruling junta has banned the media from reporting on the activities of political parties and associations in the country
April 11, 2024House 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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Russia’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, 2024Under 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, 2024A 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, 2024Officials say a massive missile and drone attack has destroyed one of Ukraine’s largest power plants and damaged others
April 11, 2024Experts 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, 2024Mexico’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, 2024The wife of Julian Assange says her husband’s legal case “could be moving in the right direction.”
April 11, 2024A memoir Alexei Navalny began working on in 2020 will be published this fall
April 11, 2024Archaeologists excavating new sites in Pompeii have uncovered a sumptuous banquet hall decorated with intricately frescoed mythological characters inspired by the Trojan War
April 11, 2024The cement industry is one of the largest emitters of carbon dioxide and is responsible for some 8% of global emissions each year
April 11, 2024A 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, 2024South 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, 2024An 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, 2024China 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, 2024Three sons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh have been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip
April 11, 2024Russia, 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 26, 2024The start of the Masters has been delayed by at least one hour because of bad weather
April 11, 2024Russia 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, 2024President 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, 2024A 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, 2024Lufthansa 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, 2024Ukraine’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, 2024Markets 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024The mass abduction of 276 schoolgirls a decade ago in Nigeria marked a new era of fear in Africa's most populous country
April 11, 2024Poland's parliament is finally holding a long-awaited debate on liberalizing the country's strict abortion law
April 11, 2024Hawaii-born Akebono Taro, one of the greats of sumo wrestling and a former grand champion, has died
April 11, 2024It was hours after sundown when eight aid trucks and three support vehicles started their journey into Gaza
April 11, 2024Japanese 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, 2024A 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, 2024Cambodia'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, 2024China 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, 2024South 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, 2024Officials 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024President 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, 2024President 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, 2024Jill 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, 2024The House is considering whether to take up a bill that would reauthorize a crucial national security surveillance program
April 10, 2024The 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, 2024President 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, 2024A 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, 2024The Green Bay Packers will play the Philadelphia Eagles when the NFL holds its first regular-season game in Brazil on Sept. 6
April 10, 2024Authorities 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, 2024Switzerland 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, 2024The 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, 2024Two-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, 2024The 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, 2024France’s government has presented a bill to allow adults with terminal cancer or other end-of-life illness to take lethal medication
April 10, 2024A 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, 2024In 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, 2024Russian officials are scrambling to help homeowners displaced by floods, as water levels have risen in the Ural River
April 10, 2024Lawmakers have approved a major revamp of the European Union’s migration regulations
April 10, 2024Elevated levels of inflation and the impact of the war in Ukraine have forced companies across Europe to freeze hiring or cut jobs.
April 10, 2024Chinese 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, 2024Russia’s second attempt to test-launch a new heavy-lift rocket from its Far Eastern space complex has been aborted
April 10, 2024President 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, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden has called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake
April 10, 2024A 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, 2024Shares are mixed in Asia after U.S. stock indexes held at a near standstill ahead of some potentially market-moving reports
April 10, 2024Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reiterating a promise to retaliate against Israel over the killings of Iranian generals in Syria
April 10, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024At least four people were killed and another 12 injured in a fire in a building in Hong Kong
April 10, 2024Nearly 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, 2024The 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, 2024The Vatican has issued a new document rejecting the concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 09, 2024Mexico 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, 2024Venezuela’s government says the country’s former oil minister has been arrested on allegations of corruption
April 09, 2024A 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, 2024Fresh 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, 2024The 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, 2024Members 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, 2024Italian 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, 2024South 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, 2024South 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, 2024Defense 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, 2024This week’s Champions League soccer games will go ahead as scheduled despite an Islamic State terror threat
April 09, 2024Amanda 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, 2024The 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, 2024Turkey and Israel have announced tit-for-tat trade barriers as relations between them further deteriorated amid the war in Gaza
April 09, 2024The 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, 2024Myanmar’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, 2024Chinese 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, 2024Germany 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, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron is in Washington to press senior Republicans to unlock money for Ukraine
April 09, 2024Russian 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, 2024A top Chinese leader will lead a delegation to North Korea this week
April 09, 2024Six 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, 2024Asia 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, 2024Police 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, 2024Iran has released two conservationists who worked to save the endangered Asiatic cheetah before spending five years in prison on espionage charges
April 09, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has escalated his pledge to invade Rafah
April 09, 2024The 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, 2024Istanbul 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, 2024Europe’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, 2024Cambodian authorities are investigating the abuse of monkeys at the famous Angkor UNESCO World Heritage Site
April 09, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is set for his much-anticipated visit to Washington
April 09, 2024Treasury 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, 2024The European climate agency says Earth was record hot for the 10th consecutive month in March
April 09, 2024While 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, 2024The U.N. Security Council has revived the Palestinian Authority's hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member
April 08, 2024Pope Francis has met with relatives of hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7
April 08, 2024Transgender Catholics are voicing disappointment with a new Vatican document rejecting the fundamental concept of changing one’s biological sex
April 08, 2024Kevin Costner’s multi-episode epic “Horizon, An American Saga” will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival organizers announced Monday
April 08, 2024Iran’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, 2024Panama has started the trial of 27 people charged in the worldwide “Panama Papers” money laundering case
April 08, 2024Russians 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, 2024The 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, 2024Haiti’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, 2024Guerrilla fighters from Myanmar’s Karen ethnic minority are claiming to be close to seizing control of a major trading town bordering Thailand
April 08, 2024Ever 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, 2024Austria 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, 2024The 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, 2024The Vatican has declared that sex change operations and surrogacy are grave threats to human dignity
April 08, 2024As 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, 2024A 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, 2024Streams 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, 2024Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is making an official visit to the United States this week
April 08, 2024Russian 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, 2024The United Nations’ top court is opening hearings in a case that seeks an end to German military and other aid to Israel
April 08, 2024China’s burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade fight
April 08, 2024Treasury 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, 2024Israel’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, 2024The new president of Toyota subsidiary Daihatsu says its parent company will oversee model certification to regain trust after a safety testing scandal
April 08, 2024Local 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, 2024In 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024South 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Officials 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, 2024A 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, 2024International 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, 2024The United Nations’ top court is hearing a case on Monday that seeks an end of German military and other aid to Israel
April 07, 2024State media say Russia’s government has declared the situation in flood-hit areas in the Orenburg region a federal emergency
April 07, 2024China’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, 2024Rwandans 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, 2024A 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, 2024A bespoke globe in the age of Google Earth
April 07, 2024An 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, 2024Feral cats have long wandered the gardens and elegant halls of Mexicos' presidential palace
April 07, 2024Amal 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, 2024U.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, 2024India'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, 2024On 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, 2024Ecuadorian authorities have taken the extraordinarily unusual step of breaking into a foreign embassy to arrest a former vice president facing corruption charges
April 06, 2024A top military commander has renewed Iran’s promise to retaliate after an airstrike earlier this week widely blamed on Israel
April 06, 2024The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation — and fish and chips every Friday
April 06, 2024In a community of genocide perpetrators and survivors outside the Rwandan capital of Kigali, more than half of 382 residents are women
April 06, 2024A 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, 2024Israel’s military says it has recovered the body of a 47-year-old farmer who was held hostage in Gaza
April 06, 2024Climate 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, 2024Floods 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, 2024A 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024The 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, 2024Rwanda 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, 2024Japanese 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, 2024The 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, 2024Muslims 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, 2024The 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, 2024It’s the last wish of a dying mother, to see her daughter once more
April 06, 2024As 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, 2024The Israeli military’s killing of seven aid workers in Gaza has triggered unprecedented criticism from European leaders
April 06, 2024Mexico 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, 2024Rescuers 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, 2024As 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, 2024Two weeks after Hong Kong introduced a new national security law, life in the city appears unchanged
April 06, 2024It 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, 2024President 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, 2024President Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 hoping to recover Mexico's old reputation as the diplomatic leader of Latin America
April 05, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Italian 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024McDonald’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, 2024U.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, 2024It 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, 2024An international campaign to ban surrogacy has received a strong endorsement from the Vatican
April 05, 2024Russian 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, 2024British 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, 2024Taiwan residents endured harrowing experiences when the ground shook with the strongest earthquake to hit the island in 25 years
April 05, 2024India’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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup during a delay in deplaning after landing at Sydney Airport
April 05, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Moscow 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024A 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, 2024Russia is renewing its strikes on Ukraine's energy system
April 05, 2024Crowds 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, 2024Rescue teams are searching for a family of five feared trapped in a rockslide following Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years
April 05, 2024When 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, 2024As 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, 2024The 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, 2024A study conducted in Brazil found that Yanomami people examined from nine villages have been contaminated with high levels of mercury
April 04, 2024Former 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, 2024President 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, 2024Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel is making his feature directorial and screenwriting debut with the action thriller, “Monkey Man.”
April 04, 2024A 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, 2024Day-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, 2024President 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, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron says France and its allies “could have stopped” the 1994 Rwanda genocide and “lacked the will to do so.”
April 04, 2024Human Rights Watch says an Israeli strike on an apartment building in Gaza last October killed at least 106 civilians, including 54 children
April 04, 2024Nigerian 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, 2024Finland 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, 2024Police 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, 2024The 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, 2024Russia’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, 2024Throughout history, solar eclipses have had profound impact on adherents of various religions around the world
April 04, 2024The 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, 2024Ugandan 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, 2024More than 600 British jurists are calling on the government to suspend arms sales to Israel
April 04, 2024South 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, 2024Myanmar’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, 2024Lebanon'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, 2024Asian 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024Panicked 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, 2024A Ukrainian regional governor says a Russian drone attack on Kharkiv has killed four people and wounded 12
April 04, 2024NATO is marking its 75th anniversary
April 04, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024More 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, 2024Senior 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, 2024Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is heading to a China that is determined to avoid open conflict with the United States
April 04, 2024Rescuers 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, 2024The 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, 2024Plans 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, 2024Russia’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, 2024Saudi 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, 2024A top U.S. commander in the Middle East is acknowledging concern about retaliatory attacks on American forces there
April 03, 2024Argentina says that it had cut 15,000 state jobs as part of President Javier Milei’s aggressive campaign to slash spending
April 03, 2024A 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, 2024A $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, 2024On 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, 2024Britain’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, 2024Police 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, 2024Egyptian 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, 2024NATO 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, 2024Zimbabwe’s president has declared a state of disaster over a devastating El Nino drought sweeping across much of southern Africa
April 03, 2024Luis 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, 2024Taiwan was struck Wednesday by its most powerful earthquake in a quarter of a century
April 03, 2024Uganda’s constitutional court has upheld an anti-gay law that allows the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality.”
April 03, 2024Thai 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, 2024Pope 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, 2024Inflation has fallen again in Europe, to 2.4% in March
April 03, 2024Nearly 5,000 fighters have put down their arms in Central African Republic since a disarmament program launched nearly a decade ago
April 03, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024Israeli airstrikes have killed aid workers delivering food in Gaza
April 03, 2024Indonesian President-elect Prabowo Subianto said on a visit to Japan that he wants to “further strengthen” relations between the countries
April 03, 2024Asian shares are mostly declining after Wall Street broke its record-breaking run-up
April 03, 2024Human 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, 2024A 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, 2024A Biden administration-appointed review board has issued a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency
April 03, 2024A 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, 2024North 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, 2024The 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, 2024Several humanitarian aid organizations have suspended operations in Gaza after an Israeli airstrike killed seven World Central Kitchen workers
April 02, 2024Pepe Aguilar says he feels like a superhero when he puts on his charro suit
April 02, 2024More than 53,000 people have fled Haiti’s capital in less than three weeks as deadly gang violence continues
April 02, 2024An Israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza reverberated around the world Tuesday
April 02, 2024The 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, 2024Google’s widely used Chrome browser has offered a private browsing mode called “Incognito” for nearly a decade
April 02, 2024Stevie 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, 2024Comedian Joe Flaherty has died
April 02, 2024President 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, 2024Klaus 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, 2024A prize-winning author from Guadeloupe who was known as the ‘Grande Dame' of Caribbean literature has died
April 02, 2024A fire has broken out at an Istanbul nightclub during renovations and 15 people are dead
April 02, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has vowed to track down the masterminds of the Moscow concert hall massacre that left 144 people dead
April 02, 2024World 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, 2024Senegal 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, 2024A 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024Finnish police say a number of people were wounded in a shooting at a school in Helsinki and a suspect was detained
April 02, 2024Iran 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, 2024Hong Kong stocks are leading gains in Asian markets while investors evaluate economic data from South Korea and Australia
April 02, 2024An aid group says an Israeli airstrike on its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024An aid group says an Israeli strike that hit its workers in Gaza killed at least seven people, including several foreigners
April 02, 2024More 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, 2024Peruvian 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, 2024When 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, 2024A 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 26, 2024South 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, 2024Heavy gunfire erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital as police battled gang members near the National Palace for several hours
April 01, 2024On 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, 2024The 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, 2024President Joe Biden's administration is weighing whether to go ahead with an $18 billion arms transfer package to Israel
April 26, 2024Florida residents are raising concerns about family and friends in Haiti amid ongoing violence in the Caribbean island nation
April 01, 2024Prime 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, 2024A 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 26, 2024The 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, 2024Syrian state media says an Israeli airstrike has destroyed the consular section of Iran’s embassy in Damascus, killing or wounding everyone inside
April 01, 2024Senior 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 26, 2024American 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, 2024Israeli 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 26, 2024Russia’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, 2024Officials 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, 2024Prime 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 26, 2024British 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Germany has legalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana
April 01, 2024Japan’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, 2024The 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, 2024With 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, 2024Palestinian 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, 2024The 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 26, 2024Palestinian 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, 2024South 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, 2024A group in Taiwan is focusing on seniors as it tries to combat fake news, one conversation at a time
April 01, 2024Asian shares are mixed, with Shanghai gaining 1% after surveys showed improvements in manufacturing conditions in China
April 01, 2024Dr. 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, 2024A pro basketball team in Iraq is owned by a paramilitary group, and some of its forces recently attacked U.S. troops
April 01, 2024The 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, 2024Ecuador'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, 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the Israeli leader will undergo surgery on Sunday for a hernia
March 31, 2024An Israeli airstrike has hit a tent camp inside a hospital in central Gaza, killing two Palestinians and wounding another 15
March 31, 2024Israeli military strikes killed dozens of Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials said, as Egypt hosted an Israeli delegation for a new
April 26, 2024A Russian cruise missile strike on infrastructure in Ukraine’s western Lviv region has left one dead
March 31, 2024King 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, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Pope Francis appears to have overcome concerns about his health to preside over Easter Sunday Mass
March 31, 2024Romania 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, 2024A 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, 2024Manufacturing in China expanded in March after contracting for five consecutive months
March 31, 2024The race is on for control of Istanbul and other key cities as Turkey holds local elections
March 31, 2024Actor Chance Perdomo has died at age 27 following a motorcycle crash
March 30, 2024Truce 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
April 26, 2024Napoli’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, 2024Ambassadors 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,
April 26, 2024Foreign 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, 2024After 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, 2024The Vatican has confirmed Pope Francis will preside over the Easter Vigil service on Saturday night
March 30, 2024Each 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, 2024After the 1959 revolution, Cuba repressed gay people and many were sent to labor camps
March 30, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has dismissed a longtime aide and several advisers in a continuing reshuffle while Russia unleashed fresh attacks overnight
March 30, 2024Four United Nations military observers have been wounded while patrolling the southern Lebanese border after a shell exploded near them
March 30, 2024Heavily 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, 2024Preparations 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, 2024The 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, 2024Televised images have swept Peru of government agents from an investigative team breaking into the president’s residence with a sledgehammer
March 30, 2024A 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, 2024Representatives 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, 2024Japanese 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, 2024In 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, 2024Ontario’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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Joe 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Wrexham, 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, 2024The 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, 2024Famine 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
April 26, 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will return to the table for cease-fire talks with Hamas
March 29, 2024The 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, 2024The Democratic Unionist Party says its leader has stepped down after being charged with allegations of a historic nature
March 29, 2024Israel 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
April 26, 2024Hundreds 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, 2024President 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, 2024France says it has asked 46 countries if they can supply more than 2,000 police officers to help secure the Paris Olympics
March 29, 2024On Easter morning, many Christians wake before dawn
March 29, 2024Emergency 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, 2024Russia 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
April 26, 2024Russian 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, 2024Best picture winner "Oppenheimer" finally premiered in Japan on Friday, eight months after a controversial grassroots marketing push and concerns about how its
April 26, 2024Ukraine'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, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher in quiet, Good Friday holiday trading
March 29, 2024Chinese 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, 2024In 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, 2024A 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, 2024When a French minister compared Italy's nationalist Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni last year to the leader of the French far
March 29, 2024China’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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Americans 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, 2024A 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024King 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, 2024The 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, 2024Authorities 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, 2024A 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, 2024Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered an end to government subsidies for many ultra-Orthodox men who don't serve in the army
March 28, 2024Bristol 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, 2024British-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, 2024Several 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil
March 28, 2024The 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, 2024Bosnian 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, 2024A 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, 2024Less 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Russia’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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Emergency services in Spain say that two people have died after falling into the Atlantic Ocean on its northern coast
March 28, 2024Russia 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, 2024French lawmakers have condemned an infamous 1961 police crackdown on Algerian protesters in Paris as a “bloody and murderous repression."
March 28, 2024A 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, 2024The Palestinian Authority has announced the formation of a new Cabinet as it faces international pressure to reform
March 28, 2024The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director
March 28, 2024Four 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, 2024King 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, 2024A 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, 2024Gang 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, 2024The 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, 2024Pope Francis has washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison
March 28, 2024Authorities 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Kremlin 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Lawmakers 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, 2024China 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, 2024Asian shares have opened mixed after U.S. stocks broke out of a three-day lull to close at a record
March 28, 2024A series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon has killed at least 16 people, including paramedics
March 28, 2024Shoppers may get a bitter surprise in their Easter baskets this year
March 28, 2024Xiaomi, a well-known maker of smart consumer electronics in China, is joining the country’s booming but crowded market for electric cars
March 28, 2024Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504
March 28, 2024Wall 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, 2024With 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, 2024Ukraine's foreign minister has arrived in New Delhi for a two-day visit to boost bilateral ties between the two countries
March 28, 2024An immigration crackdown in Mexico has hit Venezuelans especially hard
March 28, 2024An international team of doctors was prepared for the worst before visiting a hospital in central Gaza
March 28, 2024U.S.
March 28, 2024Taiwan'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, 2024The 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, 2024French 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, 2024Members 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, 2024Results from Senegal’s tightly contested presidential election show a previously little-known opposition figure won over 54% of the votes
March 27, 2024Protesters 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, 2024Venezuela'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, 2024Talks have restarted aimed at bringing top Israeli officials to Washington to discuss potential military operations in Gaza
March 27, 2024House 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, 2024The missing workers from the Baltimore bridge collapse all hailed from Mexico or Central America before they settled in the Maryland area
March 27, 2024Venezuela 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
April 26, 2024An 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, 2024The U.S. has imposed sanctions on an online media site called Gaza Now and its founder Mustafa Ayash, for allegedly supporting Hamas
March 27, 2024Two 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, 2024Since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, fears have risen in neighboring Moldova that it could also be in Moscow’s crosshairs
March 27, 2024Parents 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, 2024Russian 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.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Treasury 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, 2024An 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, 2024Pope 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, 2024The 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, 2024A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022
March 27, 2024China’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, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024Tom Hayes, the first trader jailed worldwide for interest rate rigging, lost his appeal against his conviction in a London court on Wednesday.
April 26, 2024Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has replaced one of his top security officials
March 27, 2024Health 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, 2024India 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
April 26, 2024Taiwan 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, 2024Around 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel on Wednesday morning, according to the Israeli military
March 27, 2024An Israeli airstrike on a paramedics center linked to a Lebanese Sunni Muslim group in south Lebanon has killed seven of its members
March 27, 2024Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street slipped a bit further from its record highs
March 27, 2024Lawmakers 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, 2024Indonesia’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, 2024China 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, 2024Months 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, 2024Religious and neo-conservative groups have been ramping up pressure to ban abortions in staunchly Catholic Croatia
March 27, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024American artist Richard Serra, whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversized galleries in the world's
July 02, 2024Judges overseeing a high-profile human rights trial in Argentina have convicted 11 former officials of crimes against humanity
March 27, 2024A day after the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution demanding a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the release of hostages, the war
April 26, 2024A prominent journalist in Belarus has been designated a political prisoner by the country’s leading human rights group
March 26, 2024Dozens 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Gangs 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, 2024A 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, 2024Bruce Springsteen is the first international songwriter to be named a fellow of The Ivors Academy, the U
March 26, 2024Colombian 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, 2024The United States is eyeing April 18 for a possible resumption of peace talks on Sudan in Saudi Arabia, U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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.
May 07, 2024The 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, 2024As 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, 2024Ukraine'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, 2024France's defense minister says it will soon be able to deliver 78 Caesar howitzers to Ukraine
March 26, 2024The 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.
April 26, 2024Vienna 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, 2024Kenya'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, 2024Russia 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
July 02, 2024Standing 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
July 02, 2024Baltimore's Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed early on Tuesday after a container ship smashed into the four-lane span, plunging cars into the river.
July 02, 2024Buckingham Palace officials say King Charles III and Queen Camilla will attend an Easter service at the chapel at Windsor Castle on Sunday
March 26, 2024Chinese 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, 2024A 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Senegal woke up to a new president-elect, Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax inspector and political novice
March 26, 2024A 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, 2024Authorities in Pakistan say that a suicide bomber has rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle in the northwest of the country
March 26, 2024China said Tuesday that it has filed a complaint at the World Trade Organization over US subsidies for electric vehicles
March 26, 2024Meta'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
April 26, 2024Vietnamese automaker VinFast plans to sell its electric vehicles in Thailand
March 26, 2024A Moscow court has ordered Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich to remain in jail on espionage charges until at least late June
March 26, 2024Racism has long permeated the world’s most popular sport, with soccer players subjected to racist chants and taunts
March 26, 2024Indian 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, 2024Dozens 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, 2024The 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, 2024Hamas has rejected the latest proposal put forward by international mediators for a cease-fire and hostage release
March 26, 2024Asian shares were mixed in muted trading, as buying in some markets was soon erased by profit-taking
March 26, 2024Hamas 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, 2024The 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, 2024On 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, 2024China'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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Ukraine needs any edge it can get to repel Russia from its territory
March 26, 2024A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges
March 26, 2024Sunao Takao was the loyal interpreter at Shinzo Abe's side, helping Japan's then-leader to understand Donald Trump as they navigated contentious issues
July 02, 2024Japan’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, 2024Japan’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, 2024WikiLeaks 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
April 26, 2024New Zealand says hackers linked to the Chinese government targeted its Parliament in 2021
March 25, 2024Brazil’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, 2024Immediately 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, 2024A 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, 2024Former 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, 2024The newest endangered baby gorilla at the London Zoo is more than six weeks old but doesn’t yet have a name
March 25, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Throng 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, 2024Tens 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, 2024The last few years haven’t been kind to Shakira
March 25, 2024Farmers 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, 2024A London court is due to rule whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can challenge extradition to the United States on espionage charges
March 25, 2024The four men charged with the massacre at a Moscow theater have been identified by the Russian government as citizens of Tajikistan
March 25, 2024Authorities 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024A Russian spacecraft with three astronauts has successfully docked at the International Space Station
March 25, 2024These are turbulent times for wind and solar energy
March 25, 2024The United Nations Security Council on Monday demanded an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas and the immediate and
July 02, 2024Israeli 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.
April 26, 2024Calls 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, 2024Radical British preacher Anjem Choudary has pleaded not guilty in a London courtroom to two terrorism-related charges
March 25, 2024South African prosecutors say they intend to charge the parliamentary speaker with corruption
March 25, 2024Britain’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, 2024Claudia Poblete and Pedro Alejandro Sandoval are two of the 133 “recovered grandchildren” of Argentina
March 25, 2024A 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, 2024A major European Union plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc has been indefinitely postponed
March 25, 2024In mid-March, a line of trucks stretched for 3 kilometers along a desert road near a crossing point from
March 25, 2024Israel'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
July 02, 2024The 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, 2024European 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, 2024Multiple explosions have been heard in Kyiv in what appears to be a third Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital in five days
March 25, 2024Nissan has announced plans to expand its electric vehicle lineup, develop more powerful batteries and cut production costs
March 25, 2024Asian shares are trading mixed as investors await further indications of future U.S. interest rate cuts
March 25, 2024Aid groups that visited a packed Gaza hospital have described an “unimaginable” situation in which large open wounds were left untreated
March 25, 2024Russia 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, 2024Senegalese 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, 2024Thailand 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, 2024Asian shares are trading mixed as investors await further indications of future U.S. interest rate cuts
March 25, 2024It 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, 2024The 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, 2024Senior 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, 2024North Korea says Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has proposed a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un
March 25, 2024Argentina’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, 2024The 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, 2024New York City’s mayor has nixed a planned trip to the U.S.-Mexico over security concerns
March 24, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Ireland 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, 2024Thousands of Christian faithful attended Palm Sunday celebrations at Jerusalem’s sacred Mount of Olives on the first day of Holy Week
March 24, 2024Brazil’s federal police arrested on Sunday the men suspected of ordering the killing of Rio de Janeiro councilwoman Marielle Franco in 2018
March 24, 2024Iran’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, 2024Palestinians 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, 2024Kate, 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, 2024Pope Francis has decided at the last minute to skip his homily during Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square
March 24, 2024The 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024A 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, 2024Ferrari’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, 2024Senegalese 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, 2024It will be a very tiny big-game hunt for one of the largest animals in North America
March 24, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Grammy-winning Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini has died
March 23, 2024An Islamic State group affiliate has claimed responsibility for an attack on a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133 people
March 23, 2024Shocked 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Heavy 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, 2024Estonia'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, 2024Politicians, 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, 2024U_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, 2024The Princess of Wales’ disclosure that she has cancer has prompted an outpouring of goodwill
March 23, 2024The 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, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that all those responsible for the deadly attack on a concert near Moscow would be punished.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Palm Sunday will be celebrated by Christians worldwide this Sunday
March 23, 2024Support 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, 2024Air 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.
May 07, 2024Voters in Slovakia are electing a successor to Zuzana Čaputová
March 23, 2024Hundreds 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, 2024The 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, 2024Two 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
July 02, 2024The 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, 2024Two 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, 2024Speculation 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, 2024The 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, 2024The head of the Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, Muhammad Ali Al-Houthi, said on Saturday there have been "reckless" American-British attacks on Yemen.
April 26, 2024The number of arrests for illegally crossing the U.S. southern border with Mexico nudged upward February over the previous month
March 22, 2024The 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.
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024Major 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, 2024Russian 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.
April 26, 2024Yulia 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
April 26, 2024Kate, the Princess of Wales, has disclosed that she has cancer but hasn't said what kind
March 22, 2024Russia 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
April 26, 2024One of the most famous, photographed and talked-about women in the world is fighting a very personal battle
March 22, 2024Mexico’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, 2024Kate, Princess of Wales, has released a statement saying she has been diagnosed with cancer
March 22, 2024British 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
April 26, 2024The White House says President Joe Biden plans to host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani next month
March 22, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has once again left the Middle East empty-handed
March 22, 2024Kate, the Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy
March 22, 2024U.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, 2024Russia’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, 2024The 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, 2024Elite 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
April 26, 2024French 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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Holi is the Hindu festival of colors, which is celebrated to mark the start of spring in India, Nepal and the diaspora
March 22, 2024Ukraine 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
April 26, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024Police 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Overcrowded 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, 2024Russia has attacked electrical power facilities in much of Ukraine, including the country’s largest hydroelectric plant, causing widespread outages
March 22, 2024U.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, 2024Stocks are mixed in Asia after Wall Street tapped fresh records, led by big gains in chipmakers
March 22, 2024Supporters 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Vietnam's president has resigned as the ruling communist party in the latest episode of a “blazing furnace” anti-corruption campaign
March 22, 2024Australia 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, 2024Israel's spy chief was due to travel to Qatar on Friday for ceasefire negotiations while the U.S. planned to put a resolution
July 02, 2024Mexico filed a U.S. court brief supporting the U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Gunfire has erupted in the downtown area of Haiti’s capital
March 21, 2024French 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, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024The United States and Saudi Arabia have made "good progress" in talks on normalising ties between the kingdom and Israel, U.S.
April 26, 2024Sports 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, 2024A 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, 2024U.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, 2024Canadian officials say they will set targets to decrease the number of new temporary residents in the country
March 21, 2024A 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, 2024Algeria 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, 2024Prince 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, 2024U.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, 2024Portugal said on Thursday it would give 10 million euros ($10.89 million) to the U.N.
April 26, 2024House 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, 2024Pope 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, 2024Japan’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, 2024European 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, 2024Shohei Ohtani is referred to in Japan as “kanpeki no hito” — the perfect person — because of his manners and impeccable behavior
March 21, 2024A 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, 2024Russia’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, 2024The launch of a Russian Soyuz spacecraft was aborted just seconds before scheduled lift-off to the International Space Station (ISS
July 02, 2024After 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, 2024Turkey’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, 2024President 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, 2024After days of delay, U.S. congressional leaders unveiled a $1.1 trillion bipartisan spending measure for defense, homeland security and other
April 26, 2024Russia 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024South 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, 2024Over 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, 2024European Union leaders are gathering to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine
March 21, 2024Kenyan doctors have stopped providing emergency services at public hospitals, as they escalated a national strike that entered its second week
March 21, 2024Shohei 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, 2024Ukraine’s capital was attacked by Russia for the first time in 44 days as Kyiv residents woke early to loud explosions
March 21, 2024A center-right alliance led by the Social Democratic Party has won Portugal’s general election by a slender margin
March 21, 2024A Communist Party newspaper says Vietnam’s Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan will be acting president after the previous president’s resignation
March 21, 2024U.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, 2024Asian 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, 2024The 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.
April 26, 2024An 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, 2024AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online
March 21, 2024Thousands 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, 2024A 12-year-old boy in east Jerusalem lights the fuse of a long firework and hoists it in the air
March 21, 2024The 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, 2024The General Assembly is set to vote on what would be the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence
March 21, 2024As 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, 2024Senegal 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, 2024South Korea’s government says it will start suspending the licenses of striking junior doctors next week
March 21, 2024New 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, 2024Residents 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
May 07, 2024Fertility 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
April 26, 2024The European Union could use proceeds from frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine within a few months under a plan that includes buying arms
April 26, 2024A New York City police officer once charged with spying for China says he is fighting the commissioner's decision to fire him
March 20, 2024Shohei 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, 2024President 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, 2024An expected long legal battle has begun over a new rule that requires companies to disclose some emissions and climate-related information
March 20, 2024Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said on Wednesday two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado have been arrested for alleged involvement in planned
April 26, 2024Israel 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, 2024Prince 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, 2024Italian 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).
April 26, 2024Armed 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, 2024Russia’s Belgorod region has come under increasing Ukrainian attacks this month as the invasion by Moscow grinds into its third year
March 20, 2024A fractured U.S.
April 26, 2024Wales 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, 2024Voters around the world who worry about growing threats to democratic freedoms should consider electing more women in countries’ national elections this year
March 20, 2024The Dutch parliament has named two new go-betweens to lead negotiations to form the next ruling coalition
March 20, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024Indonesia’s electoral commission has confirmed Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former general linked to past human rights abuses, was elected president
March 20, 2024Former special forces general Prabowo Subianto has been confirmed the victor of Indonesia's presidential election
March 20, 2024U.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, 2024U.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, 2024The 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, 2024Tennis 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, 2024A 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, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address U.S.
April 26, 2024Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says he will step down as leader of the country as soon as a successor is chosen
March 20, 2024A 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, 2024Leaders 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
April 26, 2024France’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, 2024Vietnamese 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024European 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, 2024No 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, 2024The 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, 2024Price 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, 2024Asian markets are mostly higher ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve on the timing of cuts to interest rates
March 20, 2024Mourners 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, 2024Purim is widely depicted as the most joyful of Jewish holidays — highlighted by celebrations that include costumes, skits and noisemakers
March 20, 2024Senegal’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, 2024A 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, 2024New Zealand says it will ban disposable e-cigarettes, or vapes, and raise financial penalties for those who sell such products to minors
March 20, 2024Legislators 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, 2024As 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, 2024A South Korean tanker has capsized off a southwestern Japanese island, and Japan's coast guard has rescued four of its crew
March 20, 2024Election misinformation will pose a formidable challenge this year as billions of people in dozens of countries head to the polls
March 20, 2024South 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, 2024A report by a European business group says that uncertainty and “draconian regulations” have drastically raised risks for foreign businesses in China
March 20, 2024North Korea says it has successfully tested a solid-fuel engine for its new-type intermediate-range hypersonic missile
March 19, 2024Jared 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, 2024Russian 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.
April 26, 2024An 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
April 26, 2024Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump drew outrage from the White House, Democrats and leaders of Jewish groups for saying Jewish Americans who
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024USA 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, 2024Iranian-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, 2024Jon Rahm is serving up quite the Spanish menu for the Masters Club dinner for champions
March 19, 2024Heavy 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.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
July 02, 2024The British government says it will hold the next meeting of the European Political Community on July 18
March 19, 2024Caribbean 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, 2024Cambodian 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, 2024Souvenirs bearing the image of 70-year-old Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sell like T-shirts at a Taylor Swift concert
March 19, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024South 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, 2024Brazil’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, 2024Destroying 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, 2024An 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.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, 2024Russia'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
April 26, 2024Israel killed 14 people in air strikes in Rafah on Tuesday, Palestinian medical officials said, as the United States urged a rethink
July 02, 2024Hong 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, 2024India'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
April 26, 2024Hong Kong lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously passed a new national security bill within a fortnight of it being tabled, fast-tracking a major piece
April 26, 2024Officials 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, 2024Unilever, 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, 2024The 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, 2024Defense 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, 2024A British newspaper says Prince William and his wife Catherine have been filmed at a farm shop near their Windsor home
March 19, 2024U.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, 2024Images 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, 2024The U.N. labor agency says illegal profits from forced labor globally have risen to the “obscene” amount of $236 billion per year
March 19, 2024Shares 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, 2024United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit the Middle East this week, the U.S.
April 26, 2024Hong 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, 2024The restoration of Notre Dame Cathedral following a tragic blaze in April 2019 is a story of dedication and recovery
March 19, 2024The 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, 2024Around 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, 2024Japan'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, 2024Taiwan'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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024President Joe Biden will host Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. for a White House summit next month
March 19, 2024The 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, 2024U.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, 2024Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024To 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, 2024An 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, 2024Cuba'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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024President 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, 2024Israel 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, 2024A senior U.S. official has visited Montenegro to offer support to the small Balkan nation seeking to join the European Union
March 18, 2024The 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, 2024Gangs 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, 2024Three 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, 2024Croatia’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, 2024A new Banksy mural has drawn crowds to a London street, even before the elusive graffiti artist confirmed the work was his
March 18, 2024Lawmakers in Gambia are voting Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a 2015 ban on female genital cutting
March 18, 2024Vladimir Putin has secured an unprecedented fifth term as president of Russia
March 18, 2024Western governments lined up on Monday to condemn Vladimir Putin's landslide election victory as unfair and undemocratic, but China and North Korea
April 26, 2024South 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024North 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, 2024An Arizona migrant shelter that has housed thousands of asylum seekers plans to halt most operations in two weeks when funding
May 07, 2024From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians are eligible to vote in general elections
March 18, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the need to ensure that technologies sustain democratic values
March 18, 2024Israel 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, 2024Asian stocks have gained ahead of policy decisions this week by Japan's central bank and the Federal Reserve
March 18, 2024Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, accusing Hamas militants of using it as a base
March 18, 2024Israeli forces have launched another raid on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital
March 18, 2024Officials say Pakistan has targeted multiple suspected hideouts of Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan
March 18, 2024A 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, 2024President 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, 2024Asian stocks are higher ahead of policy decisions this week by Japan's central bank and the Federal Reserve
March 18, 2024Millions 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, 2024Colombian 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, 2024Small 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, 2024A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti has landed in Miami
March 17, 2024Russian 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
May 07, 2024Russian 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, 2024South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the North’s east coast
March 17, 2024British 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, 2024The 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, 2024Vaughan 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, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told CNN on Sunday that U.S.
April 26, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is railing against international criticism of his government amid the devasting war with Hamas
March 17, 2024The 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, 2024South Sudan is shutting all its schools and warning of an extreme heat wave that's expected to last two weeks
March 17, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024A 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, 2024Bengaluru 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, 2024Russia 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
July 02, 2024A 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, 2024Syrian state media say Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites in southern Syria wounding a soldier
March 16, 2024A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky
March 16, 2024Media 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, 2024After the pandemic, young Chinese are again looking to study abroad
March 16, 2024Republicans 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, 2024India 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, 2024Vaughan 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, 2024Stalled 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, 2024Los 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, 2024A 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, 2024When 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, 2024Voters 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, 2024If it’s March, and it’s green, it must be St. Patrick’s Day
March 16, 2024Some 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, 2024Residents 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
April 26, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's new ride is a Russian luxury limousine gifted by President Vladimir Putin
March 16, 2024Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight
March 16, 2024Two 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, 2024The 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, 2024Judicial 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, 2024Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has condemned Russian efforts to conduct its presidential election in occupied areas of Ukraine, a U.N spokesperson said on Friday.
April 26, 2024Most of the parties for Haiti's transition council have named their representative but a couple still have yet to do so, U.S.
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden is expressing support for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel
March 15, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that France and its allies will continue to support Ukraine as long as it takes.
April 26, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024France’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, 2024A 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, 2024U.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
April 26, 2024Syria’s civil war has entered its 14th year, a somber anniversary in a long-frozen conflict
March 15, 2024British cellphone company Vodafone has confirmed that it's selling its Italian business to Switzerland’s Swisscom for about $8.7 billion
March 15, 2024The European Union is close to agreeing sanctions on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank after Hungary signalled an end to
April 26, 2024A Russian missile strike on Odesa in southern Ukraine on Friday killed at least 14 people and injured 46 others, local officials said
March 15, 2024Pattie Boyd was at the epicenter of the Swinging 60s, but not always the center of attention
March 15, 2024The first ship carrying food aid reached the coast of the Gaza Strip on Friday, where hopes for a ceasefire to
July 02, 2024A ship carrying 200 tons of aid is approaching the coast of Gaza to inaugurate a sea route from Cyprus
March 15, 2024Pope 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
April 26, 2024An official says a rubber dinghy carrying migrants has sunk off Turkey’s northern Aegean coast, leaving at least 21 people dead
March 15, 2024Reports of system outages at McDonald’s are growing around the world, shuttering restaurants and leading to social media complaints
March 15, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden will host Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday for the annual St.
April 26, 2024U.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, 2024Gerald 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, 2024The 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, 2024Asian 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, 2024Nissan 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, 2024Shohei 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, 2024The 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, 2024A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a ship in the Red Sea, causing damage to the vessel
March 15, 2024Seventy-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, 2024Senegal’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, 2024The U.S. on Thursday finalized its draft U.N.
April 26, 2024Once 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, 2024Honduras’ 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, 2024Voters 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, 2024The 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, 2024Meghan, 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, 2024A 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, 2024Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed his longtime economic adviser to be the next prime minister
March 14, 2024Caribbean 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, 2024French 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, 2024Ukrainians 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, 2024Nigeria’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, 2024The 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, 2024A young Belarusian woman who died after being attacked and raped in central Warsaw has been laid to rest
March 14, 2024Air drops and a maritime corridor will not be enough to make up for supplies transported by trucks into Gaza, where people are on the
April 26, 2024Britain’s high court has ruled that an Australian computer scientist is not, as he claimed, the mysterious creator of the bitcoin cryptocurrency
March 14, 2024SpaceX'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
April 26, 2024Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is calling on Israel to hold new elections
March 14, 2024The health ministry says the Republic of Congo has recorded its first cases of mpox in several regions
March 14, 2024Egypt’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, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024European 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, 2024Pope Francis says he has no plans to resign and isn’t suffering from any health problems that would require doing so
March 14, 2024Liberians 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, 2024Anti-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, 2024The 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,
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Spain’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, 2024Russian officials say Ukraine has fired at least eight missiles at the Belgorod border region, killing one person and wounding six
March 14, 2024Senators 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, 2024Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have a new, hypersonic missile in their arsenal
March 14, 2024Israeli 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
July 02, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The British government on Thursday published an official definition of “extremism.”
March 14, 2024A 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, 2024Asian shares are mixed in lackluster trading
March 14, 2024Indian 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, 2024With each passing day, the relatives of hostages held in Gaza since Oct. 7 face a deepening despair
March 14, 2024SpaceX's Starship, a futuristic vehicle designed to eventually carry astronauts to the moon and beyond, was poised for a
July 02, 2024Artificial 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, 2024As Vladimir Putin heads for another six-year term as Russia’s president, there’s little electoral drama in the race
March 14, 2024Thailand’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, 2024Since its inception, TikTok has been intended only for non-Chinese markets, unavailable in mainland China
March 14, 2024An 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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024North 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, 2024Zimbabwe police say they have rescued dozens of children used as labor at a religious sect compound
March 13, 2024Federal 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024After four decades in fashion, the queen of the catwalk is getting her own exhibition
March 13, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024South 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, 2024The 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.
April 26, 2024Exceeding expectations, the biopic “ Bob Marley: One Love ” has been a box office hit in the United States and several other countries
March 13, 2024Russia 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
April 26, 2024Anti-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, 2024Japanese 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Three 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, 2024One religious icon unites Cubans: The Virgin of Charity of Cobre
March 13, 2024Cubans are often divided on many issues
March 13, 2024A 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, 2024Adidas 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, 2024Karl 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, 2024Tesla 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, 2024Denmark'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, 2024Leonid 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, 2024A 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, 2024Violent 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, 2024President Vladimir Putin says that Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if there is a threat to Russian statehood, sovereignty, or independence
March 13, 2024President 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
July 02, 2024Asian shares are mostly rising, encouraged by a record rally on Wall Street
March 13, 2024Some 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, 2024European Union lawmakers are set to give final approval to the 27-nation bloc’s artificial intelligence law
March 13, 2024Vladimir 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, 2024Evangelicals have been among Israel’s fiercest foreign supporters for years
March 13, 2024The 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, 2024China stocks are mixed as the country scrambles to avoid major real estate developer bankruptcy
March 13, 2024A 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, 2024Russia 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, 2024A rocket touted as Japan’s first from the private sector to go into orbit exploded shortly after takeoff
March 13, 2024The lure of the city has always been strong for the poor in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
March 13, 2024A 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, 2024A deepening rift between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza red lines has set up a
April 26, 2024Argentina’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, 2024Four U.S. Army boats, loaded with tons of equipment and steel pier segments, have left Virginia and are heading to Gaza
March 12, 2024Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power of gangs
March 12, 2024Associates 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, 2024Karl 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, 2024Lawmakers are facing their latest lobbyists — online influencers from TikTok
March 12, 2024Brazilian police say several passengers are being held hostage in a bus in Rio de Janeiro, and two were injured from gunshots
March 12, 2024The 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, 2024Turkish 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
April 26, 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, 2024Senior 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, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024House Democrats are launching a long-shot effort to push $95 billion in aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan to a vote
March 12, 2024The 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, 2024Romanian 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.
April 26, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Some of the most closely watched news conferences happen during China's annual meetings of its ceremonial legislature
March 12, 2024Hungary 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
April 26, 2024John 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, 2024Russia's elite is expecting President Vladimir Putin to reshuffle government positions to bring in younger people after what it sees as the
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024His writing won China’s first Nobel Prize for Literature, but is it patriotic enough for Xi Jinping’s China
March 12, 2024Germany’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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Philippine 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, 2024Russian officials say Ukraine has launched a wave of long-range drones against targets deep inside Russia
March 12, 2024The 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, 2024Europe’s oldest monarch, Norwegian King Harald V is getting a permanent pacemaker
March 12, 2024China, 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, 2024Spanish 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, 2024The European Union’s executive arm says it will recommend that member countries open accession negotiations with Bosnia-Herzegovina
March 12, 2024A 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, 2024Officials are investigating what caused a “strong shake” before a sudden plunge on a plane traveling between Australia and New Zealand
March 12, 2024India 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, 2024Online influencer Andrew Tate has been detained in Romania and handed an arrest warrant issued by British authorities
March 12, 2024Haiti's embattled Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his resignation late on Monday, effective once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed.
April 26, 2024Shares 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, 2024An international charity says its aid ship bound for Gaza has set sail from Cyprus
March 12, 2024South 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Russia's economy is holding up despite massive Western sanctions and foreign businesses pulling out of the country
March 12, 2024The 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, 2024Caribbean 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, 2024Poland’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, 2024Sixteen 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, 2024For 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, 2024Haitian 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Russians 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,
April 26, 2024The clergy sexual abuse scandal is slowly gathering steam in Italy
March 11, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Poland’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, 2024The 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, 2024Russia will hold a presidential election on March 15-17 which President Vladimir Putin is certain to win, barring an unexpected development.
April 26, 2024Prime 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, 2024Europe is facing growing climate risks and is unprepared
March 11, 2024King 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, 2024U.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, 2024More 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, 2024India says it has successfully conducted its first test flight of a domestically developed missile that can carry multiple warheads
March 11, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024An 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, 2024With 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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Ukraine awoke to another day of war with Russia but also a bit of good news
March 11, 2024Sweden’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, 2024The 19-member Cabinet of Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has been sworn into office
March 11, 2024Vanity 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, 2024The Princess of Wales has apologized for “confusion” caused by her editing of a family photo released by the palace
March 11, 2024Japan 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, 2024French 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Half 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
April 26, 2024Japan’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, 2024Palestinians have begun fasting for Ramadan
March 11, 2024There was talk of war, and pleas for peace
March 11, 2024Officials 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, 2024Japan 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, 2024In 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024China'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, 2024As India’s booming youth population outpaces the growth of its education system, historic numbers of students are turning abroad for higher education
March 11, 2024By 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.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Asian shares are mostly lower after Wall Street's huge rally faltered last week
March 11, 2024The following is a complete list of Oscar winners at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, presented at a live, televised ceremony from Hollywood.
April 26, 2024Emma 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
April 26, 2024Cillian 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
April 26, 2024The leader of Yemen’s branch of al-Qaida is dead
March 11, 2024A 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, 2024Robert Downey Jr. won the Academy Award for best supporting actor for his role in "Oppenheimer," where he played a villainous bureaucrat who seeks
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Britain'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
July 02, 2024Hollywood'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.
April 26, 2024Da’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 “
April 26, 2024Hamas 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
April 26, 2024President 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, 2024Just 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, 2024Former U.N. diplomat Giandomenico Picco has died at the age of 75
March 10, 2024Police 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, 2024A 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, 2024London police say they have arrested a driver who plowed a car into the gates of Buckingham Palace
March 10, 2024The U.S. military has flown forces in to beef up security at the U.S. Embassy in Haiti and evacuate nonessential personnel
March 10, 2024Officials 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, 2024Muslims around the world are welcoming the arrival of Ramadan, a month of dawn-to-dusk fasting, intense prayer, charity and feasts
March 10, 2024The 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.
April 26, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024The 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
July 02, 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
July 02, 2024Moldova'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, 2024The 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, 2024The Netherlands’s National Holocaust Museum is opening in a ceremony presided over by the Dutch king
March 10, 2024A U.S. Army vessel carrying equipment for building a temporary pier in Gaza is on its way to the Mediterranean
March 10, 2024Saudi oil giant Aramco has reported a $121 billion profit last year, down from its 2022 record due to lower energy prices
March 10, 2024It’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, 2024Portugal 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, 2024Hi, “Oppenheimer.”
March 10, 2024Once-lush fields lie barren
March 10, 2024Rashidat Hamza is in despair
March 10, 2024President 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, 2024Media magnate Rupert Murdoch turns 93 next week and is planning to get married again
March 09, 2024Interest in the late scientist J
March 09, 2024Pope 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, 2024Another top donor to the U.N. agency aiding Palestinians says it will resume its funding
March 09, 2024Spain's prime minister says he will propose that parliament recognizes a Palestinian state
March 09, 2024Hundreds 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, 2024Police in Nigeria say armed men have invaded a school in northwestern Nigeria and abducted 15 children
March 09, 2024El 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, 2024A 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, 2024Police 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, 2024Irish 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, 2024On the eve of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, Jerusalem’s Old City bears few of its usual hallmarks of festivity
March 09, 2024Large 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, 2024Pakistan's lawmakers have chosen Asif Ali Zardari as the country's new president
March 09, 2024Torrential 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, 2024Poland’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, 2024Unrelenting gang attacks in Haiti have paralyzed the country and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods
March 09, 2024Russian 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, 2024Portugal 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, 2024Njeri Migwi is the co-founder of a community-based organization called Usikimye, which means “Don't be silent” in Swahili
March 09, 2024A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio
March 09, 2024Pressure 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Police 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, 2024A 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, 2024President 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, 2024The 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, 2024Scores 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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Former 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, 2024Former 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
April 26, 2024Ariana Cubillos is an Associated Press photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela
March 08, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Former 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, 2024Women 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, 2024A new survey says one-third of Italians have reduced their consumption of extra virgin olive oil due to skyrocketing prices
March 08, 2024Germany’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, 2024Security 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, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
March 08, 2024U.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.
April 26, 2024The head of the European Commission said on Friday a maritime aid corridor could start operating between Cyprus and Gaza this weekend,
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Last 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
April 26, 2024Efforts 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, 2024The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week
March 08, 2024Dmitry 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
May 07, 2024Over 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Hong Kong's government on Friday unveiled its proposed national security bill, following a month-long public consultation that ended last week.
March 08, 2024The studio of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama says he has died at age 68
March 08, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher after U.S. stocks climbed to records, with easier interest rates beckoning on the horizon
March 08, 2024Observant 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, 2024Ten years on, families of Chinese passengers on the missing Malaysian Airline flight still are searching for answers
March 08, 2024China’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, 2024Russians who are too fearful to protest in the streets are finding an outlet for their activism by writing letters to political prisoners
March 08, 2024France’s leaders will use a Napoleon-era press to seal the right to abortion into the country's constitution
March 08, 2024After months of warnings over the risk of famine in Gaza under Israel’s bombardment, offensives and siege, children are starting to die
March 08, 2024Venezuela’s presidential election so far is a one-horse race for incumbent President Nicolás Maduro
March 08, 2024Irish 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, 2024Japan’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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Karol G made history at the 2024 Billboard Women in Music awards ceremony
March 08, 2024Hong Kong's new national security bill proposes up to life imprisonment for offenses like treason and insurrection
March 08, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Haiti is once again facing a wave of chaos fueled by ongoing gang wars
March 07, 2024Police 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, 2024Britain says it's providing 10,000 drones to arm Ukraine in its fight against Russia
March 07, 2024Authorities 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, 2024International 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
April 26, 2024Former 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, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Haiti’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, 2024When 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, 2024President Joe Biden will announce in his State of the Union speech on Thursday that the U.S. military will construct a temporary port on
April 26, 2024President 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, 2024Scientists 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
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024Sweden has formally joined NATO as the 32nd member of the transatlantic military alliance, ending decades of post-World War II neutrality
March 07, 2024A 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, 2024United 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
April 26, 2024Leading 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Police 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, 2024Sweden'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
April 26, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Old 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, 2024The 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, 2024The United Nations’ refugee chief has raised a new alert over 780,000 displaced people in Mozambique
March 07, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024A major French union is warning of possible strikes in the public sector, including at hospitals, during the Paris Olympics
March 07, 2024Hamas says its delegation has left Cairo and that talks on a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release will resume next week
March 07, 2024European 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, 2024Apple 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, 2024Millions 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, 2024The 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, 2024China 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, 2024Asian shares are trading mixed after Wall Street recovered some losses from the day before
March 07, 2024Once 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, 2024Criticizing 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, 2024Women 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, 2024It 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, 2024China’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, 2024Europe's outburst of inflation is receding
March 07, 2024At 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, 2024It’s not just opposition politicians who are targeted in the crackdown by the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years
March 07, 2024Corruption is a key issue in Portugal's early general election on Sunday
March 07, 2024President 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, 2024Prime 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, 2024China’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, 2024Scientists calculate that for the ninth straight month Earth has obliterated global heat records
March 07, 2024Britain 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, 2024Over the past decade, Grace Subathirai Nathan graduated from law school, got married, opened a law firm and had two babies
March 07, 2024North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has called for greater war fighting capabilities against the United States and South Korea
March 07, 2024In 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, 2024The Senegalese government has announced March 24 as the new date for the country’s delayed presidential election
March 06, 2024With 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, 2024The 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, 2024Mourners 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, 2024A 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, 2024Aid 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, 2024Efforts to get desperately needed humanitarian aid to war-wracked northern Gaza are gaining momentum
March 06, 2024Haitian 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, 2024The 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, 2024Hondurans call it the “Trial of the Century,” but it’s occurring in a New York courtroom some 3,500 miles away
March 06, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Ancient stone tools found in western Ukraine may be the oldest known evidence of early human presence in Europe
March 06, 2024A U.S.-based disarmament organization has seized on public attention surrounding the Academy Awards-nominated film "Oppenheimer" and enlisted support from
April 26, 2024The James Webb Space Telescope since becoming operational in 2022 has uncovered numerous surprises about what things were like in the universe's early stages.
April 26, 2024A 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 -
April 26, 2024A top U.S. sanctions official will visit Austrian authorities as well as Raiffeisen Bank International on March 7-8, the U.S.
April 26, 2024Haitian 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, 2024Syria'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, 2024Russian 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The Kremlin on Wednesday said that Russia will not meddle in the November U.S. presidential election, and dismissed American findings that Moscow orchestrated
April 26, 2024Top 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, 2024Egypt has floated its currency and announced a deal with the International Monetary Fund to increase its bailout loan to $8 billion
March 06, 2024A 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, 2024Nearly five months of fighting has left much of Gaza in ruins and created a worsening humanitarian catastrophe
March 06, 2024South 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, 2024The 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, 2024Moscow on Wednesday dismissed the issuance of International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrants against two top Russian commanders as a spurious provocation
April 26, 2024Asia stocks are mixed after tumbling Big Tech stocks dragged Wall Street to its worst day in three weeks
March 06, 2024Hundreds of Czechs and a handful of Ukrainians are working round the clock in eastern Czech Republic to transform a collection
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Russian 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, 2024Over 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, 2024Europeans 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, 2024The 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, 2024Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt will seek to regain political initiative by announcing tax cuts during his annual budget statement
March 06, 2024Over 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, 2024Six 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.
April 26, 2024A Malaysia Airlines flight vanished without a trace on March 8, 2014, becoming one of aviation’s biggest mysteries
March 06, 2024Jason Palmer, a previously unknown candidate, won the Democratic caucus in American Samoa on Tuesday
March 06, 2024A U.S. destroyer shot down drones and a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels toward it in the Red Sea
March 06, 2024The United States on Tuesday revised language in a draft United Nations Security Council resolution to back "an immediate ceasefire of roughly six-weeks
April 26, 2024Democratic 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, 2024Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a state funeral for former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney will be held on March 23 in Montreal
March 05, 2024Venezuela’s top electoral official has announced that the country's highly anticipated presidential election will take place July 28
March 05, 2024Former 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, 2024Ukrainian 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, 2024More 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, 2024Six people have been arrested in New York on charges of illegally importing goose and duck intestines from China
March 05, 2024An 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
April 26, 2024As increasingly powerful alliances of heavily armed gangs expand their influence over Haiti's capital, its government formally requested a multinational force be deployed
April 26, 2024It’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, 2024Where the buffaloes roam can be a problem in South Africa
March 05, 2024Frontex 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, 2024The French government says tourists won’t be allowed to watch the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics for free as initially promised
March 05, 2024In 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, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024Hungary’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, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Russia 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
April 26, 2024One of the original momagers, Mary Villiers knew how to use her son to get wealth, power and prestige
March 05, 2024An 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Spain’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, 2024Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto is the 2024 winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor in the field
March 05, 2024Uncrewed, remote-controlled boats have been around since the end of World War II
March 05, 2024The 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, 2024Egyptian 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, 2024British officials say that Kate, the Princess of Wales, will attend a Trooping the Color ceremony in June
March 05, 2024What’s arguably the most famous wet shirt in television history is up for sale
March 05, 2024China'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, 2024Turkey'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
April 26, 2024To create the look of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer for the big screen, his trademark hat had to be just right.
April 26, 2024Germany’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, 2024Police 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, 2024Germany'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
April 26, 2024Ceasefire talks between Hamas and mediators broke up on Tuesday in Cairo with no breakthrough, with just days left to halt
July 02, 2024A United Nations report has found credible allegations that sexual assaults took place during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel
March 05, 2024Ukraine 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, 2024Singapore’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, 2024An electricity pylon caught fire near Tesla's German plant on Tuesday, police said, knocking out power in the area.
July 02, 2024Shares 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, 2024China’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, 2024Thousands of striking junior doctors in South Korea are facing proceedings to suspend their medical licenses Tuesday
March 05, 2024The Philippines says Chinese coast guard ships blocked Philippine vessels from a disputed South China Sea shoal, causing a minor collision
March 05, 2024Singapore’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, 2024China is increasing its defense budget 7.2% this year in a similar increase to last year's
March 05, 2024Chinese 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, 2024North 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, 2024Congressional leaders have invited the prime minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida, to address a joint meeting of Congress on April 11
March 04, 2024Migrants 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, 2024Japanese 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.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Ships will have to obtain a permit from Yemen's Houthi-controlled Maritime Affairs Authority before entering Yemeni waters, Houthi Telecommunications Minister Misfer
April 26, 2024Israel has ramped up its criticism of the embattled U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees
March 04, 2024A 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, 2024Thousands 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, 2024Gangs in Haiti are increasingly powerful, and they've been attacking prisons and the main international airport
March 04, 2024France 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, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Two 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, 2024On 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, 2024Israel'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, 2024First lady Jill Biden is hosting a White House ceremony honoring “women of courage” from around the world
March 04, 2024Benny Gantz, who is in Washington this week for meetings with U.S. leaders, is a crucial member of Israel’s War Cabinet
March 04, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Late 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
April 26, 2024Scientists in the United Kingdom have created mini organs from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb
March 04, 2024Turnout in Iran's parliamentary election was around 41%, the country's interior minister said on Monday, the lowest participation since Iran's 1979 Islamic
April 26, 2024Senior 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, 2024The 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, 2024The estate of Sinead O’Connor has asked Donald Trump not to play her music at campaign rallies
March 04, 2024Israeli 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
April 26, 2024An 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, 2024Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling barring liberal politician Boris Nadezhdin from running in the upcoming presidential election
March 04, 2024Nepal's two largest communist parties joined forces to form a new coalition government that would include smaller parties as partners
March 04, 2024British police have recovered a Ferrari stolen from Formula One driver Gerhard Berger in Italy almost three decades ago
March 04, 2024Benny 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
April 26, 2024The European Union has fined Apple nearly $2 billion for breaking competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals
March 04, 2024Hamas said on Monday it was pressing on with talks on securing a ceasefire in Gaza despite Israel's decision not to attend,
July 02, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024French lawmakers meet on Monday for a final vote to include the right to abortion into the constitution, a world first welcomed by women's
July 02, 2024The 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, 2024South 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, 2024Moscow 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, 2024A 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, 2024Iranian hard-line politicians dominated the country’s vote for parliament, according to results released Monday
March 04, 2024Asian 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, 2024China'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, 2024Hungarian 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.
April 26, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024The 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, 2024Mexico is almost certainly about to get its first woman president
March 04, 2024A 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, 2024Vice 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, 2024NATO 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, 2024Haiti’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, 2024South 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, 2024Japan'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, 2024South 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
April 26, 2024An 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, 2024South Korea and the United States have begun large military exercises to bolster their readiness against North Korean nuclear threats
March 04, 2024A 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, 2024Top 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, 2024U.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
April 26, 2024Germany’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, 2024At 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, 2024It 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, 2024French authorities are searching for an assailant who attacked a man near a synagogue in Paris, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said late Saturday
March 03, 2024Malaysia is pushing for a renewed search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the transport minister said on Sunday, as the 10th anniversary of
April 26, 2024Malaysia’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, 2024An Israeli official says a top Israeli Cabinet minister's trip to Washington has angered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
March 03, 2024The 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, 2024Israel'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
July 02, 2024Lawmakers in Pakistan’s National Assembly have elected Shehbaz Sharif as the country’s new prime minister for the second time
March 03, 2024Thousands 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, 2024One burning issue dominates as the 2024 session of China’s legislature gets underway this week: the economy
March 03, 2024As 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, 2024An airplane believed to be carrying Norway’s King Harald has departed Malaysia, a day after he was implanted with a pacemaker
March 03, 2024Police 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, 2024Armed 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
April 26, 2024Mediators 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
July 02, 2024A vibrant fishing industry, some of the world’s largest coral reefs and desalination plants supplying millions with drinking water
March 02, 2024The 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, 2024U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will meet with Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz, a White House official told Reuters.
July 02, 2024Since 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, 2024The U.S. military on Saturday carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza, two U.S. officials said.
March 02, 2024At 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Norway'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.
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024Officials say a ship attacked by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has sunk in the Red Sea after days of taking on water
March 02, 2024The 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, 2024Gaza ceasefire negotiations are due to resume in Cairo on Sunday, two Egyptian security sources said on Saturday.
July 02, 2024Three 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, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Only 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, 2024Tycoons 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, 2024Shortages of ammo and supplies are quickly resulting in Ukraine losing ground, U.S. congressional leaders warn
March 02, 2024Palestinians in Gaza returning from wartime detention in Israeli custody are reporting physical abuse and medical neglect inside Israel's network of prisons
March 02, 2024Negotiators 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, 2024Peru is suffering a growing problem of dengue cases
March 01, 2024The 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
April 26, 2024Georgia's largest county is still repairing damage inflicted on its government offices by a cyberattack a month ago
March 01, 2024Thousands 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, 2024President 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, 2024The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios
March 01, 2024Geneva-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, 2024U.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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Martha 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, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024Canadian 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, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Prince Harry has scored a tactical victory in his battles with British tabloids
March 01, 2024Mexico’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, 2024Aaron 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, 2024Chinese 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, 2024From air drops of humanitarian aid to supply ships from Cyprus, the United States is urgently seeking ways to feed the people
April 26, 2024An 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, 2024The European Union says it will pay $54 million to the main provider of aid in Gaza next week
March 01, 2024At Paris Fashion Week, Loewe presented a serene, green labyrinthine art gallery at Chateau de Vincennes, immersing guests in woodland tranquility
March 01, 2024After 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, 2024Standing 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
April 26, 2024The 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, 2024An 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, 2024A 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, 2024Pope 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, 2024France and Germany joined calls on Friday for an independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians awaiting aid in Gaza, an
July 02, 2024Environmental 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, 2024Alexander Stubb has been sworn in as Finland’s new president
March 01, 2024The 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, 2024A 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, 2024Bangladesh's prime minister says a six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the country's capital had no fire exits
March 01, 2024Local 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, 2024Turkey 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, 2024A private airplane carrying singer Karol G has made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles airport
March 01, 2024Asia stocks gain after U.S. stocks climbed to all-time highs
March 01, 2024It could be the biggest party this small west Indian city has ever seen
March 01, 2024A 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, 2024A 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, 2024South 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, 2024Campaigning formally starts Friday for Mexico’s biggest election in history
March 01, 2024If legend is to be believed, Barney Chandler has just got the most important job in England
March 01, 2024French 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, 2024Relatives 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, 2024President Joe Biden is set to host Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni for talks at the White House
March 01, 2024Iran 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, 2024The central African nation of Congo is known for its mineral riches
March 01, 2024Tourist 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, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024Former prime minister Brian Mulroney is dead at the age of 84
February 29, 2024U.S. senators have declined to block the sale of F-16s to Turkey
February 29, 2024Brazil’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, 2024Heavy 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, 2024Three 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, 2024A 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, 2024A Palestinian-American detained by Israel for three weeks has been released on bail after a military judge's ruling
February 29, 2024Bangladesh'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, 2024The 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, 2024A former U.S. ambassador says he will plead guilty to charges of serving as a secret agent for communist Cuba going back decades
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April 26, 2024French actor Judith Godrèche is urging lawmakers to establish a commission to investigate sex crimes and sexism in France’s cinema industry
February 29, 2024Zambia’s president Hakainde Hichilema has declared the country’s debilitating drought a national disaster and emergency
February 29, 2024A 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
April 26, 2024President 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
April 26, 2024Hungarian 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, 2024Canada 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
April 26, 2024Russian 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
July 02, 2024Canada's immigration minister says his country is reimposing the visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada
February 29, 2024A 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, 2024The 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, 2024Prince 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, 2024Chloe 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, 2024It's been a stellar year in film, and not just because of the convergence of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” and their release dates
February 29, 2024A new study says U.S. ski areas lost $5 billion from 2000 to 2019 as a result of human-caused climate change
February 29, 2024Aid 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, 2024From pathos to praise of Hamas, songs written by musicians across the Middle East in response to Israel's offensive in Gaza are putting
July 02, 2024Japanese 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, 2024Three decades have passed since the worst bombing attack on civilians in the history of Argentina, and no one has been convicted yet
February 29, 2024An 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, 2024On 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, 2024An 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, 2024Satirical French newspaper La Bougie du Sapeur only comes out on Feb. 29, once every four years
February 29, 2024Iran 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,
July 02, 2024Multinational 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, 2024Kyiv 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, 2024The 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, 2024Ukraine'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.
April 26, 2024Gaza 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, 2024Police 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, 2024Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says Britain is descending into “mob rule” because of the pressures created by protests against the Israel-Hamas war
February 29, 2024Austria’s foreign minister has urged Israel and Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group against escalating the conflict along the volatile Israel-Lebanon border
February 29, 2024President 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, 2024Hospital 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, 2024A Russian rocket has successfully put an Iranian satellite into orbit, a launch that underlines increasingly close cooperation between Moscow and Tehran
February 29, 2024Baseball star Shohei Ohtani announced on his Instagram account that he is married
February 29, 2024A 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, 2024Pakistan’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, 2024Shares are mixed in Asia after a lackluster day on Wall Street, where selling of technology stocks pulled benchmarks lower
February 29, 2024Philippine 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, 2024Australia'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
April 26, 2024South 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, 2024A 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, 2024Legendary 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, 2024Two 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, 2024Cristiano 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, 2024An official familiar with the matter says the Canadian government is reimposing some visa requirements on Mexican nationals visiting Canada
February 29, 2024President Joe Biden's administration is considering airdropping aid from U.S. military planes into Gaza as land deliveries become increasingly difficult
April 26, 2024Comedian Richard Lewis, who rose to fame with his neurotic, self-deprecating wit and later appeared for more than two decades alongside Larry David on the hit HBO series "Curb Your
April 26, 2024Ghana’s parliament has passed a highly controversial anti-LGBTQ+ bill that could send people to prison for more than a decade
February 28, 2024Russian space officials have acknowledged a continuing air leak from the Russian segment of the International Space Station, but say it poses no danger to its crew
February 28, 2024United Nations peacekeepers have handed over their first military base to security forces in eastern Congo as part of an eventual withdrawal after decades of operating in the country, and as violence soars in the conflict-riddled region
February 28, 2024Leaders of the University of California, Berkeley, have denounced a protest against an event organized by Jewish students that forced police to evacuate attendees and a speaker from Israel
February 28, 2024Russia’s 2024 presidential election isn’t expected to bring change to the Kremlin
February 28, 2024The United States on Wednesday pushed for the United Nations Security Council to take action to help end a nearly year-long conflict in Sudan between the
April 26, 2024Old age may be debated as a liability on the presidential campaign trail, but it's not at this year’s Oscars
February 28, 2024A proposal meant to guide electoral authorities in setting the date for Venezuela’s presidential election includes more than 20 potential options ranging from as soon as the last week of March through early December
February 28, 2024Government scientists have cooked up a new concept for how to potentially cool an overheating Earth: Fiddle with the upper atmosphere to make it a bit drier
February 28, 2024Aid convoys carrying food reached northern Gaza this week, Israeli officials said
February 28, 2024Former Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov has died at age 94
February 28, 2024Paris Fashion Week’s fall shows offered a journey through time, blending historical influences with futuristic designs
February 28, 2024Mitch McConnell says he'll step down as Senate Republican leader in November
February 28, 2024A survey of 24 democratic countries by the Pew Research Center has found that while representative democracy remains a favorite system of governance around the globe, its appeal is slipping on the eve of elections worldwide
February 28, 2024Days before a partial government shutdown, negotiators in Congress are working furiously to finish up a federal spending plan
February 28, 2024Pilots lined up on a runway in Dubai and fired up their seven jet engines with an ear-splitting roar
February 28, 2024In this U.S. election year, the Republican Party is aligning with some Latin American populists
February 28, 2024Officials in Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region of Transnistria have appealed to Moscow for protection Wednesday, as tensions escalate with the pro-Western government
February 28, 2024The Norwegian Nobel Committee has registered 285 candidates for the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline, down from 2023 when it received 351 valid nominations
February 28, 2024Authorities say an offshore oil spill that prompted Trinidad and Tobago to declare a national emergency earlier this month has reached the shores of the Dutch Caribbean island of Bonaire hundreds of miles away
February 28, 2024Local activists and international environmental groups want Nigeria’s government to delay approving the $2.4 billion sale of oil company Shell’s onshore assets
February 28, 2024Europe’s oldest monarch, King Harald V of Norway, remains hospitalized in Malaysia, in the country’s northern resort island of Langkawi, after falling ill while on vacation
February 28, 2024Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern Congo in the fight against the M23 rebel group
February 28, 2024A Kurdish official and a Syrian opposition war monitor say Turkish drone strikes in northeastern Syria have killed at least three members of a local Christian force and wounded others including civilians
February 28, 2024Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva hopes U.S. counterpart Joe Biden will win his bid for re-election in November, he said in an interview aired late on Tuesday.
April 26, 2024A London judge has ruled that Prince Harry was not improperly stripped of his publicly funded security detail during visits to Britain after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the U.S. Justice Peter Lane said Wednesday in the High Court that the decision to provide security to Harry on a case-by-case basis was not unlawful, irrational or unjustified
February 28, 2024The British government is stepping up security for lawmakers after politicians reported threats and intimidation connected to the Israel-Hamas war
February 28, 2024Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has discussed cooperation on extended reality devices with LG Electronics executives
February 28, 2024Pope Francis was taken briefly to a hospital in central Rome after the papal audience on Wednesday
February 28, 2024President Joe Biden is signing an executive order aiming to better protect Americans’ personal data on everything from biometrics and health records to finances and geolocation from foreign adversaries like China and Russia
February 28, 2024France’s Senate is voting on a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution
February 28, 2024A top European Union official is calling for a new defense industry strategy to respond to security challenges posed by Russia’s war on Ukraine
February 28, 2024The funeral of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died earlier this month in a remote Arctic penal colony, will take place on Friday in Moscow, his spokesperson says
February 28, 2024Organizers of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have agreed to relax their ban on police marching in their annual parade with a compromise condition that officers do not wear uniforms
February 28, 2024The families of hostages held in Gaza and their supporters are launching a four-day march from southern Israel to Jerusalem to demand their loved ones be set free
February 28, 2024Asian markets are mostly lower as Wall Street benchmarks remain near their record levels
February 28, 2024Indonesian President Joko Widodo has awarded an honorary four-star general rank to Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, a former high-ranking army officer who is linked to human rights abuses and who emerged as the apparent winner of the Feb. 14 presidential election
February 28, 2024Iran is holding parliamentary elections this Friday, yet the real question may not be who gets elected but how many people actually turn out to vote
February 28, 2024Ukraine’s president will co-host a summit with Albania’s government on Wednesday that’s meant to encourage further support for Kyiv by southeastern European countries as signs of fatigue grow two years after Russia’s invasion
February 28, 2024A small drone has flown inside one of the damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel debris in areas where earlier robots failed to reach
February 28, 2024The South Korean and U.S. militaries will begin large-scale annual military drills next week in response to North Korea’s evolving nuclear threats
February 28, 2024At least one quarter of Gaza’s population – 576,000 people – are one step away from famine and virtually the entire population desperately needs food resulting in aid trucks being shot at, looted and overwhelmed by hungry people, top U.N. officials say
February 28, 2024A rocket has exploded off the side of a ship traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen
February 28, 2024Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin, pledged on Monday to help Latin American countries counter what he described as U.S.
April 26, 2024UConn forward Aaliyah Edwards signed a big name, image and likeness contract this week with Adidas Canada, but wasn’t allowed to speak with reporters about it for fear that promoting the deal might jeopardize her student visa
February 27, 2024The military services will take a key step toward getting the V-22 Osprey fleet back in the air as they lay out their plans Friday to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding safety concerns stemming from a fatal crash in Japan
February 27, 2024Outgoing New York Philharmonic music director Jaap van Zweden will assume the same role with Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France starting with the 2026-27 season
February 27, 2024Colombian warlord Salvatore Mancuso has been returned to his native country after serving a drug trafficking sentence in the United States
February 27, 2024Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is under investigation for allegedly harassing a humpback whale while riding a personal watercraft off Sao Paulo’s coast last year
February 27, 2024Norwegian royal officials say that King Harald V of Norway has been hospitalized with an infection while on vacation in Malaysia
February 27, 2024Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was on hand Tuesday for the arrival in Rome of an Italian family of three just hours after their release from two years of captivity in the African nation of Mali
February 27, 2024Authorities in the eastern Caribbean are scouring waters in the region in hopes of finding a missing U.S. couple who were aboard their catamaran Simplicity when police say it was hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada
February 27, 2024Israel and Hamas are inching toward a new deal that would free some of the roughly 130 hostages held in the Gaza Strip in exchange for a weekslong pause in the war
February 27, 2024Latvia’s government has extended restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens into the Baltic country until next year
February 27, 2024Two mayoral hopefuls in the Mexican city of Maravatio have been gunned down within hours of each other, as experts warn the June 2 national elections could be the country’s most violent on record
February 27, 2024The number of babies born in Japan in 2023 fell for an eighth straight year and is the lowest since Japan started compiling birth statistics in 1899
February 27, 2024A top court has ruled that two residents of the tiny Caribbean island of Barbuda have the right to challenge construction of an airstrip that critics say endangers fragile ecosystems and was begun without any permits
February 27, 2024Italian conductor Gianandrea Noseda has made a triumphant return to Teatro alla Scala in an informal role as cultural ambassador, leading the U.S. National Symphony Orchestra
February 27, 2024The owners of a quirky 18th century British pub bulldozed after a fire last year have been ordered by a local council to rebuild it, keeping with its previous lopsided specifications
February 27, 2024Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy has arrived to Saudi Arabia with plans to visit the kingdom’s powerful crown prince to push for a peace plan and the return of prisoners of war from Russia
February 27, 2024Germany, Britain and other European countries said on Tuesday they had no plans to send ground troops to Ukraine, after France hinted
April 26, 2024Nigeria’s government employees and other union workers have begun a new nationwide strike that threatens to shut down key services while people are angry about soaring inflation and growing economic pain
February 27, 2024Four crew members of an unflagged vessel that U.S. officials say was carrying Iranian-made missile components are scheduled to appear in federal court in Virginia
February 27, 2024The European Union is on the brink of approving a major plan to fight climate change and better protect nature in the 27-nation bloc after protests from farmers and opposition from the biggest party in parliament led it to be diluted
February 27, 2024Israel has agreed to resume transferring tax revenues to the Palestinian Authority to fund basic services and bolster the West Bank economy, and money has begun
April 26, 2024Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is offering her strongest public support yet for the idea of liquidating roughly $300 billion in frozen Russian Central Bank assets and using them for Ukraine’s long-term reconstruction
February 27, 2024By Andrea Shalal, Nandita Bose and Kat Stafford DEARBORN, Michigan - The depth of Democratic Party anger over President Joe Biden’s handling of the Gaza war has caught his campaign off guard and could
April 26, 2024The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia says the four Central European countries are deeply divided over Russia's war against Ukraine and how to resolve the conflict
February 27, 2024German authorities say a former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction group who is accused of participating in a string of robberies has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run
February 27, 2024Kensington Palace says Britain’s Prince William has pulled out of attending a memorial service for his godfather, the late King Constantine of Greece, because of a personal matter
February 27, 2024Thousands of junior doctors in South Korea are a week into a labor boycott in protest of the government’s push to recruit more medical students to cope with the country’s fast-aging population
February 27, 2024China’s former foreign minister, Qin Gang, who has been missing from public view since last June, has resigned as a delegate to the country’s top legislature, state media reported Tuesday
February 27, 2024The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that conflict between Russia and the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would become inevitable if European members of NATO sent troops to fight in
July 02, 2024NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military alliance has no plans to send combat troops into Ukraine, as some Western countries are thought to be considering putting boots on the ground
February 27, 2024A Moscow court has sentenced a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to two years and six months in prison
February 27, 2024North Korea has shipped about 6,700 containers carrying millions of munitions to Russia since July to support its war against Ukraine, in a sign of ongoing arms
February 27, 2024Asian shares are mixed after U.S. stocks edged back from their record heights
February 27, 2024President Joe Biden says Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some of the hostages held by the militants
February 27, 2024United States President Joe Biden says Israel would be willing to halt its war on Hamas in Gaza during the upcoming Muslim fasting month of Ramadan if a deal is reached to release some of the hostages held by the militants
February 27, 2024President Joe Biden is meeting with the top four leaders of Congress to press for quick action to avoid a looming government shutdown and send emergency aid to Ukraine and Israel
February 27, 2024For political prisoners, life in Russia’s penal colonies and labor camps is a grim reality of physical and psychological pressure, insufficient food, poor health care, sleep deprivation and arbitrary rules that are impossible to obey
February 27, 2024A photographer has told police he was punched in the face by Taylor Swift’s father on the Sydney waterfront hours after the popstar’s Australian tour ended
February 27, 2024More than two-thirds of the U.N. Security Council’s members have demanded that the Taliban rescind all policies and decrees oppressing and discriminating against women and girls, including banning girls education above the sixth grade and women’s right to work and move freely
February 27, 2024The government of Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei has condemned a threat by the governor of the oil-rich province of Chubut to cut off energy supplies to the rest of the country amid a dispute over funding reductions
February 27, 2024Organizers of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras have asked police not to march at their annual parade this weekend due to the alleged murder of a couple by a police officer
February 26, 2024The century-old Geneva motor show is back in action for the first time in five years, and organizers are desperately trying to rev up its fortunes
February 26, 2024France's President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday there was no consensus on sending troops to Ukraine, but the subject could not be ruled out.
April 26, 2024A case of old hockey cards possibly containing the game’s Great One has fetched more than $3.7 million after it was discovered in a home in Canada
February 26, 2024Senegal’s President Macky Sall has told a national dialogue that elections will be held before the rainy season begins around July, and reiterated his commitment to leave office before his mandate ends in April
February 26, 2024Mexico’s president has again lashed out at social media platform YouTube for taking down part of his daily news briefing where he revealed a reporter’s phone number
February 26, 2024The Palestinian Authority’s prime minister has announced his government’s resignation
February 26, 2024Financier and philanthropist Jacob Rothschild, of the renowned Rothschild banking dynasty, has died at 87, his family said Monday
February 26, 2024Israel is committed to winning the war in Gaza and eliminating Hamas regardless of the economic toll on the country, Economy and Industry Minister Nir
April 26, 2024Mexico's president on Monday shared a letter from the New York Times' bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean for the second time and defended his decision
April 26, 2024Love letters to Pattie Boyd from both George Harrison and Eric Clapton are going up for sale at Christie’s auction house
February 26, 2024The United Nations top court has wrapped up historic proceedings into the legality of Israel’s occupation of lands sought by Palestinians for a future state
February 26, 2024The chief executive of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Suzanne Clark, is leading a delegation of former U.S. government officials to Beijing this week, the group said.
April 26, 2024Shoe and sports clothing maker Adidas says it has started a third sale of the Yeezy sneakers it was left with after severing ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West
February 26, 2024Sweden’s bid to join NATO — held up for almost two years — cleared its last hurdle when Hungary gave its go-ahead Monday to let the Nordic country into the alliance
February 26, 2024Police in Grenada say they believe an elderly U.S. couple aboard their catamaran that was hijacked by three escaped prisoners last week were killed and thrown into the Caribbean Sea
February 26, 2024You gotta have more than “Faith” to pocket the new George Michael coin
February 26, 2024Greece has formally agreed to participate in and lead a European Union maritime security operation in the Red Sea, to protect commercial shipping from attacks by Houthi militants in Yemen
February 26, 2024French actor Gérard Depardieu faces another complaint of sexual assault, this time from a movie decorator who alleges he groped her during filming in 2021
February 26, 2024An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force has died after he set himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D
February 26, 2024Israeli officials headed on Monday to Qatar, where Hamas has its political office, to work on terms of a Gaza truce and hostage
July 02, 2024Associates of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say talks had been underway to exchange him for a Russian imprisoned in Germany
February 26, 2024Venezuela's recent abrupt reversal in its nascent rapprochement with the United States and domestic opponents is likely a response to declining
April 26, 2024A Ukrainian army spokesman says Kyiv's troops have withdrawn from a village in the east of the country, as Russian forces make their advantages in manpower and ammunition tell on the battlefield at the start of the war’s third year
February 26, 2024Japan’s first moon lander responded to a signal from Earth, suggesting it has survived a second freezing weeks-long lunar night, Japan’s space agency said Monday
February 26, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says a Conservative lawmaker was wrong to say the mayor of London is controlled by Islamists
February 26, 2024The Russian authorities have sought a prison sentence of nearly three years for a veteran human rights advocate who spoke out against the war in Ukraine
February 26, 2024Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was close to being freed in a prisoner swap at the time of his death, Maria Pevchikh, a Navalny ally, said on Monday, repeating her
April 26, 2024The Kremlin said on Monday that the idea of holding peace talks without Russia was ridiculous, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he hoped to hold a spring summit in
April 26, 2024Denmark has joined Sweden in closing its investigation into the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines
February 26, 2024The Kremlin on Monday shrugged off the latest round of Western sanctions against Moscow, saying that Russia's economy had adapted to restrictions and that those imposing sanctions
April 26, 2024The Israeli military says its air force have struck targets of the militant Hebollah group deep inside Lebanon
February 26, 2024Germany's vice chancellor says the country plans to enable underground carbon storage at offshore sites, pushing ahead with a much-discussed technology in an acknowledgement that time is running out to combat climate change
February 26, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office says the army had presented to the War Cabinet its operational plan for a ground offensive into Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost town along the border with Egypt, where 1.4 million Palestinians have sought safety
February 26, 2024Two prominent Chinese bloggers in exile said that police were investigating their millions of followers on international social media platforms, in an escalation of Beijing’s attempts to clamp down on critical speech even outside of the country’s borders
February 26, 2024China’s C919 single-aisle jet made its international debut at the Singapore Airshow, attracting masses of visitors and hundreds of orders, but analysts say it still has a long way to go before it can compete with aircraft from market leaders Boeing and Airbus
February 26, 2024U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says combatants in places such as Congo, Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine and Sudan are turning a “blind eye” to international law
February 26, 2024Andrei Kostin, CEO of Russia's No. 2 bank VTB, has rejected a U.S. charge that he illegally circumvented sanctions restrictions, calling accusations in a U.S. court indictment "groundless"
April 26, 2024Hungary's parliament is set to ratify Sweden’s bid to join NATO, likely bringing an end to more than 18 months of delays that have frustrated the alliance as it seeks to expand in response to Russia’s war in Ukraine
February 26, 2024Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh announced his resignation on Monday, as the Palestinian Authority looks to build support for an expanded role following
April 26, 2024The Taliban have held a public execution of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium
February 26, 2024Human Rights Watch says Israel is not complying with an order issued by the United Nations’ top court because it is failing to provide urgently needed aid to desperate people in the Gaza Strip
February 26, 2024More than 20 European heads of state and government and other Western officials are gathering in a show of unity for Ukraine, signaling to Russia that their support for Kyiv isn’t wavering as the full-scale invasion grinds into a third year
February 26, 2024Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh says his government is resigning, in a move that could open the door to U.S.-backed reforms in the Palestinian Authority
February 26, 2024Concrete barriers and barbed wire have been set up around the European Union’s headquarters as farmers angry at red tape and competition from cheap imports converge on Brussels in scores of tractors
February 26, 2024Asian shares are mostly lower, although the Tokyo stock markets reached another record high
February 26, 2024Survivors and family members of victims of a tragic shipwreck a year ago that killed 94 migrants, including 35 minors, just off Italy’s southern coast, returned for three days of commemorations, calling for truth and justice
February 26, 2024Moscow ally Serbia is cracking down on anti-war Russians living in the Balkan country
February 26, 2024The South Korean government is given striking young doctors four days to return to work
February 26, 2024The World Trade Organization is opening its biennial meeting in the United Arab Emirates as the bloc faces pressure from the United States and other nations ahead of a year of consequential elections around the globe
February 26, 2024Asian shares are mostly lower, although the Tokyo stock markets touched another record high in morning trading
February 26, 2024Anti-Muslim hate speech in India rose by 62% in the second half of 2023 compared to the first six months of the year, a Washington-based research group said on Monday,
February 26, 2024An active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force was critically injured after setting himself ablaze outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D
February 26, 2024Tuvalu lawmakers have chosen Feleti Teo as prime minister of the tiny South Pacific nation after the last government leader was ousted in elections
February 26, 2024Peter Anthony Morgan, the lead singer of the family reggae band Morgan Heritage, has died at age 46
February 25, 2024President Joe Biden will convene the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the emergency aid package for Ukraine and Israel, as well as avoiding a government shutdown next month
February 25, 2024Tens of thousands of supporters of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro have rallied in the country's biggest city to defend him against legal challenges that could put him in jail
February 25, 2024Israel’s defense minister vowed to step up attacks on Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group even if a cease-fire is reached with Hamas in the Gaza Strip
February 25, 2024Caribbean leaders have met with embattled Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry to talk about his country’s unrelenting gang violence
February 25, 2024Algeria has inaugurated a gigantic mosque on its Mediterranean coastline after years of political upheaval transformed the project from a symbol of state-sponsored strength and religiosity to one of delays and cost overruns
February 25, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed a press conference in Kyiv on Sunday, a day after the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion.
April 26, 2024Some 20 European leaders will gather in Paris on Monday to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a message of European resolve on Ukraine and counter the Kremlin's
April 26, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in action in the two years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion
February 25, 2024Giorgio Armani’s collection for the next cold weather season previewed on the last day of Milan Fashion Week on Sunday embraces the designer's love of nature and admiration of Asian cultures expressed in his trademark flowing and flattering tailoring
February 25, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on Sunday said it was not clear yet whether a hostage deal would materialize from ongoing talks, declining to discuss specifics but saying the
April 26, 2024The United States, Egypt, Qatar and Israel have come to an understanding of "basic contours" of a hostage deal for a temporary ceasefire in Gaza, U.S.
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April 26, 2024Serbia has sent a protest note after the Croatian foreign minister called President Aleksandar Vučić a Russian “satellite” in the Balkans
February 25, 2024Water has long been a vulnerability for the tropical island nation of Singapore, which gained freedom from neighboring Malaysia in the 1960s
February 25, 2024Ukraine's defense minister says half of promised Western military support fails to arrive on time, complicating the task of military planners and ultimately costing the lives of soldiers
February 25, 2024Ukraine expects to receive $11.8 billion in economic support this year from the United States, its prime minister said on Sunday.
April 26, 2024Pope Francis was well enough to celebrate his weekly Angelus prayer from the Vatican window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, a day after cancelling his engagements because of a mild flu
February 25, 2024Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen clashed throughout the Gaza Strip over the weekend, both sides said on Sunday, as mediating
April 26, 2024The Eiffel Tower has reopened to visitors after a six-day closure because of striking employees demanding better maintenance of the historic landmark, showing traces of rust, and salary hikes
February 25, 2024Israeli media are reporting that mediators are making progress on an agreement for a weekslong cease-fire between Israel and Hamas and the release of dozens of hostages held in Gaza as well as Palestinians imprisoned by Israel
February 25, 2024As the World Trade Organization opens its latest biannual meeting of government ministers on Monday, its longtime moratorium on duties on e-commerce products is coming under pressure like never before
February 25, 2024The official two-week campaign period before Portugal’s early general election has begun
February 25, 2024Belarusians will cast ballots Sunday in tightly controlled parliamentary and local elections that are set to cement an authoritarian leader’s rule amid opposition calls for a boycott
February 25, 2024The fiery, right-wing populist president of Argentina has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference after giving Donald Trump an ecstatic hug
February 25, 2024Western nations should be bolder about confiscating Russian assets which they froze after the country's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
April 26, 2024U.S. and British forces carried out strikes against more than a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, officials said, the latest round of military action against the Iran-
February 24, 2024Federal authorities say the brother of a man who is charged with killing a Georgia nursing student has been accused of presenting a fake green card to police
February 24, 2024The eldest son of Mexico’s president and the governing party’s presidential candidate say their telephone number have been published on social media and they have received threats and insults
February 24, 2024Cuban singer and cabaret diva Juana Bacallao has died
February 24, 2024Polls suggest South Africa faces a historic turning point in a national election in May
February 24, 2024A court in Tunisia has sentenced former president Moncef Marzouki to eight years in prison in absentia as part of the country’s crackdown on opponents of President Kais Saied
February 24, 2024South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has highlighted the achievements of his ruling African National Congress, which has ruled the country for all of its 30 years of democracy, as it heads into a tight race in May’s election
February 24, 2024The U.K.’s governing Conservative Party has suspended ties with one if its lawmakers after he accused London Mayor Sadiq Khan of being controlled by Islamists as tensions over the Israel-Hamas war roil British politics
February 24, 2024Authorities in the eastern Caribbean say they are trying to locate two people believed to be U.S. citizens who were aboard a yacht hijacked by three escaped prisoners from Grenada
February 24, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron has been greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Fair by angry farmers who blame him for not doing enough to support them
February 24, 2024West Africa’s regional bloc known as ECOWAS has lifted travel, commercial and economic sanctions imposed on Niger which were aimed at reversing the coup staged in the country last year
February 24, 2024Western leaders have been voicing their solidarity with Ukraine on the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion. Here are some of the latest comments: U.S.
April 26, 2024When Russian forces withdrew from the town of Balakliia in eastern Ukraine in late 2022, pursued by Ukrainian troops
July 02, 2024The death toll in a fire that engulfed an apartment block in the Spanish city of Valencia has risen to 10 after forensic police found one more body inside the charred building Saturday
February 24, 2024Brazil’s president has alleged that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians
February 24, 2024An Australian tourist has gone missing in Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls National Park, home to one of the world’s natural wonders, the country’s parks spokesman said
February 24, 2024The U.S. military says an attack by Yemeni Houthi rebels on a Belize-flagged ship earlier this month caused a significant oil leakage
February 24, 2024The Vatican says that Pope Francis has canceled an audience as a precaution after coming down with mild flu
February 24, 2024The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has accused President Vladimir Putin of mocking Christianity by trying to force his mother to agree to a secret funeral after his death in a penal colony
February 24, 2024Ever since Myanmar's military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks, Thwel sees very few options
February 24, 2024A documentary about a Tunisian family and the radicalization of two teenage daughters who joined the Islamic State group is up for one of the most prestigious film awards in the world
February 24, 2024Ukraine is marking two years since Russia's full-scale invasion with a somber mood hanging over the country
February 24, 2024U.S. rice exports to Haiti, which account for the bulk of supplies of the country's key food staple, contain unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, heavy metals that can
April 26, 2024Two Navy SEALs drowned last month while trying to board a vessel that was intercepted by U.S. naval forces in the Arabian Sea
February 23, 2024Colombia’s government has announced an underwater exploration more than 600 meters deep to investigate and try to raise objects from the mythical galleon San José, sunk in the 18th century in the country’s northern Caribbean and believed to contain cargo valued at billions of dollars
February 23, 2024Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion on Saturday looking more vulnerable than at any time since the early days of Europe's most deadly
July 02, 2024The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is "alive and well" a day after its white-knuckle touchdown as the first private spacecraft ever to reach the lunar surface, and the first from the United
February 23, 2024Ukraine’s foreign minister is telling skeptics who believe Ukraine can’t win the war with Russia that they will be proven wrong
February 23, 2024The Biden administration has restored a U.S. legal finding dating back nearly 50 years that Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories are “illegitimate” under international law
February 23, 2024Ukrainian forces have downed a Russian early warning and control aircraft in a major win for the country as it fights back persistent Russian attacks along the front line
February 23, 2024The collapse of the open-pit gold mine that killed at least 16 people has underscored the dangers of working in a poorly regulated industry
February 23, 2024London police have confirmed that a body pulled from the River Thames earlier this week is that of Abdul Ezedi, a man wanted over a chemical attack that injured his former partner and her two young daughters
February 23, 2024Switzerland told the United Nations on Friday that it intends to organize a high-level Ukraine peace conference "by the summer" as the 193-member world
April 26, 2024Israel's expansion of settlements in the occupied West Bank were inconsistent with international law, U.S.
April 26, 2024Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan is writing a letter to the International Monetary Fund urging it to link any talks with Islamabad to an audit of the country’s recent election
February 23, 2024The Professional Fighters League is set to become the first major MMA promotion to hold a card in Saudi Arabia
February 23, 2024Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Friday welcomed new U.S. sanctions on pro-Russian Shor party member Marina Tauber, accusing her of trying to undermine the democracy.
April 26, 2024Indonesia and Australia have held high-level talks in Jakarta as the neighboring countries seek to strengthen security ties by signing a defense cooperation agreement in the coming months
February 23, 2024A senior Cabinet minister says Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack
February 23, 2024The Biden administration has imposed new trade restrictions on 93 entities from Russia, China, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Kyrgyzstan, India and South Korea for supporting
April 26, 2024Kenya's world marathon record holder Kelvin Kiptum has been given a state funeral as many urged the government to do more to protect the country’s famous athletes
February 23, 2024An unexploded World War II bomb will be transported through the southwestern English port city of Plymouth by a military convoy and disposed of at sea
February 23, 2024Hamas wrapped up ceasefire talks in Cairo and is now waiting to see what mediators bring back from weekend talks with Israel,
February 23, 2024Israel seeks open-ended control over security and civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip, according to a long-awaited postwar plan by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
February 23, 2024The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden have concluded a defense industry agreement that will expand Budapest’s fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets
February 23, 2024Angry farmers are back in Paris on their tractors on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital, in a new protest demanding more government support and simpler regulations
February 23, 2024Russians including Nobel laureate Dmitry Muratov and ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov have released videos calling on the Russian authorities to return the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family, a week after his death in an Arctic penal colony
February 23, 2024A lawyer for a man who is also under investigation in the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann says he won’t respond to unrelated charges of sexual offenses at a trial that opened last week in Germany
February 23, 2024South Korea's police say Lee Ho-yang, a prominent K-pop composer and producer better known by his professional name of “Shinsadong Tiger,” has been found dead
February 23, 2024The head of the European Union’s powerful Commission says decisions will be taken soon to release billions of euros to Poland, funds frozen by the bloc over the previous Polish government’s anti-EU policies
February 23, 2024The United States and the European Union are piling new sanctions on Russia on the eve of the second anniversary of its invasion of Ukraine and in retaliation for the death of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny last week
February 23, 2024The Russian Olympic Committee has lost an appeal against its suspension by the International Olympic Committee
February 23, 2024The U.N. human rights office says at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes
February 23, 2024Firefighters and army experts are calculating the risks of entering a residential block that was destroyed by fire in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing four people and leaving 14 missing
February 23, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented a "day after" plan for Gaza, his first official proposal for when the war in the Hamas-run Palestinian territory ends.
July 02, 2024Ukrainian sculptor Mikhail Reva has transformed the trauma of Russia’s invasion into a profound artistic statement, turning two tons of war debris into sculptures that express the deep suffering of his homeland
February 23, 2024President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that 95% of Russia's strategic nuclear forces had been modernised and that the Air Force had just taken delivery of four new supersonic
April 26, 2024German lawmakers are expected to vote on a government plan to liberalize rules on cannabis, which would decriminalize limited amounts of marijuana and allow members of “cannabis clubs” to buy it for recreational purposes
February 23, 2024Asian markets are mostly higher after Nvidia delivered another blowout quarter, setting off a rally in other technology companies that carried Wall Street to another record high
February 23, 2024Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is heading to Ukraine to reassure President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other officials that Congress will deliver U.S. aid, even as a package that would provide $60 billion to the war-torn country is stalled in the U.S. House
February 23, 2024Hamas says its top political leader has left Egypt after holding talks with Egyptian officials about a possible cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, and an exchange of hostages held by the militants for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel
February 23, 2024French actresses who allege they were teenage victims of sexual and physical abuse by directors decades older than them are shining the light on the repulsive underside of the country's cinema
February 23, 2024Dozens of clergy in Belarus — Orthodox, Catholic or Protestant — have been jailed, silenced or forced into exile for protesting the 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a sixth term
February 23, 2024Relatives of hostages still being held by Hamas and other militant groups have endured a nightmare
February 23, 2024The latest figures from the National Police show that more than 30,000 people have been reported missing in Ukraine during two years of war
February 23, 2024The collapse of an illegally operated gold mine in a remote area of central Venezuela has laid bare the sense of abandonment that plagues communities across the South American country
February 23, 2024El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele has received a rock-star welcome at a conservative gathering outside Washington as he urged people to “unapologetically fight” against what he called “dark forces.”
February 23, 2024India’s beleaguered opposition parties, which are beset with ideological differences and personality clashes, joined hands last year to unseat popular Prime Minister Narendra Modi and defeat his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s electoral juggernaut
February 23, 2024A Utah man imprisoned for nearly two years in Venezuelan has sued President Nicolás Maduro for allegedly heading a “criminal enterprise” that kidnaps, tortures and unjustly imprisons American citizens
February 23, 2024Britain and its former partners in the European Union have struck a deal to cooperate more on tackling illegal migration
February 23, 2024Only four pandas remain in the United States
February 22, 2024The United States will impose sanctions on over 500 targets on Friday in action marking the second anniversary of Russia's
July 02, 2024Four people have been charged in connection with deaths of Navy SEALs trying to board a ship carrying Iranian-made weapons to Yemen
February 22, 2024Senegal’s President Macky Sall says that he will end his term in April as expected, but he has not given a new date for the presidential election originally scheduled for Sunday
February 22, 2024The Biden administration on Thursday warned Iran of a "swift and severe" response from the international community if Tehran provided ballistic missiles to
April 26, 2024Mexico's freedom of information body INAI said on Thursday it was initiating an investigation after the country's president disclosed the phone number of a New York Times
May 07, 2024China is responding sternly to a U.S. congressional delegation’s visit to Taiwan, demanding the U.S. stop any official contact with the self-governing island
February 22, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron will host a number of European leaders and government representatives for a meeting on Ukraine in Paris on Monday, his office said.
April 26, 2024Don’t call them nostalgic
February 22, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden will meet the wife and daughter of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader who died last week, on Thursday in California, NBC reported.
April 26, 2024A fire has engulfed two residential buildings in the eastern Spanish city of Valencia, killing at least four people and injuring at least 13 others
February 22, 2024After the Biden administration applied sanctions on four Israeli settlers for acting violently toward Palestinians and activists in the West Bank, online fundraisers sprang to their aid
February 22, 2024The White House is promising to unveil new sanctions on Iran in the coming days in retaliation for its arm sales that have bolstered Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and threatening a “swift” and “severe” response if Tehran moves forward with selling ballistic missiles to Moscow
February 22, 2024Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his former top aides have met with police as part of an investigation into allegations they plotted a coup to remove Bolsonaro’s successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
February 22, 2024The Justice Department has announced a series of arrests and indictments against Russian businessmen and their facilitators in five separate federal cases that span New York, Florida, Georgia and the District of Columbia
February 22, 2024A man found guilty of using his pickup truck to kill four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison as a Canadian judge ruled that the actions of the “admitted white nationalist” amounted to terrorism
February 22, 2024The International Monetary Fund on Thursday said that "timely support" for Ukraine was needed from the United States and other international donors to ensure the
April 26, 2024Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has taken a co-pilot's seat in a nuclear-capable strategic bomber, a flight that appeared aimed at bolstering his image ahead of next month’s election he’s all but certain to win
February 22, 2024Hungary’s nationalist government has delayed holding a vote on Sweden’s membership for more than 18 months, creating tension with Stockholm and drawing mounting pressure from its allies to finally move forward on ratification
February 22, 2024The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has set a target to further increase aquaculture production to meet rising demand for seafood and to fight global hunger and undernourishment
February 22, 2024German lawmakers backed providing further military support for Ukraine on Thursday, almost two years after Russia's invasion, but rejected a call by the opposition to deliver long-
April 26, 2024The chaotic debate over a cease-fire in Gaza reverberated through Britain’s Parliament as the speaker of the House of Commons faced calls to resign and lawmakers said they feared for their safety amid pressure from all sides of the issue
February 22, 2024Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes killed at least 48 people in southern and central areas of the besieged territory overnight as alarm rose over the worsening humanitarian crisis
February 22, 2024Guinness World Records has ruled against a Portuguese dog that died last year keeping the title of oldest canine ever
February 22, 2024Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says the border crossings with Ukraine are being added to a list of critical infrastructure to ensure that all military and humanitarian aid can reach Ukraine without any delays
February 22, 2024An official says Russian forces are probing Ukrainian defenses for weak points in the country’s northeast
February 22, 2024The head of the Jewish Community in Denmark says the number of antisemitic incidents registered since the Oct. 7 attack on Israel that ignited the war in Gaza has reached levels not seen since World War II
February 22, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin flew on a modernised Tu-160M nuclear-capable strategic bomber on Thursday in a move likely to be seen in the
July 02, 2024Pakistan’s media regulators have blocked the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with users across the country enduring the sixth day of sweeping disruptions, partial and complete shutdowns
February 22, 2024As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, the conflict will be determined not just on the battlefield but also in Western capitals and other places far from the
April 26, 2024Czech farmers are driving their tractors and other vehicles to to several border crossings to join forces with their colleagues from neighboring countries in their protests against European Union agriculture policies, bureaucracy and overall conditions for their business
February 22, 2024Top Biden administration officials spent last weekend in Europe trying to soothe jitters over the prospect of U.S. military aid to Ukraine
April 26, 2024Albania has agreed to host two migrant processing centers on its territory that will be run by Italy under a deal that worries human rights activists
February 22, 2024A prominent Russian opposition figure has appeared in court, urging Russians not to give up after the death of Alexei Navalny and alleging there's a state-backed hit squad taking out opponents of President Vladimir Putin
February 22, 2024A whale as long as a train car that died after straying into a port in Osaka last month is set to be buried until it naturally becomes a skeletal specimen for a local museum
February 22, 2024The Taliban have carried out a double public execution at a stadium in southeastern Afghanistan
February 22, 2024Candidates for Iran’s parliament began campaigning for the country’s first election since the crackdown on the nationwide protests in 2022 that followed the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody
February 22, 2024Israeli police say three gunmen opened fire on the road near a checkpoint in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, killing one Israeli and wounding at least eight, as violence persists in the territory
February 22, 2024As the aviation sector seeks ways to make air travel less polluting and more sustainable, aerospace company Embraer and South Korean automaker Hyundai are among the companies betting on a new form of air travel -– air taxis
February 22, 2024Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index has surged past the record it set in 1989 before its financial bubble burst, ushering in an era of faltering growth
February 22, 2024A group of United States Congress members are praising Taiwan's democracy during a visit to the island
February 22, 2024Israel has intercepted an apparent attack by Houthi rebels near the port city of Eilat
February 22, 2024Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called on the international community to take a more active role towards an urgent ceasefire in Gaza and a two-state solution to the conflict
April 26, 2024Yulia Navalnaya used to avoid the cameras, staying in the background while her husband, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, rose to become President Vladimir Putin’s greatest foe
February 22, 2024Albania’s Parliament votes Thursday on a deal with Italy to hold thousands of migrants rescued at sea by the Italian authorities while their asylum applications are processed
February 22, 2024A sharp dip in violence in Colombia's second-biggest city has attracted a flood of tourists to Medellin's vivid colors, busy cafes and booming nightlife
February 22, 2024A women's organization in Mumbai, India, is training a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence with the help of women like 32-year-old Komal Vilas Thatkare
February 22, 2024Japan's Nikkei 225 share benchmark has surged to an all-time high, bypassing its previous record set in December 1989 on heavy buying by global investors
February 22, 2024China is planning to send a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo after nearly all the iconic bears in the U.S. were returned to the Asian country in recent years
February 22, 2024India is renewing its push to add rooftop solar to meet the needs of a fast-growing nation that's hungry for energy
February 22, 2024The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale to Taiwan of about $75 million of advanced tactical data link system upgrade planning, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
February 22, 2024President Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “crazy SOB” during a fundraiser for his reelection campaign Wednesday night
February 22, 2024Some of the U.S. Congress' staunchest critics of China are visiting Taiwan in a show of support that's certain to draw scrutiny from Beijing, which views such interactions as a challenge to its claim of sovereignty over the island
February 22, 2024The White House is considering using provisions of federal immigration law repeatedly tapped by former President Donald Trump to unilaterally enact a sweeping crackdown at the southern border
February 22, 2024U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged the leader of a Japanese crime syndicate with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear
April 26, 2024Russia’s main domestic intelligence agency has arrested a woman with dual U.S. and Russian citizenship on charges of treason
February 22, 2024United Airlines is gearing up to resume flights to Israel early next month
February 21, 2024Prosecutors in Washington state said Wednesday they will not file felony charges against a Seattle police officer who struck and killed a graduate student from India while responding to an overdose call
February 21, 2024The Justice Department says a suspect in a plot to kill an Iranian American author and activist has been extradited from the Czech Republic to face charges
February 21, 2024International Monetary Fund officials are negotiating with Ukrainian officials in Warsaw, Poland this week about a follow-on disbursement of $890 million from the country's $
April 26, 2024Spain's prime minister has visited Morocco as the two nations reckon with a spike in migration to the Canary Islands and a Europe-wide debate and protests about agricultural regulations and imports
February 21, 2024Harvard University has condemned what it called a “flagrantly antisemitic cartoon” posted on social media by student and faculty groups that advocate for Palestinian liberation
February 21, 2024An attorney for Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s widow, who was indicted in his assassination, says he believes the accusations against her are politically motivated
February 21, 2024U.K. lawmakers have called for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
February 21, 2024Thousands have rallied in dozens of cities and towns across Slovakia to mark the sixth anniversary of the slayings of an investigative journalist and his fiancee amid a wave of anti-government protests
February 21, 2024Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government
February 21, 2024From the earliest days of the Israel-Hamas war, the United States and much of the international community have pressed Israel to allow more humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip
February 21, 2024The U
February 21, 2024Officials in Venezuela say at least 14 people are confirmed dead from the collapse of an illegally operated open-pit gold mine in central Venezuela
February 21, 2024Two people are dead and another is missing on Mexico's Pico de Orizaba, the highest mountain in the country
February 21, 2024The Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel says it has found evidence of “systematic and intentional” rape and sexual abuse during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 that ignited the war in Gaza
February 21, 2024A New York jury on Wednesday heard clashing descriptions of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez as his U.S. drugs trial opened, with prosecutors saying
February 21, 2024One of the first women who accused a once-exalted Jesuit artist of spiritual, psychological and sexual abuse has gone public
February 21, 2024The German government says Europe’s largest economy is in “troubled waters.”
February 21, 2024Brazil’s foreign minister is calling for reforms of the United Nations and other multilateral institutions, as his country kicked off its presidency of the Group of 20 nations
February 21, 2024European Union countries have agreed on a new package of sanctions against Russia
February 21, 2024Somalia has announced a defense deal with Turkey that includes support for the Horn of Africa nation’s sea assets and appears aimed at deterring Ethiopia’s efforts to secure access to the sea by way of the breakaway region of Somaliland
February 21, 2024A new report says activists want stricter regulations of short-term rentals in Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory sees a growing number of displaced renters and a spike in housing costs
February 21, 2024Polish authorities are voicing grave concerns after slogans praising Russian President Vladimir Putin and his war against Ukraine appeared at Polish farmers’ protests
February 21, 2024The United States says that the United Nations’ top court should not issue an advisory opinion that says Israel should “immediately and unconditionally withdraw” from territories sought for a Palestinian state
February 21, 2024Striking workers have again closed down the Eiffel Tower
February 21, 2024British lawmakers are seeking reassurances about the nation’s nuclear deterrent after reports that a test of the system failed dramatically last month when an unarmed missile crashed into the sea near the submarine from which it was launched
February 21, 2024Hundreds of farmers are driving their tractors towards central Madrid as part of ongoing protests against European Union and local farming policies
February 21, 2024Lawyers for the American government are to tell a London court why they think Julian Assange should face espionage charges in the United States
February 21, 2024The aid group Doctors Without Borders says two people were killed when a shelter housing staff in the Gaza Strip was struck during an Israeli operation in an area where Palestinians have been told to seek shelter
February 21, 2024The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has filed a lawsuit at a court in the Arctic city of Salekhard contesting officials’ refusal to release her son’s body
February 21, 2024An Israeli sabotage attack on an Iranian natural gas pipeline caused the multiple explosions that struck it a week ago
February 21, 2024A protester has died as thousands of Indian farmers resumed their march to the capital after talks with the government failed to end an impasse over their demands for guaranteed crop prices
February 21, 2024Syrian state TV says an Israeli strike has hit a residential area in the Syrian capital Damascus
February 21, 2024Asian stocks were mixed after technology shares led Wall Street broadly lower, with investors waiting for chipmaker Nvidia’s quarterly earnings report later in the day
February 21, 2024Russia's top general, Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, visited troops fighting in the war in Ukraine to discuss the next steps after the taking the town of Avdiivka,
April 26, 2024South Korea has officially ordered thousands of striking doctors to return to work immediately
February 21, 2024When Tucker Carlson asked Vladimir Putin about his reasons for invading Ukraine two years ago, Putin gave him a lecture on Russian history
February 21, 2024While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, the heroic role of Missak Manouchian's Resistance fighters in World War II is often overlooked
February 21, 2024A China-born Australian democracy blogger will not appeal his suspended death sentence imposed by a Beijing court, with his family saying a legal challenge would be detrimental to his welfare
February 21, 2024Taiwan has not increased military deployments on frontline islands facing China and there is nothing unusual in the military situation around Taiwan, the defence ministry said on
April 26, 2024An appeals court says the death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile's 1973 coup should be reinvestigated
February 21, 2024Japan’s exports have grown nearly 12% in January as shipments jumped in vehicles, auto parts and machinery
February 21, 2024Donald Trump is doubling down on comparing his criminal indictments to the circumstances of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny
February 21, 2024The inclusion of the topic of Ukraine at the Group of 20 meetings is destructive and the politicisation of the Group is unacceptable, Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday ahead of
April 26, 2024The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday sanctioned six people from five armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as violent clashes escalate in the
April 26, 2024China expressed "strong disappointment" over the United States blocking a draft United Nations Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war calling for an immediate humanitarian
April 26, 2024The political rivals of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan have announced details of a power-sharing agreement, naming Shehbaz Sharif as their joint candidate for prime minister
February 20, 2024The European Union summoned Russia's representative to the EU and called for an independent international investigation into the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the
April 26, 2024A judge who investigated the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse has indicted some 50 suspects in the case
February 20, 2024Mexico's president acknowledges the armed forces have taken over yet another civilian role: filling potholes on the nation's highways
February 20, 2024South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the highly anticipated national election will be held on May 29
February 20, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that Moscow has no intention to deploy nuclear weapons in space, claiming that the country only has developed space capabilities similar to what the U.S. has
February 20, 2024A U.S. military Mq-9 drone was shot down near Yemen by Iran-backed militants, two U.S. officials said on Tuesday, the second time such a shoot down has taken place in recent
April 26, 2024Zimbabwe has started an emergency campaign to inoculate more than 4 million children against polio after health authorities detected three cases caused by a rare mutation of the weakened virus used in oral vaccines
February 20, 2024The White House says it is preparing additional “major sanctions” on Russia in response to opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in an Arctic penal colony
February 20, 2024The U.S. will announce a major package of sanctions on Friday aimed at Russia over the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, White House national security
July 02, 2024Thousands of travelers across Germany have found themselves stranded after ground staff walked off the job at seven of the country’s biggest airports
February 20, 2024Air Force Special Operations Command says it knows what failed on its CV-22B Osprey leading to crash in Japan late last year that killed eight service members
February 20, 2024The Beatles are getting the big-screen biopic treatment in a Fab Four of movies that will give each band member their own film
February 20, 2024A court in the Russian capital has ruled to keep Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in custody pending his trial on espionage charges that he denies
February 20, 2024Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is facing charges that he ran his impoverished Central American nation as a “narco-state."
February 20, 2024The Kremlin says President Vladimir Putin did not see the video in which Alexei Navalny’s widow vowed to continue his fight and dismissed her allegations that Putin had killed the country’s opposition leader as “unfounded” and “insolent.”
February 20, 2024South Africa has argued at the United Nations’ top court that Israel is responsible for apartheid against the Palestinians and that Israel’s occupation of land sought for a Palestinian state is “inherently and fundamentally illegal.”
February 20, 2024A website run by Lockbit, a prolific ransomware syndicate behind cyberattacks around the world, has been taken over by law enforcement agencies
February 20, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says delays in weapons deliveries from Western allies are opening a door for Russian battlefield advances
February 20, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has not watched a video statement by Yulia Navalnaya in which she vowed to continue Alexei Navalny's work, but her assertion he was poisoned with a
April 26, 2024Scores of tractors have been parked outside Greece’s parliament as thousands of farmers angry at high production costs shifted their protests to Athens
February 20, 2024Spanish police said Friday they suspect the bullet-riddled body of a man found in an eastern town is that of Russian defector Maksim Kuzminov, who flew a Russian army helicopter on his escape across the front lines last year
February 20, 2024UNICEF says one in six children are acutely malnourished in the isolated and largely devastated northern Gaza
February 20, 2024Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels are still able to launch attacks despite a month of U.S.-led airstrikes
February 20, 2024Russia's spy chief said on Tuesday that a Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine and was found shot dead in a garage in Spain last week was a moral corpse when he planned his crimes,
July 02, 2024A vote in Hungary’s parliament on ratifying Sweden’s bid to join NATO could come as early as Monday
February 20, 2024Israel has ordered new evacuations from parts of Gaza City, an indication it still faces stiff resistance in areas it said were cleared weeks ago
February 20, 2024Asian shares are trading mixed on the second day Chinese markets are open after the Lunar New Year break
February 20, 2024Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said his country needs long-range missiles and other ammunition to end Russia’s invasion, and said he expects a U.S. aid package that’s stalled in Congress to come through, at a new conference in Tokyo a day after a conference on rebuilding Ukraine
February 20, 2024South Korean trainee doctors have collectively walked off their jobs to protest a government medical policy, triggering cancellations of surgeries and other medical treatments at hospitals
February 20, 2024Julian Assange’s lawyers will begin their final U.K. legal challenge to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges
February 20, 2024Taiwan is protesting China’s boarding of a tourist boat as tensions rise around the Kinmen archipelago, which lies just off the Chinese coast but is controlled by Taiwan
February 20, 2024Five years ago this week, Pope Francis convened an unprecedented summit of bishops from around the world to impress on them that clergy abuse was a global problem and that they needed to do something about it
February 20, 2024Arab nations are putting to a vote a U.N. resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza, knowing it will be vetoed by the United States but hoping to show broad global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war
February 20, 2024As the war in Ukraine enters its third year, Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to hope that he can achieve his goals by biding his time and waiting for Western support for Kyiv to wither while maintaining steady military pressure along the stalemated front line
February 20, 2024China's central bank has announced it cut its five-year loan prime rate while leaving its one-year rate unchanged
February 20, 2024Ukraine's prime minister urged the European Union and Japan on Tuesday to impose fresh economic sanctions on Russia after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei
February 20, 2024Indian farmers who have been protesting for a week to demand guaranteed crop prices have rejected a proposal from the government, and say they will continue their march to New Delhi
February 20, 2024The Singapore Airshow – Asia's largest – kicks off Tuesday with an array of aerial displays including some by China’s COMAC C919 narrow-body airliner
February 20, 2024North Korea says Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a Russian-made car for his personal use in a demonstration of their special relationship
February 20, 2024El Salvador President Nayib Bukele and his New Ideas party have won the supermajority the leader needs in Congress to govern as he pleases
February 20, 2024WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange will launch on Tuesday what could be his last chance in an English court to stop his extradition to the United States to face criminal charges
July 02, 2024WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange begins what could be his last chance to stop his extradition from Britain to the United States on Tuesday after more
April 26, 2024A judge investigating the July 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse has indicted his widow, Martine Moïse, ex-prime minister Claude Joseph and the former chief of Haiti’s National Police, Léon Charles, among others
February 19, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has toured battle sites of the Falklands War during a visit meant to underline that the Falkland Islands are a “valued part of the British family.”
February 19, 2024The head of Ukraine's steel giant Metinvest has called Russia's advance in eastern Ukraine, where its has some of its biggest operations, "alarming" and urged the United States to
April 26, 2024A study has found more than 57% of Argentina's people are considered poor, the worst poverty level in 20 years
February 19, 2024Backers of Nikki Haley's quest for the Republican presidential nomination are pouring money into states that hold early March nominating contests
April 26, 2024The United States has circulated a rival U.N. Security Council resolution that would support a temporary cease-fire in Gaza after rejecting an Arab-backed resolution
February 19, 2024Israel’s foreign minister says Brazil’s president will not be welcome in Israel until he apologizes for comments he made comparing Israel’s war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of a “very serious anti-Semitic attack.”
February 19, 2024Aid organizations fear a new humanitarian crisis in the restive eastern Congo region, where the renowned armed rebel group M23 is in the midst of a new advance that threatens to cut off a major city and leave millions of people struggling for food and medical help
February 19, 2024Violent clashes have escalated between Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)'s army and Rwandan-backed M23 Tutsi-led rebels in eastern Congo, killing scores and
February 19, 2024Lionel Messi has made another conciliatory gesture to fans in Hong Kong and mainland China by releasing a video on social media to explain why he didn’t play in an exhibition match this month, and insisted that there were no political reasons behind his decision
February 19, 2024Far from Argentina, few people may know much about Eva Perón, widely known as “Evita."
February 19, 2024A tribal clash in Papua New Guinea’s remote highlands in which more than 20 people were shot dead has put a growing internal security problem under the microscope in the strategically vital South Pacific island nation that has garnered closer military attention from the United States and China
February 19, 2024Republicans have been softening their stance on Russia ever since Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election following Russian hacking of his Democratic opponents
February 19, 2024The former chairman of the Bank of China has been indicted on bribery charges, adding to a long list of business and government officials who have been brought down by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s yearslong anticorruption drive
February 19, 2024An American man is on trial Kempten, Southern Germany for murder and other offenses after he allegedly pushed two women from the U.S. into a ravine near Neuschwanstein castle in June last year, fatally injuring one of them
February 19, 2024The Associated Press has won the best documentary prize at the British Academy Film Awards for Ukraine war documentary “20 Days in Mariupol.”
February 19, 2024Gaza’s Health Ministry says more than 29,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since the start of the Israel-Hamas war
February 19, 2024The mother of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been denied access to a morgue where his body is believed to be kept after his death at an Arctic penal colony, and Navalny’s allies accused authorities of trying to hide evidence
February 19, 2024The Russian military says its forces have completed their takeover of Avdiivka by eliminating the last pocket of resistance at the eastern Ukraine city’s huge coke plant
February 19, 2024The longtime prefect of the Vatican Secret Archive is spilling the beans for the first time
February 19, 2024The daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain says she has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma and again called for his release
February 19, 2024Historic hearings are opening at the United Nations' top court into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state
February 19, 2024Shares are mostly higher in Asia after Chinese markets reopened from a long Lunar New Year holiday
February 19, 2024The sudden death of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable antagonist has left an open wound in Russia’s political opposition
February 19, 2024The Russian opposition lost its brightest star when politician Alexei Navalny died Friday in an Arctic penal colony
February 19, 2024WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is facing what could be his final court hearing in England over whether he should be extradited to the United States to face spying charges
February 19, 2024Japan is hosting a conference for Japanese and Ukrainian officials to discuss reconstruction of Ukraine just ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion, while the U.S. and other Western countries are still focusing on military aid for the battlefield
February 19, 2024The Russian military has taken full control of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant, Russian state news agencies reported on Monday, after most of the town fell to Russian forces over the
April 26, 2024The number of passengers flying through Dubai International Airport surged last year beyond its total for 2019 — just before the coronavirus pandemic grounded global aviation
February 19, 2024Yemen’s Houthi rebels are suspected in an attack on a Belize-flagged ship traveling through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait connecting the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden
February 19, 2024Japan is to host a reconstruction conference for Ukraine ahead of the two-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion as Tokyo seeks to showcase its commitment for the support of the war-torn country
February 19, 2024Romina Cortés couldn’t pronounce her sister’s last name
February 19, 2024Australian state media reports police say 53 men have been massacred in tribal violence in Papua New Guinea
February 18, 2024Israel has condemned Brazil’s president for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust, accusing him of being antisemitic and trivializing the Nazi genocide of European Jews during World War II
February 18, 2024Britain's top movie honours, the BAFTA Film Awards, were handed out on Sunday at a ceremony in London. Below is a list of the winners in the main categories.
April 26, 2024Thousands of demonstrators are marching through cities in Mexico and abroad in what they call a “march for democracy.”
February 18, 2024Israeli swimmer Anastasia Gorbenko has been jeered by some of the crowd after finishing second in the women’s 400-meter medley on the closing day of the World Aquatics Championships in Qatar
February 18, 2024As most of Europe moves into the solemn weeks before Easter, the party is just getting started on the French Rivera
February 18, 2024Even as they insist they are not dancing to Donald Trump's tune on NATO, European leaders are singing from a song sheet designed to appeal to the former U.S.
April 26, 2024A Republican opponent of new U.S. funding for Ukraine has argued at an international security conference that the package stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace
February 18, 2024A prominent rights group says over 400 people have been detained in Russia while paying tribute to opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died at a remote Arctic penal colony
February 18, 2024The Gaza Strip's second-largest hospital has been put "completely out of service", a spokesperson for the Gaza health ministry said on Sunday.
April 26, 2024Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 18 people as the United States says it would veto another draft U.N. cease-fire resolution
February 18, 2024Two U.S. senators will submit a bipartisan resolution to Congress condemning democratic backsliding in Hungary and urging its nationalist government to lift its block on Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance
February 18, 2024China is stepping up patrols in the waters off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago, days after two of its fishermen drowned being chased by the Taiwanese coast guard, which accused the boat of trespassing
February 18, 2024The United Nations’ highest court opens historic hearings Monday into the legality of Israel’s 57-year occupation of lands sought for a Palestinian state
February 18, 2024The United Nations Security Council is likely to vote on Tuesday on an Algerian push for the 15-member body to demand an immediate humanitarian ceasefire
July 02, 2024Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Saturday he had discussed the prospects for peace in Kyiv's nearly two-year-old war against Russia with his Chinese counterpart, part of a
April 26, 2024Thailand’s former prime minister has been released on parole from a Bangkok hospital where he spent the last six months serving time for corruption-related offenses
February 17, 2024Two Army Reserve soldiers killed in a Middle East drone attack three weeks ago are being remembered at funerals in their home state of Georgia
February 17, 2024For the mother of Alexei Navalny — the Russian opposition leader who died at age 47 in an Arctic penal colony — the journey to recover her son’s body was an odyssey with no clear destination
February 17, 2024The head of the main United Nations agency supporting people in Gaza alleges that Israel is intent on “destroying” the organization along with the idea that Palestinians are refugees who have a right to return home one day
February 17, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address
February 17, 2024A lot people think Google searches are getting worse
February 17, 2024As cease-fire talks have floundered, Israel has vowed to press ahead with its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip despite warnings from the U.S. to work harder to protect civilians
February 17, 2024Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end
February 17, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron says recognizing a Palestinian state is not a ‘’taboo’’ for France
February 17, 2024A top U.S. envoy says Israel has not presented specific evidence that Hamas is diverting U.N. aid shipments entering Gaza
February 17, 2024Outgoing Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, the frontrunner to be the next secretary-general of NATO, said on Saturday that Europe should stop
July 02, 2024G7 foreign ministers observed a minute's silence at the start of their meeting in Munich on Saturday to pay their respects to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who died in
April 26, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned allies that an “artificial deficit” of weapons for his country risks giving Russia breathing space after his military chief said he was withdrawing troops from the eastern city of Avdiivka
February 17, 2024The hundreds of flowers and candles laid in Moscow on Friday to honour the memory of Alexei Navalny, Russia's most prominent opposition leader, were mostly
July 02, 2024Floral tributes to Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe who died Friday in a Russian penal colony, were removed overnight by groups of unknown people while police watched, videos on Russian social media channels show
February 17, 2024A 30-year-old man has gunned down 12 of his relatives in a remote rural area in southeast Iran, the deadliest shooting reported in decades
February 17, 2024The U.N. mission in Afghanistan says women are scared to leave the home alone because of Taliban rules on clothing and male guardians
February 17, 2024With U.S. aid for Ukraine teetering in Congress, it’s up to House Speaker Mike Johnson to decide what happens next
February 17, 2024The Biden administration is preparing to send bombs and other weapons to Israel that would add to its military arsenal even as the U.S. pushes for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Wall Street
April 26, 2024A new Japanese flagship H3 rocket lifted off from a space station in southwestern Japan on Saturday in a key second test flight a year after its failed debut launch
February 17, 2024The recognition of a Palestinian state is no longer a taboo for France, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday, suggesting Paris could make the decision if efforts for a two-state
April 26, 2024A Venezuelan businessman who helped hide almost $17 million in bribe payments by an ally of President Nicolas Maduro was sentenced to six months in prison Friday by a federal judge who expressed frustration that his cooperation with law enforcement was undone by President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of a top U.S. criminal target
February 16, 2024Researchers are finding that record hot seawater killed more than three-quarters of human-cultivated coral that scientists had placed in the Florida Keys in recent years
February 16, 2024Pop superstar Taylor Swift has donated $100,000 to the family of the woman slain in a shooting near a rally for the Kansas City Chiefs where the singer's
April 26, 2024U.S. lawmakers expressed shock and outrage at the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, but the news looked unlikely
April 26, 2024An American woman is missing in Spain under disturbing circumstances
February 16, 2024The State Department says the top U.S. and Chinese diplomats held a “candid and constructive” discussion on issues including Taiwan, Russia's war against Ukraine and synthetic opioids
February 16, 2024President Joe Biden said Friday that there was no sign Russia has decided to go ahead and deploy an emerging anti-satellite weapon, the disclosure of which has rattled Washington this week
February 16, 2024President Joe Biden says that the apparent death of Russian anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny brings new urgency to the need for Congress to approve tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine to stave off Moscow’s invasion
February 16, 2024Red Bull future engine supplier Ford Motor Co. says it is awaiting the results of an investigation into alleged inappropriate behavior by team principal Christian Horner, but a top executive stressed that Ford holds its company and partners to very high moral standards
February 16, 2024Major technology companies signed a pact Friday to voluntarily adopt “reasonable precautions” to prevent artificial intelligence tools from being used to disrupt democratic elections around the world
February 16, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver remarks at the White House at 12 p.m.
April 26, 2024The head of the World Trade Organization says the body remains relevant and its leaders focus on reform “no matter who comes into power” as Donald Trump — who as U.S. president bypassed WTO rules by slapping tariffs on America’s friends and foes alike — makes another run at the White House
February 16, 2024A bass stolen from Paul McCartney more than 50 years ago has been found and returned to the Beatle
February 16, 2024Kremlin critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been attacked or killed in a variety of ways
February 16, 2024Zimbabwe’s powerful vice president says the government will block a university scholarship for young LGBTQ+ people
February 16, 2024Missile fire has apparently targeted a ship off Yemen in the Red Sea
February 16, 2024President Joe Biden plans to welcome Kenyan President William Ruto to the White House in May, hosting a state visit after reneging on his promise to visit Africa last year
February 16, 2024A defense lawyer says the legal team of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan has appealed his convictions and sentences in three controversial legal cases
February 16, 2024The Iran-backed Hezbollah signalled on Friday it would escalate attacks on Israel in response to the deaths of 10 Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli attacks this week, saying
April 26, 2024Prince Harry says he immediately arranged to go to London after his father, King Charles III, called to tell him he had cancer
February 16, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris has warned about the dangers of growing authoritarianism and isolationism
February 16, 2024World leaders and Russian opposition activists wasted no time in blaming the reported death of Alexei Navalny on President Vladimir Putin and his government
February 16, 2024Alexei Navalny, Russia’s top opposition leader and President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe, has died in prison
February 16, 2024U.S. peacekeeping troops in Kosovo are well equipped and stand ready to prevent violence in the country's ethnically divided north, often the scene of
April 26, 2024Foreign leaders have congratulated Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia’s presidential election, while rights activists called him a threat
February 16, 2024Russia’s prison agency says that imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died
February 16, 2024Ukrainian troops in a strategic eastern city are under intense pressure as Russian forces tighten the noose around Avdiivka
February 16, 2024Israel will not be pressured into accepting a Palestinian state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday, following a Washington Post report that Israel's main ally the
April 26, 2024Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah
February 16, 2024Health officials say four patients died after their oxygen ran out in southern Gaza's main hospital after Israel troops stormed and seized the facility
February 16, 2024Farmers are blocking highways and holding demonstrations in many rural areas in northern India to protest over a range of grievances that have also led tens and thousands to march toward the capital
February 16, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to sign bilateral security agreements with Germany and France as Kyiv works to shore up Western support nearly two years after Russia launched its full-scale war
February 16, 2024Voters in two districts in England have delivered new blows to beleaguered Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
February 16, 2024Shares in Asia are higher, with Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index coming close to its record set 35 year ago
February 16, 2024Hong Kong customs officials have arrested seven people linked to the territory's largest money laundering case on record, involving about $1.8 billion
February 16, 2024Leading politicians, military officers and diplomats from around the world gather in Munich on Friday for a security conference that will be
July 02, 2024As spring approaches each year, wildflowers erupt across Israel
February 16, 2024Greece has become the first majority-Orthodox Christian nation to legalize same-sex marriage
February 16, 2024In a phone call Thursday, President Joe Biden again cautioned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against moving forward with a military operation in Rafah without a “credible and executable plan” to protect civilians
February 16, 2024Local public health officials in Rio de Janeiro have been scouring the city's neighborhoods and even its junkyards for signs of standing water where mosquitoes can lay their eggs
February 16, 2024In Algeria, people have long relied on foreign currencies to buy imported items in short supply or finance their children's educations abroad
February 16, 2024Mexico is almost certain to elect its first female president in June — both leading candidates are women
February 16, 2024Prince Harry has raced head-first on a tiny skeleton sled going 61.5 mph down a track at next year's Invictus Games site
February 16, 2024What would it mean if Russia used nuclear warheads to destroy U.S. satellites
February 16, 2024The space-based weapon U.S. intelligence believes Russia may be developing is more likely a nuclear-powered device to blind, jam or fry the
April 26, 2024Senegal’s top election authority has voided the president’s postponement of a presidential election scheduled for Feb. 25 and its rescheduling in December, saying the moves were unconstitutional
February 15, 2024Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Thursday ratified two military cooperation agreements with the United States, including one for joint naval operations, amid
April 26, 2024The American embassy is investigating two shootings of Palestinian-American teenagers in the West Bank, the latest of which occurred Saturday
February 15, 2024Russia is developing an anti-satellite capability that has not yet been deployed and U.S.
July 02, 2024The White House has publicly confirmed that Russia has obtained a “troubling” emerging anti-satellite weapon, but says it cannot directly cause “physical destruction” on Earth
February 15, 2024Godzilla has been to Tokyo, Hong Kong, Paris, San Francisco, Boston, Moscow, London and Hawaii
February 15, 2024A Roman Catholic bishop in Mexico says he and three other bishops met with drug cartel bosses in a bid to negotiate a possible peace accord in the violent southern state of Guerrero
February 15, 2024Go into many bookstores, and the nonfiction shelves will be dominated by men
February 15, 2024Venezuela’s government on Thursday ordered the local U.N. office on human rights to suspend its operations and gave its staff 72 hours to leave the country, accusing it of promoting opposition to the South American country
February 15, 2024Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, has lost his second attempt at suing the state for what he said was a breach of his human rights
February 15, 2024Families of Indonesian activists who were kidnapped and tortured by the military 25 years ago have expressed shock over the apparent presidential victory of Prabowo Subianto, who they blame for the atrocities
February 15, 2024The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to stop dirty money from flowing through the U.S. financial system by crafting a slew of new rules aimed at increasing corporate transparency and regulating occupations that are exploited for money laundering
February 15, 2024Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis will press on with attacks on Red Sea shipping in solidarity with the Palestinians as long as Israel continues to commit "crimes" against them, their
April 26, 2024The jury at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival has pushed back on political questions as the festival kicked off, seeking instead to shift the focus to the tough selection of the best movie, with 20 titles from around the globe competing for the top prize, the Golden Bear
February 15, 2024London's iconic underground train map is getting a major update
February 15, 2024Top ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government rejected Palestinian statehood on Thursday following a Washington Post report that Israel's main ally the United
April 26, 2024Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed an announcement by Microsoft that it would invest almost 3.3 billion euros, or about $3.5 billion, in Germany over the next two years to massively expand its data center capacities for applications in the field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing
February 15, 2024Switzerland’s government plans to boost its defense spending by up to 19% over the next four years
February 15, 2024NATO's chief is warning member countries not to allow a wedge to be driven between the United States and Europe
February 15, 2024South Korea’s presidential office claims that the country’s move to establish diplomatic relations with Cuba would deal a “political and psychological blow” to its war-divided rival North Korea, whose diplomatic footing is largely dependent on a small number of Cold War allies
February 15, 2024Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski appealed to the U.S.
July 02, 2024Israeli troops have entered the the main hospital in southern Gaza in what the army said was a limited operation seeking the remains of hostages taken by Hamas
February 15, 2024Senior Hezbollah official and member of parliament Hassan Fadlallah said on Thursday that Israel would face reprisal after two sets of strikes on southern Lebanon the previous day
July 02, 2024Ukrainian officials say Russia has fired cruise and ballistic missiles at a broad area of Ukraine in a morning attack
February 15, 2024Israel has formally complained after a senior Vatican official spoke of “carnage” in Gaza
February 15, 2024French President Emmanuel will sign a bilateral security agreement with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday in Paris
February 15, 2024The British economy fell into recession at the end of 2023 as output shrank more than anticipated in the final three months of the year
February 15, 2024Conservationists in Kenya are celebrating as rhinos were returned to a grassy plateau that hasn’t seen them in decades
February 15, 2024Anthony Albanese has become first Australian prime minister to get engaged in office
February 15, 2024Shares are higher in Asia after Wall Street stocks recovered much of their sharp losses from a day before
February 15, 2024Palestinian medics say Israeli forces fired into the main hospital in southern Gaza, killing a patient and wounding six others
February 15, 2024Lebanon's state-run news agency says the civilian death toll from two Israeli strikes in Lebanon the day before has now risen to 10, making it the single deadliest day since in more than four months of near-daily cross-border exchanges
February 15, 2024A wealthy ex-general with ties to both Indonesia’s popular outgoing president and its dictatorial past looks set to be its next president, after unofficial tallies showed him taking a clear majority in the first round of voting
February 15, 2024Three people were in custody in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, facing questions about what led to a deadly mass shooting near the city's Super Bowl
July 02, 2024Sailors aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis
February 15, 2024What a difference a few decades can make
February 15, 2024The Munich Security Conference has been long regarded as a celebration of the U.S.-led post-World War II international order
February 15, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits Albania on Thursday to reaffirm relations with a key partner in the Balkans and an ally in supporting Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s full-scale invasion
February 15, 2024Greece's parliament is set to legalize same-sex civil marriage
February 15, 2024An unknown number of sacred statues of Hindu deities were stolen and smuggled abroad in the past
February 15, 2024Australia’s House of Representatives has ramped up pressure on the United States and Britain to end the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by passing a motion calling for the Australian citizen to be allowed to return to his home country
February 15, 2024Russia and China accused the United States and Britain of illegally attacking military sites used by Yemen’s Houthi rebels to launch missiles at commercial vessels in the Red Sea
February 15, 2024Japan has slipped to the world’s fourth-largest economy as government data showed it fell behind the size of Germany’s in 2023
February 15, 2024North Korea state media says leader Kim Jong Un has supervised a test of new surface-to-sea missiles and warned that the country would take a more aggressive military posture in disputed sea boundaries with war-divided rival South Korea
February 15, 2024The U.S., EU and other partners discussed Russia sanctions at a meeting in Brussels this week ahead of the two year
April 26, 2024A recent decline in arrests for illegal crossings on the U.S. border with Mexico may prove only temporary
February 14, 2024President Vladimir Putin says that Russia would prefer to see President Joe Biden win a second term, describing him as more experienced than Donald Trump
February 14, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin says he was surprised by a lack of sharp questions from U.S. television host Tucker Carlson in an interview that made headlines around the world last week.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Haiti’s government has announced that it is working on an official agreement with Kenyan officials to secure the long-awaited deployment of a police force from the east African country
February 14, 2024A fiery debate over public health and personal rights has gripped Puerto Rico as legislators clash with medical experts
February 14, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday that he preferred Joe Biden to Donald Trump but was willing to work with any U.S. president.
April 26, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024The family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova says it hasn't received a letter from her for a year
February 14, 2024The U.S. has imposed sanctions on three people and four firms — across Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey — for allegedly helping to export goods and technology purchased from U.S. companies to Iran and the nation’s central bank
February 14, 2024The slow-simmering cross-border conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group and Israeli forces has escalated, reviving fears that the daily clashes could expand into an all-out war
February 14, 2024A team of scientists says extreme wind and rain may contribute to bigger and worse desert locust outbreaks
February 14, 2024Representatives of several human rights organizations have held a press conference demanding the immediate release of a prominent attorney and activist detained last week
February 14, 2024Republican Speaker Mike Johnson says the U.S. House will not feel “rushed” to pass the $95 billion foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other allies
February 14, 2024A Japan space agency official says an unmanned spacecraft that landed on the moon last month has captured and transmitted data analyzing 10 lunar rocks, a greater-than-expected achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon
February 14, 2024Mexican regulators have ordered online retailers Amazon and Mercado Libre to reveal their algorithms, and wall off TV streaming to avoid stifling competition
February 14, 2024Myanmar’s military government says it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year
February 14, 2024A day after his latest hospital stay, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has hosted a virtual meeting on Ukraine to help replenish urgently needed ammunition and artillery for Kyiv, as its ammunition stocks run low in its fight against Russia
February 14, 2024Scandinavian Airlines says one of its planes has struck a fence at the Oslo airport, causing minor damage to the aircraft and no injuries
February 14, 2024Taiwan’s Coast Guard says two Chinese fishermen have drowned while being chased by the coast guard off the coast of Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago
February 14, 2024Protesting Indian farmers have clashed with police for a second consecutive day as tens of thousands tried to march to the capital to demand guaranteed prices for their produce
February 14, 2024NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says European allies and Canada have ramped up defense spending to record levels
February 14, 2024The war between Israel and Hamas, now in its fifth month, has devastated the health sector in the Gaza Strip, with less than half of its hospitals only partially functioning as scores of people are killed and wounded in daily bombardments
February 14, 2024Rescue workers battled to find nine workers trapped under earth after a landslide at a gold mine in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, the interior
April 26, 2024Palestinians have begun evacuating the main hospital in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis after weeks of heavy fighting had isolated the medical facility and claimed the lives of several people inside
February 14, 2024Eighteen out of 31 NATO countries will hit the target of 2% in defence spending of their gross domestic product in 2024, NATO's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on
April 26, 2024The United States supports Japan's efforts to hold talks with North Korea and hopes any dialogue would seek to resolve issues ranging from regional security to human
April 26, 2024The Kremlin, asked on Wednesday about a possible prisoner exchange with the United States, restated its position that such cases can only be resolved "in silence", meaning that it
May 07, 2024The Kremlin on Wednesday denied a Reuters report that Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a ceasefire in Ukraine to the United States via intermediaries.
April 26, 2024South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s office says that presumed North Korean hackers breached the personal emails of one of his staff members ahead of Yoon's trip to Europe in November
February 14, 2024Palestinians jammed into their last refuge in Gaza voiced growing fear on Wednesday that Israel will soon launch a planned assault on the southern city of Rafah
April 26, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a stump speech for his re-election on a global stage in the United Arab Emirates, describing his years in power as pushing for “minimum government, maximum governance.”
February 14, 2024Japan’s space agency says its new flagship H3 rocket will have a second test flight on Saturday, two days after an originally planned liftoff was postponed due to a bad weather forecast at the launch site in southwestern Japan
February 14, 2024Ukraine’s military says it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea using naval drones, a report that has not been confirmed by Russian forces
February 14, 2024Turkey's interior minister says hundreds of rescuers have been deployed to search for at least nine workers who are reported missing after a massive landslide engulfed a gold mine in eastern Turkey
February 14, 2024Asian shares have declined after disappointingly high U.S. inflation data sent shares sliding on Wall Street and raised prospects that interest rates will remain elevated for longer
February 14, 2024Explosions have struck a natural gas pipeline in Iran
February 14, 2024Lawmakers have begun a debate on a landmark bill to legalize same-sex marriage that would make Greece the first Orthodox Christian country to do so
February 14, 2024The United Nations chief is warning that climate chaos and food crises are increasing threats to global peace
February 14, 2024Russia launched several missile attacks on the town of Selydove in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, damaging a hospital, destroying a dozen residential flats and injuring several people,
July 02, 2024South Korea’s military says it has detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into waters off its northeastern coast in its fifth test of such weapons since January
February 14, 2024North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its east coast on Wednesday, South Korea's military said. The missiles were launched about 9 a.m.
April 26, 2024Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s former White House adviser and his son-in-law, is defending his business dealings with the Saudi crown prince after leaving the U.S. government
February 14, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will urge allies to increase defence production to help Ukraine's war with Russia, his office said on Tuesday ahead of a diplomatic tour to
April 26, 2024Ibrahim Hasouna was staying with a friend when heard about the Israeli airstrikes near the house where his family was staying
February 13, 2024The United Nations on Tuesday warned against an Israeli ground invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, saying an offensive could "lead to a slaughter" in
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden says Donald Trump’s comments calling into question the U_S_ commitment to defend its NATO allies from attack were “dangerous” and “un-American.”
February 13, 2024Two climate activists have targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass
February 13, 2024The party of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and its allies have announced they will jointly form a coalition government
February 13, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron has canceled plans to move Paris’ famed second-hand booksellers’ boxes from the banks of the Seine River in preparation for the opening ceremony of the Olympics in July
February 13, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said he had spoken on Monday with Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who is being detained in Russia.
April 26, 2024For centuries, women in one English town have run a pancake race to mark the day before the start of Lent
February 13, 2024Millions of Indonesians are choosing a new president as the world’s third-largest democracy aspires to become a global economic powerhouse just over 25 years since emerging from a brutal authoritarian era
February 13, 2024The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that human rights activist Rocio San Miguel and members of her family have been arrested in Venezuela, the White House said on
April 26, 2024Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used powerful Pegasus spyware illegally and targeted a “very long” list of victims
February 13, 2024Before there was John and Yoko, there was just Yoko Ono
February 13, 2024Nine miners were missing after a landslide at an Anagold Mining operation in eastern Turkey on Tuesday, the energy ministry said, with rescue efforts under way.
February 13, 2024The South African government says it has lodged an “urgent request” with the U.N.’s International Court of Justice to consider whether Israel’s military operations targeting the southern Gaza city of Rafah are a breach of provisional orders the court handed down last month in a case alleging genocide
February 13, 2024Lab-created diamonds come with sparkling claims: that they are ethically made by machines running on renewable energy
February 13, 2024Nine workers are believed to be trapped underground after a huge landslide hit a gold mine in eastern Turkey
February 13, 2024The Senate has passed an emergency spending package that would provide military aid to Ukraine and Israel, replenish U.S. weapons systems and provide food, water and other humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza
February 13, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has arrived in the United Arab Emirates on his seventh trip to the nation
February 13, 2024The violins, violas and cellos played by the Orchestra of the Sea in its debut performance Monday at Milan’s famed Teatro alla Scala carry with them tales of desperation and redemption
February 13, 2024The Senate has passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan after almost a week of debate and growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad
February 13, 2024Two officials say Israel and Hamas are making progress toward a deal that aims to bring about a cease-fire and free hostages held in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip
February 13, 2024Japan’s space agency has postponed the second test flight of its new flagship rocket H3 series planned for this week because of bad weather forecast at the launch site
February 13, 2024Nearly two-thirds of American Jews feel less secure in the U.S. than they did a year ago
February 13, 2024The head of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has warned that Iran is “not entirely transparent” regarding its atomic program
February 13, 2024The world has entered an era of increasing instability as countries around the globe boost military spending in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas attack on Israel and China’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea
February 13, 2024Tens of thousands of Indian farmers are marching toward the capital to demand guaranteed crop prices, renewing a movement from two years ago that succeeded in getting the government to repeal contentious new agricultural laws
February 13, 2024The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was ready to support any action leading to the release of Israeli hostages and a ceasefire in Gaza.
April 26, 2024Russia has put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list, The move by the country’s Interior Ministry marks the first time that a foreign leader has been put on a wanted list in Russia
February 13, 2024China has called on Israel to halt military operations in Gaza as soon as possible, a day after Israeli forces rescued two hostages from the Gaza Strip in a dramatic operation that also killed at least 74 Palestinians, according to Palestinian hospital officials
February 13, 2024Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who last year returned from more than a decade of self-imposed exile to serve a prison sentence for misdeeds committed while in office, has been granted parole and could be released this weekend, the country’s justice minister announced Tuesday
February 13, 2024The Australian government says will outlaw doxxing – the malicious release online of personal or identifying information without the subject’s permission – after pro-Palestinian activists published personal details about hundreds of Jewish people in Australia
February 13, 2024The CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI says that the dangers that keep him awake at night regarding artificial intelligence are the “very subtle societal misalignments” that could make the systems wreck havoc
February 13, 2024Indian authorities have deployed heavy security and barricaded borders points leading to New Delhi to stop thousands of protesting farmers from entering the capital
February 13, 2024Two years after Thailand made pot legal, the country appears set to crack down on its freewheeling drug market with a ban on “recreational” use
February 13, 2024Asian shares have gained in morning trading, as investors awaited an update on U.S. consumer inflation that might help set the Federal Reserve's policy on interest rates
February 13, 2024When Indonesians cast their votes on Wednesday for a new president in one of the world’s biggest elections, the stakes will also be high for the United States and China
February 13, 2024Family and friends are gathering in Georgia this week as funerals begin for three Army Reserve soldiers killed in a recent drone attack in Jordan
February 13, 2024Years before starting a family of her own, Stella Belia was already waging a tireless campaign for legal recognition
February 13, 2024Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy, will open its polls Wednesday to nearly 205 million eligible voters in presidential and legislative elections, the fifth since Southeast Asia’s largest economy began democratic reforms in 1998
February 13, 2024Russia is accusing the West of sabotaging agreements that would have prevented the war in Ukraine – but the U.S. and its allies put the blame squarely on Moscow, saying there is no escaping that President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion
February 13, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson is sharply criticizing a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other countries
February 13, 2024One actor won’t be nervous as the camera comes in for a close-up at the British Academy Film Awards
February 13, 2024Donald Trump’s claim that he once told a NATO ally that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to “delinquent” members of the group sent shockwaves through Europe over the weekend
February 12, 2024France has delivered a written proposal to Beirut aimed at ending hostilities with Israel and settling the disputed Lebanon-Israel
April 26, 2024Kelvin Kiptum’s family says their dreams and future hopes have been shattered by the death of the marathon record holder in a car crash on Sunday
February 12, 2024U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized again and was put under general anesthesia on Monday to address a bladder issue.
April 26, 2024A Canadian man has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his wife, three young children and a 17-year-old female relative
February 12, 2024Canada on Monday joined those urging Israel not to mount a ground invasion against Gaza's southern Rafah neighborhood, saying such an attack would be devastating for Palestinians.
April 26, 2024Mexican armed forces said on Monday they had dismantled a clandestine meth "mega-laboratory" in northern Sonora state, marking the largest drug laboratory busted under the
April 26, 2024The White House on Monday pressed Israel to work toward a pause in the Gaza conflict to win freedom for more hostages held by Hamas and rapidly increase the flow of humanitarian
April 26, 2024France condemned “hostile” disinformation maneuvers from Russia
February 12, 2024Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has canceled his trip to Brussels to meet with NATO ministers and work on Ukraine military aid as he remains hospitalized while dealing with complications from prostate cancer
February 12, 2024The U.S. government says it has seized a Boeing 747 cargo plane that officials say was previously sold by a sanctioned Iranian airline to a state-owned Venezuelan firm in violation of American export control laws
February 12, 2024The U.S. government said it is spending more than $7 million a year to maintain a superyacht it seized from a sanctioned Russian oligarch, and urged a judge to let it
February 12, 2024Donald Trump says he once warned that he would allow Russia to do whatever it wants to NATO member nations that are “delinquent” in devoting 2% of their gross domestic product to defense
February 12, 2024The Israeli raid in the southern Gaza Strip lasted less than 90 minutes
February 12, 2024Hungary’s long-serving government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán faces a rare political crisis after the president resigned amid public anger over her pardoning of a man convicted in a child sexual abuse case
February 12, 2024Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister says a large oil spill near the twin-island nation in the eastern Caribbean has caused a “national emergency.”
February 12, 2024Throngs of revelers have taken to the streets of Germany’s Carnival strongholds along with floats that satirized the Ukrainian and Russian presidents, German politicians, former U.S. President Donald Trump and many others
February 12, 2024Cambodia’s Health Ministry says the brother of a boy who died last week from bird flu has tested positive for the virus
February 12, 2024The final results of Pakistan's parliamentary elections are out
February 12, 2024Recent comments made by U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump on NATO should be a wake-up call for NATO members who haven't invested much in defense, Estonia's Prime Minister
April 26, 2024The Israeli military has rescued two hostages from the Gaza Strip early in a dramatic operation that Palestinian hospital officials say also killed at least 67 Palestinians in airstrikes
February 12, 2024Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk is traveling to Paris and Berlin in a diplomatic effort to rebuild key alliances
February 12, 2024Despite their rocky start, Argentine President Javier Milei and Pope Francis appear to have hit it off
February 12, 2024Turkey’s first astronaut has returned home to a hero’s welcome as a symbol of the country’s advances in technology and aerospace
February 12, 2024Judges in the Netherlands have ordered the Dutch government to halt the export of F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, citing a clear risk of violations of international law
February 12, 2024A new United Nations report says nearly half of the world's migratory species are in decline
February 12, 2024Thousands of supporters of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan and members of other parties are blocking highways and striking to protest alleged rigging of last week’s election
February 12, 2024Human Rights Watch says Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, It says this is jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans
February 12, 2024Egypt has threatened to void its decades-long peace treaty with Israel if Israel begins a large-scale offensive on Rafah, where some 1.4 million Palestinians shelter in densely packed tent camps on the border with Egypt
February 12, 2024Indonesians on Wednesday will elect the successor to popular President Joko Widodo, who is serving his second and final term
February 12, 2024President Joe Biden is hosting Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Washington and the two leaders are expected to discuss the ongoing effort to free hostages in Gaza and growing concern over a possible Israeli military operation in the port city of Rafah
February 12, 2024A ship has come under attack by two missiles in the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the latest attack believed to have been carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
February 12, 2024Rio de Janeiro’s Salgueiro samba school has paid tribute to Brazil’s largest Indigenous group, the Yanomami, crafting its giant floats, costumes and songs based on the group’s ancient culture and traditions
February 12, 2024Asian shares are mixed with most regional markets closed for holidays
February 12, 2024India’s Foreign Ministry says Qatar has freed eight retired Indian navy officers who had been given death sentences for alleged spying that were commuted last year
February 12, 2024President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign is now on TikTok, even though he has expressed national security concerns over the platform and banned it on federal devices
February 12, 2024The Israeli military says it has rescued two hostages from captivity in the Gaza Strip
February 12, 2024Israeli strikes on Gaza's southern city of Rafah killed 22 people and wounded dozens, local health officials said on Monday, after U.S.
July 02, 2024The Iraqi government met again with the U.S. government on how to draw down American troops who have been deployed there for years combating the Islamic State
February 12, 2024A fellow athlete says marathon world record-holder Kelvin Kiptum has died in a car crash in Kenya
February 11, 2024The president’s national security spokesman John Kirby is getting an expanded role at the White House
February 11, 2024A pro-settler organization says the population of Israeli settlers in the West Bank increased nearly 3% in 2023 and expects growth to accelerate this year
February 11, 2024As a growing number of Republicans oppose U.S. aid to Ukraine, the Senate’s leaders are arguing in strong terms that the money is crucial to pushing back against Russian President Vladimir Putin and maintaining America’s global standing
February 11, 2024More than 1,500 protesters have gathered in central Athens to oppose legislation that would legalize same-sex marriage in Greece
February 11, 2024NATO's leader is warning that Donald Trump was putting the safety of U.S. troops and their allies at risk
February 11, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview aired on Sunday that "enough" of the 132 remaining Israeli hostages held in Gaza are alive to justify Israel's ongoing war in
February 11, 2024The death toll from a massive landslide that hit a gold-mining village in the southern Philippines has risen to 54 with 63 people still missing
February 11, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he has not spoken to U.S.
April 26, 2024Israel's finance minister has slammed a decision by the financial ratings agency Moody’s to downgrade Israel’s credit rating
February 11, 2024The Abu Mustafa family's tent is hard against the high concrete and metal fence separating Gaza from Egypt in Rafah, the last
April 26, 2024Madagascar’s Parliament has passed a law allowing for the chemical and in some cases surgical castration of those found guilty of the rape of a minor
February 11, 2024Pakistan's election body says independent candidates have secured the biggest number of parliamentary seats following last week's polls
February 11, 2024Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services
February 11, 2024Two European officials criticized Donald Trump on Sunday after comments the former U.S. president made about not protecting NATO allies who aren't paying enough from a potential
July 02, 2024Hundreds of thousands of people chanted "Death to Israel" in rallies across Iran to mark the Islamic Revolution's 45th anniversary on Sunday, with some burning U.S. and Israeli flags
May 07, 2024Egypt has threatened to suspend its peace treaty with Israel if the Israeli Gaza offensive expands into the densely populated border town of Rafah
February 11, 2024Any Israeli ground offensive in Rafah on the Gaza border will "blow up" the hostage exchange negotiations," Hamas-run Aqsa Television channel quoted a senior Hamas leader as saying on
April 26, 2024Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have launched 45 drones over Ukraine in a five-and-a-half-hour barrage
February 11, 2024Argentina’s faith and politics have come together at the Vatican
February 11, 2024Finnish voters are choosing between two experienced voters to be their next president
February 11, 2024Iran has marked the 45th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid tensions gripping the wider Middle East over Israel’s continued war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
February 11, 2024Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia shows how far the world’s third-largest democracy has veered from a brutal authoritarian era a decade ago
February 11, 2024As chances rise of a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch in the U.S. presidential election race, America’s allies are bracing for a bumpy ride
February 11, 2024As the Super Bowl approaches, there could be problems for guacamole, a favorite game-time food in America
February 11, 2024Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza has also wreaked havoc on the Palestinian economy in the West Bank
February 11, 2024The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab has claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer at a military base in the Somali capital
February 11, 2024Republican front-runner Donald Trump says he warned NATO allies as president that he “would encourage” Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to members who are “delinquent."
February 11, 2024Russia's registration of candidates for the March presidential election has closed, TASS reported on Sunday, with a list including President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to win, and
April 26, 2024A desperate rescue attempt in Gaza by medics with the Palestinian Red Crescent has ended with the discovery of their ambulance, blackened and destroyed
February 10, 2024Myanmar’s military government has for the first time activated a decade-old conscription law that makes young men and women subject to at least two years of military service if called up, effective immediately
February 10, 2024The Israeli military says it has discovered tunnels underneath the main headquarters of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees in Gaza City
February 10, 2024Hundreds of antifascist activists have gathered in Hungary’s capital to oppose an annual commemoration held by far-right groups
February 10, 2024Hungary’s conservative president has resigned amid public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case
February 10, 2024The CEO of one of Nigeria’s largest banks was killed on Friday when a helicopter he was riding in crashed in the Mojave Desert in Southern California
February 10, 2024U.S. Sen. Chris Coons and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz were seeing double when they met in Washington, D
February 10, 2024The enduring image of the 2022 World Cup was Lionel Messi holding aloft soccer’s biggest prize in Qatar's spectacular Lusail Stadium
February 10, 2024With fireworks, feasts and red envelopes stuffed with cash for the kids, numerous Asian nations and overseas communities have welcomed the arrival of the Lunar New Year
February 10, 2024Violence has continued this week in the Gaza Strip as well as across the broader Middle East
February 10, 2024Pakistan has hit back at criticism over the conduct of its parliamentary elections, which were held amid sporadic militant attacks and an unprecedented suspension of all mobile phone services
February 10, 2024Will she make it
February 10, 2024Pakistan held its parliamentary election with 44 parties fighting for a share of 266 seats in the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament
February 10, 2024A Russian drone strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city, killed at least seven people overnight, including three children, the regional governor says
February 10, 2024A hospital official and AP journalists say Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 28 Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah
February 10, 2024As the world's third-largest democracy prepares for national elections on Wednesday, women and minority candidates face questions about whether voters will accept them
February 10, 2024The Syrian military says Israeli airstrikes have hit several sites on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus
February 10, 2024A Catholic laywoman who lived in 18th-century Argentina and joined the Jesuits in their evangelical mission throughout the South American country will become the first female saint from the home country of Pope Francis on Sunday
February 10, 2024Senegalese President Macky Sall defended his decision to postpone elections as violent protests erupted across the country
February 10, 2024The White House is downplaying sharp criticism from President Joe Biden and a senior national security official over Israel's war against Hamas
February 10, 2024The U.S. Senate is slogging past far-right Republican opposition to helping Ukraine fight Russia
February 10, 2024A new directive by President Joe Biden is appearing to ease a split among Democrats over his military support for Israel’s war in Gaza
February 09, 2024To thunderous applause, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor coronated King Momo, marking the beginning of the symbolic Carnival monarch’s five-day reign over the revelry
February 09, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin sat down in the Kremlin for an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson
February 09, 2024Country music fans are celebrating Toby Keith's rich collection of songs in the wake of his death from stomach cancer
February 09, 2024An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a “cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future
February 09, 2024Palestinian civilians in Rafah in the Gaza Strip need to be protected, but there should not be any forced mass displacement, the United Nations said on
April 26, 2024Israel has identified the southern Gaza city of Rafah as the next target in its military offensive against Hamas
February 09, 2024The governing body that oversees figure skating has defended its decision to award the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics to the Russian squad
February 09, 2024The director of the main U.N. aid agency for Palestinians says Israeli restrictions are preventing food for 1.1 million people from reaching war-battered Gaza
February 09, 2024Pope Francis has met with Argentine pilgrims who are in town for this weekend’s canonization of the first female saint from his home country
February 09, 2024Meta has removed Instagram and Facebook accounts run on behalf of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after criticism over his support for Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the monthslong war still raging in the Gaza Strip
February 09, 2024An EU effort to impose sanctions on Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in the West Bank has stalled due to objections from Hungary and the
April 26, 2024Thousands of doctors in the early years of their careers in England are to go on strike later this month for another five-day stretch as their long-standing pay dispute with the British government remains in stasis
February 09, 2024Prince Harry has reached an out-of-court settlement with a tabloid newspaper publisher that invaded his privacy with phone hacking and other illegal snooping
February 09, 2024Ukraine's new army chief says his immediate goals include improving the rotation of troops out of the front lines and harnessing the power of new technology
February 09, 2024President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan has officially won another term in office with 92.12% of the vote, according to the country's Central Election Commission
February 09, 2024Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom have been returned to the kingdom
February 09, 2024Farmers in Spain and Poland are demonstrating as part of ongoing protests against European Union farming policies and to demand measures to combat production cost hikes, reduced profits and unfair competition from non-EU countries
February 09, 2024Calls for Hungary’s conservative president to resign grew on Friday amid outrage over her pardoning of a person convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case
February 09, 2024German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will lend European support for U.S.
July 02, 2024A volcanic eruption in southwestern Iceland appears to have subsided, though scientists are warning that the area may experience further eruptions in the coming months
February 09, 2024Finland's national carrier Finnair is asking passengers to be weighed voluntarily and anonymously so that it can update their standard weight figures
February 09, 2024A Nasdaq-listed Chinese technology company that makes parts for self-driving vehicles has threatened to sue the U.S. government after it was included in a list of companies the Pentagon says have links to the Chinese military
February 09, 2024Israel has bombed targets in Rafah, after U.S. officials warned Israel against expanding its Gaza ground offensive to the southern city where more than half of the territory’s 2.3 million people have sought refuge
February 09, 2024The organizer of a much-hyped soccer match that intended to showcase Lionel Messi in Hong Kong says it will offer a partial refund following days of backlash from angry fans and the government over the absence of the World Cup winner
February 09, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher as Tokyo's benchmark momentarily touched a 34-year high, while many regional markets were closed for the Lunar New Year holiday
February 09, 2024Malaysia’s top court has struck down over a dozen Sharia laws in an opposition-run state it said were unconstitutional and invalid
February 09, 2024The United Arab Emirates said it succeeded in mediating the release of 100 Russian prisoners of war in exchange for 100 war prisoners from the Ukrainian side.
April 26, 2024U.S.
July 02, 2024At least nine people, including children and women, were killed in Israeli airstrikes overnight into Friday in the central area of the Gaza Strip and in the southern city of Rafah on the border with Egypt, witnesses and hospital officials said
February 09, 2024In cities along a section of the Drina River that forms a natural border between Bosnia and Serbia, simple, durable gravestones mark the final resting places of dozens of migrants who drowned in recent years trying to reach Western Europe
February 09, 2024A small group of families of Israelis who are hostages of Hamas believes that only continued Israeli military pressure on the militant group, rather than a deal, will free the captives
February 09, 2024President Joe Biden is hosting German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for talks as anxiety grows in Europe about an impasse in Congress over new aid for Ukraine
February 09, 2024Tradeoffs between strong growth and a healthy environment are not dominating the headlines in the runup to the Feb. 14 presidential election in Indonesia, the world's third-largest democracy
February 09, 2024A U.S. general says combat exercises between the United States and the Philippines that involve thousands of forces each year will not be affected by America’s focus on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
February 09, 2024The results of Pakistan’s elections were being delayed by connectivity issues a day after the vote that was marred by sporadic violence, a mobile phone service shutdown and the sidelining of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party
February 09, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin has used an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson to urge Washington to recognize Moscow’s interests and persuade Ukraine to sit down for talks
February 09, 2024The U.S. military has conducted new airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels
February 09, 2024North Korean media say leader Kim Jong Un has restated he has no desire for diplomacy with South Korea and that the North would annihilate its rival if provoked
February 09, 2024The United Nations chief is urging the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.”
February 09, 2024The pomp, the glamour, the conflicts, the characters - when it comes to the United Kingdom’s royal family, the Americans can’t seem to get enough
February 09, 2024Canada’s largest communications company is ending multiple television newscasts and making other programming cuts after its parent company announced 4,800 layoffs and the sale of 45 of its 103 regional radio stations
February 08, 2024The chief of the National Guard says the U.S. is still able to train Ukrainian pilots on F-16 fighter jets despite the U.S. running out of funds to send additional weapons and assistance to Kyiv
February 08, 2024The Minneapolis City Council has overridden a mayoral veto with a 9-3 vote and approved a resolution that calls for a cease-fire in Gaza and for an end to U.S. military funding to Israel
February 08, 2024Britain's King Charles is doing "extremely well", his wife Queen Camilla said on Thursday, in her first public engagement since the 75-year-old monarch was diagnosed with cancer.
July 02, 2024Upon receiving his first treatment for cancer, Britain's King Charles III retreated to Sandringham House, a private estate
February 08, 2024The man Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has named to lead the country’s military has played a key role in some of Ukraine’s biggest victories in its war with Russia, including overseeing the successful defense of the capital in the early days of the invasion
February 08, 2024Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 100 prisoners of war from each side in the nearly two-year-old war, with the United Arab Emirates acting as an intermediary, both countries said on
July 02, 2024West Africa’s regional bloc says the coup-hit nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger are in haste to withdraw their membership of the association without following its rules of exit
February 08, 2024A U.S. strike in Baghdad that killed a commander with the powerful Kataib Hezbollah paramilitary group this week highlighted the ambiguous status of the country’s Iran-allied armed factions
February 08, 2024Sequoia Capital China, Qualcomm Ventures and three other U.S. venture capital firms plowed at least $3 billion into Chinese tech companies that support Beijing's military and
April 26, 2024The family of two American brothers trapped in Gaza says Israeli forces have detained the two U.S. citizens in a raid on their home
February 08, 2024The United States is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of key leaders in the Hive ransomware organized crime group
April 26, 2024The Czech Republic’s central bank has cut its key interest rate for the second straight time in an effort to help the struggling economy
February 08, 2024Brazilian police have searched homes and offices of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s top aides in an investigation alleging they plotted a coup and that the ex-president was aware of the plan
February 08, 2024Finland's government says that it will extend the closure of the country's border with Russia until April 14
February 08, 2024In many Asian cultures, the Lunar New Year is a celebration marking the arrival of spring and the start of a new year on the lunisolar calendar
February 08, 2024South African President Cyril Ramaphosa confronted some of his country’s deep problems in his annual State of the Nation speech in Parliament on Thursday
February 08, 2024Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk says that U.S. Republican senators should be “ashamed” for leaving about $60 billion in wartime aid for Ukraine in limbo in a recent vote
February 08, 2024Meta's oversight board said on Friday it will examine two cases on how the social media giant handled potentially misleading posts that were shared ahead of the
April 26, 2024Ukrainian forces are claiming they shot down a Russian attack helicopter in eastern Ukraine near the city of Avdiivka
February 08, 2024European Union lawmakers are calling for an independent investigation into allegations of vote-rigging in Serbia
February 08, 2024A panel of U.N.-backed experts that focuses on children’s human rights is calling on Russia to prevent efforts to rewrite school curricula and textbooks to reflect the government’s “political and military agenda” including in Ukraine
February 08, 2024German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his talks with U.S.
April 26, 2024A German Navy frigate has set sail toward the Red Sea, where Berlin plans to have it take part in an EU mission to defend cargo ships against attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels that are hampering trade
February 08, 2024Turkey's new central bank chief says the work to tame inflation — namely through interest rate hikes — will continue “with determination.”
February 08, 2024Israeli airstrikes have killed over a dozen people overnight, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Hamas’ cease-fire terms and vowed to expand the offensive into the southern Gaza town
February 08, 2024Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 13 people in Rafah on the border with Egypt
February 08, 2024Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has urged more than a thousand Indian computer code developers to use the company’s artificial intelligence tools being deployed across its products
February 08, 2024Israel's parliament gave its initial approval to an amended 2024 state budget that adds tens of billions of shekels to fund Israel's war against Hamas, with higher defence
April 26, 2024Shares have risen in China after Beijing ousted its top stock market regulator and announced more funding for hard-strapped property developers
February 08, 2024Russia’s main election authority has refused to allow a politician opposing Moscow’s military action in Ukraine on the ballot for the upcoming presidential election
February 08, 2024When they make history at the Paris Games, Olympic medalists will take a bit of France and its history home, too
February 08, 2024The Berlin Zoo is mourning Ingo the Flamingo, its oldest resident, who died at what is thought to be 75 years of age
February 08, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has left the Middle East with public divisions between the United States and Israel at perhaps their worst level since Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza began in October
February 08, 2024Iceland’s Meteorological Office says a volcano is erupting in the southwestern part of the country, sending semi-molten rock spewing toward a nearby settlement for the third time in recent weeks
February 08, 2024Share are mostly higher in Asia after the S&P 500 neared the 5,000 level for the first time
February 08, 2024As Indonesia votes this month to replace popular President Joko Widodo, all three candidates have all been aggressively seeking to win the votes of younger people, reaching out to them on the apps they use, through the K-pop music many love, and even video gaming events
February 08, 2024Ukraine’s ranks are depleted by two years of war
February 08, 2024A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria and one of the men who contributed to his death
February 08, 2024Police in Kenya say a murder suspect who was awaiting extradition to the United States has escaped from police custody
February 08, 2024The European climate agency says for the eighth straight month in January, Earth was record hot
February 08, 2024Pakistan is electing a new parliament Thursday as surging militant attacks and cries of foul have cast a shadow over the vote and deep political divisions make a coalition government seem more likely
February 08, 2024As El Salvador’s electoral body begins a vote-by-vote count of the country’s elections last week, the political opposition warned they could ask to nullify results of the legislative elections due to irregularities
February 08, 2024Mediators from the U.S., Qatar and Egypt scrambled to forge a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in their four-month-old war in the
July 02, 2024Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli has received political asylum from Nicaragua days after the country’s Supreme Court denied his appeal over a money laundering conviction that carried a 10-year sentence
February 07, 2024For years, Juan Carlos Bonilla, better known as “El Tigre,” was a feared figure in Honduras
February 07, 2024Ecuador’s high court has decriminalized euthanasia and ordered lawmakers and health officials to draft rules and regulations for the procedure
February 07, 2024The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on Ecuador criminal group Los Choneros and its leader, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
April 26, 2024A U.N. team has begun its mission to northern Gaza to assess conditions for civilians who remain there and assess what needs to be done to allow displaced Palestinians to return
April 26, 2024Militia officials say a drone strike has hit a car in the Iraqi capital and killed three members of the powerful Kataib Hezbollah militia, including a high-ranking commander
February 07, 2024Chilean prosecutors have released more details about the death of former President Sebastian Piñera
February 07, 2024Israel and Hamas are examining proposed terms for a deal meant to bring about a cease-fire in the four-month-old war in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of dozens of hostages who are still held captive there
February 07, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday rejected a proposal for a Gaza war truce by Hamas, saying victory was within reach and only total defeat of the movement
April 26, 2024Experts say the number of monarch butterflies at wintering areas in Mexico dropped by 59% this year to the second lowest level since record keeping began
February 07, 2024For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported to the United States
February 07, 2024Senior commander Abu Baqir al-Saadi of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed armed group in Iraq that the Pentagon linked to an attack that killed
July 02, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach as he rejected the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return
April 26, 2024Prince Harry flew more than 5,000 miles to see his father after King Charles III was diagnosed with cancer
February 07, 2024U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan says he and his NATO counterparts have cautioned Hungary against further delaying Sweden’s membership in the military alliance
February 07, 2024ExxonMobil says it plans to explore for oil and gas in a disputed area off South America’s coast where the Venezuelan military had previously expelled two U.S. oil companies
February 07, 2024A former Honduran police chief known as "El Tigre" has pleaded guilty to a U.S. criminal charge, court records showed on Wednesday, days before the country's former
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden is sending several senior aides to Michigan to meet with Arab American and Muslim leaders
February 07, 2024As Puerto Rico struggles with chronic power outages and a decaying electric grid, federal officials believe the U.S. territory that is heavily dependent on fossil fuels can fully shift to clean energy by 2050, according to a new study that has been two years in the making
February 07, 2024Italian sprinter Marcell Jacobs still feels like he has something to prove as he prepares to defend gold in the 100 meters at this year's Paris Olympics
February 07, 2024Residents say one of eastern Congo’s most active rebel groups is attacking a community considered the last line of defense before the region’s largest city of Goma
February 07, 2024Zimbabwe’s Cabinet has agreed to back a move in Parliament to abolish the death penalty
February 07, 2024About half of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the U.S. believe the country is giving too much support of Israelis and not enough for Palestinians amid the ongoing war in Gaza
February 07, 2024U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing mounting pressure to apologize for a remark he made about transgender people, moments after he was informed that the mother of a murdered transgender teenager was in Parliament
February 07, 2024Beijing has replaced the head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission in an apparent effort to restore confidence in the stock market following major losses in domestic share prices
February 07, 2024Since before Charlie Chaplin made bread rolls dance in “The Gold Rush,” cinema and cuisine have been as intertwined as the spaghetti of “The Lady and the Tramp.”
February 07, 2024Thousands of farmers in Spain have staged a second day of tractor protests across the country
February 07, 2024Prince William is returning to royal duties for the first time since his father King Charles III announced his cancer diagnosis and his wife Kate was hospitalized for abdominal surgery
February 07, 2024War underwriters have raised the premiums they charge to U.S., British and Israeli firms by as high as 50% for ships transiting the Red Sea and
February 07, 2024Taylor Swift fans in Tokyo are excited to see the American pop superstar’s first performance immediately after her latest Grammy win and the announcement of a new album this week
February 07, 2024The Kremlin confirms that Russian President Vladimir Putin has been interviewed by former Fox News host Tucker Carlson
February 07, 2024The title of Spain’s Eurovision song “Zorra" can be translated as an anti-female slur, and it's causing a storm among conservatives and feminists
February 07, 2024A bipartisan $118 billion U.S.
April 26, 2024France is paying tribute Wednesday to French victims of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, in a national ceremony led by President Emmanuel Macron
February 07, 2024A top U.N. official says that two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians
February 07, 2024Hamas has put forward a detailed plan for a new cease-fire and hostage release deal with Israel, which will be discussed when U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli leaders
February 07, 2024Ground staff for Lufthansa have walked off the job at five major German airports, causing the airline to cancel hundreds of flights
February 07, 2024Swedish officials say they have decided to close their investigation into the September 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, which were built to carry Russian natural gas to Germany, because they don’t have jurisdiction
February 07, 2024Chinese and U.S. officials have met in Beijing for talks on tough issues dividing the two largest economies as trade and tariffs increasingly draw attention in the runup to the U.S. presidential election
February 07, 2024Authorities say Russia has fired cruise and ballistic missiles and Shahed-type drones at targets across Ukraine
February 07, 2024After a strong El Nino, global weather is poised to transition to La Nina in the second half of 2024, a pattern typically bringing
July 02, 2024Officials say a powerful bomb has exploded at an election office of an independent candidate in southwest Pakistan ahead of the parliamentary elections, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than a dozen others
February 07, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to brief Israel’s leaders on Hamas’ response to a proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of scores of hostages as the war enters a fifth month with both sides dug in and pursuing thus far elusive goals
February 07, 2024Japanese officials say a pod of killer whales that was trapped in drift ice off the northern main island of Hokkaido, prompting concern from environmental groups, has apparently safely escaped
February 07, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher, tracking gains on Wall Street
February 07, 2024Hamas has proposed a three-stage ceasefire plan in response to Qatari and Egyptian mediators in which the group would exchange Israeli hostages it captured on Oct. 7 for Palestinian
April 26, 2024The war in Gaza has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe that has prompted shortages of the most basic necessities
February 07, 2024The palace’s disclosure that King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer shattered centuries of British history and tradition
February 07, 2024Attacks on shipping in the Red Sea by Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are disrupting a key trade route for energy supplies to Europe
February 07, 2024Pakistanis are heading to the polls to elect a new parliament on Thursday in a race that essentially boils down to two top parties
February 07, 2024Syria's military says Israeli airstrikes over the central city of Homs and nearby areas have killed and wounded civilians
February 07, 2024Azerbaijanis are voting Wednesday in an election almost certain to see incumbent President Ilhan Aliyev chosen to serve another seven-year term
February 07, 2024A bill to provide Israel with more military aid has gone down in defeat in the House
February 07, 2024The Pentagon believes it has identified the mechanical failure in an Osprey aircraft that led to a fatal crash in Japan and the grounding of the fleet for two months
February 06, 2024Marauding hyenas have killed a man and wounded two people near a university outside the Kenyan capital, prompting hundreds of students from the school to block streets to protest what they called a lack of security
February 06, 2024King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis heaps more pressure on the British monarchy, which is still evolving after the 70-year reign of the late Queen Elizabeth II
February 06, 2024Weeks of negotiations to form a new ruling coalition in the Netherlands led by anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders appeared to have ended fruitlessly
February 06, 2024U.S. senators have confirmed a veteran of U.S.-Asian engagement and security as the State Department’s second-ranking diplomat
February 06, 2024A former rebel leader has made a surprise appearance in Haiti’s capital amid large protests across the country for the second consecutive day, demanding the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry
February 06, 2024Israel has begun investigating possible breaches of the law by its forces during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, the military said on Tuesday, following reports
April 26, 2024West Africa’s regional bloc says authorities in Senegal should hold the presidential election this month as scheduled instead of delaying it by 10 months
February 06, 2024Facebook and Instagram users will start seeing made-by-AI labels on deepfake images that appear on their social media feeds, part of a broader tech industry initiative to sort between what’s real and not
February 06, 2024An Australian computer scientist who says he's the mystery creator behind bitcoin has testified in a London court about the cryptocurrency's origins
February 06, 2024A former Royal Air Forces pilot has taken to the skies in a Spitfire at 102 years old
February 06, 2024Senate Democrats are pushing to prevent the Biden administration from bypassing Congress when approving weapons sales to Israel as the Jewish state's war against Hamas comes under increasing scrutiny
February 06, 2024A Sri Lankan Cabinet minister has resigned after being arrested in a scandal over the government's alleged purchase of counterfeit drugs during the country’s economic crisis
February 06, 2024Nigeria’s authorities have called for caution over what they described as “veiled threats” against their citizens living in South Africa before both countries meet in an Africa Cup of Nations semifinal
February 06, 2024The news of King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis has refocused attention on the responsibilities of Britain’s monarch
February 06, 2024More than 300 people are still missing as wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days and killed 123 people appear to be burning themselves out
February 06, 2024Emperor Constantine now has a reconstructed statue befitting his larger-than-life role in history
February 06, 2024Colombia’s government and the nation’s largest remaining guerrilla group have reached a last-minute deal to extend a cease-fire that began last year by six months
February 06, 2024Graffiti and campaign posters have turned streets and office towers in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv into a tapestry of the rise and fall of hopes of recovering hostages held in
April 26, 2024As King Charles III receives treatment for cancer, he remains Britain’s monarch and head of state
February 06, 2024Oil and natural gas giant BP has beat expectations with earnings of $3 billion in the last three months of 2023
February 06, 2024The Kremlin, asked on Tuesday whether U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson had visited the Russian presidential administration in Moscow this week, declined to comment.
April 26, 2024The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog says security at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant remains fragile amid recent staff cuts enacted by Russian authorities occupying the facility
February 06, 2024Turkey's interior minister says two people have been shot dead while trying to attack a courthouse in Istanbul
February 06, 2024Nintendo has reported healthy sales and profits on the back of the hit “Super Mario Bros
February 06, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he was “shocked and sad” to learn that King Charles III has cancer
February 06, 2024Shares are mixed in Asia, where Chinese markets advanced after a government investment fund said it would step up stock purchases
February 06, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he had been shocked to hear of King Charles' diagnosis of cancer and he hoped the monarch would be able to
July 02, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Cairo for a meeting with Egyptian leaders that U.S. officials say will concentrate mainly on the task of negotiating a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
February 06, 2024Nine members of the United Nations Security Council have condemned “indiscriminate” airstrikes by Myanmar’s military against civilians
February 06, 2024Chinese American rapper Bohan Phoenix has straddled both countries in his career
February 06, 2024United Nations humanitarian monitors say Israel’s evacuation orders in the Gaza Strip now cover two-thirds of the territory, or 95 square miles
February 06, 2024Look for Lionel Messi to play in Tokyo when Inter Miami faces Japanese club Vissel Kobe
February 06, 2024Pakistan is holding elections for a new parliament on Thursday
February 06, 2024King Charles III has been diagnosed with an unspecified type of cancer
February 06, 2024A ship traveling through the southern Red Sea has been attacked by a suspected Yemen Houthi rebel drone
February 06, 2024Mexico’s president has proposed giving people pensions equal to their full salaries at the time they retire, something no other country _ even those much richer than Mexico _does
February 06, 2024North Korea’s recent escalation of threats and endless tests of weapons aimed toward South Korea haven't done much to upset the calm in Seoul
February 06, 2024Russia accused the United States of “aggression” against Iraq and Syria aimed at preserving its global dominance and salvaging the Biden administration’s “image” ahead of U.S. elections
February 06, 2024Millions of people across Turkey are mourning the loss of more than 53,000 friends, loved ones and neighbors in last year’s catastrophic earthquake
February 06, 2024A year after the devastating 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck southern Turkey and northwestern Syria, a massive rebuilding effort is still trudging along
February 06, 2024The Senate is pressing forward with a bipartisan proposal intended to clamp down on illegal border crossings, even though it faces a likely defeat in Congress
February 05, 2024Weather and climate extremes, such as wildfires, drought and flooding, are taking a toll around the world
February 05, 2024A handful of super powerful tropical cyclones in the last decade has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6
February 05, 2024The Pentagon said on Monday that it was not aware of any Iranian deaths in the recent U.S. strikes against Iran-linked targets in Iraq and Syria.
April 26, 2024El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has called himself the “world’s coolest dictator” or as his X profile read on election day, the “Philosopher King.”
February 05, 2024At least 112 people have been killed by wildfires in central Chile
February 05, 2024The massive $118 billion Senate border bill not only includes once-in-a-decade border security legislation and wartime aid to Israel and Ukraine, but also offers a chance for the U.S. to keep its promise to Afghans who worked alongside U.S. soldiers in America’s longest war
February 05, 2024The Biden administration is rolling out a new policy that will allow it to impose visa restrictions on foreign individuals involved in the misuse of commercial spyware
February 05, 2024Russian media and rights groups say the first publicly known cases have emerged of Russian authorities penalizing people under a court ruling that outlawed LGBTQ+ activism as extremism
February 05, 2024Rio de Janeiro city authorities have declared a public health emergency in the city because of an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever
February 05, 2024A handful of centuries-old sponges from the Caribbean are causing some scientists to theorize that human-caused climate change began sooner and has warmed the world nearly a degree Fahrenheit more than most scientists previously thought
February 05, 2024Buckingham Palace says that King Charles III has been diagnosed with a form of cancer and has begun treatment
February 05, 2024Volunteers in central Chile are trying to remove charred metal, broken glass and other debris in neighborhoods destroyed by forest fires that have killed at least 122 people in densely populated areas over the past three days
February 05, 2024Hundreds of angry farmers took to the streets in Bulgaria’s capital to complain of what they call “the total failure” of the government to meet the mounting challenges in the agricultural sector
February 05, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Saudi Arabia on his fifth visit to the region since the outbreak of the war in Gaza
February 05, 2024The French foreign ministry says it has summoned Russia’s ambassador to France over the deaths of two French nationals working for nongovernmental organizations in Ukraine
February 05, 2024Turkey has seen its fifth central bank leader depart in as many years as Hafize Gaye Erkan, the first woman in the top role, stepped down after just eight months in the job
February 05, 2024Ian Lavender, a British actor best known for playing a hapless soldier in the classic British sitcom “Dad’s Army,” has died
February 05, 2024Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have boycotted an emergency session of parliament where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden’s bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda
February 05, 2024President Joe Biden said the U.S. is willing to work with Bangladesh to help the South Asian nation achieve its economic goals, nearly a month after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was
April 26, 2024The Dutch parent of pioneering Russian tech company Yandex is selling its operations in the country at a steeply discounted price of just over $5 billion to its Russia-based managers and oil company Lukoil
February 05, 2024A bipartisan border security bill headed to a U.S.
July 02, 2024Pakistan is holding parliamentary elections this week but many voters are disillusioned and wonder if the balloting can bring any real change in a country mired in economic crisis and a resurgent militancy
February 05, 2024The death toll in the Gaza Strip has increased following the latest Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory
February 05, 2024The head of the main U.N.
April 26, 2024Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday
February 05, 2024A Bangladesh official says more than 100 members of Myanmar’s Border Guard Police have fled their posts and taken shelter in Bangladesh during fighting between Myanmar security forces and an ethnic minority army
February 05, 2024Senegal’s government has restricted access to the mobile internet as opposition leaders and supporters launched protests against President Macky Sall’s decision to postpone the Feb. 25 presidential election over an electoral dispute
February 05, 2024Donald Trump will try to persuade the U.S.
April 26, 2024Palestinians huddling under bombardment in Gaza said on Monday they hoped a visit to the region by the U.S. secretary of state would finally deliver a truce, in time
April 26, 2024An American porn actor who has advocated for Palestinians online during Israel’s war on Hamas traveled to Iran and visited the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran
February 05, 2024The leaders of the U.K. and Ireland are in Belfast to meet Northern Ireland’s newly revived government
February 05, 2024The Kremlin on Monday warned the West that any attempt to use frozen Russian assets as collateral to raise funds for Ukraine would be illegal and lead to years of litigation because
April 26, 2024A drone attack on a base housing U.S. troops in eastern Syria killed six allied Kurdish fighters late Sunday
February 05, 2024Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that he’s weighing a possible dismissal of the country’s top military officer, a prospect that has shocked the nation and worried Kyiv’s Western allies
February 05, 2024It’s all been very messy
February 05, 2024Voters in El Salvador appeared to give Nayib Bukele a second term as president, putting him well on his way to a landslide victory in an election that for many hinged on the tradeoff of curtailed civil liberties for security in a country once terrorized by gangs
February 05, 2024Boeing says its supplier has discovered another problem with fuselages on its 737 jets that might delay deliveries of about 50 aircraft
February 05, 2024A South Korean court has acquitted Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong of financial crimes related to a contentious merger in 2015 that tightened his grip over South Korea’s biggest company
February 05, 2024Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y.
April 26, 2024Asian stocks are mostly lower, with Chinese shares again leading the declines even after the market regulator pledged to crack down on abuses and protect small investors
February 05, 2024Authorities have scheduled a news conference to discuss a 2018 case that has led to sexual assault charges against four current NHL players and a former NHL player
February 05, 2024The 2024 Grammy Awards may be a launching pad for the best new artist winner, Victoria Monet, who took home the title at Sunday's 66th ceremony.
April 26, 2024The Grammy Awards, the highest honors in the music industry, were handed out at a ceremony on Sunday, broadcast on CBS and hosted by Trevor Noah.
July 02, 2024Senators have come out with a carefully negotiated $118 billion compromise that pairs tens of billions of dollars in wartime aid for Ukraine with new border laws aimed at shrinking the historic number of people who have come to the U.S. border with Mexico to seek asylum
February 05, 2024Australia says it is appalled at China’s suspended death sentence for Chinese Australian writer and democracy blogger Yang Hengjun
February 05, 2024Rapper Killer Mike was taken away from Sunday night's Grammy Awards in handcuffs by police after sweeping up three of the music industry's biggest prizes for rap music,
February 05, 2024Dearborn, Michigan, is ramping up security after an opinion piece described the city as “America’s jihad capital.”
February 05, 2024A diplomatic rift between Ecuador and Russia appeared to intensify over the weekend after the European nation decided to ban some imports of bananas from Ecuador
February 04, 2024Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is heading back to the Eagle Pass border to highlight his escalating attempts to curb illegal crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border
February 04, 2024Senators are racing to release a highly-anticipated bill that pairs border enforcement policy with wartime aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies as part of a long-shot effort to push the package through heavy skepticism from Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson
February 04, 2024Firefighters wrestled with massive forest fires that broke out in central Chile, as officials imposed new curfews in the cities most heavily affected by the blazes and provided new updates on casualties
February 04, 2024The Russian space agency says one of its cosmonauts has broken the world record for the most time spent in space
February 04, 2024The United States and Britain have struck Iran-backed armed groups in Syria, Iraq and Yemen, while Israel presses ahead with its offensive against Hamas in Gaza
February 04, 2024Criticism of President Joe Biden by a far-right minister in Israel’s government has sparked outrage at a sensitive time for Israel's relations with Washington
February 04, 2024Iran has issued a warning to the U.S. over potentially targeting two cargo ships in the Mideast long suspected of serving as forwarding operating base for Iranian commandos
February 04, 2024Pop superstar Taylor Swift, R&B artist SZA and pop singer Miley Cyrus won Grammy trophies on Sunday as women dominated this year's top honors in the music
April 26, 2024The United States and Britain launched strikes against 36 Houthi targets in Yemen, in the second day of major U.S.
July 02, 2024Parisians are voting whether to muscle SUVs off the French capital’s streets by making them much more expensive to park
February 04, 2024Senegal’s police have fired tear gas at opposition supporters who were protesting against the president's decision to postpone elections scheduled for Feb. 25
February 04, 2024Moscow-installed officials say Ukrainian shelling killed at least 28 people Saturday at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk
February 04, 2024The death toll from what Russia said was a Ukrainian attack on Lysychansk - a city in the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian region of Luhansk - has risen to 28, including a child, Russia's
February 04, 2024Namibian President Hage Geingob died Sunday while receiving medical treatment, his office announced
February 04, 2024Salvadorans are headed out to vote in a presidential and legislative election that’s largely about the tradeoff between security and democracy
February 04, 2024House Republicans will move forward with a $17.6 billion package to provide military aid to Israel and replenish U.S. weapons
February 03, 2024Legislation providing $17.6 billion in new military assistance to Israel as it wages war against Hamas was unveiled in the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday.
April 26, 2024Pope Francis has reaffirmed Christians' special relationship with Jews amid rising antisemitism since the outbreak of the Gaza war in a letter to the Jews of Israel
February 03, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s role as Europe’s perennial spoiler has frequently brought the European Union to a breaking point as he has blocked crucial decisions to leverage concessions and forced EU leaders to find workarounds
February 03, 2024The latest U.S. military strikes targeted a strategic region in Syria and Iraq that Iran has been using to expand its influence in the Middle East
February 03, 2024Officials say intense forest fires burning around a densely populated area of central Chile have left at least 19 people dead and destroyed about 1,100 homes
February 03, 2024Senegalese President Macky Sall has postponed Feb. 25 presidential elections, citing controversies over the disqualification of some candidates and allegations of corruption in election-related cases
February 03, 2024At least 150,000 people gathered in front of the German national parliament in Berlin Saturday afternoon to protest against the far right, the latest in a string of large weekend demonstrations across Germany
February 03, 2024EU leaders on Thursday sealed a deal to provide Ukraine with 50 billion euros ($54 million) to shore up its economy ravaged by a nearly two-year-old war with Russia, The aid package, which was approved after Hungary dropped weeks of threats to veto it is not intended to fund arms and ammunition
February 03, 2024Kenyan President William Ruto says corruption and incompetence among officials allowed the operation of an illegal liquid petroleum plant in a residential area
February 03, 2024An Irish nationalist is set to make history by becoming Northern Ireland's first minister
February 03, 2024Taylor Swift, who is holding concerts in Japan through Feb. 10, will make it in time for the Super Bowl to see her partner and football superstar Travis Kelce play
February 03, 2024An Iraqi militia official has hinted at a desire to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East following retaliatory strikes launched by the United States against dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
February 03, 2024The United States launched airstrikes in Iraq and Syria against more than 85 targets linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard (
July 02, 2024Israeli air strikes killed 18 Palestinians in Rafah and Deir Al-Balah, Gaza health officials said on Saturday, in the last two Gaza
July 02, 2024Hamas has begun deploying police forces and making partial salary payments to some of its civil servants in Gaza City in recent days, resurfacing in areas from which Israel had withdrawn the bulk of its troops a month ago
February 03, 2024The European Union is worried about reports that the Israeli military intends to take its battle against Hamas to the town of Rafah at Gaza’s border with Egypt
February 03, 2024The Maldives government says it has asked for clarification of why the Indian coast guard boarded three Maldivian fishing vessels within its economic zone earlier this week without consultation
February 03, 2024Paris police say a man has injured three people in a stabbing attack at the Gare de Lyon train station in Paris
February 03, 2024Millions of dollars in sales of North Korean false eyelashes - marketed in beauty stores around the world as "made in China" -
April 26, 2024Hamas’ demand that Israel release Marwan Barghouti brings new attention to a man many Palestinians see as their Nelson Mandela
February 03, 2024North Korea said it has tested cruise missiles outfitted with new “super-large” warheads and a new type of anti-aircraft missile, extending a streak in weapons demonstrations that has rival South Korea worried
February 03, 2024A major work by surrealist painter René Magritte that hasn’t been shown in public for a quarter century could fetch $64 million at auction next month
February 03, 2024The Ukrainian government has informed the White House that it plans to fire the country's top military commander
April 26, 2024NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman says the league will wait for the judicial process to play out before making any decisions about four players charged in a 2018 sexual assault case in Canada
February 02, 2024The Justice Department has announced that it is seizing more than 500,000 barrels of internationally sanctioned Iranian fuel
February 02, 2024The U.N. food agency says it has received reports of people dying from starvation in Sudan, where raging fighting between rival generals is hampering the distribution of aid and food supplies to those most hungry
February 02, 2024From an electrifying and colorful musical performance at the FIFA World Cup to a new Grammy Awards category, African music genres and talents are reaching audiences and dance floors across the globe in a breakthrough for an industry that has long endured structural challenges
February 02, 2024A judge has acquitted climate activist Greta Thunberg of a charge that she had refused follow a police order to leave a protest that blocked the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 02, 2024Scrutiny over Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up online, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions that are let off with each flight
February 02, 2024A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants has submitted a petition asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent powerful earthquake is fully examined
February 02, 2024President Vladimir Putin describes Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a battle for Russia’s survival as he campaigned for reelection next month in balloting that he’s all but certain to win
February 02, 2024The U.S. has bolstered the defenses in place to protect 350 troops at a base in Jordan that was attacked by Iran-backed militants as it prepares to retaliate for a drone attack that killed three service members
February 02, 2024The United States will resume a long-suspended Peace Corps program in the North Pacific island of Palau as the Biden administration continues moves to counter growing Chinese influence in the region
February 02, 2024Patrons aboard a floating sauna in a Norwegian fjord rescued two people whose car had plunged into the water
February 02, 2024The United Nations' climate chief says to keep Earth from overheating too much, the nations of the world need to put fewer loopholes in climate agreements and far more money — trillions of dollars a year — into financial help for poor nations
February 02, 2024A poster in the southern Spanish city of Seville that depicts a young, handsome, Jesus wearing only a loincloth has unleashed a storm on social media
February 02, 2024Cyprus' president has obligated all government ministers to sign a declaration affirming a “zero-tolerance” policy on all sexist attitudes and behavior
February 02, 2024Hamas officials say the group is studying a proposed cease-fire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but at the same time appeared to rule out some of its key components
February 02, 2024German lawmakers have approved cuts to fuel subsidies for farmers that prompted angry protests, along with a 2024 budget the government had to revamp after a court ruling blew a hole in its financial plans
February 02, 2024Sweden’s domestic security agency says that it's investigating “a dangerous object” that was found at the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm earlier this week as possible terrorism
February 02, 2024The two 16-year-old convicted killers of a transgender teenager in northwest England nearly a year ago have been given minimum sentences of 20 and 22 years
February 02, 2024After a U.S. senator grilled Singaporean TikTok CEO about his nationality and affiliation with the Chinese Communist Party, Singaporeans are complaining about ignorant — or even racist — views of their country
February 02, 2024A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers are urging Hungary to immediately ratify Sweden’s application to join NATO
February 02, 2024A Ukrainian intelligence official says that the country has repeatedly asked Russia to hand over the bodies of scores of prisoners of war who Moscow claimed were killed in the downing of a Russian military transport plane by Ukrainian forces
February 02, 2024A senior Hamas official says the group will respond “very soon” to a proposal that includes extended pauses in Gaza fighting and phased exchanges of Hamas-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned in Israel
February 02, 2024Local buses, trams and subway trains were canceled in much of Germany on Friday as transport employees walked off the job in the country’s third transport-related strike in two weeks
February 02, 2024Malaysia’s Pardons Board has reduced ex-Prime Minister Najib Razak’s 12-year prison sentence by half and sharply cut the fine imposed after his corruption conviction
February 02, 2024Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said on Friday that his country would not start a war but that it would "respond strongly" to anyone who tried to bully it.
April 26, 2024China has rolled out a flurry of measures to help prop up its ailing property market, while also promising to boost government spending
February 02, 2024Hungary's Viktor Orban said on Friday that he "went to the wall" for his country before agreeing to an EU deal on Thursday to extend new aid to Ukraine and that he averted the
April 26, 2024Armenia can no longer rely on Russia as its main defence and military partner because Moscow has repeatedly let it down so Yerevan must think about forging closer ties with the
April 26, 2024The International Court of Justice is set to rule on whether it has jurisdiction to hear a case filed by Ukraine in the days after Russia’s invasion accusing Moscow of breaching the genocide convention
February 02, 2024Russia's foreign ministry on Friday condemned a decision by Ecuador to hand over Russian-made military hardware to the United States for use in Ukraine as a "reckless" breach of
April 26, 2024A new poll shows half of U_S_ adults believe Israel's war in Gaza has “gone too far."
February 02, 2024Asian shares are trading mostly higher, helped by optimism about technology shares following a Wall Street rally led by big tech stocks
February 02, 2024Saudi Arabia would be willing to accept a political commitment from Israel to create a Palestinian state, rather than anything more
April 26, 2024Authorities say gas explosions at an industrial building in Kenya’s capital sent a plume of fiery smoke rising over homes and injured at least 29 people
February 02, 2024For decades, India has focused its defense policy on its land borders with rivals Pakistan and China
February 02, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has reiterated his focus on strengthening his naval forces as he inspected the construction of new warships
February 02, 2024In the last several decades, rock music has been declared dead countless times
February 01, 2024Nearly $4 billion in drones and military equipment have been approved for sale to India by the Biden administration
February 01, 2024An armed man took staff hostage at a Procter & Gamble factory in northwestern Turkey on Thursday in an apparent protest against Israel's military campaign in Gaza, the Demiroren
May 07, 2024Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo says that with his political party suspended, little support in congress and an attorney general in hot pursuit, he will appeal to the country's people to help him overcome the entrenched old guard and achieve the change he campaigned on
February 01, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron has told The Associated Press that his country could officially recognize a Palestinian state after a cease-fire in Gaza, without waiting for the outcome of what could be years-long negotiations between Israeli and the Palestinians on a two-state solution
February 01, 2024Two U.S. lawmakers have nominated Jimmy Lai, a former Hong Kong publisher now standing trial on national security charges, and three other jailed Chinese dissidents for the Nobel Peace Prize
February 01, 2024Mexico's president has suggested that talks with the U.S. government on migration and drug trafficking could suffer after media reports of a U.S. investigation into alleged drug money donations for his 2006 campaign
February 01, 2024Israeli forces have dismantled the Hamas brigade in Gaza's southern Khan Younis as part of an almost four-month-old war in which 10,000 Palestinian fighters have been killed and
May 07, 2024Media outlets say two gunmen have taken seven hostages at a factory owned by Procter & Gamble in northwest Turkey, apparently in protest of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza
February 01, 2024Women are far more likely than men to get autoimmune diseases, illnesses like lupus or rheumatoid arthritis that occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks their own bodies
February 01, 2024Britain will not send ground troops into combat against Houthi militants in Yemen, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said on Thursday, adding that air
April 26, 2024Police and student protesters have clashed in the center of the Greek capital after a demonstration against government plans to allow private universities
February 01, 2024President Joe Biden’s is expected to issue an executive order targeting Israeli settlers in the West Bank who've been attacking Palestinians in the occupied territory
February 01, 2024A Russian court has ordered a detained Russian-American journalist to be held in jail for two more months pending her trial on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent
February 01, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Gaza's Health Ministry says Israel's offensive in the territory has killed more than 27,000 people
February 01, 2024Indonesia’s top security minister says that President Joko Widodo has accepted his resignation from the Cabinet amid heated political discourse before this month's election
February 01, 2024France’s two major farmers unions have announced their decision to suspend protests and lift road blockades across the country
February 01, 2024Imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny is urging Russians to show their protest of President Vladimir Putin during next month’s presidential balloting by voting at a specific time on election day
February 01, 2024Ukraine is claiming it used sea drones to sink a Russian corvette in the Black Sea during a nighttime attack
February 01, 2024Climate activist Greta Thunberg is on trial for protesting outside a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year
February 01, 2024Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired two ballistic missiles at a Liberian-flagged container ship in the Red Sea
February 01, 2024Deutsche Bank says it would cut 3,500 jobs as part of efforts to slash costs by about $2.7 billion through next year
February 01, 2024Indian police cleared a suspected Chinese spy pigeon after eight months’ detention and released it into the wild Tuesday, news agency Press Trust of India reported
February 01, 2024Oil giant Shell saw profits tumble by nearly a third in 2023 as a result of lower oil and gas prices, which had surged the year before in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
February 01, 2024A woman and her two young daughters are in a hospital with serious injuries after a man threw a corrosive substance at them in south London
February 01, 2024Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia has declared a drought emergency for the area of some 6 million people including the city of Barcelona
February 01, 2024Julius Baer says its CEO is resigning and the Swiss bank is quitting the private debt business as well as setting aside more than a half-billion dollars reportedly over its exposure to bankrupt Austrian asset manager Signa
February 01, 2024The European Union has called on Kosovo to postpone an effort to force ethnic Serbian-dominated areas to adopt the euro currency like in the rest of the country as rules that would block use of the Serbian dinar went into effect
February 01, 2024A judge in London has thrown out a lawsuit by Donald Trump accusing a former British spy of making “shocking and scandalous claims” that were false and harmed his reputation
February 01, 2024When the army overthrew Myanmar’s elected government in 2021, it looked like a walkover that could entrench the military in power indefinitely
February 01, 2024Donald Trump's data protection lawsuit against a British private investigations firm over a dossier which alleged ties between Trump's campaign and Russia was thrown out by London's
July 02, 2024Inflation is headed down in Europe
February 01, 2024President Joe Biden is planning to celebrate his recent endorsement by the United Auto Workers union during a visit to Michigan
February 01, 2024A new report says Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used in Jordan to hack the cellphones of nearly three dozen people including journalists, lawyers and human rights activists
February 01, 2024Official figures show that German beer sales dropped 4.5% last year, resuming a long-term downward trend
February 01, 2024India’s finance minister has unveiled a short-term budget to meet government expenditures until national elections are held by May, saying it will boost spending on infrastructure projects, build homes for poor villagers and cut the fiscal deficit by reducing subsidies
February 01, 2024The Bank of England is expected to keep its main interest rate at near 16-year highs and indicate that lower borrowing costs aren't imminent because inflation is stuck too high for comfort
February 01, 2024A dissident Russian rock band angered by Moscow’s war in Ukraine has arrived in Israel after being deported from Thailand under suspected pressure from the Kremlin
February 01, 2024European Union leaders are making a fresh attempt to unblock a $54 billion financial aid package for Ukraine's war-ravaged economy
February 01, 2024Iran's Revolutionary Guards have scaled back deployment of their senior officers in Syria due to a spate of deadly Israeli strikes and will rely more on allied Shi'ite militia to preserve
April 26, 2024Taiwan's parliament on Thursday elected a former presidential candidate for the largest opposition party as its new speaker, who will be responsible for hosting visiting foreign
February 01, 2024Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street fell to its worst loss since September as the Federal Reserve indicated cuts to interest rates are not imminent
February 01, 2024Convoys with hundreds of angry farmers driving heavy-duty tractors are advancing toward European Union headquarters where leaders are meeting at a summit Thursday
February 01, 2024The United Nations' refugee agency is reporting that one in every eight Rohingya who attempted to flee their homeland of Myanmar and the refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh by boat last year died or went missing
February 01, 2024Data from a Japanese auto industry association show that China overtook Japan as the world's largest vehicle exporter last year
February 01, 2024A new report says automakers including Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota are failing to ensure they are not using forced labor as part of their China supply chains
February 01, 2024A massive rebuilding effort is underway as Turkey marks the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake that killed 50,000 people in its southern provinces, plus at least 6,000 in northern Syria
February 01, 2024The prospect of a full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia terrifies people on both sides of the border, but some see it as an inevitable fallout from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza
February 01, 2024To many, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele is a national hero who took on the country’s violent gangs with an unrelenting hand
February 01, 2024Landlocked Laos doesn’t have the famous beaches of its Southeast Asian neighbors, so it instead attracts visitors with the pristine beauty of its mountains and rivers and historical sites
February 01, 2024British police are hunting for a suspect after several people were injured with a corrosive substance in London
January 31, 2024Chicago’s City Council narrowly approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a permanent cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas, with Mayor Brandon Johnson casting the tiebreaking vote
January 31, 2024A federal court has once again granted a temporary injunction against bullfighting in Mexico City, as activists and supporters of the practice lock horns in court
January 31, 2024The United States is actively pursuing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with security guarantees for Israel and exploring
April 26, 2024Senate negotiators are struggling to finalize a bipartisan deal that would pair policy changes at the U.S. southern border with wartime aid for Kyiv as they run into strong resistance from House Republicans and Donald Trump
January 31, 2024Reports have emerged that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to fire the country's popular top military leader
January 31, 2024South Africa’s foreign minister says Israel has ignored the ruling by the U.N.’s top court last week by killing hundreds more civilians in a matter of days in Gaza
January 31, 2024U.S. officials are revising preliminary findings on what happened to two Navy SEALs who died while boarding an unflagged ship that was carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen
January 31, 2024Jannik Sinner’s career so far can be defined by the choices he made and the freedom he had to make them
January 31, 2024U.S. authorities have charged four Chinese nationals with crimes related to the smuggling of U.S.-made electronic components, including some with possible military use, to Iran,
April 26, 2024Mexico's president rejected allegations on Wednesday that his first presidential campaign nearly two decades ago received financing from drug cartel
April 26, 2024Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put its former head who has become a hard-right politician since being removed from the job several years ago under scrutiny
January 31, 2024Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East later this week on his fifth urgent diplomatic mission to the region since Israel's war with Hamas began in October
January 31, 2024The U.K. government has published the details of a deal that has broken Northern Ireland’s political deadlock
January 31, 2024The United States imposed sanctions on three entities and one individual based in Turkey and Lebanon on Wednesday for giving "critical financial support" to a financial network
April 26, 2024Myanmar’s leading resistance group and allied ethnic armed groups battling the military government have released a political road map to ending military rule and enabling a peaceful transition of power
January 31, 2024U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday described the U.N.
April 26, 2024European farmers are taking their anger to the streets ahead of a European Union summit on Thursday
January 31, 2024President Vladimir Putin has vowed to drive Ukrainian forces back to reduce the threat of attacks on Russian territory as he met with activists running his campaign ahead of the March presidential election that he’s all but certain to win
January 31, 2024An array of U.N. organizations have united to warn of “catastrophic consequences for the people of Gaza” if key donor countries don’t resume funding for the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, the main lifeline for people in the besieged territory
January 31, 2024A former leader of Scotland has acknowledged that she deleted WhatsApp messages sent during the COVID-19 pandemic
January 31, 2024India has deployed at least a dozen warships east of the Red Sea to provide security against pirates and has investigated more than 250 vessels as Western
April 26, 2024The leaders of five European Union countries are urging their allies to ramp up military support for Ukraine
January 31, 2024One of the world’s largest and most influential publishers, Simon & Schuster is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year
January 31, 2024Russia and Ukraine said they have exchanged about 200 prisoners of war, despite tensions stemming from last week’s crash of a military transport plane that Moscow claimed was carrying Ukrainian POWs and was shot down by Kyiv’s forces
January 31, 2024European Union leaders at a summit on Thursday will focus on the one member state blocking a 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) war support package for Ukraine: Hungary, the country in the bloc with the closest ties to Russia
January 31, 2024H&M’s top executive has unexpectedly stepped down and the company’s stock plunged as the fashion giant reported a drop in sales over the holiday shopping season
January 31, 2024Gaza’s Health Ministry says 150 people have been killed in the territory in the last 24 hours and another 313 were wounded as Israeli forces continue to battle militants, even in the northern part of the territory
January 31, 2024European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says he plans an EU naval mission in the Red Sea to be launched by Feb. 17
January 31, 2024Myanmar was a rising star in Southeast Asia before its military seized power three years ago in a takeover that has brought civil strife and a tightening vise of international sanctions, undoing years of progress and leaving the economy 10% smaller than it was in 2019
January 31, 2024The lower house of Russia's parliament has approved a bill that would allow authorities to confiscate money, valuables and other assets from people convicted of spreading “deliberately false information” about the country’s military
January 31, 2024FBI Director Chris Wray is preparing to tell House lawmakers that Chinese government hackers are busily targeting water treatment plants, the electrical grid, transportation systems and other critical infrastructure inside the United States
January 31, 2024Farmers have blocked ever more traffic arteries across Belgium as they seek to disrupt trade at major ports with a fourth day of protests in a continued push for concessions to get better prices for their produce and less bureaucracy to do their work
January 31, 2024The United Nations' top court is ruling in a case in which Ukraine accuses Russia of bankrolling rebels in 2014 and discriminating against Crimea’s multiethnic community since its annexation of the region
January 31, 2024A U.S. Navy destroyer in the Red Sea shot down an anti-ship cruise missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
January 31, 2024Asian stocks are mixed as markets await a decision on interest rates by the Federal Reserve
January 31, 2024U.K. lawmakers have expressed frustration that funds from the sale of the Chelsea soccer club have not yet gone to support Ukrainian war victims as was promised nearly two years ago by the former owner, Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich
January 31, 2024A Pakistani court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison for corruption, a day after another special court convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence
January 31, 2024A Thai court has convicted a prominent political activist of defaming the country’s monarchy and sentenced her to a two-year suspended jail term under a controversial law that criminalizes any perceived criticism of the royal institution
January 31, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has long accused Ukraine's government of violating the rights of an ethnic Hungarian community in western Ukraine
January 31, 2024There's new interest in one of the past century's most alluring mysteries and a grainy sonar image is at the heart of both excitement and skepticism
January 31, 2024Assassination plots, arrest warrants, numerous detentions all sorts of verbal attacks against adversaries and other government actions have marked the start of 2024 for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his allies
January 31, 2024Iran's envoy to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani warned that Tehran would respond decisively to any attack on its territory, its interests, or Iranian nationals outside its
April 26, 2024The billionaire sultan who rules Malaysia's Johor state has been sworn in as the nation's new king under a unique rotating monarchy system
January 31, 2024Samsung Electronics on Tuesday reported an annual 34% decline in operating profit for the last quarter as sluggish demands for its TVs and other consumer electronics products offset hard-won gains from a slowly recovering computer chip market
January 31, 2024A former U.S.
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden has made it clear the U.S. will strike back after a deadly drone attack killed three service members and wounded more than 40 at a small base in Jordan over the weekend
January 30, 2024North Korea says it has conducted a test-firing of long-range cruise missiles with an aim to sharpen its counterattack and strategic strike capabilities
January 30, 2024Félix Ulloa, temporarily on leave as El Salvador’s vice president while he runs for re-election alongside Nayib Bukele, has denied accusations that their administration has made undemocratic moves to consolidate power
January 30, 2024Michael McLeod of the NHL's New Jersey Devils has been charged with sexual assault
January 30, 2024A reimposition of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela's oil and gas sectors would hurt the OPEC country's ability to collect cash from its oil
April 26, 2024A federal jury on Tuesday ruled in favor of Sotheby's at a trial in which the Russian billionaire oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev accused the auction house of defrauding him out of
April 26, 2024An Argentine court has overturned labor rules proposed by President Javier Milei that would make it easier to fire workers, in a new blow to the leader’s efforts to shake up regulations that he says have hampered the country’s struggling economy
January 30, 2024Preliminary figures show Mexico's economy barely eked out a 0.1% increase in the fourth quarter, bringing estimated growth for 2023 to 3.1%
January 30, 2024Farmers have captured France’s attention by showering government offices with manure and snarling Parisian traffic with barricades of tractors and hay bales
January 30, 2024After successful testing in the U.S., Ukraine will soon receive it first big batch of long-range missiles made by Boeing that promise to extend its range deep into
April 26, 2024U.S. and Mideast mediators appeared optimistic in recent days that they are closing in on a deal for a two-month cease-fire in Gaza and the release of over 100 hostages held by Hamas
January 30, 2024The U.S. envoy to the United Nations said on Tuesday that Washington needs to see "fundamental changes" before its funding to UNRWA can resume following
April 26, 2024In August 2021, three zebras that got away thrilled the whole country. But when their difficult past came to light, it showed that the exotic animal trade had serious problems with regulation. People in rural Maryland were confused when the zebras showed up out of the blue. Soon, though, the amazement turned to fear when two zebras were discovered dead in strange ways. The deaths set off a cascade of turmoil around owner Jerry Lee Holly, 78, whose exotic animal businesses have operated for decades despite chronic legal violations. Prince George’s County officials charged Holly with animal cruelty misdemeanors for
January 30, 2024Three U.S. soldiers were killed and dozens wounded after a drone hit a military outpost in Jordan, known as Tower 22, on Sunday.
April 26, 2024The foreign minister in Poland’s new pro-European Union government says he would like Germany’s leaders to think in a “creative” way about compensating Poland for the huge losses it suffered at German hands during World War II
January 30, 2024Hamas is studying a three-phase Gaza ceasefire plan that would secure the release of most
April 26, 2024The planned auction of dozens of items that belonged to Nelson Mandela has been suspended pending a court application to completely halt it
January 30, 2024The International Monetary Fund’s chief economist has advised the U.K. government to avoid further tax cuts amid expectations Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s battered administration will do just that to win over voters in an election year
January 30, 2024Members of a rock band that has been critical of Moscow’s war in Ukraine remain locked up in a Thai immigration jail, fearful that they could be deported to Russia as a reported plan to let them fly to safety in Israel was apparently suspended
January 30, 2024Italian regulators say they informed OpenAI that its ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot has violated European Union’s stringent data privacy rules
January 30, 2024A far-right partner in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition threatened on Tuesday to quit the government over any attempt to enter a "reckless" deal with Hamas
April 26, 2024Catalan separatist lawmakers have dealt Spain’s government a blow by voting against a hugely divisive amnesty law that was aimed at helping hundreds of their supporters involved in Catalonia’s unsuccessful 2017 independence bid
January 30, 2024Elon Musk’s social media platform X has restored searches for Taylor Swift after temporarily blocking users from seeing some results as pornographic deepfake images of the singer circulated online
January 30, 2024A Hong Kong court's order to liquidate the world’s most heavily indebted real estate developer is only a tentative step toward resolving a debt crisis that is haunting financial markets and dragging on the Chinese economy
January 30, 2024UK regulators say HSBC has been fined $72.8 million for failing to adequately protect customer deposits in the event the bank collapsed
January 30, 2024Only a small fraction of needy people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region are receiving food aid, according to an aid memo seen by The Associated Press, more than one month after aid agencies resumed deliveries of grain following a lengthy pause over theft
January 30, 2024Lawyers for Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr., who is serving a 25-year sentence for treason, say he has been transferred to another prison in Siberia and placed in solitary confinement again over an alleged minor infraction
January 30, 2024Europe’s economy failed to expand at the end of 2023
January 30, 2024House Republicans are moving swiftly toward impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas
January 30, 2024The Kremlin, asked on Tuesday about potential U.S. strikes on Iranian interests, said tensions in the Middle East were high and that steps were needed to de-escalate rather than
April 26, 2024The U.N.’s weather agency has confirmed a reading of 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 degrees Fahrenheit) in Sicily two years ago as the hottest temperature ever recorded in Europe
January 30, 2024The Russia figure skating team still stands to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case
January 30, 2024France’s government is preparing more concessions to calm the anger of protesting farmers camped out around Paris
January 30, 2024Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medical workers have stormed a hospital in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants
January 30, 2024European Union nations have decided to approve an outline deal that would keep in reserve the profits from hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian central bank assets that have been frozen in retaliation for Moscow’s war in Ukraine
January 30, 2024Asian shares are mixed, with Hong Kong and Shanghai declining, ahead of a decision by the Federal Reserve this week on interest rates
January 30, 2024Saudi Arabia’s oil giant Saudi Aramco says it will not try to increase its maximum daily oil production to 13 million barrels a day after receiving an order from the country’s Energy Ministry
January 30, 2024Israeli forces have killed three Palestinian militants in a raid on a hospital in the occupied West Bank, where violence has surged since the outbreak of the war in Gaza
January 30, 2024A Pakistani court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and one of his party deputies to 10 years in prison each, after finding them guilty of revealing official secrets
January 30, 2024Japanese transport officials have raided a Toyota-affiliated plant to search for evidence after the company admitted cheating on engine testing
January 30, 2024India's naval forces have rescued an Iranian-flagged fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates and freed its 19 crew members off the east coast of Somalia
January 30, 2024Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party says it has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years
January 30, 2024Nicole Kidman’s latest project is set in Hong Kong, but people living there are blocked from seeing it
January 30, 2024The latest annual Corruption Perceptions Index says efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering and blames in part a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016.”
January 30, 2024France’s National Assembly is considering a bill meant to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the French Constitution
January 30, 2024Israeli forces killed three Palestinian gunmen in a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the army said, adding that one had been suspected of planning an
July 02, 2024As the U.S. presidential campaign moves closer to a Donald Trump-Joe Biden rematch, China is watching uneasily
January 30, 2024Ukrainian strikes on a Russian border city, as well as attacks elsewhere on fuel facilities and arms producers, have damaged President Vladimir Putin’s attempts to reassure his countrymen that their lives have been largely untouched by the nearly 2-year-old war
January 30, 2024Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressed he was determined to make a clear break from money politics as he renewed an apology for the latest major corruption scandal in the governing party, which has eclipsed his key policies such as strengthening the military and Japan’s alliance with the United States
January 30, 2024Hong Kong has begun public consultation on enacting its own national security law, beginning a process to implement the once-unpopular legislation
January 30, 2024A Haitian judge investigating the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse issued an arrest warrant for his wife late last year for failing to meet with him so he could interrogate her about the case, according to a legal document that The Associated Press obtained
January 30, 2024First there were cafés that allowed pets
January 30, 2024South Korea’s military says it detected North Korea firing multiple cruise missiles into the sea off its western coast in its third round of tests of such weapons this month
January 30, 2024The controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has pleaded guilty to charges in the 1992 massacre of six farmers who were accused of being members of a rebel group, taken from their homes by soldiers and executed in the town of Pativilca
January 29, 2024The Virginia law enforcement department that recently recruited Austin Lee Edwards—the “catfishing cop” responsible for the November murders of three members of a Riverside, California family—is now facing a new lawsuit that claims carelessness on their part. Victims’ families have filed a lawsuit in Central California’s U.S. District Court, accusing Edwards’ estate and the Virginia sheriff’s office of their role in the murders of the Winek family. In addition to allegations of careless recruiting, oversight, and retention, the case contends that further wrongdoings transpired, including violations of Fourth Amendment rights. On November 25, the unfortunate incidents occurred when Edwards went
January 29, 2024The U.S. military on Monday released the names of the three Army Reserve soldiers killed in Sunday's drone attack by Iran-backed militants in Jordan, with the youngest victim
April 26, 2024Over a dozen students alleged on Monday that Harvard University failed to protect them from harassment and threats "based solely" on their pro-Palestinian
April 26, 2024A group of climate activists who infuriated many in Germany by gluing themselves to streets to block traffic says it will abandon the tactic and move on to holding what it calls “disobedient assemblies.”
January 29, 2024An Iranian man who federal prosecutors say operates a criminal network that targets dissidents and activists abroad has been charged alongside a pair of Canadians with plotting to kill two people who had fled to the United States
January 29, 2024The highest court in sports sanctioned Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva for doping violations at the 2022 Beijing Olympics
January 29, 2024Qatar's prime minister on Monday said he hoped U.S. retaliation for an attack that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan would not undercut progress toward a new Israel-Hamas
April 26, 2024Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado says the court ruling blocking her presidential candidacy represents “judicial criminality
January 29, 2024Israel’s military brought foreign journalists to an area of southern Gaza where its forces had destroyed an Islamic cemetery and a mosque in the process of unearthing tunnels used by Hamas militants
January 29, 2024Israel’s military has announced that it will review the shooting of a Palestinian man who was killed in the Gaza Strip while walking in a group of people waving a white flag
January 29, 2024Supporters of prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. says he has disappeared from the Siberian prison where he was behind bars
January 29, 2024A years-long diplomatic conflict between Ukraine and Hungary took a step toward resolution during a meeting between their foreign ministers, but no breakthrough was reached on Hungary’s blocking of a crucial European Union financial aid package for Kyiv
January 29, 2024An enemy drone that killed three American troops and wounded dozens of others in Jordan may have been mistaken for an American drone returning to the U.S. installation
January 29, 2024A lawyer for Prince Harry is seeking 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) in legal fees after proving the publisher of the Daily Mirror tabloid invaded his privacy by hacking his phone
January 29, 2024The leaders of Russia and Belarus have discussed ways to further expand their alliance that has seen the deployment of some of Russia’s nuclear weapons on the territory of its neighbor
January 29, 2024Sandra Milo, an icon of Italian cinema who played a key role in Federico Fellini’s Oscar-winning “8½” has died
January 29, 2024The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America
January 29, 2024Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva has been disqualified from the 2022 Beijing Olympics
January 29, 2024Amazon has called off its proposed acquisition of iRobot, with the ecommerce giant blaming "undue and disproportionate regulatory hurdles."
January 29, 2024The White House said on Monday that talks to secure a new release of hostages held by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in Gaza were constructive and promising but there was
April 26, 2024The U.N. aid agency serving Palestinians in Gaza faces more funding cuts amid accusations that 12 of its employees were involved in Oct. 7 attack that sparked the Israel-Hamas war
January 29, 2024Pope Francis has congratulated Italy after tennis player Jannik Sinner became the country’s first man to win a Grand Slam singles title in nearly a half century
January 29, 2024Toyota Chief Koji Sato has apologized to customers, suppliers and dealers for flawed testing at a group company, which follows similar problems in recent years
January 29, 2024As Hungary continues to oppose a 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package for Ukraine, other EU leaders are losing patience
January 29, 2024Kate, the princess of Wales, has returned home to Windsor after being hospitalized for abdominal surgery
January 29, 2024Social media platform X has blocked searches for Taylor Swift as pornographic deepfake images of the singer have circulated online
January 29, 2024An Israeli spells out allegations against a dozen U.N. employees the country says participated in Hamas’ Oct. 7 assault
January 29, 2024The Syrian military says an Israeli airstrike on a Damascus suburb has killed and wounded several people
January 29, 2024The Czech Republic’s government has signed an agreement with the United States to acquire 24 U.S. F-35 fighter jets as part of a deal worth about $6.6 billion, the biggest single purchase for the Czech military
January 29, 2024A Japanese moon explorer is up and running Monday after several tense days without the sunlight it needs to generate power
January 29, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he was concerned about tensions in the Middle East and urged Iran to de-escalate, after an attack that killed three U.S. service members in
April 26, 2024Protesting farmers are vowing to encircle Paris with tractor barricades and drive-slows in a battle with the government over their industry's future
January 29, 2024Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is opening a summit of African leaders aimed at unveiling Italy’s big development plan for Africa
January 29, 2024The British government says it will ban the sale of disposable vapes and limit their cornucopia of flavors in an effort to prevent children becoming addicted to nicotine
January 29, 2024The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person, in a statement issued late Sunday
January 29, 2024Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said they attacked a U.S. Navy mobile base at sea without offering evidence, something immediately rejected by an American defense official
January 29, 2024North Korea’s weekend test of new cruise missiles for submarine launches has added to its provocative start to 2024, as leader Kim Jong Un flaunts his growing nuclear arsenal and threatens nuclear conflict with Washington, Seoul and Tokyo
January 29, 2024Malaysia charged a former minister on Monday with failing to declare assets
January 29, 2024Monthslong tension between three coup-hit countries in West Africa and the regional bloc known as ECOWAS boiled over when the nations announced their immediate withdrawal from the bloc, accusing it of a lack of support and “inhumane” coup-related sanctions
January 29, 2024Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 wounded in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants on U.S. troops in Jordan, said U.S.
July 02, 2024Iran’s foreign minister is in Pakistan for talks on calming tensions after deadly airstrikes by Tehran and Islamabad earlier this month that killed at least 11 people in a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbors
January 29, 2024Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is throwing allegations at his successor, Fernando Marcos Jr., and even raising the prospect of removing him from office
January 29, 2024Asian markets have opened the week on a positive note after Wall Street closed another winning week with a mixed finish
January 29, 2024Property developer China Evergrande Group has been ordered to liquidate after it failed to reach a restructuring deal with creditors
January 29, 2024North Korean state media say leader Kim Jong Un has supervised test firings of new cruise missiles designed to be launched from submarines and also reviewed efforts to build a nuclear-powered submarine
January 28, 2024The unmanned aerial drone attack that killed three U.S. service members and wounded dozens in northeastern Jordan on Sunday is the latest by Iran-aligned militia groups in Iraq
April 26, 2024Israel’s president has accused the U.N. world court of misquoting him in a ruling that ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians and prevent a genocide in the Gaza Strip
January 28, 2024Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system
January 28, 2024Bullfights are set to return to Mexico City after the country’s highest court temporarily revoked a local ruling that sided with human rights defenders and suspended the events for more than a year and a half
January 28, 2024Three U.S. service members were killed and as many as 34 wounded, United States officials said on Sunday, after a drone attack in Jordan that they linked to Iranian-backed
April 26, 2024Poland has protested a mistake in a social media post by the head of the European Commission that wrongly suggested the World War II Auschwitz death camp was Polish
January 28, 2024Three U.S. service members were killed and many wounded during an unmanned aerial drone attack on U.S. forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden says three American service members were killed and “many” were wounded in a drone strike in Jordan
January 28, 2024Former U.S.
April 26, 2024The White House said on Sunday there was no change in its Israel policy after NBC News reported the United States was discussing using weapon
April 26, 2024Inter Miami played six preseason matches last season
January 28, 2024Israel’s allegations that 12 employees of a United Nations agency were involved in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack have led several Western countries to cut off funding and reignited debate over Gaza’s biggest humanitarian aid provider
January 28, 2024Three West African nations of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have quit the regional economic bloc known as ECOWAS
January 28, 2024Jannik Sinner has rallied from two sets down to win the Australian Open final against Daniil Medvedev and clinch his first Grand Slam title
January 28, 2024President Joe Biden is increasingly contending with protests inside and outside his events from progressives upset about U.S. support for Israel in its offensive in Gaza
January 28, 2024Two climate activists have hurled soup at the glass protecting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum in Paris and shouted slogans advocating for a sustainable food system
January 28, 2024U.N. officials and aid groups called for countries to reconsider their decision to pause funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians on Sunday, warning that its life-
July 02, 2024Turkish officials say two masked assailants have attacked a Catholic church in Istanbul during Sunday services, killing one person
January 28, 2024Ukraine's security service says employees from an arms firm conspired with defense ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy mortar shells for the war with Russi
January 28, 2024Voters in Finland are electing a new president at an unprecedented time
January 28, 2024Iran says it has successfully launched three satellites into space, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles
January 28, 2024The secretary-general of the United Nations has called on countries to resume funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza
January 28, 2024Attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unraveled a key global trade route, forcing vessels into longer and more costly journeys around Africa
January 28, 2024U.S. negotiators are making progress on a potential agreement in which Israel would pause military operations against Hamas in Gaza for two months in exchange for the release of more than 100 hostages who were captured in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel
January 28, 2024South Korea’s military says that North Korea has fired several cruise missiles from waters off an eastern military port, in the country’s latest weapons demonstration in the face of deepening tensions with the United States, South Korea and Japan
January 28, 2024The head of the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) said on Saturday that nine countries' decisions to suspend funding over allegations staff were involved in the Oct. 7 attacks
April 26, 2024The Russian city of St. Petersburg has marked the 80th anniversary of the end of a nearly 900-day siege by Nazi forces
January 27, 2024Climate activist Greta Thunberg has joined a march in southern England to protest the use of private jets and the expansion of an airport
January 27, 2024The U.S. government has condemned the decision of Venezuela’s highest court to block the presidential candidacy of opposition leader María Corina Machado
January 27, 2024Germany’s train drivers' union is ending its six-day strike early and is back in talks with the country's railway operator
January 27, 2024Britain, Italy and Finland on Saturday became the latest countries to pause funding for the United Nations' refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA), following allegations its staff
April 26, 2024Mexico is acknowledging that at least two well-known Mayan ruin sites are unreachable by visitors due to cartel violence or land disputes
January 27, 2024China’s foreign minister has told U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan that Washington should stand by a commitment not to support independence for Taiwan, during talks between the world’s two largest economies in the Thai capital
January 27, 2024Jews and Muslims from Bosnia and abroad gathered in Srebrenica to jointly observe International Holocaust Remembrance Day and promote compassion and dialogue amid rising global sectarian hatred fueled by Israel’s war in Gaza
January 27, 2024Thousands of people have marched in cities and towns in Kenya to protest the recent slayings of more than a dozen women
January 27, 2024Iraq's prime minister says his government and the United States have held a first session of formal talks in Baghdad aimed at winding down the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State group in Iraq
January 27, 2024President Joe Biden will host German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House on Feb. 9 as the West struggles to provide new aid for Ukraine in the war against Russia
January 27, 2024The crew aboard a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker hit by a missile launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has extinguished an hourslong fire onboard the stricken vessel sparked by the strike
January 27, 2024Witnesses say an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern Gaza Strip killed two women and a man as Israel pursued its offensive against the Palestinian enclave
January 27, 2024French farmers have vowed to continue protesting and are maintaining traffic barricades on some of the country’s major roads
January 27, 2024Officials in Ukraine say Russia has provided no credible evidence to back its claims that their own forces shot down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war who were to be swapped for Russian POWs
January 27, 2024The world's largest cruise ship is set for its maiden voyage on Saturday, but environmental groups are concerned that the liquefied natural gas-powered vessel
July 02, 2024A generation of children who learned to write on screens is now going old school.
July 02, 2024Italy has decided to suspend financing of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday.
April 26, 2024Devotees of St. Brigid in Ireland plan to celebrate Sunday with the scheduled return of a relic associated with the so-called matron saint of Ireland — about a millennium after her remains were removed from her hometown of Kildare
January 27, 2024People across Haiti are wondering what awaits them after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country
January 27, 2024Holocaust survivor Gad Partok never thought he'd live to see horrors like the ones he witnessed as a young boy in Tunisia when Nazis invaded his town and killed many of his neighbors
January 27, 2024Voters in Taiwan recently repelled a wave of disinformation seeking to undermine their democracy ahead of this month's recent election
January 27, 2024A group of survivors of Nazi death camps will mark the 79th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp during World War II in a modest ceremony in southern Poland
January 27, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024The Biden administration has approved the sale of F-16 fighters jets to Turkey following the Turkish government's ratification this week of Sweden's membership in NATO
January 27, 2024U.S. authorities say arrests for illegal border crossings from Mexico reached an all-time high in December since monthly numbers have been released, exposing a growing vulnerability for President Joe Biden in his campaign for a second term
January 27, 2024At first it sounds like a typical case of bad behavior aboard airplanes
January 27, 2024A military panel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has recommended 23 years in detention for two Malaysian men in connection with a deadly 2002 bombings in Bali
January 26, 2024President Joe Biden has spoken with his Egyptian and Qatari counterparts ahead of a trip by his CIA director meant to press toward a deal to secure the release of more hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a pause to fighting in Gaza
January 26, 2024The U.N. world court has come down hard on Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, calling on Israel to “take all measures” to prevent a genocide of the Palestinians
January 26, 2024“In the Summers,” an affecting, years-spanning drama about a complicated parent-children relationship, nabbed the Grand Jury prize at the 40th Sundance Film Festival, while the top honor for documentary went to “Porcelain War,” about a Ukrainian couple who craft fragile, intricately painted ceramics while war rages around them
January 26, 2024The FBI says an 18th century British painting stolen by mobsters in 1969 has been returned more than a half-century later to the family that bought the painting during the Great Depression
January 26, 2024House Speaker Mike Johnson is taking a strong stand against a bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures with Ukraine aid
January 26, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin is pledging to make public the findings of Moscow’s investigation into the crash of a transport plane that he alleges Kyiv’s forces shot down despite having been informed Ukrainian prisoners of war were on board
January 26, 2024A bipartisan group of lawmakers is raising concerns over a series of recent U.S. military strikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels
January 26, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin said a Russian military plane that crashed near the border with Ukraine on Wednesday was shot down by Ukrainian air defences, whether on purpose or
April 26, 2024Crowned Miss Japan this week, Ukrainian-born Karolina Shiino cried with joy, thankful for the recognition of her identity as Japanese
January 26, 2024Regional Mexican music is a catchall term that encompasses mariachi, banda, corridos, norteño, sierreño and other genres
January 26, 2024The World Court on Friday ordered Israel to take action to prevent acts of genocide as it wages war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, but it stopped short of calling for an
April 26, 2024Israeli airstrikes on the Nuseirat urban refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip overnight killed at least 15 people, including a 5-month-old baby
January 26, 2024Protesting farmers have shut down stretches of major French highways again, using their tractors to block and slow traffic to press their demands that growing and rearing food should be made easier and more lucrative
January 26, 2024Authorities in Denmark are working against the clock to stop a slow-moving landslide of contaminated soil from reaching a nearby water source
January 26, 2024Kenya’s high court has blocked the U.N.-backed deployment of Kenyan police officers to Haiti to help the Caribbean country bring gang violence under control
January 26, 2024The British military says two missiles apparently targeting a ship off Yemen exploded Friday, though they caused no damage or injuries
January 26, 2024The European Union and the U.N. Human Rights Office have expressed regret over the first execution of a man with nitrogen gas in the U.S. state of Alabama
January 26, 2024Russia and Ukraine keep trading accusations over the crash of a Russian plane that Moscow said was carrying Ukrainian POWs, but one thing is clear: Many Ukrainians whose relatives are imprisoned in Russia are afraid this could mark the end of prisoner exchanges
January 26, 2024Taiwan's defence ministry said it detected 23 Chinese air force planes operating around Taiwan and carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols" with Chinese warships on Friday,
April 26, 2024Mikaela Shiffrin has crashed into the safety nets after losing control while landing a jump during a World Cup women’s downhill
January 26, 2024Buckingham Palace says King Charles III been admitted to a private London hospital to undergo a “corrective procedure” for an enlarged prostate
January 26, 2024South Africa's genocide case against Israel may have ruffled feathers in the capitals of vital Western trading partners, but it has boosted the country's standing
April 26, 2024Thousands of people have lined a ceremonial boulevard in the heart of India’s capital to watch a colorful parade showcasing the country’s military power and cultural heritage to mark its 75th Republic Day
January 26, 2024The International Court of Justice is reading out its decision on whether to order Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza
January 26, 2024China's leaders have launched a barrage of new policies to prop up languishing financial markets and rekindle growth in the world's second-largest economy
January 26, 2024A Moscow сourt ruled on Friday that the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must remain in custody until March 30, 2024.
April 26, 2024Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was detained on espionage charges, lost an appeal Friday against his arrest, Russian state news agencies reported
January 26, 2024Asian shares are mostly lower despite upbeat news on the U.S. economy, with Japan’s benchmark falling after the latest data showed inflation has been slowing faster than expected
January 26, 2024Jannik Sinner has upset Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open to end the 10-time champion’s long unbeaten record in semifinals at Melbourne Park
January 26, 2024U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Bangkok, Thailand, officials from both countries said
January 26, 2024For years, John Kerry and Xie Zhenhua were the two most important people working on global warming
January 26, 2024Simmering tensions in the South China Sea
January 26, 2024The Biden administration has had notable success in the past couple of years in bringing home Americans who are wrongfully detained by foreign governments
January 26, 2024Thousands of people across Russia are signing petitions to support the longshot candidacy of Boris Nadezhdin
January 26, 2024Israel is set to hear whether the United Nations’ top court will order it to end its military offensive in Gaza during a case filed by South Africa accusing Israel of genocide
January 26, 2024Finns will vote Sunday to elect a new president as the Nordic nation is a NATO member and its eastern border with Russia is closed
January 26, 2024Thousands of Australians protested the anniversary of British colonization of their country with large crowds urging for Australia Day to be moved and for a day of mourning on the holiday some call “Invasion Day.”
January 26, 2024The U.N. trade body sounded an alarm Thursday that global trade is being disrupted by attacks in the Red Sea, the war in Ukraine, and low water levels in the Panama Canal
January 26, 2024North Korea says it's hosting a Chinese government delegation led by Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, as it continues its efforts to strengthen ties with Beijing and Moscow
January 26, 2024U.N. judges in The Hague will rule on Friday whether to order Israel to suspend its military
July 02, 2024U.S.
April 26, 2024Chinese officials have asked their Iranian counterparts to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthis, or risk harming
April 26, 2024Little Efruz balances himself on the front of the surfboard as waves foam around him and his companion as they skim over the Pacific waters off Peru
January 26, 2024Authorities in Belarus, Russia's closest ally, launched an investigation on Thursday into a group of 20 independent analysts and commentators now
April 26, 2024A judge has conditionally released U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine after he was arrested in the Dominican Republic last week on domestic violence charges
January 25, 2024Gaza’s Health Ministry and witnesses say Israeli troops opened fire as a crowd of Palestinians gathered for humanitarian aid in Gaza City, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens
January 25, 2024A bipartisan Senate deal to pair border enforcement measures and Ukraine aid faces potential collapse
January 25, 2024Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday signed off on the parliament's ratification of Sweden's NATO membership bid, the presidency's official gazette showed, marking the final
July 02, 2024Court records show that Brazil’s federal police are investigating the country’s former intelligence chief as part of a wider probe into alleged spying on political opponents under former President Jair Bolsonaro
January 25, 2024Turkey has published a measure approving Sweden’s membership in NATO in its official gazette
January 25, 2024Thousands of people have joined growing protests across Slovakia against a plan by populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the penal code and eliminate a special prosecutors’ office
January 25, 2024Colombia’s government has issued a disaster declaration and requested help from the international community to combat raging wildfires affecting the South American country
January 25, 2024In the aftermath of World War II and the murder by Nazi Germany of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, the world united around the pledge: Never again
January 25, 2024The U.S. government privately warned Iran about a "terrorist threat" within its borders ahead of a deadly attack last month claimed by the Islamic State militant
April 26, 2024President Joe Biden will host Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for a state visit on April 10, with the goal of strengthening a critical alliance as the United States has sought to counter China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific region
January 25, 2024The U.S. and U.K. on Thursday imposed sanctions on four leaders of Yemen’s Houthi rebel group who have supported the militant group’s recent attacks on vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden
January 25, 2024The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month killed 95 people
January 25, 2024Fendi, under Kim Jones, has presented a mesmerizing collection blending minimalist futurism with an homage to Karl Lagerfeld at Paris Couture Week
January 25, 2024Pakistan has accused neighboring India’s intelligence agency of involvement in the extrajudicial killings of its citizens, saying it had credible evidence linking two Indian agents to the deaths of two people in Pakistan last year
January 25, 2024Hall of Famers Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova are calling on the women’s tennis tour to stay out of Saudi Arabia
January 25, 2024The United States and Iraq will soon begin formal talks soon to transition the mission of a U.S.-led military coalition formed to fight the Islamic State in Iraq
January 25, 2024German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Thursday he was not aware of a swap offer that would see German Taurus cruise missiles going to Britain and Ukraine receiving British
April 26, 2024A court in military-controlled Myanmar has ordered the family home of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi, where she spent 15 years under house arrest, be put on auction in March following a decades-long legal dispute between her and her brother
January 25, 2024Swedish media say Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has agreed to meet with his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán, who invited Kristersson to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into NATO
January 25, 2024The archbishop of Port-au-Prince says six nuns kidnapped in Haiti last week along with two other people have been released
January 25, 2024A man has been charged with 76 counts of murder and 86 counts of attempted murder for allegedly causing a fire at an apartment building in South Africa last year that was one of the country’s worst disasters
January 25, 2024Turkey’s central bank has raised its key interest rate by another 2.5 percentage points
January 25, 2024Protests by French farmers are snowballing and creeping closer to Paris, ratcheting up pressure for government measures to protect the influential agricultural sector from foreign competition, red tape, rising costs and poverty-levels of pay
January 25, 2024Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has offered to meet his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban in Brussels next week to discuss the Swedish NATO application and other
January 25, 2024The Moscow City Court has convicted a former Ukraine rebel leader who called President Vladimir Putin cowardly of extremism and sentenced him to four years in prison
January 25, 2024Lawyers were to make opening statements on Thursday in the trial of a Michigan woman whose teenage son used a gun she and her husband allegedly gave him as a Christmas
January 25, 2024Nepal’s top diplomat says his country has asked Russia to send back hundreds of Nepali nationals who were recruited to fight in Ukraine and repatriate the bodies of those who were killed in the conflict
January 25, 2024Nokia has reported a double-digit decline in sales and a fall in profit in the last three months of 2023
January 25, 2024Israeli forces relentlessly bombarded areas around two hospitals in Gaza's main southern city Khan Younis on Thursday,
April 26, 2024The death toll from a strike on a crowded shelter in Gaza has risen to 12, with over 75 wounded
January 25, 2024Antisemitism is on the rise in Belgium since the Hamas attack against Israel that triggered a war in Gaza
January 25, 2024Japan’s space agency said Thursday that its first lunar mission hit the tiny patch of the moon’s surface it was aiming for in a successful demonstration of its pinpoint landing system — although it appears to be sitting upside-down
January 25, 2024Apple has rolled out an update to its operating system this week with a feature called Stolen Device Protection
January 25, 2024As a child, Sarah Jackson survived the Nazi Holocaust.
April 26, 2024South Korean police say a governing party lawmaker is being treated at a Seoul hospital after being attacked by an unidentified man who struck her head with a rock-like object
January 25, 2024Investigators searching the site where a Russian military transport plane crashed in a border region near Ukraine have reportedly found the flight recorders
January 25, 2024The United Nations said it opened a Russian bank account in 2022 as Western sanctions complicated the use of normal payment channels and has received membership fees from three
April 26, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher, with Chinese stocks extending gains after Beijing announced a raft of policies to support sagging markets
January 25, 2024The first batch of new recruits began serving their one-year compulsory military service in Taiwan on Thursday after the conscription
April 26, 2024Weather officials in Japan predicted more heavy snow Thursday, a day after nearly 800 vehicles were trapped for fours on an expressway in central Japan
January 25, 2024The passenger in a pickup truck where an American-Palestinian was fatally shot in the West Bank says the shooting was unprovoked
January 25, 2024A rhinoceros is pregnant through embryo transfer in the first successful use of a method that conservationists said could be used to try to save the nearly extinct northern white rhino subspecies
January 25, 2024The European Central Bank will likely keep interest rates unchanged Thursday
January 25, 2024A man has been convicted of murder and other crimes for carrying out the arson attack on an anime studio in Kyoto, Japan, that killed 36 people
January 25, 2024Taiwan president-elect Lai Ching-te said on Thursday he hopes that the United States can continue to firmly support Taiwan, as he met the first group of U.S. lawmakers to visit
July 02, 2024North Korea says it has conducted its first flight test of a new cruise missile, as it expands its military capabilities in the face of tensions with the United States and neighbors
January 25, 2024Russia’s top diplomat is accusing the United States, South Korea and Japan of preparing for war with North Korea
January 25, 2024Relatives of some of the more than 200 people killed in 2002 bombings on the resort island of Bali are testifying at a sentencing hearing at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba
January 24, 2024An overwhelming majority of President Joe Biden's fellow Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday backed a statement reiterating U.S. support of a two-state
April 26, 2024A 72-year-old Israeli woman held captive by Hamas militants for nearly 50 days has told an Israeli TV channel that she was held at length in a dark, humid tunnel where she met Hamas' top leader in Gaza
January 24, 2024A U.S. appeals court will in March review Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction and 20-year prison sentence for helping the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein
April 26, 2024A Zimbabwean opposition figure who has spent close to 600 days in pretrial detention has been convicted of inciting public violence
January 24, 2024Efforts to reach a new cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appear to be gaining steam
January 24, 2024A liquor store has opened in Saudi Arabia for the first time in over 70 years
January 24, 2024Argentina's President Javier Milei faced a one-day general strike Wednesday protesting his decree targeting unions as well as his proposals for economic and labor law changes
January 24, 2024Human-induced global warming, and not El Niño, was the primary driver of the severe drought in the Amazon last year that sent rivers to record lows, isolated hundreds of river communities and killed dozens of endangered dolphins
January 24, 2024Canadian authorities say the death toll from a small plane crash in Canada's Northwest Territories is six
January 24, 2024The United Nations’ top court says it will issue a decision Friday on South Africa’s request for interim orders in a genocide case against Israel, including that Israel halt its offensive in Gaza
January 24, 2024Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church
January 24, 2024An American scientist has sparked a trans-Atlantic tempest in a teapot by offering Britain advice on its favorite hot beverage
January 24, 2024The groundwater that supplies farms, homes, industries and cities is being depleted across the world
January 24, 2024The Paris spring couture shows are in full swing
January 24, 2024After Turkey ratified Sweden’s bid to join NATO on Monday, Hungary became the last member of the military alliance not to have issued its approval
January 24, 2024Officials in Cyrpus say police have rescued 60 Syrian migrants from a rickety wooden boat that had been at sea six days and appeared to have run short of food and water
January 24, 2024Officials say that two U.S.-flagged ships carrying cargo for the Defense and State departments have come under attack off Yemen
January 24, 2024Pope Francis, acknowledging that he was the victim of a deepfake photo, on Wednesday warned against the "perverse" dangers of artificial intelligence,
May 07, 2024Chinese state media say at least 39 people died and nine others were injured when a fire broke out at a commercial building in southeastern Jiangxi province
January 24, 2024Online retailer eBay Inc. will cut about 1,000 jobs, or an estimated 9% of its full-time workforce
January 24, 2024Iran's hardline Guardian Council has banned former pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani from standing again in an election in March for the Assembly of Experts, which appoints and can
January 24, 2024Medics say hundreds of patients and thousands of displaced people are unable to leave the main hospital in Khan Younis because of the fighting there
January 24, 2024A stadium in Somalia’s violence-prone capital is hosting its first soccer tournament in three decades, drawing thousands of people to a sports facility that had been abandoned for decades and later became a military base amid the country’s civil war
January 24, 2024China, the world's biggest exporter, says it is deeply concerned about tensions in the Red Sea that have upended global trade by forcing many shippers to avoid the Suez Canal
January 24, 2024Donald Trump cruised to victory in New Hampshire's Republican presidential contest on Tuesday, marching closer
January 24, 2024French farmers are staging protests across the country and in Brussels against low wages and what they consider to be excessive regulation, mounting costs and other problems
January 24, 2024Russia says that a military transport plane that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war has crashed in a Russian region near Ukraine
January 24, 2024Israeli forces are battling Palestinian militants near the main hospital in Gaza’s second-largest city, Khan Younis
January 24, 2024Germany’s train drivers have brought rail traffic to a standstill again when they began a six-day strike to push their demands in a rancorous dispute with the country’s main railway operator over working hours and pay
January 24, 2024Butter chicken - one of India's best-known dishes globally - is delicious and apparently also contentious, with two Indian restaurant chains
January 24, 2024World shares are higher after China's central bank announced fresh measures to boost its slowing economy and stabilize financial markets
January 24, 2024Sri Lanka's lawmakers are set to vote on a social media regulation bill on Wednesday which opposition politicians and activists allege will muzzle free speech.
January 24, 2024Taiwan's president-elect, Lai Ching-te, signalled on Wednesday his desire for Taipei to join the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, considering the island's key role in the
January 24, 2024As aftershocks continued to rock western China on Wednesday, more than 12,000 people were staying in tents and other shelters, lighting bonfires to fend off the freezing weather
January 24, 2024Sweden’s bid to join NATO has cleared its next-to-last hurdle after being held up for almost two years
January 24, 2024China's Foreign Ministry says Beijing has formally restored diplomatic relations with Nauru after the tiny Pacific island nation cut its ties with Taiwan earlier this month
January 24, 2024China and Nauru on Wednesday re-established diplomatic ties, Chinese state media reported, after the tiny Pacific island nation unexpectedly severed relations with its now former
January 24, 2024Israel and Hamas have moved closer to agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinians
January 24, 2024North Korea appears to have torn down a huge arch in its capital that symbolized reconciliation with South Korea, a week after leader Kim Jong Un dismissed decades of hopes for peaceful reunification with the war-divided peninsula’s south, according to satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press on Wednesday
January 24, 2024British Foreign Secretary David Cameron will travel to Israel on Wednesday where he is expected to raise concerns over the high number of Palestinians killed and push for a "
January 24, 2024A science-oriented advocacy group has announced that their famous “Doomsday Clock” will remain at just 90 seconds before midnight for a second year as several existential threats endanger life on Earth
January 23, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is pitching the United States as a better security partner for Africa in place of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which he accuses of exploiting coup-hit and conflict-hit nations turning to it for help in the continent’s Sahel region
January 23, 2024The leaders of the U.S.
January 23, 2024The U.S. military has hit three facilities in Iraq and two anti-ship missiles in Yemen within hours of each other in its continued effort to keep violence from the Israel-Hamas war from spilling over into a wider conflict
January 23, 2024The United Nations chief is warning Israel that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyau’s rejection of a two-state solution will indefinitely prolong a conflict that is threatening global peace and emboldening extremists everywhere
January 23, 2024Israel and Hamas broadly agree in principle that an exchange of Israeli hostages for
January 23, 2024Dueling political factions are demonstrating on the streets of Venezuela’s capital, Caracas
January 23, 2024Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday said the United States is determined to remain a strong security partner for Nigeria, whose military is backed by the U.S.,
January 23, 2024Turkey's parliament backed Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing a last major hurdle toward enlarging the Western bloc after 20
January 23, 2024A man has been arrested hours after he claimed responsibility for starting a building fire in South Africa last year that killed 76 people while trying to get rid of the body of someone he had killed
January 23, 2024Turkey's parliament approved Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday following more than four hours of debate, clearing a last major hurdle to expanding the Western military
January 23, 2024Venezuelan opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado on Tuesday announced an alliance with political parties and civil society organizations that will help organize
January 23, 2024Russia's military is carrying out probing attacks with barrages of missiles and drones in an attempt to find weaknesses in Ukraine's military as U.S. funding for security
January 23, 2024After the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israelis put aside their differences and rallied behind the war effort in Gaza
January 23, 2024A Canadian judge has ruled that the government’s use of the Emergencies Act to quell weeks of protests by truckers and others angry over COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 was unreasonable and unconstitutional
January 23, 2024Brazil's statistics and geography institute will start using “favelas and urban communities” to describe thousands of poor urban neighborhoods
January 23, 2024Puerto Rico legislators are holding a public hearing on a bill that seeks to prohibit discrimination against certain hairstyles in the racially diverse U.S. territory, sparking a heated debate
January 23, 2024The European Commission has announced an in-depth investigation of German airline Lufthansa’s planned takeover of Italian carrier ITA Airways citing competitive concerns
January 23, 2024Canada’s government is preparing for the possibility that Donald Trump could reach the White House again
January 23, 2024A top Republican in the U.S.
January 23, 2024Turkish legislators have endorsed Sweden’s membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country’s entry into the military alliance
January 23, 2024Atomic scientists on Tuesday kept their "Doomsday Clock" set as close to midnight as ever before, citing Russia's actions on nuclear weapons amid its invasion of
January 23, 2024The Maldives government has confirmed giving clearance to a Chinese ship to dock in its port, a move which could further irk India with whom the tiny archipelago nation is involved in a diplomatic spat
January 23, 2024France’s privacy watchdog has fined Amazon’s French warehouse business $35 million for using an “excessively intrusive system” to monitor worker performance and activity
January 23, 2024Benito the 4-year-old giraffe has arrived at his new home, a large animal park in central Mexico
January 23, 2024If Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins the U.S. presidential election this November it would mean a certain amount of unpredictability for Canada, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
January 23, 2024Chanel’s Spring Couture show transformed Paris’ Grand Palais Ephemere into a stage of fashion fantasy
January 23, 2024A peace group with close ties to the Vatican said on Tuesday it will appeal to European businesses and tourists to boycott the U.S. state of Alabama if it went
January 23, 2024"Oppenheimer," the epic film about the World War Two race to build the first atomic bomb, landed a leading 13 Oscar
January 23, 2024“20 Days in Mariupol,” Mstyslav Chernov’s harrowing chronicle of the besieged Ukrainian city and the international journalists who remained there after Russia invaded, has been nominated for best documentary at the Academy Awards
January 23, 2024Britain plans to announce new sanctions in the coming days targeting Houthi financing of attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday.
January 23, 2024A leading Catholic charity is making an urgent appeal to the U.S. state of Alabama to halt a planned execution this week using nitrogen gas
January 23, 2024North Korea has demolished a major monument in its capital that symbolized the goal of reconciliation with South Korea on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un, who last week called the
January 23, 2024Germany’s highest court has ruled that a small far-right party will not get any state funding for the next six years because it’s values and goals are unconstitutional
January 23, 2024A Filipino fishing boat captain is protesting the Chinese coast guard’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea where he asserts that Chinese officers forcibly drove him and his men away from a disputed shoal
January 23, 2024Italy will use its presidency of the Group of Seven major democracies to challenge growing perceptions that Russia is winning in Ukraine and that
January 23, 2024Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Tuesday will urge a U.S. judge to appoint him a new lawyer and delay his drug trafficking trial, after arguing the
January 23, 2024Thousands of artworks have been destroyed in a fire that swept through the main art gallery in Abkhazia in a severe blow to the cultural heritage of the separatist Georgian region
January 23, 2024Russia launched missile strikes on Ukraine's military production facilities and successfully hit all intended targets, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
January 23, 2024Japan and the United States said on Tuesday they would continue to work with each other in maintaining the sanctions against Russia and supporting Ukraine in line with an agreement
January 23, 2024China underwent scrutiny of its human rights record at a key U.N. meeting on Tuesday, with Western countries calling for more protections for Xinjiang Uyghurs and
January 23, 2024Turkey's parliament is widely expected to approve Sweden's NATO membership bid on Tuesday, clearing the biggest remaining hurdle to
January 23, 2024Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sent a letter to his Swedish counterpart, Ulf Kristersson, inviting him to Budapest to discuss Sweden’s accession into the NATO military alliance
January 23, 2024A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the Buddhist-dominated country’s sole Christian-majority state
January 23, 2024NATO has signed a 1.1 billion euro contract for 155mm artillery ammunition, the alliance said on Tuesday, with part of the shells to be supplied to Ukraine after complaints a
January 23, 2024Chinese state media say 31 people are confirmed dead while several remain missing after a landslide in a remote, mountainous part of the southwestern province of Yunnan
January 23, 2024Asian shares are mixed after Japan reported its exports jumped nearly 10% in December over a year earlier
January 23, 2024Russian missiles struck three Ukrainian cities, including its two biggest, damaging apartment buildings and killing at least seven people
January 23, 2024Riot Games, the developer of the popular “League of Legends” multiplayer battle game is joining other tech companies that have been cutting back with a layoff of 11% of its staff
January 23, 2024The 2024 Oscar nominations have been announced
January 23, 2024The Israeli military says its forces have encircled the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, the Palestinian territory’s second-largest city
January 23, 2024The United States is out of money for Ukraine right now and is unable to send the ammunition and missiles that the government in Kyiv needs to fend off Russia’s invasion
January 23, 2024The Israeli military says that Palestinian militants carried out the deadliest single attack on Israel’s forces since the Hamas raid that triggered the war
January 23, 2024Almost 80 years after the Holocaust, about 245,000 Jewish survivors are still living across more than 90 countries
January 23, 2024Western countries have used a regular U.N.-backed review of China's human rights record to press Beijing to do more to allow freedom of expression, protect the rights of ethnic minorities, repeal a national security law in Hong Kong and to implement other changes
January 23, 2024A Russian national has been sanctioned by the U.S., U.K. and Australian governments for his role in a cyber attack that compromised the personal details of more than 10 million Australians
January 23, 2024Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with his counterparts from Iran, Turkey and Lebanon ahead of the United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday due to discuss the Middle
January 23, 2024A bill to define antisemitism in Georgia law stalled in 2023 over how the measure should be worded
January 23, 2024Intense international mediation efforts are working toward exchanging Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners
January 22, 2024A Chinese music student went on trial on Monday on U.S. charges that he harassed an activist who posted fliers at the Berklee College of Music in Boston supporting
January 22, 2024U.S. and British forces carried out a fresh round of strikes on Monday in Yemen, targeting a Houthi underground storage site as well as missile and surveillance capabilities
July 02, 2024The U.S. and British militaries have bombed eight locations used by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen
January 22, 2024Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the United States and Ukraine’s supporters at a U.N. meeting where Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the West, and China warned that further global chaos could impact the slowing global economy
January 22, 2024Canadian film director Norman Jewison, whose eclectic array of masterpieces included the 1967 racial drama "In the Heat of the Night," the 1987 tart romantic comedy "
April 26, 2024The U.S. Navy released the names of the two SEALs who were lost at sea during a raid on a boat carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen
January 22, 2024Officials say a magnitude 7.1 earthquake in a remote part of China’s western Xinjiang region has killed at least three people and caused extensive damage in freezing weather
January 22, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of four African countries, meeting with the leaders of Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and touting America as the continent’s key economic and security ally at times of regional and international crises
January 22, 2024Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip is pounding the southern city of Khan Younis
January 22, 2024Serie A club Udinese has identified a fan who racially abused AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan and banned him for life as it vowed to do the same for the other “evil people.”
January 22, 2024Spain’s Supreme Court has ruled that Spanish authorities acted illegally when they sent unaccompanied child migrants back to Morocco in 2021
January 22, 2024Liberia’s new President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has been sworn into office after a narrow win in the November elections to become the country's oldest-ever president
January 22, 2024Germany’s parliament has paid tribute to Wolfgang Schaeuble
January 22, 2024Iraqi airline Fly Baghdad is denying U.S. allegations that have resulted in it being hit with sanctions from the Treasury Department
January 22, 2024U.K. health officials are urging millions of parents to book their children for missed measles, mumps and rubella shots during a sharp increase in the number of measles cases and the lowest vaccination rates in a decade
January 22, 2024Dior’s couture show at Paris’ Musee Rodin wove an intricate Ottoman tapestry for spring and has attracted a tapestry of stars to rival it
January 22, 2024Pakistan says Iran's foreign minister will visit the country next week
January 22, 2024Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back on Monday after speculation that a new release of Gaza hostages was in the works, saying Israel was taking an unspecified
January 22, 2024The U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander says Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels during Israel’s war against Hamas
January 22, 2024Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad attacked a graft probe into his associates as politically motivated, a week after his eldest son was ordered to hand over information to investigators
January 22, 2024Elon Musk has visited the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau
January 22, 2024Russia is taking all "necessary measures" to defend its citizens and key infrastructure from Ukrainian attacks, the Kremlin said on Monday, a day after Moscow accused Kyiv's forces
January 22, 2024China has been lobbying non-Western countries to praise its human rights record ahead of a key U.N. meeting where it will face questions and criticism over its actions
January 22, 2024The U.N.’s migration agency is launching its first “global appeal,” seeking $7.9 billion to help people on the move and ensure smoother pathways to migration
January 22, 2024European Union foreign ministers say the creation of a Palestinian state is the only credible way to achieve peace in the Middle East
January 22, 2024A U.N. report says the Taliban are restricting Afghan women's access to work, travel and health care if they are unmarried or don't have a male guardian, a mahram
January 22, 2024The United Nations migration agency aims to raise $7.9 billion this year through a new funding push to bolster efforts to protect migrants, reduce displacement and
January 22, 2024Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is vowing to keep supporting Ukraine against Russia’s nearly 2-year-old invasion
January 22, 2024South Korea’s presidential office says it has approved a request by the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission for a one-year extension after investigators sought more time to examine human rights violations linked to past military governments
January 22, 2024A Japanese automaker that cheated on safety tests for decades said Monday it doesn’t expect to resume shipping cars any time soon
January 22, 2024A pro-Palestinian protester threw papers onto an Australian Open court and briefly disrupted the fourth-round match between Olympic champion Alexander Zverev and Cameron Norrie of Britain
January 22, 2024Dozens of family members of hostages held by Hamas stormed a committee meeting in Israel’s parliament, demanding a deal to win their loved ones’ release
January 22, 2024A Republican running for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania is escalating criticism of Democrats over the Israel-Hamas war and has traveled to the Israel-Gaza border to make the case that the Biden administration hasn’t backed Israel strongly enough
January 22, 2024France is getting ready to show its gratitude towards World War II veterans who will return to Normandy beaches this year for 80th anniversary commemorations of D-Day to mark the defeat of the Nazis
January 22, 2024Asian shares are mostly gaining after Wall Street built on its all-time high reached last week, while Japan's central bank has kept its easy credit policy intact
January 22, 2024Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple that was built on the ruins of a razed historic mosque
January 22, 2024A giraffe named Benito has started a 40-hour road trip to leave the cold and loneliness of Mexico’s border city of Ciudad Juarez, and maybe find love and warmth in his new home
January 22, 2024India’s top politicians, religious leaders and celebrities have gathered in the holy city of Ayodhya for the partial opening of a grand temple for one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, Lord Ram
January 22, 2024Chinese state media say 11 people died after a landslide buried 47 people in a remote, mountainous part of the southwestern province of Yunnan
January 22, 2024The military says a 10-day search to rescue two Navy SEALs lost in the Arabian Sea during a mission to board a ship and confiscate Iranian-made weapons has ended and the sailors are considered deceased
January 21, 2024The Guatemalan Migration Institute reports that a caravan of some 500 migrants that departed northern Honduras in hopes of reaching the United States has dissolved after crossing the border into Guatemala
January 21, 2024Sarah, the Duchess of York, has been diagnosed with a malignant skin cancer that was discovered during her treatment for breast cancer
January 21, 2024Lebanese state media and health officials say an Israeli airstrike has hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon
January 21, 2024Paris Men’s Fashion Week has wrapped up with a showcase of a style dichotomy
January 21, 2024German police say safety concerns caused a protest against the far right in the city of Munich Sunday afternoon to end early, after approximately 100,000 people showed up
January 21, 2024Denmark’s royal family has participated in a special “celebratory church service” at Aarhus Cathedral
January 21, 2024Senegal’s highest election authority has excluded two top opposition leaders from the final list of candidates for the West African nation’s presidential election next month
January 21, 2024Libya’s state-owned oil company says production has resumed at the country’s largest oilfield, ending a more than two-week hiatus after protesters blocked the facility over fuel shortages
January 21, 2024AC Milan goalkeeper Mike Maignan says too many people are “complicit” in allowing racism to continue blighting soccer and urges authorities to take stronger action after he suffered racist abuse on Saturday night
January 21, 2024The Health Ministry in Gaza says the Palestinian death toll from the war between Israel and Hamas in the besieged territory has surpassed 25,000
January 21, 2024Russian-installed officials in the eastern city of Donetsk say at least 27 people have been killed in the shelling by Ukraine of a market
January 21, 2024Twenty-five people were killed and 20 injured when Ukrainian forces shelled the Russian-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, Denis Pushilin, the Russian-appointed head of the
January 21, 2024A century after the death of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union is largely an afterthought in modern Russia
January 21, 2024The scale of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises mark an "irrevocable return" of the alliance to Cold War schemes, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told the state
January 21, 2024Three decades after Hindu mobs tore down a historical mosque, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the consecration of a grand Hindu temple at the same site on Monday
January 21, 2024North Korea said Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his willingness to visit the North at an unspecified “early date” as the countries continue to align in the face of their separate, intensifying confrontations with the United States
January 21, 2024Amid a tough reelection fight, Mayor London Breed has declined to veto a non-binding resolution from the San Francisco supervisors calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza
January 21, 2024President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he expected a number of new Western defence packages for Ukraine to be signed this and next month.
January 20, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin showed his intention to visit Pyongyang soon, North Korea's state media KCNA reported on Sunday.
January 20, 2024Piedad Córdoba, an outspoken Colombian lawmaker who for decades championed the rights of her fellow Afro-Colombians while undertaking huge risks as a go-between to leftist rebel groups, has died
January 20, 2024Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said the kingdom was "very worried" that tensions in the Red Sea amid attacks by Yemen's Houthis and U.S. strikes on Houthi
January 20, 2024The father of an American teen killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank has railed against Washington’s military support for Israel
January 20, 2024In Jonathan Anderson’s latest Loewe collection, art, fashion and celebrity converge to explore modern masculinity in a social media-driven world
January 20, 2024Tens of thousands of people have turned out to protest the far right in cities across Germany
January 20, 2024A spaniel with six legs that was found abandoned in a supermarket parking lot is now like other dogs after having her extra limbs surgically removed
January 20, 2024A senior lawmaker says Russia's parliament will consider a law allowing for the confiscation of money and property from those deemed to spread “deliberately false information” about Moscow's military actions
January 20, 2024The British navy says two of its warships have collided in a harbor in Bahrain, causing damage but no injuries
January 20, 2024Congo's President Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn into office after a disputed December election
January 20, 2024A French court has convicted three police officers of “voluntary violence” towards a youth worker in a Paris suburb who suffered serious injuries to his rectum after being assaulted with a police baton during an identity check seven years ago
January 20, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's worried at the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House
January 20, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared on Saturday to push back against U.S.
January 20, 2024A four-man crew including Turkey's first astronaut arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) early on Saturday for a two-week stay in the latest such mission
January 20, 2024Commanders from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanon's Hezbollah group are on the ground in Yemen helping to direct and
January 20, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he “will not compromise on full Israeli control” over Gaza and that “this is contrary to a Palestinian state."
January 20, 2024Syrian and Iranian officials and media say an Israeli strike on the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed five Iranian advisers with the expeditionary Al Quds force belonging to Iran's Revolutionary Guard
January 20, 2024Iran says it has launched a satellite into its highest orbit yet, the latest for a program the West fears improves Tehran’s ballistic missiles
January 20, 2024Chinese state media say 13 students have died after a fire broke out in dorms at a boarding school for elementary students in central Henan province
January 20, 2024A government commission in Guyana tasked with investigating a fire that killed 20 children at an Indigenous boarding school last year has found multiple errors and systematic failures
January 20, 2024The United Nations agency promoting gender equality says women and children are the main victims of the war in Gaza, with an estimated 16,000 killed
January 20, 2024President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally have spoken by phone after a glaring, nearly four-week gap in direct communication
January 19, 2024The United States conducted three "successful self defense strikes" against Houthi targets in Yemen on Friday, the White House said.
January 19, 2024U.S. officials say American fighter jets struck Iranian-backed Houthi rebel sites for the sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire
January 19, 2024U.S.
January 19, 2024Dior’s menswear maestro Kim Jones has transformed a sunny afternoon in the French capital into a starlit evening of balletic grandeur at Paris Fashion Week in a display of fashion theatrics
January 19, 2024President Joe Biden is skipping Tuesday's New Hampshire primary because the state defies new Democratic rules he championed
January 19, 2024Jordan Henderson has apologized to the LGBTQ+ community that fiercely criticized his transfer from Liverpool to Al-Ettifaq
January 19, 2024Prince Harry has dropped his libel lawsuit against the publisher of a British tabloid following a ruling that had damaged his case and in which the judge suggested he might lose at trial
January 19, 2024Japan on Saturday became the world's fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon, as the space agency said its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) has made
January 19, 2024More than 1,000 people have rallied in the Russian region of Bashkortostan, continuing a series of protests triggered by the conviction and sentencing of a local activist and handing a new challenge to the Kremlin
January 19, 2024Business and political elites descended on the Swiss Alpine snows of Davos to suss out “rebuilding trust” in a splintering world
January 19, 2024Japan started a "precision" landing attempt of its moon probe on Saturday, its bid to become the world's fifth country to achieve a moonshot and revitalise a space
January 19, 2024Apple has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals as a way to resolve an antitrust case and avoid potentially billions in fines
January 19, 2024Indian firm Tata Steel says it will close both blast furnaces at its plant in Port Talbot in Wales, eliminating 2,800 jobs
January 19, 2024The Palestinian Red Crescent accused Israel of firing on Friday at a hospital in Khan Younis, as a major advance in the main city in the southern Gaza Strip threatened
January 19, 2024Japan has become the fifth country in history to reach the moon
January 19, 2024A Ukrainian player refusing to shake the hand of a Russian or Belarusian at the net has become a common sight on the tennis tours over the past two years
January 19, 2024Rifts are emerging among top Israeli officials over the handling of the war against the Hamas militant group in Gaza
January 19, 2024Sri Lankan authorities say they have arrested tens of thousands of people in a monthlong crackdown on drugs and are vowing to continue despite U.N. criticism of possible human rights violations during the “heavy-handed” operation
January 19, 2024A Russian official says a Ukrainian drone has struck an oil storage depot in western Russia, causing a massive blaze
January 19, 2024Palestinian doctor Hani Bseiso faced an agonising decision when his teenage niece was wounded by Israeli shelling of her Gaza City home: amputate her leg or risk her bleeding to death
January 19, 2024Japan has landed a spacecraft on the moon, an attempt at the world’s first “pinpoint lunar landing.”
January 19, 2024U.S. fighter jets struck Houthi rebel sites in Yemen for a sixth time Friday, taking out anti-ship missile launchers that were prepared to fire
January 19, 2024Wall Street returned to record heights and capped a punishing, two-year round trip dogged by high inflation and worries about a possible recession
January 19, 2024The United States and Japan are looking to make a deal for Japanese shipyards to regularly overhaul and maintain U.S.
January 19, 2024North Korea says it has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to a combined naval exercise by South Korea, the United States and Japan this week, as it continues to blame its rivals for raising tensions in the region
January 19, 2024South Korea is calling on the divided U.N. Security Council “to break the silence” over North Korea’s escalating missile tests and threats
January 19, 2024Taiwan’s top diplomat in Washington has a message for both the island’s Chinese adversaries and its American friends: Don’t worry that Taiwan’s new president-elect will worsen relations with Beijing and possibly draw the U.S. into a conflict
January 19, 2024Hundreds of people gathered in Tel Aviv to mark the first birthday of Kfir Bibas, the youngest Israeli hostage held in Gaza
January 18, 2024There is "no way" to solve Israel's long-term security challenges in the region and the short-term challenges of rebuilding Gaza without the
January 18, 2024The United States launched additional strikes early on Thursday targeting two Houthi anti-ship missiles that were being prepared to fire into the Red Sea and deemed "an imminent
January 18, 2024An estimated 320 journalists around the world were imprisoned because of their work toward the end of 2023
January 18, 2024A fighter pilot poised to become Turkey's first person in orbit and three other astronauts representing Europe were set for launch
January 18, 2024Secretary of State Antony Blinken is planning to visit four African countries as the Biden administration tries to keep its eyes on all corners of the world while being consumed by crises in Ukraine, the Mideast and the Red Sea
January 18, 2024Israel has destroyed around two thirds of Hamas' fighting regiments in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, vowing to press on with the war until "
January 18, 2024Gang members have raided a key community in Haiti’s capital that is home to numerous police officers and has been under siege for four days in an ongoing attack
January 18, 2024The NBA has announced the Dallas Mavericks’ game at the Golden State Warriors scheduled for Friday night has been postponed following the death of Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević
January 18, 2024NATO will launch next week its biggest war games in decades with around 90,000 personnel set to take part in monthslong military exercises
January 18, 2024A court of appeals in Thailand has handed a political activist what is believed to be a record sentence for the criminal offense of insulting the monarchy
January 18, 2024A health official says one person has been killed and at least six injured after a second day of violent unrest in the Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros
January 18, 2024Arnold Schwarzenegger was stopped for hours by customs at Munich Airport after entering Germany with a luxury watch that was potentially to be auctioned at a charity event
January 18, 2024The lucrative Saudi soccer league has lost one of its high-profile players
January 18, 2024Brazilian police say that a suspect has been arrested in the brutal killing of an American art dealer who was the co-owner of a prominent gallery in Manhattan
January 18, 2024Around 90,000 troops will participate in NATO's largest exercise for decades, known as Steadfast Defender 2024, that will kick off next week and run through to May, the alliance's
January 18, 2024Authorities in the Dominican Republic have arrested U.S. rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine on charges of domestic violence
January 18, 2024Thousands of people have rallied across Slovakia as protests intensify against a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the penal code
January 18, 2024The European Union's institutions are gearing up for a fight over Hungary and a controversial transfer of 10 billion euros or nearly $11 billion in funds to Budapest
January 18, 2024A Russian city near the Ukrainian border canceled its traditional Orthodox Epiphany festivities on Friday due to the threat of attacks as Kyiv’s forces pursue a new strategy with the war approaching its two-year milestone
January 18, 2024Indonesia has allowed three Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes to fly again after grounding them, as they have different configurations from a jet that was forced to make an emergency landing
January 18, 2024This week’s airstrikes between Iran and Pakistan mark a significant escalation in fraught relations between the neighbors
January 18, 2024India’s newest airline says it will buy 150 Boeing 737 Max aircraft, in the first major announced sale for the manufacturer since a panel blew out of another Max model in midflight earlier this month
January 18, 2024The double health announcements from Britain’s royal family have put a spotlight on the private lives of the U.K.‘s senior royals
January 18, 2024“Oppenheimer” leads the race for the British Academy Film Awards with nominations in 13 categories including best film
January 18, 2024Japan has signed a deal with the United States to purchase up to 400 Tomahawk cruise missiles as part of its ongoing military buildup in response to increased regional threats
January 18, 2024Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike that was likely carried out by Jordan’s air force on southern Syria has killed at least nine people in the latest of strikes in recent months
January 18, 2024Russia’s top diplomat has dismissed a U.S. proposal to resume dialogue on nuclear arms control
January 18, 2024Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos
January 18, 2024France has announced more deliveries of its Caesar artillery system to Ukraine and is accelerating weapons production to avoid depleting its own military stocks while continuing to support the war effort against Russia’s invasion
January 18, 2024Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario
January 18, 2024The Indian Navy said on Thursday it had rescued the crew of a U.S.-owned vessel in the Gulf of Aden after an attack by
January 18, 2024Lawmakers in the United States and the United Kingdom are urging the Securities and Exchange Commission not to allow JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company, to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange
January 18, 2024An excavator belches out fumes as it clears earth and rubble from between the train and bus stations in the Ukrainian town of Trostianets to make way
January 18, 2024Asia markets mostly advanced Friday after Wall Street recouped most of the week’s earlier losses and Japan reported slowing inflation, which may keep its ultra-low interest rates steady
January 18, 2024The United States has conducted a fifth strike against Houthi rebels in Yemen
January 18, 2024As artificial intelligence's impact on society receives more scrutiny, a Franciscan friar who preaches a message of ethics in technology has gained some powerful listeners
January 18, 2024Israel’s president says normalizing ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia would be a key element of ending the war with Hamas and a game-changer for the entire Middle East
January 18, 2024The U.S. and its allies are looking for a legal way to unfreeze $300 billion in Russian Central Bank funds sitting mostly in Europe and use them for the benefit of Ukraine
January 18, 2024Palestinians are dying every day in Gaza’s overwhelmed remaining hospitals which can’t deal with the estimated 60,000 injured people and daily arrival of hundreds more hurt in Israeli’s military offensive, a U.N. health emergency expert said Wednesday, while a doctor with the International Rescue Committee said the situation in Gaza’s hospitals was the most extreme she had ever seen
January 18, 2024Pakistan launches airstrikes against alleged militant hideouts inside Iran, killing at least nine people as it retaliates for a similar attack by Iran two days earlier and raises tensions between the neighbors at a time of escalating conflict in the region
January 18, 2024Pakistan said it used killer drones and rockets to strike separatist Baloch militants inside Iran on Thursday, in a retaliatory strike
January 18, 2024Japan aims to become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon when it attempts a precision landing on Friday, in what would be a boost for a space
January 18, 2024Uniqlo Co_ has sued rival retailer Shein over a small shoulder bag the Japanese retailer said was an inferior and unlawful copy of its own hit product touted as the “Mary Poppins bag.”
January 18, 2024A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world’s most important trade routes
January 18, 2024The U.S. military said on Wednesday its forces conducted strikes on 14 Houthi missiles that were loaded to be fired from Yemen, in the fourth day
January 18, 2024The U.S. military has launched another wave of missile strikes against Houthi-controlled sites in Yemen, marking the fourth time in days it has directly targeted the group
January 18, 2024The U.S. State Department has barred former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei from entering the United States, accusing him “significant corruption” just- three days after he left office
January 17, 2024A prosecutor in Ecuador who was investigating an attack on the set of a public television channel by a group of armed men last week has been slain
January 17, 2024A public school district in Michigan approved a resolution Wednesday calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war while also encouraging its teachers to discuss the conflict in its classrooms
January 17, 2024As temperatures hover below freezing in Chicago, dozens of asylum-seekers are staying in the lower level of a city library until the bitter cold gripping much of the country lifts
January 17, 2024Despite having the support of millions of Guatemalans, newly installed President Bernardo Arévalo has a clear obstacle — the attorney general’s office and its leader, Consuelo Porras
January 17, 2024Texas’ refusal to allow Border Patrol agents into a park along the U.S.-Mexico border is a new marker in the state’s deepening rift with the Biden administration over immigration
January 17, 2024President Joe Biden was meeting with House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson and other congressional leaders on Wednesday afternoon to discuss immigration policy at the
January 17, 2024A U.S.-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden has come under attack from a bomb-carrying drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels
January 17, 2024A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday said it would reconsider a recent decision requiring Texas to remove a 1,000-foot-long (305-meter) floating barrier it had placed in
January 17, 2024A meeting between President Joe Biden, House Speaker Mike Johnson and other officials highlights the precarious nature of the complex talks to unlock aid for Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies
January 17, 2024The Biden administration on Wednesday returned the Yemen-based Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups, U.S. officials said, in the latest
January 17, 2024The United States has put Yemen’s Houthis rebels back on its list of specially designated global terrorists
January 17, 2024A major cholera outbreak has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000 in Zambia
January 17, 2024Kensington Palace says the Princess of Wales has been hospitalized after undergoing planned abdominal surgery and will remain at the private London Clinic for up to two weeks
January 17, 2024European Central Bank head Christine Lagarde says cutting interest rates too soon could threaten Europe’s progress in battling the inflation that has ravaged the economy
January 17, 2024Sacred forests may be large woodlands, smaller groves or even grasslands that are revered by different faith traditions
January 17, 2024The northeast Indian state of Meghalaya is home to more than 125 sacred forests
January 17, 2024Israel pressed its assault on Khan Younis in southern Gaza on Wednesday, sending tanks westwards while
January 17, 2024Officials say Russia fired two missiles at Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine during the night, hitting apartment buildings and a medical center and injuring 17 people
January 17, 2024An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand has killed about 20 people, though the devastation at the scene has made the death toll uncertain
January 17, 2024A top NATO military officer says the war in Ukraine could “determine the fate of the world.”
January 17, 2024Britain's foreign minister David Cameron will meet U.S.
January 17, 2024Medicine has entered the Gaza Strip after Qatar and France worked out a deal between Israel and Hamas
January 17, 2024A top NATO military official called on public and private actors in the West on Wednesday to prepare for an era in which anything could happen at any time, including fighting a
January 17, 2024U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has quelled a Conservative Party rebellion and got his stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda through the House of Commons
January 17, 2024Two Malaysian filmmakers have been charged with offending the religious feelings of others in a rare criminal prosecution that has been slammed by critics as an attack on freedom of expression
January 17, 2024Nigerian authorities say two people have died and 77 others have been injured in a massive blast that rocked more than a dozen buildings in one of the country's largest cities
January 17, 2024Heavy snow and freezing rain have hit parts of northern and central Europe, bringing transport to a halt in some Scandinavian regions and causing major disruption at airports in Frankfurt and Oslo
January 17, 2024In abandoning his country’s decades-old aspirational goal of reconciliation with South Korea, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be revealing significant changes to the way he sees the world, as he navigates growing tensions with neighbors and exploits broader geopolitical shifts to gain leverage
January 17, 2024A spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry says a shipment of medicine for dozens of hostages held by Hamas has reached the Gaza Strip
January 17, 2024Pakistan has recalled its ambassador to Tehran a day after Iran conducted airstrikes inside Pakistan that it claimed targeted bases for a militant Sunni separatist group
January 17, 2024China published youth unemployment data Wednesday for the first time since the jobless rate hit a record high in June last year, using a new method that showed an apparent improvement
January 17, 2024Asian shares are trading mixed as pessimism spreads among investors about any imminent interest rate cut in the U.S. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei added 0.5% in Thursday morning trading to 35,637.01
January 17, 2024The year has gotten off to a slow start for a charity-run rescue ship that typically plies the Mediterranean Sea looking for migrants and refugees in distress
January 17, 2024Watermelons have emblazoned banners, T-shirts, balloons and social media over the past three months in global protests against the Israel-Hamas war
January 17, 2024Ukraine has won praise for stabilizing its economy under dire circumstances
January 17, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Israel cannot achieve “genuine security” without a pathway to a Palestinian state, insisting such a move could help unify the Middle East and isolate Israel’s top rival: Iran
January 17, 2024Preparations are underway in India’s northern Ayodhya city to mark the opening of a grand temple for Lord Ram, Hinduism’s most revered deity
January 17, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron has made a point of showing his leadership hasn’t faded in more than two hours of answering questions at a news conference in which he promised a stronger France to face with world’s challenges
January 17, 2024A federal judge has sentenced an American woman to 26 years in prison for helping to kill her mother at a luxury resort in Bali then stuffing her body into a suitcase
January 17, 2024China's position that it will not renounce the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control is aimed at foreign interference and a tiny number of separatists, the Chinese
January 17, 2024China’s population fell by 2 million people in 2023 in the second straight annual decrease as births dropped and deaths jumped
January 17, 2024China’s economy for the October-December quarter grew at a quicker rate, allowing the Chinese government to hit its target of about 5% annual growth for 2023 even though trade data and the economic recovery remain uneven
January 17, 2024While the U.S. is shivering through bone-chilling cold, most of the rest of world is feeling unusually warm weather
January 16, 2024Sen. Bernie Sanders has forced a Senate vote testing the political unease over the Israel-Hamas war
January 16, 2024The drowning deaths of three migrants have brought new urgency to an extraordinary showdown between the Biden administration and Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
January 16, 2024The U.S. is not looking for a war with the Houthis, the White House said on Tuesday. "We're not looking to expand this.
January 16, 2024For filmmaker Issa López, the first question was where
January 16, 2024The Biden administration is expected to soon announce plans to redesignate Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as a specially designated global terrorists
January 16, 2024Iran has launched attacks in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the Sunni militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
January 16, 2024Shell has reached an agreement with a consortium of companies to sell its onshore business in Nigeria's Niger Delta in a deal worth $2.4 billion
January 16, 2024The defense minister of Belarus says the country closely allied with Russia will put forth a new military doctrine that for the first time provides for the use of nuclear weapons
January 16, 2024Mauritius has lifted its highest storm alert and eased a nationwide curfew after a cyclone battered the Indian Ocean island and nearby French island of Reunion
January 16, 2024Palestinian militants have battled Israeli forces in devastated northern Gaza and launched a barrage of rockets from further south
January 16, 2024The U.S. military on Tuesday carried out a new strike in Yemen against four Houthi anti-ship ballistic missiles, two U.S. officials told Reuters,
January 16, 2024Israelis released from captivity in Gaza reconvened in their ravaged border village on Tuesday to hold a solemn first-birthday ceremony for the infant
January 16, 2024Fujitsu, the company whose faulty computer accounting system resulted in the wrongful conviction of hundreds of Post Office branch managers across the U.K., has apologized to the victims for its role in the country’s biggest ever miscarriage of justice and said it was long aware that the software had bugs
January 16, 2024Kenya has embarked on its biggest rhino relocation project and has begun the difficult work of tracking, darting and moving 21 of the critically endangered beasts to a new home
January 16, 2024Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said on Tuesday the kingdom could recognise Israel if a comprehensive agreement were reached that included statehood for the Palestinians.
January 16, 2024Kenya’s director of public prosecutions has ordered that 95 people from a doomsday cult be charged with murder, manslaughter, radicalization, cruelty and child torture, among other crimes, over the deaths of 429 people believed to be members of the church
January 16, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he met with executives of JPMorgan, the largest U.S. lender, and other major international investors on the sidelines of the World
January 16, 2024A barrage of U.S., coalition and militant attacks in the Middle East are compounding U.S. fears that Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza could expand
January 16, 2024Chinese state media says that rescuers are evacuating tourists from a remote skiing area in the country's northwest where dozens of avalanches triggered by heavy snow have trapped more than 1,000 people for a week
January 16, 2024U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has suffered a rebellion by lawmakers in his Conservative Party over his stalled plan to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda
January 16, 2024The operator of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan says it has no new safety worries and envisions no changes to the plant’s decommissioning plans even after a deadly earthquake on Jan. 1 caused minor damage to another idled nuclear plant
January 16, 2024Iraq's Foreign Ministry has recalled its ambassador to Iran for consultations and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over Iranian strikes on northern Iraq that killed several civilians
January 16, 2024Military strikes will not contain attacks by Yemen's Houthis on commercial shipping lanes in the Red Sea, but an end to the war in Gaza will, Qatar's prime minister said on Tuesday
January 16, 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have hosted North Korea’s foreign minister for talks on expanding ties between the countries
January 16, 2024A number of European states, "concerned" Arab countries and the United States are working on a concept for a unified Palestinian government that
January 16, 2024Vice President Kamala Harris' husband is taking his advocacy against antisemitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hate to the Swiss Alps
January 16, 2024The main business of the World Economic Forum kicks off on Tuesday with a speech by Chinese premier Li Qiang top of the agenda.
January 16, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to deliver more long-range cruise missiles as well as bombs to Ukraine and suggested that he’d find ways to work with Donald Trump in the event that he wins another presidency
January 16, 2024Taiwan Premier Chen Chien-jen said on Tuesday that the Cabinet will resign in accordance with past constitutional practice before the new parliament meets next month after the
January 16, 2024Qatar and France say they have mediated a deal between Israel and Hamas to deliver medications to the more than 100 Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza
January 16, 2024Chinese Premier Li Qiang is set to address global investors and politicians in Davos on Tuesday, as Beijing grapples with a sluggish post-pandemic
January 16, 2024Asian shares are trading mostly lower after a decline overnight on Wall Street
January 16, 2024Circling around and around high in the skies of eastern Europe, secretive surveillance flights for NATO closely watch Russian activity along the military alliance's eastern flank
January 16, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has come out swinging against Russian leader Vladimir Putin at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos
January 16, 2024Vivek Ramaswamy, a multi-millionaire former biotech executive, ended his White House bid on Monday and endorsed Donald Trump after his longshot bid caught attention but
January 16, 2024Authorities in Mexico say at least three transgender people were killed in the first two weeks of 2024, and rights groups are investigating two additional such cases
January 16, 2024Iran says it fired missiles at what it claimed were Israeli “spy headquarters” near the U.S. Consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, and at targets linked to the extremist group Islamic State in northern Syria
January 15, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his country would no longer pursue reconciliation with South Korea and called for rewriting the North’s constitution to eliminate the idea of shared statehood between the war-divided countries
January 15, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Monday called for a constitutional amendment to change the status of South Korea as a separate state and warned that while his
January 15, 2024Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s new president
January 15, 2024Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set to expire this week, as both sides hold peace talks in Bogota that seek to reduce violence in rural parts of the country
January 15, 2024Hosting a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Swiss president said her country has offered to organize a peace summit that aims to help bring an end to Ukraine’s war with Russia
January 15, 2024A U.S. official says Navy ships and aircraft are combing areas of the Gulf of Aden for two missing Navy SEALs as details emerge about their mission
January 15, 2024Neighborhoods in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state are flooded more than a day after torrential rains that killed at least 12 people
January 15, 2024More executives are feeling better about the global economy
January 15, 2024A human rights group says that a political prisoner has died in prison in Belarus after authorities failed to provide him with proper medical care
January 15, 2024The U.K. government says the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir is antisemitic and should be banned as a terrorist organization
January 15, 2024Guatemala’s new president has huge challenges to address now that he's finally been sworn into office
January 15, 2024Romanian truck drivers and farmers are protesting again across the country again as negotiations with the coalition government over lower taxes, higher subsidies and other demands failed to reach any agreements
January 15, 2024The heads of three major U.N. agencies are warning that Gaza urgently needs more aid or its desperate population will suffer widespread famine and disease
January 15, 2024Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says U_K_ strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, conducted alongside the United States, were “limited, not escalatory.”
January 15, 2024At least six more oil tankers were steering clear of the southern Red Sea on Monday, as disruptions on the vital route for energy
January 15, 2024A tropical cyclone has caused heavy flooding and at least one death in Mauritius as cars were washed away by surges of water in the Indian Ocean island’s capital city and other places
January 15, 2024The United States cannot call for restraint while supporting Israel's war in Gaza, Iran's foreign minister said on Monday, while calling for a diplomatic solution to the war in the
January 15, 2024Germany’s economy shrank 0.3% last year as Europe’s former powerhouse struggled with more expensive energy, higher interest rates, a lack of skilled labor and a homegrown budget crisis
January 15, 2024Media dynasty drama "Succession" heads into Monday's strike-delayed Emmy awards as the favorite to grab many of the top trophies as Hollywood celebrates the
January 15, 2024Taiwan’s incoming president is promising continuity
January 15, 2024Ukraine’s military chief says that the Ukrainian air force has shot down a Russian early warning and control plane that can spot targets up to 650 kilometers (400 miles) away and a key command center aircraft that relays information to troops on the ground
January 15, 2024Israeli strikes have hit Gaza City and soldiers are battling militants in southern Gaza as the heads of three major U.N. agencies say the enclave desperately needs more aid to ward off famine and disease outbreaks
January 15, 2024Africa’s biggest oil refinery has begun production in Nigeria after a yearslong wait
January 15, 2024Denmark’s new King Frederik X has visited the Danish parliament on his first formal day on the job
January 15, 2024Iceland’s president says the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik
January 15, 2024The Kremlin on Monday said that talks in Davos on Ukraine's peace proposals would achieve nothing as Russia was not participating in the discussions.
January 15, 2024UNICEF says almost 100,000 children in Afghanistan direly need support, three months after earthquakes devastated the west of the country
January 15, 2024The anti-poverty organization Oxfam International says the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade
January 15, 2024Britain will "wait and see" before deciding to launch fresh military strikes against the Iran-aligned Houthis in Yemen in order to protect international shipping, Defence Secretary
January 15, 2024Israeli soccer player Sagiv Jehezkel has returned to Israel to a cheering crowd, hours after he was briefly detained in Turkey for allegedly inciting hatred after he expressed solidarity with people held hostage by the Hamas militant organization during a top-flight league game
January 15, 2024The Pacific Island nation of Nauru says it is switching diplomatic recognition from Taiwan to China
January 15, 2024European markets have opened lower while Asian markets were mostly higher as the week got off to a mixed start
January 15, 2024Voters across the Netherlands have veered far to the right politically
January 15, 2024Climate, conflict and the rise of artificial intelligence round out a to-do list of global priorities at this year’s edition of the World Economic Forum gabfest of business, political and other elites
January 15, 2024Retired U.S. officials have met with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and praised the island's democratic processes under which it elected a new president and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force
January 15, 2024Hamas appeared to show the dead bodies of two Israeli hostages on Monday after warning Israel they might be killed
January 15, 2024The United States looks forward to continuity in the Taiwan-U.S. relationship under the new Taiwanese administration and the U.S. commitment to the island is "rock solid", a former
January 15, 2024Houthi rebels have fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden
January 15, 2024North Korea says it has flight-tested a new, solid-fuel intermediate-range missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead as it pursues more powerful, harder-to-detect weapons designed to strike remote U.S. targets in the region
January 14, 2024Hamas aired video on Sunday showing three Israeli hostages it is holding in Gaza in which they urged their government to stop the offensive against the Palestinian
January 14, 2024Pope Francis says if he can, he'll keep a promise to visit his native Argentina in the second half of this year
January 14, 2024The Vatican says Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez and 18 Catholic clergy members from the Latin American country have arrived in Rome and are guests of the Holy See
January 14, 2024Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi condemned the U.S. air strikes on Yemen, saying the attacks revealed what he called the true aggressive nature of the United States, Iran's IRNA news
January 14, 2024A moment of silence was observed and then shouts of “free Palestine” rang out ahead of the Asian Cup game between Iran and the Palestinian soccer team
January 14, 2024From Berlin to London and Limassol to Karachi, thousands of people took to the streets to mark the 100th day of Israel’s war with Hamas
January 14, 2024The new Prada menswear collection for next fall and winter unveiled on the third day of Milan Fashion Week menswear previews has marked the return of the seasons as a point of renewal of the spirit
January 14, 2024Thousands of people have gathered in Germany for demonstrations against the far right, among them Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his foreign minister
January 14, 2024Bernardo Arévalo has been sworn in as Guatemala’s president despite months of efforts to derail his inauguration, including foot-dragging and rising tensions right up until the transfer of power
January 14, 2024The White House says “it’s the right time” for Israel to scale back its military offensive in the Gaza Strip, even as Israeli leaders vow to intensify their operation against the territory’s ruling Hamas militant group
January 14, 2024China needs to be involved in talks to end the war with Russia, Ukraine's top representative said after a high-level diplomatic meeting ahead of
January 14, 2024A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland for the second time in less than a month, sending semi-molten rock spewing toward a nearby settlement
January 14, 2024Leaders of talks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s peace formula say a growing number of countries are working to help set the groundwork for Russia to join one day
January 14, 2024A war of words has erupted the day after Taiwan’s presidential election
January 14, 2024An All Nippon Airways domestic flight turned back to Japan’s northern airport of Sapporo after a crack was found on the cockpit window, according to the airline and reports
January 14, 2024Taiwan's president-elect Lai Ching-te could face a tough four years in office with no parliamentary majority, an opposition which wanted to
January 14, 2024Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said he was “speechless” by the severity and immense destruction of the disaster zone he saw during the helicopter ride on his first visit to the country’s north-central region of Noto since the deadly Jan. 1 earthquakes, amid worries about spreading diseases in evacuation centers
January 14, 2024South Korea's military says North Korea has fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea
January 14, 2024Denmark’s prime minister has proclaimed Frederik X as king after his mother Queen Margrethe II formally signed her abdication
January 14, 2024Indonesia’s Mount Marapi has erupted again, spewing smoke and ash high into the air but causing no reported casualties
January 14, 2024A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande as they tried to the enter the U.S. from Mexico on Friday night after Texas military officers prevented federal border
January 14, 2024Thousands of protesters have poured into a square in downtown Tel Aviv, beginning a 24-hour rally to draw attention to 132 hostages still held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip
January 13, 2024The Mexican government has sent 25,000 troops to Acapulco after the resort was hit by Hurricane Otis on Oct. 25
January 13, 2024The Israel-Hamas war has quickly shattered many records when it comes to the history of conflicts between the bitter enemies
January 13, 2024A Pakistani political party says its chief met the Taliban supreme leader in Afghanistan
January 13, 2024South Africa says more than 50 countries support its case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
January 13, 2024Two U.S. Navy SEALs are missing after doing a nighttime boarding mission off the coast of Somalia, according to two U.S. officials
January 13, 2024The U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo says it will complete its withdrawal from the Central African nation by the end of 2024
January 13, 2024President Joe Biden said on Saturday the United States had delivered a private message to Iran about Iran-backed Houthis responsible for
January 13, 2024Lai Ching-te is Taiwan’s president-elect who has vowed to safeguard the Asian island’s de-facto independence from China and further align it with other democracies
January 13, 2024Thousands of demonstrators have converged opposite the White House to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a pro-Palestinian march through central London
January 13, 2024Russian authorities say that a huge fire tore through a large warehouse used by Russia's largest online retailer south of St. Petersburg
January 13, 2024Taiwan's new president-elect, Lai Ching-te, is likely to face his toughest task yet when he takes office in May and has to deal with the ire of China which has
January 13, 2024British D-Day veteran Bill Gladden has turned 100 years old Saturday, a day after his niece threw a surprise birthday party for him
January 13, 2024Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says no one can stop Israel's war against Hamas, including the world court
January 13, 2024Indonesian President Joko Widodo has visited Vietnamese automaker VinFast’s factory and said that he would create the necessary conditions for the multinational to be able to build a plant and invest in Indonesia quickly
January 13, 2024Polls closed on Saturday for Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections. The outcome should be clear by later on Saturday evening.
January 13, 2024A prolonged dry spell is sweeping across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir during the harshest phase of winter, leaving many people sick and farmers worried about impending water shortages
January 13, 2024Turkey's Defense Ministry says that the military has carried out airstrikes targeting Kurdish militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria
January 13, 2024For a few hours every day or night, Dr. Suhaib Alhamss tries to sleep on a thin mattress in an operating room of the hospital he directs in the southern Gaza Strip
January 13, 2024U.S. President Joe Biden's blistering strikes on Yemen followed weeks of warnings to the Houthis to stop attacking Red Sea shipping - or else.
January 13, 2024Every morning, before she’s even out of her pajamas, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tears a piece of masking tape off the roll, grabs a pen and writes the number of days her son has been held hostage in Gaza
January 13, 2024Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s imminent inauguration and the unrelenting pursuit of him and his party by the Attorney General are recurring topics over dinner tables in this country, reflecting a political awakening in a population weary of corruption
January 13, 2024Sunday marks 100 days that Israel and Hamas have been at war
January 13, 2024President Joe Biden’s administration keeps pressing Israel to work toward eventual statehood for the Palestinians
January 13, 2024Mexico’s two main drug cartels have long taken their deadly rivalry with them as they expand into distant markets from Asia to Australia to Africa
January 13, 2024After almost five years of engagement and a postponement due to the coronavirus pandemic, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has married longtime partner Clarke Gayford in a private ceremony
January 13, 2024U.S.
January 13, 2024The United States and Britain on Friday defended to the U.N.
January 13, 2024President Joe Biden vowed further military action against Yemen's Houthi forces if they keep up their attacks on shipping in the Red
January 13, 2024Polls opened on Saturday in Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections which China has framed as a choice between war and peace and are happening as Beijing ramps up pressure
January 13, 2024Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te has emerged victorious in Taiwan’s presidential election and his opponents have conceded
January 13, 2024From his hospital room, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin first orchestrated and then watched in real time as the U.S. retaliatory attack on Yemen-based Houthi militants unfolded Thursday night
January 12, 2024The U.N. aid chief on Friday said he was "deeply alarmed" by Israeli ministers' statements about "plans to encourage the mass transfer" of
January 12, 2024The Pentagon on Friday appeared to be cautiously optimistic that Iran-backed Houthis will be unable to replicate the type of complex attacks they
January 12, 2024The family of a Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens says he's been released from U.S. custody one month after he was returned to the United States and placed in a federal prison
January 12, 2024Spain forward Jenni Hermoso has led the fight against sexism in Spanish soccer after finding herself in the global spotlight when she was kissed on the lips by former federation president Luis Rubiales without her consent after the Women's World Cup final
January 12, 2024President Joe Biden says it was a lapse in judgment for Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin not to tell him about his hospitalization last week, but he still has confidence in the Pentagon chief
January 12, 2024Aliens they are not
January 12, 2024Taiwan is holding a weekend presidential election that neighboring China has warned could mean the difference between peace and war
January 12, 2024Hot off the Taylor Swift’s red-carpet triumph for Gucci in glittering green, the Italian brand’s creative director Sabato De Sarno plunged into his menswear debut on the first day of Milan Fashion Week with somewhat shimmery, slightly subversive classics
January 12, 2024A bear rescued from a bombed-out zoo in Ukraine has arrived at his new home in Scotland
January 12, 2024Carlos Alcaraz and Daniil Medvedev are in quarterfinal action Wednesday at the Australian Open and will be bidding to set up a semifinal showdown
January 12, 2024The latest calculations from several science agencies showing Earth obliterated global heat records last year may seem scary
January 12, 2024Czech nuclear physicist František Janouch has died at age 92
January 12, 2024Turkey is providing documents for a case brought by South Africa against Israel at the U.N.'s top court on a charge of committing genocide against Palestinian civilians, President
January 12, 2024Abdul Malik al-Houthi, enigmatic leader of Yemen's Houthi fighters whose attacks on Red Sea shipping have drawn fire from the U.S. and
January 12, 2024The International Olympic Committee has signed the first beer brand in the 40-year history of a sponsorship program that earns billions of dollars for the organization and international sports
January 12, 2024U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes across Yemen overnight in
January 12, 2024The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday called a U.S. plan to confiscate up to $300 billion in frozen Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine "21st century piracy" and said Moscow
January 12, 2024Italy declined to take part in U.S. and British strikes overnight against the Houthi group in Yemen, a government source said on Friday, explaining that Rome preferred to pursue a "
January 12, 2024Tesla says it’s temporarily halting most of production at its German factory because of attacks in the Red Sea, a vital global shipping corridor
January 12, 2024Jordan said on Friday Israeli "war crimes" against Palestinians were to blame for heightened regional tension and violence in the Red Sea which it said
January 12, 2024Oscar-winning “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho and other artists in South Korea have called for a thorough investigation into the death of popular actor Lee Sun-kyun
January 12, 2024Israel is rejecting allegations levied by South Africa that its campaign against Hamas amounts to genocide against the Palestinian people
January 12, 2024Myanmar’s military says it has reached a cease-fire agreement with an alliance of three ethnic minority guerrilla groups that it has been battling in the north
January 12, 2024British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has unveiled new military funding for Ukraine during a visit to Kyiv aimed at reassuring the country that the West is still providing support nearly 23 months after Russia’s invasion
January 12, 2024Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish as it closed out its 10th winning week in the last 11
January 12, 2024Taiwanese are preparing to elect a new president and legislature Saturday in what many see as a test of control with China which claims the self-governing island republic as its own
January 12, 2024An apparent drone attack - claimed by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia - hit central Tel Aviv in the early hours of Friday, killing one man and slightly
January 12, 2024Low vaccination rates against the latest versions of COVID-19 and influenza are putting pressure on healthcare systems this winter,
January 12, 2024Washington’s relationship with Beijing will face its biggest test since the leaders of the two countries met in November, as the United States seeks to keep the Taiwan Straits calm after Taiwanese voters select a new president this weekend
January 12, 2024Germany says it will intervene in the proceedings against Israel at the U.N.'s highest court accusing it of committing genocide in Gaza
January 12, 2024Russia condemned the United States and Britain on Friday for their military strikes on Yemen, which Moscow said amounted to an irresponsible
January 12, 2024Queen Margrethe II, Denmark’s monarch for more than half a century, stunned her country when she announced on New Year’s Eve that she will hand over the throne to her eldest son, Crown Prince Frederik
January 12, 2024As a teenager, Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik felt uncomfortable being in the spotlight and wondered whether there was any way he could avoid becoming king
January 12, 2024The U.S. military has struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk
January 12, 2024Australia provided personnel support to the U.S. and UK in their strikes against Houthi military targets in Yemen, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Friday.
January 12, 2024Saudi Arabia called for restraint and "avoiding escalation" in light of the air strikes launched by the United States and Britain against sites linked to the Houthi movement in Yemen
January 12, 2024When the U.S. and U.K. warships launched waves of air, ship and submarine-launched missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen late Thursday it was the culmination of weeks of warnings to the rebel group to cease their destructive attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea
January 12, 2024The United States and Britain launched a series of strikes on Yemen on Thursday aimed at the Iran-backed Houthi militia that started targeting international shipping in the Red Sea late
January 12, 2024U.S. officials say the U.S. and British militaries bombed more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis
January 11, 2024U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines struck across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed
January 11, 2024From electric cars to transparent TVs to the latest accessibility tech and virtual assistants backed by artificial intelligence, there was a wide range of innovations on display at the CES tech show in Las Vegas this week
January 11, 2024Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen, the Finnish stars of Aki Kaurismäki's tragicomic romance “Fallen Leaves," have found themselves in the flurry of Hollywood's awards season, attending the Golden Globe Awards, the Governors Awards as well as many, many screenings as they wait to find out if theirs is one of the five films selected for best international feature at the Oscars
January 11, 2024Palestinians across the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem have been captivated by the proceedings in a faraway courtroom where the first hearing in an unprecedented case against Israel was held
January 11, 2024A re-election of Donald Trump as U.S. president would represent a "threat" for Europe, European Central Bank (ECB) head Christine Lagarde said on Thursday.
January 11, 2024Argentina's statistics agency says the country has registered a monthly inflation rate of 25.5% in December and closed 2023 with an annual inflation of 211.4%
January 11, 2024The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas
January 11, 2024The new government of French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal has been announced with only one major change at the foreign ministry, while most high-profile Cabinet members remained unchanged
January 11, 2024A Russian presidential hopeful opposing Moscow’s military action in Ukraine has met with a group of soldiers’ wives who are demanding that their husbands be discharged from military service
January 11, 2024Archeologists have uncovered a cluster of lost cities in the Amazon rainforest that was home to at least 10,000 farmers about 2,000 years ago
January 11, 2024Thousands of people have taken to the streets of major cities in Slovakia to renew their protests against plans by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code
January 11, 2024The U.S. ambassador to Serbia says the United States has received Kosovo’s request for the purchase of Javelin anti-tank missiles
January 11, 2024Guatemala has arrested its former interior minister for allegedly not carrying out his duties when he opted for dialogue with protesters rather than using force to remove them as a court had ordered
January 11, 2024Hundreds of people have attended a ceremony honoring the memory of renowned Ukrainian poet Maksym Kryvtsov, who was killed in action while serving as a soldier in the war Russia started in Ukraine nearly two years ago
January 11, 2024In the greatest rebuke yet to Pope Francis, the Catholic bishops of Africa and Madagascar have issued a unified statement refusing to follow his declaration allowing priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples
January 11, 2024Honduran migrant Noel Castillo heard a volley of shots just after 7:30 p.m. in late December as he and his family traveled on a highway in northern
January 11, 2024Relatives of civilians killed at a kibbutz in southern Israel during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas are demanding the military immediately investigate signs that some may have been killed by Israeli security forces as they battled militants holding hostages
January 11, 2024Netflix has removed an Indian language film from its platform after the movie faced a backlash on social media for depicting the daughter of a Hindu priest eating meat.
January 11, 2024A bomb threat has sent an anti-explosives unit into a bustling area of Ecuador's tense capital as the South American nation staggers under a spike of violence blamed on drug gangs
January 11, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has wrapped up his latest urgent Mideast tour in talks with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi
January 11, 2024Tons of garbage floats down a river at least twice a year and ends up near the eastern Bosnian town of Visegrad behind a barrier installed by a local hydroelectric plant
January 11, 2024Some of the Native Americans the National Park Service was supposed to consult with say moving a statue of Pennsylvania's founder William Penn from a Philadelphia historic site isn't a priority for them
January 11, 2024A giant bronze canopy at the centre of St Peter's Basilica will get its first major makeover in more than 260 years to restore its lustre in time for Holy Year celebrations in
January 11, 2024The U.S. military said it did not carry out an air strike on a rocket launcher on Monday near Ain al-Asad air base in western Iraq which hosts U.S. and other international forces, a U.S.
January 11, 2024Microsoft says it is upgrading its cloud computing service to let customers store all personal data within the European Union instead of having it flow to the U.S. where national privacy laws don’t exist
January 11, 2024Germany’s top diplomat says China’s actions in the South China Sea violate the rights of Asian coastal states like the Philippines and threaten freedom of navigation, but adds that the territorial disputes have to be resolved peacefully because “the world doesn’t need another crisis.”
January 11, 2024A legal adviser to the European Union’s top court says Google should pay a whopping fine in a long-running antitrust case
January 11, 2024Poland’s president says he has started the process to once again pardon two politicians who were arrested earlier this week
January 11, 2024Google says it has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures
January 11, 2024The United Nations' top court has started hearings over allegations that Israel's war with Hamas amounts to genocide, which Israel strongly denies
January 11, 2024Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street drifted to a mixed close
January 11, 2024An industry association reports that China’s auto exports surged 63.7% in 2023 while sales at home rose 4.2%
January 11, 2024A former France basketball player serving as an ambassador for the Paris 2024 Olympics has been forced to quit her role because of a controversy linked to a social media post related to the situation in Gaza
January 11, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out a cease-fire as his country defends itself against Russia's invasion
January 11, 2024Iran’s navy has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman that once was at the center of a major crisis between Tehran and Washington, a seizure that further escalates tensions in the Mideast waterways
January 11, 2024The amount of renewable energy installed around the world last year grew at its fastest rate in the past 25 years
January 11, 2024The Papua New Guinea government is working to restore order after at least 15 people were reportedly killed during rioting and looting that left the country’s two biggest cities in flames
January 11, 2024Beijing's threat to use force to claim the self-governed island of Taiwan isn't just about missiles and warships
January 11, 2024South Africa's long-held support for the Palestinian people can be traced back to the time of Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat
January 11, 2024In a case that strikes at the heart of Israel’s national identity, South Africa has formally accused the country of committing genocide against Palestinians
January 11, 2024José Adolfo Macías Villamar, leader of one of Ecuador's most dangerous gangs, was discovered missing from his cell in a prison where he was serving a sentence for drug trafficking
January 11, 2024Lawmakers are trying to get to the bottom of one of Britain’s gravest injustices and are questioning bosses of the Post Office and Fujitsu
January 11, 2024One of Taiwan’s leading opposition party candidates in Saturday’s presidential election has promised to boost the island’s defense capabilities while restarting dialogue with Beijing
January 11, 2024The Biden administration says it will send an unofficial delegation comprised of former senior officials to Taiwan shortly after the self-governed island holds an election for a new president this weekend
January 11, 2024The head of Yemen's Houthi supreme revolutionary committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi, said on Thursday the UN resolution on navigation on the Red Sea is a "political game" and that the
January 11, 2024Israel prepared to defend itself on Thursday at the top U.N. court against accusations of genocide in Gaza, as Prime
January 11, 2024The Israeli military says it has found evidence that hostages were present in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, which has become the focus of Israel’s ground offensive
January 11, 2024The United States, in a clear signal to China, opposes any outside interference or influence in Taiwan's upcoming presidential and
January 11, 2024President Joe Biden met on Wednesday with the sister of Paul Whelan, the former U.S. Marine detained in Russia, the White House said.
January 10, 2024A consumer advocacy group filed a lawsuit against Starbucks Wednesday, saying the company’s claim that its coffee is ethically sourced is false and misleading
January 10, 2024The United States will never help Europe if it came under attack and will leave NATO, which is dead, Donald Trump told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 2020 while he
January 10, 2024CES 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas
January 10, 2024Dozens of U.S.
January 10, 2024One of Spain's top museums welcomed a U.S. court decision allowing it to keep a French impressionist painting looted from a Jewish woman by
January 10, 2024The head of the U.N. health agency says holiday gatherings and the spread of the most prominent variant globally led to increased transmission of COVID-19 last month
January 10, 2024French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint a 34-year-old prime minister surprised many because of his age and relatively short career
January 10, 2024The United States and its allies on Wednesday condemned what they described as Russia's firing of North Korean missiles at Ukraine, with
January 10, 2024Areas across the globe have seen spring snowpack shrink over the last 40 years, and a new study says for many of them climate change is clearly to blame
January 10, 2024A smiling and joking Alexei Navalny has appeared in court via video link from the Arctic penal colony where he is serving a 19-year sentence
January 10, 2024Northern Europeans are more prone to multiple sclerosis than other ancestries and now a study of ancient DNA hints at why
January 10, 2024A study suggests an ancient species of great ape was likely driven to extinction by environmental changes
January 10, 2024A veteran Laotian diplomat recently appointed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ special envoy to Myanmar, has arrived on his first mission to the strife-torn nation
January 10, 2024Ecuador's president has declared war on drugs gangs holding scores of prison guards hostage in a wave of violence that saw the storming of a TV station on-air
January 10, 2024Tech companies of all sizes are showing off their latest gadgets at CES 2024 in Las Vegas
January 10, 2024Egypt and Jordan warned against any Israeli reoccupation in the Gaza Strip and appealed for uprooted residents to be allowed to
January 10, 2024The U.S.
January 10, 2024Listened to more music last year
January 10, 2024Australia’s online safety watchdog says the owner of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter has slashed its global trust and safety staff by 30% including an 80% reduction in the number of safety engineers since billionaire Elon Musk took over in 2022
January 10, 2024A legal battle over whether Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza amounts to genocide opens Thursday at the United Nations’ top court
January 10, 2024Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will introduce measures to overturn the convictions of more than 900 post office branch managers who were wrongly accused of theft or fraud because of a faulty computer system
January 10, 2024Japan’s nuclear safety regulators have told the operator of a nuclear power plant in the area hit by a powerful New Year's Day quake to study its potential impact
January 10, 2024The relationship between India and the Maldives is facing challenges after officials in the tiny island nation made derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s posts that promoted the pristine beaches of India’s Lakshadweep archipelago
January 10, 2024Israeli military operations in Gaza are focused on the southern city of Khan Younis and urban refugee camps in the territory’s center
January 10, 2024Pakistan’s prime minister has called for unified efforts to tackle global infectious diseases like COVID-19 and emergencies caused by climate change, nearly 1 1/2-year after devastating floods killed 1,700 people in his nation
January 10, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has shown that the Russian military can be stopped
January 10, 2024The World Economic Forum says false and misleading information supercharged with cutting-edge artificial intelligence is the top immediate risk to the global economy
January 10, 2024Risk specialists see extreme weather and misinformation as most likely to trigger a global crisis in the next couple of years, a World Economic Forum (WEF) survey
January 10, 2024A union representing many of Germany’s train drivers has started a nearly three-day strike in a rancorous dispute with the country’s state-owned main railway operator over working hours and pay
January 10, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to seek governance reforms
January 10, 2024Asian shares have advanced on the back of Wall Street’s climb to a near-record high, as Tokyo's benchmark surged to its highest level since 1990
January 10, 2024China is being accused of using military threats, diplomatic pressure and fake news in a broad strategy to influence voters in Taiwan’s elections to pick candidates who favor unification
January 10, 2024China’s space agency says its latest lunar explorer has arrived at the launch site in preparation for a mission to the moon in the first half of this year
January 10, 2024The 7.6 magnitude earthquake that hit the western coast of Japan on New Year’s has killed 213 people as of Thursday
January 10, 2024Security camera video from a West Bank village shows a young man standing in a central square when he is suddenly shot and drops to the ground
January 10, 2024Israel is sending top legal minds, including a Holocaust survivor, to The Hague this week to counter allegations that it is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
January 10, 2024Schools and stores are shuttered, many people stayed home and soldiers are roaming the streets of Ecuador’s biggest cities after armed gang members invaded a television station live afternoon newscast
January 10, 2024More than 50 countries that together have half the world’s population are expecting national elections in 2024
January 10, 2024A group of armed, masked men in Ecuador launched an audacious attack on a television station during a live broadcast and so revealed the country’s spiraling violence in the wake of an apparent recent prison escape
January 10, 2024The U.N. Security Council has voted to demand Yemen’s Houthi rebels immediately stop their attacks on ships in the Red Sea
January 10, 2024Taiwan votes in presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday, with three candidates standing for the position of president.
January 10, 2024Taiwan goes to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president and parliament under the shadow of an increasingly assertive China which has called the
January 10, 2024While electric vehicles are gaining the lion’s share of the attention for carbon-neutral technology at CES 2024, hydrogen energy has snuck its way back into the conversation thanks to two automotive giants
January 10, 2024Yemen’s Houthi rebels have fired their largest-ever barrage of drones and missiles targeting shipping in the Red Sea, forcing the United States and British navies to shoot down the projectiles in a major naval engagement
January 10, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called South Korea “our principal enemy” and threatened to annihilate it if provoked
January 10, 2024The United States defended its veto of a call for the immediate suspension of hostilities in Gaza at a U.N. meeting and again faced demands by the Palestinians and many other countries for a cease-fire now in the Israel-Hamas war – as well as by a group of rabbis in the balcony
January 10, 2024Adan Canto, the Mexican singer and actor best known for his roles in “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and “Agent Game” as well as the TV series “The Cleaning Lady,” has died
January 09, 2024U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022
January 09, 2024Guam police say a man suspected of fatally shooting a South Korean tourist during a robbery in the U.S. territory last week has died and his alleged getaway driver is in custody
January 09, 2024The shattering of global annual heat records last year is prompting people to ask: what can be done
January 09, 2024A U.S. veteran who plotted to overthrow Venezuela’s president is proudly standing with a former Venezuelan army general who pleaded guilty in New York on terrorism charges
January 09, 2024CES 2024 has kicked off in Las Vegas
January 09, 2024Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says officials at the Arctic prison colony where he is serving a 19-year term have isolated him in a tiny punishment cell over a minor infraction
January 09, 2024A U.S. Navy sailor has been sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for transmitting sensitive U.S. military information to a Chinese government’s intelligence officer
January 09, 2024Prosecutors say a 26-year-old man who tried to sell what he claimed was a walking stick used by the late Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced for eBay buyers
January 09, 2024Two convicted politicians who took refuge for hours in Poland's presidential palace have been arrested by police
January 09, 2024Authorities in Ecuador say masked men broke onto the set of a public television channel in Ecuador waving guns and explosives during a live broadcast, prompting the president to issued a decree declaring that the violence-plagued country had entered an “internal armed conflict.”
January 09, 2024Wander Franco is facing a lesser charge after a judge in the Dominican Republic analyzed evidence that alleges the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl and paid her mother thousands of dollars for her consent
January 09, 2024Andrew Scott, known to many as the “Hot Priest” of “Fleabag,” has found even greater acclaim for his latest performance
January 09, 2024Irish singer Sinead O'Connor, who was found unresponsive at an address in London in July last year, died of natural causes, the coroner said on Tuesday.
January 09, 2024Serbian authorities have started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have been stranded on a river island for weeks and were facing hunger and cold as temperatures dropped
January 09, 2024A coroner says Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O’Connor died from “natural causes” in July
January 09, 2024The European Union says Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI could trigger a merger investigation
January 09, 2024The former head of Britain’s state-owned Post Office is handing back a royal honor in response to fury over her role in a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of postmasters wrongfully accused of theft
January 09, 2024More than 60 heads of state and government and hundreds of business leaders will discuss the biggest global challenges during the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Switzerland next week
January 09, 2024Former diplomat and White House aide Stuart E
January 09, 2024A Ukrainian air force official says Russia’s recent escalation of missile and drone attacks is stretching his country's air defense resources
January 09, 2024Earth shattered global annual heat records last year and it's flirting with the warming threshold that nations wanted to stay within to avoid the worst consequences of climate change
January 09, 2024Gabriel Attal has been named as France’s youngest-ever prime minister as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term amid growing political pressure from the far right
January 09, 2024The United States has warned that ongoing celebrations of a Bosnian Serb self-proclaimed national holiday violate Bosnia’s constitution and a 1995 peace agreement
January 09, 2024Hezbollah says it launched a drone strike at the Israeli army’s northern headquarters in retaliation for recent strikes in Lebanon that killed top Hamas and Hezbollah officials
January 09, 2024Countless tiny plastic pellets are washing up on the shores of northern Spain and local authorities have declared an environmental emergency after a shipping container fell off a transport vessel last month
January 09, 2024Spain’s government says face masks will be mandatory in hospitals and healthcare centers starting Wednesday due to a surge in respiratory illnesses
January 09, 2024A U.S. citizen has been arrested on drug charges in Russia, a move that comes amid soaring Russia-U.S. tensions over Ukraine
January 09, 2024The Kremlin declined on Tuesday to comment on U.S. and Ukrainian assertions that Moscow had fired North Korean missiles at Ukrainian targets, but it also accused Kyiv of using
January 09, 2024Russia’s national elections commission has registered the Communist Party’s candidate to compete with President Vladimir Putin in the March election that Putin is all but certain to win
January 09, 2024Japan’s transportation ministry says it has introduced improved emergency measures for the country’s airports, a week after a fatal collision between a Japan Airlines jetliner and a coast guard plane at Tokyo’s busy Haneda airport that is seen as a result of human error
January 09, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling on Israel to work with moderate Palestinians and neighboring countries on plans for postwar Gaza
January 09, 2024Israel must make "hard choices" if it wants to normalize relations with more of its neighbors and should support Palestinian leaders who are willing to live side-by
January 09, 2024Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Tuesday that "there is nothing more atrocious and preposterous" than a lawsuit filed in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing
January 09, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is back in Tel Aviv for meetings with top Israeli leaders
January 09, 2024Taiwan authorities sent out an island-wide alert on Tuesday, saying a Chinese satellite had flown over south Taiwan airspace, around the same time Chinese state media confirmed the
January 09, 2024Taiwan’s Defense Ministry has mistranslated an alert into English, saying China had launched a missile instead of a satellite and urging caution days before the island’s elections
January 09, 2024Authorities say suspected militants have shot and killed two police officers assigned to escort polio workers in northwest Pakistan during the nationwide campaign against polio
January 09, 2024Indonesia has temporarily grounded three Boeing 737-9 Max jetliners, following an incident last week in which an Alaska Airlines plane suffered a blowout that left a gaping hole in the side of the fuselage
January 09, 2024Asian shares have retreated after a lackluster session on Wall Street, though Tokyo broke ranks, gaining more than 2% after the government said it would double its disaster reserves by nearly $7 billion
January 09, 2024South Korea’s parliament has passed a landmark ban on production and sales of dog meat, as public calls for a prohibition have grown sharply over concerns about animal rights and the country’s international image
January 09, 2024Thousands of faithful Argentines flock every year to the northern city of Mercedes to ask folk cowboy saint Gauchito Gil for protection and to thank him for past favors
January 09, 2024Supervisors in San Francisco have approved a resolution calling for an extended cease-fire in Gaza that condemns Hamas as well as the Israeli government
January 09, 2024Yoshie Minamidani has been running a seafood store in the Japanese town of Wajima for three decades
January 09, 2024Days after Mexico’s Supreme Court lifted a suspension on bullfights in the world’s largest bullring, a young bullfighter practiced his steps and waved his cape in front of a bull’s head mounted on a wheeled cart
January 09, 2024Four people have been charged over an alleged plot to smuggle hundreds of Australian native reptiles from Sydney to Hong Kong
January 09, 2024The United States and the United Kingdom say the elections that extended Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's rule were not credible, free and fair
January 09, 2024China threatened new trade measures against Taiwan on Tuesday, piling on pressure ahead of weekend elections, as Taipei complained of more
January 09, 2024As Taiwan’s presidential election approaches, many immigrants from Hong Kong are supporting the governing Democratic Progressive Party after witnessing the alarming erosion of civil liberties at home
January 09, 2024NASA is set to delay its next few missions to the moon under a key program as technical hurdles mount with the various spacecraft it intends to use to get there
January 09, 2024U.S.
January 09, 2024Franz Beckenbauer put himself a step ahead on the soccer field by taking a step back
January 08, 2024Rays shortstop Wander Franco released from Dominican Republic jail amid accusations he had a relationship with a minor
January 08, 2024Opposition politicians in Italy are demanding that police investigate a rally in Rome where hundreds of participants raised an arm in the banned fascist salute
January 08, 2024The loud boom startled passenger Kelly Bartlett, and the roaring wind that followed left her unnerved
January 08, 2024White House officials met on Monday with about a dozen leaders from venture capital firms and the technology and defense industries in an effort to reinforce the
January 08, 2024Israeli forces located what they said was the largest weapons production site so far found in Gaza, with underground workshops they said were used to
January 08, 2024The United States shares the view that the weekend's elections in Bangladesh were not free and fair, the U.S.
January 08, 2024About 2,000 migrants have resumed their journey through southern Mexico, after participants were left without the papers the Mexican government appeared to have promised
January 08, 2024A new migrant caravan of approximately 2,000 people formed in southern Mexico on Monday, largely made up of people that have been on the move since
January 08, 2024Brazil has observed the anniversary of last year’s uprising in the capital when thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro stormed government buildings and called for a military intervention to remove President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from office
January 08, 2024CES 2024 kicks off in Las Vegas this week
January 08, 2024The Pentagon said on Monday it was not currently planning to withdraw its roughly 2,500 troops from Iraq, despite Baghdad's announcement last week
January 08, 2024The elite Hezbollah commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon fought for the militant group for decades and took part in some of its biggest battles
January 08, 2024A convicted leader of one of the most powerful drug gangs in Ecuador has vanished from the prison where he was serving his sentence
January 08, 2024Germany's World Cup-winning coach Franz Beckenbauer has died
January 08, 2024A privately built moon lander launched Monday morning to make the first U.S. soft lunar landing in more than 50 years failed to enter its correct orientation in space, suffering
January 08, 2024Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders is withdrawing legislation he proposed in 2018 that calls for a ban on mosques and the Quran
January 08, 2024Paris is immortalizing British music icon David Bowie by naming a street after him in the city’s southeast on what would have been his 77th birthday
January 08, 2024Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa has paid a visit to Poland in an attempt to strengthen ties with the NATO nation which borders Ukraine
January 08, 2024The European Union’s top official for migration says member states will have to confront tough policy challenges to cope with the continent’s aging population
January 08, 2024Two U.S. fighter jets flew over Bosnia in a demonstration of support for the Balkan country’s integrity in the face of increasingly secessionist policies of the Bosnian Serb pro-Russia leader Milorad Dodik
January 08, 2024Jordan's King Abdullah said on Monday that Israel had created a whole generation of orphans with its "brutal" war in Gaza, where he said over 30,000 people,
January 08, 2024Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik has launched his second attempt at suing the state by accusing the Justice Department of breaching his human rights
January 08, 2024Slovenia’s rescuers have successfully extracted five people who had been trapped in a cave for more than two days because of high water levels
January 08, 2024The slaying of a South Korean woman during an initiation process for a group that called itself Soldiers of Christ has shocked the large Korean American community in metro Atlanta
January 08, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un turns 40 on Monday with no announced public celebrations at home
January 08, 2024Indonesia temporarily grounded three Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes on Jan. 6, operated by Lion Air, despite different configurations from the plane that had to make an emergency landing
January 08, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says four key Arab nations and Turkey have agreed to begin planning for the reconstruction and governance of Gaza once Israel’s war against Hamas ends
January 08, 2024Pope Francis is calling for a universal ban on what he calls the “despicable” practice of surrogate motherhood
January 08, 2024An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon has killed a senior commander of the militant group Hezbollah
January 08, 2024Vietnamese automaker VinFast plans to spend up to $2 billion to build an electric vehicle factory in India, the world's third-largest auto market by sales
January 08, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was holding more talks with Arab leaders on Monday as part of a diplomatic push to stop the war in Gaza spreading further.
January 08, 2024An Israeli airstrike has killed an elite Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon
January 08, 2024Officials say Russia has launched its latest barrage of hypersonic and cruise missiles against Ukrainian targets, striking near the front lines of fighting in the east as well as in central and western parts of the country
January 08, 2024Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has swept to power for a fourth consecutive term in Bangladesh
January 08, 2024A roadside bomb has exploded near a van carrying police assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization campaign in restive northwestern Pakistan, killing at least six officers and wounding 10 others
January 08, 2024India’s top court has restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago
January 08, 2024Russia launched a large-scale missile attack across Ukraine at the start of peak morning hours on Monday, hitting residential and industrial
January 08, 2024The cockpit voice recorder from the Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet that suffered a plug door blowout during an Alaska Airlines flight and carried
January 08, 2024Judges in England and Wales have been given approval to use artificial intelligence to help writing legal opinions
January 08, 2024Asian shares have advanced after Wall Street rallied to claw back almost all the losses from its slow start to the year
January 08, 2024Thousands of people made homeless overnight are living in weariness and uncertainty on the western coast of Japan a week after a powerful earthquake left at least 180 dead and dozens missing
January 08, 2024Israeli attacks inflicted the highest daily Palestinian death toll in the Israel-Hamas war so far this year,
January 07, 2024Airstrikes by Myanmar’s military on a village under the control of the pro-democracy resistance in the country’s northwest are reported to have killed at least 17 civilians, including nine children
January 07, 2024Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney have FA Cup fever just like their soccer club Wrexham
January 07, 2024An animal shelter in Poland appealed to the public to adopt or temporarily shelter some of its dogs through a dangerous cold spell
January 07, 2024Pioneering surgeon Roy Calne, who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation, has died aged 93
January 07, 2024Slovenian authorities say five people are trapped in a cave in the southwest of the country because of high water levels caused by heavy rainfall
January 07, 2024Reaction among Catholics around the world is sharply divided over the Vatican's recent declaration giving priests more leeway to bless same-sex couples
January 07, 2024An apparent Israeli airstrike has killed two Palestinian journalists in southern Gaza
January 07, 2024Here’s what to know about the night South African Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp more than a decade ago in a killing that jolted the world and shattered the image of a sports superstar
January 07, 2024Israeli officials say a young girl has been killed after police opened fire at a pair of suspected attackers who rammed their car into a West Bank checkpoint
January 07, 2024Officials say the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson has been subjected to numerous shelling attacks from Russian-occupied parts of the Kherson region, across the Dnieper River
January 07, 2024Rafael Nadal has withdrawn from the Australian Open with a hip injury after playing just one tournament in his comeback from 12 months on the sidelines
January 07, 2024North Korea has again fired artillery shells near its tense sea boundary with the South
January 07, 2024On another urgent diplomatic mission to the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is meeting with Arab leaders to press for their help in tamping down resurgent fears that Israel's three-month war against Hamas in Gaza could spread
January 07, 2024Hezbollah has struck an air traffic control base in northern Israel, the Israeli military says
January 07, 2024Survivors of a massive earthquake that struck Afghanistan's west on Oct. 7 say they're struggling to rebuild their lives, three months after the disaster
January 07, 2024Anders Behring Breivik, who slayed 77 people in an anti-Islamic bomb and gun rampage in 2011, is trying to sue the Norwegian state for breaching his human rights
January 07, 2024Mexico has increased immigration enforcement in recent weeks
January 07, 2024The private security industry in South Africa is booming as police struggle against record levels of crime
January 07, 2024Rescue teams are working through snow to deliver supplies to isolated hamlets after a powerful earthquake hit western Japan, killing at least 161 people
January 07, 2024Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won an overwhelming majority in Bangladesh’s parliamentary election after a campaign fraught with violence and a boycott from the main opposition party, giving her and her Awami League a fourth consecutive term
January 07, 2024China has announced sanctions on five American defense-related companies in response to U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and U.S. sanctions on Chinese companies and individuals
January 07, 2024Even after the release of thousands of pages of court records about Jeffrey Epstein in recent days, some questions about the millionaire pedophile remain unanswered
January 06, 2024A cumbersome process of Israeli inspections and other hurdles are slowing the entry of aid into Gaza
January 06, 2024Poland's state news agency is reporting that Polish farmers who had blockaded a border crossing to Ukraine have ended their protest after reaching an agreement with the government
January 06, 2024Eleven people were killed Saturday in Russian shelling in Ukraine’s partially occupied Donetsk province, according to regional Gov. Vadym Filashkin
January 06, 2024A Taliban official says a minibus has exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul, killing at least two civilians and wounding 14 others
January 06, 2024It has only taken 18 minutes to evacuate the 379 passengers of Japan Airlines Flight 516 after their plane burst into flames just after touchdown at Tokyo’s Haneda airport Tuesday evening
January 06, 2024South Korea says North Korea has conducted a new round of artillery firing drills near the rivals’ disputed sea boundary
January 06, 2024U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Turkey is committed to playing “a positive, productive” role for postwar Gaza and prepared to use its influence in the region to prevent the Israel-Hamas conflict from broadening even more
January 06, 2024Iranian officials say the death toll from an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing has risen to at least 91
January 06, 2024Top international diplomats discussed strategies for keeping the Gaza war from spreading beyond Israel and the Palestinian territories on
January 06, 2024Bangladesh’s main opposition party has started a 48-hour general strike on the eve on a general election, calling on people to boycott the vote because it says the government of incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina can’t guarantee its fairness
January 06, 2024The United Arab Emirates has acknowledged it is conducting a mass trial of 84 inmates previously reported by dissidents as it hosted the United Nations COP28 climate talks last month
January 06, 2024Israel and Lebanon-based Hezbollah have traded fire in one of the heaviest days of cross-border fighting in recent weeks
January 06, 2024Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it has been battling for months
January 06, 2024A woman in her 90s has been pulled alive from a collapsed house in western Japan, 124 hours after a major quake slammed the region, killing at least 126 people, toppling buildings and setting off landslides
January 06, 2024Taiwan's defence ministry accused China on Saturday of threatening aviation safety and waging psychological warfare on the island's people with a recent spate of balloons spotted
January 06, 2024Missiles, rockets and drones struck targets around the Middle East this week as the United States, Israel and others clashed with Iran-allied militant groups
January 05, 2024Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam are vowing to bring to justice those who fatally shot a Korean visitor in a tourist district
January 05, 2024President Joe Biden’s top budget official is warning in stark terms about how lawmakers are running out of time to approve new aid for Ukraine
January 05, 2024Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a law into effect that significantly tightens control over various religious denominations and organizations
January 05, 2024A chef in Ghana has been preparing banku and other regional dishes on live TV since New Year’s Day as she tries to break a world record for marathon cooking
January 05, 2024Police in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say U.S. actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters died in a plane crash near a tiny private island in the eastern Caribbean
January 05, 2024Thermo Fisher, an American biotech company, has halted sales of its DNA testing products in Tibet, amid concerns that its products might have assisted the Chinese government in a surveillance campaign in the ethnic region
January 05, 2024The leader of the Lebanese militia Hezbollah says his group must retaliate after a presumed Israeli strike hit a Beirut neighborhood this week, killing a senior Hamas official
January 05, 2024Azerbaijan’s ecology minister has been named to lead the United Nations’ annual climate talks later this year
January 05, 2024Mexico asked U.S. authorities to grant visas to at least 10 million Hispanic migrants that have worked for more than 10 years in the country, Mexican President Andres Manuel
January 05, 2024A judge in the Dominican Republic has ordered the conditional release of Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco
January 05, 2024The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says global prices for food commodities like grain and vegetable oil fell last year from record highs in 2022
January 05, 2024Poland’s minister of digital affairs has suggested that President Andrzej Duda check the security of access to his social accounts after a bizarre tweet went out that was almost immediately removed
January 05, 2024Commentators who joked on a Polish right-wing television station that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz or be tattooed or microchipped like dogs are facing widespread condemnation
January 05, 2024In the months leading to Bangladesh’s national election on Sunday, thousands of opposition supporters and politicians have been arrested
January 05, 2024A list of the major moments in the life of Oscar Pistorius, the South African double-amputee Olympic runner who was released from prison on parole Friday having served nearly nine years of a murder sentence for the 2013 killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
January 05, 2024Russia says its air defenses downed dozens of Ukrainian drones in occupied Crimea and southern Russia as Kyiv pressed its strategy of targeting the Moscow-annexed peninsula and taking the 22-month war well beyond Ukraine’s borders
January 05, 2024Global supermarket chain Carrefour will stop selling PepsiCo products in its stores in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy over price increases for popular items like Lay’s potato chips, Quaker Oats and its namesake soda
January 05, 2024British police said on Friday no new investigation had been launched into allegations relating to Prince Andrew following the release this week of court documents relating to the
January 05, 2024A competitor in Chinese chess says he has sued the national association in China for mental distress after he was stripped of a title for drinking alcohol and defecating in the bathtub of his hotel room at a recent competition
January 05, 2024At least six people have been killed in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a home in the southern Gaza city of Rafah overnight
January 05, 2024Inflation is on the rebound in Europe
January 05, 2024Wall Street ended a listless day with slight gains after reports showed workers are getting bigger raises, but also that key parts of the economy still don’t look like they’re overheating
January 05, 2024Tesla is recalling more than 1.6 million Model S, X, 3 and Y electric vehicles exported to China to fix problems with their automatic assisted steering functions and door latch controls
January 05, 2024Transport safety officials are searching for the voice recorder from a Japan Airlines airliner that caught fire after a collision with a coast guard plane
January 05, 2024Iranian officials have tried to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing while speaking to a mass funeral for some of the 89 people killed in the attack
January 05, 2024Crews at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday started clearing the charred wreckage of a Japan Airlines (JAL) plane that collided with a Coast Guard turboprop on the runway on Tuesday.
January 05, 2024Indian navy commandos have safely evacuated 21 crew members from a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier involved in a hijacking attempt in the Arabian Sea
January 05, 2024Thermo Fisher Scientific has pledged to stop selling forensic technology and equipment in Tibet that could be used for identifying individuals, a spokesperson for
January 05, 2024The death toll from a major quake in western Japan has reached 100, even as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble
January 05, 2024Asian shares are mostly lower after a mixed finish on Wall Street, although export-related Tokyo stocks got a boost from a strengthening dollar
January 05, 2024Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, a double-amputee who became a global star competing at his sport’s highest level while running on carbon-fiber blades, has been released from prison after serving nearly nine years for killing his girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp
January 05, 2024The rival Koreas have fired artillery rounds into the sea as part of provocative drills along their disputed sea boundary, in violation of the fragile 2018 inter-Korean military agreement
January 05, 2024Two trains have collided on Indonesia’s main island of Java, causing carriages to buckle and overturn and killing at least four people
January 05, 2024Before and after he was exposed as a pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein loved to mingle with the world’s elite
January 04, 2024The United Nations has issued a somber global economic forecast for 2024, pointing to challenges from escalating conflicts, sluggish global trade, persistently high interest rates and increasing climate disasters
January 04, 2024A neo-Nazi podcaster who called for the deaths of Prince Harry and his young son has been sentenced to prison with his co-host for encouraging terrorism
January 04, 2024The armed men who kidnapped 32 migrants in northern Mexico over the weekend aimed to extort money from them and their families in the
January 04, 2024Glynis Johns, a Tony Award-winning stage and screen star who played the mother opposite Julie Andrews in the classic movie “Mary Poppins” and introduced the world to the bittersweet standard-to-be “Send in the Clowns” by Stephen Sondheim, has died
January 04, 2024The White House says U.S. intelligence officials have determined that Russia has acquired ballistic missiles from North Korea and is seeking close-range ballistic missiles from Iran as Moscow struggles to replenish arms for its war with Ukraine
January 04, 2024Oscar Pistorius is due to be released from prison on parole to live under strict conditions at a family home after serving nearly nine years of his murder sentence for the shooting death of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day 2013
January 04, 2024President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree that speeds up a path to Russian citizenship for foreigners who enlist in the country’s military amid the 22-month-old war in Ukraine
January 04, 2024U.S. top diplomat Antony Blinken will return to the Middle East on Thursday, continuing the Biden administration's intense
January 04, 2024As the Biden administration grapples with an increasingly tense and unstable situation in the Middle East, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is heading to the region this weekend for the fourth time in three months on a tour expected to focus largely on easing resurgent fears that the Israel-Hamas war could erupt into a broader conflict
January 04, 2024Israel’s defense minister has laid out his vision for the next phase of the war in Gaza
January 04, 2024An armed unmanned surface vessel launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen got within a “couple of miles” of U.S. Navy and commercial vessels in the Red Sea before detonating
January 04, 2024Russia’s Defense Ministry says air defenses shot down 10 Ukrainian air-launched missiles over the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula and 10 over the Russian city of Belgorod
January 04, 2024Israel’s defense minister has laid out a vision for the next phase of the war in Gaza
January 04, 2024Passengers on Japan Airlines Flight 516 were buckled up as their pilot made a final approach to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport
January 04, 2024Thousands of people have taken to the streets in Beirut for the funeral of Saleh Arouri, top commander of militant Palestinian group Hamas, who was killed earlier this week in an apparent Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital
January 04, 2024Sam Song Li only got his SAG-AFTRA card two years ago
January 04, 2024The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 U.S. drone strike
January 04, 2024Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has told her European Union partners that curbing migration flows from African countries has less to do with offers of charity than strong partnerships coupled with strategic investments in those nations
January 04, 2024Christians around the world will mark Epiphany on Jan. 6 with a series of celebrations
January 04, 2024A hotel owner and 10 other people are standing trial accused of negligence over the deaths of 72 people, including players from a school volleyball team in breakaway northern Cyprus, who perished when their hotel crumbled during a powerful earthquake that struck Turkey last year
January 04, 2024With the cooperation of the Anne Frank House, a novel based on Frank’s life immediately before she began keeping a diary will be released in September by the children’s publisher Scholastic
January 04, 2024The longest planned strike in the history of Britain’s state-funded National Health Service has entered its second day of six with doctors in England at loggerheads with hospitals over requests for some to return to work to cover urgent needs
January 04, 2024Serbia's military wants to reintroduce obligatory military service as tensions continue to rise in the Balkans
January 04, 2024With Taiwan's presidential and parliamentary elections less than two weeks away, the island's alternative party candidate and chairman of the Taiwan People’s Party, Ko Wen-je, is promoting a policy of patience toward China, which has been upping its threat to annex the island by force
January 04, 2024The swift and safe evacuation of a Japan Airlines jet that caught fire after hitting a Coast Guard aircraft while it was landing Tuesday at Tokyo’s Haneda airport reflects the carrier's dogged dedication to safety, born of hard experience
January 04, 2024Officials say an airstrike on the logistical support headquarters of an Iran-backed militia in central Baghdad has killed a high-ranking militia commander
January 04, 2024South Korea's spy agency says it views the young daughter of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as her father’s likely heir apparent
January 04, 2024The United States and eleven other countries issued a joint statement on Wednesday reiterating a call for an end to Houthi attacks in the Red Sea, according to the White House.
January 04, 2024Starting this month, some new personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows 11 operating system will have a special “Copilot key” that launches the software giant’s AI chatbot
January 04, 2024El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele has taken his presidential reelection campaign beyond the tiny Central American country’s borders to capitalize on his rising profile across Latin America
January 04, 2024Rescue workers are braving the cold to save people still trapped under collapsed buildings in western Japan
January 04, 2024Asian shares are mixed, mirroring the finish on Wall Street, although export-related Tokyo stocks got a boost from a strengthening dollar
January 04, 2024The United States is calling on the U.N. Security Council to take urgent action against Yemen’s Houthi rebels for attacking ships in the key Red Sea trade route, and is warning their longtime financier and weapons supplier Iran that it has a choice
January 04, 2024Former Harvard President Claudine Gay said she received emailed death threats and was called the "N-word" countless times prior to resigning after her congressional testimony on
January 04, 2024A court in Argentina has delivered a blow to labor rule changes announced by President Javier Milei as part of sweeping deregulation and austerity measures aimed at reviving the country’s struggling economy
January 03, 2024The United States and 12 allies have given what amounts to a final warning to Houthi rebels, telling the militants to cease their attacks on vessels in the Red Sea or face potential targeted military action
January 03, 2024The U.S. has coordinated with Israel, Egypt and others in rescuing the mother of a U.S. serviceman and her American brother-in-law who were pinned down during heavy fighting in Gaza City
January 03, 2024The Justice Department is suing Texas over a new law that would allow police in the state to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally
January 03, 2024The Air Force has recovered the flight data recorder from the Air Force CV-22B Osprey that crashed off the coast of Japan in late November, and the data is intact — which could provide valuable clues for investigators as to what caused the crash
January 03, 2024The runway fire in Tokyo is providing a key test of the safety of carbon-composite material on planes
January 03, 2024Dominican prosecutors have accused Wander Franco of commercial sexual exploitation and money laundering following allegations that the Tampa Bay Rays shortstop had a relationship with a minor whose mother also faces the same charges
January 03, 2024Hamas and Hezbollah have accused Israel of carrying out an airstrike that killed a top Hamas leader in Beirut
January 03, 2024The killing of a top Hamas commander in an apparent Israeli airstrike on a Beirut apartment has given Israel an important symbolic achievement in its 3-month-old war against the Islamic militant group
January 03, 2024Residents of a Kyiv apartment building are salvaging what they can a day after a Russian missile attack set it ablaze, tore off parts of its facade, and gouged a crater next to it
January 03, 2024Iranian officials said that at least 95 people were killed Wednesday after back-to-back explosions at an event commemorating the 2020 slaying of a prominent general by the United States
January 03, 2024Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law that could make it harder to remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from office must go into effect only after the next elections
January 03, 2024A less flashy Chinese electric vehicle maker is fast closing the gap with Tesla, the longtime, market-leading pioneer
January 03, 2024Critics say Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is increasingly using his perch as wartime leader to improve his political fortunes
January 03, 2024NATO says it will help buy up to 1,000 Patriot missiles so allies can better protect their territory as Russia ramps up its air assault on Ukraine
January 03, 2024Iran says twin bomb blasts killed at least 84 people at an event honoring a prominent Iranian general slain in a U.S. airstrike in 2020
January 03, 2024The European Union has imposed sanctions on the world’s biggest diamond mining company and its chief executive officer as part of what it says is its “unwavering commitment” to Ukraine in the war against Russia
January 03, 2024Heavy fighting is raging in central and southern Gaza as fears mount of a regional escalation following a strike in Beirut that killed one of the top Hamas leaders
January 03, 2024The chief of Israel’s Mossad has vowed the intelligence agency will hunt down every Hamas member involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, no matter where they are
January 03, 2024Temperatures have fallen below minus 40 degrees Celsius in the Nordic region for a second day in a row, with the coldest January temperature recorded in Swedish Lapland in 25 years
January 03, 2024Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the biggest single release of captives since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022
January 03, 2024Thousands of doctors have walked off their jobs in Britain at the start of a six-day strike that's set to be the longest in the history of the state-funded National Health Service
January 03, 2024The powerful earthquake that shattered the peace of New Year’s Day in central Japan did not spur the kind of tsunamis that scoured the northeastern Pacific coast in 2011
January 03, 2024A transcript of communication between traffic control and two aircraft that collided and burst into flames at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport shows that only the larger Japan Airlines passenger flight was given permission to use the runway
January 03, 2024Asian stocks are lower, tracking a weak start to 2024 on Wall Street as Japan's markets reopened
January 03, 2024South Korean police have raided the residence and office of a man who stabbed the country’s opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, in the neck this week
January 03, 2024Protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war have disrupted the first day of California's legislative session
January 03, 2024Rescuers in Japan are braving the cold in a race against time as they search for survivors along the country's western coastline after a powerful earthquake earlier in the week smashed homes and left at least 78 people dead and 51 people missing
January 03, 2024The United States is confident Palestinian militant groups used Gaza’s largest hospital to hold hostages seized during their bloody Oct. 7, 2023, attack and to house command infrastructure
January 03, 2024The elections in Bangladesh are all about one person: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
January 03, 2024The elections in Bangladesh are all about one person: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina
January 03, 2024Newly unsealed Justice Department court records say two well-connected political consultants provided false information about lobbying work on behalf of a wealthy Persian Gulf country during the Trump administration
January 03, 2024U.S. authorities say a border crossing on the most direct route from Phoenix to the nearest beaches will reopen Thursday, one month after it closed in response to a large migrant influx
January 03, 2024The United States has reached a deal to extend its military presence at a base in Qatar for another 10 years, a source familiar with the
January 02, 2024Salman Rushdie’s plans to publish a book about a 2022 attempt on his life may delay the trial of his alleged attacker, which is scheduled to begin next week
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January 02, 2024Israel is defending itself in the United Nations’ highest court against allegations that it is committing genocide with its military campaign in Gaza
January 02, 2024President Joe Biden's administration on Tuesday asked the U.S.
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January 02, 2024Saleh Arouri, the deputy political head of Hamas and a founder of the group’s military wing, had been in Israel’s sights for years before he was killed in a drone strike in a southern suburb of Beirut
January 02, 2024In Latin America, only Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic maintain total abortion bans
January 02, 2024The Dominican Republic is one of four Latin American countries criminalizing abortion without exceptions
January 02, 2024Finland and Sweden have recorded their coldest temperatures this winter as a cold spell grips the Nordic region
January 02, 2024Turkey's state-run news agency says authorities have detained 33 people suspected of spying on behalf of Israel
January 02, 2024An apparent Israeli strike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut has killed Hamas’ No. 2 political leader, marking a potentially significant escalation of Israel’s war against the militant group and heightening the risk of a wider Middle East conflict
January 02, 2024A large passenger plane and a Japanese coast guard aircraft have collided on the runway at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport and burst into flames
January 02, 2024Israel’s army says several thousand troops will be taken out of Gaza in the coming weeks
January 02, 2024Asian shares have dropped after Wall Street started 2024 with a slump, giving back some of its big gains from last year
January 02, 2024Officials in Ukraine say the country’s two largest cities were struck by Russian missiles that killed five people and wounded at least 130
January 02, 2024Bitter disputes on how to handle relations with China and avoid conflict are dominating the final stretch of election campaigning in Taiwan, as some polls show a tight race between
January 02, 2024Hong Kong tycoon and pro-democracy advocate Jimmy Lai pleaded not guilty on Tuesday in his landmark trial, where he is accused of endangering
January 02, 2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung has been stabbed in the neck by an unidentified man during a visit to the southeastern city of Busan
January 02, 2024A series of powerful earthquakes has hit western Japan, leaving at least 62 people dead
January 02, 2024As general elections approach this week in Bangladesh, opposition leader Abdul Moyeen Khan says he had to hide out in the homes of a string of
January 02, 2024Landlocked Ethiopia has taken the first steps toward gaining access to the sea, signing an agreement in the capital of Addis Ababa with the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland to access the Somaliland coastline
January 01, 2024Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s brutal apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died
January 01, 2024The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier will return to its home port, the U.S.
January 01, 2024Members and supporters of the Zapatista indigenous rebel movement are celebrating the 30th anniversary of their brief armed uprising in southern Mexico
January 01, 2024Israel’s Supreme Court has struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul
January 01, 2024In this time of war overseas, more Americans think foreign policy should be a top U.S. priority for 2024
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January 01, 2024Pakistan’s independent human rights commission says there is little chance of free and fair parliamentary elections in the country next month because of “pre-poll rigging.”
January 01, 2024A Colorado mother suspected of killing two of her young children and injuring a third has made an initial court appearance in London
January 01, 2024German authorities have detained another suspect in connection with an alleged threat of an attack on the world-famous Cologne Cathedral over the holidays
January 01, 2024A labor court in Bangladesh’s capital has sentenced Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus to six months in jail for violating the country’s labor laws
January 01, 2024Russia launched a record 90 Shahed-type drones over Ukraine during the early hours of the new year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country would “intensify” its attacks on its neighbor
January 01, 2024The Israeli military has confirmed it's pulling thousands of troops out of the Gaza Strip
January 01, 2024France's interior minister says the Olympic host country saw fewer of the car burnings that usually blight the arrival of a new year as it celebrated the start of 2024
January 01, 2024Israel is withdrawing some forces from Gaza to shift to more targeted operations against Hamas, and is partially returning reservists to civilian life to help the
January 01, 2024Japan has dropped its highest-level tsunami alert, issued following a series of major earthquakes on Monday
January 01, 2024A survey of factory managers in China shows manufacturing contracted in December in the latest sign the world's second-largest economy remains sluggish
January 01, 2024Taiwan's relations with China must be decided by the will of the people and peace must be based on "dignity", President Tsai Ing-wen said on Monday after China's leader Xi Jinping
January 01, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said his military should “thoroughly annihilate” the United States and South Korea if provoked
January 01, 2024Ukraine's shelling of the city of Donetsk in early New Year's Day hours killed four people, a Russian-installed official in the eastern region of Ukraine said, while Ukrainian officials
January 01, 2024North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the country's military commanders the most powerful means must be mobilized to destroy the United States and South Korea if they
January 01, 2024Police in Kenya say they are investigating the slaying of three-time Ugandan Olympian Benjamin Kiplagat
December 31, 2023Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has announced that she plans to abdicate after 52 years and hand over the throne to her son, Crown Prince Frederik
December 31, 2023An Australia-born journalist and documentary filmmaker known for his coverage of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia has died
December 31, 2023Congo’s election commission says President Felix Tshisekedi has won reelection with more than 70% of the vote
December 31, 2023Russian state news agencies say President Vladimir Putin has praised Russia’s “united society” in his prerecorded New Year’s address to the nation
December 31, 2023Hospital officials in central Gaza say at least 35 people have been killed in Israeli strikes
December 31, 2023Iranian-backed Houthi militants attacked a Maersk container vessel, prompting the company to pause all sailing through the Red Sea for 48 hours, Maersk said on Sunday.
December 31, 2023The U.S. military says its forces opened fire on and killed several Houthi rebels after they attacked a cargo ship in the Red Sea
December 31, 2023Russia has launched a fresh drone assault on Ukraine after promising that strikes on the Russian border city of Belgorod that killed 24 people “would not go unpunished.”
December 31, 2023New Year’s Day arrived to cheers from thousands in New York’s Times Square where a sparkling crystal ball descended to start 2024 with hope for some, even as the world’s ongoing conflicts subdued celebrations and raised security concerns across the globe
December 31, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says his country will launch three additional military spy satellites and produce more nuclear fissile materials
December 31, 2023Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza on Sunday, residents and medics said, as battles raged through
December 31, 2023Mexico and Venezuela say they have restarted repatriation flights of Venezuelans migrants in Mexico
December 30, 2023Venezuela says it will continue to deploy nearly 6,000 troops until a British military vessel sent to neighboring Guyana leaves the waters off the coast of the two South American nations
December 30, 2023The border zone between the Gaza Strip and Egypt should be under Israel's control, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday as he predicted the war in the
December 30, 2023An Israeli woman who recently returned from captivity in Gaza says she was groped by her Palestinian kidnapper and lived in constant fear for weeks
December 30, 2023Tom Wilkinson, the Oscar-nominated British actor known for his roles in “The Full Monty,” “Michael Clayton” and “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,” has died at age 75, according to his family
December 30, 2023The top commander of U.S. naval forces in the Middle East says Iranian-backed Houthi rebels are showing no signs of ending their “reckless” attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea
December 30, 2023The Italian city of Venice has announced new limits on the size of tourist groups
December 30, 2023Russia’s top diplomat in Poland says Moscow won't provide any explanations about an unidentified object that briefly entered Poland’s airspace until it receives evidence that shows the object was a Russian missile
December 30, 2023Thousands of people have rallied in Serbia’s capital, chanting “Thieves!”
December 30, 2023Taiwan’s presidential candidates have expressed a desire for peaceful relations with Beijing
December 30, 2023Eurostar services to and from London have been canceled after a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded, disrupting festive travel plans for scores of people
December 30, 2023Taiwan's sovereignty and independence belong to its people, the frontrunner to be its next president said on Saturday in an often testy debate with the other two candidates
December 30, 2023Two members of Iraqi militia groups have told The Associated Press that overnight airstrikes on eastern Syria killed six Iran-backed militants near a strategic border crossing with Iraq
December 30, 2023Israel's prime minister says the war on Hamas in Gaza will continue for “many more months."
December 30, 2023Shelling in the center of the Russian border city of Belgorod killed at least 21 people, including three children, local officials have reported
December 30, 2023The Bosnian Serbs’ separatist leader is vowing to keep weakening his war-scarred country until it tears apart, despite a pledge by the United States to prevent that
December 30, 2023China will simplify visa applications for tourists from the United States from Jan. 1, cutting the documents required, according to a notice on Friday on the website of the Chinese
December 30, 2023McDonald's Malaysia has sued a movement promoting boycotts against Israel for "false and defamatory statements" that it says hurt its business, seeking damages amounting to 6
December 30, 2023Bollywood, India’s Hindi language movie industry, made an impressive comeback in 2023 after a pandemic-driven slowdown, audience fatigue, and the streaming platforms taking away a big chunk of viewership
December 30, 2023Fierce Israeli tank fire and aerial bombing struck Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Friday night, residents said, after nearly 200 people
December 30, 2023Singer Shirley Bassey, director Ridley Scott and Mary Earps, the goalkeeper for England's women's soccer team, have been recognized in the U.K.’s New Year Honors list
December 29, 2023The Supreme Court of the Canadian province of British Columbia has blocked new provincial laws against public consumption of illegal substances
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December 29, 2023For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel
December 29, 2023A British warship has arrived in Guyana amid rising tensions from a border dispute between the former British colony and Venezuela
December 29, 2023Mexico's president is trying to end the woes of patients throughout the country, who are often told they need a specific medicine — but the hospital in question doesn't have it
December 29, 2023South Africa has launched a case at the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and asking the court to order Israel to halt its attacks
December 29, 2023Asian markets opened the year on a downward trend after Wall Street benchmarks ticked lower on the last trading day of 2023
December 29, 2023Poland’s defense forces say an unknown object entered the country’s airspace Friday morning from the direction of Ukraine and then vanished off radars, and that all indications pointed to it being a Russian missile
December 29, 2023An associate of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to nine years in prison, the latest move in a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent
December 29, 2023Russia has a list of Western assets that would be seized if G7 leaders decide to confiscate $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank assets, the Kremlin said on Friday.
December 29, 2023South Korea's Defense Minister Shin Wonsik has said that a light-water reactor at North Korea’s main nuclear complex will likely be formally operational by next summer
December 29, 2023The United Nations says tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed into an already crowded town at the southernmost end of Gaza in recent days
December 29, 2023Officials say Russia has launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukrainian targets, killing at least 30 civilians in what an air force official calls the biggest aerial barrage of the war
December 29, 2023A top United Nations official is warning of deteriorating conditions across Gaza and reiterating calls for Israel to immediately halt its bombardment to allow aid to get in
December 29, 2023U.S. stock futures are little changed Friday as the market puts the wraps on a year of surprisingly robust gains
December 29, 2023Organizers of the Paris Olympics urgently need thousands of security guards to help keep athletes and spectators safe and reduce the likelihood of another deadly extremist attack in the French capital
December 29, 2023An Israeli kibbutz hard-hit by Hamas' assault on southern Israel has announced the death of Judih Weinstein — an American-Canadian-Israeli woman who had been thought to be held hostage in Gaza
December 28, 2023President Nicolás Maduro has ordered Venezuela’s armed forces to conduct defensive exercises in the Eastern Caribbean after the United Kingdom announced it would send a warship to Guyana’s territorial waters during a border dispute between the South American neighbors
December 28, 2023Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco failed to show up for a meeting with a prosecutor who is investigating him for an alleged relationship with a minor
December 28, 2023The world population grew by 75 million people over the past year and on New Year’s Day it will stand at more than 8 billion people
December 28, 2023Israeli officials are stepping up threats against the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah
December 28, 2023Authorities in Liberia say a leaking fuel tanker exploded this week as people gathered to collect the gasoline, leaving more than 40 dead
December 28, 2023The U.S. is imposing sanctions on a group of money exchange services from Yemen to Turkey alleged to be providing funds to Iranian-backed Houthi rebels who have been launching attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the southern Red Sea
December 28, 2023The U.S. military's secretive X-37B robot spaceplane blasted off from Florida on Thursday night on its seventh mission, the first
December 28, 2023Asian shares are mixed in muted trading on the last trading day of the year
December 28, 2023Iran has held a funeral for a high-ranking general of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who was killed by an alleged Israeli airstrike in Syria
December 28, 2023Officials say a civilian cargo ship has struck a Russian mine in the Black Sea near Ukraine’s Danube ports, injuring two sailors
December 28, 2023Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that some in the West were suggesting that Moscow should discuss peace in Ukraine because the United
December 28, 2023Weeks before Taiwan holds elections for its president and legislature, China has renewed its threat to use military force to annex the self-governing island democracy it claims as its own territory
December 28, 2023Indonesia’s navy says it forcibly pushed a boat packed with refugees back to international waters after the vessel approached the shores of Aceh province
December 28, 2023The war aims of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Gaza's Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar look unattainable in 2024, and their fight may consign the Palestinian
December 28, 2023Israeli forces are bombarding cities, towns and refugee camps across Gaza, killing dozens of people
December 28, 2023A judge in New York has ruled that Alibaba must face a lawsuit by a U.S. toymaker alleging that the Chinese ecommerce giant's online platforms were used to sell counterfeit Squishmallows
December 28, 2023A Hamas official says a “partial or temporary cessation of aggression” wouldn’t be enough to free the more than 100 hostages who Israel says remain in captivity in Gaza
December 28, 2023The family of renowned South African playwright, producer and composer Mbongeni Ngema says he has died in a car crash at the age of 68
December 28, 2023Bangladesh garment factories have fired hundreds of workers since protests in October demanding higher wages, three labour unions representing half a
December 28, 2023Premarket trading on Wall Street was mixed on what’s expected to be another quiet day between the Christmas and New Year holidays
December 28, 2023Starting in March, Texas will give police even broader power to arrest migrants while also allowing local judges to order them out of the U.S. under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott
December 28, 2023African scientists warn that discrimination against gay and bisexual men on the continent could make an mpox outbreak in Congo worse
December 28, 2023Mexican immigration officials are clearing out a migrant camp on the banks of the Rio Grande as U.S. pressure mounts to limit a surge of people reaching the border
December 28, 2023The number of Israeli soldiers wounded in the war with Hamas is growing
December 28, 2023It was a tumultuous 2023 for the Chinese economy
December 28, 2023Mexico's Foreign Minister Alicia Barce said on Wednesday she spoke with U.S. authorities about the importance of reopening border crossings, following the shutdown of some
December 27, 2023The U.S. is announcing what officials say could be the final package of military aid to Ukraine unless Congress approves supplemental funding legislation that is stalled on Capitol Hill
December 27, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered its military, the munitions industry and the nuclear weapons sector to accelerate war preparations to counter what he called unprecedented
December 27, 2023Pop star Shakira has been immortalized in her Colombian hometown of Barranquilla, where officials unveiled a giant bronze statue of the music diva known around the world for her catchy tunes and exhilarating moves
December 27, 2023Thousands of union members and activists are taking to the streets of Argentina’s capital to protest President Javier Milei’s sweeping program of cutbacks, deregulation and austerity measures meant to reform the country’s struggling economy
December 27, 2023The U.S. military's air strikes on Monday in Iraq aimed to deter Iran and Iran-backed militia groups from conducting or supporting attacks on United States
December 27, 2023Jacques Delors, who transformed Europe in his momentous decade as chief executive of the European Union's executive branch, has died in Paris
December 27, 2023Mexico pressed U.S. officials to reopen border crossings during a visit by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Foreign Minister Alicia Barcena said on Wednesday, as U.S.
December 27, 2023Aigul Akhmetshina says she’s a fighter — and she’s had to be to make it to the Metropolitan Opera, where she leads a new production of Bizet’s “Carmen” opening on New Year’s Eve
December 27, 2023Led by new solar power, the world added renewable energy at breakneck speed in 2023, a trend that if amplified will help Earth turn away from fossil fuels and prevent severe warming and its effects
December 27, 2023The death of a young Brazilian fan who fell ill at a concert by U.S. singer Taylor Swift in sweltering Rio de Janeiro last month was due to heat
December 27, 2023Heat exhaustion is the cause of death of a Brazilian fan who attended a concert of singer Taylor Swift in November, according to a forensics report obtained by The Associated Press
December 27, 2023U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has praised Japan’s contribution to their military alliance, particularly a decision to allow Japanese-made Patriot guided missiles to be shipped to the United States to make up for its decreasing inventory
December 27, 2023Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was no different from Adolf Hitler and likened Israel's attacks on Gaza to the
December 27, 2023A main opposition candidate in Congo accused police of using live bullets to break up a protest in the capital as demonstrators demanded a re-do of last week’s presidential election
December 27, 2023A Russian politician calling for peace in Ukraine has lost her appeal against election officials’ refusal to accept her nomination for the country’s presidential race that President Vladimir Putin is all but certain to win
December 27, 2023Bill Granger, the Australian chef, food writer and restaurant owner who brought Aussie-style food to international capitals from London to Seoul, has died
December 27, 2023Thousands of Palestinian families are fleeing from the brunt of Israel’s expanding ground offensive into Gaza’s few remaining, overcrowded refuges
December 27, 2023Beneath each full moon on the outskirts of a village in central Mexico, a group of women in nun habits circle around a roaring fire, cleanse themselves with burned sage,
December 27, 2023Russia has fired almost 50 Shahed drones at targets in Ukraine and shelled a train station where more than 100 civilians were gathered to evacuate
December 27, 2023Russia told South Korea on Wednesday not to be surprised if Moscow retaliates against Seoul for expanding the list of goods which cannot be exported from the East Asian nation to
December 27, 2023Asian shares have powered higher after Wall Street logged modest gains in this holiday-shortened week
December 27, 2023China says it is banning a United States research company and two analysts who have reported extensively on claims of human rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups native to the country’s northwest
December 27, 2023Wolfgang Schaeuble, who helped negotiate German reunification in 1990 and as finance minister was a central figure in the austerity-heavy effort to drag Europe out of its debt crisis two decades later, has died
December 27, 2023Japanese nuclear safety regulators are lifting an operational ban imposed on a plant owned by Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings, the operator behind the Fukushima disaster
December 27, 2023Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will seek a fourth term in office, his party says, noting he will be its consensus candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections and the office of the prime minister
December 27, 2023A Palestinian town with a typical population around 75,000 has been overwhelmed by hundreds of thousands of people seeking refuge as Israel expands its ground offensive across Gaza
December 27, 2023The Venezuelan diaspora is one of the most vexing migration challenges facing the U.S. secretary of state and the homeland security secretary when they meet Mexico’s president Wednesday to discuss unprecedented arrivals at the border
December 27, 2023Mexican immigration officials are moving to clear a migrant encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande river, as U.S. officials met with Mexico’s president to press for measures to limit a surge of migrants reaching the U.S. southwestern border
December 27, 2023Officials say at least 10 people have died in wild weather in the eastern Australian states of Queensland and Victoria
December 27, 2023Lee Sun-kyun, a popular South Korean actor best known for his role in the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite,” has been found dead in a car in Seoul after weeks of an intense police investigation into his alleged drug use
December 27, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has praised what he called achievements and victories that strengthened national power this year, as he opened a key political meeting to set new policy goals for 2024
December 27, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has kicked off a key meeting of the country's ruling party, state media KCNA reported on Wednesday, setting the stage for unveiling
December 26, 2023The Netherlands’ former deputy prime minister and Mideast expert has been appointed the United Nations coordinator for humanitarian aid to Gaza, where there are more than 2 million desperate civilians in need of food, water and medicine
December 26, 2023A caravan of thousands of migrants continues to trudge through southern Mexico, with some saying they expect nothing good from a planned meeting between American and Mexican officials about the migrant surge at the U.S. border
December 26, 2023The United Nations on Tuesday announced the appointment of a coordinator to oversee humanitarian relief shipments into Gaza as part of a U.N.
December 26, 2023Mexico re-launched former state airline Mexicana de Aviacion on Tuesday, setting out plans to increase operations with 10 additional aircraft next year, the government said.
December 26, 2023Sweden edged closer toward joining NATO after the Turkish Parliament’s foreign affairs committee greenlighted a protocol for the Nordic country’s membership in the military alliance
December 26, 2023Mexico has launched its army-run airline, with the first Mexicana airlines flight taking off from Mexico City bound for the Caribbean resort of Tulum
December 26, 2023Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza will likely go on for many months, the country's military chief said on Tuesday.
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December 26, 2023The Turkish parliament’s foreign affairs committee has given its consent to Sweden’s bid to join NATO
December 26, 2023More than 50 French performers, writers and producers published an essay Tuesday defending film star and national icon Gerard Depardieu amid growing scrutiny of his behavior toward women
December 26, 2023President Xi Jinping vowed on Tuesday to resolutely prevent anyone from "splitting Taiwan from China in any way", the official Xinhua news agency reported, a little more than two
December 26, 2023The Israeli military says it has expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to the densely populated urban refugee camps in the central part of the territory
December 26, 2023A Tokyo court has ruled that only the operator of the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant had to pay damages to dozens of evacuees, relieving the government of responsibility
December 26, 2023Firefighters and volunteers worked overnight to reinforce dikes in northern and eastern Germany against rising floodwaters as heavy rain falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers and streams over their banks and forced several towns to evacuate residents
December 26, 2023Four children between nine months and 10 years old and their mother have been killed in their apartment east of Paris in what the local prosecutor called an exceptionally violent crime
December 26, 2023Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has released a sardonic statement about his transfer to a Arctic prison colony nicknamed the “Polar Wolf.”
December 26, 2023Nigerian officials and survivors say at least 140 people were killed by gunmen in weekend attacks on remote villages in north-central Nigeria’s Plateau state
December 26, 2023The forecourt of Paris City Hall sparkles with activity this holiday season, including a Christmas market and huge signs advertising the 2024 Olympics
December 26, 2023The Israeli military says it has expanded its ground offensive in the Gaza Strip to the densely populated urban refugee camps in the central part of the territory
December 26, 2023The frontrunner to be Taiwan's next president accused the main opposition party on Tuesday of betraying the anti-communist ideals of its forefathers and being overtly pro-China, in
December 26, 2023Iraq's government condemned on Tuesday overnight U.S. air strikes on Iraqi military positions that it said killed one serviceman and wounded 18 other people, calling them a "clear
December 26, 2023Asian shares have advanced, tracking gains on Wall Street after markets there reopened following Monday's holiday
December 26, 2023Ukrainian warplanes damaged a Russian ship moored in the Black Sea off Crimea, both countries say
December 26, 2023The death toll following the explosion of a smelting furnace at a Chinese-owned nickel plant on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island has risen to 18
December 26, 2023Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat
December 26, 2023Gaza's more than 54,500 war-wounded include a growing number of amputees who face hard choices and challenges as they try to survive in a war zone
December 26, 2023A new program that allows groups of U.S. citizens to name the specific refugees they would like to sponsor to come to America is giving a family in Texas hope of a reunification
December 26, 2023Israel launched fresh airstrikes on Tuesday against central Gaza, where the United Nations voiced alarm over an
December 25, 2023Christmas Day meant the same as any other for thousands of migrants walking through southern Mexico: more trudging under a hot sun
December 25, 2023The president of Belarus says Russia has completed its shipments of short-range, tactical nuclear weapons to his country, an initiative that has raised strong concerns in neighboring Poland and elsewhere in the region
December 25, 2023Christmas carries more than spiritual weight for many Ukrainians this year: for the first time, the country is observing it as a public holiday on Dec. 25, rather than the later date followed in Russia
December 25, 2023Turkey has intensified its airstrikes against Kurdish groups in Syria and northern Iraq in retaliation for the deaths of 12 Turkish soldiers in Iraq over the weekend
December 25, 2023Iranian state media say that an Israeli airstrike in a Damascus neighborhood has killed a high-ranking Iranian general
December 25, 2023Liverpool soccer star Mohamed Salah says he “shares the pain” of grieving families at Christmas amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 25, 2023Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny say he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost
December 25, 2023Shipping firm Maersk says it is preparing to allow vessels to resume sailing through the Red Sea
December 25, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has hailed the shooting down of two Russian fighter jets on Christmas Eve, saying “This Christmas sets the right mood for the entire year ahead.”
December 25, 2023Serbian police say they have detained at least 38 people who took part in a protest against reported widespread irregularities during a recent general ballot that declared the governing populists winners of the parliamentary and local councils’ elections
December 25, 2023Pope Francis is denouncing the weapons industry in his Christmas Day appeal for peace in the world and in particular between Israel and the Palestinians
December 25, 2023Pope Francis said in his Christmas message on Monday that children dying in wars, including in Gaza, are the "little Jesuses of today" and that Israeli
December 25, 2023Israel and Hamas have given cool public receptions to an Egyptian proposal to end their bitter war
December 25, 2023A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation has arrived in India carrying 276 Indians who had been blocked inside a rural French airport for days
December 25, 2023China's authority in charge of press and publications has approved 105 online games, saying it fully supports the industry after newly proposed curbs caused massive losses for major game companies
December 25, 2023Afghan schoolgirls are weeping as they finish sixth grade, knowing their education is over
December 25, 2023Russia has the upper hand in weapons production over the West and intends to keep the rate of growth high, a top Russian minister said on Monday after both the West and Russia
December 25, 2023Asian markets are steady in holiday-thinned trading, with some markets in the region closed for holidays
December 25, 2023King Charles III has reflected his coronation theme of public service y in a Christmas message that he connected to the health of the planet and wars that are raging
December 25, 2023The death toll from China’s most powerful earthquake in years has risen to 149, with two people still missing after the tremor hit northwestern parts of the country last week
December 25, 2023Russian attacks on southern Ukraine's Kherson region killed five civilians on Sunday, Ukrainian officials said, while Russian-installed officials in the
December 25, 2023Pope Francis lamented the war in the Holy Land where Palestinian health officials said airstrikes killed at least
December 24, 2023Thousands of migrants arrived on Sunday in the southern Mexican town Alvaro Obregon to spend the Christmas Eve in a public square without shelter before
December 24, 2023Pope Francis in a Christmas Eve homily said that “the clash of arms even today” prevents Jesus “from finding room in the world."
December 24, 2023Pope Francis on Sunday lamented that Jesus' message of peace was being drowned out by the "futile logic of war" in the very land where he was born, as the
December 24, 2023A sprawling caravan of migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and other countries is trekking through Mexico
December 24, 2023Police in Serbia have fired tear gas to prevent hundreds of opposition supporters from entering the capital’s city council building
December 24, 2023Russian shelling in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region has killed four people as Ukraine prepares to officially celebrate Christmas on Dec. 25 instead of Jan. 7
December 24, 2023More than a year after it was put up for sale, Manchester United said Sunday that British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe had agreed to buy a minority stake in the storied Premier League club
December 24, 2023London police say they have arrested a second man in the alleged theft of a Banksy artwork of a stop sign decorated with military drones
December 24, 2023British Home Secretary James Cleverly is under fire for making a date rape joke at a party just hours after announcing plans to crack down on the offense
December 24, 2023With support for Ukraine slipping in Congress, the United States is once again struggling to assert its role in the world
December 24, 2023Christians around the world are striving on Christmas Eve to put aside worries and fears of an unsettled, war-torn world
December 24, 2023A charter plane sequestered in France while carrying 303 Indians to Nicaragua has been authorized to leave the airport where it has been grounded for a human trafficking investigation
December 24, 2023Iranian state TV says the country's navy has added domestically produced sophisticated cruise missiles to its arsenal
December 24, 2023The typically bustling biblical birthplace of Jesus looks like a ghost town on Christmas Eve, with celebrations in Bethlehem called off due to the Israel-Hamas war
December 24, 2023Atop many Christmas wish lists in economically troubled Zimbabwe is a travel document
December 24, 2023At least 68 people, including a baby, have been killed in Gaza
December 24, 2023Iran's state media says Tehran has summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires after Moscow and Arab countries released a joint statement earlier this week challenging Iran’s claim to disputed islands in the Persian Gulf
December 24, 2023Israel fought to wrest full control of northern Gaza from Hamas militants as the U.S. and Israeli leaders discussed the outlook for the
December 24, 2023A drone launched from Iran struck a chemical tanker in the Indian ocean early on Saturday, the U.S. Department of Defense said.
December 24, 2023Poland’s president says he intends to veto a spending bill which includes money for public media and raises for teachers, dealing a blow to the new pro-European Union government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk
December 23, 2023London police say they have arrested a man suspected of stealing a Banksy artwork of a stop sign decorated with military drones
December 23, 2023The State Department says some 300 U.S. citizens, green-card holders or close family members are trapped in Gaza by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants
December 23, 2023Russian politician Yekaterina Duntsova hit a roadblock in her presidential campaign Saturday, when Russia’s Central Election Commission refused to accept her initial nomination by a group of supporters, citing errors in the documents submitted
December 23, 2023The Vatican next year will publish a collection of never-before-seen homilies delivered by the late Pope Benedict XVI
December 23, 2023American colleges have educated millions of Chinese students over the past four decades
December 23, 2023Chiese state media say the strong earthquake that hit northwest China this week, killing at least 148 people, has caused economic losses estimated to be worth tens of millions in the agricultural and fisheries industries
December 23, 2023Authorities in France say about 300 Indian citizens heading to Central America are sequestered in a French airport for a third day because of an investigation into suspected human trafficking
December 23, 2023The Czech Republic came to a standstill as people across the country observed a minute of silence for the victims of its worst mass killing that left 14 dead and questions about the shooter’s motive
December 23, 2023Rescuers and hospital officials say Israeli strikes flattened two Gaza homes, killing more than 90 Palestinians, including dozens from an extended family
December 23, 2023Tunisians head to vote in local elections on Sunday to populate a new second legislative chamber focused on economic development
December 23, 2023Legislatures returning to session in states across the U.S. early in 2024 will consider condemning the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel — and some could take even bigger steps
December 23, 2023The Cuban government says it will have to either increase prices for fuel and electricity, or reduce rations for basic supplies
December 23, 2023At least two ships transporting oil or oil products between the U.S.
December 22, 2023Residents of the small fishing town in Iceland where a volcano erupted this week have been told they can return home
December 22, 2023A former Colombian soldier has pleaded guilty to conspiring in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, which plunged the Caribbean nation into violence and political turmoil
December 22, 2023Some Catholic bishops say they will not follow the Vatican’s new direction on allowing blessings for same-sex couples
December 22, 2023Even at age 80, Michael Mann has lost little of his velocity
December 22, 2023The United Nations Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution to boost humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip that stopped short of a call for a
December 22, 2023The latest work by elusive artist Banksy was taken down less than an hour after he confirmed its installation on a London street corner
December 22, 2023The U.N. Security Council has adopted a watered-down resolution calling for immediate speeded-up aid deliveries to hungry and desperate civilians in Gaza — but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas
December 22, 2023Mexico's president says he is willing to help with a crush of migrants that led to the closure of border crossings with the United States
December 22, 2023A spokesperson for Andrew Tate says a court in Romania has rejected the divisive influencer's request to leave the country to visit his mother in the U.K. after she had suffered a heart attack
December 22, 2023Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Friday his government will reinforce measures to contain migration as he seeks to help the United States cope with record
December 22, 2023Police say they've launched a criminal investigation into the alleged abduction of British teenager Alex Batty who was missing for six years
December 22, 2023The U.N. health agency says reported cases of dengue globally increased tenfold over the last generation
December 22, 2023France has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Niger after they were asked to leave by the country’s new military rulers, ending years of on-the-ground support
December 22, 2023The Biden administration released its highly anticipated proposal for doling out billions of dollars in tax credits to hydrogen producers Friday, in a massive effort to build out an industry that some hope can be a cleaner alternative to fossil fuel power
December 22, 2023The current Israel-Hamas war is by far the deadliest and most destructive of the five wars between Israel and Hamas since the militant group seized the Gaza Strip in 2007
December 22, 2023From Jesus' biblical birthplace of Bethlehem to New York City, many Palestinian Christians this Christmas season are gripped with helplessness, pain and worry amid the Israel-Hamas war
December 22, 2023A South Korean religious sect leader whose sex crimes were featured in the popular Netflix series “In the Name of God: A Holy Betrayal” has been sentenced to 23 years in prison
December 22, 2023The U.N. atomic agency and outside experts say North Korea may have started operating a light-water reactor at its main nuclear complex in a possible attempt to establish a new facility to produce bomb fuels
December 22, 2023India has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to be the chief guest at the country’s national day celebrations next month
December 22, 2023One of the world’s largest electrical vehicle manufacturers, China’s BYD, will open its first European EV production factory in Hungary, the country’s foreign minister said on Friday
December 22, 2023Chinese automaker BYD plans to build a new electric vehicle plant in Hungary, its first car factory in Europe, as part of its rapid global expansion
December 22, 2023A storm has brought heavy rain and strong winds across northern Europe, bringing down trees and prompting warnings of flooding on the North Sea coast
December 22, 2023American electric automaker Tesla’s plans to produce energy-storage batteries in China are moving forward with a signing ceremony for the land acquisition for a new factory in Shanghai
December 22, 2023Japan’s defense spending would increase more than 16% next year under a record military budget that is intended to accelerate the deployment of long-range cruise missiles that can hit targets in China or North Korea
December 22, 2023China has released draft guidelines aimed at curbing excessive spending on online gaming
December 22, 2023Czech police are investigating why a student went on a dayslong violent rampage culminating in a shooting at the university he attended in Prague that left 14 dead and dozens wounded
December 22, 2023The Vatican’s chief prosecutor has appealed a court verdict that largely dismantled his theory of a grand conspiracy to defraud the Holy See of millions of euros
December 22, 2023The U.N. Security Council has passed a new resolution that calls for speeding up aid deliveries into Gaza, but without the original call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” between Israel and Hamas
December 22, 2023Wall Street closed its eighth straight winning week with a quiet finish following reports showing inflation on the way down and the economy potentially on the way up
December 22, 2023The U.S. has spent more than $7 billion on humanitarian aid and building infrastructure in the Palestinian territories in recent decades, while sending more than $3 billion a year to Israel for its military
December 22, 2023Health officials in Hamas-run Gaza say the Palestinian death toll there has surpassed 20,000
December 22, 2023North American military assets are keeping a sharp eye on Santa's travels
December 22, 2023Negotiations over how to control migration at the U.S. border with Mexico aren't just heating up on Capitol Hill
December 21, 2023A U.S. appeals court on Thursday revived a lawsuit accusing the rock band Nirvana of publishing child pornography by using a photograph of a naked four-month-old baby on
December 21, 2023After 11 weeks of war in Gaza, the Israeli military campaign against Hamas now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history
December 21, 2023Prosecutors say a defense contractor at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S. military history is expected to face additional charges following his return to the United States from Venezuela as part of a broader prisoner swap between the two countries
December 21, 2023The “Barbie” power ballad “I’m Just Ken” and AP and Frontline’s documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” just got one step closer to an Oscar nomination
December 21, 2023Comedian and actor Jo Koy has been tapped to host the Golden Globes, picked by producers for his “infectious energy and relatable humor.”
December 21, 2023Rudy Giuliani filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, just days after he was ordered to pay $148 million to two former Georgia election workers he falsely accused of fraud
December 21, 2023The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that soccer’s governing bodies UEFA and FIFA acted contrary to EU competition law by blocking plans for a breakaway Super League
December 21, 2023A wildcat strike by staff at Eurotunnel, which links Britain and the European continent and paralyzed dozens of Eurostar trains, has ended
December 21, 2023A report from the United Nations finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are starving because there's not enough food entering the territory since the outbreak of war more than 10 weeks ago
December 21, 2023Workers using cranes have installed two more restored crosses on top of the domes of Kyiv’s 11th-century St. Sophia Cathedral as part of ongoing repair work at the landmark site
December 21, 2023Prague’s police chief says a lone gunman opened fire in a university, killing at least 14 people and injuring 25 more
December 21, 2023Ukraine’s parliament has voted to legalize medical marijuana after the war with Russia left thousands of people with post-traumatic stress disorder that many believe could be eased by the drug
December 21, 2023Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would speak to U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday morning and that he could discuss migration with his counterpart.
December 21, 2023In “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II
December 21, 2023The World Bank says the ripple effects of the war in Gaza are likely to knock Lebanon’s fragile economy back into recession
December 21, 2023Women’s rights activists are criticizing French President Emmanuel Macron for appearing to side with actor Gérard Depardieu by saying the film star who is facing sexual misconduct allegations “makes France proud.”
December 21, 2023The chairman of the U.S.
December 21, 2023Israeli police say 19 Israeli prison guards are under investigation in the death of a 38-year-old Palestinian security prisoner
December 21, 2023The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has spoken with his Chinese counterpart
December 21, 2023The European Union has paid the final tranche of a multibillion-euro support package to Ukraine to help keep its war-ravaged economy afloat this year
December 21, 2023Martin Scorsese will be honored for his lifetime achievement at the Berlin International Film Festival in February
December 21, 2023Serbia’s main opposition group has urged the European Union to help open an international investigation into reported irregularities during last weekend's election
December 21, 2023Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and a Reuters camera crew witnessed rocket interceptions on Thursday as Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip said they launched a salvo at Israel's
December 21, 2023Turkey’s central bank has hiked its key interest rate by 2.5 percentage points as part of its efforts to combat high inflation that has left many households struggling to afford essential items
December 21, 2023A United Nations report finds that more than half a million people in Gaza are starving because not enough food has entered the territory since the outbreak of war 10 weeks ago
December 21, 2023Human rights activists say Pakistan’s police used water cannons, swung batons, and arrested dozens of activists overnight when they tried to enter Islamabad for a protest
December 21, 2023Pope Francis has urged Vatican bureaucrats to avoid “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from understanding today’s reality
December 21, 2023Hundreds of temporary housing units are being set up in northwest China for survivors of an earthquake that destroyed more than 14,000 homes and killed at least 144 people
December 21, 2023The U.N. says fighting between Sudan's military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the country's devastating conflict
December 21, 2023Congo is wrapping up its second day of voting after a chaotic rollout and lengthy delays forced election officials to extend voting hours
December 21, 2023Asian shares have slipped after Wall Street slammed the brakes on its big rally following disappointing corporate profit reports and warnings that the market had simply gone too far, too fast
December 21, 2023Dozens of opposition lawmakers suspended from Parliament by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for obstructing proceedings have held a protest accusing the government of throttling democracy in the country
December 21, 2023China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi says the country will maintain military pressure on the Philippines amid a dispute over sovereignty in the South China Sea that could involve U.S. forces defending their treaty partner
December 21, 2023Officials say a wildfire burning out of control on the outskirts of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least two homes and injured two men
December 21, 2023South Korea’s top court has ordered two Japanese companies to financially compensate more of their wartime Korean workers for forced labor
December 21, 2023Former U.S.
December 21, 2023The year started with high hopes for Ukrainian troops planning a counteroffensive against Russia
December 21, 2023Indonesian authorities have detected at least five boats packed tight with Rohingya refugees approaching the shores of Aceh province
December 21, 2023The U.N. Security Council has again delayed a vote on a watered-down resolution to deliver desperately needed aid to Gaza
December 21, 2023Amid grueling negotiations between senators and the White House, the contours of a bipartisan border security and immigration deal are beginning to take shape
December 21, 2023Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles says his government will send 11 military personnel to support a U.S.-led mission to protect cargo shipping in the Red Sea but won't send a warship or plane
December 21, 2023Three trafficked Sumatran orangutans have been sent back from Thailand to Indonesia as part of a joint effort between the countries to tackle the illegal wildlife trade
December 21, 2023Hundreds of migrants and other people have turned out for a vigil held for a 5-year-old migrant boy who died after becoming ill in a Chicago shelter
December 21, 2023Fighting in the Gaza Strip escalated on Thursday with some of the most intense Israeli bombardment of the war and
December 21, 2023North Korean state media is reporting that leader Kim Jong Un says his country has a policy of not hesitating to launch a nuclear strike on its rivals if provoked, as he praised troops involved in its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test
December 21, 2023The federal government has closed railroad crossings in two Texas border towns, raising concerns about the potential impact on cross-border trade
December 20, 2023The British filmmaker Andrew Haigh is accustomed to strong responses from his films
December 20, 2023Convicted defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis is being returned to U.S. custody as part of the Venezuelan prisoner swap
December 20, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he did not expect an Israel-Hamas deal for the release of hostages held in Gaza to be struck soon.
December 20, 2023The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on alleged violators of its price cap on Russian oil and tightened compliance rules for insurance firms and shippers that move it
December 20, 2023An Italian prosecutor has acknowledged that a stalking threat to a 26-year-old pregnant woman found stabbed to death in her home may have been underestimated by authorities who failed to take action against the man now suspected of killing her
December 20, 2023At least 46 people have been killed and more than 100 wounded after Israel bombarded the urban Jabaliya refugee camp near Gaza City
December 20, 2023A proposal for permanent deployment of U.S.
December 20, 2023Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that an artificial intelligence system can’t be registered as the inventor of a patent, denying machines the same status as humans
December 20, 2023Ireland’s government says it is taking legal action against British authorities over a controversial law that gives some immunity from prosecution for offenses committed during three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland
December 20, 2023A British military analysis says Ukraine’s armed forces are taking up a more defensive posture, after their summer counteroffensive failed to achieve a major breakthrough against Russia’s army and as winter weather sets in after almost 22 months of war
December 20, 2023The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo has been intermittently engulfed in a toxic haze since the start of December, with air quality so bad it was placed first on a list of the world’s most polluted cities for a second straight day
December 20, 2023In China's eyes all three Taiwan presidential candidates are separatists, the frontrunner to be the island's next leader said on Wednesday in a
December 20, 2023Like Christmas trees, Santa and reindeer, the poinsettia has long been a ubiquitous symbol of the holidays in the U.S. and Europe
December 20, 2023The United States has freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of a fugitive defense contractor
December 20, 2023The family of an elder in a Chinese church says he has been detained and accused of fraud
December 20, 2023A top French television presenter has been handed a preliminary charge of rape by a person abusing his authority
December 20, 2023U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has flown out to the USS Gerald R
December 20, 2023Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will continue on a new tower for judges and TV cameras at the surfing venue in Tahiti
December 20, 2023Poland’s new pro-European Union government has begun wrestling control of the country’s state media and some other state agencies from the conservative party that consolidated its grip on them during eight years in power
December 20, 2023Three of the world’s biggest porn websites face new requirements in the European Union that include verifying the ages of users
December 20, 2023Hidden inside the foundation of popular artificial intelligence image-generators are thousands of images of child sexual abuse, according to a new report that urges companies to take action to address a harmful flaw in the technology they built
December 20, 2023Low-cost airlines Ryanair and Malta Air have won a court case against the European Union’s decision to approve billions of euros in state aid by the French government to holding company Air France-KLM during the COVID-19 pandemic
December 20, 2023After a year that brought panic over spy balloons, a fight over semiconductors and an intensifying military rivalry, China and the
December 20, 2023Railroad companies and business groups are pressing the U.S. government to reopen trade routes on the Texas-Mexico border
December 20, 2023Germany’s federal prosecutor has filed a motion for asset forfeiture concerning more than 720 million euros or $789 million of frozen Russian money
December 20, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron says a contentious immigration bill backed by the far right is imperfect and needs some fixes but is “what the French wanted."
December 20, 2023A Rwandan doctor has been sentenced by a Paris court to 24 years in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide in his home country
December 20, 2023The Israeli military says it has uncovered a major Hamas command center in the heart of Gaza City, inflicting what it described as a serious blow to the Islamic militant group
December 20, 2023European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the main parts of an overhaul of the bloc’s outdated asylum rules
December 20, 2023Inflation in the U.K. as measured by the consumer prices index has eased back to its lowest level in more than two years
December 20, 2023Tesla has found itself locked in an increasingly bitter dispute with union workers in Sweden and neighboring countries
December 20, 2023Shares are mostly higher in Asia after several strong profit reports helped Wall Street claw back most of its sharp loss from day before
December 20, 2023Argentine President Javier Milei has announced sweeping initiatives to transform the country’s struggling economy, including easing government regulation and allowing privatization of state-run industries as a way to boost exports and investment
December 20, 2023Lengthy delays at the polls have forced officials to extend voting in Congo’s presidential election to Thursday
December 20, 2023After blunting Ukraine’s counteroffensive from the summer, Russia is building up its resources for a new stage of the war over the winter, which could involve trying to extend its gains in the east and deal significant blows to the country’s vital infrastructure
December 20, 2023The U.N. Security Council has again delayed a vote on a new U.N. resolution on desperately needed aid to Gaza as the Biden administration struggles to change key wording in high-level negotiations seeking to avoid a U.S. veto
December 20, 2023Surrounded by destruction, the relatives of an earthquake victim are mourning her death in temporary shelters and frigid temperatures high in the mountains of northwest China
December 20, 2023Australia and New Zealand leaders have agreed to seek closer defense ties as New Zealand considers sharing advanced military technologies with the United States and Britain through the so-called AUKUS partnership
December 20, 2023China's Alibaba Group says its CEO Eddie Wu will head its core e-commerce business, as the company seeks to drive growth and fend off fast-growing online shopping rivals like Pinduoduo
December 20, 2023Naphat Krutthai and Rasithaya Jindasri have been in a committed relationship for eight years, but only now they can consider getting married
December 20, 2023Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought fierce gunbattles on the streets of Gaza's second-biggest city on Wednesday as the United
December 20, 2023North Korea and Russia have clashed with the United States, South Korea and their allies at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Pyongyang’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, which it called “a warning counter-measure” to threats from the U.S. and other hostile forces
December 20, 2023Migrant families and their advocates marched outside New York City Hall on Tuesday to demand Mayor Eric Adams end his plan to limit the number of days newly arrived immigrants can remain in city-run shelters
December 20, 2023Survivors of a massacre in central Mexico told investigators that a group of people turned away from a holiday party returned later with gunmen who killed 11 and wounded 14
December 20, 2023Russia launched its fifth air attack this month targeting Kyiv and air defence systems destroyed all drones on approach to the capital, Ukrainian military officials said early on
December 19, 2023The Security Council has voted unanimously to start the withdrawal of the U.N. peacekeeping force from Congo before the end of the year as the conflict-ridden country prepares to elect its next president on Wednesday
December 19, 2023She was born amid war, in a hospital with no electricity in a southern Gaza city that has been bombarded daily
December 19, 2023A United Nations Security Council vote on a bid to boost aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip has been delayed by another day as talks continue to try and
December 19, 2023The death of a 5-year-old migrant boy and reported illnesses in other children has raised fresh concerns about the living conditions and medical care provided for asylum-seekers arriving in Chicago
December 19, 2023Former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph was on Tuesday sentenced in a Miami court to life in prison over his role in the July 2021 assassination of Haiti's last president, Jovenel Moise.
December 19, 2023The European Union and the United States urged Serbia to address concerns about its electoral process after independent observers found
December 19, 2023Authorities in a western Brazil state are taking aim at deforestation of the Amazon with a slew of lawsuits against slaughterhouses and farmers accused of illegally raising cattle in a protected area
December 19, 2023For decades, Christmas tree growers and breeders have been preparing for a future of hotter weather and warming soil
December 19, 2023Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday declared his country to be the foremost cultural power in the world, praising its ethnic and culinary diversity and
December 19, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he's certain the United States will make good on its promise of further billions of dollars for Kyiv to continue its fight against Russia
December 19, 2023Heavy civilian casualties are the cost of Israel's intense campaign to destroy Hamas in Gaza and the militants' urban warfare strategy,
December 19, 2023In an unusual series of legal actions, Brazilian prosecutors have sued multinational meatpacker JBS and three smaller slaughterhouses for allegedly buying cattle directly from illegal ranches in a protected area
December 19, 2023Members of a union representing German train drivers have voted overwhelmingly to stage open-ended strikes in a bitter dispute with the main national railway operator over working hours and pay
December 19, 2023U.N. Security Council members are in intense negotiations on an Arab-sponsored resolution to spur desperately needed humanitarian aid deliveries to Gaza during some kind of a halt in the fighting, trying to avoid another veto by the United States
December 19, 2023A meeting between Qatar’s prime minister and the heads of Israel’s Mossad spy agency and the U.S.
December 19, 2023Pope Francis’ authorization for Catholic priests to offer blessings to same-sex couples is in many ways a recognition of what has been going on in some European parishes for years
December 19, 2023Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Tuesday said Mexico was preparing to challenge a new Texas law allowing state law enforcement to arrest suspected migrants,
December 19, 2023Scientists have been anticipating the eruption of a volcano in southwestern Iceland for several weeks
December 19, 2023Azerbaijan sees no major obstacles to securing a lasting peace treaty with its neighbour Armenia and believes the question of defining their borders can be
December 19, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared that his country's military is well positioned to meet Moscow's goals in Ukraine
December 19, 2023President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia would be prepared to talk to Ukraine, the United States and Europe about the future of Ukraine if they
December 19, 2023Serbia’s ruling populists are insisting that weekend snap elections were free and fair, but international observers have noted multiple irregularities
December 19, 2023Britain and France are reiterating their determination that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must end in failure
December 19, 2023Meta Platform's Oversight Board said on Tuesday that the social media company erred in removing two videos depicting hostages and injured people in the Israel-Hamas conflict
December 19, 2023Denmark has reached a defence agreement with the United States that will allow U.S. soldiers and military equipment to be based on Danish soil, the country's Prime Minister
December 19, 2023Russia summoned Finland's ambassador on Tuesday to object to a new defence agreement granting the United States broad access to the vicinity of the new NATO member's long border
December 19, 2023Israeli troops have launched more deadly strikes in Gaza and raided the last working hospital in Gaza City
December 19, 2023Germany’s main national railway operator Deutsche Bahn has launched an effort to sell logistics unit DB Schenker as the company seeks to concentrate on its core business at home
December 19, 2023U.N. officials voiced anger and disbelief on Tuesday about the situation in Gaza hospitals, where injured people do not have basic supplies and children recovering
December 19, 2023Germany’s highest court has ordered the 2021 national election to be partially repeated in Berlin because of severe glitches at many polling stations in the capital
December 19, 2023Israel bombarded towns across southern Gaza with airstrikes, killing at least 45 Palestinians and pressing ahead with its offensive against Hamas militants with renewed backing from the United States
December 19, 2023Asian shares have mostly advanced after Wall Street ticked higher amid hopes that Japan's moves to keep interest rates easy for investors could augur similar trends in the rest of the world
December 19, 2023A French court is expected to rule on charges against a Rwandan doctor for his alleged role in the 1994 genocide in his home country
December 19, 2023The national security trial of Hong Kong’s famous activist publisher Jimmy Lai entered its second day with the expectation that judges will rule by the end of the week on his lawyers' bid to throw out a sedition charge that has been increasingly used to target dissidents
December 19, 2023Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store — the same issue that went to trial in another case that could result in even bigger changes
December 19, 2023A man convicted on terrorism charges whom Australia had wanted to strip of his citizenship and deport has been released into the community under strict conditions
December 19, 2023North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has vowed “more offensive actions” to repel what he called United States-led threats after watching the third test of his country’s most advanced long-range missile
December 19, 2023The Western powers in the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran are accusing Tehran of developing and testing ballistic missiles, transferring hundreds of drones to Russia, and enriching uranium to an unprecedented 60% level for a country without a nuclear weapons program — all in violation of a U.N. resolution endorsing the deal
December 19, 2023U.S.
December 19, 2023President Joe Biden’s push to have Congress replenish wartime aid for Ukraine as part of a deal on border and immigration policy changes will almost certainly drag into next year
December 19, 2023A quasi-independent review board has ruled that Facebook parent company Meta should overturn two decisions it made this fall to remove posts “informing the world about human suffering on both sides” of the Israel-Hamas war
December 19, 2023A volcano has erupted in southwestern Iceland with a flash of light into the evening sky in the land known for fire and ice
December 19, 2023President Joe Biden is planning one more military aid package in December for Ukraine in its war against Russia, the White House said on Monday, then further assistance to Kyiv
December 19, 2023Israel kept pounding the shattered Gaza Strip on Tuesday while Yemen's pro-Palestinian Houthi movement vowed to defy a U.S.-led naval
December 18, 2023Chinese media say at least 131 people have been killed in a magnitude 6.2 earthquake in the country’s northwest
December 18, 2023The United States on Tuesday launched a multinational operation to safeguard commerce in the Red Sea as attacks by Iran-backed Yemeni
December 18, 2023An expert witness paid nearly $1 million by Donald Trump to testify at his New York civil fraud trial "lost all credibility" by "doggedly" justifying the former U.S.
December 18, 2023The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen
December 18, 2023Charlotte Hornets forward Miles Bridges has been denied entrance to Canada due to his past legal problems and will not be available to play Monday night in Toronto against the Raptors, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press
December 18, 2023San Francisco prosecutors have begun charging 80 protesters who last month snarled traffic for hours on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza
December 18, 2023France’s foreign minister is urging Lebanese leaders to work on reducing tensions along the border with Israel, warning that the raging Israel-Hamas war, now in its third month, could spread to other parts of the region
December 18, 2023More than 40 former top U.S. and NATO diplomats and defense officials on Monday urged Congress to approve new aid for Ukraine, warning that losing its war with Russia would be
December 18, 2023The U.N. Security Council has delayed a vote on an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for a halt to hostilities in Gaza to allow unhindered access to deliver humanitarian aid to the massive number of civilians in need of food, water and medicine until Tuesday morning, as members intensified negotiations to try to avoid another veto by the United States
December 18, 2023British media report that comedian Russell Brand has been questioned for a second time by police investigating allegations of sexual offenses
December 18, 2023Israel will gradually transition to the next phase of its operations in Gaza in which the local population would likely be able to first return to the north of the coastal strip,
December 18, 2023The Vatican document explicitly saying Catholic priests can bless same-sex unions lays out the conditions for how such blessings can and cannot involve
December 18, 2023Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has pledged to lead efforts to simultaneously achieve decarbonization, economic growth and energy security in Asia
December 18, 2023Trevor Milton, the convicted founder of electric- and hydrogen-powered truck maker Nikola, was sentenced to four years in prison on Monday after a jury last year
December 18, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has submitted documents to Russia’s Central Election Commission to register as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election
December 18, 2023Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples
December 18, 2023The attacks on commercial vessels in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have scared off some of the world’s top shipping companies and oil giants
December 18, 2023Germany's central bank says the country's economy is likely to shrink again slightly in the current fourth quarter
December 18, 2023Ukraine’s military chief says a covert listening device was found in one of the offices where he works and he is hinting that other bugs were detected in other locations
December 18, 2023The European Union has made Elon Musk’s online platform X the first tech company to face an investigation under Europe’s tough new regulations designed to clean up social media and protect people from toxic online content
December 18, 2023Baghdad’s streets are nearly empty on Monday, the main day of polling in the country’s first provincial elections in a decade
December 18, 2023CIA director Bill Burns is set to meet Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani and the head of Israel's Mossad spy agency in Warsaw on Monday to discuss a potential new
December 18, 2023Frontline Ukrainian troops face shortages of artillery shells and have scaled back some military operations because of a shortfall of foreign
December 18, 2023An explosion and inferno at Guinea’s main fuel depot in the capital of Conakry has left at least 13 people dead and 178 injured
December 18, 2023The U.N. Security Council has delayed voting on a resolution to urgently cease hostilities in Gaza and release all Israeli hostages held by Palestinian militants
December 18, 2023International monitors have said that Serbia’s tense weekend snap vote was held in “unjust conditions" and they urged the authorities to investigate reports of irregularities as opposition supporters took to the streets to protest
December 18, 2023Iran’s state TV says nearly 70% of the nation’s gas pumps are out of service after possible sabotage — a reference to cyberattacks
December 18, 2023German farmers are gathering in Berlin to protest against planned cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture, part of a deal reached by the government to plug a hole in the country’s budget
December 18, 2023United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed with Israeli leaders ways to scale back major combat operations in Gaza
December 18, 2023Congo’s president says he has confidence an upcoming vote will be rolled out credibly, as tensions mount that a severe lack of electoral preparation could throw the conflict-riddled nation into disarray
December 18, 2023Top Biden administration officials have ramped up their involvement in the recent border talks on Capitol Hill
December 18, 2023Israelis were left stunned and speechless when three hostages held by Hamas were killed by Israeli forces in the middle of an active war zone, after they waved a white flag and screamed out in Hebrew apparently to show they did not pose a threat
December 18, 2023Asian shares are mixed after a seven-week winning streak on Wall Street cooled
December 18, 2023A landmark national security trial has opened in Hong Kong for prominent activist publisher Jimmy Lai
December 18, 2023South Korea says North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the sea in a resumption of its weapons testing activities
December 17, 2023North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile on Monday that has a range to hit anywhere in the United States, said South Korea
December 17, 2023Two Egyptian security sources said on Sunday that Israel and Hamas are both open to a renewed ceasefire and hostage release, although disagreements remain on how it would be
December 17, 2023Luton says its captain Tom Lockyer is undergoing tests and scans at hospital after suffering a cardiac arrest during a Premier League game
December 17, 2023The Israeli military says it has excavated a large tunnel shaft in Gaza close to a major crossing with Israel
December 17, 2023Russian state new agencies have reported that delegates from Russia's ruling party have unanimously backed President Vladimir Putin's bid for reelection at a party conference in Moscow
December 17, 2023Immediately after Israel's war in Gaza ends, all Palestinian factions including Hamas must take a serious look at the failure of their policies to
December 17, 2023South Korea’s military says North Korea has fired a short-range ballistic missile in the sea in a possible display of defiance against the steps by Washington and Seoul to tighten nuclear deterrence against North Korean threats
December 17, 2023As Christmas approaches, Catholic nuns and monks are busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base even in rapidly secularizing countries
December 17, 2023A member of Britain’s House of Lords has acknowledged that she repeatedly lied about her links to a company that was awarded lucrative contracts to supply protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic
December 17, 2023Some of Israel’s closest European allies have pressed for a cease-fire in the war with Hamas
December 17, 2023Russia and Ukraine have launched over a dozen drones at each other's territory for a second straight day
December 17, 2023An Israeli mother who was held in Hamas captivity for 49 days has described in an interview the trials of caring for two young children as a hostage
December 17, 2023As Russian forces press forward with an attempt to capture the town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine, The Associated Press obtained aerial footage that indicates their staggering losses
December 17, 2023Serbia’s governing populists have claimed a sweeping victory in the country’s parliamentary election, which have been marred by reports of major irregularities both during a tense campaign and on voting day
December 17, 2023Israel’s government is facing calls for a cease-fire from some of its closest European allies
December 17, 2023The U.N. migration agency says a boat carrying dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving more than 60 people dead, including women and children
December 17, 2023The jungle between Colombia and Panama used to be impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America
December 17, 2023Chilean voters have rejected a conservative constitution to replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter, a little over a year after turning down a proposed leftist charter
December 17, 2023A human rights activist imprisoned for three years in Belarus accused authorities of holding political prisoners in conditions amounting to “torture.”
December 17, 2023A growing number of Black Americans see the struggle of Palestinians reflected in their own struggles for racial equality and civil rights
December 17, 2023Leaders from Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have adopted a joint vision at special summit in Tokyo
December 17, 2023An Israeli airstrike has killed a U.S. Agency for International Development contractor in Gaza
December 16, 2023British teenager Alex Batty has come back to the U
December 16, 2023A contractor for the U.S.
December 16, 2023Bethlehem is gearing up for a subdued Christmas without the festive lights and customary Christmas tree towering over Manger Square
December 16, 2023The Russian-American writer Masha Gessen has received a German literary prize in a ceremony that was delayed and scaled down in reaction to an article comparing Gaza to Nazi German ghettoes
December 16, 2023Brazil’s lower house has approved a major reform of the nation’s notoriously complicated tax system
December 16, 2023The leaders of Italy and the U.K. have agreed to tackle irregular migration to Europe
December 16, 2023The top two U.S. military leaders are traveling to Tel Aviv to advise the Israeli government on how to transition from major combat operations against Hamas in Gaza to a more limited and precise campaign
December 16, 2023Former South African President Jacob Zuma has denounced the governing African National Congress party and announced that he will vote for a newly-formed political formation in the country’s general election next year
December 16, 2023The United States has warned North Korea that any nuclear attack against the nation or its allies is unacceptable and will result in the end of the Kim regime, a joint US-South
December 16, 2023Russian state news agencies have reported that President Vladimir Putin's supporters have formally nominated him to run in the 2024 presidential election as an independent candidate
December 16, 2023In Mexico, activists from Catholics for the Right to Decide are helping women reconcile their faith and abortion rights
December 16, 2023The British and American militaries say that a U.S. warship has shot down 14 suspected attack drones over the Red Sea and a Royal Navy destroyer downed another drone that was targeting commercial ships
December 16, 2023Three Israeli hostages killed mistakenly in Gaza by Israeli forces had been holding up a white flag, according to an initial inquiry into the incident, a military official said
December 16, 2023Iraqis have begun voting for the first time in a decade to select new provincial council members, who in turn will appoint governors, with the outcome seen as a bellwether for the parliamentary elections due to take place in 2025
December 16, 2023Kuwait’s ruling emir has died at age 86
December 16, 2023Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah died on Saturday, aged 86, according to the royal court, just over three years after assuming power in the U.S.-allied
December 16, 2023Both Russia and Ukraine have reported dozens of attempted drone attacks in the past day
December 16, 2023Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the mistaken killing of three Israeli hostages in Gaza by Israeli soldiers “broke my heart,” but there would be no change in Israel’s military approach
December 16, 2023A North Korean diplomatic delegation is visiting China for talks on strengthening cooperation, North Korean state media said on Saturday, as Pyongyang slowly opens its borders and
December 16, 2023Europe must race to ensure it can better defend itself as new military threats could emerge by the end of the decade even as the focus of security ally the United States shifts
December 16, 2023A Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of embezzlement and sentenced him to 5 ½ years in prison in one of several verdicts handed down in a complicated financial trial that aired the city state’s dirty laundry and tested its justice system
December 16, 2023So much for the women-and-children-first rule of rescues in crisis
December 16, 2023The United Nations peacekeeping chief says he was very satisfied with the strong support of many countries for its far-flung operations at a recent ministerial meeting, despite “headwinds and challenges and problems.”
December 15, 2023An Israeli strike killed a Palestinian cameraman for the TV network Al Jazeera and wounded its chief Gaza correspondent as they reported at a school in the south of the besieged territory
December 15, 2023The Israeli military says it is investigating the killing of two Palestinians in the West Bank after soldiers were caught on camera shooting down the men at close range when they did not appear to pose a threat
December 15, 2023U.S. officials say Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is ordering the USS Gerald R
December 15, 2023Hungary's Viktor Orban's veto of an aid package from Europe to war-torn Ukraine was the latest sign that Western support for the country's defense against Russia has become complicated
December 15, 2023The U.S. ambassador to China says the relationship between the two countries will be defined by strategic competition in the coming decades but most involve engagement when interests align
December 15, 2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region
December 15, 2023Mexico’s president has inaugurated the first part of the pet project of his administration, a tourist train that runs in a rough loop around the Yucatan peninsula
December 15, 2023The Israeli army's death toll in Gaza is already almost twice as high as during a ground offensive in 2014, a
December 15, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron says he'd still consider talking with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin if it helps to forge a “sustainable peace” between Ukraine and Russia
December 15, 2023A senior Spanish official says the deployment of two Spanish surveillance planes to watch for migrant boats heading on the treacherous route from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands has enabled authorities to stop 59 canoes from Senegal and Gambia
December 15, 2023Moldova and Georgia celebrated after European Union leaders buoyed their aspirations to join the 27 member nation bloc by removing key hurdles on their long path toward membership
December 15, 2023A court of the West African regional bloc has ordered the release and reinstatement of Niger’s democratically elected president
December 15, 2023Guatemala violated Indigenous rights by permitting a huge nickel mine on tribal land almost two decades ago, according to a ruling from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
December 15, 2023Prince Harry’s victory against Mirror Group Newspapers is a landmark moment in the long saga of lawbreaking by Britain’s tabloids
December 15, 2023With Israeli bombs pounding the length of the Gaza Strip, Gazans have been squeezed up against the border with Egypt's Sinai Peninsula at the town of Rafah and
December 15, 2023A paradox at the heart of the Netherlands’ permissive pot policy has gone up in smoke in two Dutch cities as “coffeeshops” began selling the country’s first legally cultivated cannabis
December 15, 2023Dozens of migrants have crossed into Finland hours before the reclosure of two southern crossing points on the border with Russia as the Nordic country experiences an influx of asylum-seekers
December 15, 2023A number of European Union leaders are trying to use mounting concern about civilian deaths in Israel’s military offensive against Hamas to rally their partners around a united call for a ceasefire in Gaza
December 15, 2023U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says he has discussed with Israeli officials the volatile situation along the Lebanon-Israel border
December 15, 2023Germany's parliament has approved plans to raise the country’s levy on carbon dioxide emissions from fuel by more than previously planned next month
December 15, 2023The COP 28 climate deal reached with huge fanfare this week in Dubai is a stab in the back for the nations most affected by global warming and won't stop temperatures rising
December 15, 2023Spanish police say they have arrested 14 workers at one of the country’s main tourist airports on suspicion of stealing items from checked-in luggage
December 15, 2023High-profile British broadcaster Piers Morgan, the former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, knew about phone hacking at the newspaper, a
December 15, 2023Short-term rental platform Airbnb has agreed to pay 576 million euros ($621 million) to settle a years-long dispute over unpaid taxes in Italy but won’t try to recover the money from its hosts
December 15, 2023The family of an Indian man in Czech custody, whom the U.S. accuses of involvement in an unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil, on
December 15, 2023Prince Harry has won his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mirror and was awarded over 140,000 pounds in the first of his several lawsuits against the tabloids to go to trial
December 15, 2023Britain's Prince Harry was awarded 140,600 pounds ($180,743)after London's High Court ruled on Friday he had been a victim of "modest" phone-hacking and other unlawful information
December 15, 2023A Dutch court on Friday dismissed demands by human rights groups to block the Dutch government from exporting F-35 fighter jet parts to Israel, which
December 15, 2023A prosecutor in Denmark says authorities are holding two people in custody and four others are the target of a terrorism investigation
December 15, 2023Hungary's prime minister says he'll have plenty of opportunities in the future to interrupt Ukraine’s process of joining the European Union despite the latest, historic decision to move forward with bringing Kyiv into the bloc
December 15, 2023British and French authorities have confirmed that a teenager found wandering on a road in the rain at night in southwestern France is Alex Batty, who disappeared six years ago
December 15, 2023The son of leading China critic and Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai said on Friday he thought the outcome of his father's trial next week had already been decided but he was proud
December 15, 2023Washington is pushing Israel to focus the war in Gaza on precise targeting of Hamas leaders rather than widespread bombing and ground operations, the White House national
December 15, 2023Allies of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny said his lawyer was told in court that he had been moved from the penal colony east of Moscow where he has been serving time but was not told where he was taken
December 15, 2023The Israeli military says it has mistakenly killed three Israeli hostages during its ground operation in the Gaza Strip
December 15, 2023Israeli troops mistakenly shot three hostages to death in a battle-torn neighborhood of Gaza City, and an Israeli strike killed a Palestinian journalist in the south of the besieged territory
December 15, 2023A ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has slammed into a cargo ship in the Red Sea near the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait
December 15, 2023Wall Street drifted through mixed trading to put a quiet end to another rocking week
December 15, 2023Two subway trains have collided in heavy snow in Beijing, sending 515 people to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones
December 15, 2023The White House says funding for Ukraine has run out and it has been increasing pressure on Congress to pass stalled legislation to support the war against Russia
December 15, 2023Verdicts are expected for a cardinal and nine defendants in the most complicated financial trial in the Vatican’s modern history
December 15, 2023Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is pushing to reassert his populist party’s dominance in this weekend's parliamentary and local election in the troubled eastern European country following a turbulent year that has shaken the government’s popularity
December 15, 2023China on Friday pressured Taiwan with a trade barrier probe and warplanes in the Taiwan Strait a month before the island holds key elections, as
December 15, 2023King Charles III has paid a light-hearted tribute to the late Barry Humphries, who was remembered at a state memorial service in Australia
December 15, 2023Israel opened a direct crossing for aid into Gaza for the first time in its more than two-month-old war on
December 15, 2023Britain's Prince Harry will on Friday find out the result of his phone-hacking lawsuit against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN), publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday
December 15, 2023Prince Harry was the subject of phone-hacking and other unlawful information gathering by British publisher Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) over several years, a
December 15, 2023California-based Rocket Lab has launched a Japanese satellite from the space company's complex on New Zealand’s Mahia Peninsula
December 15, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden's national security adviser will visit Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Friday, according to a U.S. official.
December 14, 2023Ukraine has received a green light to start sped-up talks on joining the European Union
December 14, 2023Brazil’s Congress has overturned a veto by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva so it can reinstate legislation that undoes protections of Indigenous peoples’ land rights
December 14, 2023Congress is departing Washington without a deal to pass wartime support for Ukraine
December 14, 2023“Poor Things” is a Frankenstein-esque fantasia about a young woman (Emma Stone) reanimated by a demented surgeon (Willem Dafoe)
December 14, 2023Israel’s president has joined the ranks of high-ranking Israeli officials to speak out against a two-state solution after the war in Gaza
December 14, 2023Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told President Joe Biden in a phone call that the United States has a historic responsibility to achieve a lasting ceasefire in the Gaza conflict
December 14, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made his first visit to the U.S. military headquarters in Germany where allied leaders coordinate the delivery of weapons and other aid to the war effort
December 14, 2023The COP28 climate summit in Dubai started with all the ingredients for spectacular failure: It proposed an end to the fossil-
December 14, 2023The Mexican government's controversial effort to look for people falsely listed as missing has turned up 16,681 who had returned to their homes but not notified the authorities
December 14, 2023The painful economic steps that Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, announced this week sound draconian: Slashing the currency’s value in half
December 14, 2023Hundreds of protesters angered by what they view as wasteful municipal spending by Kyiv officials have gathered outside the Ukrainian capital's city hall
December 14, 2023The climate negotiations that just finished in Dubai hit upon the essence of compromise, finding common language that everyone accepted, at times grudgingly
December 14, 2023The head of the U.N.
December 14, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has questioned the International Olympic Committee rules mandating Russian athletes compete at the Paris Olympics as neutral athletes
December 14, 2023Hong Kong police are offering rewards for information leading to the arrests of five activists based overseas, whom it accuses of breaching a harsh national security law imposed by Beijing
December 14, 2023Amazon won’t have to pay about $273 million in back taxes after European Union judges ruled in favor of the U.S. e-commerce giant
December 14, 2023A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and returned to the United States, where he was booked into a federal detention center
December 14, 2023International pressure on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to overhaul its leadership and step up reforms are a distraction from the
December 14, 2023The U.S. military says a missile fired from territory controlled by Yemen’s Houthi rebels missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait
December 14, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday to open membership talks with his country, warning that Europe would not understand if
December 14, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin, asked on Thursday about a possible prisoner swap for the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and U.S.
December 14, 2023The Palestinian prime minister says Washington must take steps toward an elusive two-state solution, including applying pressure on Israel
December 14, 2023ChatGPT was the catalyst for a year that took artificial intelligence mainstream
December 14, 2023A former FBI official is set to be sentenced on Thursday after pleading guilty to working for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch under U.S. sanctions whom prosecutors
December 14, 2023The dire humanitarian situation in Gaza is prompting more European Union countries to support the idea of a humanitarian cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas
December 14, 2023Pope Francis called on Thursday for a legally binding international treaty to regulate artificial intelligence.
December 14, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is in dialogue with the United States on the issue of bringing home jailed Americans Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich
December 14, 2023Pope Francis is calling for an international treaty to ensure artificial intelligence is developed and used ethically
December 14, 2023Hong Kong police on Thursday added five more overseas-based activists to a list of wanted people, offering bounties for information leading to their arrest in a
December 14, 2023Greta Gerwig, actor, writer and film director, notably for the blockbuster “Barbie,” will preside over the jury of the 77th Cannes Festival in May, the first American female film director to be named jury president, the festival announced Thursday
December 14, 2023Russia will press on with its war in Ukraine unless Kyiv does a deal that takes Moscow's security concerns into account, President
December 14, 2023Denmark and Germany have announced arrests of several terror suspects, including alleged Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jews in Europe over the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
December 14, 2023A Moscow сourt ruled on Thursday that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich must remain in custody until Jan. 30, 2024.
December 14, 2023A former member of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has appeared in district court and pleaded not guilty to taking $1.4 million in bribes in exchange for contracts for the Games
December 14, 2023The attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels have rerouted trade away from a crucial corridor for consumer goods and energy supplies
December 14, 2023South Korea’s Olympic chief has defended a decision to send hundreds of athletes to a military camp next week as part of preparations for the 2024 Games in Paris
December 14, 2023A U.N. report says Taliban officials are sending Afghan women to prison to protect them from gender-based violence
December 14, 2023Israel’s defense minister says it will take months to destroy Hamas, predicting a drawn-out war
December 14, 2023Asian shares have churned higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to another record high
December 14, 2023The European Union has failed to agree on a $54 billion package in financial aid that Ukraine desperately needs to stay afloat, even as the bloc decided to open accession negotiations with the war-torn country
December 14, 2023Emboldened by battlefield gains and flagging Western support for Ukraine, a relaxed and confident President Vladimir Putin says there will be no peace until Moscow achieves its goals, which he says are unchanged after nearly two years of fighting
December 14, 2023The defense ministers of Japan, Britain and Italy have signed an agreement to establish a joint organization to develop a new advanced jet fighter, as the countries push to strengthen their cooperation in the face of growing threats from China, Russia and North Korea
December 14, 2023The European Central Bank has decided to keep its key interest rate at a record high and will leave it there as long as needed to battle back inflation
December 14, 2023The Bank of England has kept borrowing rates unchanged despite mounting worries over the state of the British economy
December 14, 2023As U.S.-made F-16 fighter jets for Ukraine arrive at training centres in the United States and Europe, Kyiv’s allies hope the modern aircraft can push Russian planes farther
December 14, 2023Israel pounded the length of the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing families in their homes even as Washington's envoy discussed how its ally
December 14, 2023The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela have promised in a tense meeting that neither side will use threats or force against the other, but failed to reach agreement on how to address a bitter dispute over a vast border region rich with oil and minerals
December 14, 2023A senior leader of the Kuomintang (KMT), Taiwan's main opposition party, is in China for meetings with the Taiwanese community, his party said on
December 14, 2023An Australian appeals court has overturned all convictions against a woman 20 years after a jury found her guilty of killing her four children
December 14, 2023Russia is watching as U.S. military support for Ukraine declines and Kyiv suffers setbacks on the battlefield, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said in interviews made public on
December 14, 2023With more than a full year past since China eased restrictions and let COVID-19 sweep its households, scientists are worried a unique opportunity may be slipping
December 14, 2023A congressional commission is asking the Justice Department to investigate the role of Beijing after protesters claimed they were beaten and harassed by Chinese government agents in November in San Francisco during an official visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping
December 13, 2023White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss the Gaza conflict
December 13, 2023Somalia has secured a $4.5 billion debt relief deal from its international creditors,
December 13, 2023BP says its former chief executive has been denied a payout of 32.4 million pounds, or $41 million, after he was found to have misled the company over his past relationships with colleagues
December 13, 2023An Israeli lawmaker said on Wednesday his government was seeking to use diplomatic channels to push Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters away from
December 13, 2023Testimony concluded on Wednesday in Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York, where the former U.S. president is accused of lying about his net worth to dupe lenders.
December 13, 2023In a bid to improve working conditions for people who deliver food and offer rides through smartphone apps, the European Union gave provisional approval to new rules for gig economy workers
December 13, 2023Two of Russia’s top swimmers who could be eligible for the next year’s Olympics have been drug tested by their country’s anti-doping agency only twice apiece in 2023
December 13, 2023At least 15 people who registered for Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the COP28 climate conference in Dubai appear to be undeclared employees of the Saudi state oil company, according to research by an environmental nonprofit
December 13, 2023The United States intends to resume security and development cooperation with Niger provided it takes steps to restore democracy, a U.S. diplomat said on Wednesday after meeting the
December 13, 2023A pair of small portraits by 17th-century Dutch Master Rembrandt van Rijn have gone on display after a long-term loan to the Netherlands’ national art and history museum
December 13, 2023Over 14 days of U.N. climate talks, delegates from nearly 200 countries debated, made proposals, lobbed criticisms and did their best to convince each other how best to stop the planet from warming at a dangerous pace
December 13, 2023The United States has announced new war-related of sanctions against Hamas, targeting eight officials and representatives who help manage the militant group’s financial network
December 13, 2023A wartime opinion poll among Palestinians shows a rise in support for Hamas, which appears to have ticked up even in the devastated Gaza Strip
December 13, 2023The United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday imposed a fourth round of sanctions on individuals in Turkey and elsewhere linked to the Palestinian Hamas militant group, the U.S.
December 13, 2023Referee Halil Umut Meler desperately tried to shield himself from the kicks of angry fans
December 13, 2023A former soldier who won a sexual assault case against three of her former colleagues says she hopes Japan’s Self Defense Force makes it easier for others to speak up
December 13, 2023President Joe Biden has hosted family members of some of the eight Americans believed still held captive in Gaza, assuring them his administration won't stop working to get their loved ones home
December 13, 2023The International Monetary Fund executive board has approved the release of the second tranche of a bailout package to help Sri Lanka recover from the worst economic crisis in its history
December 13, 2023The head of the Turkish Football Federation says domestic soccer league matches will resume on Dec. 19
December 13, 2023The Israeli military says Palestinian militants ambushed troops in a dense Gaza City neighborhood, killing at least nine of them
December 13, 2023At least nine Israeli soldiers have been killed during an ambush that's one of the deadliest single attacks Palestinian militants have carried out since the ground invasion of Gaza began
December 13, 2023Pope Francis says he wants to be buried in the Rome basilica of St. Mary Major, not in the grottoes of the Vatican like other popes
December 13, 2023The new Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Cabinet members have taken office after being sworn in by the country's president
December 13, 2023Shares are mostly higher in Asia after a powerful rally across Wall Street sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average to a record high as the Federal Reserve indicated that interest rate cuts are likely next year
December 13, 2023Two missiles fired from territory held by Yemen’s Houthi rebels have missed a commercial tanker carrying jet fuel near the key Bab el-Mandeb Strait, That's according to two U.S. officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters
December 13, 2023Chinese aerospace company COMAC has showcased its domestically-developed C919 passenger jet in Hong Kong, giving officials and media a close-up look at the narrow-bodied aircraft
December 13, 2023Germany’s governing coalition has reached a deal to resolve a budget crisis triggered by a court ruling last month
December 13, 2023Congo's presidential election is a week away, and the major issue is the deadly conflict in the nation's east that has forced millions of people to flee their homes
December 13, 2023President Joe Biden's pledge to restore American credibility around the globe is at risk during the congressional debate over support for Ukraine
December 13, 2023When Serbia began talks to join the European Union in 2014, pro-Western Serbs were hopeful the process would set their troubled country on an irreversible path to democratization
December 13, 2023Several viral videos of Israeli soldiers behaving maliciously in Gaza have emerged in recent days, creating a headache for the Israeli military as it faces an international outcry over its tactics and the rising civilian death toll in its war against Hamas
December 13, 2023Many sentiments are universal
December 13, 2023Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began in 1980 as experts warn that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are accelerating the pace of infections
December 13, 2023The COP28 climate summit adopted a final deal on Wednesday that for the first time calls on nations to transition away from fossil fuels to avert the worst impacts of climate change.
December 13, 2023Negotiators at United Nations COP28 climate talks agreed Wednesday that the world must transition away from planet-warming fossil fuels
December 13, 2023Tropical Cyclone Jasper has crossed Australia’s northeast coast as a category 2 storm, lashing the sparsely populated region with winds of up to 87 miles an hour
December 13, 2023A barrage of Russian missiles has targeted Kyiv and wounded at least 53 people as Ukraine's president seeks more military support in Europe
December 13, 2023Israel announced its worst combat losses for more than a month on Wednesday after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza City, and faced
December 13, 2023The Spanish fashion brand Zara has pulled advertising images that appeared to some to reference Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza
December 13, 2023A special House committee focused on China is calling for altering the way the U.S. treats Chinese-made goods, possibly subjecting them to higher tariffs and risking increased economic tensions between the two economic superpowers
December 12, 2023The Biden administration is planning to construct a new U.S. embassy in Ireland
December 12, 2023The COP28 Presidency released a proposed text of a final climate deal on Wednesday that would, for the first time, push nations
December 12, 2023The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand a humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza in a strong demonstration of global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war
December 12, 2023The Israeli military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas' tunnel complex in Gaza, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday citing unnamed U.S. officials, adding that the
December 12, 2023President Joe Biden is speaking out about the Israel-Hamas war and warning that Israel is losing international support because of what he calls “indiscriminate bombing" of Gaza
December 12, 2023Thousands have rallied in the capital and other major cities in Slovakia to denounce a plan by the new government of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico to amend the country’s penal code
December 12, 2023For mothers and fathers in besieged Gaza, the devastating war has subverted all expectations of childbirth and parenthood
December 12, 2023Google lost an antitrust lawsuit over barriers to its Android app store, as a federal court jury has decided that the company’s payments system was anticompetitive and damaged smartphone consumers and software developers
December 12, 2023President Joe Biden will hold his first in-person meeting with the families of Americans taken hostage by Hamas during its brutal attack on Israel on Oct. 7
December 12, 2023The South African government has announced plans to build new nuclear power stations to generate more electricity amid an energy crisis in the continent’s most advanced economy
December 12, 2023The head of Israel's main Holocaust memorial centre has welcomed criticism levelled at three top U.S. university presidents over their comments on campus antisemitism but said an
December 12, 2023Thousands of people sang the traditional Mexican birthday song “Las mañanitas” at Mexico City’s Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe to honor the virgin on the 492nd anniversary of her apparition in 1531
December 12, 2023The Biden administration is hitting hundreds of people and firms around the globe with new economic and diplomatic sanctions as the U.S. targets third-country contributors that are equipping Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
December 12, 2023The Dutch counterterrorism agency has lifted the country’s threat alert to its second-highest level and says the possibility of an attack in the country is now “substantial.”
December 12, 2023Spanish authorities say that they have confiscated 11 tons of cocaine and arrested 20 people in two different operations against the smuggling of the illegal drugs inside shipping containers
December 12, 2023Finland’s government says it will reopen two out of eight border crossing points with Russia later this week following a sudden influx of migrants in November
December 12, 2023Jon Rahm is the latest player to go back on his word by joining LIV Golf
December 12, 2023Local officials say Ukraine has came under heavy attack from the air and from cyberspace
December 12, 2023The head of Britain's foreign intelligence agency has thanked Russian state television for encouraging Russians to spy for the U.K. after it broadcast part of a speech he gave calling on Russians to join hands with British intelligence
December 12, 2023State media say Chinese leaders have wrapped up a two-day annual meeting to set economic priorities for the coming year
December 12, 2023With the United Nations climate talks wrapping up in Dubai, foundations and other funders pledged at least $2.1 billion in new financing to reduce climate impacts, especially from agriculture
December 12, 2023India has requested the United States to share intelligence on Sikh separatists living there amid investigations into an accusation that an Indian official was
December 12, 2023India has requested the United States to share intelligence on Sikh separatists living there amid investigations into an accusation that an Indian official was
December 12, 2023A spokeswoman for Alexei Navalny says the loss of contact with the imprisoned Russian opposition leader likely signals a Kremlin effort to tighten his isolation as President Vladimir Putin runs for reelection in March
December 12, 2023Interpol and the World Customs Organization say they seized 53 primates, four big cats and more than 1,300 birds in their sweeping annual crackdown on wildlife and timber trafficking
December 12, 2023Germany's culture minister has announced that Tricia Tuttle, a former director of the London Film Festival, will become the new director of the Berlin International Film Festival next year
December 12, 2023Officials from more than 20 countries including Israel but no Arab states will convene in Paris on Wednesday to define a strategy on how to curb financing of Hamas and
December 12, 2023The White House says Congo’s security forces and rebel groups have agreed on a 72-hour cease-fire to de-escalate tensions in the country’s east near the border with Rwanda
December 12, 2023A World Health Organization official said on Tuesday that only 11, or less than a third, of Gaza's hospitals remain partially functional and pleaded for them to remain intact.
December 12, 2023United Nations climate negotiators have declared the world must transition away from oil, gas and coal
December 12, 2023British lawmakers have voted in favor of the government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda
December 12, 2023Russia should help impose new sanctions against North Korea over its recent launch of a spy satellite and enforce existing bans on the isolated country's labour
December 12, 2023Poland’s newly elected prime minister, Donald Tusk, has vowed that his government will demand that the West keep helping neighboring Ukraine
December 12, 2023Israel is pressing ahead with an offensive against Gaza’s Hamas rulers that it says could go on for weeks or months, even as the United Nations voted to demand a humanitarian cease-fire
December 12, 2023Israel and the United States showed their sharpest public disagreement yet over the conduct and future of the war on Hamas as the two allies became increasingly isolated by global calls for a cease-fire
December 12, 2023A South African court has overturned President Cyril Ramaphosa’s decision to recognize Misuzulu kaZwelithini as the king of the country’s 15 million-strong Zulu nation in what may spark a lengthy battle for the throne
December 12, 2023A Japanese court has convicted three former soldiers in a sexual assault case that authorities had dropped until the victim came forward demanding a reinvestigation and prompting a military-wide harassment probe
December 12, 2023Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street rose to its highest level since early 2022, slightly below its record high, after a report showed inflation in the United States is behaving pretty much as expected
December 12, 2023Turkish authorities have arrested the president of a top-flight club after he punched a referee in the face at the end of a match, prompting the Turkish Football Federation to suspend all league games
December 12, 2023A Chinese C919 commercial passenger jet has arrived in Hong Kong in the Chinese-made aircraft's first foray outside of mainland China
December 12, 2023As this year's global climate talks reach a conclusion, activists are hoping that negotiators will listen to their stories as they weigh what to do about the fossil fuels that are warming the planet
December 12, 2023Australia says China has lifted import bans on three Australian meat suppliers in another sign of improving trade relations between the two countries
December 12, 2023Pakistani officials say a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle at a police station’s main gate in the country's northwest, killing at least 23 security forces and wounding 32
December 12, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has told Americans his country is fighting for “our freedom and yours” as he made an impassioned for Congress to approve more assistance to fight Russia’s invasion
December 12, 2023Hong Kong leader John Lee has praised the 27.5% voter turnout in the city’s weekend election, a record low since the territory returned to Chinese rule in 1997
December 12, 2023The United Nations on Tuesday demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war after more than three-quarters of the 193-member
December 12, 2023Hopes for finishing a critical climate summit on time faded early Tuesday as countries were still far apart on key issues, including an agreement on what to do about the fossil fuels that are causing dangerous global warming
December 12, 2023Myanmar, already wracked by a brutal civil war, has regained the unenviable title of world’s biggest opium producer
December 12, 2023The Palestinians are hoping that a vote in the U.N. General Assembly on a nonbinding resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire will demonstrate widespread global support for ending the Israel-Hamas war
December 12, 2023A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels slammed into a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint
December 12, 2023Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing dozens of Palestinians, and U.S.
December 12, 2023Chinese leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Vietnam seeking to deepen ties with the Southeast Asian neighbor
December 12, 2023The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies elected a U.S. candidate on Monday as its new president after an acrimonious meeting that nearly
December 11, 2023Taiwan's new de facto ambassador to the United States, Alexander Yui, arrived in Washington on Monday, according to a tweet from a U.S. official, taking up
December 11, 2023The World Health Organization says five countries in East and southern Africa are in the middle of outbreaks of the anthrax disease with more than 1,100 suspected cases and 20 deaths this year
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December 11, 2023More than a hundred senior European lawmakers will send a joint letter to their counterparts in the United States on Tuesday, pleading for Congress to unlock further
December 11, 2023The mother of convicted drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán has died in the northern state of Sinaloa
December 11, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told a U.S. military audience on Monday that he hoped he can still count on the United States and urged
December 11, 2023Israel's orders to Gaza's residents to move ever further south towards the Egyptian border during its offensive and the dire humanitarian
December 11, 2023The International Union for Conservation of Nature, the leading tracker of global biodiversity, released their new Red List of Threatened Species on Monday at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai
December 11, 2023The United States is concerned about reports Israel used U.S.-supplied white phosphorus munitions in an October attack in southern Lebanon, White House spokesperson
December 11, 2023An official leading preliminary coalition talks in the Netherlands says that the far-right party led by Dutch election winner Geert Wilders should open negotiations with three other parties on forming a new government
December 11, 2023Russia is increasing its missile and drone attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and the White House expects Moscow to target energy
December 11, 2023European Union officials worked into the late hours last week hammering out an agreement on world-leading rules meant to govern the use of artificial intelligence in the 27-nation bloc
December 11, 2023The Air Force inspector general says the massive classified documents leak by a service member this year was made worse by the intentional failure of multiple officials to take required action on his suspicious behavior
December 11, 2023A judge has ordered Prince Harry to pay nearly 50,000 pounds or more than $60,000 in legal fees to the Daily Mail publisher for his failed court challenge in a libel lawsuit
December 11, 2023The United Nations has ended its 10-year peacekeeping mission in Mali following the government’s request that alleged the force was inadequate to respond to growing violent extremism in the West African nation
December 11, 2023Early awards in Hollywood’s unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song’s tender relationship drama “Past Lives,” Jonathan Glazer’s piercing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
December 11, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that “when the free world hesitates, that’s when dictatorships celebrate.”
December 11, 2023The leaders of Guyana and Venezuela have expressed their intentions to cooperate ahead of their meeting this week meant to address an escalating dispute over a region rich in oil and minerals
December 11, 2023A man charged with terrorism and other offenses over a 2022 fire that badly damaged South Africa’s historic Parliament complex in Cape Town has been declared unfit to stand trial
December 11, 2023Organizers of the Paris Olympics say work will resume this week to prepare the surfing venue in Tahiti after an uproar over damage to a coral reef put efforts on hold
December 11, 2023Grammy Award-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar has drawn raves in South Africa as a headliner at a music festival there over the weekend
December 11, 2023An activist organization says the United Arab Emirates is conducting a mass trial of nearly 90 prisoners on terrorism charges as it hosts the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit
December 11, 2023Germany expects Israel to adapt its military strategy to better prevent suffering among Palestinian civilians, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday,
December 11, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has traveled to a shipyard to attend the commissioning of new nuclear submarines
December 11, 2023The whereabouts of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are unknown and a spokeswoman says that officials at the penal colony where he was serving his sentence told a lawyer that he's no longer on the inmate roster
December 11, 2023Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o will head the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in February
December 11, 2023All top-flight soccer matches in Greece will be played without fans in the stadiums for the next two months, in the latest crackdown on supporter violence following a sport-related riot last week that left a police officer with life-threatening injuries
December 11, 2023Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov demanded the release of hostages held in Gaza in telephone calls on Sunday and Monday with Hamas and other Palestinian factions, the
December 11, 2023Thousands of protesters are expected to gather in Brussels on Tuesday to protest what they perceive as new austerity measures as the 27 European Union countries discuss ways to overhaul rules on government spending
December 11, 2023Swedish authorities say that five people have been seriously injured after a construction site elevator plunged to the ground in Stockholm
December 11, 2023Pressure is mounting on Hungary not to veto the start of European Union membership talks and the supply of economic aid to Ukraine at a pivotal EU summit this week
December 11, 2023Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States
December 11, 2023U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces one of the toughest weeks of his 13 months in office
December 11, 2023The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says that hunger remains a chronic problem in Asia
December 11, 2023India’s top court has upheld a 2019 decision by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to strip disputed Jammu and Kashmir’s special status as a semi-autonomous region with a separate constitution and inherited protections on land and jobs
December 11, 2023Israel’s defense minister pushed back against international calls to wrap up the country’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip, saying the current phase of the operation against the Hamas militant group will “take time.”
December 11, 2023The management agency of the popular K-pop band BTS says two of the group members, RM and V, have begun their mandatory military duties under South Korean law
December 11, 2023Israel says it’s prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat Gaza’s Hamas rulers
December 11, 2023Indigenous women at the United Nations climate summit in Dubai are coming together to share some of their innovative ideas on how communities on the front lines of climate change can contend with it
December 11, 2023Overnight snowfall across much of northern China has prompted road closures and the suspension of classes and train service
December 11, 2023Countries at United Nations-led climate talks in Dubai moved closer to reaching a final deal on Monday, but critics condemned a draft agreement as a watered-down document that won't stop dangerous climate change
December 11, 2023Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” dominated the Golden Globe nominations with nine nods for the blockbuster film, including best picture musical or comedy as well as acting nominations for Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling and three of its original songs
December 11, 2023Holocaust survivors from around the globe will mark the start of the fifth day of Hanukkah together with a virtual ceremony as worries grow among Jews worldwide about the Israel-Hamas war and a spike of antisemitism in Europe, the United States and elsewhere
December 11, 2023Poland’s parliament has elected centrist party leader Donald Tusk as prime minister after eight years of stormy conservative rule
December 11, 2023A U.S. Air Force pilot has safely ejected before his F-16 fighter jet crashed into the sea off South Korea’s southwestern coast
December 11, 2023It’s the killer detail in international climate talks: Consensus
December 11, 2023Asia markets opened higher following a positive close on Wall Street
December 11, 2023Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with eight long-range ballistic missiles before dawn on Monday and four people were wounded by debris
December 11, 2023A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s capital has destroyed several homes and left more than 100 households without electricity
December 11, 2023Israeli tanks were trying to push further west in their battle against Hamas in and around Khan Younis on Monday, as they met resistance
December 11, 2023Voter turnout plunged below 30% in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since new rules introduced under Beijing’s guidance effectively shut out all pro-democracy candidates
December 11, 2023The 193-member United Nations General Assembly is likely to vote Tuesday on a draft resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian
December 10, 2023The government of Guyana, under pressure from neighboring Brazil and a Caribbean trading bloc, has agreed to join bilateral talks with Venezuela over an escalating territorial dispute
December 10, 2023A power blackout has hit Kenya, paralyzing large parts of the country, and the transport minister is calling for an investigation into “possible acts of sabotage and coverup” over the third nationwide outage in three months
December 10, 2023Several thousand people have demonstrated against antisemitism in Berlin as Germany grapples with a large increase in anti-Jewish incidents following Hamas’ attack on Israel two months ago
December 10, 2023A recent killing spree in the Mexican border city of Tijuana could have been lifted from a TV script: enraged drug lords hunting down corrupt police officers who stole a drug shipment
December 10, 2023Divers have recovered the remains of the seventh of the eight crew members from a U.S. military Osprey aircraft that crashed off southern Japan during a training mission
December 10, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday and voiced displeasure with "anti-Israel positions" taken by Moscow's envoys at the
December 10, 2023Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday that the West was trying to exhaust Russia in Ukraine and that if peace talks were to take place then Kyiv would have to change its
December 10, 2023Leaders from across West Africa say they now recognize the junta in power in Niger and are seeking a short transition period to civilian rule
December 10, 2023The children of imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi have accepted this year’s Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf in a ceremony in the Norwegian capital
December 10, 2023Isralei Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed on Sunday international calls to end the Gaza war, describing them as inconsistent with supporting the war-aim of eliminating
December 10, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Buenos Aires to witness the swearing-in of Argentina's new president, Javier Milei
December 10, 2023Elon Musk has restored the X account of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones
December 10, 2023The European Union’s plan to impose a tax on the carbon pollution emitted to make goods imported from countries like India and China has sparked a debate at the United Nations climate conference in Dubai, as poorer countries argue that the tax will harm livelihoods and economic growth
December 10, 2023Two boats carrying more than 300 Rohingya Muslims, including emaciated women and children, have arrived at Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh after being adrift for weeks
December 10, 2023Egyptians are voting in a presidential election in which President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi faces no serious challenger and is certain to win another term
December 10, 2023Battles are raging across Gaza as Israel indicates it is prepared to fight for months or longer to defeat the territory’s Hamas rulers
December 10, 2023Negotiators have been urged to narrow down their options and agree on how to save Earth from disastrous levels of warming as the clock runs down on United Nations climate talks and the summit’s president is determined to finish up talks by Tuesday
December 10, 2023President Vladimir Putin is likely to win another six-year term easily in an election expected in March, using his sweeping grip on Russia’s political scene to extend his tenure of over two decades in power
December 10, 2023The U.S. Border Patrol says it is overwhelmed by a shift in human smuggling routes, with hundreds of migrants from faraway countries like Senegal, Bangladesh and China being dropped in a remote desert area in Arizona
December 10, 2023Gregory Golodoff, the last survivor among 41 residents imprisoned in Japan after Japanese troops captured the remote Alaska island of Attu during World War II, has died
December 10, 2023Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris
December 10, 2023Right-wing economist Javier Milei has been sworn in as Argentina’s president and has immediately moved to prepare the public for a painful shock adjustment with drastic public spending cuts
December 10, 2023Rights groups say Beijing’s crackdown on dissent is becoming increasingly harsh, both within China and beyond
December 10, 2023Visitors walking along the river that flows through downtown Rotterdam might be surprised to see a three-tiered structure moored in the water, with a top level occupied by brown and white cows grazing on hay dropped from a conveyor belt
December 10, 2023This year’s global climate summit in Dubai set aside Sunday to spotlight food and agriculture, a sector that accounts for about a third of the world’s emission
December 10, 2023Philippine officials say the Chinese coast guard has targeted Philippine vessels with water cannon blasts and rammed one of them, causing damage and endangering Filipino crew members off a disputed shoal in the South China Sea
December 10, 2023Residents went to the polls in Hong Kong’s first district council elections since an electoral overhaul was implemented under Beijing’s guidance of “patriots” administering the city, effectively shutting out all pro-democracy candidates
December 10, 2023Cuba said late on Saturday it had thwarted a terrorist plot hatched in neighboring south Florida, according to a report broadcast on state-run media, after a man allegedly arrived
December 10, 2023A North Korean senior official criticised the United States for blocking a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, claiming the veto showed
December 10, 2023A British Palestinian surgeon who spent weeks in the Gaza Strip during the current Israel-Hamas war as part of a Doctors Without Borders medical team says he's given testimony to a British war crimes investigation unit
December 09, 2023Many women, young people and Indigenous voices say they feel they’re relegated to mere attendance, with limited opportunities to contribute substantially to the decisive meetings, despite promises to make the talks more inclusive
December 09, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used a speech on human rights to accuse the West of “barbarism” for its stance on the Israel-Hamas war and what he alleged was its toleration of Islamophobia
December 09, 2023Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday called for the United Nations Security Council to be reformed, decrying the fact that the United States could veto a ceasefire
December 09, 2023Israel’s ground offensive throughout the Gaza Strip is advancing under airstrikes and artillery fire
December 09, 2023The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, have separately condemned a high-seas assault by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea
December 09, 2023Activists designated Saturday a day of protest at the COP28 summit in Dubai
December 09, 2023Israel’s military is pushing ahead with its punishing air and ground offensive in Gaza, bolstered by a U.S. veto derailing U.N. Security Council efforts to end the war
December 09, 2023An agreement at the United Nations-led climate conference to transition away from fossil fuels brought a measure of relief for climate activists, even as many said it doesn’t go far enough
December 09, 2023A deal to provide further U.S. assistance to Ukraine by year-end appears to be increasingly out of reach for President Joe Biden
December 09, 2023Ukrainian charities and companies supplying the country’s military warn that problems are growing as Polish truck drivers show no sign of ending a monthlong border blockade
December 09, 2023Most Russian opposition figures are either in prison at home or are in exile abroad
December 09, 2023A century-old territorial dispute is boiling over between neighbors Guyana and Venezuela
December 09, 2023Veteran climate negotiation observers say the oil industry is starting to sweat as United Nations climate talks heat up and threaten to plug fossil fuel-belching wells for good
December 09, 2023The United Nations Security Council took no immediate action at a closed emergency meeting requested by Guyana following Venezuela’s recent referendum claiming the vast oil- and mineral-rich Essequibo region that makes up a large part of its neighbor
December 09, 2023Your Google search history for 2023 has arrived
December 09, 2023The national security advisers of the United States, South Korea and Japan are calling for a stronger international push to suppress North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons and missiles
December 09, 2023The United States kept up pressure on Israel to do more to protect Palestinian civilians during a fierce
December 08, 2023European Union negotiators have clinched a deal on the world’s first comprehensive artificial intelligence rules
December 08, 2023The United States has vetoed a United Nations resolution backed by almost all other Security Council members and many other nations demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
December 08, 2023The United States is "eager" to resume stalled military-to-military talks with China, White House spokesperson John Kirby said
December 08, 2023Cuba published late on Thursday a list of foreign nationals and entities it accuses of involvement with terrorism, including influencers, many long-time dissidents who reside in the
December 08, 2023Russian police have put prominent Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen on a wanted list after opening a criminal case against them on charges of spreading false information about the Russian army
December 08, 2023Scotland’s highest civil court has upheld the British government’s move to block a landmark gender-recognition law passed by the Scottish parliament
December 08, 2023French actor Gerard Depardieu’s behavior toward women has come under scrutiny in France after a documentary showed him repeatedly making obscene remarks and gestures during a 2018 trip to North Korea
December 08, 2023Pope Francis has made his first public appearance outdoors since being stricken by bronchitis two weeks ago, which forced him to cancel a planned trip to the COP-28 climate conference in Dubai
December 08, 2023Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and an international peace conference to work out a lasting
December 08, 2023The bar was already high, but the security challenge ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games only grew with a knife attack last weekend that killed a tourist near the Eiffel Tower
December 08, 2023The United States on Friday vetoed a United Nations Security Council demand for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the war between Israel and
December 08, 2023A bold, innovative project begun nearly a generation ago to erect a “green-city” in the United Arab Emirates has run into realities and largely missed its mark
December 08, 2023Social media users shared a range of false claims this week
December 08, 2023The International Olympic Committee says some Russian athletes will be allowed to compete at the 2024 Paris Olympics
December 08, 2023House lawmakers are demanding information on federal efforts to stop the influx of kid-appealing electronic cigarettes from China
December 08, 2023A man arrested for firing gunshots outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York been federally charged
December 08, 2023A senior Hamas official accused Israeli forces on Friday of carrying out a "heinous crime against innocent civilians" after images of Palestinian men stripped to
December 08, 2023The funeral of The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has taken place in Ireland, attended by family, neighbors and friends including Johnny Depp and Nick Cave
December 08, 2023Vladimir Putin has moved to prolong his repressive and unyielding grip on Russia for at least another six years, announcing his candidacy in the presidential election next March that he is all but certain to win
December 08, 2023Nintendo has canceled an upcoming video game event and postponed several others because of persistent threats to the company, its workers and players
December 08, 2023Prince Harry lost a preliminary round in his libel case against against the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid over an article that said he tried to hide his efforts to retain publicly funded protection in the U.K. after walking away from his role as a working member of the royal family
December 08, 2023The CEO of chipmaker Nvidia views Malaysia as a potential hub for artificial intelligence “manufacturing.”
December 08, 2023South Korea’s defense minister has threatened massive retaliatory missile strikes on “the heart and head” of North Korea in the event of provocation, as the rivals escalate their rhetoric over their respective spy satellite launches in recent days
December 08, 2023Travelers in Germany are facing delays and disruptions as a union representing Germany’s train drivers conducts a 24-hour strike
December 08, 2023Palestinian health officials say Israeli forces stormed into a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank to arrest Palestinian militants and unleashed fighting with local gunmen in which six Palestinians were killed
December 08, 2023A French juvenile court has convicted six teenagers for their roles in the beheading of a teacher by an Islamic extremist that shocked the country
December 08, 2023As United Nations climate talks enter their second week, negotiators who are largely focused on how to curb climate change have another thing on their plates: how to adapt to the warming that’s already here
December 08, 2023The United States has vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza
December 08, 2023Taiwan's foreign minister on Friday said Guatemala's incoming government had "reassured" that it intends to maintain formal ties with the island, as China gradually whittles away at
December 08, 2023Desperate Palestinians fleeing Israel’s expanding ground offensive crowded into an ever-shrinking area of the Gaza Strip as the Israel-Hamas war entered its third month
December 08, 2023U.S. and Iraqi officials say a rocket attack at the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has caused minor damage but no casualties
December 08, 2023The Israeli military, responding on Friday to a Reuters investigation that determined its forces killed a Reuters journalist in southern Lebanon on Oct. 13, said the incident
December 08, 2023Jon Rahm is the biggest name yet to bolt to Saudi-funded LIV Golf
December 08, 2023Bodhi Day is a Buddhist holiday that commemorates the day Siddhartha Gautama attained awakening or enlightenment and became the Buddha 2,600 years ago
December 08, 2023Young people have been at the forefront of environmental and climate change movements in recent years: initiatives like school strikes for climate action, protests at United Nations climate talks and around the world, and local clean ups have often been youth-led
December 08, 2023Wall Street climbed to its highest level in 20 months following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market
December 08, 2023Taiwan's Defense Ministry says it has spotted a Chinese surveillance balloon in the Taiwan Strait along with a large-scale movement of military aircraft and ships
December 08, 2023Teams of veteran negotiators fanned out Friday at the United Nations climate conference with orders to get the strongest, most ambitious agreements possible, especially on the central issue of the fading future of fossil fuels in a dangerously warming planet
December 08, 2023Four investment banks have announced during a meeting of leaders of trade bloc Mercosur they will put $10 billion for infrastructure works aiming to better connect South America
December 08, 2023Taiwan's defence ministry said on Friday that a Chinese balloon had crossed the Taiwan Strait median line on Thursday, about a month before Taiwan's presidential election.
December 08, 2023Australia's government on Friday welcomed signs that a U.S. defense spending bill which would authorise the sale of nuclear submarines to Australia is set to pass
December 08, 2023It’s called “Article 99.”
December 08, 2023While Hong Kong's government is working to spotlight its upcoming local elections, some district council members are preparing for their exits under the sharply shifting political landscape
December 08, 2023Israel sharply increased strikes on the Gaza Strip, pounding the length of the Palestinian enclave and killing hundreds in a new, expanded
December 08, 2023The International Federation of Journalists says 2023 has been an unprecedented year for the number of media workers killed on the job
December 08, 2023U.S.
December 07, 2023The Biden administration is considering getting behind new restrictions on who can seek asylum and an expanded deportation processes to secure new aid for Ukraine
December 07, 2023Environmental watchdogs have accused a Mexico-based startup of violating international trade law that protects the endangered totoaba fish
December 07, 2023Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to exchange prisoners of war and work toward signing a peace treaty in what the European Union is hailing as a major step toward peace in the long-troubled region
December 07, 2023Officials say a man fired a shotgun twice outside a Jewish temple in upstate New York, then said “Free Palestine” as he was taken into custody
December 07, 2023U.S.
December 07, 2023Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” will get a theatrical release in Japan after all
December 07, 2023The United States and Mexico have agreed to monitor foreign investments and regularly share information about the screening process
December 07, 2023Associated Press film writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle have named their best movies of 2023
December 07, 2023London police have charged a deputy U.S. Marshal in the United Kingdom with entering an aircraft while drunk after he was arrested on allegations of misconduct aboard a flight from New York
December 07, 2023The United States on Thursday said it would conduct flight operations within Guyana that build on its routine engagement as Britain and Brazil expressed concerns about growing
December 07, 2023The son of Israeli cabinet minister and former military chief Gadi Eizenkot was killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip, Benny Gantz, leader of the National Unity Party, said on
December 07, 2023An international team of climate scientists says the ongoing catastrophic rains in East Africa have been made worse by human-induced climate change
December 07, 2023Reports from Myanmar say its military government has been freeing soldiers and police who had been jailed for desertion and absence without leave as authorities seek to get them to return to active duty
December 07, 2023British Foreign Secretary David Cameron used a visit to Washington on Thursday to urge politicians in the United States to approve a fresh package of military aid for Ukraine. U.S.
December 07, 2023Meta is rolling out end-to-end encryption for calls and messages across its Facebook and Messenger platforms, the company announced Thursday
December 07, 2023The White House is encouraging Mideast allies to join the Combined Maritime Forces, a partnership that exists to counter malign action by non-state actors in international waters
December 07, 2023A Sierra Leone government spokesman says that a former president has been called in for questioning by police over recent attacks that officials say was a failed coup
December 07, 2023Western states should enact policies to prevent asylum seekers embarking on dangerous routes, the U.N. refugee chief said on Thursday, as the number of migrants
December 07, 2023Israeli strikes have killed 17,177 Palestinians in Gaza since Oct. 7 and 350 people have died in the past 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Thursday, adding health services
December 07, 2023Italian melodrama’s official recognition as a global cultural treasure is getting trumpeted with La Scala’s season premiere of Verdi’s “Don Carlo.”
December 07, 2023A new law has been passed in Denmark’s parliament that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country
December 07, 2023Tennis pro Nick Kyrgios is setting up a free-to-access OnlyFans page
December 07, 2023European Union talks on comprehensive artificial intelligence regulations were paused after 22 straight hours
December 07, 2023The United Nations’ top peacekeeping official has defended its missions worldwide even as many countries where peacekeepers operate are demanding their withdrawal
December 07, 2023The United States strongly supports Israel in its war against Hamas, but is increasingly at odds with its Middle East ally over what will happen to the Gaza Strip once the war winds down
December 07, 2023Two international human rights groups say two Israeli strikes that killed a Reuters videographer and wounded six other journalists in south Lebanon nearly two months ago were apparently deliberate and a direct attack on civilians
December 07, 2023The Kremlin on Thursday accused President Joe Biden of seeking to demonise Russia in order to wring more funds from Congress to keep the war in Ukraine going, something Moscow
December 07, 2023The U.K. government says that Russia’s intelligence services have targeted high-profile British politicians, civil servants and journalists with cyberespionage and “malicious cyberactivity” as part of sustained attempts to interfere in U.K. political processes
December 07, 2023British poet, political activist, musician and actor Benjamin Zephaniah has died at age 65
December 07, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign intelligence chief told the United States on Thursday that Western support for Ukraine would turn the conflict into a "second Vietnam"
December 07, 2023The president of Seychelles has declared an emergency after a huge blast at an explosives depot that followed deadly flooding on the country’s main island
December 07, 2023From Arkansas to Ukraine, from ceremonies to courtrooms, from neighborhood games to top-flight tennis matches, Reuters photographers were on the ground in 2023 to bring the world to the
December 07, 2023(This Dec. 7 story has been corrected to remove the reference to Human Rights Watch investigation into hospital explosion because it concerns a different hospital in Gaza, in paragraph 8) By Katie
December 07, 2023South Korea's Olympic committee is pushing to send hundreds of athletes to a navy training center to enhance their mental toughness ahead of the Paris Olympics
December 07, 2023The Israeli military hit Rafah in southern Gaza overnight, residents say, as United Nations officials warn there are no safe places left in the besieged territory
December 07, 2023Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in sometimes angry testimony to Britain’s inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, on Thursday defended himself against suggestions that his indifference and failure to heed the advice of scientists led to thousands of unnecessary deaths
December 07, 2023Chinese naval vessels have become the first ships to dock at a new pier at a Cambodian naval base that the United States and some international security experts say is destined to serve as a strategic outpost for Beijing’s navy
December 07, 2023Israeli forces struck the southern Gaza town of Rafah twice overnight, sowing fear in one of the last places where civilians can seek refuge
December 07, 2023British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he will “do what is necessary” to revive a blocked deal to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, even if it means ignoring human rights laws
December 07, 2023Longtime regional rivals Greece and Turkey have made a significant step in mending ties during a visit to Athens by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
December 07, 2023Polish Nobel Peace Prizer winner and former President Lech Walesa says he is improving after being hospitalized with COVID-19
December 07, 2023Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Agnes Chow says she still feels under the watch of the Chinese territory’s police after moving to Toronto
December 07, 2023Lawmaker's in Russia have set March 17 as the date for the country's 2024 presidential election
December 07, 2023Twitch, a popular video service, will shut down its struggling business in South Korea, a decision its chief executive blamed on allegedly “prohibitively expensive” costs for operating in the country
December 07, 2023The Australian government has signed a security pact with its nearest neighbor Papua New Guinea that strengthens Australia’s place as the preferred security partner in a region where China’s influence is growing
December 07, 2023Wall Street closed higher to break out of its first three-day losing streak since Halloween
December 07, 2023Some of the words tied to this year’s hottest topics were also among the most mangled when it came to saying them aloud
December 07, 2023The leaders of China and the European Union have held wide-ranging talks that included their disputes over trade and a deep divide over the war in Ukraine
December 07, 2023When Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen launched missiles and hit three commercial ships in the Red Sea, it triggered an immediate question: Will the U.S. military strike back
December 07, 2023The mood is about to shift, the hours grow longer and the already high sense of urgency somehow amp up even more as United Nations climate talks head into its final week
December 07, 2023President Joe Biden is getting slightly more support among Democrats for his handling of the decades-old conflict between Israelis and Palestinians
December 07, 2023J Balvin has released his latest single, “Amigos.”
December 07, 2023U.N. officials say intensifying Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy facilities are worsening humanitarian conditions across the country, where heavy snow and freezing temperatures have already arrived
December 07, 2023A military helicopter carrying seven people has vanished near Guyana’s border with Venezuela
December 07, 2023Israel battled Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip's biggest cities on Thursday and said it had attacked dozens of targets, leaving 350
December 07, 2023U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has used a rarely exercised power to warn the Security Council of an impending “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza and urged its members to demand an immediate cease-fire
December 07, 2023Amnesty investigation claims US-made weapon used in two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed 43 civilians
December 07, 2023Indonesian authorities have ended the search for any more victims among climbers who were caught by a weekend eruption of the Mount Marapi volcano that killed 23 people and injured several others
December 07, 2023The U.S. military has announced it is grounding all of its Osprey V-22 helicopters, one week after eight Air Force Special Operations Command service members died in a crash off the coast of Japan
December 07, 2023Peru’s former President Alberto Fujimori has been released from prison on humanitarian grounds, despite a request from a regional human rights court to delay his release
December 06, 2023Mexico's Supreme Court has overturned a 2022 ban on bullfighting in Mexico City, opening the way for events to resume, possibly as soon as this month
December 06, 2023A renegade Ukrainian lawmaker who fled to Russia shortly after Moscow’s invasion has been found dead near Moscow
December 06, 2023Mexico's newest commercial airline, due to be run by the military, is set to launch later this month using military aircraft after a deal to lease planes fell
December 06, 2023Tensions between neighbors Venezuela and Guyana have ratcheted up in recent weeks over a long-running territorial dispute.
December 06, 2023The head of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says there's no safe haven in Gaza for civilians — not even U.N. shelters and “safe zones” designated by Israel
December 06, 2023The United States is monitoring reports of Chinese warships docking in Cambodia and has serious concerns about Beijing's plans to have exclusive control over parts of the main
December 06, 2023The Native American population in the United States has seen a remarkable growth rate of 85% in the last decade. The U.S. Census data report shows a spike from 5.2 million in 2010 to 9.6 million in 2020. This striking increase in the Native American population, surpassing the growth rates of other racial groups, has left experts perplexed as they struggle to attribute the surge solely to immigration or elevated birth rates. After a more thorough examination, census officials and scholars have proposed a theory suggesting that significant alterations in the categorization and counting of race data during the 2020
December 06, 2023A shooting on the main campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Wednesday left at least three people dead before the bloodshed ended with the suspect's own death,
December 06, 2023The United States is reviewing an Amnesty International report that said U.S.-made munitions have killed civilians in air strikes in Gaza, State Department spokesperson Matthew
December 06, 2023The Biden administration says it has determined that both sides in the ongoing conflict in Sudan have committed atrocities in the western region of Darfur
December 06, 2023The United States on Wednesday formally determined that warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes, Secretary of
December 06, 2023The U.K. government has published legislation that will let it ignore a part of the country's human rights laws in order to send asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda
December 06, 2023Prosecutors say a man accused of fatally stabbing a tourist and injuring two other people over the weekend near the Eiffel Tower has been placed under investigation on charges of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist organization
December 06, 2023Officials say a massive fire has swept through a multi-story commercial building in Pakistan’s largest southern port city of Karachi, killing at least three people and damaging several shops
December 06, 2023As Senate Republicans blocked the advance of tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance for Ukraine, President Joe Biden berated their tactics as “stunning” and dangerous
December 06, 2023After launching a record-shattering global tour and becoming the world's most-
December 06, 2023At the multiplex, “Barbenheimer” ruled
December 06, 2023The Biden administration is sending a new $175 million package of military aid to Ukraine
December 06, 2023The federal government will propose to require drug and alcohol testing for employees of foreign aircraft-repair shops outside the United States
December 06, 2023Guyana's president has told The Associated Press that his country is taking every necessary step to protect itself from Venezuela, which has ordered its state-owned companies to explore and exploit oil and minerals in Guyana’s vast Essequibo region that it considers its own
December 06, 2023The British government has apologized to the families of 97 Liverpool soccer fans killed in a stadium crush 34 years ago
December 06, 2023The Justice Department says four Russian men accused of torturing an American during the invasion of Ukraine have been charged with war crimes in a first-of-its-kind case
December 06, 2023The United States has charged four Russia-affiliated soldiers with war crimes for their actions toward an American during the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
December 06, 2023The Biden administration announced new sanctions and indictments against Mexican nationals on Wednesday as it seeks to deepen cooperation with the Mexican
December 06, 2023A conglomerate of unions in Norway says it will take action against Tesla in solidarity with its Swedish colleagues
December 06, 2023Serbia's president says Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak will be getting a Serbian passport
December 06, 2023A new lower house of the Dutch parliament has been sworn
December 06, 2023Authorities say dengue fever is on the rise in Mali, posing a new threat to the West African nation struggling with extremist attacks and political turbulence
December 06, 2023The Bank of England says it will make an assessment next year about the risks posed by artificial intelligence and machine learning
December 06, 2023This year’s United Nations climate talks may have seen record numbers registered to attend, but activists who have spent years demonstrating at the annual event say their space to voice their demands is shrinking year on year
December 06, 2023The European Commission on Wednesday pledged to step up its fight against hate crimes throughout Europe, as ongoing military conflicts have been fuelling antisemitic and anti-
December 06, 2023A Dubai-based British hedge fund trader sought by Danish authorities for allegedly orchestrating a $1.7 billion tax fraud, considered one of the largest in the Scandinavian country, has been extradited from the United Arab Emirates
December 06, 2023On the brink of joining NATO, Sweden has signed a defense cooperation agreement with Washington that will allow the United States access to all of the military bases across the Scandinavian country, saying the deal would bolster regional security
December 06, 2023Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has acknowledged that his government was too slow to grasp the scale of the COVID-19 crisis
December 06, 2023The generative AI boom has sent governments worldwide scrambling to regulate the emerging technology
December 06, 2023Rescuers say a man has been pulled alive out of a Zambian mine nearly a week after dozens of informal miners were trapped under landslides caused by heavy rain
December 06, 2023There's an unprecedented deadlock at this year's COP28 U.N. climate summit over who will host next year's event.
December 06, 2023Iran says it sent a capsule into orbit capable of carrying animals as it prepares for human missions in coming years
December 06, 2023Shares have fallen in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street as crude oil prices slipped on expectations that supply might outpace demand
December 06, 2023China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Wednesday that promoting healthy, stable and sustainable China-U.S. relations is an important task, in a phone call with U.S.
December 06, 2023Israeli troops say they are battling Hamas militants in the center of the Gaza Strip’s second-largest city, Khan Younis
December 06, 2023The center of Gaza’s second-largest city has seen fighting amid Israel’s widening air and ground offensive in the southern part of the territory that has displaced tens of thousands more Palestinians and worsened dire humanitarian conditions
December 06, 2023Western officials say sanctions against Russia’s billionaires are meant to isolate President Vladimir Putin, choke off support for his war and turn powerful business allies against him
December 06, 2023Oleksii Tilnenko hoped this would be the year Ukraine drove Russian forces out of swathes of occupied land.
December 06, 2023When Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, the outside world viewed “Russian oligarchs” as men who whose vast wealth, ruthlessly amassed, made them almost shadow rulers
December 06, 2023After a first-day blur of rare quick action and agreement, negotiators at a critical United Nations climate conference Wednesday are finishing up their first week in a more familiar place for them: the murky middle where momentum and roadblocks intertwine
December 06, 2023Washington’s center of gravity on immigration has shifted demonstrably to the right
December 06, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia in a one-day lightning tour intended to raise Russia’s profile as a Middle East power broker, even as his war Ukraine grinds on
December 06, 2023China has intensified a crackdown on online scams operated in border areas of Myanmar
December 06, 2023The United States and Sweden on Tuesday signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement, the U.S.
December 06, 2023A rights group says the Taliban’s education policies are harming boys as well as girls in Afghanistan
December 06, 2023Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is asking the country’s state-owned companies to “immediately” begin to explore and exploit the oil, gas and mines in Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals that Venezuela claims as its own
December 06, 2023Israeli troops fought fierce battles with Hamas in an expanding offensive into southern Gaza on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of
December 06, 2023New testimony and evidence gathered by a rights groups indicate that Hamas militants carried out widespread sexual and gender-based crimes during their Oct. 7 attack in southern Israel
December 05, 2023Denny Laine, a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who performed in an early, pop-oriented version of the Moody Blues and was later Paul McCartney’s longtime sideman in the ex-Beatle’s solo band Wings, has died at age 79
December 05, 2023Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai says the world needs to recognize and confront the Taliban's “gender apartheid” against women and girls in Afghanistan
December 05, 2023President Joe Biden is calling reports of sexual violence by Hamas militants against Israelis “appalling."
December 05, 2023NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says he sees football becoming a global sport within the next decade and that his league is at the forefront of that effort
December 05, 2023Peru’s constitutional court has ordered an immediate humanitarian release for imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori
December 05, 2023The United States on Tuesday said Israel needed to do more to allow fuel and other aid into Gaza as its offensive against Hamas in the
December 05, 2023The Biden administration says it's made a new and significant offer aimed at securing the release of American detainees Paul Whelan and Evan Gershkovich, but Russia has rejected the offer
December 05, 2023House Speaker Mike Johnson tells fellow Republicans that sweeping changes to U.S. border policy will be their “hill to die on” in negotiations over President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion package for the wars in Ukraine and Israel and other security needs
December 05, 2023A former confidential informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has pleaded guilty to conspiring to assassinate Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, whose killing in 2021 caused unprecedented turmoil in the Caribbean nation
December 05, 2023In a rare punitive move against Israel, the State Department says it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
December 05, 2023Air Force Special Operations Command has recovered the remains of six of the eight service members who were lost when their Osprey aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan last week
December 05, 2023Jordan's King Abdullah said on Tuesday the world should condemn any attempt by Israel to create conditions that would forcibly displace Palestinians within the
December 05, 2023Greece’s health ministry is seeking police help against hoaxers who tried to scare foreign tourists out of several Athens short-term rental apartments by inventing a bedbug crisis
December 05, 2023Like the “Paddington” movies, “Wonka” was dreamt up by Paul King, a lifetime Roald Dahl fan and a writer and director whom his collaborators somewhat universally agree may actually be Paddington in a human costume
December 05, 2023The father of a young woman whose murder galvanized Italian outrage against violence targeting women implored men to be agents of change to a culture that often “undervalues the lives of women.”
December 05, 2023Greece’s Acropolis Museum has launched an exhibition that includes a renowned ancient Greek water jug from 420 B.C. on loan from the British Museum
December 05, 2023Norway’s government has made a deal with two large opposition parties to open the Arctic Ocean to seabed mineral exploration, despite warnings by environmental groups that it would threaten biodiversity
December 05, 2023Officials in Nigeria say at least 85 civilians were killed when a military drone mistakenly targeted a religious gathering in the country's northwest
December 05, 2023Israel expects difficult fighting in the new phase of its war in Gaza but is open to "constructive feedback" on reducing harm to civilians as long as the advice is consistent
December 05, 2023Ukraine President Volodomyr Zelenskiy and top aides to U.S.
December 05, 2023The Dutch government says it has allocated 2.5 billion euros to support Ukraine in 2024
December 05, 2023The conflict against Tesla in Sweden is spreading to neighboring Denmark
December 05, 2023European Union Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson is warning that Europe faces “a huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period
December 05, 2023The Kremlin says that Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a one-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia focused on the Israeli-Hamas war and also host the Iranian president in Moscow this week
December 05, 2023The interior ministers of Britain and Rwanda have signed a treaty that aims to revive a plan to send asylum-seekers to the East African country that has been blocked by U.K. courts
December 05, 2023Aid groups and the United Nations say an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats adrift in the Andaman Sea could die if more is not done to rescue them
December 05, 2023Israel says its troops have entered Gaza’s second-largest city as intensified bombardment sends streams of ambulances and cars racing to hospitals with wounded and dead Palestinians
December 05, 2023Iran's U.N. envoy, Amir Saeid Iravani, said his country has not been involved in any actions or attacks against U.S. military forces, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on
December 05, 2023Asian shares have advanced after most stocks slipped on Wall Street following a mixed set of reports on the U.S. economy
December 05, 2023The U.N. weather agency is reporting that glaciers shrank more than ever from 2011 and 2020 and the Antarctic ice sheet lost 75 percent more compared to the previous ten years, as it released its latest stark report about the fallout on the planet from climate change
December 05, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the military would have to retain open-ended security control over the Gaza Strip long after the war against Hamas ends
December 05, 2023Prince Harry is challenging the British government's decision to strip him of his security detail after he gave up his status as a working member of the royal family and moved to the United States
December 05, 2023For Lebanon’s Christians, the cedars are sacred, these tough evergreen trees that survive the mountain’s harsh snowy winters
December 05, 2023After days of shaving off the edges of key warming issues, climate negotiators Tuesday are zeroing in on the tough job of dealing with the main cause of what’s overheating the planet: fossil fuels
December 05, 2023Shifting to renewable energy is a key issue at the ongoing COP28 climate summit
December 05, 2023Rescuers searching the hazardous slopes of Indonesia’s Mount Marapi volcano found the last body of climbers who were caught by a surprise weekend eruption, raising the number of confirmed dead to 23
December 05, 2023A powerful storm has made landfall along India’s southeast coast, unleashing torrential rains and strong winds
December 05, 2023The head of Mexico’s immigration agency has ordered the suspension of migrant deportations and transfers due to a lack of funds
December 05, 2023Thousands of protesters have rallied against the New Zealand government’s Indigenous policies as the Parliament convened for the first time since October elections
December 05, 2023Israeli forces stormed the main city in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday and hospitals struggled to cope with scores of Palestinian dead
December 05, 2023Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels are set to hit a record high this year, exacerbating climate change and fuelling more destructive extreme
December 05, 2023A team of scientists reported that the world this year pumped 1.1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the air than last year because of increased pollution from China and India
December 05, 2023The influence of fossil fuels was a focal point Monday at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28
December 04, 2023A Southwest Airlines passenger who was reportedly experiencing a mental health crisis departed the plane last Sunday using the emergency exit at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport. Staff members apprehended the 38-year-old guy after he jumped from the wing at about 8pm. The shocking event happened while Flight 1525 waited at the gate, just before it was supposed to take off for Atlanta. A passenger “utilized an emergency exit door to exit a plane,” according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, which prompted airport police to hurry to the scene. The guy appeared confused and lost when he was
December 04, 2023Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has the victory he was seeking in a weekend referendum on whether to claim sovereignty over an oil-rich area of neighboring Guyana
December 04, 2023Nigerian government and military officials say an army attack that used drones to target rebels instead killed an unspecified number of civilians gathered for a religious celebration
December 04, 2023The International Ice Hockey Federation is making neck guards mandatory for all levels of competition in the tournaments it runs
December 04, 2023The U.N. World Food Program says it will end in January its main assistance program across war-torn Syria, where over 12 million people lack regular access to sufficient food
December 04, 2023Britain’s polar research ship has crossed paths with the largest iceberg in the world
December 04, 2023The French parliament is considering a ban on single-use, disposable electronic cigarettes that are popular with teenagers for their sweet flavors and are under scrutiny as a new source of trash
December 04, 2023Yosi Shnaider watched a home video on his phone from his apartment near Tel Aviv. In the video, a smiling, red-headed baby sits in a bouncy chair.
December 04, 2023The Justice Department says a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been charged with serving as a covert agent for Cuba’s intelligence services since at least 1981
December 04, 2023(Refiles to reword headline for clarity to "aircraft" from "jet" earlier.)
December 04, 2023Former Vice President Al Gore says don’t trust the oil and gas industry to report their actual carbon pollution and he adds that the man running United Nations climate talks runs one of the dirtiest oil companies out there
December 04, 2023A Spanish association representing more than 80 newspapers has filed a lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta accusing it of unfair competition in online advertising by allegedly ignoring European Union rules on data protection
December 04, 2023The U.N. refugee agency has raised the alarm for an estimated 400 Rohingya Muslims believed to be aboard two boats reported to be out of supplies and adrift in the Andaman Sea
December 04, 2023Guinea-Bissau’s president has issued a decree dissolving the West African nation’s opposition-controlled parliament
December 04, 2023Spotify says it’s axing 17% of its global workforce in the music streaming service’s third round of layoffs this year
December 04, 2023Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address U.S. senators by video during a classified meeting Tuesday
December 04, 2023The U.S. Air Force says divers have discovered wreckage and the remains of five crew members from a U.S. Air Force Osprey aircraft that crashed last week off southwestern Japan
December 04, 2023Israel’s military has called for more evacuations in southern Gaza as it widens its offensive aimed at eliminating the territory’s Hamas rulers
December 04, 2023Israel’s military has renewed calls for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, as it widened its ground offensive and bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip
December 04, 2023Hailed as a world first, European Union artificial intelligence rules are facing a make-or-break moment
December 04, 2023Sen. Bernie Sanders and a robust group of Democratic senators say they're done “asking nicely" for Israel to do more to reduce civilian casualties in its war against Hamas in Gaza
December 04, 2023The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea
December 04, 2023Asian shares have declined in cautious trading ahead of some key reports this week on the U.S. job market that might provide insight into the Federal Reserve’s thinking about interest rates
December 04, 2023At least 1,300 employees of organizations representing fossil fuel interests registered to attend this year’s United Nations climate talks in Dubai
December 04, 2023Indonesian authorities have halted the search for 12 climbers after Mount Marapi volcano erupted again, sending a burst of hot ash as high as 2,620 feet
December 04, 2023Israeli ground forces were confronting Hamas fighters across the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Sunday in its clearest
December 04, 2023The United States condemned the "horrific terrorist attack" during a Catholic Mass at a university in southern Philippines that killed at least four people and injured dozens, the
December 04, 2023The Associated Press has learned that a former American diplomat who served as U.S. ambassador to Bolivia has been arrested in a long-running FBI counterintelligence investigation and is accused of secretly serving as an agent of the Cuban government
December 03, 2023An independent watchdog says many Western arms companies failed to ramp up production in 2022 despite a strong increase in demand for weapons and military equipment
December 03, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris flew to the Middle East to tackle climate change and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, two challenges that have flummoxed White Houses for decades
December 03, 2023Thousands of people have marched through the center of Brussels in a boisterous rally highlighting the dangers of climate change, as the COP28 climate summit draws to an end in the United Arab Emirates
December 03, 2023The shooting death of an Israeli man who raced to confront Palestinian attackers has raised questions about the use of excessive force among Israeli security forces and the public
December 03, 2023The U.S. military says three commercial ships in the Red Sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen, and a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault
December 03, 2023Climate advocate and former U.S.
December 03, 2023France’s anti-terrorism prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the fatal stabbing of a German-Filipino tourist near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, allegedly by a man who had been under surveillance for suspected Islamic radicalization
December 03, 2023Ukrainian officials have launched an investigation into allegations that Russian forces killed surrendering Ukrainian soldiers, after grainy footage on social media appeared to show two uniformed men being shot at close range
December 03, 2023Officials say heavy snow in northern England stranded motorists in their cars overnight and knocked out power to more than 2,500 customers
December 03, 2023An ailing Pope Francis has skipped his popular window appearance to the public in St. Peter's Square for a second Sunday but said in televised remarks that he's doing better
December 03, 2023Kyiv officials accused Moscow of committing a war crime after a grainy video on social media appeared to show several soldiers shooting two surrendering military personnel who emerged from
December 03, 2023With Planet Earth running a fever, U.N. climate talks have turned their focus on contagious effects on human health
December 03, 2023Pope Francis said on Sunday that it was essential for all world religions to unite in opposing the "rapacious" devastation of the environment.
December 03, 2023Israel’s ground offensive expanded to every part of the Gaza Strip, its military said Sunday, as it ordered more evacuations and vowed to hit south Gaza with “no less strength” than the fight that has reduced large parts of north Gaza to a moonscape
December 03, 2023A powerful earthquake that shook the southern Philippines has killed at least one villager and injured several others as thousands scrambled out of their homes in panic and jammed roads to higher grounds after a tsunami warning was issued
December 03, 2023As participants at the United Nations’ COP28 climate talks filed in for another day of talks, they found themselves greeted by a rare sight in the United Arab Emirates — a protest
December 03, 2023A Hong Kong court has postponed a court hearing on troubled Chinese property developer Evergrande’s winding-up petition to Jan. 29
December 03, 2023Leftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet
December 03, 2023Venezuela's election authority says voters approved a referendum called by the government of President Nicolás Maduro to claim sovereignty over an oil- and mineral-rich piece of neighboring Guyana
December 03, 2023The Philippine president has blamed what he called “foreign terrorists” for a bomb blast that killed four people, wounded dozens of other Catholic worshippers in the south and sparked a security alarm, including in the capital, Manila, where state forces were put on alert
December 03, 2023Israeli forces bombed wide areas of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing and wounding dozens of Palestinians, as civilians in the besieged
December 02, 2023France's interior minister says police have arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others
December 02, 2023Japanese authorities say they have handed over pieces of the wreckage from an U.S. Air Force Osprey that crashed off southwestern Japan to the U.S. military, as the search continued for seven missing servicemembers
December 02, 2023A third-party candidate has announced he is leaving Mexico’s 2024 presidential race, practically ensuring the the country's next president will be a woman
December 02, 2023Muslim community leaders from several swing states are pledging to withdraw support for U.S. President Joe Biden, citing his refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza
December 02, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris has engaged in a quick round of diplomacy with Arab leaders while attending the U.N. climate summit in the United Arab Emirates
December 02, 2023Ukraine's service says former President Petro Poroshenko has been denied permission to leave the country because he was planning to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
December 02, 2023A 71-year-old Romanian yoga guru and 14 others have been handed preliminary charges by a Paris magistrate on a raft of counts linked to an international ring that for years allegedly subjected followers seeking enlightenment to sexual exploitation
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December 02, 2023Israel will seek a "security envelope" with special zones and arrangements that will prevent Hamas from being positioned on its border after the war in Gaza is over, a senior
December 02, 2023An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.6 has struck off the coast of the southern Philippines island of Mindanao
December 02, 2023Italian officials have secured the shorter of two 12th century towers in Bologna, fearing that its leaning could lead to collapse
December 02, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday that France was "very concerned" by the resumption of violence in Gaza and that he was heading to Qatar to help "engage a new truce
December 02, 2023Unlike the fast-moving interpreters of samba, salsa and other Latin American dancing styles, Japanese traditional dancers move slowly, performing just a few moves that their bodies keep fully controlled
December 02, 2023Police and local authorities in Zambia say seven miners have been confirmed dead and more than 20 others are missing, presumed dead, after heavy rains caused landslides that buried them inside tunnels they had been digging illegally at a copper mine
December 02, 2023The first aid trucks since the collapse of the Gaza truce have entered through the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing on Saturday, on their way to Awja crossing for inspection
December 02, 2023The United States is now committed to the idea of phasing out coal power plants, joining 56 other nations in kicking the coal habit
December 02, 2023Russian security forces have raided gay clubs and bars across Moscow less than 48 hours after the country’s top court banned what it called the “global LGBTQ+ movement” as an extremist organization
December 02, 2023The Biden administration on Saturday unveiled final rules aimed at cracking down on U.S. oil and gas industry releases of methane, part of a global
December 02, 2023Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has welcomed the U.N. Security Council vote to lift an arms embargo imposed on the Horn of Africa nation more than 30 years ago
December 02, 2023Israel is pounding targets in southern Gaza and ordering more neighborhoods designated for attack to evacuate, as the United States urges it to do more to protect civilians
December 02, 2023The United States will announce a $3 billion contribution to the Green Climate Fund, sources familiar with matter said on Saturday.
December 02, 2023Henry Kissinger's legacy in the Mideast is the pursuit of what's possible, not necessarily peace, in one of the world's most intractable conflicts
December 02, 2023Nicaraguan police say they want to arrest the director of the Miss Nicaragua pageant, accusing her of intentionally rigging contests so that anti-government beauty queens would win the pageants as part of a plot to overthrow the government
December 02, 2023Dressed up in colorful, multilayered skirts, a group of 20 Indigenous Bolivian women have been climbing the Andes peaks for the past eight years, working as guides for tourists
December 02, 2023Leaders of developing nations launched into the second-day of a U.N. climate summit to press rich industrialized countries to share their knowhow to fight global warming and ease the financial burdens they face
December 02, 2023North Korea said it would respond to any U.S. interference in space by eliminating viability of U.S. spy satellites, state media KCNA reported on Saturday, citing a statement from
December 02, 2023The U.S. is expanding its high-tech military cooperation with Australia and the United Kingdom to include underwater drones and electronic warfare
December 02, 2023Cristiano Ronaldo walked off the field with the gleeful chants of “Messi
December 02, 2023The United Nations Security Council has voted to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan
December 01, 2023A federal appeals court has ruled that Texas must move a floating barrier on the Rio Grande that drew backlash from Mexico
December 01, 2023Friday was a day for speechmaking at the United Nations annual climate conference known as COP28, as heads of state each gave short speeches to deliver their views on the planet’s climate crisis, what their nation is doing and what they think others should do
December 01, 2023A protester is in critical condition after setting themself on fire outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta
December 01, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken returned to the Mideast this week looking to press for agreements to extend the Gaza cease-fire, step up the release of hostages held by Hamas and limit Palestinian civilian casualties if fighting with Israel resumed
December 01, 2023The United States is working on a plan with Israel to minimize harm to civilians in any military operation in southern Gaza, a senior U.S. official said on Friday as
December 01, 2023The White House said on Friday it believed Israel will allow humanitarian aid trucks to enter Gaza after a lull due to resumed fighting between Israel and Hamas militants, but
December 01, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to increase the number of troops by nearly 170,000 to a total of 1.32 million
December 01, 2023Israel and Hamas have resumed fighting after a weeklong cease-fire, and Israel says 136 hostages remain in Gaza
December 01, 2023South Korea has launched its first military spy satellite, a little over a week after rival North Korea claimed to put its own spy satellite into orbit for the first time
December 01, 2023Britain's King Charles III has caused some raised eyebrows by wearing a tie adorned with a pattern of Greek flags to the COP28 climate summit in Dubai
December 01, 2023Here are reactions to the death of retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the U.S.
December 01, 2023Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group has attacked several Israeli army posts along the border
December 01, 2023The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) should continue to function for another year as frequent holdout Russia joined others on Friday in approving Malta as
December 01, 2023Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden's administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese
December 01, 2023The governing body of gymnastics in Europe voted against allowing Russian and Belarusian gymnasts to return to international competitions, calling into question how they could qualify for next year’s Olympics
December 01, 2023Gregorian Bivolaru was known by his followers as “Grieg” and their guide through tantra yoga toward enlightenment and a higher state of consciousness
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December 01, 2023The Russian government has named the renowned director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg to also lead Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre
December 01, 2023Dozens of young Israeli men and women who survived the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre at a rave party in southern Israel have been taking part in support sessions to help deal with their trauma at a retreat in Cyprus
December 01, 2023A former Associated Press correspondent who spent four decades covering the Cold War and the fall of communism has died at age 85
December 01, 2023An attorney for former Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe says he is being held by Haitian authorities at a police station a day after the U.S. repatriated him to Haiti
December 01, 2023Ukrainian media are reporting that the country's spy agency staged two successive train explosions on a railroad line in Siberia that serves as a key conduit for trade between Russia and China
December 01, 2023Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has a poster hanging on a wall of his office in Tel Aviv, in the wake of the Oct. 7 attack on
December 01, 2023Billionaire vacuum cleaner tycoon James Dyson has lost a libel lawsuit against the Daily Mirror
December 01, 2023The New York Times is reporting that Israel knew about Hamas battle plans to attack southern Israel over a year before the Oct_ 7 operation took place, but dismissed them as “aspirational.”
December 01, 2023The warm ties India and the United States have built are being tested after US prosecutors accused an Indian official of orchestrating an alleged assassination plot in New York City
December 01, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris will face two delicate tasks when she attends a climate summit this weekend in Dubai
December 01, 2023Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has delivered a blunt message to Western leaders and declared at an international security conference that his government was not prepared to “review its goals” in Ukraine
December 01, 2023Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after
December 01, 2023Gunfire in Guinea-Bissau’s capital erupted late Thursday night and continued through Friday morning in what local media reported as clashes between security forces
December 01, 2023Indicted Republican George Santos' brief career in the U.S.
December 01, 2023Russia is working on the assumption that sanctions against it by the United States and its allies will last for many years, but that U.S. influence on the world economy is waning,
December 01, 2023The U.N. top court has ordered Venezuela not to take any action that would alter Guyana’s control over a disputed territory, but did not specifically ban Venezuela from holding its planned referendum Sunday on the territory’s future
December 01, 2023Several sources have named Staff Sgt. Jacob Galliher of Pittsfield, Massachusetts, as the crew member killed during an Osprey aircraft crash in southwestern Japan
December 01, 2023The Israeli army said on Friday that with the resumption of fighting it had published a map to advise Gazans of safe areas for their evacuation.
December 01, 2023The Philippine coast guard has opened a new monitoring base on a remote island occupied by Filipino forces in the disputed South China Sea as Manila ramps up efforts to counter China’s increasingly aggressive actions in the strategic waterway
December 01, 2023Stocks gained ground on Wall Street as the market comes off its best month in more than a year
December 01, 2023Nearly two months after Hamas infiltrated Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 240 hostages, dozens of people are still unaccounted for
December 01, 2023Dozens of world leaders said they know the planet’s dangerously overheating and they are trying to keep it from getting worse
December 01, 2023The annual U.N. climate talks are nearly two weeks of delegates meeting
December 01, 2023Health officials in Gaza say Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people after fighting in the Gaza Strip resumed
December 01, 2023Israel’s war with Hamas resumed after a weeklong truce expired, with each side blaming the other for the resurgence of hostilities
December 01, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the war with Russia is in a new stage, with winter expected to complicate fighting after a summer counteroffensive that failed to produce desired results due to enduring shortages of weapons and ground forces
December 01, 2023Thousands of detainees swept up in El Salvador's gang crackdown over the past 1 1/2 years have been released from pre-trial detention
December 01, 2023A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers
December 01, 2023A Kichwa tribal leader has been shot to death in an area of the Peruvian rainforest that’s seen high tension between Indigenous people and illegal loggers
December 01, 2023Israel's military said it had resumed combat against Hamas in Gaza on Friday after accusing the Palestinian militant
December 01, 2023A major offensive against Myanmar's military-run government by an alliance of three militias of ethnic minorities has been moving at lightning speed, inspiring resistance forces around the country to attack
December 01, 2023The Israeli military has released 30 more Palestinian prisoners after eight more Israeli hostages were freed from captivity in the Gaza Strip under the temporary cease-fire
December 01, 2023The House has passed a measure that would permanently freeze the $6 billion recently transferred by the U.S. in a prisoner swap with Iran
November 30, 2023Law enforcement authorities say in court papers that the plot driven by a government official in India to assassinate a prominent Sikh separatist leader in New York City was meant to precede another killing in California and more assassinations in the U.S. and Canada
November 30, 2023When police officers arrived at Melinda Bettencourt’s door one morning last fall, she instantly feared the worst before they even spoke. Her youngest daughter, Amanda Bews, had battled addiction and homelessness for years after developing a painful nerve condition. With Amanda estranged and struggling on the streets, news from law enforcement felt ominous from the start. Bettencourt’s dread proved tragically founded: Bews had been arrested in Los Angeles County days earlier and died in custody at age 29. But neither the officers nor officials in the ensuing weeks offered Bettencourt answers about what happened. And what she eventually saw for
November 30, 2023A new study says that about half of Nicaragua's population of 6.2 million want to leave their homeland because of a mix of economic decline and repression from President Daniel Ortega's government
November 30, 2023President Joe Biden is hosting Angolan President João Manuel Gonçalves Lourenço in the Oval Office as he seeks to reaffirm his commitment to Africa
November 30, 2023The final member in a migrant smuggling ring that was responsible for the deaths of 39 Vietnamese immigrants who suffocated in a shipping container in 2019 has been sentenced by a London judge to seven years in prison
November 30, 2023City lawmakers in Brazil passed what appears to be the nation’s first legislation written entirely by artificial intelligence — even if they didn’t know it at the time
November 30, 2023The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist at the behest of an unnamed Indian government official
November 30, 2023Kosovo’s government has postponed a deadline by two weeks for ethnic Serbs living in the country to register their vehicles with Kosovo license plates instead of Serbian ones
November 30, 2023The annual meeting of members of the global chemical weapons watchdog has called on countries to prevent the sale or transfer to Syria of raw materials and equipment that could be used to create poison gas and nerve agents
November 30, 2023Notorious coup leader Guy Philippe has returned to Haiti after the U.S. government repatriated him
November 30, 2023An Iranian news website says a popular rapper has been sent back to jail less that two weeks after his release from prison on bail
November 30, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is urging Israeli leaders to respect international law as Israel wages its war against Hamas in Gaza
November 30, 2023British ex-Treasury chief Alistair Darling has died at age 70
November 30, 2023Indicted U.S.
November 30, 2023The world wants more nuclear energy as a means to fight climate change and supply an ever-growing demand for electricity, part of a generational shift in thinking on atomic power
November 30, 2023Almost three years after Prince Harry and his wife Meghan's interview with Oprah Winfrey sent shockwaves through the British monarchy, their most sensational claim
November 30, 2023Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has faced Western critics while attending international security talks in Northern Macedonia
November 30, 2023The pressure to phase out fossil fuels is mounting on the oil company chief who is leading fragile international climate negotiations in what some say are contradictory dual roles
November 30, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank on Thursday.
November 30, 2023Researchers in South Africa say they have rediscovered a mole species that has an iridescent golden coat and the ability to “swim” through sand dunes after it hadn't been seen for more than 80 years and was thought to be extinct
November 30, 2023Russia’s Supreme Court has effectively outlawed LGBTQ+ activism, in the most drastic step against advocates of gay, lesbian and transgender rights in the increasingly conservative country
November 30, 2023Four migrants have died yards from shore in southern Spain after being forced out of the boat they were traveling in
November 30, 2023The U.N. weather agency says 2023 is all but certain to be the hottest year on record, and warning of worrying trends that suggest increasing floods, wildfires, glacier melt, and heat waves in the future
November 30, 2023Dozens of South Korean dog farmers have scuffled with police during a rally near the presidential office to protest a recent push by authorities to outlaw dog meat consumption
November 30, 2023Ukrainian officials say Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region during the night
November 30, 2023Europeans are again seeing some relief as inflation dropped to 2.4% in November, the lowest in more than two years
November 30, 2023China's President Xi Jinping and senior Chinese officials have sent messages of condolence to U.S.
November 30, 2023In the depths of captivity in Gaza, they formed an unlikely but prized friendship
November 30, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed his condolences over the death of former U.S.
November 30, 2023Elton John has urged British lawmakers to do more to fight HIV and AIDS
November 30, 2023Asian shares have slipped after Wall Street closed out its best month of the year with big gains in November
November 30, 2023Somalia’s maritime police force has intensified patrols in the Gulf of Aden following a failed pirate hijacking of a ship earlier this week
November 30, 2023Mediators are scrambling to extend an Israel-Hamas truce set to expire just after daybreak Friday
November 30, 2023A temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war has been extended another day
November 30, 2023The Middle East plays host to its second straight U.N. climate conference over the next two weeks, with countries hoping to agree on new ways to keep the planet from catastrophic heating by the end of the century
November 30, 2023Taiwan again reported Chinese warplanes and warships around the island on Thursday, including aircraft crossing the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing keeps up
November 30, 2023Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon
November 30, 2023The OPEC oil cartel and allied producers have made another big swipe at propping up lagging crude prices
November 30, 2023The death on Wednesday of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn admiration and scorn from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how the country should exert its influence
November 30, 2023Two suspects in the kidnapping of the parents of Liverpool soccer player Luis Díaz were ordered sent to prison by a judge, according to Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office, which accused one of the men of being the link to a person close to the family who provided information about the victims
November 30, 2023Singapore and Zurich tied for the world's most expensive city this year, followed by Geneva, New York and Hong Kong, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) said on Thursday as it
November 30, 2023Japan has suspended flights of its Osprey aircraft after a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed into the sea during a training mission
November 30, 2023Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says
November 30, 2023Japan said it has asked the U.S. to suspend all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan,
November 30, 2023The alliance with the United States has allowed South Korea to build a strong democracy with citizens confident Washington would protect them if North Korea ever acted on its dream of unifying the peninsula under its own rule
November 30, 2023Israel and Hamas struck a last-minute agreement on Thursday to extend their ceasefire for a seventh day, while
November 30, 2023China's leadership is too "overwhelmed" with its internal problems to consider an invasion of Taiwan, President Tsai Ing-wen said in an interview with the New York Times.
November 30, 2023A man protesting against the Chinese government during the recent Asia-Pacific economic summit in San Francisco says he was attacked by supporters of the Chinese ruling party and is urging local police to take action
November 30, 2023National security adviser Jake Sullivan has told lawmakers that the White House is not seeking to place conditions on U.S. military assistance to Israel
November 29, 2023The United States is urging Israel to narrow the zone of combat and clarify where Palestinian civilians can seek safety during any Israeli operation in southern
November 29, 2023New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Thursday his country would seek to strengthen engagement with the United States on strategic and security
November 29, 2023Republican demands to stop the flow of migrants at the Mexico-U.S. border have left Congress scrambling
November 29, 2023(Note strong language in paragraphs 1 and 9-11) Billionaire Elon Musk told advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content to "Go fuck
November 29, 2023An Indiana county judge has dismissed a state lawsuit filed against TikTok that had accused the app of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of consumers’ personal information
November 29, 2023Panama’s Supreme Court unanimously declared that legislation granting a Canadian copper mine a 20-year concession was unconstitutional
November 29, 2023U.S. budget wrangling could further delay funding approval for new agreements with Pacific island nations meant to counter Chinese
November 29, 2023Vice President Kamala Harris will join the United States delegation at the upcoming United Nations conference on climate change in Dubai
November 29, 2023Families of American hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are describing their anguish and calling on the U.S. and Israeli governments to do all they can to bring home their loved ones home
November 29, 2023A South African company will make vaginal rings that protect against HIV, which AIDS experts say should eventually make them cheaper and more readily available
November 29, 2023A group of residents have sued a public utility company in the U.S. Virgin Islands after authorities there reported finding high levels of lead and copper in the tap water on St. Croix
November 29, 2023Stay and enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime show
November 29, 2023Canada’s government says it has reached a deal with Google for the company to contribute $100 million Canadian dollars annually to the country’s news industry
November 29, 2023Poland’s new parliament has reinstated government funding for in vitro fertilization, previously banned by the conservative party which lost control of the legislature in the country's recent general election
November 29, 2023Top diplomats from more than 50 countries have arrived in North Macedonia for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
November 29, 2023China has presented the United Nations Security Council with a four-point plan for Middle East peace in a demonstration of its ambitions to be a global superpower
November 29, 2023France said on Wednesday that the European Union should consider sanctions on Israeli settlers who have targeted Palestinians in the West Bank as an option and that
November 29, 2023The U.S. military says a U.S. Navy warship sailing near the Bab el-Mandeb Strait shot down a drone launched from Yemen
November 29, 2023A British foster child who killed the woman caring for him when he ran over her with her car has been sentenced to two years in custody
November 29, 2023United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday said the Gaza Strip was in the midst of an "epic humanitarian catastrophe", urging the
November 29, 2023Ukraine's foreign minister insists that NATO allies are showing no sign of war fatigue and remain committed to helping his country defend itself against Russia
November 29, 2023An Indian government official directed an unsuccessful plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist, who is also a U.S. citizen, on U.S.
November 29, 2023An 85-year-old Israeli woman abducted by Hamas on Oct. 7 and set free two weeks later said she met its Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar while in captivity and asked him how he was not ashamed for
November 29, 2023Tighter water restrictions for drought-stricken northeast Spain have gone in effect as authorities in Catalonia say that Barcelona may need to have fresh water shipped in by boat in the coming months
November 29, 2023Congregants of an Anglican church in a sparsely populated rainforest village in Guyana are asking for peace for their community amid what they see as an existential threat
November 29, 2023Elton John has addressed Britain’s Parliament at an event honoring his dedication to fighting HIV in the U.K. and beyond
November 29, 2023(In first paragraph, corrects day to Wednesday from Tuesday. In paragraph 7, corrects reference to Blinken visiting Jordan this week to say he will visit the West Bank.)
November 29, 2023It has become an Israeli mantra throughout the latest war in Gaza: Hamas is ISIS
November 29, 2023British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has escalated his war of words with the leader of Greece
November 29, 2023Sri Lanka says it has reached an agreement in principle with a group of creditors including India and Japan on debt restructuring
November 29, 2023A gay couple in Nepal on Wednesday became the first in the nation to receive official same-sex marriage status
November 29, 2023Israeli women and children on their return from Hamas captivity in Gaza speak of being beaten and threatened with death, moved from place to place and forced to
November 29, 2023Mali’s military government has announced an investigation into the Tuareg rebel leaders who signed a peace agreement in 2015 and now accuse the government of failing to comply with it
November 29, 2023The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's annual foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday has split member
November 29, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the Biden administration would like to see a new extension of the cease-fire agreement in Israel’s war with Hamas after the current one expires
November 29, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that there was "no sense of fatigue" among NATO allies when it came to helping Ukraine.
November 29, 2023Former U.S. marine Paul Whelan has been attacked by another inmate in a Russian prison while serving a 16-year sentence on espionage charges, Russia's prison service
November 29, 2023The United Nations' rights office says at least 40 civilians were killed last weekend by al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to take control of a besieged town in Burkina Faso’s hard-hit northern region
November 29, 2023The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has forcefully denied a report alleging his nation planned to use the summit to strike oil and gas deals, a day before the summit was due to begin
November 29, 2023Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday welcomed a pause in the Gaza war and the exchange of hostages and prisoners between Israel and militant group Hamas as a temporary "
November 29, 2023The global economy, which has proved surprisingly resilient this year, is expected to falter next year under the strain of wars, still-elevated inflation and continued high interest rates
November 29, 2023Sweden’s economy shrank in the third quarter of 2023 to mark the second time of contraction and signal that a recession may have hit the country
November 29, 2023Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday it had received a lot of requests for one-on-one meetings with Sergei Lavrov, Moscow's top diplomat, on the sidelines of an OSCE meeting
November 29, 2023Toyota is selling a part of its stake in components maker Denso to raise cash for its drive toward electric vehicles and other innovations
November 29, 2023The Vatican says Pope Francis is stable but is still having trouble breathing as a result of a lung inflammation that forced him to cancel a weekend trip to Dubai
November 29, 2023Hamas and Israel have completed another exchange of hostages and prisoners on the sixth day of a temporary cease-fire in the war in Gaza
November 29, 2023India has set up a committee to look into security concerns raised by the United States, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
November 29, 2023Israel and Hamas agreed to extend a temporary truce by another day minutes before it was set to expire, said Qatar, which has been mediating between the two sides
November 29, 2023The Japanese coast guard says a U.S. Air Force Osprey based in Japan crashed during a training mission off of the country’s southern coast, killing at least one of the eight crew members
November 29, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher ahead of the release of U.S. consumer inflation data
November 29, 2023New Zealand’s new prime minister plans to ban cellphone use in schools and repeal tobacco controls in the agenda for his first three months in office
November 29, 2023A Hong Kong court has started hearing the final arguments of some of the city’s best-known pro-democracy activists tried under a law imposed by China’s ruling Communist Party to crush dissent
November 29, 2023Experts say the world is heading for considerably less warming than projected a decade ago, but that good news is overwhelmed by much more pain from current climate change than scientists anticipated
November 29, 2023A frigate of the Russian Black Sea Fleet launched an attack with four cruise missiles on Ukraine's military infrastructure, Russia's defence ministry said early on Wednesday.
November 29, 2023Pollution is causing respiratory illnesses and deaths to rise in Indonesia's island of Java, including the capital, Jakarta
November 29, 2023Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov's teenage son, who was shown beating a prisoner in custody this year, has been named as an observer in a new battalion that is part of Russia's defence
November 29, 2023Survivors of the harmful morning sickness drug thalidomide were in the public gallery when Australia’s Parliament made a national apology for what was described as one of the darkest chapters in Australia’s medical history
November 29, 2023It’s her, hi — Taylor Swift is Spotify’s 2023 most-played artist
November 29, 2023If the United States expects to win the next arms race then Washington is mistaken, a senior Russian diplomat said in remarks published on Wednesday, adding that a military conflict
November 29, 2023Russia's Internal Affairs ministry is preparing a bill that would oblige foreigners entering the country to sign a "loyalty agreement" that would bar them from discrediting official
November 29, 2023Officials say that hundreds of stray cats that roam a historic seaside tourist area of Puerto Rico’s capital will be removed over the coming year
November 28, 2023Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to extend the Gaza truce were overshadowed at the last minute on Wednesday by an
November 28, 2023Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven countries support the further extension of the current pause in fighting in Gaza and future pauses to increase
November 28, 2023Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei met Tuesday with senior Biden administration officials at the White House
November 28, 2023Matteo Garrone's migration odyssey “Io Capitano” played at the Marrakech International Film Festival this weekend, returning to the country where pivotal scenes were shot
November 28, 2023Pope Francis has canceled his trip to Dubai for the U.N. climate conference on doctors’ orders
November 28, 2023Indian rescuers faced repeated and unexpected setbacks during the 17 days they dug through a mountain in the country's north to reach 41 construction workers trapped after a tunnel collapsed there earlier this month
November 28, 2023Britain and Greece were able to differ for decades over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute
November 28, 2023Veteran Hollywood actor and producer Michael Douglas was honored with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award at the 54th International Film Festival of India
November 28, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as an existential battle against purported attempts by the West to destroy Russia, a ranting speech ahead of a presidential election campaign
November 28, 2023A British government-ordered inquiry says it found serious failings at hospitals where an electrician who was later convicted of murder was able to have sex with more than 100 corpses over 15 years without being detected
November 28, 2023The war in Gaza is highlighting the latest advances in artificial intelligence as a way to spread fake images and disinformation
November 28, 2023President Vladimir Putin, whose picture was shown between two giant images of an ancient Orthodox icon on Tuesday, warned the West ahead of elections in March
November 28, 2023French authorities have arrested the leader of a multinational tantric yoga organization on suspicion of indoctrinating female followers for sexual exploitation
November 28, 2023A spokesperson for Ukraine's spy agency says the wife of Ukraine's intelligence chief has been diagnosed with heavy metals poisoning
November 28, 2023Pope Francis has decided to take measures to punish Cardinal Raymond Burke, who is one of his highest-ranking critics
November 28, 2023The attacks on Sierra Leone’s main military barracks and prisons are a failed coup attempt and have resulted in the arrest of 13 military officers, the government’s spokesman said Tuesday
November 28, 2023Finland says it will close its last remaining border crossing with Russia amid concerns that Moscow is using migrants as part of “hybrid warfare” to destabilize the Nordic country following its entry into NATO
November 28, 2023Hunter Biden has offered to testify publicly before Congress, striking a defiant note in response to a subpoena from Republicans
November 28, 2023Panama's Supreme Court has unanimously declared a 20-year concession for a Canadian copper mine that had sparked weeks of protests as unconstitutional
November 28, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Hungary’s capital next month
November 28, 2023The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states and of Ukraine say they will boycott a meeting by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe being held this week in North Macedonia
November 28, 2023Kfir Bibas has spent nearly a fifth of his life as a Hamas hostage
November 28, 2023Ten-month-old Kfir Bibas has spent more than 50 days of his young life in captivity in Gaza and, according to Israel, has been handed over by Hamas to another
November 28, 2023A German-Israeli singer who claimed he had been turned away from a hotel in the eastern German city of Leipzig because he was wearing a Star of David pendant has admitted during a defamation trial against him that he made up the story
November 28, 2023Latvia's foreign minister is staking a claim to the top job at NATO
November 28, 2023A group tracking antisemitism in Germany says that it has documented a drastic increase of antisemitic incidents in the country in the month after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7
November 28, 2023Greek officials say they will continue talks with the British Museum on bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens
November 28, 2023France's government plans to ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas
November 28, 2023The Kenyan High Court has struck out key clauses of a contentious finance law that has been blamed for significantly raising taxes and the cost of living in East Africa’s largest economy
November 28, 2023Tornadoes have been forecast for the Black Sea region after a storm left more than 2 million people without electricity in Crimea, Russia and Ukraine
November 28, 2023Dubai is preparing to host the COP28 climate talks as world leaders including U.S. President Joe Biden and Pope Francis have signaled they will not be attending the negotiations
November 28, 2023The U.S. is asking Israel to take greater care to protect civilians and limit damage to infrastructure if it launches an offensive in
November 28, 2023The Biden administration has told Israel it must operate with far greater precision in southern Gaza if it renews a ground campaign aimed at eradicating the Hamas militant group
November 28, 2023Elon Musk, on a visit to Israel after being assailed for an anti-Jewish post on his social media site X, received a symbolic dog-tag from the father of an Israeli taken captive by Hamas in
November 28, 2023The latest swap of hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel started with the release of 10 Israeli hostages — nine women and a 17-year-old girl — as well as two Thais handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza
November 28, 2023Hamas has freed 12 hostages and Israel has released 30 Palestinian prisoners on the fifth day of a fragile cease-fire in the Gaza war
November 28, 2023South Korea says it has postponed the planned launch of its first military spy satellite set for this Thursday
November 28, 2023Forty-one construction workers have been rescued from a collapsed tunnel in northern India where they had been stranded the last 17 days
November 28, 2023A mine operator says an elevator suddenly dropped about 650 feet while carrying workers to the surface in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75
November 28, 2023Russian media say a court in Moscow has extended the detention of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, arrested on espionage charges, until Jan. 30
November 28, 2023Asian shares are mixed after a strong report on U.S. consumer confidence and hopes the Federal Reserve is finished with its aggressive interest rate hikes sent shares higher on Wall Street
November 28, 2023SenseTime, a major Chinese artificial intelligence company known for its facial recognition technology, has rejected claims by a research company that it has inflated its revenue
November 28, 2023Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh has been chosen to host the 2030 World Expo following its bid focusing on how to shape a prosperous and sustainable future
November 28, 2023An Israeli hostage freed by Hamas has said in an interview that she was initially fed well in captivity until conditions worsened and captives became hungry
November 28, 2023Worries about future water supplies from ancient aquifers are bubbling up in western rural Arizona
November 28, 2023German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has vowed that his government will work “as fast as possible” to solve a budget crisis
November 28, 2023Relatives and a friend of Israelis kidnapped and killed by Hamas are visiting Australia this week and sharing personal stories in an effort to lobby for international support for all hostages to be freed — and to support Israel’s war effort
November 28, 2023Country singer Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” tops Apple Music’s global song chart in 2023
November 28, 2023Oakland’s City Council has passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war after hours of hearing impassioned rhetoric about the deaths of thousands of civilians in Gaza
November 28, 2023A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!”
November 28, 2023Hamas has freed 12 more hostages, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday, the fifth day
November 27, 2023Argentine President-elect Javier Milei is getting a meeting with a top Biden aide
November 27, 2023A diplomatic spat has erupted between Greece and Britain after the U.K. canceled a planned meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis
November 27, 2023Mexico is celebrating national conservation day
November 27, 2023Kenya's government is urging people living in flood-prone areas to relocate to higher ground as heavy rains and flash floods continued to wreak havoc across East Africa
November 27, 2023The Pentagon says the five armed assailants captured by U.S. forces after seizing a commercial ship near Yemen over the weekend were likely Somali and not Iranian-backed Houthi rebels
November 27, 2023A documentary about Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass that depicts how four generations of women in her family were shaped by exile has premiered before an emotional audience in Marrakech
November 27, 2023Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he plans to travel to NATO member North Macedonia later this week to attend a conference of a top trans-Atlantic security and rights group, a trip that would mark his first visit to a NATO country since Moscow sent troops to Ukraine
November 27, 2023The International Criminal Court prosecutor’s office is halting its long-running investigation into deadly violence that followed Kenya’s 2007 presidential election
November 27, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return this week to the Middle East as the U.S. hopes to find a way to extend a cease-fire in Gaza and get more hostages released
November 27, 2023The mayor of future Olympic host city Paris says she is quitting X
November 27, 2023Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo on Monday announced she was quitting the X platform formerly known as Twitter, calling it a "gigantic global sewer" that was "destroying our democracies" by
November 27, 2023The hostage deal had seemed on the verge of unraveling
November 27, 2023A Sumatran rhino has given birth to a male calf in Indonesia, a welcome addition to a critically endangered species that numbers fewer than 50 animals
November 27, 2023Elon Musk has visited Israel, where he toured a kibbutz attacked by Hamas militants
November 27, 2023An Israeli hostage who was freed as part of a temporary truce in the Gaza Strip had previously mounted a brief escape from his Hamas captors after the building
November 27, 2023Labor unions have staged a day of protests and strikes across the Czech Republic to voice their opposition to the government’s package of cuts and austerity measures meant to keep the ballooning deficit under control
November 27, 2023The Vatican says Pope Francis is receiving antibiotics intravenously to treat a lung inflammation but that he doesn't have pneumonia
November 27, 2023A powerful weekend storm in the Black Sea region toppled trees, tore down power lines and caused coastal flooding, and government officials and media reports said more than half a million people were without power in southern Russia and Ukraine
November 27, 2023A temporary truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended for two more days
November 27, 2023The top Palestinian diplomat has made a plea during a meeting of European Union members and Arab nations for a definitive end to Israel’s retaliatory attacks on the Gaza Strip
November 27, 2023Rescuers in India have started digging manually in hopes of reaching 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for over two weeks
November 27, 2023Israel and Hamas have agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday
November 27, 2023Six teenagers go on trial in Paris for their alleged role in the beheading of a teacher who showed caricatures of the prophet of Islam to his class
November 27, 2023Sierra Leone’s president says most of the leaders of weekend attacks on the nation’s main military barracks and prisons have been arrested, but the capital remains tense
November 27, 2023A new front has emerged in Israel's fight against the funding of Iran-backed militant groups from Hamas to Hezbollah: A fast-growing crypto
November 27, 2023Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk lent support on Monday to Israel's campaign against Hamas, saying one challenge was stopping propaganda of a sort that led to the
November 27, 2023An international watchdog is urging the United Nations Security Council to consider all options to protect civilians in Sudan’s Darfur region
November 27, 2023South Korea says North Korea is restoring front-line guard posts that it had dismantled during a previous period of inter-Korean rapprochement
November 27, 2023Increasing numbers of ships are streaming toward Ukraine’s Black Sea ports and heading out loaded with grain, metals and other cargo despite the threat of attack and explosive mines
November 27, 2023Earth's climate is in trouble, and the signs could be seen around the world this summer
November 27, 2023Merriam-Webster's word of the year for 2023 is “authentic.”
November 27, 2023Shares are mixed in Asia after Wall Street benchmarks edged lower as investors looked ahead to updates on inflation and how American consumers are feeling about the economy
November 27, 2023A senior Egyptian official said on Monday that Egypt and Qatar were close to securing a deal to extend a truce between Israeli and Hamas
November 27, 2023Christopher Luxon has been sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister and says his priority is to improve the economy
November 27, 2023Details about the conditions of the released hostages' captivity in Gaza are emerging through stories their family members are telling
November 26, 2023Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi says his country wants a meeting of Mediterranean officials this week to help bridge a gap between Arab and European countries in calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to become a permanent cease-fire
November 26, 2023President Joe Biden has spoken by telephone with family of the 4-year-old girl who was released as part of the cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war
November 26, 2023Russia's interior ministry has added the spokesman of U.S. technology company Meta to a wanted list according to its online database
November 26, 2023Elon Musk, the tech entrepreneur accused by civil rights groups of amplifying anti-Jewish hatred on his X social media platform, will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
November 26, 2023Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it will summon the Irish ambassador over a tweet celebrating the release of a 9-year-old girl from Hamas captivity
November 26, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday met with security forces inside the Gaza Strip, his office said.
November 26, 2023Tens of thousands of people including former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson have gathered in London for a march against antisemitism
November 26, 2023A lawyer for the Italian man extradited from Germany for the kidnapping and slaying and his former girlfriend says he hasn't yet had the opportunity to speak with his client about the “merits” of the case that has gripped Italy
November 26, 2023Egypt received lists of 13 Israelis and 39 Palestinians scheduled for release on Sunday, the third batch in the four-day truce deal brokered by Egypt and Qatar, Diaa Rashwan, the
November 26, 2023A 4-year-old American girl captured after seeing her parents slain by Hamas fighters who stormed southern Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7 was among 17
November 26, 2023Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen before being apprehended by the United States Navy
November 26, 2023Irish writer Paul Lynch has won the Booker Prize for fiction with his dystopian novel “Prophet Song.”
November 26, 2023China’s health ministry says a surge in respiratory illnesses across the country that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus
November 26, 2023Heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova have left one person dead and hundreds of localities without electricity as well as forcing the closure of some national roads
November 26, 2023More than 2,000 people have danced, sang and cheered in a gay pride parade in India’s capital, while also raising their concerns over India’s restrictive laws
November 26, 2023Russian authorities say that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones
November 26, 2023Sierra Leone’s president has declared a nationwide curfew after gunmen attacked the West African country's main military barracks in the capital and then broke into detention centers and abducted or freed the occupants
November 26, 2023Health officials say Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period
November 26, 2023The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is back on track as the militant group freed 17 more hostages
November 26, 2023The top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and China have agreed to revive cooperation among the Asian neighbors and resume their leaders’ trilateral summit
November 26, 2023Antisemitism is spiking across Europe after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre and Israel's bombardment of Gaza, worrying Jews from London to Geneva and Berlin
November 26, 2023Thirteen Israelis and four Thai nationals arrived in Israel on Sunday in the second release of hostages from Hamas captivity in
November 26, 2023A cautious calm has prevailed over the border area in south Lebanon
November 25, 2023News reports in India say that at least four students have died and 60 others have been injured in a stampede during a music festival at a university in southern India
November 25, 2023The British Antarctic Survey says that one of the world’s largest icebergs is drifting beyond Antarctic waters after being grounded for more than three decades
November 25, 2023Israeli media on Saturday quoted an unnamed security source as saying that unless hostages are released by midnight, the military will resume its offensive in Gaza, after Hamas
November 25, 2023Russia threatened retaliation against Finland after its Nordic neighbor joined NATO earlier this year
November 25, 2023Tens of thousands of people have turned out on central London’s streets Saturday for a pro-Palestinian march calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza
November 25, 2023Palestinian officials say militants in a northern West Bank refugee camp have shot and killed two suspected collaborators with Israel
November 25, 2023The energy used by cars and their CO2 emissions could have dropped by over 30% in the past decade if not for the world’s growing taste for SUVs, a new report from the Global Fuel Economy Initiative suggests
November 25, 2023President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs is sitting idle in Congress
November 25, 2023Released with her mother and little sister after almost 50 days in captivity in Gaza, four-year-old Raz Asher sits in her father's arms on a hospital bed in Israel.
November 25, 2023Syrian opposition activists say government forces shelled a northwestern village killing at least 10 people, including seven children
November 25, 2023Egypt has received a list from Palestinian militant group Hamas of 14 hostages to be released on Saturday, security sources said.
November 25, 2023Pakistani police say a blaze has killed at least 10 people in a shopping mall
November 25, 2023Ukrainian military officials say Russia has launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion last year
November 25, 2023Officials say they have stopped digging to rescue 41 construction workers who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India after the drilling machine broke down
November 25, 2023A container ship owned by an Israeli billionaire has come under attack by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean as Israel wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip
November 25, 2023Hamas militants released 17 hostages, including 13 Israelis, from captivity in the Gaza Strip, while Israel freed 39 Palestinian prisoners in the latest stage of a four-day cease-fire that has delivered a brief respite from a devastating war between the two enemies
November 25, 2023Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted in the death of George Floyd, has been stabbed in federal prison and was seriously injured, the Associated Press said, citing
November 25, 2023Hamas handed over 13 Israeli hostages and four foreigners to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Saturday night, Qatar's
November 24, 2023Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander
November 24, 2023More than three dozen Palestinian prisoners have returned home to a hero’s welcome in the occupied West Bank following their release from Israeli prisons as part of a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas
November 24, 2023Hamas freed 10 Thai nationals who were seized in the group’s surprise attack on southern Israel last month
November 24, 2023In the decade since Oscar Pistorius pulled the trigger four times on his 9mm pistol, firing into the head and body of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp as she stood inside a locked toilet cubicle in his home, the vital question has still never been answered: Did the world-famous Olympic runner know he was shooting at and killing his girlfriend that Valentine’s Day in 2013
November 24, 2023Russia’s Justice Ministry has added President Vladimir Putin’s first prime minister who later became an opponent to its register of “foreign agents.”
November 24, 2023The U.S. embassy in Lebanon on Friday said there had been 12 hours of calm along the Blue Line marking the border with Israel, where daily exchanges of fire had been taking place
November 24, 2023Ahead of international climate talks, U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visited globally-important Antarctica, where ice that’s been frozen for millions of years is melting due to human-caused climate change, sending the message that “we absolutely need to act immediately.”
November 24, 2023A Russian lawmaker and staunch supporter of President Vladimir Putin has denied media allegations that he adopted a 2-year-old girl who was seized from a Ukrainian children’s home and changed her name
November 24, 2023The two people killed when their car crashed into a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls have been identified as a western New York couple whose family owns a lumber business and several hardware stores
November 24, 2023The U.S. government has thanked Mexico for arresting a hyper violent, alleged Sinaloa cartel security chief this week
November 24, 2023German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised quick action to fix a budget crisis after a court decision blew a large hole in the almost-finished plan for next year
November 24, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin says that he will endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence
November 24, 2023Ringo Starr’s latest project is for fans of music and of fashion
November 24, 2023Activists wearing masks depicting President Emmanuel Macron have urged France to change its position and endorse a law proposed by the European Union that would define rape as sex without consent in the bloc’s 27 countries
November 24, 2023The cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas will bring relief to dozens whose relatives are being held captive
November 24, 2023A future Palestinian state could be demilitarised and have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and to Israel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah
November 24, 2023The World Health Organization said it has confirmed sexual transmission of mpox in Congo for the first time as the country experiences its biggest-ever outbreak
November 24, 2023The first Israeli women and children to go free from Gaza on Friday under a truce with their Hamas captors will be flown home under military guard, with measures
November 24, 2023Russian officials say Ukraine has launched one of its biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the full-scale war began
November 24, 2023The process of forming a new government for the Netherlands after a far-right party's election victory is underway
November 24, 2023European security officials are seeing a growing risk of attacks by Islamists radicalised by the Israel-Hamas war, with
November 24, 2023Nissan will invest $1.4 billion to update its factory in northeast England to make electric versions of its two best-selling cars
November 24, 2023Ireland’s prime minister has condemned anti-immigrant protesters who rampaged through central Dublin after three young children were stabbed, saying the rioters simply wanted to cause chaos, not protect the country’s way of life
November 24, 2023The Marrakech International Film Festival began on Friday, bringing American and international movie stars to the Arab world as war in the Middle East has led to the cancellation of other film festivals
November 24, 2023The shelves at Moscow supermarkets are full of fruit and vegetables, cheese and meat
November 24, 2023Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, announced on Friday that he had decided to withdraw from the race to be Taiwan's next president.
November 24, 2023A four-day cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war began in Gaza on Friday with an exchange of hostages and prisoners
November 24, 2023Anger has erupted in Italy over the slaying of a college student allegedly by an ex-boyfriend who resented her success and wouldn't accept their breakup
November 24, 2023In a series of moves experts say signal a shift in how developing countries deal with pharmaceuticals, South Africa, Colombia and others have recently adopted a more combative approach towards drugmakers, pushing back on policies that deny treatment to millions of people with tuberculosis and HIV
November 24, 2023Stocks drifted to a mixed finish after a half-day trading session capped a holiday shortened week that left the major indexes with their fourth straight winning week
November 24, 2023On the first day of a four-day Gaza cease-fire agreement, Hamas released 24 hostages abducted by militants from southern Israel seven weeks ago
November 24, 2023The Afghan Embassy says it is permanently closing in New Delhi over challenges from the Indian government and a lack of diplomatic support
November 24, 2023Taiwan's two main opposition parties on Friday named their vice presidential candidates after talks about running a joint ticket to take on the ruling party failed.
November 24, 2023Thousands of people led by Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel have marched along Havana’s iconic boardwalk in solidarity with the Palestinian people and demanding an end to the war between Israel and Hamas
November 24, 2023Hamas fighters released 24 hostages on Friday during the first day of the war's first truce, the Red Cross said, including
November 24, 2023Double-amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius has been granted parole more than a decade after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door at his home in South Africa in a killing that jolted the world
November 24, 2023Tens of thousands of Cubans on Thursday marched in front of the U.S. embassy in Havana charging Israel was committing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.
November 23, 2023Nicaragua’s increasingly isolated and repressive government thought it had scored a rare public relations victory last week when Miss Nicaragua Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition
November 23, 2023Right-wing populist Javier Milei has been president-elect just four days and already Argentina’s unions and social organizations are vowing pushback and even protests if he makes good on his promises to slash the size of the state and privatize companies
November 23, 2023Authorities in several West African countries are trying to manage their huge diphtheria outbreaks
November 23, 2023A crane operator has played down tributes paid to him after he lifted a man to safety from a burning high-rise building in England
November 23, 2023A French army general involved in the preparations says France’s military is planning to contribute 15,000 soldiers to the massive security operation for next year’s Paris Olympics
November 23, 2023The FBI has ended its investigation of a fiery car wreck that killed two people at a border checkpoint in Niagara Falls after finding no evidence that it was a terror attack
November 23, 2023An inexperienced politician and heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has been sworn in as Ecuador’s president
November 23, 2023Former President Donald Trump has told Argentina’s President-elect Javier Milei that he plans to travel to the South American country so the two can meet
November 23, 2023U.S. police said on Thursday they were still investigating a fiery crash on the bridge linking New York state and Ontario on Wednesday, which sparked a security scare that closed four U.S.
November 23, 2023Violent clashes have broken out in central Dublin after a 5-year-old girl was seriously injured in a knife attack that also saw a woman and two other young children hospitalized
November 23, 2023U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing heavy pressure from his own Conservatives to take swift action to bring down migration as new data showed net migration numbers were higher than previously thought
November 23, 2023Rose Rostom, Nahida Mashouz and Ammar Hajeh have had their lives uprooted many times - by Palestinian militants, Syrian warplanes, Islamic State, Western-backed
November 23, 2023German police have arrested two men following raids targeting organized migrant-smuggling in the country's capital and the northern state of Lower Saxony
November 23, 2023A Russia-dominated security grouping has held a summit in Belarus with the absence of one of its members, Armenia, which has been irked by what it sees as a lack of support over the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
November 23, 2023Geert Wilders provided a major boost to Europe's far-right populists with his election win in the Netherlands
November 23, 2023A truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza will start on Friday at 7 a.m., with a the first batch of hostages to be released at 4 p.m., a spokesperson for Qatar's foreign ministry said
November 23, 2023U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is visiting Antarctica just before the COP28 climate talks begin in Dubai
November 23, 2023Israel’s military offensive has turned much of northern Gaza into an uninhabitable moonscape
November 23, 2023Venice authorities have rolled out a pilot program to charge day-trippers 5 euros ($5.45) apiece to enter the fragile lagoon city on peak weekends next year
November 23, 2023The European Union’s border agency says that it will send dozens of officers and equipment as reinforcements to Finland to help police its borders amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants arriving to the country
November 23, 2023Hungary is set to receive 900 million euros ($981 million) in European Union money despite the Hungarian prime minister's attempts to scupper the bloc's support for Ukraine
November 23, 2023The militant Hezbollah group has fired more than 50 rockets at military posts in northern Israel
November 23, 2023Greece’s main left-wing opposition party, Syriza, has suffered a damaging setback as nine lawmakers quit the party in protest against its newly elected leadership
November 23, 2023Madagascar President Andry Rajoelina is on course for reelection in a vote boycotted by most opposition candidates
November 23, 2023Turkey’s central bank has delivered another huge interest rate hike as it tries to curb double-digit inflation that has left households struggling to afford food and other basic goods
November 23, 2023A Kyiv official says a Russian attack using cluster munitions has killed three people in a suburb of Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson
November 23, 2023Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday with heightened security measures in place and tensions running high over the conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza,
November 23, 2023Riot police have used batons and tear gas to halt tens of thousands of supporters of Nepal’s former king who attempted to march to the center of the capital to demand the restoration of the monarchy
November 23, 2023New laws rushed through Australia’s Parliament last week to mandate curfews and electronic tracking bracelets on some foreigners with criminal records are facing their first High Court challenge
November 23, 2023The World Health Organization says it has made an official request to China for information about a potentially worrying spike in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia in children
November 23, 2023He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump
November 23, 2023South Korea's spy agency has told lawmakers that Russian support likely enabled North Korea to put a spy satellite into orbit for the first time this week
November 23, 2023The party of an anti-Islam, anti-migration politician is heading for a massive parliamentary election victory in the Netherlands
November 23, 2023Hundreds of police officers are searching the properties of Hamas members and followers in Germany with the majority of the raids taking place in Berlin
November 23, 2023Shares are mixed in Europe and Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain
November 23, 2023A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at the head of the European Union’s executive, Ursula von der Leyen
November 23, 2023A four-day cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas will begin Friday morning, a day later than originally planned
November 23, 2023Australian authorities say dozens of residents have been evacuated and at least 10 homes have been destroyed by a wildfire that's burning out of control during heat wave spring conditions on the northern fringe of the west coast city of Perth
November 23, 2023In Zimbabwe, rains are finally bringing relief to its second-largest national park
November 23, 2023The oil and gas sector, one of the major emitters of planet-warming gases, will need a rapid and substantial overhaul for the world to avoid even worse extremes fueled by human-caused climate change
November 23, 2023North Korea received assistance from Russia for its successful launch of a reconnaissance satellite this week, South Korean lawmakers said on Thursday, citing the country's
November 23, 2023First, some families fled drought and violence
November 23, 2023Officials say the rescue of 41 construction workers who have been trapped for nearly two weeks in a collapsed tunnel in northern India ran into another delay during what was described as the final phase of digging to reach them
November 23, 2023The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday officially requested that China provide detailed information on an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in
November 23, 2023Israeli military officials have shown a group of international journalists a small living quarters they found in a tunnel underneath Shifa Hospital, claiming that the space had been used by Hamas militants
November 23, 2023The release of hostages under a temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants will not happen before Friday, Israel's
November 23, 2023Negotiations to free the hostages held by Hamas hardly ran smoothly
November 23, 2023Peruvian scientists say Peru has lost more than half of its glacier surface in the last six decades due to climate change
November 22, 2023He’s been called the Dutch Donald Trump
November 22, 2023Since Hamas fighters carried out the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, Israeli officials have vowed to crush the Palestinian militant group and its enigmatic leader in Gaza
November 22, 2023U.S.
November 22, 2023The Israeli army showed a reinforced tunnel beside Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza on Wednesday, complete with a bathroom, kitchen and an air conditioned meeting room that
November 22, 2023International aid groups that have lined up thousands of aid trucks for Gaza say they’re ready to move quickly to send in food, water and other supplies if a pause in the fighting between Hamas and Israel takes hold
November 22, 2023Lawyers for a once-powerful cardinal have accused Vatican prosecutors of being “prisoners to their completely shattered theory" in closing arguments of a trial that has raised fundamental questions about the rule of law in the city state
November 22, 2023Police swinging batons at panicking soccer fans. Children weeping in their mothers' arms between the stadium's stands.
November 22, 2023The Student Academy Awards may not be as glitzy or high profile as the Oscars, but in its 50 years it has proven to be a vital launching ground for emerging filmmakers
November 22, 2023Oscar-winning actor Susan Sarandon and “Scream” star Melissa Barrera were each dropped by Hollywood companies after making comments on the Israel-Hamas war that some deemed antisemitic
November 22, 2023Less than two years after nearly being killed by a Russian bomb while reporting, Fox News' Benjamin Hall returned to Ukraine this week
November 22, 2023Finnish border guards and soldiers have begun erecting barriers including concrete obstacles topped with barbed-wire at some crossing points on the Nordic country’s lengthy border with Russia
November 22, 2023Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has urged NATO to further boost its military forces in Kosovo and secure the country’s borders with Serbia
November 22, 2023The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iran’s decision in September to bar several experienced U_N_ inspectors from monitoring its disputed nuclear program is constituting “a very serious blow” to the agency’s ability to do its job “to the best possible level."
November 22, 2023Russia's parliament has approved a federal budget that increases spending by around 25% in 2024-2026 and devotes a record amount to defense
November 22, 2023President Joe Biden declared an emergency over lead-in-water contamination in the U.S. Virgin Islands earlier this week after tests on St. Croix revealed levels more than 100 times the limits set by the Environmental Protection Agency – among the worst results a U.S. community has seen in decades
November 22, 2023King Charles III honored the K-pop band Blackpink
November 22, 2023Exhausted by weeks of worry and vigils, Gilad Korngold drew just a measure of comfort from the foreign-mediated deal between Israel and Hamas to
November 22, 2023Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas will start a four-day truce on Friday morning with the first batch of Israeli hostages released later that day, mediators in Qatar said.
November 22, 2023Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged leaders of the world's 20 big economies on Wednesday to do whatever necessary to ensure the Israel-Hamas
November 22, 2023Poland’s new parliament has begun debating the reinstatement of government funding for in vitro fertilization
November 22, 2023Israel ordered people out of swathes of Gaza's main southern city on Monday as it pressed its ground campaign deep into the south of the enclave, sending desperate residents fleeing, after
November 22, 2023Arab foreign ministers welcomed an agreement for a temporary truce between Israel and Gaza militant group Hamas on Wednesday but said it should be extended and become a first step
November 22, 2023Germany will extradite an Italian man suspected in the killing of a 22-year-old woman to Italy
November 22, 2023An Indian foreign ministry official says that India has restored electronic visa services for Canadian nationals two months after Canada alleged the South Asian nation was involved in the assassination of a Sikh separatist in Canada
November 22, 2023Pope Francis has met separately with relatives of Israeli hostages in Gaza and Palestinians living through the war and set off a firestorm by using words that Vatican diplomats usually avoid: “Terrorism” and according to the Palestinians “genocide.”
November 22, 2023Computer chip and software maker Broadcom says it has cleared all regulatory hurdles and plans to complete its $69 billion acquisition of cloud technology company VMware on Wednesday
November 22, 2023Israel’s national security adviser says cease-fire talks with the Hamas militant group are ongoing, and a hostage release will not take place before Friday
November 22, 2023A cease-fire to facilitate the release of dozens of people taken hostage during Hamas’ raid on Israel is expected to bring the first respite to war-weary Palestinians in Gaza and a glimmer of hope to the families of the captives
November 22, 2023A Malaysian minister said organizers of a Coldplay concert are able to stop Wednesday's show if the British rock band misbehaves
November 22, 2023Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a modest advance on Wall Street that kept the market on track for a fourth straight weekly gain
November 22, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s national security adviser says a planned hostage-for-prisoner swap with Hamas has been delayed until at least Friday
November 22, 2023The United States and the Philippines are conducting joint air and maritime patrols in the South China Sea, which come as the two countries step up cooperation in the face of growingly aggressive Chinese activity in the area
November 22, 2023The ousted leader of ChatGPT maker OpenAI is returning to the company that fired him just days ago
November 22, 2023No fewer than 26 political parties are seeking a share of the 150 seats in the lower house of parliament in the Netherlands' general election Wednesday
November 22, 2023The far-right and anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders is heading for a massive parliamentary election victory
November 22, 2023Britain’s Conservative government has sought to regain the political initiative with a series of tax cuts for businesses and individuals that it hopes will boost its chances in a national election next year that opinion polls suggest it will lose
November 22, 2023South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward the sea but the launch likely failed
November 22, 2023Holiday travelers are starting their final sprint
November 22, 2023Close to half of the U.S. public thinks the country is spending too much on aid to Ukraine
November 22, 2023Argentina's populist President-elect Javier Milei lacks a group of well-known political advisers but has surrounded himself with a group of women who are set to be influential players in his administration
November 22, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday welcomed the deal to secure the release of hostages taken by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas during the attack on Israel.
November 22, 2023Hamas said on Wednesday it agreed with Israel to a four-day ceasefire that will see the release of hostages in Gaza in exchange
November 22, 2023A fund to compensate developing nations for the impacts of climate change was the supposed big breakthrough at last year's United Nations-led climate talks in Egypt
November 22, 2023The Israeli government voted on Wednesday to back a deal to release some of roughly 240 Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza in exchange for a multi-day truce and the freeing
November 22, 2023A report by Human Rights Watch says the Chinese government has expanded its campaign of closing mosques to regions other than Xinjiang, where for years it has been blamed for persecuting Muslim minorities
November 22, 2023In an ambitious global experiment, scientists are unleashing millions of engineered mosquitoes carrying virus-blocking bacteria upon dense urban landscapes as an ecological solution to infectious diseases transmitted by the insects’ bites. Initial trials suppressing dengue spread by up to 80 percent bolster hopes of harnessing evolution to vanquish humankind’s most lethal animal foe, responsible for nearly a million annual deaths. But realizing lasting impacts across continents presents daunting financial and logistical hurdles. At dedicated factories in Colombia, technicians mass-produce Aedes aegypti mosquitoes infected with the Wolbachia parasite, which largely prevents transmission of viruses like dengue. The ambitious aim: completely replace
November 21, 2023The release of hostages under a temporary truce between Israel and Hamas militants will not happen before Friday, Israel's national security
November 21, 2023Russia has clashed with the International Olympic Committee on the floor of the United Nations before 118 member states voted to adopt a traditional truce around the Paris Summer Games next year
November 21, 2023Four out of five people in Mexico who got influenza shots so far this year turned down the government's recommendation they get Russian or Cuban COVID-19 boosters at the same time
November 21, 2023The exchange rate is top of mind for millions of Argentines coping with triple-digit inflation
November 21, 2023Donald Trump has long praised a particular type of foreign leader — men he describes as tough and strong, even if they're accused of chipping away at democracy
November 21, 2023The White House says it's very concerned that Iran may provide ballistic missiles to Russia for use in the war against Ukraine
November 21, 2023President Joe Biden promised to visit Africa this year, but 2023 is drawing to a close with no trip in sight so far
November 21, 2023Palestinian health officials in Gaza say they have lost the ability to count the dead because of the collapse of the enclave's health system and the difficulty of retrieving bodies from areas overrun by Israeli tanks and troops
November 21, 2023Prince Harry plans to appeal to the British government to release evidence that is key to his phone hacking lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail
November 21, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said a deal is "very close" to free some of the more than 200 hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza.
November 21, 2023A group of 27 U.S. lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote to X owner Elon Musk on Tuesday to express concern the platform seemed to be profiting from premium accounts
November 21, 2023The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain have briefly became inaccessible after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island kingdom’s stance on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
November 21, 2023Transgender women will not be allowed to compete in international women’s cricket
November 21, 2023The U.K.'s chief medical adviser has told a public inquiry that Britain’s government was too late in taking action against the coronavirus during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020
November 21, 2023King Charles III has hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife at a glittering banquet at Buckingham Palace, as Britain rolled out the red carpet for a formal state visit aimed at strengthening trade and defense ties between the two countries
November 21, 2023Britain’s top court has ruled that riders for one of the country’s biggest meal delivery companies don’t have collective bargaining rights because they aren’t employees
November 21, 2023Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler will sell off a collection of guitars he considers “old friends” at a Christie’s auction in London next year
November 21, 2023A Beirut-based pan-Arab TV channel says an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon killed two of its journalists who were covering the violence along the Lebanon-Israel border
November 21, 2023Using fake names, sham LinkedIn profiles, counterfeit work papers and mock interview scripts, North Korean IT workers seeking employment in Western tech companies
November 21, 2023South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has accused Israel of war crimes and genocide in Gaza during a virtual meeting of leaders of developing countries including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping
November 21, 2023German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius is vowing to keep supporting Ukraine’s efforts to win its war against Russia, pledging further military aid worth 1.3 billion euros ($1.4 billion)
November 21, 2023Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev accused France on Tuesday of creating conditions for a new war in the South Caucasus by supplying arms to Armenia.
November 21, 2023Israel’s Cabinet has approved a cease-fire agreement with the Hamas militant group that would bring a temporary halt to a devastating war that has continued for more than six weeks
November 21, 2023Russia is waiting for the outcome of an investigation into the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines before making any request for compensation, the RIA state news agency cited a
November 21, 2023A newly formed group made up of senior officials from several Muslim countries will visit the United Nations Security Council's five permanent members and others to urge an
November 21, 2023Joint maritime and air patrols in the South China Sea between the Philippines and the United States military were launched on Tuesday, Philippine
November 21, 2023A majority of South African lawmakers have voted in favor of a motion calling for the closure of the Israeli embassy and the cutting of diplomatic ties until Israel agrees to a cease-fire in Gaza
November 21, 2023Qatar has announced a truce-for-hostages deal between Israel and Hamas that would bring a four-day halt in fighting in a devastating six-week war
November 21, 2023Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street’s rally ran out of momentum
November 21, 2023France, backed by the United States, plans to seek a halt to private financing for coal-based
November 21, 2023The 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for over a week are finally getting hot meals, provided through a newly installed steel pipe, as rescuers work on an alternate plan of digging toward them vertically
November 21, 2023The eruption of Papua New Guinea’s tallest volcano is subsiding but thick ash still billowed into the sky and coated roofs and palm trees nearby
November 21, 2023Ten years ago, Ukrainians took to the streets to protest a decision by their Moscow-friendly president to move the country away from the European Union and toward Russia
November 21, 2023With the annual U.N.-led climate summit known as COP to convene later this month in Dubai, activists are urging policymakers to respond to climate change’s disproportionate impact on women and girls
November 21, 2023North Korea says it has put a military spy satellite into orbit on its third attempt
November 21, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on
November 21, 2023The deaths of two people, muggings and a dangerous heat wave left legions of Taylor Swift's Brazilian fans angry and disappointed in the three-day Rio de Janeiro leg of the pop superstar’s Eras Tour
November 20, 2023Argentina’s president-elect has given the first signals of how he plans to shake up South America’s second-largest economy
November 20, 2023In a disturbing video, a young American boy wanders through ISIS territory wearing a suicide vest. This chilling footage launched journalist Josh Baker on an investigation that revealed the boy’s identity and his family’s harrowing path into the terrorist group’s inner circle. It became a journey that exposed difficult truths about coercion versus complicity in one mother’s story. Investigative reporter Josh Baker first encountered the video through an anonymous contact in 2019. Alarmed by the sight of a child outfitted for a suicide bombing, Baker traveled from London to the boy’s aunt in Indiana. She identified him as 10-year-old Matthew
November 20, 2023Deadly strikes hit the Gaza home of a news photographer days after an Israeli media advocacy group questioned his coverage of Hamas' Oct. 7, prompting death threats against him on social
November 20, 2023Nearly a month ago, the Israeli military unveiled a detailed 3D model of Gaza’s Shifa Hospital
November 20, 2023In a controversial ruling, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the appeal of an Illinois inmate who has been kept in isolation and denied outside recreation for nearly three years. The court’s brief order rejecting the case gave no rationale, as is customary. But three dissenting liberal justices penned a forceful rebuttal, decrying the appalling mistreatment suffered by inmate Michael Johnson. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, described the harrowing conditions imposed on Johnson at Pontiac Correctional Center. “Throughout that period, Johnson spent almost every hour of his life in a cell
November 20, 2023North Korea said it successfully placed its first spy satellite in orbit on Tuesday and vowed to launch more in the near future, defying
November 20, 2023Oscar Pistorius will have a second chance at parole at a hearing on Friday after he was wrongly ruled ineligible for early release from prison in March
November 20, 2023In a move that may soon be replicated elsewhere, the Gila River Indian Community recently signed an agreement with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to put solar panels over a stretch of irrigation canal on their land south of Phoenix
November 20, 2023A new United Nations report calculates that the globe is speeding to 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius (4.5 to 5.2 degrees Fahrenheit) of global warming since pre-industrial times, set to blow well past the agreed upon international climate threshold
November 20, 2023While most Mexican politicians refrain from clarifying where they stand on religion, abortion and LGBTQ+ rights, former telenovela actor and right-wing activist Eduardo Verástegui prays on TikTok and claims that getting closer to God changed the course of his life
November 20, 2023A former chief scientific adviser says Boris Johnson struggled as British prime minister to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic
November 20, 2023Sotheby’s is set to auction off six shirts worn by Lionel Messi during Argentina’s winning run at last year’s soccer World Cup in Qatar
November 20, 2023Russia has placed a Ukrainian singer who won the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest on its wanted list
November 20, 2023A cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is suspected of killing more than 150 people and infecting more than 8,000
November 20, 2023British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says the U.K. is setting up a new science initiative to help develop flood-tolerant rice, disease-resistant wheat and other crops that are more resilient to climate change
November 20, 2023Almost 1,000 Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar have arrived by boat in Indonesia’s northernmost province of Aceh in the last six days
November 20, 2023A top World Health Organization official described the hospital situation in Gaza as ‘catastrophic’ on Monday, saying most are no longer functioning and what remains will likely be overwhelmed by thousands of births expected in the next month
November 20, 2023Relatives of some of the 240 people held by Hamas in Gaza urged far-right Israeli lawmakers on Monday not to pursue proposed capital punishment for captured
November 20, 2023Albanian opposition lawmakers have disrupted the Parliament’s session again to protest what they say is increasingly authoritarian rule by the governing Socialists
November 20, 2023The Kremlin said on Monday it had taken note of statements about Russia from Argentina's President-elect Javier Milei, but wanted to maintain strong ties with Buenos Aires.
November 20, 2023The company that created ChatGPT is in turmoil after Microsoft hired its ousted CEO and many more employees threatened to follow him in a conflict that centered in part oin part on how to build artificial intelligence that’s smarter than humans
November 20, 2023China’s top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing, saying his country would work with “our brothers and sisters” in the Arab and Islamic world to try to end the war in Gaza as soon as possible
November 20, 2023Hong Kong Disneyland has opened its first Frozen-themed attraction, with thousands of eager visitors turning up to experience the new rides
November 20, 2023The operator of Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear plant says the release of a third batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean has ended safely as planned
November 20, 2023U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made an unannounced visit to Ukraine, traveling to Kyiv by train from Poland
November 20, 2023Australia's prime minister has criticized China for what he calls a “dangerous” encounter between Chinese and Australian warships but declined to say whether he raised the issue with President Xi Jinping
November 20, 2023Israeli tanks surrounded a hospital in north Gaza and at least 12 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by firing into the
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November 20, 2023Israeli forces are battling Hamas militants around a hospital in northern Gaza where thousands of patients and displaced people have been sheltering for weeks
November 20, 2023His legions of fans call him “the madman” and “the wig” due to his ferocity and unruly mop of hair
November 20, 2023Pop star Shakira has agreed to a deal with Spanish authorities on the first day of a tax fraud trial in Barcelona, avoiding the risk of a prison sentence
November 20, 2023An Italian tribunal has convicted 207 people and sentenced them to a combined 2,100 years in prison on charges related to their membership in Italy’s ’ndrangheta organized crime syndicate
November 20, 2023Rescuers blocked from reaching 41 workers trapped by a highway tunnel collapse are shifting to an attempt to reach them vertically
November 20, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher after a rally on Wall Street led by gains in Microsoft after it announced it was hiring Sam Altman, former CEO of OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker
November 20, 2023What many deemed impossible just months ago is reality: Right-wing populist Javier Milei resoundingly won Argentina’s presidency
November 20, 2023South African abalone, a curious fist-sized sea snail, is a highly prized morsel in East Asia and the unwitting instigator of 30 years of trouble for fishing communities along Africa’s southern coast
November 20, 2023Kyle Vogt has resigned as CEO of Cruise, General Motors' autonomous vehicle unit
November 20, 2023South Korea’s military has warned North Korea not to go ahead with its planned spy satellite launch
November 20, 2023Lai Ching-te, the frontrunner for Taiwan's presidency, named on Monday Taipei's former envoy to the United States as his running mate in January's election.
November 20, 2023Rights group Afghan Witness says online abuse and hate speech targeting politically active Afghan women significantly increased since the Taliban took over the country in August 2021
November 20, 2023Germany's Bayer has aborted a large late-stage trial testing a new anti-clotting drug due to lack of efficacy, dealing a fresh blow to the embattled drugmaker and throwing
November 20, 2023The head of a prominent media institution in Gaza and two other journalists were killed during the weekend in Israel's offensive in the territory, their relatives said on Sunday, adding to
November 19, 2023Notable quotes from former first lady Rosalynn Carter
November 19, 2023Rosalynn Carter drew the nickname “Steel Magnolia” when she arrived in Washington as first lady
November 19, 2023French performers from different religious and ethnic backgrounds have led thousands of people on a silent march through Paris to call for peace between Israelis and Palestinians and unity in France
November 19, 2023Former first lady Rosalynn Carter has died at the age of 96
November 19, 2023Comedian Russell Brand has been interviewed by British police over three alleged sexual offenses
November 19, 2023A faded, cracked felt hat worn by Napoléon Bonaparte sold for $2.1 million at an auction Sunday of the French emperor’s belongings
November 19, 2023In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands
November 19, 2023An orphaned Ukrainian teenager who was taken to Russia last year during the war in his country returned home on his 18th birthday
November 19, 2023Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have seized an Israeli-linked ship in a crucial Red Sea shipping route and taken the 25-member crew hostage
November 19, 2023Miss Nicaragua, Sheynnis Palacios, has won the Miss Universe competition in El Salvador, the first to wear the crown from her country
November 19, 2023Ambulance crews of the Palestinian Red Crescent evacuated 31 premature babies from Shifa Hospital on Sunday in coordination with the World Health Organization and the United Nations
November 19, 2023President Joe Biden and Congress are facing some unusually public challenges over their support for Israel’s offensive against Hamas
November 19, 2023Russian drones targeted the Ukrainian capital Sunday as the British Defense Ministry said there were “few immediate prospects” for change along the Ukrainian front line as the war enters its second winter
November 19, 2023Australia has won the Cricket World Cup for a record-extending sixth time
November 19, 2023Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos Jr_ says the situation for his nation in the South China Sea “has become more dire.”
November 19, 2023The World Health Organization says 31 premature babies in “extremely critical condition” have been evacuated from Gaza’s largest hospital and will be transferred to Egypt for specialized care
November 19, 2023Officials trying to save 41 workers who have been trapped in a collapsed tunnel in northern India for eight days are contemplating alternative rescue plans after snags with a drilling machine caused them to halt digging
November 19, 2023Thousands of families are lining up for free handouts at food banks across the Netherlands
November 19, 2023Right-wing populist Javier Milei will become the next president of Argentina after promising a dramatic shake-up to the state in a fiercely polarized election campaign held amid deep discontent over soaring inflation and rising poverty
November 19, 2023Pope Francis is hosting a special lunch for more than 1,000 poor people to mark the Catholic Church's World Day of the Poor
November 19, 2023Israel and Hamas have not yet reached a deal on a temporary ceasefire, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday night.
November 19, 2023Israel prepared on Sunday to expand its offensive against Hamas militants to southern Gaza after air strikes killed
November 19, 2023President Joe Biden says that achieving a cease-fire amid Israel’s war with Hamas “is not peace” and that an important key to lasting stability is a reunited Gaza Strip and West Bank that can be governed under “a revitalized Palestinian Authority.”
November 18, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden said on Saturday the Palestinian Authority should ultimately govern the Gaza Strip and the West Bank following the Israel-Hamas war.
November 18, 2023A California man’s family is pleading for his release after they say he was wrongfully arrested in Venezuela and held for ransom just days after President Joe Biden eased crippling oil sanctions on the socialist-run government
November 18, 2023Igor Girkin, a prominent ultranationalist in custody in Russia awaiting trial on charges of inciting extremism, nominated himself to run for president in 2024 in an announcement read on
November 18, 2023Survivors of Nazi atrocities have joined young Jewish activists in Paris to sound the alarm about resurgent antisemitic hate speech, graffiti and abuse linked to the Israel-Hamas war
November 18, 2023California Democratic Party leaders have canceled a portion of their state convention following a large demonstration calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
November 18, 2023The English hockey team that American Adam Johnson played for has retired his No. 47 jersey as part of a memorial game in his honor
November 18, 2023Thousands of family members and supporters of some 240 hostages held in Gaza have streamed into Jerusalem on foot to castigate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his handling of the war with Hamas
November 18, 2023A bottle of Scotch whisky billed as “the most sought-after” in the world has sold for almost 2.2 million pounds ($2.7 million)
November 18, 2023The families of Israeli hostages and thousands of their supporters arrived in Jerusalem on Saturday at the end of a five-day march to confront the government
November 18, 2023Both jeers and cheers for Argentina’s right-wing presidential candidate resounded with acoustic perfection inside the country’s legendary Colón Theater, laying bare the country’s polarization
November 18, 2023People in southwest Iceland are on edge, waiting to see whether a volcano rumbling under the Reykjanes peninsula will erupt
November 18, 2023Ousted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is welcome in France, France's digital minister said in a statement on X, a day after the board of the company behind ChatGPT fired Altman without giving
November 18, 2023Far off the Texas coast there is a beautiful surprise in the Gulf of Mexico that draws divers from around the world: a stunning amount of coral coverage on undersea mountains
November 18, 2023Ukraine's military says its troops are working to push back Russian forces positioned on the east bank of the Dnieper River
November 18, 2023Taylor Swift has postponed a concert in Rio de Janeiro after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show
November 18, 2023Residents in the northern Mexican state of Sonora are battling a new train line that threatens to displace their homes and cut up the local ecosystem
November 18, 2023U.K. Treasury chief Jeremy Hunt says the government can afford to lower some taxes now that inflation is falling
November 18, 2023The first planeload of Palestinian children wounded in the Israel-Hamas war raging in the Gaza Strip has reached the United Arab Emirates, part of a pledged relief effort by the country to aid 1,000 children
November 18, 2023A United Nations team was briefly allowed into Gaza’s largest hospital after it was evacuated by Israeli troops
November 18, 2023X Corp will be filing a lawsuit against Media Matters and those who attacked social media platform X, Elon Musk said on Saturday in a post on the social media platform, soon after major
November 18, 2023Jordan’s foreign minister has offered blistering criticism of Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, describing it as “blatant aggression” against Palestinian civilians that threaten to engulf the wider Middle East
November 18, 2023With the onset of the war between Israel and Hamas, the world’s attention has swung away from the nearly 2-year-old conflict in Ukraine
November 18, 2023A new museum in Barcelona is offering a second chance to controversial artworks that have suffered censorship for religious, sexual, political or commercial reasons
November 18, 2023The Biden administration is balancing efforts to deter militants in the Middle East without triggering a broader regional conflict
November 18, 2023The Miss Universe competition hosted by El Salvador is the latest spectacle touted by President Nayib Bukele in his efforts to change the reputation of his historically violence-torn nation
November 18, 2023Forty-one workers remain trapped in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India for a seventh day as a new drilling matching arrived on site to replace the damaged one
November 18, 2023The 92-year-old businessman who represented Taiwan at this week’s summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in San Francisco says he's hopeful that a meeting between U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping will help reduce tensions between the two superpowers and in the region
November 18, 2023Guatemala’s Attorney General’s office has formally requested that President-elect Bernardo Arévalo and his vice president be stripped of their immunity so it can investigate them for allegedly encouraging the student occupation of the country’s only public university
November 17, 2023Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue was illuminated with a welcome to Brazil message for Taylor Swift
November 17, 2023Israeli forces have killed five Palestinians, including three militants, across the West Bank, deepening a surge of violence in the occupied territory that has accompanied Israel’s war in the Gaza Strip
November 17, 2023K-pop superstar Rosé has joined U.S. first lady Jill Biden at a mental health event to talk about how even famous people grapple with emotional struggles
November 17, 2023Senegal’s highest court has effectively barred detained opposition leader Ousmane Sonko from running for president early next year
November 17, 2023The former president of the Spanish soccer federation has been ruled unfit to work in the sport in Spain for three years after he kissed a player on the lips without her consent at the Women’s World Cup final
November 17, 2023The U.S. has imposed sanctions on six people affiliated with the Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataeb Hezbollah, which is accused of being behind a spate of recent attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria following the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel
November 17, 2023One of the signature broad, black bicorne hats that Napoleon Bonaparte wore when he ruled 19th-century France and waged war in Europe is expected to fetch more than half a million euros (dollars) at auction
November 17, 2023More than 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6-17 have been taken to Belarus from four regions of Ukraine that are partially occupied by Russian forces, a study by Yale University has found
November 17, 2023The visceral documentary “20 Days in Mariupol” about Russia’s early assault on the Ukrainian city will soon reach its widest audience yet
November 17, 2023The British author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “Possession” has died at the age of 87
November 17, 2023Advertisers are fleeing social media platform X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content, hate speech on the site in general or billionaire owner Elon Musk’s own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory
November 17, 2023About 1.3 million Afghans are expected to return to their country of origin from Pakistan, the U.N. health agency warned, weeks after authorities began expelling foreigners living in the country illegally
November 17, 2023Emily Tony Korenberg Hand celebrated her eighth birthday last year romping with friends and family at her circus-themed party on Kibbutz Be’eri
November 17, 2023Hundreds of patients desperately needed his help, but now there was nothing he could do.
November 17, 2023Madagascar’s incumbent President Andry Rajoelina has taken a commanding lead in the island nation’s presidential election, which is being boycotted by the majority of candidates and is marked by low turnout
November 17, 2023The Russian Justice Ministry says it has filed a lawsuit with the country’s Supreme Court to outlaw the LGBTQ “international public movement” as extremist
November 17, 2023Ukraine’s marine corps says it has secured multiple bridgeheads on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River in the Kherson region in fighting it described as having caused thousands of Russian casualties and destroyed dozens of ammunition warehouses, armored vehicles and other weaponry
November 17, 2023Pope Francis will meet next week with relatives of Israeli hostages held by Hamas militants in Gaza, a source said on Friday.
November 17, 2023Israel risks facing a long and bloody insurgency if it defeats Hamas and occupies Gaza without a credible post-war plan to withdraw its
November 17, 2023China offered to buy more goods from Brunei and to encourage investment in the Islamic sultanate as President Xi Jinping lauded relations with the tiny nation that have centred
November 17, 2023A powerful undersea earthquake has shaken the southern Philippines, causing ceilings in shopping malls to plunge to the ground as shoppers screamed
November 17, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin waited three days before commenting on Hamas' massacre of Israelis, which happened to take place on his 71st birthday.
November 17, 2023The United States and the Philippines have signed a nuclear cooperation pact under which U.S. investment and technologies are to help the Southeast Asian nation transition to cleaner energy and bolster its power supply
November 17, 2023The United Nations was forced to stop deliveries of food and other necessities to Gaza and warned of the growing possibility of widespread starvation after internet and telephone services collapsed in the besieged enclave because of a lack of fuel
November 17, 2023Wall Street edged higher in quiet trading, closing out a third straight winning week and keeping November on track to be its best month in a year
November 17, 2023China's narcotics control agency has warned against the manufacture and sale of substances that can be used to make illegal drugs, a day after President Xi Jinping said China would
November 17, 2023Limited phone and internet services began working again Friday across Gaza after fuel was delivered to restart generators that power the networks
November 17, 2023Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged leaders of developing nations to unite in the face of growing challenges due to the Israel-Hamas war
November 17, 2023With wars raging in Europe and the Middle East, it can be hard for President Joe Biden to focus on Asia, even though that was his original foreign policy goal
November 17, 2023Abbey Onn lost her aunt and a young cousin when Hamas attackers rampaged through Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7
November 17, 2023Karol G, Bizzarap, Shakira and Natalia Lafourcade, won big at the Latin Grammy Awards held Thursday
November 17, 2023One of Haiti's most vulnerable and impoverished communities is recovering from a gang attack that targeted a hospital serving as a lifeline for many
November 17, 2023When Chinese President Xi Jinping met executives for dinner on Wednesday night in San Francisco, he was greeted with not one, but
November 17, 2023As Argentina heads for a presidential runoff election on Sunday, the decades-old populist movement known as Peronism is on shaky ground
November 17, 2023The Las Vegas Grand Prix had a bumpy opening when the first practice of the $500 million Formula One race was halted nine minutes into the session Thursday night because Carlos Sainz Jr. ran over a water valve cover that badly damaged his Ferrari
November 17, 2023President Joe Biden and Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador have pledged to work side-by-side to confront illicit fentanyl trafficking into the U.S. and to manage a growing number of migrants traveling to the border between their nations
November 17, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz have aired deep differences over the war between Israel and Hamas as the Turkish leader makes a brief and tensely anticipated visit to Berlin
November 17, 2023Rescuers drilled deeper into the rubble of a collapsed road tunnel in northern India to fix wide pipes for 40 workers trapped underground for a sixth day to crawl to their freedom
November 17, 2023Chinese President Xi Jinping is expanding his diplomatic efforts to build more partnerships with Indo-Pacific leaders after his meeting with President Joe Biden at a time of intensifying competition with the United States
November 17, 2023Israeli air strikes on residential blocks in south Gaza killed at least 47 people on Saturday, medics said, while the
November 16, 2023A book about an inferno that ravaged a Canadian city and has been called a portent of climate chaos has won Britain’s leading nonfiction book prize
November 16, 2023Panda lovers in America have received a much-needed injection of hope as Chinese President Xi Jinping says his government is “ready to continue” lending the black and white icons to American zoos
November 16, 2023TikTok will prohibit content that promotes Osama bin Laden's 2002 letter detailing the former al Qaeda leader's justifications for attacks against
November 16, 2023Delegates at a reparations summit in Ghana have agreed to establish a Global Reparation Fund to push for overdue compensation for millions of Africans enslaved centuries ago during the trans-Atlantic slave trade
November 16, 2023Major League Baseball has canceled plans to play regular-season games in Paris in 2025 after failing to find a promoter, two people familiar with the decision told The Associated Press
November 16, 2023A Canadian man has been found guilty of four counts of first-degree murder for deliberately using his pickup to kill four members of a Muslim family two years ago
November 16, 2023China has agreed to curtail shipments of the chemicals used to make fentanyl, the drug at the heart of the U.S. overdose epidemic
November 16, 2023Russia under President Vladimir Putin has been closing in on those who challenge the Kremlin
November 16, 2023Thousands of Bulgarian soccer supporters have taken to the streets of the capital, Sofia, in protest over the management of the national soccer union, a demonstration that eventually turned violent
November 16, 2023Rafael Nadal says he is sure he’ll be returning to competition after missing nearly all of 2023 with a hip injury that required surgery
November 16, 2023The U.S. Treasury has levied a new round of sanctions on firms and ships that used U.S. service providers to carry Russian crude oil in violation of the multinational price cap — and imposed another set of sanctions on a group of Balkan people and firms tied to Kremlin influence in the region
November 16, 2023The United States on Thursday targeted 10 individuals in a new round of sanctions aimed at containing Russian influence in the Western Balkans, the U.S.
November 16, 2023The United States will not share any Israeli intelligence or elaborate on its own intelligence assessment that Hamas used Gaza's Al Shifa hospital as a command center and
November 16, 2023France on Thursday condemned violence by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, calling it a "policy of terror" aimed at displacing Palestinians and urging Israeli authorities
November 16, 2023The United Nations’ top court has ordered the Syrian government to “take all measures within its powers” to prevent torture
November 16, 2023Efforts to provide medical relief for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip should be concentrated within the besieged coastal enclave, Egypt's foreign minister said on Thursday.
November 16, 2023Britain’s interior minister says the U.K. government can revive its blocked plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda without breaching international law
November 16, 2023Finland’s government says it will close four crossing points on its long border with Russia to stop the flow of migrants that it accuses Moscow of ushering to the border in recent months
November 16, 2023Demonstrators seeking a cease-fire in Gaza blocked bridges on both sides of the U.S., including a major span into San Francisco during a global trade summit with President Joe Biden and other world leaders
November 16, 2023For the auxiliary bishop of Managua, fellow priests and many in the pews who have had to flee or were exiled from Nicaragua recently, the Sunday afternoon Mass at a Miami parish is not only a way to find solace in community
November 16, 2023After locating what they described as the entrance to a Hamas tunnel under an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, Israeli army engineers
November 16, 2023A Russian court has convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison
November 16, 2023One year after Qatar hosted the men’s World Cup, the gas-rich emirate and soccer body FIFA have been urged by human rights group Amnesty International to do more for migrant workers
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November 16, 2023TikTok and Meta are filing legal challenges against new European Union rules designed to counter the dominance of digital giants and make online competition fairer by giving consumers more choice
November 16, 2023When Bingo first stepped foot in the airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, after months of arrangements ahead of his departure from Cuba, he did
November 16, 2023Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling illness in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the first medicine licensed using the gene editing tool CRISPR, which won its makers a Nobel prize in 2020
November 16, 2023Spain’s acting Socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has won a parliamentary vote to form a new leftist coalition government
November 16, 2023The European Commission will continue the use of the controversial chemical herbicide glyphosate in the European Union for 10 more years after the 27 member countries again failed to find a common position
November 16, 2023Developed nations may have achieved their overdue promise of $100 billion to help poorer countries cope with climate change in 2022, the OECD said on Thursday, an
November 16, 2023The airline Emirates says it will purchase 15 additional Airbus A350-900s worth $6 billion after a spat between it and the European manufacturer went unusually public during this week’s Dubai Air Show
November 16, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping haven't resolved any of the vital geopolitical issues dividing the world’s two largest economies
November 16, 2023A dire fuel shortage in the Gaza Strip has shut down all internet and phone networks
November 16, 2023Germany’s national railway operator is running a drastically reduced schedule after a union called a 20-hour strike aimed at increasing the pressure in a bitter dispute over pay and working hours
November 16, 2023David Cameron has traveled to the Ukrainian port of Odesa in his first overseas trip as Britain’s new foreign minister
November 16, 2023Asian stocks are mostly lower after Wall Street drifted to a mixed finish as momentum slowed following a strong rally in the first half of November
November 16, 2023Internet and telephone services have collapsed across the Gaza Strip for lack of fuel, the main Palestinian provider says, bringing a potentially long-term communications blackout
November 16, 2023Chinese President Xi Jinping is signaling that China will send new pandas to the United States
November 16, 2023China is ready to be a partner and friend of the United States, and there is plenty of room for bilateral cooperation, President Xi Jinping told American
November 16, 2023A fire in a coal company building in a northern Chinese city has killed 26 people and injured at least 38
November 16, 2023President Joe Biden has made America's case to CEOs attending the Asia-Pacific summit in San Francisco that the United States is committed to high standards in trade that will benefit economies across the Pacific
November 16, 2023Police in Japan say they have arrested a driver after a vehicle crashed into a temporary barricade near the Israeli Embassy in Tokyo, injuring one police officer
November 16, 2023Rescuers in northern India are supplying food and medicine to 40 construction workers as officials started drilling through the rubble to reach the men who have been buried since a portion of the tunnel they were working on collapsed over the weekend
November 16, 2023Police and protesters have clashed outside Democratic National Committee headquarters during a demonstration for a cease-fire in the war between Israel and Hamas
November 16, 2023President Joe Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for hours on Wednesday in a widely anticipated encounter intended to recalibrate tensions between the two countries
November 16, 2023Hotels in Argentina and Uruguay have reportedly rejected reservations for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters over accusations of antisemitism leveled at the British singer known for his pro-Palestinian views
November 15, 2023Israel said its forces were operating in and around Gaza's biggest hospital, a chief objective in its campaign to destroy Palestinian
November 15, 2023A European Championship qualifying game between Switzerland and Israel ended with a 1-1 draw on Wednesday
November 15, 2023Formula One has arrived in Las Vegas for a week of parties, concerts, celebrity-packed events and eventually Saturday night's race
November 15, 2023After raiding the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital, Israel appears close to completing its takeover of the besieged territory’s northern sector
November 15, 2023U.S. officials say a Navy warship shot down a drone that was heading toward the ship as it sailed in the southern Red Sea
November 15, 2023A heavily armed gang surrounded a hospital in Haiti, trapping women, children and newborns inside until police rescued them
November 15, 2023A day after Palestinian authorities called for an evacuation of Gaza’s biggest hospital, Israeli soldiers have raided it and say they were accompanied by medical teams bringing baby food, incubators and other equipment
November 15, 2023It's still spring in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping the country, prompting health alerts and driving up energy demand as people turn to air conditioning and fans to stay cool
November 15, 2023The U.N. Security Council has approved a resolution calling for “urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the Gaza Strip” after four failed attempts to respond to the Israel-Hamas war
November 15, 2023Protesters took to the streets of San Francisco early on Wednesday morning ahead of a meeting between U.S.
November 15, 2023President Joe Biden is welcoming leaders gathered for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference by noting that San Francisco is where “America reaches out all across the Pacific” and “a place where many left their hearts.”
November 15, 2023Britain’s Supreme Court has ruled that the government's flagship policy to send migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda is unlawful
November 15, 2023Russia’s State Duma passed a record federal budget in its second reading which aims to increase spending by around 25% in 2024, with record amounts going on defense
November 15, 2023Italian police have arrested six people in a crackdown on a network that allegedly played go-between for fentanyl trafficking from China to the United States,
November 15, 2023The United Nations Security Council is due to vote later on Wednesday on a call for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses and corridors throughout the
November 15, 2023The European Union’s executive has proposed to the member states a new package of sanctions targeting Russia
November 15, 2023Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is signaling that she's willing to put her name forward for NATO’s top job when it falls vacant next year
November 15, 2023Édgar Barrera is one of the most in-demand people in music
November 15, 2023For years, the Houthi rebels controlling northern Yemen have chanted slogans at their mass rallies calling for the destruction of Israel
November 15, 2023A woman has gone on trial in St. Petersburg in the bombing at a cafe that killed a prominent Russian military blogger after he was given a bust of himself that then exploded
November 15, 2023Over one desperate and blood-soaked Saturday, Hadar Bachar was transformed from an ordinary 13-year-old girl into the coordinator of her family's fight
November 15, 2023A top Ukrainian official says its troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson, an important advance in overcoming one of Russia’s most significant strategic barriers in the war
November 15, 2023Taiwan will take part in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in San Francisco this week, a rare opportunity for the self-governing island democracy of 23 million people and its high-tech economy to break the diplomatic embargo on it imposed by authoritarian China
November 15, 2023The European Union proposes to make labor migration easier for specific jobs where the 27 nations can no longer find a local talent pool
November 15, 2023Officials from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban welcomed the resumption of FlyDubai flights to Kabul international airport
November 15, 2023Japanese actor-director Takeshi Kitano says he wanted his new film “Kubi” to show the world of samurai in ways that mainstream movies have rarely done before, by portraying the homosexual, love-hate relationship of warlords in one of Japan’s best known historical episodes
November 15, 2023Qatari mediators on Wednesday sought to negotiate a deal between Hamas and Israel that included the release of around 50 civilian
November 15, 2023More than 200 conservative Muslims marched in Indonesia’s capital, calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s concert on Wednesday night over the British band’s support for the LGBTQ+ community
November 15, 2023A man who was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson, whose neck was cut by a skate during a game, has been released on bail
November 15, 2023U.S. public support for Israel's war against Hamas militants in Gaza is eroding and most Americans think Israel should call a ceasefire to a
November 15, 2023Ahead of the highly anticipated meeting on Wednesday between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese state media have taken a new tone toward the U.S. with less negative coverage, calls for a return to warmer ties and stories of Americans with positive connections to the country
November 15, 2023A Myanmar army battalion based near the Chinese border has reportedly surrendered to an alliance of ethnic armed groups that launched a surprise offensive last month in the country’s northeast
November 15, 2023The European Union’s executive commission has lowered growth its expectations for this year and next, saying the economy “has lost momentum” as inflation discourages consumers and higher interest rates deter borrowing for purchases and investment
November 15, 2023Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has defended his controversial amnesty deal for Catalonia’s separatists in parliament
November 15, 2023Iran's supreme leader delivered a clear message to the head of Hamas when they met in Tehran in early November, according to three
November 15, 2023A doctor in Gaza's Al Shifa hospital told Reuters on Wednesday that gunfire forced staff to stay away from windows for their safety as Israeli forces began raiding the
November 15, 2023European Union negotiators have reached a deal to reduce highly polluting methane gas emissions from the energy sector across the 27-nation bloc
November 15, 2023Two and a half weeks after sending tanks and ground troops into northern Gaza, Israeli forces have entered a hospital that they claim Hamas operates out of
November 15, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping have emerged from their first face-to-face meeting in a year vowing to stabilize their fraught relationship and showcasing modest agreements to combat illegal fentanyl and re-establish military communications
November 15, 2023Inflation in the U.K. dropped sharply in October to its lowest level in two years largely because last year's steep rise in domestic energy bills dropped out of the annual comparison
November 15, 2023China and the U.S. have pledged to accelerate their efforts to address climate change ahead of a major U.N. meeting on the issue
November 15, 2023Asian shares have retreated after Wall Street added a bit more to its big rally from a day before
November 15, 2023Israeli troops stormed into Gaza’s largest hospital, searching for traces of Hamas inside and beneath the facility filled with hundreds of patients, including newborns, who have gone for days without electricity and with little food
November 15, 2023The United States Agency for International Development says it plans to restart food aid deliveries for millions of people across Ethiopia in December, five months after it halted its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials
November 15, 2023The British government says it will still try to send some migrants on a one-way trip to Rwanda, despite the U.K. Supreme Court ruling that the contentious plan is illegal
November 15, 2023A German thinktank has reported that to prevent global warming from surpassing the critical threshold of 1.5 Celsius, major Asian economies must ensure they can get half of their total electricity from renewables by 2030
November 15, 2023China has reported its economic growth showed more signs of rekindling in October as retail sales and factory output picked up even though the property sector remained sluggish
November 15, 2023Dozens of tiny grocery stores have sprung up around Cuba in recent months
November 15, 2023Batman and the Joker, a man decked out in a full-body lion costume, another whose head and arms have been replaced by chainsaws
November 15, 2023President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to restore some military-to-military communications between their armed forces
November 15, 2023Madagascar police have imposed a night-time curfew in the capital after the torching of some polling stations ahead of a presidential election set for Thursday
November 15, 2023A new report has identified nearly 500 industrial fishing vessels where workers face hazardous, forced conditions sometimes akin to slavery
November 15, 2023Some of the 40 workers trapped for days in a collapsed road tunnel in northern India are getting sick, while falling debris and technical glitches delay the work to free them
November 15, 2023After four failed attempts, the U.N. Security Council is trying for a fifth time to come up with a resolution on the Israel-Hamas war
November 15, 2023The leader of the United Arab Emirates has toured the Dubai Air Show as a sanctioned arms supplier displayed an attack helicopter used in Russia's war on Ukraine
November 15, 2023The latest honor for Salman Rushdie was a prize kept secret until minutes before he rose from his seat to accept it
November 15, 2023Japan has reported that its economy contracted at a 2.1% annual pace in July-September as consumption and investment weakened
November 15, 2023The company run by Mexican TV, retail and banking magnate Ricardo Salinas Pliego says it has failed to reach agreement with bondholders in the United States who are owed tens of millions of dollars in past-due payments
November 15, 2023North Korea says it has successfully tested new solid-fuel engines designed for intermediate-range ballistic missiles
November 15, 2023Israeli troops found a command centre and weapons and combat gear belonging to Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza's biggest hospital on Wednesday, Israel's
November 15, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold their long anticipated meeting at Filoli, a historic country house and museum with lavish gardens just south of San Francisco
November 14, 2023Colombia has begun the sterilization of hippopotamuses, descendants of animals illegally brought to the country by late drug kingpin Pablo Escobar in the 1980s
November 14, 2023The chairman of the U.S.
November 14, 2023Taika Waititi would really rather just go to the beach
November 14, 2023Police in El Salvador have arrested 10 people accused of operating a migrant smuggling ring
November 14, 2023The Biden administration has extended by four months a sanctions waiver that will allow Iraq to continue to purchase electricity from Iran
November 14, 2023The captain of Israel’s soccer team displayed the shoe of a young boy that he said was kidnapped by Hamas militants during their deadly Oct. 7 raid, an act of solidarity with those Israelis still being held captive in the Gaza Strip ahead of the team’s Wednesday game in Hungary
November 14, 2023The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza's largest hospital Al Shifa to run its military operations,
November 14, 2023Supporters of Israel have rallied by the tens of thousands on Washington's National Mall, voicing solidarity in the fight against Hamas and crying “never again.”
November 14, 2023Does Paris have too many SUVs
November 14, 2023A lawyer for a man convicted in the 2006 killing of Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya received a presidential pardon after a stint fighting in Ukraine
November 14, 2023Cuba wants to tap its fast-growing overseas population for fresh investment to lift its economy,
November 14, 2023Police in England have arrested a man on suspicion of manslaughter in the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson whose neck was cut by a skate during a game
November 14, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he is engaged in daily discussions to secure a release of hostages being held by Hamas and he believes it is going to happen.
November 14, 2023A well-known doctor at Gaza’s largest hospital was killed along with three relatives in an airstrike on the home where they were sheltering
November 14, 2023U.S.
November 14, 2023British Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch signed a memorandum of understanding with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Tuesday to
November 14, 2023Beyond the engineering, the athleticism, the speed, the luxury, fans love the sound of Formula One
November 14, 2023The Dutch government on Tuesday gave up on a provisional plan to cut the number of flights at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to reduce noise pollution, the Transportation Ministry
November 14, 2023The BBC says two more people have come forward to complain about Russell Brand since the broadcaster launched a review into the actor and comedian’s behavior
November 14, 2023The United States says it has imposed a third round of sanctions on a group of Hamas officials, members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad who work to transfer money from Iran to Gaza, and a Lebanese money exchange service that facilitates the transfers
November 14, 2023Vivian Silver, a Canadian-born Israeli activist who devoted her life to seeking peace with the Palestinians, was confirmed killed in Hamas’ Oct. 7 incursion into southern Israel
November 14, 2023European Union nations have acknowledged they may fail to fulfill a promise for ammunition Ukraine needs to stave off Russia's invasion and win back occupied territory
November 14, 2023An expert scientific committee advising the British government recommended for the first time Tuesday that children should be immunized with the chickenpox vaccine — decades after the shots were made widely available in other countries, including the U.S., Canada and Australia
November 14, 2023Flagship EU legislation that's meant to force European companies to screen out climate harms from their business operations faces being dramatically watered down
November 14, 2023European Union lawmakers have adopted a series of amendments to a draft law that is intended to keep sexually explicit photos and videos of minors from circulating online
November 14, 2023Long-haul carrier Emirates has signaled it will hold off on a major purchase of Airbus A350 aircraft over concerns about their Rolls Royce engines, marking a major blow for the European manufacturer during the Dubai Air Show
November 14, 2023A Moscow court has fined Google for failing to store personal data on its Russian users
November 14, 2023Two global reports say humanity’s fight to curb climate change is failing in dozens of ways with people getting sicker and dying as the world warms and the fossil fuels causing it get more subsidies
November 14, 2023Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of major Apple supplier Foxconn, has collected three times the amount of signatures needed to qualify to run in Taiwan's presidential elections,
November 14, 2023The Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission will debate a bill approving Sweden's NATO membership on Thursday, according to the official agenda of the commission.
November 14, 2023Liberian President George Weah's quest for a second term faces a close runoff vote on Tuesday
November 14, 2023The Israeli military says its forces are raiding Gaza’s largest hospital, the site of a lengthy standoff with the Hamas militant group
November 14, 2023Australia's immigration minister says three murderers are among 81 foreigners recently released after the High Court ruled their indefinite detention in migrant centers was unconstitutional
November 14, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher, cheered by a rally on Wall Street that was one of the best days of the year following a surprisingly encouraging report on inflation
November 14, 2023Comedian John Oliver has succeeded in his campaign to have what he describes as a weird, puking bird with a colorful mullet win New Zealand’s Bird of the Century contest
November 14, 2023At an age when many of his contemporaries have long since retired, King Charles III is not one to put his feet up
November 14, 2023Internal documents obtained by The Associated Press show that the World Health Organization has paid $250 each to at least 104 women in Congo who say they were sexually abused or exploited by Ebola outbreak responders
November 14, 2023The Israeli army says its forces are carrying out “a precise and targeted operation” against Hamas militants in a specific area of Shifa hospital, the largest in the besieged territory of Gaza
November 14, 2023The head of the Catholic church in China has begun a trip to Hong Kong at the invitation of the city’s pope-appointed Roman Catholic cardinal, marking the first official visit by a Beijing bishop in history
November 14, 2023When Hurricane Otis roared into Acapulco Bay on Oct 25 with 165 mile per hour winds, sailor Ruben Torres recorded a 10-second audio message from a yacht called the Sereno
November 14, 2023President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping have swept into San Francisco and are making their final preparations for their first engagement in a year
November 14, 2023Thousands have marched in Mexico’s capital demanding justice for an influential LGBTQ+ figure who was found dead at home in the city of Aguascalientes after receiving death threats
November 14, 2023Author Sarah Bernstein has won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel “Study for Obedience.”
November 14, 2023Taiwan is working on securing a one-on-one meeting with U.S.
November 14, 2023North Korea criticised the Group of Seven countries as a "remnant of the Cold War" that causes conflicts for their own interests and violates other countries' sovereignty, its state
November 14, 2023South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he will discuss international response to the purported North Korean-Russian weapons deal during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco this week
November 14, 2023The White House said on Tuesday its independent intelligence supported Israel's claim that Hamas was using Gaza's
November 14, 2023Satellite imagery shows progress in the construction in Russia of a plant that will mass produce Iranian-designed kamikaze drones that Moscow is expected to target against
November 13, 2023U.S. officials are expressing hope that this week's highly anticipated face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will produce some concrete results
November 13, 2023Santa Anita Park, a renowned Southern California horse racing venue, has built a reputation for having stringent safety measures to protect its equine athletes. However, recent revelations have raised serious concerns within the horse racing community regarding hypocrisy and favoritism at the track. The issues center around trainer Dan Blacker, who was cited for a staggering 527 violations by the California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) for failing to schedule veterinary examinations within 72 hours of racehorses’ workouts. This violation was uncovered following the tragic breakdown and subsequent euthanization of Blacker’s unraced 2-year-old filly, Animae, after a workout. Investigators found that
November 13, 2023Gaza’s Shifa Hospital has become the focus of a dayslong stalemate in Israel’s war against Hamas
November 13, 2023The White House said on Monday
November 13, 2023Hundreds of Jewish peace activists and allies from across the Midwest have called for a cease-fire in Gaza at a major Chicago train station
November 13, 2023The flowed facade of fraternity life has long obscured a troubling underbelly of secretive wrongdoing. This was never more apparent than in the unraveling of a sprawling fraternity crime ring that recently sent shockwaves across the southern United States. Led by an ambitious college student named Mikey Schmidt, this clandestine criminal enterprise exploited the loyalty and resources of fraternity networks to facilitate an array of illicit activities. Over time, the seemingly innocuous traditions and rituals of fraternity life became breeding grounds for increasingly serious criminal transgressions. The eventual downfall of this crime ring would expose unsettling truths about the capacity
November 13, 2023Mexican migration authorities said on Monday they had rounded up 246 migrants from around a major bus terminal in the north of the capital city, including more than 50 children
November 13, 2023Many remember David Cameron as the man who took Britain out of the European Union
November 13, 2023An associate of opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been jailed by a court in the Siberian city of Tomsk pending trial
November 13, 2023Nepal’s government has decided to ban the popular social media app TikTok, saying it was disrupting “social harmony” in the country
November 13, 2023El Salvador’s government has begun slapping a $1,130 fee on travelers from dozens of countries connecting through the nation’s main airport
November 13, 2023The tiny Caribbean island of Dominica is creating the world’s first marine protected area for one of earth’s largest animals: the endangered sperm whale
November 13, 2023The U.S. Army Special Operations Command says the five soldiers killed when their helicopter crashed in the Eastern Mediterranean over the weekend were national treasures whose loss cut deeply
November 13, 2023Olympic sports bodies want urgent talks with the IOC about the risk of cuts in their revenue shares and athlete quotas at the 2028 Los Angeles Games because cricket and other newcomers have been added to the program
November 13, 2023Yemeni officials say a migrant boat capsized off the coast of war-torn Yemen, leaving dozens of people, mostly from the Horn of Africa, missing
November 13, 2023Donald Trump Jr. is set to testify again on Monday in his father's civil fraud trial, this time called by the defense to field questions about the former U.S. president's
November 13, 2023Fledgling U.S.
November 13, 2023Leaders from the United States and the Southeast Asian country of Indonesia will meet on Monday for talks that will set the stage for U.S.
November 13, 2023President Joe Biden and Indonesian President Joko Widodo have formalized closer ties between their countries at the White House
November 13, 2023The 27 European Union nations have jointly condemned Hamas for what they described as the use of hospitals and civilians as “human shields” in the war against Israel
November 13, 2023The United States and South Korea have updated a bilateral security agreement to more effectively counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile threats
November 13, 2023Former British Prime Minister David Cameron has made an unexpected return to high office
November 13, 2023A terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle involving her parents, British health officials and the Italian government has died
November 13, 2023Israel signalled on Monday it would hold off on a threatened closure of the local bureau of Al Jazeera, leaving the powerful Qatar-owned satellite station
November 13, 2023Fighting between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants outside Gaza’s largest hospital has prompted thousands of people to flee from the medical facility
November 13, 2023A Philippine court has freed on bail of a former senator jailed more than six years ago on drug charges she said were fabricated to silence her investigation of then-President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal crackdown on illegal drugs
November 13, 2023Health officials say battles between Israel and Hamas around hospitals forced thousands of Palestinians to flee from some of the last perceived safe places in northern Gaza
November 13, 2023Efforts to create a landmark treaty to end global plastic pollution are advancing at a meeting where participants are discussing the treaty's draft language for the first time
November 13, 2023The United States is hosting the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference this week for the first time since 2011
November 13, 2023President Joe Biden has said the Israel-Palestinian conflict can’t go back to the “status quo” before Hamas’ brutal surprise attack on Oct. 7 and Israel’s devastating response in Gaza
November 13, 2023In a war where journalist access is limited, there's a flood of video available online from the Israel-Hamas war
November 13, 2023Rescuers are digging through dirt and parts of a collapsed road tunnel to reach 40 workers trapped by a landslide in northern India
November 13, 2023Long-haul carrier Emirates says it will buy Boeing Co. aircraft in a deal worth $52 billion
November 13, 2023South Korea and the United States have revised a bilateral security agreement aimed at deterring North Korea's advancing nuclear and missile threats
November 13, 2023Australia's immigration minister says 80 people including convicted criminals who are considered dangerous have been released from Australian migrant detention centers since the High Court ruled last week that their indefinite detention wis unconstitutional
November 13, 2023Asian shares are trading mostly higher ahead of potentially market-moving developments, including a U.S.-China summit and data releases in the U.S., Japan and China
November 13, 2023Combat training programs provided by Ukraine’s allies are hitting major milestones even as global attention shifts to the Israel-Hamas war
November 13, 2023Nearly three dozen Brazilians who had been trapped inside Gaza for weeks, and whose predicament had driven a diplomatic wedge between Brasilia and Israel,
November 12, 2023Greece’s main opposition party has suffered a split after a left-wing faction announced it was breaking away, accusing the party’s recently elected leader of abandoning its core ideology for a sort of “right-wing populism.”
November 12, 2023Former Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been found guilty of four counts of sexual assault in a Canadian court but was acquitted of a fifth count plus a charge of forcible confinement
November 12, 2023Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has dismissed the prime minister and replaced him with the head of his cabinet ahead of national elections next year and at a time when economic anxieties are running high
November 12, 2023Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is visiting Israel on a mission to express solidarity in its war against Hamas
November 12, 2023U.S. officials say five U.S. service members were killed when a military helicopter crashed during training over the eastern Mediterranean Sea
November 12, 2023Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel had offered fuel to Gaza's Al Shifa hospital, which suspended operations after running out of fuel, but that the militants had
November 12, 2023Israel’s military and rescue services say attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group have wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other people
November 12, 2023Climate activist Greta Thunberg has been briefly interrupted by a man who approached her on stage after she invited a Palestinian and an Afghan woman to speak at a climate protest in the Dutch capital
November 12, 2023Somali authorities say floods caused by torrential rainfall have killed at least 31 people in various parts of the country
November 12, 2023President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping’s have no shortage of difficult issues to discuss when they meet Wednesday in the San Francisco area
November 12, 2023Ukraine says Russian forces have ramped up attacks in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to gain ground near two key frontline cities
November 12, 2023More than 180,000 people across France, including 100,000 in Paris, have marched peacefully to protest against rising antisemitism in the wake of Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza
November 12, 2023Israel said it was poised to impose quiet
November 12, 2023As Israel unleashes one of the most-intense aerial bombing campaigns the Middle East has ever seen, leaders from the world’s top air forces are meeting in the United Arab Emirates to talk about almost anything that isn’t an airstrike
November 12, 2023English soldier Ken Hay was trapped behind German lines and captured while on night patrol in 1944, days after joining the Allied invasion of Normandy, a turning point in
November 12, 2023Water taps flow just one day out of three in Mayotte, a French territory off Africa’s eastern coast
November 12, 2023Health officials and people trapped inside Gaza’s largest hospital are rejecting Israel's claims that it is helping babies and others evacuate, saying fighting continues just outside the facility where incubators lay idle without electricity and critical supplies are running out
November 12, 2023Millions of Indians are celebrating Diwali, the Hindu festival of light, with a Guinness World Record number of bright earthen oil lamps as concerns about air pollution soared in the South Asian country
November 12, 2023Candidates in a Nov. 22 general election in the Netherlands are making migration a major issue in the campaign
November 12, 2023Thousands of children in South Africa's poorest and most remote rural communities still face a miles-long walk to school, nearly 30 years after the country ushered in democratic change
November 12, 2023Activists protesting environmental abuses, poor working conditions and the Israel-Hamas war are protesting a global trade summit
November 12, 2023The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights
November 12, 2023Latvia’s president says Russia is planning for a long war in Ukraine and he warns that countries need to keep supplying weapons to Kyiv to discourage Moscow from threatening other nations in the future
November 12, 2023Israel's military said it was ready to evacuate babies from Gaza's largest hospital on Sunday, where Palestinian officials
November 11, 2023Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in the clashing narratives of the conflict
November 11, 2023Mexico's ruling party has named its candidates for eight governorships and the mayorship of Mexico City
November 11, 2023Volunteers are taking part in an effort to extend the habitat of the most emblematic and endangered species of Rio de Janeiro’s rural interior — the golden lion tamarin
November 11, 2023Tens of thousands of people have marched through Warsaw in an event organized by nationalist groups as Poland celebrates its Independence Day holiday
November 11, 2023As a U.S. Navy surveillance plane flew in circles, dozens of Chinese coast guard and accompanying ships chased and encircled Philippine vessels in the latest confrontation in the South China Sea
November 11, 2023Residents of a fishing town in southwestern Iceland have left their homes after increasing concern about a potential volcanic eruption caused civil defense authorities to declare a state of emergency in the region
November 11, 2023People around the globe are remembering the slaughter and losses from four years of fighting during World War I just over a century ago that was supposed to amount to “the war to end all wars.”
November 11, 2023The husband of a Russian-American journalist working for a U.S. government-funded media company who is detained in Russia has called for her speedy release
November 11, 2023Japan's navy on Saturday announced the start of a joint annual military exercise, with the Philippines observing the operations for the first time
November 11, 2023Supporters of the Palestinians have marched peacefully through central London as right-wing counter-protesters clashed with police after a week of angry debate over whether to permit the demonstration on a day when Britain honored its war dead
November 11, 2023One year since Ukraine retook the city of Kherson from occupying Russian forces, residents have grown accustomed to the sounds of bombs reminding them that the war is far from over
November 11, 2023A military court in Myanmar has sentenced a general who until recently was a senior member of the country’s ruling council to five years in prison for abusing his authority and taking bribes
November 11, 2023Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pushing back against growing international calls for a cease-fire, saying Israel’s battle to crush Gaza’s ruling Hamas militants would continue with “full force.”
November 11, 2023Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s chances of forming a new coalition minority government following an inconclusive election in July have been greatly boosted by a deal with a tiny party he surely hoped he would never have to rely on
November 11, 2023President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are preparing to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this coming week in San Francisco
November 11, 2023Mexican officials have imposed severe, monthslong cuts to Mexico City’s water supply just a month after initial restrictions were ordered as drought dries the capital’s reservoirs
November 11, 2023Almost seven months of war between Sudan’s military and a powerful paramilitary group have left a wave of destruction
November 11, 2023Shoppers in China have been tightening their purse strings, raising questions over how faltering consumer confidence may affect the annual Singles’ Day online retail extravaganza
November 11, 2023Israel faced mounting international pressure, including from its main ally the United States, to do more to protect Palestinian civilians in Gaza as the death
November 11, 2023The former wife of a Microsoft executive who was killed in Florida last year has been arrested for allegedly conspiring with her new spouse to commit the murder. According to prosecutors, Shanna Gardner-Fernandez allegedly planned for several months to have her former spouse, Jared Bridegan, murdered in the presence of their young child. Gardner-Fernandez was indicted by a grand jury for the killing that took place in February 2022. The charges include first-degree murder and child abuse. She was taken into custody in Washington state and will be sent to Florida. Prosecutors are also seeking capital punishment against her and
November 10, 2023A child is killed on average every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the United
November 10, 2023Scientists in China are constructing the biggest detector on Earth to capture elusive subatomic particles called neutrinos, by anchoring thousands of sensors over a mile deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. Named the Tropical Deep-sea Neutrino Telescope (TRIDENT), the massive project will be online by 2030. By leveraging the ocean’s depth, TRIDENT will observe cosmic neutrinos in unprecedented detail as they briefly interact with water molecules. Neutrinos are nicknamed “ghost particles” because they pass through matter unaffected, including our entire planet. But TRIDENT’s enormous scale increases the chance to detect neutrinos when they rarely collide with water particles, producing telltale flashes
November 10, 2023U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says she and her Chinese counterpart have agreed to work toward a “healthy economic relationship,” during two days of talks that she said helped lay the groundwork for a productive meeting next week between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping
November 10, 2023More than two weeks ago Otis went from tropical storm to Category 5 hurricane in a record 12 hours
November 10, 2023A British judge has expressed profound concerns about the tactics of the parents of a terminally ill infant as he refused to allow them to take her home from the hospital to die
November 10, 2023Israel’s national soccer team has arrived in Kosovo amid tight security measures at the airport ahead of a postponed European Championship qualifier
November 10, 2023With new categories, “Barbie” and SZA — there’s a lot to discuss regarding the 2024 Grammy Award nominations
November 10, 2023In a groundbreaking procedure at NYU Langone Health, surgeons successfully completed a full-eye transplant on a living human, requiring approximately 21 hours. Aaron James, aged 46, now holds renewed optimism following this remarkable surgery. The operation came in the aftermath of a tragic electrical accident that inflicted extensive damage to his left eye and facial features. In June 2021, James, a former soldier from Arkansas, suffered profound facial injuries during his military service. His face made contact with a live electrical wire, delivering a powerful 7,200-volt shock. The aftermath of this incident led to the loss of his left eye,
November 10, 2023Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell has been increasingly isolated on foreign policy among his GOP colleagues, a growing number of whom have distanced themselves as a matter of course from U.S. involvement abroad -- and particularly on Ukraine
November 10, 2023A Palestinian envoy on Friday criticised Western states for supporting Ukraine by calling out Russia's violations of international law while stopping short of naming
November 10, 2023Niger fashion designer Alia Bare took center stage at the Joburg Fashion Week with a collection that she hopes will spread a positive image of her troubled country, suffering from instability and economic sanctions that followed a military coup earlier this year
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November 10, 2023Pressure is growing on Tesla in Sweden, where a trade union is demanding that the Texas-based automaker sign a collective bargaining agreement, which most employees in the Scandinavian country have
November 10, 2023The Jordan River winds for 200-plus miles to the east of Israel and the occupied West Bank, while the Mediterranean glitters to the west
November 10, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron says melting glaciers pose “an unprecedented challenge for humanity.”
November 10, 2023A Norwegian citizen originally from Iran has been charged with aggravated terrorism over a deadly shooting in June 2022 ahead of an LGBTQ festival in the nightlife district of the capital, Oslo
November 10, 2023Dozens of conservative Muslims are calling for the cancellation of Coldplay’s concert this month in Indonesia
November 10, 2023President Joe Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping face-to-face for the first time in a year on Wednesday, according to senior U.S. officials, high-
November 10, 2023The White House says President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping will discuss trade, Taiwan and fraught U.S.-Chinese relations when they meet next week in the San Francisco Bay area
November 10, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says “far too many” Palestinians have died and suffered as Israel wages a relentless war against the militant Hamas group in the Gaza Strip
November 10, 2023Turkey's president has backpedaled after siding with a top appeals court that defied a Constitutional Court ruling calling for the release of an imprisoned opposition lawmaker
November 10, 2023In recent years, koi have become hugely popular in Asia, with exports doubling over the past decade
November 10, 2023Prince Harry's lawsuit against Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL), publisher of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, can go to trial, London's High Court ruled on Friday.
November 10, 2023France says it has been the target of a Russian online destabilization campaign that used bots to whip up controversy and confusion about spray-painted Stars of David that appeared on Paris streets
November 10, 2023A British judge has ruled that a lawsuit by Prince Harry, Elton John and five other public figures accusing a tabloid publisher of unlawful information-gathering should go to a full trial
November 10, 2023Spirits and beer giant Diageo saw billions wiped off its market value on Friday after it warned that a sharp slowdown in its business in Latin America and the Caribbean was hitting sales and potential profits
November 10, 2023Prince Harry, singer Elton John and five other high-profile British figures can have their lawsuit against the publisher of the Daily Mail paper alleging widespread unlawful
November 10, 2023Fans of Philip Pullman have been waiting almost five years for the final instalment in the author’s sextet of books about his intrepid heroine Lyra and her adventures in multiple worlds
November 10, 2023A government official from China’s Tibetan region has rejected allegations of forced assimilation and curbs on religious freedom, while stressing that Tibetan Buddhism should adapt to the Chinese context
November 10, 2023Thousands of Palestinians sheltering from the Israel-Hamas war at Gaza City’s main hospital are fleeing south after several reported strikes in and around the compound overnight
November 10, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has visited his southern military headquarters as he assesses the state of his country's forces in Ukraine as the war drags on toward winter
November 10, 2023Thousands of Palestinians are fleeing northern Gaza as Israel’s military pushes deeper into dense urban neighborhoods in its battle with Hamas militants
November 10, 2023The British economy flatlined in the third quarter of the year
November 10, 2023Australia is offering the island nation of Tuvalu a lifeline to help residents escape the rising seas and increased storms that climate change is bringing
November 10, 2023Nearly two decades ago, Catholic priest Guilherme Peixoto started mixing up rock music at karaoke fundraisers for his debt-ridden parish in a small Portuguese village
November 10, 2023Wall Street rose sharply to add to an already strong November, which is on track to be one of the market's best months of the year
November 10, 2023The top diplomats and defense chiefs from India and the United States have met in New Delhi to discuss security issues in the Indo-Pacific, China and the Israel-Hamas war
November 10, 2023Jewish refugees from the war between Israel and Hamas are finding safety in an unused lakeside resort in the Hungarian countryside
November 10, 2023French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has set off a cacophony of criticism over her plans to attend a weekend march to protest rising antisemitism in France
November 10, 2023World leaders, CEOS, protesters and thousands of others will soon descend on San Francisco for a high-profile trade summit that could give the battered city a chance to reverse its image as a powerhouse in decline
November 10, 2023The Oct. 7 Hamas raid on Israel — and Israel's response — have led to demonstrations on college campuses that have sometimes turned violent
November 10, 2023Makram Daboub may be struggling to prepare his Palestinian team for the start of 2026 World Cup qualification but he takes some comfort — for now at least — that his players stuck in Gaza are safe
November 10, 2023The Grammy nominations have been announced and SZA leads the way with nine nominations
November 10, 2023U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is suggesting that a ransomware attack that forced China’s biggest bank to take some systems offline only minimally disrupted the U.S. Treasury market
November 10, 2023Internet access across the war-torn nation of Yemen collapsed Friday and stayed down for hours, with officials later blaming unannounced “maintenance work” for the outage
November 10, 2023A new U.N. report paints a stark picture of the collapsing Palestinian economy after a month of war and Israel’s near-total siege of Gaza
November 10, 2023More than 60 countries have said they back a deal spearheaded by the European Union, United States and United Arab Emirates to
November 10, 2023The United States on Friday expressed growing concern about the rising Palestinian death toll in the Gaza Strip where health officials said the
November 10, 2023China's ambassador to the United states, Xie Feng, said the most important thing is to find the right way for China and the United States to get along.
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November 09, 2023Politics was suddenly a topic of conversation as thousands of Taylor Swift fans eagerly lined up for the superstar’s first-ever concert in Argentina
November 09, 2023The Dominican Republic is accusing Haiti of multiple border violations in the latest dispute involving their shared frontier on the island of Hispaniola
November 09, 2023Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has announced he's dissolving the nation’s parliament and calling an early election two days after Prime Minister António Costa resigned with his government tainted by a corruption scandal
November 09, 2023Two-way star and coveted free agent Shohei Ohtani is donating about 60,000 baseball gloves to Japanese elementary schools
November 09, 2023A global "peace summit" for Ukraine may now take place in February 2024, a top Kyiv official said on Thursday amid concerns in the West that the war in Gaza is making it
November 09, 2023Any halt to fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas in the Gaza Strip for humanitarian purposes would need to be coordinated with the United Nations and need
November 09, 2023Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has told ABC News that he suffered a minor stroke while attending a business conference in Mexico City
November 09, 2023The Blue Lagoon geothermal spa, one of Iceland’s biggest tourist attractions, has closed temporarily as a swarm of earthquakes put the island nation’s most populated region on alert for a possible volcanic eruption
November 09, 2023Kenya says it won't deploy its police officers to Haiti until all conditions on training and funding are met in line with last month’s approval from the U
November 09, 2023Fistfights break out in bread lines
November 09, 2023Russian-installed health officials in Crimea say private clinics on the Moscow-annexed peninsula have “voluntarily” stopped providing abortions, which means that the procedure is now only available there in state-run medical facilities
November 09, 2023Colombia’s government has announced that the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz has been released by members of a guerrilla group who kidnapped him in northern Colombia
November 09, 2023Israel will begin four-hour pauses in northern Gaza starting on Thursday to allow people to flee hostilities, the White House said in what it
November 09, 2023The White House says Israel has agreed to put in place four-hour daily humanitarian pauses in its assault on Hamas in northern Gaza
November 09, 2023Posters of the people being held hostage by Hamas after its attack on Israel last month have become visible all over the world
November 09, 2023An economic grouping that includes several ex-Soviet nations along with Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey has held a summit in Uzbekistan, and leaders of member countries have vowed to further expand trade and economic ties
November 09, 2023A Spanish right-wing politician is recovering in a hospital after being shot in the face on a street in central Madrid
November 09, 2023Analysts say that Pakistan’s crackdown on undocumented migrants risks radicalizing Afghans who have been forced out of the country
November 09, 2023Davyd Booth believes strongly that people everywhere are the same and that music touches the heart of everyone
November 09, 2023German police say a student with a handgun is suspected of having killed another student at a high school in the country’s southwest
November 09, 2023Diwali is the most important festival of the year in India and for Hindus in particular
November 09, 2023Nigeria's president has signed a controversial bill that earmarks $6.1 million for a presidential yacht and millions more for sport utility vehicles for his wife and other top government officials
November 09, 2023A Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian port of Odesa has hit a Liberian-flagged freighter, killing a port worker and wounding another, as well as three citizens of the Philippines, crew members on the ship
November 09, 2023Spain’s Socialist Party has struck a deal with a fringe Catalan separatist party to grant an amnesty for potentially thousands of people involved in the region’s failed secession bid in exchange for its key backing of acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez to form a new government
November 09, 2023Cuban Idalberto Echavarria maneuvered his wife Olga in a wheelchair to the front of the line at Terminal 2 of Havana's airport, dodging luggage and a sea of people
November 09, 2023Steve Bannon, who was a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, is set to ask a federal appeals court on Thursday to overturn his criminal
November 09, 2023The 12 months ending in October were the hottest ever recorded on Earth and likely the planet’s hottest 12-month period ever recorded, according to a report from the nonprofit science research group Climate Central
November 09, 2023People have come together across Germany to commemorate the 85th anniversary of Kristallnacht or the “Night of Broken Glass” in 1938 during which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria
November 09, 2023A faster resolution to the fighting in Gaza could help limit civilian strife that might spur people to join the ranks of Palestinian militants, U.S.
November 09, 2023International news organisation Reuters denied on Thursday any suggestion it had prior knowledge of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israeli civilians and soldiers, in a statement
November 09, 2023Britain’s interior minister has accused the country’s largest police force of being more lenient toward pro-Palestinian demonstrators than other groups
November 09, 2023Toxic gray smog has sickened tens of thousands of people in Pakistan’s cultural capital of Lahore, forcing authorities to shut schools, markets and parks for four days
November 09, 2023Japanese technology company SoftBank Group has reported it racked up a huge loss in the July-September quarter, as some of its investments soured
November 09, 2023Crowds of Palestinian families stretching as far as the eye could see walked out of Gaza City and surrounding areas toward the south Thursday
November 09, 2023An undersea volcano's eruption off Japan three weeks ago has provided a rare view of the birth of a tiny new island, but experts say it may not last long
November 09, 2023As China's navy grows and its land-based missile systems expand, the United States is reworking its strategy in the Indo-Pacific, particularly as it relates to the defense of Taiwan
November 09, 2023The Biden administration is aiming to show that its key Asian economic initiative is making progress as Pacific Rim leaders gather in San Francisco next week,
November 09, 2023Sony has reported that its profit in the July-September quarter slipped 29% from a year earlier, as damage from a strike in the movie sector offset boosts from a favorable exchange rate
November 09, 2023Asian shares have retreated after rising bond market yields once again weighed on Wall Street
November 09, 2023In the two years before the war in Ukraine, a private Boeing 737 linked to Russian oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov criss-crossed the globe, taking in the French Riviera,
November 09, 2023Police say an industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea
November 09, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration says Israel will allow a four-hour humanitarian pause each day in its combat operations in northern Gaza to allow civilians to flee to the south
November 09, 2023Western and Arab nations, international agencies and nongovernmental groups appealed for urgent aid for Gaza civilians at a Paris conference
November 09, 2023Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the United States has no desire to break economic ties with China
November 09, 2023Charlotte Knobloch was 6 years old when she saw the synagogues of Munich burning and watched helplessly as two Nazi officers marched away a beloved friend of her father who was beaten up and bleeding on the forehead
November 09, 2023Nearly half of Democrats disapprove of how President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Hamas conflict
November 09, 2023The United States and South Korea closed ranks behind common approaches to North Korea, Russia and China, vowing to continue to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion and boosting humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza caught in Israel’s war against Hamas
November 09, 2023South Pacific leaders are heading to the stunning island of Aitutaki to discuss climate change and other regional concerns
November 09, 2023International journalists escorted by the Israeli military got a glimpse of the devastation wrought by nearly two weeks of heavy fighting in the northern Gaza Strip
November 09, 2023In the United States, the national conference of Catholic bishops rejects the concept of gender transition, leaving many transgender Catholics feeling excluded
November 08, 2023A Michigan man recounted the fear and desperation he and his wife faced while trying to flee Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas
November 08, 2023Debate over proposed regulations for deep-sea mining will stretch into next year as a U.N. agency that presides over the international seabed has concluded its last meeting of the year
November 08, 2023Microsoft Japan recently tested a radical perk for its workers: a four-day workweek with pay for five days of work. Employees took off entire Fridays in August while receiving their normal salaries. Microsoft says this compressed schedule boosted productivity by 40% compared to August 2018. The company also cut meeting times from 60 to 30 minutes, capping attendance at five people per session. Microsoft urged using chat instead of wasteful emails and meetings. The news excited workers in Japan and globally, with many hoping for four-day weeks at their own jobs. Microsoft isn’t alone in experimenting with abbreviated schedules. In
November 08, 2023The United States, for the second time in recent weeks, carried out strikes on Wednesday against a weapon storage facility in eastern Syria that the Pentagon said
November 08, 2023A Washington man is suing a Seattle hospital and two doctors for medical malpractice after he claims they removed the wrong organ during emergency surgery last December. George Piano and his wife Elizabeth filed the lawsuit November 2 against the University of Washington Medical Center and surgeons Nidhi Udyavar and Paul Herman. The 13-page complaint alleges botched surgery and serious complications resulting from the doctors’ failure to remove Piano’s appendix as intended. The lawsuit states that on December 6th, Piano experienced stomach pain and went to the UW Medical Center emergency department, where he was diagnosed with appendicitis. His inflamed
November 08, 2023The Pentagon says the U.S. has carried out an airstrike on a weapons warehouse in eastern Syria
November 08, 2023A federal court jury has found a man not guilty of assaulting a woman at a U.S. research station in Antarctica
November 08, 2023Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not elaborate when he said that Israel would maintain indefinite “overall security responsibility” in Gaza once it removes Hamas from power in response to the Islamic militant group's cross-border raid
November 08, 2023Newsman Bob Woodruff has returned to the Iraqi roadside where a bomb nearly killed him while on assignment for ABC News in 2006
November 08, 2023The family of a prominent Palestinian activist is fighting Israel's arrest of the young woman, saying she is being punished for an online post she didn't write
November 08, 2023Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are urging President Joe Biden to take steps to protect Palestinians in the United States as the Israel-Hamas war continues
November 08, 2023Two giant pandas and their cub are headed from the National Zoo in Washington to China
November 08, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken is calling for a united and Palestinian-led government for Gaza and the West Bank after the war ends, as a step toward Palestinian statehood
November 08, 2023A Russian news agency is reporting that the country is preparing to send a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war to the front lines in their homeland to fight on Moscow’s side in the war
November 08, 2023Hundreds of Azerbaijani soldiers have paraded through the capital city of the Karabakh region that came under full control of Azerbaijan in September after a lightning rout of ethnic Armenian forces
November 08, 2023A federal jury convicted two longtime U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration supervisors Wednesday of leaking confidential information to defense attorneys as part of a bribery conspiracy that prosecutors said imperiled high-profile cases and the lives of overseas drug informants
November 08, 2023About 3,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have blocked traffic on one of Mexico’s main southern highways to demand transit or exit visas to reach the U.S. border
November 08, 2023A judge at Britain’s High Court has ruled that life support for a terminally ill 8-month-old baby should be withdrawn at a hospice or hospital
November 08, 2023Ukraine’s intelligence agency has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that killed a member of the Russia-backed authority in the illegally annexed Luhansk region
November 08, 2023Russian authorities are seeking an eight-year prison term for an artist and musician who was jailed after protesting the war in Ukraine
November 08, 2023United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday that the number of civilians killed in the Gaza Strip shows that there is something "
November 08, 2023Arabs see the United States as complicit in Israel's war on Gaza for refusing to enforce a ceasefire until Hamas is crushed, an outcome that is far off and may not be
November 08, 2023Even before last month’s Hamas attacks in Israel, the leader of Hungary had long promoted his country as the safest in Europe for Jews
November 08, 2023President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday lauded what he described as important "high-tech" Russian military cooperation with China at a meeting in Moscow with a
November 08, 2023King Charles III has immersed himself in London’s vibrant Korean scene before the state visit later this month of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol
November 08, 2023Some insurers are excluding Israel, Lebanon and other Middle Eastern countries from their event cancellation policies after the Israel-Hamas
November 08, 2023Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia are moving forward in their quests to join the European Union
November 08, 2023Authorities in Croatia have recommended that people drink only tap water as they investigate reports of several people getting sick or suffering throat injuries allegedly after consuming bottled beverages
November 08, 2023A new study says the three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change
November 08, 2023GM's Cruise autonomous vehicle unit is recalling all 950 of its cars to update its software after one dragged a pedestrian to the side of a San Francisco street last month
November 08, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has told a senior Chinese military official that Moscow and Beijing should expand their cooperation on military satellites and other prospective defense technologies
November 08, 2023Pakistan’s prime minister has sought to reassure at least 25,000 Afghans waiting in Pakistan for resettlement in the United States that they won’t be deported as part of his government’s widely criticized crackdown on undocumented migrants in the country
November 08, 2023The International Monetary Fund says the European Central Bank and other policymakers across Europe need to keep interest rates at current elevated levels until they’re sure inflation is under control despite sluggish growth
November 08, 2023Chinese President Xi Jinping says potential risks associated with artificial intelligence are challenges that countries should deal with together
November 08, 2023Shares are meandering in Asia after a another mixed close as Wall Street recalibrates following recent big swings
November 08, 2023Thousands of Palestinians are streaming out of northern Gaza on foot in an accelerating exodus
November 08, 2023The pace of Palestinian civilians fleeing the combat zone in northern Gaza has picked up as Israel’s air and ground campaign there intensifies
November 08, 2023The U.S. plans to launch a $553 million project to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka as it competes with China in development financing
November 08, 2023The Republican presidential candidates at Wednesday's debate all say they support Israel, but they are squabbling over China and Ukraine
November 08, 2023From Western capitals to Muslim states, protest rallies over the Israel-Hamas war have made headlines
November 08, 2023Americans are divided over Israel's response to Hamas' attack one month ago
November 08, 2023The lower chamber of Mexico’s congress has once again turned to spectacle, giving hours of its time to a controversial character pressing the case for “non-human beings” he said were found in Peru
November 08, 2023In the Mediterranean's olive-growing countries, the extreme weather caused by climate change is taking a toll
November 08, 2023Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. says 40 Filipinos have fled from the war-ravaged Gaza Strip into Egypt through the Rafah crossing after Filipino diplomats negotiated for their safe passage and Qatar mediated for the border to be opened
November 08, 2023Nintendo is developing a live-action film based on its hit video game “The Legend of Zelda.”
November 08, 2023Top diplomats from the Group of Seven leading industrial democracies have called for “urgent action” to help civilians trapped in an increasingly dire situation in Gaza, including pauses in the fighting to allow aid in and people out, in announcing a unified stance on the Israel-Hamas war
November 08, 2023October was the fifth straight month that Earth set a record for the hottest month in recorded history
November 08, 2023North Korea has criticized rival South Korea for removing a law that banned private activists from sending anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to the North, insisting that such activities amount to psychological warfare and threatening to respond with a “shower of shells.”
November 08, 2023Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping remain on track to meet during next week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit
November 08, 2023Ukraine's military said on Tuesday its troops had repelled Russian assaults in widely separated sectors of the war and braced for a fresh
November 08, 2023At least 19 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a house near a hospital in north Gaza's Jabalia refugee camp on Wednesday,
November 08, 2023For over five agonizing months, Bettersten Wade searched in vain for her missing 37-year-old son Dexter after he disappeared from their Mississippi home. Unbeknownst to her, Jackson police had known since the night he vanished that Dexter died after being struck by one of their vehicles on a highway. Yet they failed to identify him or notify his mother, leaving his body unclaimed in the morgue for months. Bettersten filed a missing persons report two weeks after Dexter left home on March 5 and called police repeatedly seeking updates. But investigators told her nothing even as the county coroner buried
November 07, 2023U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a pause in fighting in Gaza during a call on Monday.
November 07, 2023A former CIA officer accused of drugging and sexually assaulting at least two dozen women has pleaded guilty to federal sex abuse charges
November 07, 2023President Joe Biden will host Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, for a meeting at the White House on Nov. 13
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November 07, 2023Israel's military is starting the next phase of its war against Hamas, targeting the Islamist group's labyrinth of tunnels and command structures in northern
November 07, 2023Chile’s National Forestry Corporation has permanently closed a popular glacier, sparking outrage from adventurers and local guides
November 07, 2023Cyprus’ energy minister says the political and economic ramifications from the ongoing Israel-Hamas war may provide an impetus to regional energy projects involving his country
November 07, 2023Mexico's government has laid out hurricane reconstruction plans for the resort of Acapulco that seem to give as much priority to building military barracks as re-opening hotels
November 07, 2023The Lebanese militia Hezbollah has traded fire with Israeli troops along the border since the day after Hamas’ Oct. 7 surprise attack in southern Israel sparked war in the Gaza Strip
November 07, 2023Israeli soldiers are operating in the heart of Gaza City, the stronghold of the Palestinian group Hamas, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Tuesday.
November 07, 2023An exiled Belarus activist has presented a second dossier of evidence to the International Criminal Court that he says proves the personal involvement of President Alexander Lukashenko in the illegal transfer of children to Belarus from Russian-occupied towns in Ukraine
November 07, 2023The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on 13 members of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa cartel and four Mexico-based firms accused of trafficking fentanyl into the United States
November 07, 2023An ethics council dismissed the chief justice of Indonesia’s top court from the post after finding him guilty of making last-minute changes to election candidacy requirements
November 07, 2023World powers meet in Paris on Thursday to coordinate aid and help for the wounded in the Palestinian enclave of
November 07, 2023State media in Myanmar says the military-run Southeast Asian nation is holding its first joint naval exercise with Russia
November 07, 2023Authorities in Bangladesh have announced a new minimum wage for garment factory workers after weeks of violent protests
November 07, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ruled out a presidential vote next spring and is urging his countrymen to avoid political divides, saying the country must concentrate all its resources on fighting Russian aggression
November 07, 2023Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has resigned while his government is involved in a widespread corruption probe
November 07, 2023UBS has reported a $255 million pre-tax loss, shed some 4,000 jobs globally, cut costs faster than expected, and reaped billions in asset inflows in the third quarter
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November 07, 2023Clashes have erupted in Spain for a second night between police and protesters who oppose the acting government's negotiations with Catalan separatist parties over a possible amnesty for thousands of secessionists in the northeastern region
November 07, 2023A top U.S. envoy said in Beirut that Washington doesn’t want the ongoing war in Gaza to expand to Lebanon after a Lebanese woman and her three granddaughters were killed in an Israeli strike two days ago
November 07, 2023Masks are back on the New Delhi streets as residents grapple with the annual surge in air pollution that has engulfed the Indian capital region
November 07, 2023NATO allies have frozen their participation in a key Cold War-era security treaty in response to Russia’s withdrawal from the pact
November 07, 2023Britain’s Conservative government is setting out a pre-election policy slate including tougher sentences for criminals and measures to boost economic growth
November 07, 2023Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Germany’s 16 state governors have agreed on new, stricter measures in an effort to curb the large number of migrants coming to the country
November 07, 2023Nintendo is reporting an 18% rise in its net profit for the first fiscal half, as sales were boosted by its hit Super Mario movie
November 07, 2023Fresh from a whirlwind tour of the Middle East, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has shifted his intense diplomacy on the Israel-Hamas war to Asia
November 07, 2023The Israeli army says its forces are battling Hamas fighters inside Gaza’s largest city, signaling a major new stage a month into a war that has claimed thousands of lives and leveled swaths of the territory
November 07, 2023The Philadelphia Orchestra has returned to Beijing for a tour that will mark 50 years since its historic performance in China, the latest sign of improving ties between the two countries ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping
November 07, 2023Israel’s military said it was advancing deep into Gaza City after encircling the northern part of the besieged Palestinian enclave
November 07, 2023Asian shares are mixed in muted trading as attention focuses on prospects for improved China-U.S. relations from meetings next week on the sidelines of a Pacific Rim summit
November 07, 2023What was once Gaza’s busiest thoroughfare has become a terrifying escape route for Palestinian civilians running for their lives from heavy combat
November 07, 2023Two Indian states are casting ballots in local elections in a test of strength for India’s opposition, which is pitted against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party ahead of a crucial national vote scheduled for next year
November 07, 2023An Indian maker of solar-powered dryers, a soil carbon marketplace and groups that work to make electric car batteries cleaner, restore Andean forests and deter illegal fishing were awarded the Earthshot Prize at a ceremony in Singapore
November 07, 2023WeWork has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
November 07, 2023Indonesia's President Joko Widodo is expected to meet U.S.
November 07, 2023Israel said on Tuesday its forces were operating deep in Gaza City in their battle to wipe out Hamas in the Palestinian enclave and
November 07, 2023The U.N. Security Council has once again failed to agree on a resolution about the Israel-Hamas war
November 07, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would consider "tactical little pauses" in Gaza fighting to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid or
November 07, 2023Senate Republicans have released a sweeping set of U.S. border security proposals as a condition for sending more aid to Ukraine, laying out a draft plan to resume construction on parts of the U.S.-Mexico border wall, curtail humanitarian parole for people who cross into the United States and make it more difficult for migrants to qualify for asylum
November 06, 2023Backstage at the second Los Angeles show of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees' anniversary tour, Pras Michel was optimistic
November 06, 2023It took four failed attempts before Suzan Beseiso was able to get through the Rafah crossing into Egypt and escape the bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
November 06, 2023President Joe Biden's administration has informed the U.S.
November 06, 2023The Zapatista rebel movement in southern Mexico says it is dissolving the “autonomous municipalities” it declared in the years following the group’s 1994 armed uprising
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November 06, 2023An 8-month-old terminally ill British girl has been granted Italian citizenship after a court in Britain authorized the withdrawal of life-supporting invasive treatment
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November 06, 2023United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that the protection of civilians "must be paramount" in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian
November 06, 2023Jordan said on Monday it was leaving "all options" open in its response to what it called Israel's failure to discriminate between military and civilian
November 06, 2023Four men have been charged over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born
November 06, 2023A new poll finds public opinions in 24 countries growing more favorable of the United States than of China
November 06, 2023Radio Free Europe fears Russia has taken one of its journalists "hostage" for a potential prisoner swap with the United States and is appealing to
November 06, 2023King Charles III is preparing to deliver the King’s Speech at the State Opening of Parliament
November 06, 2023Two climate change protesters have been arrested after they smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery
November 06, 2023South Africa’s government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it a “genocide”
November 06, 2023Hungary’s cultural minister has fired the director of the Hungarian National Museum in Budapest and accused him of failing to comply with a contentious law that bans the display of LGBTQ+ content to minors
November 06, 2023A record number of migrants have made the treacherous boat journey on the Atlantic Ocean to Spain’s Canary Islands this year, and most of the 32,000 people are coming from Senegal
November 06, 2023Poland’s president has tapped the outgoing prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki of the Law and Justice party, to try to form the country’s next government
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November 06, 2023Donald Trump returns to a New York courtroom on Monday, where he will take the witness stand in a civil fraud trial that threatens to diminish the real-estate empire
November 06, 2023A campaign urging Iran to free Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi says the activist has begun a hunger strike over the conditions of her imprisonment and the country’s requirement that women wear headscarves
November 06, 2023Travelers are canceling or postponing planned vacations to the Middle East and North Africa due to fears of the Israel-Hamas
November 06, 2023Pope Francis has met with European rabbis and decried antisemitism, war and terrorism in a written speech
November 06, 2023A criminal investigation has been launched into Ukrainian military officers who organized a ceremony to honor troops that was struck by a Russian missile, killing 19 soldiers
November 06, 2023Norwegian Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said on Monday Oslo was exploring ways to revive a diplomatic channel between Israel and the Palestinians to find a political solution to
November 06, 2023After more than a week of public pressure from the U.S. for “humanitarian pauses” in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is allowing that his government might be open to only “little pauses” in its assault on Hamas
November 06, 2023The Group of Seven (G7) bloc of wealthy democracies risks eroding its relevance as a force to tackle major geopolitical crises
November 06, 2023Survivors of an earthquake that flattened villages in Nepal’s northwest mountains have been searching through the debris of their collapsed homes for any salvageable belongings as aid trickles into the remote area
November 06, 2023Israeli forces have severed northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged territory and pounded it with intense airstrikes overnight, setting the stage for an expected push into the dense confines of Gaza City and an even bloodier phase of the month-old war
November 06, 2023South Korea says it plans to launch its first domestically built spy satellite at the end of this month as part of its efforts to better monitor rival North Korea
November 06, 2023Israeli troops have divided the northern and southern parts of Gaza, as communications across the besieged territory were temporarily cut Monday for a third time since the war started
November 06, 2023A man who was accused of physically assaulting a woman in Antarctica was then assigned to look after the safety of a professor and three young graduate students on a remote icefield, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press
November 06, 2023Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a mixed close on Wall Street
November 06, 2023The leaders of Australia and China have welcomed the improvement in relations between their two countries in the past year and emphasized the importance of engaging with each other despite differences on issues such as defense
November 06, 2023Britain’s Prince William says seven countries _ Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Britain and the United States _ have committed at a wildlife summit to deepen their intelligence-sharing and other cooperation to combat money laundering by international gangs engaged in the illegal wildlife trade
November 06, 2023A car has crashed into an Australian pub’s outdoor dining area, killing five people and injuring six others including the driver
November 06, 2023Gaza is becoming a "graveyard for children", U.N.
November 06, 2023Luis Diaz lifted his Liverpool jersey to reveal a T-shirt with the words “Libertad Para Papa” (“Freedom for Papa”) after scoring a late equalizer in his first appearance for the team since his parents were kidnapped in his native Colombia
November 05, 2023A civil defense official and Lebanese state-run media say four civilians have been killed by an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon, three of them children
November 05, 2023Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia has set a course record to win the New York City Marathon men’s race
November 05, 2023French power network operator Enedis says one of its technicians was killed as it battles to restore electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes in the wake of major storms
November 05, 2023Families of hostages seized during the Oct. 7 Hamas attack fear the world’s focus on them is fading, as is the impetus to free some 240 people held
November 05, 2023Climate change is increasing billion-dollar disasters, many of them from intensifying hurricanes
November 05, 2023Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong says he plans to bow out and hand over power to his deputy Lawrence Wong next year before the 2025 general election
November 05, 2023Aid groups say Afghans fleeing a deportation drive in Pakistan lack shelter, food, and warmth once they cross the border
November 05, 2023Evacuations of injured Gazans and foreign passport holders through the Rafah crossing to Egypt have been suspended since Saturday, but Egyptian, U.S. and Qatari officials said there
November 05, 2023The Russian military has reported a successful test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads from a new nuclear submarine
November 05, 2023Prince William has arrived in Singapore for the Earthshot Prize awards, the first to be held in Asia, to support environmental innovators with solutions to battle climate change and save the planet
November 05, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken brought his diplomatic push on the Israel-Hamas war to the occupied West Bank and then to Iraq
November 05, 2023Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disciplined on Sunday a junior member of his cabinet who appeared to voice openness to the idea of Israel carrying out a nuclear
November 05, 2023A radio anchor has been fatally shot by a man inside his southern Philippine station in a brazen attack that was witnessed by people watching the program live on Facebook
November 05, 2023The hostage situation at Hamburg Airport has ended around 18 hours after a man drove his vehicle through the gates of the airport with his 4-year-old daughter as a passenger
November 05, 2023The Russian military says a Ukrainian missile strike on a shipyard in annexed Crimea had damaged a Russian ship
November 05, 2023Moldovans cast ballots in nationwide local elections amid claims by Moldovan authorities that Russia has been conducting “hybrid warfare” to undermine the vote in the European Union candidate country
November 05, 2023Seeking to generate excitement around a largely lackluster economy, Chinese Premier Li Qiang is pledging to continue deepening reforms, expand free trade zones and relax market access for foreign investment
November 05, 2023Negotiators on a climate-related loss and damages fund have agreed the World Bank will temporarily oversee the international fund to help poor countries hit hard by a warming planet
November 05, 2023More than 20,000 people in Ukraine have lost limbs because of injuries since the start of Russia’s brutal war there, many of them soldiers
November 05, 2023A report from the U.N. drugs agency says Afghan farmers lost more than $1 billion of cash income from opium sales after the Taliban banned poppy cultivation
November 05, 2023Gaza has lost communications in its third total outage of the Israel-Hamas war, and Israel’s military says it has encircled Gaza City and divided the besieged coastal strip into two
November 05, 2023Health officials say Israeli airstrikes have hit two refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing scores of people
November 05, 2023Health officials say Israeli airstrikes have hit two refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing scores of people
November 05, 2023Israel rebuffed growing international pressure for a ceasefire and continued intense bombardment of the Gaza Strip on Sunday
November 05, 2023Israel on Sunday rebuffed growing international pressure for a ceasefire and said its forces had encircled Gaza City as the
November 05, 2023German news agency dpa has reported that the airport in the northern city of Hamburg has been closed to passengers and flights have been canceled after a vehicle broke through security and entered the premises
November 04, 2023Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for a halt to Israel’s bombardment of Gaza have marched in Washington, Paris, Berlin and other European cities
November 04, 2023The Kansas City Chiefs say Sunday's game in Frankfurt against the Miami Dolphins is a big step in the organization's plan to become the “world’s team.”
November 04, 2023A diver who spotted something metallic not far from Sardinia’s coast has led to the discovery of tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins
November 04, 2023U.S. Soccer is closing in on naming Chelsea’s Emma Hayes as the new coach of the women’s national team, a source familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press
November 04, 2023Estonia's government says it will allow Taiwan to open a nondiplomatic representative office of Taipei in the Baltic country to boost economic and cultural ties with the self-governing island
November 04, 2023The United States needs to push for a quick end to the Israel-Hamas war and a new process to resolve the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian issue or Washington
November 04, 2023Israeli air strikes devastated parts of the Jabalia refugee camp in north Gaza this week, flattening
November 04, 2023Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes along the border with Lebanon as the militant Hezbollah group attacked several Israeli army posts, including one that was struck with two large rockets
November 04, 2023Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Gaza must be part of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state once the Israel-Hamas war is over, and Ankara will not support any plans "
November 04, 2023Thousands of Iranians gathered on the streets to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
November 04, 2023Thousands of Iranians gathered on the streets to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran
November 04, 2023Ukraine's newly appointed head of defense industry says he wants to turn the country into a weapons hub for the West
November 04, 2023Russian attacks in Ukraine have wounded at least 14 civilians as the president of the European Union's executive returned to the Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
November 04, 2023Russian attacks in Ukraine have wounded at least 14 civilians as the president of the European Union's executive returned to the Ukrainian capital to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
November 04, 2023The Taliban are appealing to Afghanistan's private sector to help those fleeing Pakistan's mass deportation drive
November 04, 2023Arab leaders who met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jordan are pushing for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
November 04, 2023Arab leaders who met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jordan are pushing for an immediate cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war
November 04, 2023Villagers in the mountains of northwest Nepal have cremated the bodies of some who perished in an earthquake that shook the area Friday night
November 04, 2023The United States and Arab partners are disagreeing on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military says the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers are “encountering the full force” of its troops
November 04, 2023The United States and Arab partners are disagreeing on the need for an immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military says the besieged enclave’s Hamas rulers are “encountering the full force” of its troops
November 04, 2023The U.S. is trying to persuade Israel to take a humanitarian pause from airstrikes on Gaza, where Palestinians reported multiple fatalities across the besieged enclave
November 04, 2023Hours after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, the country’s new fortified, subterranean blood bank kicked into action
November 04, 2023Hours after Hamas militants attacked southern Israel on Oct. 7, the country’s new fortified, subterranean blood bank kicked into action
November 04, 2023Panama's president has signed into law an indefinite moratorium on new mining concessions
November 04, 2023The Gaza director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees says the average Palestinian in Gaza is living on two pieces of Arabic bread made from flour that the U.N. had stockpiled in the region
November 03, 2023Israel has deported thousands of workers to the besieged Gaza Strip, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted
November 03, 2023Israel has deported thousands of workers to the besieged Gaza Strip, capping what many described as harrowing weeks trapped in legal limbo since their detention when the Israel-Hamas war erupted
November 03, 2023Former Puerto Rican boxer Félix Verdejo has received two life sentences after being found guilty in the grisly killing of his 27-year-old pregnant lover
November 03, 2023A strong earthquake has shaken northwestern Nepal, and officials say at least 128 people are dead and dozens more injured as rescuers search mountain villages
November 03, 2023Japanese Princess Kako on Friday arrived in Peru on an official visit to commemorate 150 years of diplomatic relations between both countries
November 03, 2023Tensions are high in Rio de Janeiro on the eve of the Copa Libertadores soccer final following a brawl between fan clubs and a fierce police response on the Copacabana beach
November 03, 2023The on-air outburst of grief by Salman al-Bashir seemed to channel the mood of all Gaza
November 03, 2023Travis Kelce has declined to discuss Taylor Swift’s status for Sunday’s game in Germany — and their status as a couple
November 03, 2023Serbia’s intelligence chief has resigned after less than a year in the post saying he wanted to avoid possible further embargos against the Balkan nation
November 03, 2023The United States will provide additional arms and equipment to Ukraine for its ongoing fight against Russia's invasion, U.S.
November 03, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is warning Israel that it risks destroying an eventual possibility for peace unless it acts swiftly to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza for Palestinian civilians as it intensifies its war against Hamas
November 03, 2023Weeks after ordering northern Gaza’s 1.1 million inhabitants to evacuate south, the Israeli army is intensifying its bombing of the area that stretches to the wetlands of Wadi Gaza, in the central strip
November 03, 2023Archaeologists have unearthed more ancient ruins of what they believe was once a bustling port city near the capital of modern-day Morocco
November 03, 2023The Russian Orthodox Church has called for an apology from Russia's most renowned pop singer who returned home this week over her criticism of the war in Ukraine
November 03, 2023King Charles III has met with religious leaders about promoting peace and security during the last day of his four-day trip to Kenya
November 03, 2023A wildfire abetted by winds from Storm Ciarán has burned some 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of land in eastern Spain and forced the evacuation of 850 people from four towns
November 03, 2023Ukrainian authorities say Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across 10 of Ukraine’s 24 regions
November 03, 2023Police in Pakistan say a bomb hidden in a parked motorcycle exploded near a police vehicle in the country's northwest and killed at least five people
November 03, 2023Eric Trump is expected to face a second day of questions on the witness stand on Friday in a fraud trial that threatens to hobble the real-estate empire that vaulted
November 03, 2023New Delhi’s government has shut primary schools and banned polluting vehicles and construction work in an attempt to reduce the worst haze and smog of the season
November 03, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected U.S. calls for a humanitarian pause in the Israel-Hamas war, telling U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday “we are going full steam ahead,” unless the hostages held by Hamas are released
November 03, 2023Record-breaking rain provoked floods in a vast swath of Tuscany as storm Ciarán pushed into Italy overnight
November 03, 2023Wall Street steamrolled even higher to add more gains to its best week in nearly a year
November 03, 2023The leaders of Japan and the Philippines have agreed to start negotiations for a key defense pact that will allow their troops to enter each other’s territory for joint military exercises
November 03, 2023The watchdog office overseeing the National Science Foundation is sending investigators to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station after hearing concerns about the prevalence of sexual violence at the U.S. research base
November 03, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back against growing pressure for a humanitarian pause in the nearly month-old war to protect civilians and allow more aid into Gaza
November 03, 2023A woman accused of serving her ex-husband’s parents and an aunt poisonous mushrooms with lunch has appeared in an Australian court
November 03, 2023North Korea has confirmed that it’s closing some of its diplomatic missions abroad, a move that rival South Korea suspects is a sign of the North’s economic troubles amid persistent international sanctions
November 03, 2023International authorities say there's growing evidence that shows Beijing is helping cash-strapped North Korea evade a range of international sanctions designed to hamper Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program
November 03, 2023Long before “Friends” made its official debut in China, the show was a word-of-mouth phenomenon in the country
November 03, 2023President Joe Biden on Friday welcomed leaders from countries across the Americas to an economic summit by pledging to increase U.S. investment in the region in part to counter China’s influence
November 03, 2023Anthony Albanese will soon become the first Australian prime minister in seven years to visit China in recognition of improving bilateral relations
November 03, 2023Fishing communities in Fukushima feared devastating damage to their businesses from the tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant’s ongoing discharge of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea
November 03, 2023Godzilla, the nightmarish radiation spewing monster born out of nuclear weapons, has stomped through many movies, including several Hollywood remakes
November 02, 2023Misinformation about the latest Israel-Hamas war is thriving on social media platforms, where misrepresented video footage, mistranslations and outright falsehoods often crowd out real reporting from the conflict
November 02, 2023Airstrikes in the Gaza Strip's Bureij refugee camp have flattened entire apartment buildings, sending scores of injured Palestinians into a hospital unable to grant them bed space
November 02, 2023One of modern climate science’s pioneers is warning that the world isn’t just steadily warming, but is dangerously accelerating
November 02, 2023It’s been a whirlwind last few months for newly crowned Ballon d’Or winner Aitana Bonmatí with memorable victories on and off the field
November 02, 2023Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Washington wants to build an economic relationship with Beijing that takes into account national security and human rights and is fair to both sides
November 02, 2023The White House is exploring the idea of pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to help civilians in Gaza and any such temporary pause will not stop Israel from defending itself,
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November 02, 2023The United States has been able to get 74 Americans with dual citizenship out of the Gaza Strip, President Joe Biden said at the White House on Thursday, one
November 02, 2023The House has approved a nearly $14.5 billion military aid package for Israel, but without humanitarian assistance for Gaza
November 02, 2023Colombia’s government says the guerrilla group National Liberation Army, known as ELN, has kidnapped the father of Liverpool and Colombian national soccerteam striker Luis Díaz
November 02, 2023Olive oil is continuing its staggering rise in prices in Europe
November 02, 2023Dozens of Palestinians with foreign passports crossed through the war-torn Gaza Strip’s only exit for the second straight day, escaping the suffocating siege into the empty Egyptian desert
November 02, 2023A growing list of Israeli officials have accepted responsibility for failing to prevent Hamas’ brutal attack on Israeli communities
November 02, 2023The United States on Thursday imposed sweeping new measures against Moscow over the war in Ukraine, targeting Russia's future energy
November 02, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. has imposed a new round of sanctions targeting Russia over its invasion of Ukraine
November 02, 2023American Ballet Theatre has returned to China for the first time in a decade, the latest sign that strained U.S.-China relations are beginning to improve
November 02, 2023Rights groups say in new reports that security forces and armed groups are committing alleged war crimes against civilians in Africa’s Sahel region where extremists and rebels are increasingly fighting to exert dominance and control resources in communities
November 02, 2023The final Beatles recording featuring John, Paul, George and Ringo is here
November 02, 2023Russian shelling has killed an 81-year-old woman in the yard of her home and a 60-year-old man in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region
November 02, 2023The Bank of England kept its main interest rate unchanged at the 15-year high of 5.25% and indicated that borrowing costs will likely remain at these sort of elevated levels for a while yet especially if oil and gas prices increase sharply because of the Israel-Hamas war
November 02, 2023President Joe Biden is trying to increase trade with Latin America
November 02, 2023Thai agricultural workers in Israel have shared the fate those killed, kidnapped or forced to run for their lives when Hamas militants stormed into Israel last month in the assault that started the latest Gaza war
November 02, 2023President Vladimir Putin has signed a bill revoking Russia's ratification of a global nuclear test ban
November 02, 2023Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. is due to testify for a second day on Thursday about the family company's financial statements that a New York judge has ruled
November 02, 2023British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says achievements at the first international AI Safety Summit will “tip the balance in favor of humanity” in the race to contain the risks from rapid advances in cutting-edge artificial intelligence
November 02, 2023Record-breaking winds in France and across much of western Europe left at least seven people dead and injured others
November 02, 2023Major international aid agencies are warning of chaotic and desperate scenes among Afghans who have returned from Pakistan, where security forces are detaining and deporting undocumented or unregistered foreigners
November 02, 2023Israel ground troops are advancing toward Gaza City as diplomatic efforts intensify for at least a brief pause in the fighting in Gaza’s deadliest war
November 02, 2023Israeli troops have encircled Gaza City in heavy fighting with Hamas militants, the miiltary says, as the Palestinian death toll rises above 9,000
November 02, 2023Nippon Steel has dropped its lawsuit against Toyota over a patent for a technology used in electric motors, saying wrangling among Japanese companies was not beneficial to keep the nation competitive
November 02, 2023Asian shares have advanced after Wall Street roared higher on hopes that market-rattling hikes to interest rates are coming to an end
November 02, 2023South Korea says North Korea has likely supplied several types of missiles to Russia to support its war in Ukraine, along with its widely reported shipments of ammunition and shells
November 02, 2023Vladimir Putin is expected to seek another term in the Kremlin when Russia holds presidential elections next March
November 02, 2023Hong Kong is set to launch Asia's first Gay Games on Friday, fostering hopes for wider LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Asian financial hub
November 02, 2023The tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began its third release of treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the sea after Japanese officials said the two earlier releases ended smoothly
November 02, 2023A new report from the United Nations says Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate,” putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year
November 02, 2023A lie detector test conducted by FBI agents determined with the “highest level of confidence” that Joran van der Sloot was telling the truth about killing Natalee Holloway
November 02, 2023Michigan Democrats have warned the White House that President Joe Biden’s response to the Israel-Hamas war could put his reelection campaign in jeopardy in the key swing state next year
November 02, 2023President Joe Biden says that 74 more U.S. citizens have left the Gaza Strip He announced the development as he dispatched his top diplomat to the Mideast for talks with Israeli and Jordanian officials as the nearly four-week old Israel-Hamas war rages on with no end in sight
November 02, 2023The host of a weekend family lunch at her Australian country home has been charged with murdering her ex-husband's parents and aunt with poisonous mushrooms and attempting to murder a fourth guest
November 02, 2023European privacy officials have widened a ban on Meta's “behavioral advertising” practices to most of Europe
November 02, 2023Panama's government has nearly approved a new bill revoking a controversial mining contract
November 02, 2023Uruguay’s foreign minister has resigned shortly after audio messages were published in which he appears to ask a former official to not hand over evidence in an investigation over a passport issued to an accused drug trafficker
November 02, 2023President Joe Biden says he thinks there should be a humanitarian “pause” in the Israel-Hamas war
November 02, 2023Hundreds, possibly thousands, of people have gathered near a state funeral home in Beijing as China's former second-ranking leader, Li Keqiang, was put to rest
November 01, 2023Brazil President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says armed forces will boost security at some of the country's most important airports, ports and along its international borders to tackle organized crime
November 01, 2023Hundreds of Palestinians with foreign passports and dozens of seriously wounded patients desperate to escape the war in Gaza have crowded at the black metal gate on the Egyptian border, hoping to pass through the enclave’s only portal to the outside world for the first time since the war began
November 01, 2023Countries in the Middle East that have normalized or are considering normalizing relations with Israel are coming under growing public pressure to cut those ties because of Israel’s war with Hamas
November 01, 2023Israel has criticized Bolivia, Chile and Colombia after the South American countries undertook a series of diplomatic moves to protest Israel's military operations against Hamas in Gaza
November 01, 2023Volunteers, churches and advocacy groups are scrambling to find indoor shelter for migrants in Chicago as the temperatures drop
November 01, 2023Pope Francis says he will go to Dubai for three days during the COP28 climate conference hosted there
November 01, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel and Jordan this week as Israel's war in Gaza and international criticism of it intensify
November 01, 2023When Secretary of State Antony Blinken was asked who would govern the Gaza Strip following Israel’s war against Hamas, he said a return of the internationally recognized Palestinian Authority made “the most sense.”
November 01, 2023Cyprus has offered more detail about its initiative to create a sea corridor for the steady flow of humanitarian assistance from Cyprus to Gaza, saying that aid-laden ships would sail directly to the enclave, where United Nations personnel would receive it for eventual distribution
November 01, 2023The Mexican government says it will pay half of interest rates on bank loans to rebuild the 377 hotels destroyed or heavily damaged by Hurricane Otis
November 01, 2023Mexicans in the state of Oaxaca are celebrating the Day of the Dead
November 01, 2023Police in England say two more men have been arrested in the investigation into who cut down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree
November 01, 2023The U.K.'s national forecaster says Storm Ciarán has begun arriving on England's southwestern coast as that country, France and others in western Europe brace for what could be some of the highest wind speeds in the region for decades
November 01, 2023Israel’s ambassador to Moscow gave new details of the weekend riot at an airport in southern Russia when a flight from Tel Aviv landed there, saying some of the passengers had to hide in the terminal before being flown by helicopter to safety
November 01, 2023A renowned glass artist in Mexico played a key role in the creation of a gigantic church window in the U.S. The 81-year-old Narcissus Quagliata is the master of the glass-fusion technique that made the Kansas church’s colossal stained-glass artwork possible
November 01, 2023An international media freedom group says 34 journalists have been killed in the war between Israel and Hamas
November 01, 2023A senior Microsoft Israel official expressed concern for the future of Israel's high tech sector due to the country's war with Islamist group Hamas, warning multinational
November 01, 2023A ferry that had ran aground last month off southeastern Sweden and started leaking oil into the Baltic Sea has been pulled free and anchored nearby
November 01, 2023Huge ash columns have erupted from Eurasia’s tallest active volcano and forced authorities to close schools in two towns on Russia’s sparsely populated Kamchatka Peninsula
November 01, 2023Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. is set to testify on Wednesday afternoon in a New York civil fraud trial accusing the former U.S. president and his family
November 01, 2023King Charles III has held a private meeting with the family of the executed leader of the Kenyan rebellion against British colonial rule
November 01, 2023A group of human rights researchers has officially launched a website they hope will facilitate the task of obtaining justice for victims of state violence in Myanmar
November 01, 2023Pakistani security forces have launched sweeps to arrest and deport Afghans who are in the country illegally, sending dozens back after a government-set deadline for them to leave expired
November 01, 2023Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, have agreed to work together to contain the potential “catastrophic” risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence
November 01, 2023Asian shares are surging after the U.S. Federal Reserve indicated it may not need to pump the brakes any harder on Wall Street and the economy
November 01, 2023Australia’s highest court has overturned a government decision to strip citizenship from a man convicted of terrorism
November 01, 2023Taiwan says China has sent another 43 military aircraft and seven ships near the self-ruled island, the latest sign that Beijing plans no let-up in its campaign of harassment, threats and intimidation
November 01, 2023Israel's military says its ground troops have advanced to “the gates of Gaza City” amid heavy fighting
November 01, 2023The AI Safety Summit is bringing politicians, computer scientists and tech executives to Bletchley Park in the United Kingdom, a site that's synonymous with codebreaking and the birth of computing during World War II
November 01, 2023Toyota’s profit in the latest quarter jumped nearly threefold from a year ago as vehicle sales grew around the world and a cheap yen boosted the Japanese automaker’s overseas earnings
November 01, 2023Hundreds of foreign nationals and several seriously injured Palestinians are being allowed to leave Gaza for the first time since the Israel-Hamas war began more than three weeks ago
November 01, 2023Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians who fled repression in their homeland face the prospect of having invalid documents after authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree halting passport renewals abroad
November 01, 2023People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting the World Press Photo exhibition in Hungary after the government determined some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content
November 01, 2023Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will raise the plight of a detained Australian democracy blogger with Chinese leaders during his visit to China
November 01, 2023Mexicans are celebrating Day of the Dead, an intangible tradition borne down from pre-Hispanic cultures that is also a celebration for all the senses
October 31, 2023A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba has been returned from the U.S. to Peru to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman
October 31, 2023The United States and other countries are looking at "a variety of possible permutations" for the future of the Gaza Strip if Hamas militants
October 31, 2023A senior U.N. official says Russian strikes are inflicting unimaginable suffering on the people of Ukraine and that more than 40% of them need humanitarian assistance
October 31, 2023Bolivia’s government has severed diplomatic relations with Israel, accusing it of carrying out “crimes against humanity” in the Gaza Strip
October 31, 2023The human rights group Amnesty International says civilians in southern Lebanon were injured this month when Israeli forces hit a border village with shells containing white phosphorus
October 31, 2023The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key diplomatic post as the country is fighting a war with Hamas
October 31, 2023Over the past five days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas, launched in response to a bloody Oct. 7 cross-border raid by the Islamic militant group
October 31, 2023FBI Director Christopher Wray is warning that Hamas’ rampage inside Israel could inspire violence in the U.S. He told lawmakers on Tuesday that multiple foreign extremist groups have called for attacks against Americans and the West in recent weeks
October 31, 2023A girl who had celebrated her eighth birthday last year romping with jugglers, acrobats and stilt walkers for her circus-themed party
October 31, 2023Yemen’s Houthi rebels have for the first time claimed missile and drone attacks targeting Israel
October 31, 2023Tropical Storm Pilar is lashing Central America with heavy rains that have already been blamed for two deaths in El Salvador as it meanders off the Pacific coast
October 31, 2023The Israel-Hamas war has plunged Israel’s agricultural heartlands into crisis
October 31, 2023Cyprus is working out with partners in the European Union and the Middle East the logistics to establish a sea corridor to deliver a stream of vital humanitarian aid to Gaza from the island’s main port of Limassol once the situation on the ground permits it
October 31, 2023Spain's Catholic bishops have apologized again for sex abuses committed by members following a report by the national ombudsman that accused the church of widespread negligence
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October 31, 2023Three energy companies including U.S. Westinghouse, France’s EdF and Korea’s KHNP, have submitted their final bids to build the Czech Republic’s newest reactor at the Dukovany nuclear power station as the country strives to become more energy-independent and wean itself off fossil fuels
October 31, 2023The former top aide to ex-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has painted a picture of widespread chaos and dysfunction in government during the coronavirus pandemic
October 31, 2023The inflation that has been wearing on European consumers fell sharply to 2.9% in October, its lowest in more than two years as fuel prices fell and rapid interest rate hikes from the European Central Bank took hold
October 31, 2023The heir to the Spanish throne has sworn allegiance to the Constitution on her 18th birthday, laying the groundwork for her to become queen when the time comes
October 31, 2023Muslim Americans and some Democratic Party activists say they will work to mobilize millions of Muslim voters to withhold donations and votes
October 31, 2023Singapore’s defense minister has urged China as a dominant power in Asia to take the lead in reducing tensions in the region, warning that a military conflict like the one in Ukraine or the Israel-Hamas war would be devastating for the continent and its future
October 31, 2023French police have opened fire on a woman who threatened to blow herself up and allegedly made death threats and spoke in support of terrorism on a train heading into Paris
October 31, 2023Afghans are piling into trucks and buses and leaving Pakistan to avoid arrest and deportation
October 31, 2023Anheuser-Busch InBev says revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales in the third quarter
October 31, 2023A deluge of Israeli airstrikes Tuesday on a refugee camp near Gaza City has demolished apartment buildings, leaving craters where they once stood, while ground troops battle Hamas militants across northern Gaza
October 31, 2023Saudi Arabia is all but certain to host the men’s 2034 World Cup after the Australian soccer federation declined to enter the bidding contest
October 31, 2023A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City, and footage showed rescuers pulling men, women and children out of the rubble
October 31, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher after Wall Street advanced to claim back some of the ground it gave up in another losing month
October 31, 2023Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed with their ability to do tasks as good as or better than humans, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems
October 31, 2023King Charles III has expressed “greatest sorrow and the deepest regret” for the “abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence” committed against Kenyans as they sought independence
October 31, 2023A trial of New Zealand tourism operators accused of safety breaches after 22 people died in a 2019 volcanic eruption has ended with the last remaining defendant found guilty on one count
October 31, 2023The United Nations special envoy for Syria is warning that the Israel-Hamas war is spilling into the neighboring country
October 31, 2023Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are urging an increasingly divided Congress to immediately send major aid to both Israel and Ukraine
October 31, 2023State media report the remains of former Chinese premier Li Keqiang are to be cremated on Thursday, with flags around the country to be flown at half-staff to mourn the official who helped guide the world's second-largest economy for a decade
October 31, 2023Three astronauts have returned to Earth after six months aboard China's orbiting space station
October 31, 2023The head of the U_N_ agency for Palestinian refugees is telling a U_N_ emergency meeting “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire has become a matter of life and death for millions.”
October 30, 2023About 5,000 migrants from Central America, Venezuela, Cuba and Haiti have set out on foot to reach the U.S., walking north from Mexico's southern border
October 30, 2023Haiti’s government has banned all charter flights to Nicaragua that migrants fleeing poverty and violence had been increasingly using in their quest to reach the United States
October 30, 2023Saleemul Huq, a pioneering climate scientist from Bangladesh who pushed to get the world to understand, pay for and adapt to worsening warming impacts on poorer nations, has died
October 30, 2023Long lines have formed at gas stations throughout Argentina as surging demand outstrips supply, becoming a campaign issue just weeks ahead of the second round of the country’s presidential race
October 30, 2023A watchdog group advocating for press freedom has said that the strikes that hit a group of journalists in southern Lebanon earlier this month, killing one, were targeted rather than accidental and that the journalists were clearly identified as press
October 30, 2023Hurricane Otis shredded Acapulco, Mexico, last week and tore apart the lives of hundreds of thousands of people
October 30, 2023Israel’s Intelligence Ministry has drafted a wartime proposal to transfer the Gaza Strip’s 2.3 million people to Egypt’s Sinai peninsula
October 30, 2023South Yorkshire Police are investigating the death of American ice hockey player Adam Johnson after his neck was cut by a skate blade in an English game
October 30, 2023A Dutchman who recently confessed to killing American high school student Natalee Holloway in 2005 in Aruba has been returned from the U.S. to Peru to serve the remainder of his prison sentence for murdering a Peruvian woman
October 30, 2023Venezuela’s high court has suspended of the opposition’s entire primary election process, including its result
October 30, 2023Heavy rain from Tropical Storm Pilar has already caused two deaths in El Salvador as it meanders off the Pacific coast
October 30, 2023Three foreign residents have been confirmed among the 47 dead from Hurricane Otis as the search for the missing focused on submerged boats that sunk in the storm
October 30, 2023A new study says that in a little more than five years the world will likely be unable to stay below the internationally agreed temperature limit for global warming if it continues to burn fossil fuels at its current rate
October 30, 2023A former British cyberespionage agency employee who viciously stabbed an American intelligence worker has been sentenced to life in prison for attempted murder
October 30, 2023A Japanese high court on Monday said the North Korean government was responsible for the human rights abuses of plaintiffs who said they were lured to the North by Pyongyang’s false promise of living in the “paradise on Earth."
October 30, 2023A German-Israeli woman who was snatched by Hamas from a music festival on Oct. 7 and paraded around Gaza by the Palestinian militant group is dead, the Israeli government said on Monday.
October 30, 2023The Spanish soccer official who provoked a players’ rebellion and a reckoning on gender when he kissed an unwilling star player on the lips is banned for three years by the sport’s global governing body
October 30, 2023The World Bank says oil prices could be pushed into “uncharted waters” if the violence between Israel and Hamas widens
October 30, 2023China has honored two American veterans of World War II as Beijing and Washington look to past collaboration for inspiration to deal with today's strained ties
October 30, 2023China’s leaders are expected to search for ways to mend the country's fractured property market, create jobs for millions of unemployed youths and spur faster growth in a meeting that reportedly began Monday in Beijing
October 30, 2023Israel has expanded its military assault deeper into northern Gaza as the U.N. and medical staff expressed fears over airstrikes hitting closer to hospitals
October 30, 2023Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants
October 30, 2023Authorities say a former Jehovah’s Witness has been detained on suspicion of setting off an explosive device that killed three people and wounded 50 others at a denomination gathering in southern India
October 30, 2023Asian shares are trading mostly lower as investors look ahead to a week that could see more swings in financial markets, including key reports on U.S. consumer confidence and the job market
October 30, 2023A major influx of Chinese migration to the United States on a relatively new and perilous route through Panama's Darién Gap jungle has become increasingly popular thanks to social media
October 30, 2023The monthly number of Chinese migrants crossing through Panama's Darién Gap jungle has risen this year as more people from the world's most populous country look to immigrate to the U.S. The number has risen from 913 in January to 2,588 in September
October 30, 2023Democrat Brandon Presley is trying to block Republican Gov. Tate Reeves from winning a second term in Mississippi
October 30, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to deflect blame from the Kremlin for a riot in the southern region of Dagestan that targeted a flight from Israel, charging without evidence that Ukrainian agents of Western spy agencies were behind the rampage
October 29, 2023A former high-profile Myanmar army officer who had served as information minister and presidential spokesperson in a previous military-backed government has been arrested and charged with spreading false or inflammatory news
October 29, 2023Israeli media have espoused a dual role following Hamas’ devastating attack on southern Israeli communities and the war that it set off
October 29, 2023Colombian police are continuing their search for the father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz, one day after he was kidnapped with his wife near the country’s border with Venezuela
October 29, 2023Russians commemorated the victims of Soviet state terror on Sunday, while the Russian government continues its crackdown on dissent in the country
October 29, 2023Kentucky Derby winner Mage won't run in the $6 million Breeders' Cup Classic
October 29, 2023Around 2,000 Ukrainians have taken part in a one-kilometer race in Kyiv, wearing bibs displaying the name of a person instead of a number
October 29, 2023Thousands of supporters from Pakistan’s main religious political party have rallied in the capital, Islamabad, against Israel’s bombing of Palestinians in Gaza
October 29, 2023Authorities in Bangladesh have arrested a key opposition figure from the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and sent him to prison after hours of detention
October 29, 2023As the Israel-Hamas war enters a new phase, President Joe Biden is pressing Israeli and Arab leaders to think hard about their eventual postwar reality
October 29, 2023Bereaved relatives of victims of last year’s devastating Halloween crush in Seoul and their supporters have demanded an independent investigation of the disaster as they marked the anniversary with a massive memorial service
October 29, 2023China’s foreign minister says the road to an expected meeting between President Xi Jinping and U_S_ President Joe Biden would not be “smooth sailing."
October 29, 2023Trade and economy officials from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have strengthened their pledge to work together to ensure smooth supply chains for essentials like energy and food despite global uncertainties
October 29, 2023Police in southern India have detained a man for his alleged involvement in setting off explosives that killed at least three people and wounded 50 more at a Jehovah's Witness gathering
October 29, 2023Nearly three dozen trucks entered Gaza in the largest aid convoy since the war between Israel and Hamas began, but humanitarian workers say the assistance still falls desperately short of needs after thousands of people broke into warehouses seeking food
October 29, 2023The Israeli military has intensified airstrikes in Gaza including near its largest hospital
October 29, 2023King Charles III wants to look to the future when his four-day state visit to Kenya starts on Tuesday
October 29, 2023Mexican authorities have raised the toll to 48 dead from Hurricane Otis, days after the fierce Category 5 storm struck the country’s southern Pacific coast and the tourist city of Acapulco
October 29, 2023Turkey has marked the 100th anniversary of the creation of the modern, secular republic from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire with little pageantry and no gala reception to commemorate the important milestone
October 29, 2023Actor Matthew Perry, who gained fame in the 1990s for his starring role in the hit U.S. television comedy "Friends," was found dead at age 54 on Saturday in a hot tub at a Los
October 29, 2023Israel says it has two main objectives in Gaza: destroy Hamas and rescue some 230 hostages being held by the militant group
October 28, 2023Two days after cellular and internet service abruptly vanished for most of Gaza amid a heavy Israeli bombardment, the crowded enclave came back online as communications systems were gradually restored
October 28, 2023Palestinians say the devastating war between Israel and Hamas is robbing them not only of their loved ones but also of the funeral rites that long have offered mourners some dignity and closure in the midst of grief
October 28, 2023As an Israeli ground offensive in the Gaza Strip looms in its war with Hamas, one of the greatest threats to both its troops and all those trapped in the seaside enclave is hidden underground
October 28, 2023Israel has entered a new phase of its war on Hamas, expanding its ground attacks with tanks rolling into the Palestinian enclave and stepped-up bombardment from the air, land and sea
October 28, 2023An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a headscarf has died
October 28, 2023French Jewish groups have set up a helpline for people in the community traumatized by Israel-Hamas war
October 28, 2023A beauty pageant held this month in Zimbabwe is seen by its contestants and organizer as a way to push back against prejudice and promote understanding of people living with albinism
October 28, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the nation that the military has opened a “second stage” in the war against Hamas by sending ground forces into Gaza and expanding attacks from the ground, air and sea
October 28, 2023Mexico’s security authorities have raised the death toll from the Category 5 Hurricane Otis that struck the country’s southern Pacific coast early Wednesday to 39
October 28, 2023Hundreds of protesters have filled the main concourse of New York City’s famed Grand Central Terminal to demand a cease-fire as Israel intensifies its bombardment of the Gaza Strip
October 28, 2023The latest Israel-Hamas war has quickly become the deadliest and most destructive in the long history of the bitter enemies
October 27, 2023Arizona defenseman Travis Dermott recently defied an NHL edict on supporting social causes before games
October 27, 2023The U.N. General Assembly has approved a nonbinding resolution calling for a “humanitarian truce” in Gaza leading to a cessation of hostilities between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers
October 27, 2023A federal judge in Miami has sentenced a retired Colombian army officer to life in prison for his role in plotting to kill Haiti’s President Jovenel Moïse in 2021
October 27, 2023Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's first finance minister has issued a stern verdict on his former boss's energy policies, describing them
October 27, 2023An alliance of ethnic rebel groups has launched a coordinated offensive in northeastern Myanmar to seize military targets in areas near the Chinese border
October 27, 2023The European Union summit showed that Ukraine will be facing tougher times to get all the attention and political, economic and military aid that it wants
October 27, 2023The GOP presidential candidates are expected to woo donors and offer a staunch defense for Israel as they address at the annual gathering of a Republican Jewish group this weekend
October 27, 2023Scores of protesters have gathered in the streets of Ukrainian cities to demand a cap of 18 months on mandatory military service
October 27, 2023The families of children held captive by Hamas say they are adrift in a unique agony among the tragedies of Israel's bloodiest day
October 27, 2023Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican to reopen the case of a well-known priest-artist accused of sexually, psychologically and spiritually abusing adult women
October 27, 2023China's chief epidemiologist, who helped drive anti-COVID-19 measures that suspended access to cities and confined millions to their homes, has died
October 27, 2023European Union leaders believe it's time to lay the foundations for a future relationship between Israel and the Palestinians where the militant group Hamas does not control Gaza
October 27, 2023A senior Iranian envoy has met with Hamas representatives in Moscow following talks with Russian diplomats that underscored Moscow’s efforts to expand its clout as a power broker in the latest Israel-Hamas war
October 27, 2023The United States on Friday expanded its effort to cut off funding for Hamas, announcing a second round of sanctions against people and organizations linked to the group since it launched an attack on Israel that killed more than 1,400 people
October 27, 2023The U.S. on Friday issued a second round of sanctions on the Palestinian group Hamas following its attack this month on Israeli communities, including by
October 27, 2023Malaysia’s royal families have elected the powerful and wealthy ruler of southern Johor state as the country’s new king under a unique rotating monarchy system
October 27, 2023Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei Technologies has reported its profit inched higher in the first three quarters of this year despite persisting U.S. sanctions that have hindered both its sales and its purchases of advanced technology
October 27, 2023Just three weeks into the deadliest war between Israel and Hamas, it is already clear that the bloodshed has shaken the region for years to come and flipped long-standing Israeli assumptions upside down
October 27, 2023Israel has knocked out communications in the Gaza Strip with bombardment and artillery fire
October 27, 2023Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, bringing the S&P 500 index 10% below the peak it reached in July
October 27, 2023The Israeli army says its ground forces are “expanding their activity” in the Gaza Strip, as it moves closer to a full-on ground invasion of the besieged territory
October 27, 2023Rights groups and lawyers in Nigeria say the West African nation's law enforcement authorities are using the country’s same-sex prohibition law to target the LGBTQ+ community while ignoring abuses against them
October 27, 2023Abortion has had a complicated history in the Soviet Union and Russia
October 27, 2023Recent proposals by authorities to restrict access to abortion have touched a nerve across Russia, which has embraced increasingly conservative values
October 27, 2023South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea
October 27, 2023South Korean and U.S. troops have been conducting live-fire exercises to hone their ability to respond to potential “Hamas-style surprise artillery attacks” by North Korea
October 27, 2023Desperate families are making missing posters and joining online groups to find loved ones out of touch since Hurricane Otis devastated the Mexican Pacific coast city of Acapulco
October 27, 2023Survivors of the Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people and devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco are getting desperate amid a slow government assistance response
October 27, 2023The Turkish Republic, founded from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire by the national independence hero Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, turns 100 on Oct. 29
October 27, 2023A Chinese fighter jet came within 10 feet of an American B-52 bomber flying over the South China Sea, nearly causing an accident, the U.S. military says, underscoring the potential for a mishap as both countries vie for influence in the region
October 27, 2023The sudden death of China’s former No. 2 leader Li Keqiang has shocked many people in the country
October 27, 2023President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping have agreed to meet on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco
October 27, 2023China’s top diplomat is meeting high-level U.S. officials, possibly including President Joe Biden, on a highly watched visit to Washington
October 27, 2023China’s top diplomat is meeting high-level U.S. officials, possibly including President Joe Biden, on a highly watched visit to Washington
October 27, 2023The Pentagon says U.S. fighter jets launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
October 27, 2023Former Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official for a decade, has died of a heart attack at 68
October 26, 2023The National Zoo’s three three celebrity pandas will be heading home a little earlier than expected
October 26, 2023“Stop the bombs and save lives!”
October 26, 2023The United States has information that the Russian military is executing soldiers who do not follow orders related to the war with Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday.
October 26, 2023The White House says that Russia is executing soldiers who have failed to follow orders and threatening entire units with death if they retreat from Ukrainian artillery fire
October 26, 2023A UNESCO report released during Lagos Fashion Week notes Africa’s fashion industry is growing rapidly to meet demand but that inadequate investment still limits its potential
October 26, 2023As the Israel-Hamas war rages, international and local monitoring groups in Gaza have been unable to keep up
October 26, 2023Sweden has reportedly withdrawn the residence permit of an Iraqi man who staged a series of public desecrations of the Quran this year but has put his deportation on hold, saying his life would be in danger if he were returned to Iraq
October 26, 2023An unverified claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin had suffered a heart attack is being amplified by news outlets and social media around the globe this week
October 26, 2023More than two weeks after Hamas' attack, many Israelis are furious at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, not just for failing to prevent the initial attack, but for failing to come to their aid afterward
October 26, 2023A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest the world
October 26, 2023Two workers at the tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have been hospitalized after accidentally being sprayed with radioactive liquid waste
October 26, 2023Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's office says the state has arranged to send drones, weapons and ammunition to Israel as it prepares for an incursion of Gaza in response to Hamas’ attack
October 26, 2023A federal court in Pakistan’s capital has restored the appeals of the country’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif against his 2018 convictions in graft cases
October 26, 2023An inquiry has opened into an apartment building fire that killed at least 76 people in South Africa in August and laid bare the deep problems of poverty and neglect in parts of Africa’s richest city
October 26, 2023European Union leaders are grappling with ways to use their combined leverage to ensure that more aid reaches Palestinians in need in Gaza
October 26, 2023The Palestinian Authority’s foreign minister says the authority would not interfere with an International Criminal Court investigation into Hamas’ surprise Oct. 7 attacks on southern Israel
October 26, 2023A nonprofit organization in Afghanistan says the Taliban have freed an activist who campaigned for the education of girls
October 26, 2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court has refused to void the election of President Bola Tinubu and dismissed the challenges brought by two losing candidates
October 26, 2023Leaders from Brazil, Indonesia, Republic of Congo and other countries with the three largest tropical forest basins are meeting to form a coalition to protect tropical forests from deforestation and destruction
October 26, 2023Prosecutors say an American man has been charged with murder and other offenses for attacking two women from the U.S. near Neuschwanstein castle in Germany in June and pushing them into a ravine
October 26, 2023Asian shares have risen after the latest tumble on Wall Street
October 26, 2023Families in Niger say they are struggling after economic sanctions imposed in response to a military coup three months ago
October 26, 2023More airstrikes have ravaged parts of the Gaza Strip, leaving it looking like a wasteland from space
October 26, 2023The European Central Bank has taken a break from interest rate increases
October 26, 2023Maine police on Thursday were searching for a U.S.
October 26, 2023Israeli troops and tanks launched an hourslong ground raid into northern Gaza overnight
October 26, 2023China’s Environment Minister Huang Runqiu says his country wants to strengthen cooperation with the U.S. to combat climate change
October 26, 2023Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco are searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping aid will come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis
October 26, 2023Stellantis says it plans to invest about 1.5 billion euros, or about $1.6 billion, in Leapmotor, a Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer
October 26, 2023South Korea, the U.S. and Japan have strongly condemned what they call North Korea’s supply of munitions and military equipment to Russia
October 26, 2023China’s top diplomat says dialogue between Beijing and Washington should not only be resumed but deepened
October 26, 2023Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has joined an EU summit saying that he was right to meet the EU’s foremost enemy, Russian President Vladimir Putin
October 26, 2023Economic crises are rippling through the countries bordering Israel
October 26, 2023Many top Michigan Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, took part in a huge pro-Israel rally near Detroit after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on the country
October 26, 2023Russia's deadly attack on a beloved pizzeria in eastern Ukraine in June was painful for residents
October 26, 2023China has launched its youngest-ever crew for its orbiting space station as it seeks to put astronauts on the moon before 2030
October 26, 2023The U.N. Security Council has failed again to address the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, rejecting rival United States and Russian resolutions
October 26, 2023Al Jazeera says its chief correspondent in Gaza has lost four members of his family in an Israeli airstrike
October 25, 2023Hurricane Otis unexpectedly turned from mild to monster in record time, and scientists are struggling to figure out what happened
October 25, 2023Venezuela’s chief prosecutor has announced a criminal investigation into organizers of a presidential primary election held over the weekend
October 25, 2023The White House has turned down the pizazz for Wednesday’s state dinner
October 25, 2023President Joe Biden has spoken out against retaliatory attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel
October 25, 2023Billions of dollars for a global HIV/AIDS program that's saved millions of lives are in limbo and now the George W
October 25, 2023The estranged son of Nashville's police chief, who was wanted for shooting two police officers, died from a self-inflicted gun wound as authorities closed in on him, state investigators
October 25, 2023Major corporations in water-guzzling industries such as apparel, food and beverage, and tech want to be better stewards of the freshwater resources they use
October 25, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron is promoting — with little success so far — the creation of an international coalition to fight the armed Palestinian group Hamas
October 25, 2023Pope Francis’ big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church is heading into its final stretch
October 25, 2023Environmental groups are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining ahead of an international meeting in Jamaica where an obscure U.N. body will debate the issue amid fears it could soon authorize the world’s first license to harvest minerals from the ocean floor
October 25, 2023Former Argentine presidential candidate Patricia Bullrich has endorsed right-wing populist Javier Milei for next month’s runoff
October 25, 2023The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved Jacob Lew to be ambassador to Israel, moving quickly to get him in place during Israel's war with Hamas
October 25, 2023Russia has successfully tested its ability to deliver a massive retaliatory nuclear strike by land, sea and air, a Kremlin statement said on Wednesday, a display of force
October 25, 2023Two Metropolitan Police officers have been dismissed from the force after a disciplinary panel concluded that they committed gross misconduct over the stop and search of two Black athletes
October 25, 2023As the Amazon drought rages on, public authorities in Brazil are scrambling to deliver food and water to thousands of isolated communities throughout a vast and roadless territory, where boats are the only means of transportation
October 25, 2023Soprano legend Maria Callas has been honored in Greece a century after her birth to Greek parents in New York with a new museum in Athens
October 25, 2023Israeli officials are outraged over U_N_ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ comment that the deadly Hamas attack on southern Israel “did not happen in a vacuum.”
October 25, 2023Officials say Russia fired almost a dozen Shahed drones against Ukrainian targets, and falling debris from an intercepted drone damaged power lines near a nuclear plant in the country’s west
October 25, 2023The United Nations Security Council will vote later on Wednesday on rival proposals by the United States and Russia for action on the conflict between Israel and Palestinian
October 25, 2023Analysts say the removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers appears to enforce leader Xi Jinping’s demand for total obedience and the elimination of any potential rivals within the ruling Communist Party
October 25, 2023A former British police officer has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after he pleaded guilty to over 100 child sex offenses
October 25, 2023Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute have left a gold mine in South Africa
October 25, 2023World shares are mixed after China pledged more spending to counter its economic slowdown
October 25, 2023China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country's next three-member crew for its orbiting space station
October 25, 2023The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees has warned that it is on the verge of running out of fuel in the Gaza Strip, forcing it to sharply cut back relief operations across the Gaza Strip
October 25, 2023President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese say they are working to deepen the alliance between their two countries during a state visit to Washington
October 25, 2023Russia’s military has simulated a nuclear strike in a drill overseen by President Vladimir Putin
October 25, 2023The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad officials
October 25, 2023Hong Kong’s leader has cut taxes for some homebuyers and stock traders to boost markets as the city seeks to maintain its reputation as a global financial hub
October 25, 2023Environmentalists have slammed Malaysia's move to let Australian miner Lynas import and process rare earths until March 2026
October 25, 2023Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past year in eastern Congo amid fighting by more than 130 armed groups
October 25, 2023Hurricane Otis ripped through Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco, ravaging roads and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero without power or cellphone service
October 25, 2023A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a COVID-19 outbreak has been ruled negligent in an Australian class-action case
October 25, 2023Increased Israeli airstrikes are devastating parts of the Gaza Strip, jeopardizing relief operations and leaving neighborhoods in shambles
October 25, 2023Japan’s Supreme Court has ruled that a law requiring transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery in order to officially change their gender is unconstitutional
October 25, 2023Taiwan hopes to reach a long-mooted tax agreement with the United States next year, Finance Minister Chuang Tsui-yun said on Wednesday, which both sides have said will foster more
October 25, 2023Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas
October 25, 2023Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric vehicles to catch up with the world's frontrunners like Tesla and BYD
October 25, 2023China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response to a Pentagon report on China’s growing military buildup
October 25, 2023U.S. intelligence officials have "high confidence" that an explosion at a Gaza hospital last week was caused by a Palestinian rocket that broke up mid-flight, and not by Israel,
October 25, 2023A team of scientists has unveiled the possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes
October 25, 2023The White House has scrapped plans to have the B-52s perform at a state dinner for Australia’s prime minister
October 24, 2023The prospect of Israeli forces launching an assault into Gaza’s dense urban neighborhoods is bringing back searing memories of the deadly battles the U.S.-led coalition fought against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria
October 24, 2023The Israeli military is gearing up to target an elaborate network of tunnels built by Hamas underneath Gaza City, known as the “Gaza metro,” as part of its ground offensive into the Palestinian territory. Hamas utilizes the underground passages to move fighters and weapons covertly. But given Gaza’s extreme population density, the subterranean system dangerously hides military assets below civilian areas, according to Israel. While tunnels have long offered asymmetric warfare advantages, Hamas has taken the concept to another level by constructing such an extensive tunnel network under one of the most crowded urban areas on Earth. Nearly 2 million
October 24, 2023Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from Haiti have touched down in Nicaragua in recent months
October 24, 2023The White House is developing “prudent contingency planning” to evacuate Americans from the Middle East in case the Israel-Hamas war spreads into a broad regional conflict
October 24, 2023A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple, which left a woman dead
October 24, 2023The head of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria says that fighting there has reached its worst point in years, with devastating consequences for civilians
October 24, 2023Military-ruled Myanmar is allowing prisoners to have family visitors from outside
October 24, 2023The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance
October 24, 2023The devastating Israel-Hamas war has trapped hundreds of foreign nationals in the Gaza Strip
October 24, 2023After Hamas militants attacked Kibbutz Be’eri on Oct. 7, killing more than 100 of its 1,100 residents, the Israeli government evacuated many survivors to a hotel near the Dead Sea
October 24, 2023Israel is vowing again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire at a high-level U_N_ meeting from the U_N_ chief, the Palestinians and many countries and declaring that its war against the extremist group in Gaza is also “the war of the free world.”
October 24, 2023Some U.S. lawmakers are demanding that seafood processed in two Chinese provinces be banned from entering the U.S. market because of concerns about rights abuses
October 24, 2023Prosecutors in Berlin say they have closed their investigation into the spectacular collapse of a huge aquarium last December after an expert report failed to pin down a reason why the tank burst
October 24, 2023Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister has visited troops deployed near the border with Israel, and Saudi Arabia is evacuating families of diplomatic staff because of clashes between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops
October 24, 2023The parties forming Spain’s acting government say they will push for a 37½-hour workweek
October 24, 2023Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says the damage done to an undersea telecoms cable between Sweden and Estonia was “purposeful,” but has declined to give any details
October 24, 2023Hurricane Otis has strengthened from a tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 storm in a matter of hours as it approaches Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, where it is forecast to make landfall near the resort of Acapulco early Wednesday
October 24, 2023The pope has accepted the resignation of a Polish bishop whose diocese has been rocked for weeks by reports of a sex party in a priest’s apartment involving a male prostitute
October 24, 2023The gas-rich nation of Qatar has become a key intermediary over the fate of more than 200 hostages held by Hamas militants after their unprecedented attack on Israel over two weeks ago
October 24, 2023Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that recent Ukrainian attacks have denied the Russian fleet safe bases and secure maritime corridors in the western part of the Black Sea
October 24, 2023Eighty-five year-old Yocheved Lifshitz spoke of a “hell that we never knew before and never thought we would experience” as she described the harrowing assault on her kibbutz by Hamas militants and the terror of being taken hostage into the Gaza Strip
October 24, 2023Police in South Africa say a group of gold miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute
October 24, 2023Chinese state media are reporting that the country has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu
October 24, 2023Palestinian artist Nida Sinnokrot, one of 18 artists receiving the 2023 Soros Arts Fellowships from the Open Society Foundations on Tuesday, says that art provides hope and resilience, even in the midst of war
October 24, 2023Malaysia’s government says it will allow Lynas Rare Earths to continue to import and process rare earths until March 2026
October 24, 2023Women across Iceland, including the prime minister, went on strike Tuesday to push for an end to unequal pay and gender-based violence
October 24, 2023An inquiry into New Zealand’s worst mass shooting will examine — among other issues — the response times of police and medics and whether any of the 51 people who were killed could have been saved
October 24, 2023Israel has ramped up airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, reducing residential buildings to rubble and crushing families
October 24, 2023German authorities say two cargo ships have collided in the North Sea off the German coast and one vessel sank
October 24, 2023The Health Ministry in Gaza says hundreds of people were killed in the past day as a result of Israeli airstrikes
October 24, 2023Shares have skidded in Asia after Wall Street tumbled as bond yields tightened their chokehold
October 24, 2023Officials say the bodies of at least 17 people were recovered from a train crash outside the Bangladesh capital that may have occurred after one of the trains disregarded a red signal
October 24, 2023Oil prices are up and markets are tense after the outbreak of war in Gaza
October 24, 2023Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system enjoys a near-mythical status among Israelis
October 24, 2023South Korean officials say four suspected North Korean defectors were found in a small wooden boat near the two Koreas’ sea border
October 24, 2023Protesters marched across Panama against a contract extension for copper mining in a biodiverse region
October 24, 2023Prince William will travel to Singapore next month to name the winners of his Earthshot Prize, a global competition to find solutions to the challenges of climate change
October 23, 2023Photos of iconic celebrities and historic moments from the collection of Elton John and David Furnish are set to go on display in London next year
October 23, 2023Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will visit Washington for a three-day visit starting on Thursday
October 23, 2023The Canadian government said on Monday it detected a China-linked "Spamouflage" campaign that involved bots posting disinformation and propaganda on the social media accounts of
October 23, 2023It's Ohad Munder-Zichri's 9th birthday
October 23, 2023A former National Security Agency employee from Colorado has pleaded guilty to trying to sell classified information to Russia
October 23, 2023The Pentagon has sent advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to assist in its plans to conduct a ground assault in Gaza
October 23, 2023Authorities in Aruba have requested documents from the U.S. Department of Justice in the extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, including his description of killing Natalee Holloway on the island nearly 20 years ago
October 23, 2023Forty years after the bombing that killed 241 U.S. troops in Beirut, the United States is again sending troops to the eastern Mediterranean as tension between Israel and Iran increases over the Israel-Hamas war
October 23, 2023Yousra Abu Sharekh's life was turned upside down within days after Israel declared war on Gaza days after Hamas' bloody rampage over two weeks ago
October 23, 2023A 31-year-old dog in Portugal that had been ranked as the world's oldest dog ever, has died
October 23, 2023Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation
October 23, 2023A new study says no matter how much the world cuts back on carbon emissions, a key and sizable chunk of Antarctica is essentially doomed to an unavoidable melt
October 23, 2023The office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he has submitted a protocol for Sweden’s admission into NATO to Turkey’s parliament for ratification
October 23, 2023California Gov. Gavin Newsom opened a weeklong trip to China with an assurance that his state will always be a partner on climate issues no matter how the U.S. presidential election turns out next year
October 23, 2023A cargo train has hit a passenger train outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka in a crash that killed 15 people and injured scores
October 23, 2023A Sydney court has postponed an extradition hearing for a former U.S. military pilot accused of illegally training Chinese aviators until May as his lawyers attempt to further build their case
October 23, 2023Official results in Switzerland election show that the anti-immigration Swiss People’s Party has rebounded from searing losses four years ago to cement and expand its hold as the largest faction after the parliamentary election
October 23, 2023A Pakistani court has indicted the country's former Prime Minister Imran Khan on charges of revealing official secrets after his 2022 ouster from office
October 23, 2023The United States has renewed a warning that it would defend the Philippines in case of an armed attack after Chinese ships blocked and collided with two Filipino vessels in the South China Sea
October 23, 2023Israeli warplanes are striking targets across Gaza as the U.S. says a delay in Israel's expected ground offensive in the besieged Hamas-ruled territory would allow more time to negotiate the release of hostages
October 23, 2023The International Committee of the Red Cross says Hamas militants have released two hostages they had been holding captive in the Gaza Strip
October 23, 2023Prices for Russian oil have risen well above a price cap imposed by Western allies as part of sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine
October 23, 2023Former Venezuelan lawmaker María Corina Machado, a longtime critic of Venezuela’s government, has dominated the opposition’s presidential primary election, getting more than 1.4 million votes, according to the latest partial results
October 23, 2023Asian shares are mixed after Wall Street wobbled to a mixed close as yields on U.S. Treasury bonds fell back after jumping above 5%
October 23, 2023Argentina’s economy minister and the anti-establishment upstart he faces in a presidential runoff next month have begun competing to shore up the moderate voters they need
October 23, 2023Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida says he is preparing to take bold economic measures, including an income tax cut for households hit by inflation and tax breaks for companies to promote investment
October 23, 2023Indigenous campaigners who wanted Australia to create an advisory body representing its most disadvantaged ethnic minority say its rejection in a constitutional referendum was a “shameful act.”
October 23, 2023Doctors in the Gaza Strip say dwindling fuel supplies are putting dozens of premature babies hooked up to incubators at risk of imminent death
October 22, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin say the United States is ready to protect American forces or personnel in the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war escalate as they expect
October 22, 2023Polish officials and media are reporting that an American basketball player with a professional Polish women's club has been badly beaten, sustaining a head injury
October 22, 2023Hezbollah has announced the deaths of five more militants as clashes along the Lebanon-Israel border intensify
October 22, 2023Thousands of people have gathered in Berlin and London to oppose antisemitism and support Israel, while in Paris and other European cities, thousands demanded relief for Palestinians in besieged Gaza
October 22, 2023Author Salman Rushdie called for the unconditional defense of freedom of expression as he received a prestigious German prize
October 22, 2023The South Korean, U.S. and Japanese militaries have held their first-ever trilateral aerial exercise in response to evolving North Korean nuclear threats
October 22, 2023President Joe Biden is facing anew the balancing act of demonstrating full-throated support for America’s closest ally in the Middle East while trying to press the Israelis to act with enough restraint to keep their war with Hamas from metastasizing
October 22, 2023German leaders are strongly denouncing a rise in antisemitism in Germany in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war
October 22, 2023A fourth person has died in Britain during a storm that pounded the U.K. and northern Europe with gale-force winds and torrential rain
October 22, 2023Norma has gained a bit of strength after being downgraded to a tropical storm as it moves into mainland Mexico
October 22, 2023A court in Iran has sentenced two female journalists to up to seven years in prison for collaborating with the U.S. government and other charges
October 22, 2023Deadly violence has been surging in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as the Israeli military pursues Palestinian militants in the aftermath of the Hamas attack
October 22, 2023A Nigerian action thriller that tells a gripping story of corruption and police brutality in Africa’s most populous country has reached record viewership numbers on Netflix charts globally
October 22, 2023The second aid convoy destined for desperate Palestinian civilians reached Gaza as Israel widened its attacks to include targets in Syria and the occupied West Bank
October 22, 2023Israeli warplanes have struck targets across Gaza as well as two airports in Syria and a mosque in the occupied West Bank allegedly used by militants
October 22, 2023Venezuelans have chosen the candidate they think can end the decade-long, crisis-ridden presidency of Nicolás Maduro
October 22, 2023Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa is leading right-wing populist Javier Milei in early returns from Sunday’s presidential election
October 22, 2023Russian strikes on power plants in the Ukraine war impacted almost half the country’s energy capacity last winter
October 22, 2023Chinese state media report that Foxconn, a Fortune 500 company known globally for making Apple iPhones, was recently subjected to searches by Chinese tax authorities
October 22, 2023Philippine officials say a Chinese coast guard ship and an accompanying vessel rammed a Philippine coast guard ship and a military-run supply boat near a contested shoal
October 22, 2023Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he will visit China in early November to meet President Xi Jinping
October 22, 2023Fears that the Israel-Hamas war could mushroom into a wider Middle East conflict rose on Sunday with Washington warning of a
October 21, 2023In the besieged Gaza Strip, hospitals are nearing collapse as doctors work under the most trying conditions
October 21, 2023Sevilla ejected a fan from its Spanish league match against Real Madrid and filed a complaint with police after the spectator allegedly displayed “xenophobic and racist behavior,” with Vinícius Júnior once again the target
October 21, 2023Paddy Cosgrave, the chief executive officer of a prominent European tech conference called Web Summit, resigned from his role on Saturday amid backlash for his public statements that suggested Israel was committing war crimes
October 21, 2023A top official with Hezbollah has vowed that Israel will pay a high price whenever it starts a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip
October 21, 2023Egypt and Jordan have harshly criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza at a summit in Cairo
October 21, 2023Manchester United and England soccer great Bobby Charlton has died at the age of 86
October 21, 2023Jehad Adwan scribbles the names and ages of his wife’s relatives in blue ink on a scrap of white paper
October 21, 2023Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators are marching in London and other cities to demand Israel stop its bombardment of Gaza
October 21, 2023Among the thousands of migrants reach the U.S. border each day are many Mexican victims of organized crime who are fleeing violence and asking for protection
October 21, 2023President Joe Biden is trying to sweeten his pitch for more money for Ukraine by mixing in billions of dollars for securing the U.S.-Mexico border
October 21, 2023The fallout from the Israel-Hamas war has spilled into workplaces everywhere, with corporate leaders from the highest ranks of prominent companies weighing in with their views while workers complain their voices are not being heard
October 21, 2023Ukrainian officials say at least two civilians were killed and others wounded across Ukraine in the past 24 hours as Russian forces continued to shell areas across the country and pushed forward near an embattled eastern city
October 21, 2023A storm battered Britain, northern Germany and southern Scandinavia for a third day with powerful winds, heavy rain and storm surges that caused floods, power outages, evacuations, and traffic disruptions
October 21, 2023Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned home on a chartered plane from Dubai, ending four years of self-imposed exile in London as he seeks to win the support of voters in parliamentary elections due in January
October 21, 2023The border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let a trickle of desperately needed aid into the besieged Palestinian territory
October 21, 2023Aid deliveries have begun moving into the besieged Gaza Strip, two weeks after the militant group Hamas rampaged through southern Israel and Israel responded with airstrikes
October 21, 2023Hurricane Norma made landfall near the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday and has weakened to a tropical storm while moving over land
October 21, 2023A faction of Venezuela’s opposition is set to pick its candidate for next year’s presidential election
October 21, 2023President Joe Biden says he thinks Hamas was motivated to attack Israel in part by a desire to stop that country from normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia
October 20, 2023Hundreds of Palestinians have crowded into a squalid tent camp in southern Gaza, an image that has brought back memories of their greatest trauma
October 20, 2023An assessment by French military intelligence indicates the most likely cause of the explosion at Gaza City’s al-Ahli hospital was a Palestinian rocket, according to a senior French military official
October 20, 2023Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7 and began killing and abducting people
October 20, 2023Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, says the U.S. is welcomed in the Indo-Pacific and should do more to counter China's influence there
October 20, 2023The father of freed American teenage hostage Natalie Raanan says she's doing well after her release Friday by Hamas
October 20, 2023Belgium’s justice minister has resigned after it was discovered that Tunisia was seeking the extradition last year of an Islamic extremist who shot dead two Swedes and wounded a third this week
October 20, 2023Spain's royal family have presided over the presentation of this year's Princess of Asturias awards that are among the most important in the Spanish-speaking world
October 20, 2023Scientists from the U.N. nuclear agency have watched Japanese lab workers prepare samples of fish collected at a seafood market near the Fukushima nuclear plant to test the safety of treated radioactive wastewater released from the damaged plant into the sea
October 20, 2023Congressional chaos and opposition will be a hurdle for President Joe Biden as he pushes for $105 billion in funding for Israel, Ukraine, border security, humanitarian assistance and countering China
October 20, 2023Hurricane Norma is heading for the resorts of Los Cabos at the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula, while Tammy grew into a hurricane in the Atlantic
October 20, 2023Russian media report a Russian-American journalist was ordered detained for another three days on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent
October 20, 2023Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany needs to start deporting “on a large scale” migrants who don’t have the right to stay in the country, adding to increasingly tough talk on migration since his coalition performed badly in two state elections earlier this month
October 20, 2023A top Chinese envoy says that China and Russia share the same position on the Palestinian issue and plan to try to work together to cool the situation and help establish a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians
October 20, 2023Cuts to U.N. funding for refugees living in Rwanda is threatening the right to education for children in more than 100,000 households who have fled conflict from different East African countries to live in five camps
October 20, 2023Thousands of people in Muslim countries and beyond have held demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, calling for an end to Israel’s blockade and Israeli airstrikes
October 20, 2023The Australian government has decided against canceling a Chinese company’s 99-year lease on strategically important Darwin Port despite U.S. concerns that foreign control could be used to spy on its military
October 20, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he spoke by phone with President Joe Biden about future U.S. support for Ukraine
October 20, 2023Many Palestinians in Gaza who heeded the Israeli military’s warning last week to head south thought they were fleeing to a safer place
October 20, 2023Japanese author Haruki Murakami says he is torn by the conflict in Israel since he has Jewish friends but understands that the situation of the Palestinians is dire
October 20, 2023Gale-force winds and floods have struck several countries in northern Europe as the region endures more heavy rain that forecasters say will continue into the weekend
October 20, 2023The Philippine defense chief has ordered all defense personnel and the 163,000-member military to refrain from using digital applications that harness artificial intelligence to generate personal portraits, saying they could pose security risks
October 20, 2023Wall Street closed out its worst week in a month with more losses
October 20, 2023The Israeli government said Hamas militants on Friday freed two Americans
October 20, 2023Britain’s main opposition Labour Party has decisively won two special elections
October 20, 2023Israel says Hamas has freed two American hostages who had been held in Gaza since militants rampaged through southern Israel Oct. 7
October 20, 2023President Joe Biden has welcomed European Union leaders to the White House
October 20, 2023Escalating tensions between Colombia and Israel over the Gaza war could undo decades of close military ties between them
October 20, 2023Nir Oz is one of more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel that were ambushed in the sweeping assault by Hamas on Oct. 7
October 20, 2023An Army private who fled to North Korea before being returned home to the United States last month has been detained by the U.S. military
October 20, 2023The U.S.
October 20, 2023Haiti's national police say a former justice official considered one of the main suspects in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse in 2021 has been arrested
October 20, 2023Lawyers for Niger’s ousted president have called for his immediate release
October 19, 2023After going missing nearly 80 years ago, a baroque landscape painting was returned to Germany on Thursday
October 19, 2023As the Israel-Hamas war intensifies, the United States is now allowing Israelis wishing to visit the United States for 90 days or less to come visa-free
October 19, 2023Last week, the life of Gina Bryant, a promising young nursing student at the University of Michigan-Flint, was tragically cut short. The 25-year-old was shot and killed on October 12 by her former boyfriend, Justin Wendling, who then took his own life at a rest stop in Iowa. The murder-suicide spanned three states and appeared to be linked to a history of domestic violence in their relationship, police said. Bryant was killed after family members believe she was abducted from her home in Macomb Township, Michigan where she lived. Her mother and sister had helped her move out just weeks
October 19, 2023Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have sheltered with their families far from their homes and struggled to survive since the Israeli military decided to cut off the water and fuel and prevent aid convoys from entering
October 19, 2023Canada's foreign minister says the country has recalled 41 of its diplomats from India after the Indian government said it would revoke their diplomatic immunity, escalating a spat over the slaying of a Sikh separatist in Canada
October 19, 2023After nearly two decades, Joran van der Sloot has finally confessed in chilling detail to the brutal murder of Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005. In a newly released 3 minute and 45 second audio recording, van der Sloot calmly describes to investigators how he killed the 18-year-old Alabama high school student after she rejected his sexual advances on a beach. The fresh evidence comes as shocking evidence in the mysterious high-profile cold case. Although he was never legally indicted, Van der Sloot was long suspected of being behind Holloway’s abduction. N Now 36 years old, he was convicted of
October 19, 2023French police have arrested a man climbing on the Eiffel Tower, temporarily stranding a crowd at the top
October 19, 2023Ukraine’s parliament has overwhelmingly voted to advance legislation seen as effectively banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church over its ties to Moscow
October 19, 2023U.S. forces in the Middle East are facing increasing threats
October 19, 2023U.N. officials and their partners are ramping up efforts to take advantage of a possible window for Israel and Egypt to allow humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza, whose people have been stripped of deliveries of fuel, food, water and medical supplies from the outside as Israeli forces strike at Hamas militants who led a deadly incursion in Israel on Oct. 7
October 19, 2023More than 300 people were arrested for illegally demonstrating and three people were charged with assaulting police after protesters descended on Capitol Hill to call for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas
October 19, 2023Journalists reporting in Gaza need to worry about basic survival for themselves and their families in addition to getting out the story of a besieged population
October 19, 2023Two U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that a military base in southern Syria where U.S. troops have maintained a presence to train forces as part of a broad campaign against the Islamic State group was attacked by drones on Thursday
October 19, 2023Addressing the nation from the Oval Office, President Joe Biden has made his case for major U.S. backing of Ukraine and Israel in a time of war
October 19, 2023The MTV Europe Music Awards canceled its ceremony next month, citing the Israel-Hamas War
October 19, 2023Hurricane Norma has weakened slightly but remains a major storm off Mexico’s Pacific coast
October 19, 2023Former President Donald Trump and other top Republicans are issuing increasingly urgent calls for the U.S. to seal its borders against a potential mass exodus of Palestinians fleeing war in the Gaza Strip
October 19, 2023A study says Atlantic hurricanes are now more than twice as likely as before to rapidly intensify from wimpy minor hurricanes to powerful and catastrophic in just 24 hours
October 19, 2023A group of former U.S. diplomats and representatives of resettlement organizations has asked Pakistan not to deport thousands of Afghans who have been waiting for U.S. visas under an American program that relocates at-risk Afghan refugees fleeing Taliban rule
October 19, 2023China has more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal and will probably have over 1,000 warheads by 2030, the Pentagon said in its annual report on
October 19, 2023A Pentagon report on China’s military power says Beijing is on track to significantly increase its nuclear weapons arsenal by 2030 and is “almost certainly” learning lessons from Russia’s war in Ukraine about what a conflict over Taiwan might look like
October 19, 2023Federal authorities say that thousands of information technology workers contracting with U.S. companies secretly sent millions of dollars of their wages to North Korea for use in its ballistic missile program
October 19, 2023Organizers of next year’s Paris Olympics say their headquarters have again been visited by French financial prosecutors who are investigating suspicions of favoritism, conflicts of interest and misuse of funds in the awarding of contracts
October 19, 2023The Biden administration may soon begin shipping to Ukraine several variants of Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), a long-range missile system that often carries varying
October 19, 2023Slovenia says it will introduce border checks with neighboring Hungary and Croatia following Italy’s decision to do the same with Slovenia because of security concerns due to violence in the Middle East
October 19, 2023Millions of disaffected voters in Argentina are planning to cast their ballots Sunday for right-wing populist and self-described anarcho-capitalist, Javier Milei
October 19, 2023Abdesalem Lassoued had been denied residency in four European countries by the time he shot three Swedish men this week, killing two of them
October 19, 2023The European Union has demanded Meta and TikTok detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war
October 19, 2023A bottle of what is being called “the most-sought after Scotch whisky” is set to be auctioned next month at Sotheby's in London
October 19, 2023Hundreds of people are being evacuated from their homes and schools have closed in parts of Scotland, as much of northern Europe braces for stormy weather, heavy rain and gale-force winds from the east
October 19, 2023Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, has been awarded the European Union’s top human rights prize
October 19, 2023An International Atomic Energy Agency team is in Fukushima for the agency's first marine sampling since treated radioactive wastewater started being released from the area's damaged nuclear plant into the sea
October 19, 2023The Palace of Versailles was forced to evacuate visitors for the fourth time in less than a week for a security check after a bomb alert
October 19, 2023Telecom gear maker Nokia says it's planning to cut up to 14,000 jobs worldwide, or 16% of its workforce, as part of a push to reduce costs following a plunge in third-quarter sales and profit
October 19, 2023Israel’s defense minister has told ground troops to be ready to enter the Gaza Strip, though he didn’t say when the invasion will start
October 19, 2023A Russian-American journalist working for a U_S_ government-funded media company has been detained in Russia and charged with failing to register as a “foreign agent.”
October 19, 2023The European Union is taking steps to limit the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas on the bloc
October 19, 2023Asian shares have retreated as the prospect of a 5% yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury for the first time since 2007 added to pressure on Wall Street
October 19, 2023Thousands of ordinary citizens got into legal trouble for their parts in Catalonia’s illegal independence bid that brought Spain to the brink of rupture six years ago
October 19, 2023Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week
October 19, 2023The reservoirs that provide Mexico City with much of its water are distressingly low after persistent drought through the summer
October 19, 2023Israeli airstrikes on Gaza continue and Israel’s defense minister has told troops to be ready for a ground assault on the Palestinian territory, although he has not said when that will begin
October 19, 2023Russia’s foreign minister has proposed regular security talks with North Korea and China to deal with what he described as increasing U.S.-led regional military threats
October 19, 2023Australia's failed referendum on the Indigenous Voice has set back the government’s plans to cut the nation's constitutional ties to Britain’s King Charles III
October 19, 2023The United States has agreed to temporarily suspend some sanctions on Venezuela’s oil, gas and gold sectors
October 18, 2023Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told troops gathered at the Gaza border on Thursday that they would soon see the Palestinian
October 18, 2023A Brazilian congressional panel has accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of instigating the country’s Jan. 8 riots and recommended that he be charged with attempting to stage a coup
October 18, 2023Authorities say the Detroit Tigers complex in the Dominican Republic has been targeted in the latest robbery of a Major League Baseball facility in the country
October 18, 2023A flight of Venezuelan migrants deported from the U.S. under new measures by the Biden administration has landed outside the South American country's capital
October 18, 2023A tale of quick-witted survival during the Israel-Hamas war has turned a 65-year old woman into an unlikely folk hero in Israel
October 18, 2023Liberia’s presidential election appears headed for a run-off, with the top candidates neck and neck and the votes nearly fully counted
October 18, 2023The Streets' Mike Skinner acts as director, writer and leading man in his film project “The Darker the Shadow, the Brighter the Light.”
October 18, 2023Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket
October 18, 2023An Israeli family of five whose bodies were discovered in each other’s arms after being killed by Hamas militants were buried side by side in a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners
October 18, 2023Hundreds of protesters have clashed with Lebanese security forces in the Beirut suburb of Aukar near the United States Embassy
October 18, 2023Lionel Messi’s annualized compensation from his Major League Soccer contract with Inter Miami is just over $20.4 million
October 18, 2023Neymar left the soccer field in tears after yet another injury in what has become an all-too familiar sight
October 18, 2023Coalition forces were slightly injured in Iraq in a spate of drone attacks over the last 24 hours at U.S. bases in Iraq as regional tensions flare following the deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza
October 18, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken says new U.S. sanctions are “directed at Hamas terrorists and their support network," not at Palestinians
October 18, 2023The suspected attacker who killed two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels this week before he was shot dead by police resided in Belgium illegally and had been ordered to leave Belgium years ago
October 18, 2023The Palace of Versailles and three airports in cities across France were evacuated for security reasons and temporarily closed Wednesday
October 18, 2023Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has thanked North Korea for its support for Russia’s war on Ukraine as he arrived in Pyongyang
October 18, 2023The United Nations’ World Food Program is appealing for $19 million to provide emergency assistance to tens of thousands of people affected by a series of devastating earthquakes and aftershocks that has rocked western Afghanistan
October 18, 2023Within hours of a blast said to have killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital, protesters hurled stones at Palestinian security forces in the occupied West Bank and at riot police in neighboring Jordan
October 18, 2023The lower house of Russia’s parliament has approved a bill revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban treaty, a move Moscow described as putting it on par with the United States
October 18, 2023Elon Musk’s social media platform X is charging a $1 fee to new users in the Philippines and New Zealand
October 18, 2023Rare footage was shown on Wednesday of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing accompanied by officers carrying the so-called nuclear briefcase which can be used to order a
October 18, 2023Shares have tumbled in Asia following a retreat on Wall Street after big U.S. companies delivered mixed profit reports and Treasury yields added pressure on stocks
October 18, 2023The leaders of Russia and China have met in Beijing and called for close foreign policy coordination
October 18, 2023Beijing has vigorously protested the U.S. Commerce Department's latest update of export controls to prevent exports to China of advanced computer chips and the equipment to make them
October 18, 2023German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has strongly condemned a firebomb assault on a synagogue in Berlin
October 18, 2023Israel says will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day seal on the territory
October 18, 2023Inflation in the U.K. held steady at 6.7% in September as easing food and drink price rises were offset by higher fuel costs for motorists
October 18, 2023President Joe Biden visited Israel on an urgent mission to keep the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader regional conflict
October 18, 2023Australian journalist Cheng Lei says she spent more than three years in detention in China for breaking an embargo with a television broadcast
October 18, 2023Chinese automakers are winning over drivers as they make major inroads into Europe’s electric vehicle market
October 18, 2023Economy Minister Sergio Massa and former Security Minister Patricia Bullrich adapted shrewdly over their combined seven decades in Argentine politics
October 18, 2023The United States has vetoed a U.N. resolution that would have condemned all violence against civilians in the Israel-Hamas war and urged humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza
October 18, 2023When Giorgia Meloni took office a year ago as the first far-right premier in Italy’s post-war history, many in Europe worried about the prospect of the country’s democratic backsliding and resistance to European Union rules
October 18, 2023President Joe Biden’s nominee to be ambassador to Israel has told senators he will “ensure Israel has what it needs to defend itself” and will work with the U.S. ally to end the attacks by Hamas if he's confirmed
October 18, 2023President Joe Biden swept into wartime Israel for a 7 1/2-hour visit Wednesday that offered support for the Israeli people and produced a deal to get limited humanitarian aid into Gaza from Egypt, potentially by the end of the week
October 18, 2023Chinese President Xi Jinping is promising foreign companies more access to China’s huge market and more than $100 billion in new financing for other developing economies
October 18, 2023China’s economy slowed in the summer as global demand for its exports faltered and the ailing property sector sank deeper into crisis
October 18, 2023A massive blast Tuesday rocked a Gaza City hospital that was packed with wounded and displaced Palestinians amid an Israeli offensive on Gaza
October 18, 2023Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the U.S. began moving warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with whatever it needed to respond
October 17, 2023Tropical Storm Norma has formed off Mexico's western Pacific coast
October 17, 2023The Pentagon has released footage of some of the more than 180 intercepts of U.S. warplanes by Chinese aircraft that have occurred in the last two years — more than the total amount over the previous decade and part of a trend U.S. military officials called concerning
October 17, 2023Former Associated Press videojournalist Yaniv Zohar was killed in his home along with his wife and two daughters during Hamas’ bloody cross-border rampage on Oct. 7
October 17, 2023President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced major setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on Tuesday
October 17, 2023The families of Israel's missing after Hamas' Oct. 7 massacre say they're stuck in a limbo of pain and numbness, and without much information
October 17, 2023A draft congressional report on Brazil’s Jan. 8 riots has accused ex-President Jair Bolsonaro of being the insurrection’s mastermind
October 17, 2023Stellantis has said it will be canceling its participation in next year’s CES technology show in Las Vegas due to the “mounting” costs of the ongoing auto workers strike in North America
October 17, 2023Even the safe zones of Gaza aren’t safe for Palestinians
October 17, 2023The war between Israel and Hamas is raising fears about rising hostility across the United States
October 17, 2023The United Nations says it is collecting evidence of war crimes by both sides in the Israel-Hamas war, which began with the militant group’s brutal Oct. 7 cross-border attack and was followed by Israel’s relentless bombardment and a siege of Gaza
October 17, 2023The United Nations says its peacekeepers have started departing from two bases in northern Mali as part of a forced withdrawal from the country and amid increasing insecurity
October 17, 2023Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held talks with Vladimir Putin in a rare in-person meeting for the Russian president with a leader of a European Union country
October 17, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed that the United States quietly delivered a small number of the long-range ballistic missiles Ukraine said it urgently needed, and Ukraine has started using them on the battlefield against Russia
October 17, 2023The Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is the sole route for aid to enter Gaza directly from outside Israel and the only exit that does not lead to Israeli territory.
October 17, 2023Poland’s voters delivered a clear verdict
October 17, 2023European Union leaders are struggling to paper over their differences as a cacophony of opinions and reactions mar the bloc’s response to the Israel-Hamas war
October 17, 2023The Commerce Department has updated and broadened its export controls to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and the equipment to manufacture them
October 17, 2023France’s anti-terror prosecutor says a suspected Islamic extremist declared allegiance to the Islamic State group before fatally stabbing a teacher in a school attack last week
October 17, 2023The mother of a young Israeli woman held by Hamas has appealed for her release
October 17, 2023The Palace of Versailles, one of France’s most visited tourist attractions, has reopened after being evacuated because of a security scare
October 17, 2023Jet engine maker Rolls-Royce says it’s cutting up to 2,500 jobs globally as part of a corporate overhaul that its new CEO is carrying out
October 17, 2023The lower house of the Russian parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban
October 17, 2023Ukraine claims to have carried out one of the most destructive attacks on Russian air assets since the beginning of the war
October 17, 2023Clashes have flared along the Lebanon-Israel border, killing five Hezbollah fighters
October 17, 2023Gaza's health ministry says that an estimated 1,200 people are still trapped under the rubble of destroyed buildings awaiting rescue, or recovery
October 17, 2023Oscar-winning actor Michelle Yeoh has been elected as a member of the International Olympic Committee
October 17, 2023The leader of opposition that won Poland’s parliamentary election, Donald Tusk, appealed to the nation’s president Tuesday for “energetic and fast decisions” so that a new government could be formed quickly
October 17, 2023Fans of Sweden’s soccer teams will be advised against wearing clothing in national colors when they travel abroad in the wake of the killing of two Swedish supporters before a European Championship qualifying match in Belgium
October 17, 2023India’s top court has refused to legalize same-sex marriages passing the responsibility back to Parliament
October 17, 2023Shares have fallen in Asia after China reported that its economy grew at a 4.9% annual pace in July-September, down from 6.3% in the previous quarter
October 17, 2023Trucks carrying aid for the Gaza Strip arrived on Tuesday at the only border crossing into the territory not controlled by Israel, a witness and Egyptian security sources said, after
October 17, 2023Authorities in the Belgian capital shot and killed a Tunisian national hours after they say he gunned down three Swedish soccer fans, killing two of them
October 17, 2023China is hosting its third international forum centered around President Xi Jinping’s signature policy, the Belt and Road Initiative, which over the past 10 years has built infrastructure across continents, burdening some smaller countries with debt
October 17, 2023The Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu has launched the latest version of its artificial intelligence model Ernie 4.0
October 17, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine as well as Russian backing for China’s bid to expand its economic and diplomatic influence abroad through its decade-old “Belt and Road” initiative
October 17, 2023Stalled spending on electrical grids worldwide is slowing the rollout of renewable energy and could put efforts to limit climate change at risk if millions of miles of power lines aren't added or refurbished in the next few years
October 17, 2023The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says a massive blast hit a Gaza City hospital packed with wounded and other Palestinians seeking shelter, killing hundreds of people
October 17, 2023Hamas says hundreds have been killed in an airstrike on Gaza City hospital, after intensifying bombardments near towns in southern Gaza rattled civilians where Israel ordered them to take refuge
October 17, 2023The explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence has Arab leaders faulting a Biden administration policy that moved away from big U.S. pushes for a broad Israeli-Palestinian peace deal
October 17, 2023Israel's military brought together a group of foreign correspondents to screen a 40-minute reel of gruesome footage compiled from the Hamas attack last week
October 17, 2023China’s Belt and Road Initiative looks to become smaller and greener after a decade of big projects that boosted trade but left big debts and raised environmental concerns
October 17, 2023North Korea's nuclear programme is a self-defensive move to head off a nuclear war in the face of the U.S. pursuit of "nuclear supremacy," state media KCNA said on
October 16, 2023President Joe Biden will travel to Israel and Jordan Wednesday to meet with both Israeli and Arab leadership, as concerns increase that the raging Israel-Hamas war could expand into a larger regional conflict
October 16, 2023The release of two more hostages is offering some hope to the families of the more than 200 people the Israeli military says were seized by Hamas militants
October 16, 2023The U.N. Security Council has rejected a Russian resolution on Gaza that condemned violence and terrorism against civilians but made no mention of Hamas, whose surprise attack killed 1,300 Israelis
October 16, 2023The Negro River, the Amazon's second largest tributary, has reached its lowest level since official measurements began near Manaus 121 years ago
October 16, 2023Thousands of soccer fans were kept inside Belgium’s national stadium for about 2 1/2 hours after a game between Belgium and Sweden was suspended at halftime following the fatal shooting of two Swedes in Brussels before kickoff
October 16, 2023Israel has suspended security exports to Colombia in an escalating diplomatic spat over online messages by Colombia’s president comparing Israel’s siege of Gaza to the actions of Nazi Germany
October 16, 2023Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has been awarded the Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor title by French President Emmanuel Macron
October 16, 2023France’s main Jewish students union has plastered walls around Paris with posters bearing the faces of French citizens believed to be held hostage by Hamas in their war with Israel
October 16, 2023Limited water supplies are posing a growing threat to human health in the Gaza Strip
October 16, 2023Police in Belgium are searching for a gunman with suspected extremist motives who killed two Swedes with stunning viciousness in Brussels before disappearing into the night
October 16, 2023The Israeli public is in a state of shock and grief a week after Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, killing scores of people in border communities and kidnapping roughly 150 civilians
October 16, 2023Italian lawmakers have marked the 80th anniversary of the Nazi roundup of more than 1,200 Roman Jews in the Holocaust with a debate on a measure to partially fund a long-delayed Holocaust Museum in the capital
October 16, 2023Venezuela’s government and opposition have reached an agreement on new electoral conditions that once signed Tuesday in Barbados will trigger relief from the U.S. government on energy sanctions it imposed on President Nicolás Maduro’s government
October 16, 2023Hersh Goldberg-Polin's mother describes him as like a lot of other young people
October 16, 2023A financial analyst who was fired by Citibank after claiming a two-sandwich lunch on expenses has lost a legal battle for wrongful dismissal
October 16, 2023Mexico will help Cuba, including providing it with oil, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday.
October 16, 2023Japan has criticized Russia’s announcement that it’s joining China in banning the imports of Japanese seafood in response to the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant
October 16, 2023Commercial operations have begun at Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport, designed to serve as an upgraded gateway to the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex in the northwestern province of Siem Reap
October 16, 2023The lawyer representing 184 former Facebook content moderators based in Kenya who have sued the site's parent company, Meta, over working conditions and pay has told the judge that Meta was not sincere in trying to reach an out-of-court settlement as agreed in the last court session
October 16, 2023A populist former prime minister of Slovakia who plans to end the country’s military support for Ukraine has signed a coalition agreement with the leaders of two other parties to form a new government
October 16, 2023Filipino officials say Canada will help the Philippines detect illegal fishing with its satellite surveillance system under a new agreement
October 16, 2023Seven of the activists who repeatedly have demonstrated against a wind farm in in central Norway that they say hinders the rights of the Sami Indigenous people to raise reindeer have met with the Norwegian king
October 16, 2023Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said Monday it has started destroying surveillance cameras on several Israeli army posts along the border as tension rose following the Israel-Hamas war that began Oct.7
October 16, 2023A lawyer for Donald Trump has told a London judge that the ex-president plans to prove that a “shocking and scandalous” report by a former British spy was wrong and harmed his reputation
October 16, 2023Ukrainian officials say a dayslong attempt by Russian forces to storm a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine appears to be running out of steam
October 16, 2023President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are meeting with national security officials as the Israel-Hamas conflict intensifies, according to the White House
October 16, 2023A top European Union official says the bloc's leaders will hold an emergency summit on Tuesday as concerns grow that the war between Israel and Hamas could fuel inter-communal tensions in Europe
October 16, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron has held a special security meeting amid heightened alert against feared terror threats
October 16, 2023Martti Ahtisaari, Finland's former president and a global peace broker who was awarded the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for his work to resolve international conflicts, has died
October 16, 2023Nearly complete results show the majority of voters in Poland’s general election supported opposition parties that promise to reverse democratic backsliding and repair the nation’s relationship with allies
October 16, 2023Asian shares have advanced after U.S. stocks rallied as investors unwound some of last week’s moves driven by worries about war in the Middle East
October 16, 2023Australia’s online safety watchdog has fined X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — 610,500 Australian dollars ($385,000) for failing to fully explain how it tackled child sexual exploitation content
October 16, 2023More than a million people have fled their homes in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israel invasion that seeks to eliminate Hamas’ leadership after its deadly incursion
October 16, 2023The Owino Market in Uganda's capital has long been a go-to enclave for rich and poor people alike looking for affordable but quality-made used clothes, underscoring perceptions that Western fashion is superior to what is made at home
October 16, 2023Ecuador’s youngest elected president faces a practically impossible task
October 16, 2023European Union leaders have offered a new growth plan to the six Western Balkans countries that opens parts of the EU single market to them in return for deep reforms, ahead of their full membership in the bloc
October 16, 2023Hospitals in Gaza faced collapse Monday as water, power and medicine neared depletion, and hundreds of thousands of Palestinians searched for dwindling food supplies while Israel maintained punishing airstrikes in retaliation for last week’s deadly rampage by Hamas
October 16, 2023Leaders of emerging market countries are arriving in Beijing for a meeting organized by the Chinese government that will mark the 10th anniversary of its Belt and Road Initiative
October 16, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to meet with Chinese leaders in Beijing on a visit that underscores China’s support for Moscow during its war in Ukraine
October 16, 2023The United Nations humanitarian chief says Sudan's war between the military and a powerful paramilitary group has killed up to 9,000 people and created “one of the worst humanitarian nightmares in recent history."
October 15, 2023Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis says the United States shouldn't take in any Palestinian refugees if they flee the Gaza Strip because they are “all antisemitic.”
October 15, 2023Israeli rabbis have been working around the clock, even on the Jewish Sabbath, to identify and count the dead civilians and soldiers gunned down in the Hamas attack a week ago
October 15, 2023Najla Shawa and her family are safe for now after fleeing their home in Gaza City
October 15, 2023Myanmar’s military government has hosted representatives from ethnic rebel groups to mark the eighth anniversary of the signing of a multilateral cease-fire agreement
October 15, 2023A 19-year-old Israel Defense Forces soldier assured her mother that she was busy but OK in a text message roughly three hours after the Hamas attack started lasted Saturday morning
October 15, 2023The Hamas attack on Israel has put China's ambitions in the Middle East to the test
October 15, 2023Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has raised his nation’s flag over the capital city of a former breakaway region in a ceremony reaffirming Baku’s control over it
October 15, 2023President Joe Biden is considering a trip to Israel in the coming days, but nothing has been finalized
October 15, 2023Water has run out at U.N. shelters across Gaza
October 15, 2023The Republican Party’s White House hopefuls are offering conflicting messages on the growing foreign policy challenges that include the Israel-Hamas war
October 15, 2023When Hamas unleashed its attack on thousands of Jews attending a music festival in southern Israel earlier this month, an Israeli Arab paramedic insisted on staying at the scene to try to save lives
October 15, 2023Polish opposition leader Donald Tusk is declaring the beginning of a new era after three opposition parties appeared to have won enough votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election to oust the governig party
October 15, 2023Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents are seeking to heed Israel’s order to evacuate roughly the northern half of the territory, while others are huddled at hospitals in the north
October 15, 2023Medics in Gaza are warning that thousands could die as hospitals packed with wounded people run desperately low on fuel and basic supplies
October 15, 2023Another 6.3 magnitude earthquake has struck part of western Afghanistan where thousands of people died and entire villages were flattened by devastating quakes a week earlier
October 15, 2023Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles says his government will look for new ways to lift Indigenous living standards after voters soundly rejected a proposal to create a new advocacy committee
October 15, 2023The sudden capitulation of ethnic Armenian forces in a separatist region of Azerbaijan raises hopes for the return of thousands of people who fled the territory decades ago
October 15, 2023An inexperienced politician and an heir to a fortune built on the banana trade has won Ecuador’s presidential runoff election
October 15, 2023For many Israelis and Jews around the world, the horrors committed by Hamas militants during their stunning onslaught on southern Israeli communities is triggering painful memories of a calamity of a far greater scale: the Holocaust
October 15, 2023The carnage began with a violent cross-border attack by Hamas militants on Israeli civilians
October 14, 2023In the besieged Gaza Strip, 2.3 million people don’t have access to clean, running water because of Israel’s decision to cut off water and electricity to the enclave while pounding it with airstrikes
October 14, 2023Some left home with suitcases jammed with clothes
October 14, 2023Judith Raanan and her 17-year-old daughter Natalie were excited to celebrate a family member's birthday and the Jewish holiday season in Israel
October 14, 2023Qatar's Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani is withdrawing his offer to buy Manchester United, a person with knowledge of the process told The Associated Press
October 14, 2023French police say the Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace evacuated visitors and staff after receiving bomb threats
October 14, 2023Jews in communities far from Israel gathered at synagogues this weekend for their Shabbat services, held in the aftermath of Hamas militants' attack on Israel that ignited an ongoing war
October 14, 2023Ada Sagi was getting ready to travel to London to celebrate her 75th birthday with family when Hamas militants attacked her kibbutz and took her hostage
October 14, 2023Ukrainian officials have reported intense combat as Russian forces relentlessly assault the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka
October 14, 2023Reuters videographer Issam Abdallah, who was killed in Israeli shelling of southern Lebanon, has been laid to rest in his hometown in a funeral procession attended by hundreds of people
October 14, 2023The Louvre Museum says it is closing for the day and evacuating all visitors and staff after it received a written threat
October 14, 2023President Joe Biden has spoken with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging the leaders to allow humanitarian aid to the region and affirmed his support for efforts to protect civilians
October 14, 2023Iran’s foreign minister has called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, warning that the war might expand to other parts of the Middle East if Hezbollah joins the battle
October 14, 2023France will mobilize up to 7,000 soldiers to increase security around the country after a teacher was fatally stabbed and three other people wounded in a school attack
October 14, 2023Israel’s military ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive
October 14, 2023Conservative former businessman Christopher Luxon will be New Zealand’s next prime minister after winning a decisive election victory
October 14, 2023Venezuelans have come to feel the decade-long crisis that undid their country as one numbingly featureless expanse of struggles
October 14, 2023Australians have resoundingly rejected a referendum proposal to create an advocacy committee to offer advice to Parliament on policies that affect Indigenous people — the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority
October 14, 2023Palestinians are struggling to flee from areas of Gaza targeted by the Israeli military ahead of an expected land offensive a week after Hamas’ bloody attack into Israel
October 14, 2023Poland is holding an election Sunday that many view as its most important one since the 1989 vote that toppled communism
October 14, 2023Court records filed Friday indicate the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance intends to plead guilty in an extortion case
October 13, 2023Former President Donald Trump is stepping back from his pointed criticism of Israel
October 13, 2023Palestinians are struggling to figure out what to do in the face of Israel's demand that they leave northern Gaza ahead of an expected Israeli invasion
October 13, 2023Ravens outside linebacker Odafe Oweh will miss his fourth straight game because of an ankle injury when Baltimore plays the Tennessee Titans on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
October 13, 2023The deadly attacks by Hamas on Israeli civilians and the devastating Israeli airstrikes and blockade of Gaza have raised accusations among international legal experts that both sides were violating international law
October 13, 2023Police in New York, Los Angeles, and other U.S. cities have increased patrols, authorities put up fencing around the U.S. Capitol and some schools closed amid fears of violence inspired by the Israel-Hamas war
October 13, 2023Because of the fracture in her leg, Karin Journo had talked herself out of going to the Tribe of Nova music festival and sold her ticket
October 13, 2023The IOC says Russian athletes can be directly invited to next year's Paris Games despite the suspension of their country's Olympic committee
October 13, 2023The White House says that North Korea has delivered more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to Russia for its ongoing war in Ukraine
October 13, 2023An Israeli shell has landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing a Reuters videographer and leaving six other journalists injured
October 13, 2023A person with knowledge of the move says Haley Cavinder has entered the transfer portal
October 13, 2023Authorities are seeking at least five people in an armed robbery of the St. Louis Cardinals complex in the Dominican Republic on Friday
October 13, 2023European Union leader Charles Michel has warned in The AP Interview that the Israel-Hamas war could create a surge in refugees heading for Europe, raising the risk of spurring on anti-migrant forces, deepening divisions and inflaming tensions between supporters of Israel and the Palestinians
October 13, 2023Adina Moshe's Israeli family is hoping to get her heart medication to her in Gaza, despite her captivity by Hamas
October 13, 2023Flag football and cricket were among five sports that took their next step toward inevitably being added to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
October 13, 2023Israel’s call for half of the Gaza Strip’s population to evacuate south is hiking Egypt’s fears of a massive influx of refugees across the border into its territory
October 13, 2023Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is headed to Israel this weekend to discuss what resources the United States can provide for its war against Hamas
October 13, 2023Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says subsidies will be progressively cut and new taxes launched next year as part of the 2024 federal budget
October 13, 2023A recent ruling by Mexico’s Supreme Court ending federal criminal penalties for abortion will eventually expand access to the procedure
October 13, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has commended the growing cooperation within a Moscow-dominated alliance of several ex-Soviet nations despite Western sanctions against his country
October 13, 2023The European Union’s top foreign policy official has warned that public sentiment in Europe could turn more protectionist if the bloc's trade deficit with China is not reduced
October 13, 2023France’s interior minister says the suspect in a deadly school stabbing had been detained for questioning the day before on suspicion of radicalism
October 13, 2023The International Olympic Committee has cited concerns about the effects of climate change for its plan to pick two Winter Olympic host cities in July
October 13, 2023Tens of thousands of Muslims are demonstrating across the Middle East in support of the Palestinians and to protest against the Israeli airstrikes pounding the Gaza Strip
October 13, 2023Allies of imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny say Russian authorities have detained three of his lawyers after raiding their homes
October 13, 2023In Muslim communities across the world, worshippers gathered at mosques for their first Friday prayers since Hamas militants attacked Israel, igniting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war
October 13, 2023Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is assuring Israel that “we have your back” as he and America’s top diplomat met with Israeli and Arab leaders
October 13, 2023Microsoft has completed its purchase of video game-maker Activision Blizzard for $69 billion, closing one of the most expensive tech acquisitions in history that could have repercussions across the video game industry
October 13, 2023Opposing campaigners have made their final pitches over changing the Australia’s constitution to acknowledge a place for Indigenous Australians on the eve of the nation’s first referendum in a generation
October 13, 2023U.S. stocks mostly fell after getting pulled in opposite directions by competing waves of optimism and fear
October 13, 2023Palestinians began a mass exodus Friday from northern Gaza after Israel’s military told some 1 million people to evacuate toward the southern part of the besieged territory
October 13, 2023Israel’s military has ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians living in Gaza City to evacuate ahead of a feared Israel ground offensive
October 13, 2023Japan’s government has asked a court to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after an Education Ministry investigation concluded the group systematically manipulated its followers into donating money, sowing fear and harming their families
October 13, 2023A buyer from Argentina has paid $42,120 for a manuscript of works, including seven unpublished stories, by legendary Argentine writer Julio Cortázar at an auction in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo
October 12, 2023With tattoo-covered faces, wearing white shirts and shorts, gang members captured during El Salvador’s state of exception are gradually filling the country’s new mega prison
October 12, 2023Smoke from forest fires covered large swaths of the Brazilian Amazon as the region endures one of the worst droughts on record, with many rivers at historically low levels
October 12, 2023Will Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel-Hamas war
October 12, 2023As Israel escalates its war on Hamas, it will confront many of the same dilemmas it has grappled with over decades of conflict with the Palestinians
October 12, 2023French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning of a Russian journalist who fled Russia after denouncing the war in Ukraine on live TV
October 12, 2023A new study finds that four dozen Antarctic ice shelves have shrunk by at least 30% since 1997 and 28 of those have lost more than half of their ice in that time
October 12, 2023The Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM
October 12, 2023An Israeli ground offensive in Gaza would further escalate the war raging since Hamas launched its unprecedented attack days ago
October 12, 2023The U.S. and Qatar have reached an agreement that the Qataris will not act on any request from Tehran for the time being to access $6 billion in Iranian funds that were unblocked as part of a prisoner swap last month
October 12, 2023The morgue at Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa in Gaza City, is overflowing on the sixth day of heavy aerial bombardment on the territory of 2.3 million people
October 12, 2023President Joe Biden has spent decades as a stalwart supporter of Israel, a connection rooted in long-ago dinner table conversations with his father about the Holocaust
October 12, 2023The International Monetary Fund says Middle East economies are gradually recovering as external shocks from the war in Ukraine and global inflation fade
October 12, 2023Moran Stela Yanai's family is speaking about the Israeli woman who loved making jewelry and protecting animals
October 12, 2023An official says a ban on gasoline and diesel-fueled cars from a commercial district of Stockholm’s downtown in 2025 will be the first for a European capital
October 12, 2023The Israel-Hamas war has forced Russia into a delicate balancing act, with Moscow urging a quick end to the fighting without apportioning blame
October 12, 2023South African authorities say they have conducted raids across five provinces to break up a coal-smuggling syndicate blamed for stealing more than $26 million in coal, degrading state-owned power plants and contributing to an electricity crisis
October 12, 2023The chief of NATO says the alliance will hold a major nuclear exercise next week
October 12, 2023The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza have arrived in Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials
October 12, 2023Since Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d’Or, Sandra Hüller has been dogged by a question: Did she do it
October 12, 2023The Russian Olympic Committee has been suspended by the IOC for breaching the Olympic Charter by incorporating sports bodies in four regions in eastern Ukraine
October 12, 2023The Treasury Department has imposed its first set of sanctions on two companies that shipped Russian oil in violation of a multinational price cap
October 12, 2023Eviatar Moshe Kipnis and Lilach Lea Havron are among the estimated 150 people believed held by Hamas in Gaza
October 12, 2023U.N. officials say more than 90% of the people killed by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake in western Afghanistan were women and children
October 12, 2023Several of former President Donald Trump’s Republican rivals are denouncing him for lashing out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu days after Hamas’ deadly attack
October 12, 2023Britain’s financial regulator has fined the American former chief executive of Barclays, Jes Staley, 1.8 million pounds — about $2.2 million — and banned him from holding senior financial roles for misleading it over the nature of his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein
October 12, 2023NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is pressing Turkey to quickly ratify Sweden’s membership in the military organization
October 12, 2023The European Union is ordering U.S. biotech giant Illumina to undo its $7.1 billion purchase of cancer-screening company Grail because it closed the deal without approval of regulators
October 12, 2023Authorities in Romania found a crater on their territory near the border with Ukraine that they say was likely caused by a crashed drone that exploded on impact
October 12, 2023The Grand National is implementing a series of significant changes that will take effect from next year in an effort to make the world’s most famous steeplechase safer for horses and jockeys
October 12, 2023Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been given a suspended prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to a fraud charge over his failure to declare millions of dollars held in a trust in Singapore
October 12, 2023The European Commission has made a formal, legally binding request for information from Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its handling of hate speech, misinformation and violent terrorist content related to the Israel-Hamas war
October 12, 2023UEFA has postponed Israel’s European Championship qualifying game against host Kosovo on Sunday
October 12, 2023The Malaysian government has questioned a move by Goldman Sachs to file for arbitration in a dispute connected with the multibillion-dollar looting of a sovereign wealth fund
October 12, 2023Germany is offering military help to Israel and promising to crack down on support for the militant Hamas group at home following its attack on Israel
October 12, 2023President Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kyrgyzstan on a rare trip abroad for the Russian leader who was indicted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine
October 12, 2023Shares have fallen in Asia after a retreat on Wall Street as the vise tightened from rising yields in the bond market
October 12, 2023A Chinese-born journalist has thanked the Australian government for her return to Australia “in one piece” after her three-year detention in China in an espionage case that strained bilateral ties
October 12, 2023Japan’s government says it will ask a court to revoke the legal status of the Unification Church after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination raised questions about the group’s fundraising and recruitment tactics
October 12, 2023Israel’s military has directed the evacuation of northern Gaza, a region that is home to 1.1 million people, within 24 hours
October 12, 2023Most of the population in conflict-affected countries like Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad and northern Nigeria depends on climate-vulnerable agriculture
October 12, 2023The Israeli military is preparing for a possible ground invasion in Gaza as it pounds the tiny coastal strip in retaliation for the unprecedented weekend attack on Israel by the militant group Hamas
October 12, 2023Within hours of the horrific attack by Hamas, the U.S. began moving warships and aircraft to the region to be ready to provide Israel with whatever it needs to respond
October 12, 2023A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has arrived in South Korea in a demonstration of strength against North Korea
October 12, 2023The U.S.
October 11, 2023Over the last five days, Israeli warplanes have pummeled Gaza with an intensity that its war-weary residents had never experienced
October 11, 2023The Israeli military led a group of journalists, including an Associated Press reporter, on a tour of Kibbutz Be'eri, a village a few miles from Israel’s fortified border with Gaza
October 11, 2023An Israeli-American teenager survived a siege by Hamas attackers over the weekend after his parents shielded him from the gunfire but were killed themselves
October 11, 2023One of those taken hostage is a grandmother who learned Arabic in hopes of building bridges with her neighbors
October 11, 2023The Hamas-run Gaza Strip is a tiny enclave, measuring 25 miles long and no more than 7 miles wide
October 11, 2023While Twitter has always struggled with combating misinformation about major news events, it was still the go-to place to find out what’s happening in the world
October 11, 2023Finnish police say they have launched a criminal investigation into possible sabotage of an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia that was shut down over the weekend following a leak
October 11, 2023President Joe Biden says the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel was the deadliest against Jews since the Holocaust and called it a “campaign of pure cruelty.”
October 11, 2023Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerto Vallarta
October 11, 2023The Dominican Republic has partially reopened its border with Haiti to limited commercial activity nearly a month after shuttering the frontier amid an ongoing spat over construction of a canal targeting water from a shared river
October 11, 2023France’s highest administrative authority has rejected an effort by rights campaigners to end what they allege is a generalized practice by French police of targeting Black people and people of Arab descent for stops and checks
October 11, 2023Soccer officials in Australia and Indonesia have floated the idea of teaming up in a bid to rival Saudi Arabia for the hosting rights to the men’s World Cup in 2034
October 11, 2023Germany's government says it expects the country’s economy to shrink by 0.4% this year
October 11, 2023Buckingham Palace says King Charles III will travel to Kenya later this month
October 11, 2023Salman Rushdie has written a memoir about the horrifying attempt on his life that left him blind in his right eye and with a damaged left hand
October 11, 2023Russian authorities imposed a fine of about $1,500 on a prominent human rights advocate for criticizing the war in Ukraine, the latest step in a relentless crackdown
October 11, 2023The “Mona Lisa” has given up a secret
October 11, 2023Volunteers helped gravediggers at Israel's main military cemetery on Wednesday as burials began for soldiers slain in the assault on Israel by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip.
October 11, 2023London’s Luton Airport has reopened after a vehicle fire spread through a newly built parking garage and caused the partial collapse of the structure
October 11, 2023The French military says it's begun withdrawing from Niger following the July coup when mutinous soldiers toppled the country’s democratically elected president
October 11, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has joined a meeting of more than 50 defense leaders from around the world to make a personal pitch for military aid in the war against Russia
October 11, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher as investors await the release of U.S. consumer price data and keep a cautious watch on the war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas
October 11, 2023Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says a Chinese Australian journalist who was jailed for three years in China on a murky espionage conviction has returned to Australia
October 11, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to “crush and destroy” Hamas after its unprecedented attack on Israel
October 11, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu joined Wednesday with a top political rival to create a wartime Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a gruesome weekend attack by Hamas militants
October 11, 2023New Zealand’s immigration numbers have hit an all-time high
October 11, 2023The war provoked by Hamas’ attack on Israel has shaken American politics and put the Republican presidential primary race in Nikki Haley's wheelhouse
October 11, 2023Another strong earthquake has shaken western Afghanistan days after one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history
October 11, 2023An Israeli village that was attacked by militants lies in ruin, not far from the border with Gaza
October 10, 2023A massive fire has torn through a newly built parking garage at one of London’s international airports
October 10, 2023How to help civilians impacted by the Israel-Gaza conflict
October 10, 2023The Coast Guard says it has recovered remaining debris, including presumed human remains, from a submersible that imploded in June on its way to explore the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five onboard
October 10, 2023Hamas’ unprecedented attack on Israel and the war it launched has raised new questions about the influence of its main sponsor, Iran, and whether it had anything to do with the assault
October 10, 2023Argentina’s firebrand populist presidential candidate Javier Milei is coming under fire from his rivals who are blaming him for a sharp depreciation of the local currency in the parallel market
October 10, 2023A U_S_ official says the government believes the driver who crashed into the Chinese Consulate in San Francisco the day before did so “with malign intent."
October 10, 2023Mexico's president says he rejected a U.S. request to set up migrant transit centers in Mexico
October 10, 2023President Joe Biden is confirming that U.S. citizens are among the hostages captured by Hamas in this weekend’s attack on Israel
October 10, 2023Following a night of intense bombardment, residents were struggling Tuesday to grasp the sheer scale of damage inflicted on the upscale Rimal neighborhood in central Gaza City
October 10, 2023The U.S. has officially declared the ouster of Niger’s democratically-elected president a coup d’etat
October 10, 2023Algeria is rebuffing accusations that efforts to crack down on French private schools constituted hostility toward the langauge
October 10, 2023The social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, says it is struggling with a flood of posts sharing graphic media, violent speech and hateful conduct about the latest war between Israel and Hamas
October 10, 2023A group of U.S. senators visiting Beijing are expressing hope that they had opened the door ever so slightly to government talks with China on its role in the fentanyl crisis ravaging America
October 10, 2023Finland’s president says damage to an undersea gas pipeline and telecommunications cable connecting Finland and Estonia appears to have been caused by “external activity.”
October 10, 2023Lidia has dissipated after hitting land as a Category 4 hurricane near the resort of Puerta Vallarta, where one person was killed by a falling tree and two others were injured
October 10, 2023A senior Russian diplomat says that Moscow will move to revoke the ratification of a global nuclear test ban to put itself on par with the United States but will only resume nuclear tests if Washington does it first
October 10, 2023Russia will not be allowed to take part in qualifying for the Under-17 European Championship this month after all
October 10, 2023The trend of reaching friendly agreements to pick hosts of the Olympics or major soccer tournaments without a contested vote has continued in Europe
October 10, 2023Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been detained in Russia on espionage charges, has lost an appeal to be released from jail, meaning he will stay behind bars at least until Nov. 30
October 10, 2023China is touting its 10-year-old Belt and Road Initiative as an alternative model for economic growth as it seeks to win friends and strengthen its leadership of the developing world
October 10, 2023Poland's President Andrzej Duda has appointed two senior military officers after predecessors resigned over an apparent spat with the defense minister just days before the country holds a general election
October 10, 2023Liberian President George Weah is seeking a second term in office, facing a rematch against his main challenger from the 2017 election
October 10, 2023Tens of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into U.N. shelters as Israeli warplanes pound the tiny territory of 2.3 million people after their Hamas militant rulers launched an unprecedented attack on Israel
October 10, 2023The International Monetary Fund warns that the world economy has lost momentum from the impact of higher interest rates, the invasion in Ukraine and widening geopolitical rifts
October 10, 2023Afghan rescuers and villagers are still digging through rubble in western Herat province, three days after one of the deadliest earthquakes in the region left more than 2,000 dead
October 10, 2023An executive at Japanese publishing house Kadokawa has been found guilty of bribing a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member
October 10, 2023Shares are higher in Asia, tracking Wall Street gains following an easing of pressure from the bond market
October 10, 2023Myanmar’s military is accused of launching an airstrike on a camp for displaced persons in the northern state of Kachin that killed about 30 people, including about a dozen children
October 10, 2023Chinese property developer Country Garden has warned it cannot meet deadlines to repay its loans as the company struggles to restructure its debts
October 10, 2023Russia has been defeated in its bid to regain a seat in the United Nations premiere human rights body by a significant majority in an election in the General Assembly, which voted last year to suspend Moscow after its invasion of Ukraine
October 10, 2023Syria has boycotted a hearing at the UN's highest court, where the Netherlands and Canada are accusing Damascus of “institutionalized” use of torture
October 10, 2023For many Catholic Poles, their country’s heart beats in Czestochowa
October 10, 2023General Motors and the union representing Canadian auto workers have reached a tentative contract agreement, ending a strike that began just after midnight
October 10, 2023Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said peace with China is the “only option,” while strongly asserting the self-governing island's defenses
October 10, 2023Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip neighborhood by neighborhood on Tuesday, reducing buildings to rubble and sending people scrambling to find safety in the tiny, sealed-off territory now suffering severe retaliation for the deadly weekend attack by Hamas militants
October 10, 2023South Korea’s new defense minister says he would push to suspend a 2018 military agreement with North Korea on reducing tensions between the rivals, insisting that it hampers the South’s surveillance activities along their heavily armed border when the North’s nuclear threats are increasing
October 10, 2023Israel has stepped up its offensive on the Gaza Strip in response to an unprecedented attack by Hamas
October 10, 2023The families of some 130 Israelis kidnapped by Hamas are anxiously waiting to find out if their loved ones are safe
October 10, 2023The outbreak of war between Israel and the Palestinians is threatening to delay or derail a country-by-country diplomatic push by the United States to improve relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors
October 10, 2023Humanitarian groups are scrambling to assist civilians caught in the war between Israel and Hamas and determine what aid operations are still safe to continue, efforts that are being complicated by an intensified blockade of Gaza and the ongoing fighting
October 10, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called Niger's deposed President Mohamed Bazoum ahead of an expected decision by the Biden administration to declare his overthrow a coup d'etat
October 10, 2023Officials say a car rammed into the Chinese consulate in San Francisco, coming to a stop in the lobby and creating a chaotic scene that ended with police shooting the driver, who later died at the hospital
October 09, 2023Russia’s U.N. ambassador is alleging that “neo-Nazis” and military-age men were at the wake for a Ukrainian soldier in a village café where a missile last week killed 52 people
October 09, 2023The Dominican Republic government says it will temporarily allow the trade of essential Dominican products, including food and medications, on the border with Haiti
October 09, 2023Hamas has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007
October 09, 2023A senior official with the Palestinian militant group Hamas says only a small number of top commanders in Gaza knew about the surprise attack against Israel in advance
October 09, 2023The United Nations is expressing growing concerns about humanitarian needs in Palestinian areas as Israel ratchets up a muscular military riposte and lockdown of Gaza after the weekend attack by Hamas militants who killed and kidnapped hundreds of civilians in Israel
October 09, 2023Most Israelis thought it was an ironclad social contract
October 09, 2023Guatemala’s attorney general is calling for the government to act against largely peaceful protesters, which have taken to the streets for weeks demanding her resignation for what they say are clear attempts to undermine their nation’s democracy
October 09, 2023The NFL’s ongoing push for worldwide exposure got another boost when organizers for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics delivered a proposal to put flag football on the program when the Summer Games return to the United States for the first time in 32 years
October 09, 2023The head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in ethnically split Cyprus says Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots have reached an “understanding” over a contentious road inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone whose construction had stirred up tensions not seen in years
October 09, 2023An independent inquiry has opened in the U.K. to examine claims that British special forces murdered dozens of Afghan men during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago
October 09, 2023The European Union has reversed an earlier announcement that it was “immediately” suspending aid for Palestinian authorities and instead said it would urgently review such assistance in the wake of the attacks on Israel by Hamas
October 09, 2023Rio de Janeiro’s state government has deployed hundreds of police officers to three of the city’s sprawling and low-income neighborhoods
October 09, 2023The U.S. has already begun delivering critically needed munitions and military equipment to Israel, the White House said Monday, as the Pentagon reviews its inventories to see what else can be sent quickly to boost its ally in the three-day-old war with Hamas
October 09, 2023Major airlines are suspending flights to Israel after it formally declared war following a massive attack by Hamas
October 09, 2023A lawyer tried to assure the U.K. Supreme Court that the British government analyzed the risks of sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda and would have people there to make sure it was safe
October 09, 2023Saudi Arabia has formally informed FIFA of its wish to host the men’s World Cup in 2034 in a bidding contest that increasingly looks designed for the oil-rich kingdom to win
October 09, 2023The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is announcing $40 million in funding to help develop messenger RNA vaccines in Africa
October 09, 2023Flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains in Myanmar’s southern areas has displaced more than 14,000 people and disrupted traffic on the rail lines that connect the country’s biggest cities
October 09, 2023Concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected air space.
October 09, 2023People have been moved to shelters and nearly 2,000 boats recalled to port as the remnants of Typhoon Koinu hit southern China after leaving one dead and over 300 injured in Taiwan
October 09, 2023People are digging through the rubble from the quake in western Afghanistan
October 09, 2023Claudia Goldin, a Harvard University professor, was awarded the Nobel economics prize for research that helps explain why women around the world are less likely than men to work and to earn less money when they do
October 09, 2023Asian shares are higher after Wall Street advanced on potentially encouraging news about interest rates, which have been dragging markets lower since the summer
October 09, 2023Air force helicopters have rescued scores of stranded tourists in India’s Himalayan northeast after a 6-year-old hydroelectric dam cracked open last week in intense rain, flooding a valley and killing at least 74 people
October 09, 2023U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he is grateful for a stronger statement from China condemning the deadly Hamas attack on Israel issued during his visit to Beijing that included a lengthy meeting with President Xi Jinping
October 09, 2023Share prices have opened little changed after the the Israeli government declared war following deadly attacks by Hamas from the Gaza Strip
October 09, 2023The International Monetary Fund and World Bank are holding their annual meetings in Morocco, one month after an earthquake killed nearly 3,000 people in the North African country
October 09, 2023Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion by Hamas militants, as the war’s death toll rose to nearly 1,600 on both sides
October 09, 2023Israel’s intelligence agencies have gained an aura of invincibility over the decades because of a string of intelligence achievements against its enemies both near and far
October 09, 2023For some Republicans in Congress, Taiwan and Ukraine are effectively rivals for a limited pool of U.S. military assistance
October 09, 2023Australians appear likely to reject a proposal that would create an advocate for the Indigenous population in a referendum outcome that some see as a victory for racism
October 09, 2023The open-air Tribe of Nova music festival will go down in Israeli history as the country’s worst civilian massacre
October 09, 2023Israel has declared war, bombarding the Gaza strip with airstrikes in retaliation for a major surprise attack by the militant group Hamas
October 08, 2023Nasser Abu Quta lost 19 members of his family in an instant when an Israeli airstrike blew up his home in a crowded refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip
October 08, 2023The capture of dozens of Israeli soldiers and civilians by Hamas militants has stirred Israeli emotions more viscerally than any crisis in the country’s recent memory
October 08, 2023Islamic Jihad chief Ziad al-Nakhala said on Sunday that his faction was holding captive more than 30 of the Israelis who were abducted in the Gaza Strip since Saturday after Hamas
October 08, 2023Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he's ordered the Ford carrier strike group to sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to be ready to assist Israel after the surprise attack by Hamas that has left more than 1,000 dead and thousands wounded on both sides
October 08, 2023A U.S. think tank says recent satellite photos show a sharp increase in rail traffic along the North Korea-Russia border, indicating the North is supplying munitions to Russia
October 08, 2023The U.K. Supreme Court will start hearing arguments over whether the British government’s contentious policy to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda is lawful
October 08, 2023The extreme drought sweeping across Brazil’s Amazon rainforest is already impacting hundreds of thousands of people and killing local wildlife
October 08, 2023Many of the Republican candidates running for president say they'd use military force against Mexico in response to the trafficking of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids
October 08, 2023British filmmaker Terence Davies has died at the age of 77
October 08, 2023Finland and Estonia say the undersea Balticconnector gas pipeline running between the two countries across the Baltic Sea has been temporarily taken out of service due to a suspected leak
October 08, 2023Egyptian authorities say a policeman opened fire on Israeli tourists in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, killing at least two Israelis and one Egyptian
October 08, 2023Men dug through rubble with their bare hands and shovels in western Afghanistan on Sunday in desperate attempts to pull victims from the wreckage of earthquakes that killed at least 2,000 people
October 08, 2023Projections show Germany’s center-right opposition winning two state elections at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s unpopular national government, and a far-right party that has been riding high in national polls making gains
October 08, 2023The Israeli government has formally declared war and given the green light for “significant military steps” to retaliate against Hamas for its surprise attack from the Gaza Strip
October 08, 2023Greece has become a late but enthusiastic convert to new technology as a way of displaying its famous archaeological monuments and deepening visitors' knowledge of ancient history
October 08, 2023A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch
October 08, 2023President Joe Biden has been thrust into a Middle East crisis that risks expanding into a broader conflict and has left him fending off criticism from GOP presidential rivals that his administration’s policies led to this moment
October 08, 2023Members of Britain’s opposition Labour Party are gathering for their annual conference with an unfamiliar feeling: optimism
October 08, 2023Ecuadorian authorities say a seventh man accused in the assassination of a presidential candidate in August has been killed inside a prison
October 07, 2023The Jewish diaspora is trying to make sense of an attack that killed hundreds and wounded many more during a holiday season that is supposed to be among the most festive times on the Jewish holiday calendar
October 07, 2023Former President Donald Trump and other GOP contenders tried to lay blame on the Biden administration after Hamas militants launched the deadliest attack on Israel in decades, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to declare the country at war
October 07, 2023Israelis huddled in bomb shelters pleading for help as Hamas fighters broke into their houses and shot at anyone they saw
October 07, 2023U.N. and local investigators are searching for answers at the site of a Russian missile strike on a small Ukrainian village
October 07, 2023President Joe Biden has condemned what he says is the “unconscionable” assault by Hamas militants and his administration is pledging to ensure Israel has “what it needs to defend itself.”
October 07, 2023More than a million people in northern Gaza have been ordered to evacuate to the south as Israel appeared to be preparing a ground offensive in the latest Israel-Hamas war
October 07, 2023The recent collapse of Ukraine aid in Congress was months in the making
October 07, 2023After 12 years of planning and construction, the largest Hindu temple outside India in the modern era is ready to open to the public in Robbinsville, New Jersey
October 07, 2023A Taliban government spokesperson says the death toll from strong earthquakes that shook western Afghanistan has jumped to more than 2,000
October 07, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel’s fierce offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip has “only started.”
October 07, 2023Rescuers in India have found more bodies as they dug through slushy debris and ice-cold water in a hunt for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam
October 07, 2023A senior American lawmaker says the U.S. does not want to cut economic ties with the world’s second-largest economy but seeks a level playing field so that American companies can compete freely
October 07, 2023The Biden administration is nervously watching an ongoing dispute between Canada and India
October 07, 2023Ecuadorian officials say six Colombians arrested as the alleged assassins of a candidate in Ecuador's August presidential election have been slain inside a prison in Guayaquil
October 07, 2023Hamas militants have fired thousands of rockets and sent dozens of fighters into Israeli towns near the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented surprise early morning attack during a major Jewish holiday
October 07, 2023In the middle of an ordinary April evening in 2022, crime scene investigator Nicki Lenway found herself in a unique and potentially life-threatening situation. Someone approached her as she was walking to pick up her kid from a parenting program and shot him many times. Lenway was horribly injured in the horrific incident that took place in a public parking lot, yet he amazingly survived. This event is a horrifying illustration of real-life crime and intrigue, with all the markings of a film thriller. Lenway had just picked up Callahan, then five, from the FamilyWise parenting center at about 7:30
October 07, 2023A U.N. independent investigator says Iranian authorities are cracking down on protesters, unlawfully detaining human rights activists, including new Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and carrying out an “alarming” number of executions
October 06, 2023The Ukrainian village of Hroza has been plunged into mourning by a missile strike that killed more than 50 people
October 06, 2023Lionel Messi’s absence from Inter Miami’s lineup may be over
October 06, 2023Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce says he has to keep “living and enjoying the moments” while his budding relationship with Taylor Swift has thrown the latest celebrity power couple into the spotlight
October 06, 2023Some migrants say the U.S. government’s plan to restart deportation flights to Venezuela in the coming days won't stop them from continuing their journeys
October 06, 2023Police in Nigeria have identified a nurse as the “principal suspect” in the mysterious death of a Nigerian Afrobeat star which triggered dayslong protests demanding justice
October 06, 2023President Joe Biden says that he could potentially meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of next month’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco
October 06, 2023Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara has removed the country’s prime minister and dissolved the government, according to a senior public official
October 06, 2023Authorities say 16 migrants from Venezuela and Haiti are dead following a bus crash in southern Mexico
October 06, 2023The head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee urged Iran to release imprisoned peace prize winner Narges Mohammadi and let her accept the award at the annual prize ceremony in December
October 06, 2023German news agency dpa is reporting that prosecutors have said that testimony from witnesses hasn’t revealed any indication so far that a co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was assaulted at an election rally
October 06, 2023French investigative judges have filed preliminary charges against former President Nicolas Sarkozy
October 06, 2023A 36-year-old man has been ordered to remain in custody in connection with an alleged plot to kidnap and murder one of Britain’s most high-profile television personalities
October 06, 2023A Hong Kong man has been sentenced to four months in prison after he pleaded guilty to importing children’s books deemed to be “seditious publications.”
October 06, 2023The NATO-led peacekeeping force has called on both Kosovo and Serbia to return to the negotiating table to resolve their issues to prevent violence like the recent shootout between masked Serb gunmen and Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region
October 06, 2023Shares in the troubled British lender Metro Bank have bounced back by a third on reports that it has been sounding out bigger rivals to buy a chunk of its assets
October 06, 2023The leaders of the European Union are once again taking up the divisive issue of migration as they met in the Spanish city of Granada
October 06, 2023An aid group says heavy artillery fire killed at least 11 people and wounded 90 in a major city in conflict-torn Sudan
October 06, 2023Indonesia has denied that forest and peat fires on Sumatra and Borneo islands are causing the haze in neighboring Malaysia
October 06, 2023Taiwan's economy minister has confirmed that regulators are investigating four Taiwanese companies suspected of helping China’s Huawei Technologies to build semiconductor facilities
October 06, 2023Breakdancing is part of a minor sports revolution going on in Mongolia
October 06, 2023Wall Street rallied in a whipsaw Friday and erased its morning losses after looking deeper into the nuances of a surprisingly strong report on the U.S. job market
October 06, 2023Russia is seeking re-election to the United Nations' top human rights body next week in what is seen as a crucial test of Western
October 06, 2023The U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has accused the country’s National Security Service of threatening media and civil society and undermining prospects for a democratic transition before next year's election
October 06, 2023A Russian missile attack in Ukraine has killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother
October 06, 2023The speaker of the Russian parliament says lawmakers will consider revoking the ratification of a global nuclear test ban
October 06, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher in cautious trading after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market
October 06, 2023Three bears that snuck into a tatami mat factory and were holed up inside for nearly a day have been captured
October 06, 2023Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi has won the Nobel Peace Prize
October 06, 2023Family members of some of the victims of a deadly drone attack on a crowded military graduation ceremony that killed scores have gathered outside a military hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs to collect the bodies of their loved ones
October 06, 2023Turkish warplanes have carried out airstrikes on sites believed to be used by U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria
October 06, 2023A quiet ceremony has been attended by about 200 people in a small town in northeastern Thailand marking the one-year anniversary of the country's deadliest mass killing
October 06, 2023A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key arguments used in the public campaign against Australians creating an advocacy body for the Indigenous population
October 06, 2023A Chinese coast guard ship came within a meter (3 feet) of colliding with a Philippine patrol ship it was trying to block in the South China Sea, in an alarming incident that intensified fears that territorial disputes in the waters could spark a larger crisis
October 06, 2023Hundreds of rescuers dug through slushy debris and fast-flowing, icy water Friday in a search for survivors after a glacial lake burst through a dam in India’s Himalayan northeast, a disaster that many had warned was possible for years
October 06, 2023Rain-swollen rivers only briefly slowed the otherwise uninterrupted flow of migrants through this jungle-covered border of Colombia and Panama and by midweek another 2,000 bedraggled migrants stumbled out of the Darien jungle
October 06, 2023European Union leaders are acknowledging that just as aspiring members must meet exacting criteria to join the bloc, the 27 member nations also must work hard to reform the EU to make sure it can work smoothly with 30-plus nations
October 06, 2023A typhoon is heading toward southern China and Hong Kong after bringing record-breaking winds and leaving one dead in Taiwan
October 06, 2023The mayor of New York City is in Puebla, Mexico, thanking migrants for their contributions to his city, but telling them it is already full
October 05, 2023The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize will be soon be revealed and the annual guessing game is reaching its climax
October 05, 2023If Saudi Arabia could have designed a process for choosing future World Cup hosts, it might look similar to what FIFA has unveiled for the 2030 and 2034 men’s soccer tournaments
October 05, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin says that hand grenade fragments have been found in the bodies of people who died in an August crash of a plane carrying Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin
October 05, 2023Since the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian military has repeatedly used missiles to blast civilian targets across the country, with devastating consequences
October 05, 2023The global economy has shown remarkable resilience but still bears deep scars from the coronavirus pandemic, the war in Ukraine and rising interest rates
October 05, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country has successfully tested a nuclear-powered cruise missile and declared that lawmakers could revoke its ratification of a global nuclear test ban
October 05, 2023The Pentagon says the U.S. military shot down an armed Turkish drone that came within 500 meters of American troops in northeastern Syria
October 05, 2023Reigning NBA MVP Joel Embiid has told USA Basketball that he intends to play for them at the Paris Olympics
October 05, 2023A Star Wars fanatic who was encouraged by a chatbot girlfriend to slay Queen Elizabeth II has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking his plot to Windsor Castle
October 05, 2023Italy’s transport minister is questioning the spread of electric vehicle technology following the fiery crash of a fully electric shuttle bus that killed 21 people in mainland Venice
October 05, 2023German prosecutors say they have launched an investigation into the alleged assault of a co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party at an election rally
October 05, 2023Amnesty International is urging Pakistan to maintain its support for Afghan refugees by enabling them to live with dignity and be free from the fear of deportation to Afghanistan where they face persecution by the Taliban
October 05, 2023Tropical Storm Philippe is aiming for Bermuda on a path that would eventually take it to Atlantic Canada and eastern New England
October 05, 2023A lawyer says five Israelis accused of gang raping a British woman in a Cyprus hotel room won’t plead to charges including rape, sexual assault and abduction until prosecutors hand over key material including DNA tests, fingerprints and eyewitness testimony
October 05, 2023A mysterious injury suffered by a 16-year-old girl not wearing a headscarf while boarding a Metro train in Iran’s capital has reignited anger just after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked
October 05, 2023In a simply built concrete house a few yards off a dirt road in the rural town of Uthai Sawan in northeastern Thailand, Tawee Lasopha wakes up before sunrise to catch fish from his pond, then moves onto household chores with his wife, cooking breakfast and preparing his grandchildren for school
October 05, 2023Vikings had windows — usually only associated with medieval churches and castles — meaning Norsemen dignitaries sat in rooms lit up by apertures with glass
October 05, 2023Zimbabwe has recorded 100 suspected deaths from cholera and more than 5,000 possible cases since late last month
October 05, 2023Scottish authorities have signed an extradition order for an American fugitive accused of faking his own death to avoid a rape charge in Utah
October 05, 2023Family members of imprisoned dissidents in Tunisia want the International Criminal Court to investigate claims of political persecution and human rights violations in their country
October 05, 2023Concerns from regulators about the dominance of Amazon and Microsoft in Britain’s cloud computing market have triggered an investigation into the competitiveness of the key industry
October 05, 2023Ukrainian officials say at least 51 civilians were killed in a Russian rocket strike on a village store and cafe in the eastern part of the country in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months
October 05, 2023Almost 50 European leaders are using a summit in southern Spain’s Granada to stress that they stand by Ukraine at a time when Western resolve appears somewhat weakened
October 05, 2023The Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Norwegian author Jon Fosse
October 05, 2023Syria’s health minister says a drone attack that hit a packed military graduation ceremony in the central city of Homs has killed 80 people and wounded 240
October 05, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher in cautious trading after Wall Street drifted to a quiet close on worries about a too-hot U.S. job market
October 05, 2023Fighting to win an unprecedented third term in office, Poland's nationalist government has seized on a target close to home
October 05, 2023Rescue workers are searching for nearly 100 people after flash floods triggered by a sudden heavy rainfall swamped several towns in northeastern India, killing at least 31 people
October 05, 2023A radio, batteries and a trap door on the side for stretching are some of the things pilots are relying on to endure what's been called the world's oldest gas balloon race
October 05, 2023Bedbugs go wherever people go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks
October 05, 2023Typhoon Koinu is sweeping southern Taiwan
October 05, 2023In parts of the world, religiously unaffiliated people are increasing in numbers, and can safely and publicly be an atheist or agnostic
October 05, 2023In the Middle East and North Africa, where religion is often ingrained in daily life’s very fabric, rejecting faith can come with consequences
October 05, 2023In the pope’s homeland of Argentina, Catholics have been renouncing the faith and joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated
October 05, 2023In Italy, centuries-old churches dot the landscape, sanctuaries and processions draw crowds, and nearly 80% of the population profess themselves Catholic
October 05, 2023Momo Nomura, a graphic artist and entrepreneur, visits a shrine near her business meetings or trips almost weekly
October 05, 2023Nones, or those unaffiliated with religion in India, account for less than 1% in a nation of 1.4 billion
October 05, 2023Israel is a nation perennially swept up in religious fervor and conflict
October 05, 2023In the Middle East and North Africa, where religion is often ingrained in daily life's very fabric, rejecting faith can come with repercussions
October 05, 2023In parts of the world, religiously unaffiliated people are increasing in numbers, and can safely and publicly be an atheist or agnostic
October 05, 2023In Italy, centuries-old churches dot the landscape, sanctuaries and processions draw crowds, and nearly 80% of the population profess themselves Catholic
October 05, 2023In the pope’s homeland of Argentina, Catholics have been renouncing the faith and joining the growing ranks of the religiously unaffiliated
October 05, 2023In small towns across Italy, life has changed over the last generation as the Catholic faith loses relevance in people’s routines and choices
October 05, 2023In Uruguay, a small nation of some 3.3 million people, more than half identify as “nones” – atheist, agnostic or other religiously unaffiliated – the highest portion in Latin America
October 05, 2023Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has begun releasing a second batch of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea after the first round of discharges ended smoothly
October 05, 2023After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September
October 05, 2023The Department of Homeland Security announced that the Biden administration leveraged sweeping executive power to waive 26 federal laws in South Texas
October 04, 2023The first leopard cubs born in captivity in Peru are climbing trees and greeting visitors as they make their debut at a local zoo
October 04, 2023German police say a leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party was given medical treatment and then taken to a hospital shortly before he was due to speak at an election rally in Bavaria
October 04, 2023Facing a likely roadblock from House Republicans on aid for Ukraine, President Joe Biden said Wednesday he’s planning to give a major speech on the issue and hinted there may be “another means” to support Kyiv if Congress balks
October 04, 2023The Biden administration is going to resume deporting migrants to Venezuela
October 04, 2023South Africa’s overall mining profits slipped by more than $5 billion in the last financial year
October 04, 2023Russia has long turned to Iranian-made drones to attack Ukraine
October 04, 2023The International Monetary Fund says it expects the U.S. to continue playing its key role in amassing multinational support that has helped keep Ukraine’s economy afloat during Russia’s invasion
October 04, 2023Armless archer Matt Stutzman is reshaping thinking about people with disabilities one arrow at a time
October 04, 2023Kenyan lawmakers say that parliamentary approval is required before the deployment of police to the Kenya-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti to combat gang violence that was approved by the U.N. Security Council this week
October 04, 2023Three decades ago, the world held its breath as tanks blasted the Russian parliament building in central Moscow while the Kremlin moved to flush out rebellious lawmakers in a crisis that shaped the country’s post-Soviet history
October 04, 2023Two Philippine supply boats have breached a Chinese coast guard blockade in the South China Sea in a recurring confrontation near a disputed shoal some fear could spark a larger security crisis that could draw in the United States
October 04, 2023A new study finds that far more people are in harm's way as they move into high flood zones around the world
October 04, 2023A unique 2030 World Cup is set to be played in Europe and Africa with the surprising addition of South America
October 04, 2023Tropical Storm Philippe is drenching the U.S. and British Virgin Islands as it spins away from the northeast Caribbean on a path that would take it toward Bermuda and later New England and Atlantic Canada
October 04, 2023Turkish warplanes have launched a new round of airstrikes against Kurdish militant targets in Iraq
October 04, 2023U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes until it applies to the whole population
October 04, 2023In a first for Canada, the voters of Manitoba have elected a First Nations member to be premier of one of the country’s provinces
October 04, 2023Israeli police say they have arrested several people suspected of spitting in the direction of Christian pilgrims and churches in Jerusalem
October 04, 2023British police have opened an investigation into corporate manslaughter at a northern England hospital after a neonatal nurse was convicted of murdering seven babies and trying to kill six others when she worked there
October 04, 2023Sirens wailed across Russia and TV stations interrupted regular programming to broadcast warnings as part of sweeping drills intended to test the readiness of the emergency services amid the fighting in Ukraine
October 04, 2023Four Western countries have floated a proposal for the United Nations' top human rights body to appoint a team of experts to monitor and report on abuses and rights violations in war-wracked Sudan
October 04, 2023Japanese Agriculture Minister Ichiro Miyashita says Tokyo hopes to resolve the issue of Chinese ban on its seafood within the World Trade Organization's scope
October 04, 2023FIFA has approved the possible reintegration of Russian youth teams into its competitions and eased a total ban on the country in international soccer amid the war in Ukraine
October 04, 2023A court in Moscow has sentenced a former state TV journalist to 8 1/2 years in prison in absentia for protesting Russia’s war in Ukraine, the latest example of a crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Moscow’s invasion nearly 20 months ago
October 04, 2023Pope Francis is shaming and challenging world leaders to take concrete action to slow climate change before it’s too late
October 04, 2023Saudi Arabia says it will maintain a production cut of 1 million barrels of oil a day through the end of the year
October 04, 2023The international Red Cross is calling for the ouster of the head of the Belarus Red Cross, who stirred international outrage for boasting that it was actively ferrying Ukrainian children from Russian-controlled areas to Belarus
October 04, 2023Russia says its air defenses shot down 31 Ukrainian drones in a nighttime attack on border regions
October 04, 2023Italy has launched an investigation after a fully electric-powered bus with foreign tourists veered off a busy overpass on the Venetian mainland during rush hour
October 04, 2023Three scientists in the United States have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on quantum dots
October 04, 2023U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has told his Conservative Party he's not afraid to make tough decisions for long-term change
October 04, 2023Police in New Delhi have arrested the editor of a news website and one of its administrators after raiding the homes of journalists working for the site
October 04, 2023Three homes were destroyed by a forest fire and a man was injured by a falling tree in the Bega Valley region of southeastern Australia, prompting a government leader to warn that a “horror” wildfire season is approaching
October 04, 2023Chinese-owned video platform TikTok says it will halt its online retail operation in Indonesia to comply with the country’s decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms
October 04, 2023Asian shares are mostly higher as a plunge in oil prices aided a recovery on Wall Street
October 04, 2023Police say a teenage boy who allegedly shot two people dead and wounded five others inside a major shopping mall in Thailand's capital used a blank-firing handgun that had been modified to fire real bullets
October 04, 2023Prosecutors in Taiwan have indicted two leaders of the island's tiny Taiwan People's Communist Party on accusations they colluded with China in an effort to influence next year's elections for president and members of the legislative assembly
October 04, 2023A lockdown has been imposed and security heightened in a city in southwest Nepal to prevent clashes between Hindus and Muslims
October 04, 2023The State Department in a first-of-its-kind report has laid out Beijing’s growing efforts to reshape the global narrative on China, while spending billions of dollars to do so
October 04, 2023Pope Francis has opened a big meeting on the future of the Catholic Church
October 04, 2023Colombia’s government has issued a long awaited public apology for the extrajudicial killings of 19 civilians who were slain by the military and registered as rebel fighters during one of the most violent periods of the nation’s civil war
October 04, 2023North Korea has slammed the United States over a Pentagon report that labeled it a “persistent" threat because of weapons of mass destruction, saying it will strongly counter what it called U.S. plans for aggression
October 04, 2023New York City Mayor Eric Adams says he's traveling to Latin America to discourage people from seeking asylum in the city as it struggles to handle a massive influx of migrants
October 03, 2023Italian authorities say at least 21 people have been killed and 18 injured in a bus crash in Venice
October 03, 2023A video that shows ultra-Orthodox Jews spitting on the ground beside a procession of foreign Christian worshipers carrying a wooden cross in the holy city of Jerusalem has ignited intense outrage and a flurry of condemnation in the Holy Land
October 03, 2023The Biden administration is taking aim at the fentanyl trafficking threat, announcing a series of indictments and sanctions against Chinese companies and executives blamed for importing the chemicals used to make the deadly drug
October 03, 2023Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is leading a bipartisan congressional delegation to China next week, traveling to the country amid heightened tensions and after several members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet visited
October 03, 2023Foreigners with guns are met with hostility in most countries in the world
October 03, 2023Hundreds of small tremors have shaken a densely populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, pushing the government to quickly redraft mass evacuation plans, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption
October 03, 2023U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman has railed against unauthorized migrants, human-rights laws and “woke” critics of her hardline policies at the Conservative Party's annual conference
October 03, 2023Plans for the first “open category” swimming races to accommodate transgender competitors at a World Cup this weekend have been scrapped because of a lack of entries
October 03, 2023The European Union has announced plans to better protect its cutting-edge technologies from foreign snooping that might threaten its economy and security
October 03, 2023The White House says President Joe Biden has been in touch with U.S. allies and partners to discuss continued support for Ukraine in its fight against Russia
October 03, 2023At Chanel’s Paris show models were inspired by the villa Noailles
October 03, 2023The NBA returns to Abu Dhabi this week
October 03, 2023Serbian police have detained an ethnic Serb leader from Kosovo who was the alleged organizer behind a recent shootout with Kosovo police that left four people dead and sent tensions soaring in the region
October 03, 2023FIFA moved to block potential witness tampering by Luis Rubiales when its disciplinary committee suspended the now-ousted Spanish soccer president
October 03, 2023Meta plans to give Facebook and Instagram users in Europe the option of paying for ad-free versions of the social media platforms as a way to comply with the continent’s strict data privacy rules
October 03, 2023Tunisia has announced it would reject an installment of funds sent by Europe to help the debt-ridden country patrol the Mediterranean Sea as migrant boat crossings spike to levels not seen in several years
October 03, 2023Officials say Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania have agreed on a plan they hope will help expedite Ukrainian grain exports
October 03, 2023Nigerian government workers are continuing their work after last-minute efforts by authorities averted a nationwide strike to protest growing hardship which could have shut down government services in Africa’s most populous country
October 03, 2023Britain's inquiry into the response to the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on the nation has entered the second phase with political decision-making taking center stage
October 03, 2023An official says India has told Canada to remove 41 of its 62 diplomats in the country, ramping up a confrontation over Canadian accusations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver
October 03, 2023The World Bank says South Asia is expected to grow by 5.8% this year, making it the fastest-growing region in the world even as the pace remains below pre-pandemic levels
October 03, 2023Residents say an explosion and fire at at an illegal oil refinery site in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has killed at least 15 people
October 03, 2023Authorities in Thailand's capital say two people were killed when a teenage boy with a handgun opened fire in a major shopping mall in the center of Bangkok
October 03, 2023The Armenian parliament has voted to join International Criminal Court, which earlier this year indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes connected to the deportation of children from Ukraine
October 03, 2023Indian police raided the offices of a news website that’s under investigation for allegedly receiving funds from China, as well as the homes of several of its journalists, the latest in a series of investigations into the finances of independent media in India
October 03, 2023Turkish warplanes have carried out new airstrikes against suspected Kurdish militant sites in northern Iraq days after a suicide bomb attack in the Turkish capital
October 03, 2023Three scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics for their work on how electrons zip around the atom during the tiniest fractions of seconds
October 03, 2023The president-elect of the Maldives says he's sticking to his campaign promise to remove Indian military personnel stationed in the archipelago state, promising he will initiate the process
October 03, 2023Asian markets are trading sharply lower after Wall Street tumbled as it focused on the downside of a surprisingly strong job market: the likelihood that interest rates will stay high
October 03, 2023Shares of debt-laden property developer China Evergrande Group have soared after they resumed trading in Hong Kong following a suspension last week
October 03, 2023Students have marched through downtown Mexico City to mark 55 years since the military massacred hundreds of students in Tlatelolco plaza
October 03, 2023More than 100 dolphins have died in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the past week due to a severe drought, and many more could be affected if water temperatures remain high
October 02, 2023Eleven members of Monica Segura’s family were gathered inside the Santa Cruz church in northeast Mexico for the baptism of her 1-year-old nephew when the roof collapsed killing at least 11 other people
October 02, 2023When U.S. lawmakers approved a spending bill Saturday that averted a widely expected government shutdown, the measure didn’t include the $6 billion in military assistance that Ukraine said it urgently needed
October 02, 2023The U.N. Security Council has voted to send a multinational force led by Kenya to Haiti to help combat violent gangs in the troubled country
October 02, 2023Mexico’s president says that about 10,000 migrants per day are heading to the U.S. border, and he blames U.S. economic sanctions on countries like Cuba and Venezuela for the influx
October 02, 2023Louis Vuitton dazzled Paris as the latest collection from women's creative director Nicolas Ghesquière swirled epochs and emotions
October 02, 2023The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been awarded to two scientists whose work led to mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
October 02, 2023The Pentagon is warning Congress that it is running low on funding to replace weapons the U.S. has sent to Ukraine and has already been forced to slow down resupplying some troops
October 02, 2023Clergy sexual abuse survivors have unveiled a proposed new church law calling for the permanent removal of abusive priests and superiors who covered for them
October 02, 2023The World Health Organization has authorized a second malaria vaccine in a decision that could offer countries a cheaper and a more readily available option than the world’s first shot against the parasitic disease
October 02, 2023Slovakia’s president has asked the leader of the winning party in the country’s parliamentary election to try to form a coalition government
October 02, 2023Serbia's top military officials say the army has reduced its troop presence near the border with Kosovo by nearly half, following follows reports from the U.S. and other governments of a mass military buildup
October 02, 2023Work has started on turning the house in Austria where Adolf Hitler was born in 1889 into a police station
October 02, 2023A new museum exhibition in Paris focuses on the last months of Dutch master Vincent van Gogh before he shot himself in 1890
October 02, 2023Two-time Ballon d’Or winner Alexia Putellas and two of her teammates on Spain’s women’s national team have appeared before a judge as witnesses in the investigation of former soccer federation president Luis Rubiales for kissing a player on the lips
October 02, 2023The new head of the U.N.’s migration agency says the private sector is “desperate” for their countries to take in migrants to mop up labor shortages, especially in the West
October 02, 2023Pakistan has launched its second nationwide anti-polio campaign of the year Monday in an effort to inoculate 44 million children under the age of 5
October 02, 2023The last bus carrying ethnic Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh has left the region, completing a weeklong, grueling exodus in which more than 80% of its residents have fled after Azerbaijan reclaimed the area in a lightning military operation last month
October 02, 2023Authorities in the southern Spanish city of Murcia say two people believed to have been in a nightclub where 13 others died in a fire are still missing
October 02, 2023The Japanese entertainment company that has acknowledged its founder sexually assaulted hundreds of boys over the span of five decades has taken a new name: Smile-Up
October 02, 2023The European Union’s foreign policy chief led a delegation of top diplomats on an unannounced visit to Kyiv and dismissed concerns about political tension in the bloc over its long-term support for Ukraine’s fight against Russia
October 02, 2023European captain Luke Donald was delivering his Ryder Cup victory speech at Marco Simone when his celebrating players standing beside him started a chant that quickly swept through the grandstands
October 02, 2023Britain’s Treasury chief has announced a hike in the national minimum wage
October 02, 2023Two scientists have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future
October 02, 2023Tropical Storm Philippe has made landfall in the tiny island of Barbuda as it unleashes heavy rains and flash floods in the northeast Caribbean
October 02, 2023The Emirati president-designate of the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate talks has called on oil and gas companies to be “central to the solution” to fighting climate change as the industry boosts its production to enjoy rising energy prices
October 02, 2023Pope Francis has suggested there might be ways to bless same-sex unions
October 02, 2023Indonesian President Joko Widodo has inaugurated Southeast Asia’s first high-speed railway, which begins its commercial operations on Monday, a key project under China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative that will drastically cut the travel time between two key cities
October 02, 2023Asian markets have declined following a mixed session on Wall Street, where buying was pressured by rising bond yields
October 02, 2023Egyptian authorities say a huge fire that broke out in a police headquarters in northeastern Egypt has injured at least 38 people
October 02, 2023Pope Francis will open this week a global gathering of Catholic bishops and laypeople to discuss the future of the church
October 02, 2023Business sentiment among big Japanese manufacturers improved in July-September for the second straight quarter, according to a central bank survey
October 02, 2023Ten years after retiring from the game, David Beckham reflects on his soccer career and life for a new four-part documentary series
October 01, 2023Authorities in northern Mexico say the collapse of a church roof has killed at least 11 people and injured about 60
October 01, 2023Valentino took a contemporary stride down memory lane this Sunday, returning to Les Beaux-Arts, the prestigious art school where founder Valentino Garavani once studied
October 01, 2023The Ryder Cup is staying in Europe, just like always
October 01, 2023At least 13 people have been killed when a fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia
October 01, 2023A reputation built over decades that European soccer body UEFA is the good guy compared to FIFA as a cartoon caricature villain is being tested in this tough season for off-field politics
October 01, 2023Jailed former Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has been transferred from prison to house arrest, fulfilling the campaign promise of his party candidate who won the presidential election runoff
October 01, 2023Azerbaijan's prosecutor general says the country has issued an arrest warrant for former Nagorno-Karabakh separatist leader Arayik Harutyunyan
October 01, 2023The European Union’s foreign policy chief has called on U.S. lawmakers to reconsider their decision to omit financial support for Ukraine from a stop-gap budget created to halt a federal government shutdown
October 01, 2023Nigeria’s leader has increased the wages of some government workers in last-minute efforts to appease labor unions whose planned strike this week could shut down government offices in all sectors of Africa’s largest economy
October 01, 2023Serbia’s president has denied reports of a military buildup along the border with Kosovo
October 01, 2023The Turkish defense ministry says its warplanes have carried out raids on suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq following a suicide attack on a government building in the Turkish capital
October 01, 2023The devastation of this year’s monsoon season in India has been significant, with over 400 deaths and more property damage in the Himayalan state of Himachal Pradesh in a single season than the last five years combined
October 01, 2023Britain's governing Conservative Party is gathering for its annual conference
October 01, 2023Armenia finds itself facing multiple challenges after being suddenly thrust into one of the worst political crises in its decades of independence following the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union
October 01, 2023President Joe Biden says American aid to Ukraine will keep flowing for now as he tries to reassure allies of continued U.S. financial support for the war effort
October 01, 2023A populist former prime minister and his leftist party have won parliamentary elections in Slovakia, staging a political comeback after campaigning on a pro-Russian and anti-American message
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September 30, 2023At Paris Fashion Week, Andreas Kronthaler rejuvenated Vivienne Westwood’s legacy, intertwining it with his unique style
September 30, 2023A European governmental body has condemned the decision by Turkey’s Supreme Court to confirm the aggravated life sentence for activist and philanthropist Osman Kavala
September 30, 2023Several people have been injured after the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive was involved in a low-speed crash with another heritage train in the Scottish Highlands
September 30, 2023Germany’s government has rebuked X owner Elon Musk after he criticized the recent work of migrant rescue ships that German humanitarian groups operate in the Mediterranean Sea
September 30, 2023Cuban seamstress Yamidely Cervantes has bought a new sewing machine for the first time in years, plus a refrigerator and a cellphone - all on Russia's
September 30, 2023Armenia's government says an ethnic Armenian exodus has nearly emptied Nagorno-Karabakh of residents since Azerbaijan attacked and ordered the breakaway region’s militants to disarm
September 30, 2023The death toll from a bombing in southwestern Pakistan as people celebrated the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday has risen to 54 after two wounded patients died in hospitals overnight
September 30, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has released an address marking the one-year anniversary of Moscow’s unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian regions
September 30, 2023Pope Francis has presided over a ceremony to create 21 new cardinals
September 30, 2023A populist former prime minister who campaigned on a pro-Russian and anti-American message looks to be heading for victory in the early parliamentary election in Slovakia, according to preliminary results
September 30, 2023The Emirati president-designate for the upcoming United Nations COP28 climate conference has offered a full-throated defense of his nation hosting the talks
September 30, 2023Ukraine has hosted an international defense industry conference as part of a government effort to ramp up weapons production within the country to repel Russia’s full-scale invasion
September 30, 2023Poland’s opposition leader Donald Tusk is leading a march in Warsaw on Sunday aimed at energizing supporters and winning new hearts in his against-the-odds battle to unseat the right-wing government in the nation’s upcoming parliamentary election
September 30, 2023Media in the Maldives say opposition candidate Mohamed Muiz, who supports closer ties between the Indian Ocean archipelago and China, won the presidential runoff on Saturday with more than 53% of the vote
September 30, 2023An official Chinese survey says the country's factory activity has recorded its first expansion in six months
September 30, 2023The annual Nobel Prize announcements are over with the final award, for economics, going to Harvard professor Claudia Goldin for advancing the understanding of women’s labor market outcomes
September 30, 2023Former Polish President Lech Walesa says he is supporting opposition leader Donald Tusk’s effort to oust Poland’s conservative government in the country’s parliamentary election next month
September 29, 2023The small southern African nation of Eswatini is holding elections to decide part of the makeup of its parliament while its extremely wealthy king retains absolute power
September 29, 2023Russians and Belarusians will be allowed to compete as neutral athletes at next year’s Paralympics in Paris after avoiding a full ban from the event following the invasion of Ukraine
September 29, 2023Europe has taken a big step toward a small measure of revenge in the Ryder Cup
September 29, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered one of the top commanders of the Wagner military contractor to take charge of “volunteer units” fighting in Ukraine
September 29, 2023Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami has hosted a ghost story reading event in Tokyo amid growing attention before the announcement of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature
September 29, 2023South Korea’s League of Legends team beat Taiwan at the Asian Games despite being without its star player
September 29, 2023Inflation has dropped sharply in Europe
September 29, 2023Armenian officials say more than 80% of Nagorno-Karabakh's original population have fled the ethnic Armenian enclave in Azerbaijan for neighboring Armenia
September 29, 2023NATO is reinforcing its troop presence in Kosovo in response to a weekend shootout that left four people dead
September 29, 2023Authorities in Pakistan say at least 52 people were killed and nearly 70 wounded after a suspected bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people celebrating the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in the southwest of the country
September 29, 2023The United States has quietly acknowledged that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard successfully put an imaging satellite into orbit this week in a launch that resembled others previously criticized by Washington as helping Tehran’s ballistic missile program
September 29, 2023Wall Street closed out its worst month of the year with more losses
September 29, 2023A 75-year-old Japanese feminist scholar who’s not married and does not have children is not the kind of person you'd expect to get famous in China
September 29, 2023An Associated Press reporter traveled with Gen. Mark Milley as he made his last trip to Normandy to honor those who fought on D-Day and celebrate with the young American soldiers in the French town that welcomes them every year
September 29, 2023The Armenian diaspora has been stunned by the swift fall of the Armenian-majority enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijani troops and the exodus of much of its population
September 29, 2023Algeria is among many countries in Africa to take steps to transition parts of its education system away from French and toward English
September 29, 2023A doctor says that Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is recovering in a hospital following successful hip replacement surgery
September 29, 2023Slovakia holds an early parliamentary election on Saturday that pits populist former Prime Minister Robert Fico who campaigned on a clear pro-Russia and anti-American message against a liberal pro-West newcomer
September 29, 2023An American soldier who sprinted into North Korea and was held there for two months before being returned to the U.S. is now set to undergo medical testing and extensive questioning about his time in the isolated country before potentially facing charges under the military justice system
September 28, 2023The new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he's considering policy changes toward Egypt, Turkey and other countries as he took over the powerful leadership of the panel
September 28, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with India's foreign minister amid a simmering row between New Delhi and Ottawa over allegations of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist in Canada
September 28, 2023A Senate hearing on the nomination of the official to be the Pentagon’s top policy adviser was dominated by Republicans expressing their frustrations with the Biden administration’s foreign policies
September 28, 2023Countries in the Americas are reeling as the flow of migrants reaches historic levels, but a U.N. officials says international “funds simply aren’t there” for humanitarian needs
September 28, 2023There was no mention of the conflict in Ukraine during the elaborate opening ceremony of the Ryder Cup even though Team Europe represents the war-torn country
September 28, 2023A judge for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in Oklahoma has ruled in favor of two descendants of Black slaves once owned by tribal members
September 28, 2023The exodus of more than 78,000 ethnic Armenians this week from Nagorno-Karabakh in the southern Caucasus Mountains has been a vivid and shocking tableau of fear and misery
September 28, 2023Designer Gabriela Hearst marked her farewell from Chloé with a jubilant dance alongside Rio’s samba school Mangueira, showcasing a collection emphasizing modernity and femininity
September 28, 2023European Union governments are struggling to overcome obstacles to put a new asylum system in place three years after unveiling a plan to reform the bloc's outdated asylum rules
September 28, 2023A court in Romania’s capital on Thursday has eased geographical restrictions on Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
September 28, 2023Tropical Storm Rina has formed in the Atlantic Ocean on the heels of Tropical Storm Philippe
September 28, 2023A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in northern England in connection with what authorities described as the “deliberate” felling of a famous tree that had stood for nearly 200 years next to the Roman landmark Hadrian’s Wall
September 28, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing granting limited autonomy for Corsica in a modest step toward nationalist sentiment on the Mediterranean island
September 28, 2023Police in the Netherlands say a lone gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire in an apartment and a hospital in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam, killing three people, including a 14-year-old girl
September 28, 2023Kosovo’s interior minister has accused Serbia of direct involvement in weekend clashes and was investigating the possibility of Russian involvement in the violence that left four people dead and further strained relations between the former wartime foes
September 28, 2023There are rock stars, and then there is Ringo Starr
September 28, 2023NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss the status of the war and needs of troops
September 28, 2023In the middle of the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile, the colors and patterns of Aymara textiles are inspired by the land that is considered sacred
September 28, 2023The award-winning U.S. guitarist Al Di Meola has suffered a heart attack while performing in Romania’s capital
September 28, 2023The Chinese defense ministry has given its first public statement on the disappearance of the minister from public view about a month ago
September 28, 2023Republicans leading an impeachment inquiry of President Joe Biden detailed foreign payments to members of his family in their first hearing on
September 28, 2023An explosion in the Uzbek capital, Tashkent, has killed a teenage boy and injured at least 162 people
September 28, 2023A second powerful storm in less than a month has hammered parts of central Greece, sweeping away roads, smashing bridges and flooding thousands of homes
September 28, 2023Spanish police have raided offices of the country's soccer federation as part of an investigation into the payment of millions of dollars over several years by Barcelona to a former vice president of Spain’s refereeing committee
September 28, 2023The three letters Brooks Koepka represents in the Ryder Cup are USA
September 28, 2023The Pentagon says that the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas more than two months ago was whisked to a Texas Army base for medical checks and interviews after his return to the U.S. North Korea abruptly announced a day earlier that it would expel Pvt. Travis King
September 28, 2023Sweden’s prime minister has summoned the head of the military to discuss how the armed forces can help police deal with an unprecedented crime wave that has shocked the country with almost daily shootings and bombings
September 28, 2023Israel has reopened the main crossing with the Gaza Strip, allowing thousands of Palestinian laborers to enter the country for the first time since it was sealed earlier this month
September 28, 2023Asian markets are mixed, with only a few open due to public holidays across the region
September 28, 2023The centuries-old card game of bridge is being played at the Asian Games
September 28, 2023Israel’s Supreme Court spent eight hours Thursday hearing a challenge to a law that makes it harder to remove a sitting prime minister
September 28, 2023A Swiss Academy of Sciences panel is reporting a dramatic acceleration of glacier melt in the Alpine country, which has lost 10% of its ice volume in just two years after high summer heat and low snow volumes in winter
September 28, 2023The separatist government of Nagorno-Karabakh says it will dissolve itself and the unrecognized republic will cease to exist by the end of the year
September 28, 2023Officials across Germany are sounding the alarm that they are no longer able to accommodate migrants who are applying for asylum
September 28, 2023Miguel Cabrera's career will end with the Detroit Tigers on Sunday against Cleveland at Comerica Park, where a sold-out crowd will include a few thousands fans paying for standing-room only tickets to cheer for him one more time
September 28, 2023Restrictions on food exports are spilling over from rice and wheat to other essentials
September 28, 2023Taiwan’s president has launched the island’s first domestically made submarine for testing
September 28, 2023From Sunday, workers at the main United States base in Antarctica will no longer be able to walk into a bar and order a beer, after the federal agency overseeing the research program decided to stop serving alcohol
September 28, 2023Chinese-owned app TikTok says it regrets the Indonesian government’s decision to ban e-commerce transactions on social media platforms and particularly the impact it would have on the millions of sellers who use TikTok Shop
September 28, 2023The Hong Kong stock exchange says trading of shares of heavily indebted Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group has been suspended
September 28, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called for an exponential increase in production of nuclear weapons and for his country to play a larger role in a coalition of nations confronting the United States in what he described as a “new Cold War.”
September 28, 2023Burkina Faso's junta says the country’s intelligence and security services have foiled a coup attempt
September 27, 2023Homeless shelters in Argentina's capital are seeing demand soar as more people are struggling to make ends meet amid an annual inflation rate above 100% that is pushing more people into poverty
September 27, 2023Tenor Jonas Kaufmann, recovered from a multi-drug resistant germ infection, is appearing in “Doppleganger,” a staged version of Schubert's final songs
September 27, 2023Shai Reshef, president and founder of the online, tuition-free University of the People, and Arizona State University professor and researcher Michelene Chi, who has developed a framework to improve how students learn, are the 2023 winners of The Yidan Prize, the biggest award in education
September 27, 2023On Tuesday night, the elusive pop producer Jai Paul opened his tour leg at the Los Angeles' Mayan Theater
September 27, 2023Paris Fashion Week spring-summer 2024 saw a resonating ’70s influence, mingled with contemporary flair
September 27, 2023The Czech government has approved a Defense Ministry plan to acquire two dozen U.S. F-35 fighter jets in a deal worth around 150 billion Czech koruna ($6.5 billion)
September 27, 2023Police in Canada say they will not pursue a criminal investigation into a recent case in which a doctor sterilized an Inuit woman without her consent
September 27, 2023Polish and U.S. officials have signed an agreement in Warsaw to move forward with the construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant
September 27, 2023A Japanese court has ordered the central government, the Kumamoto prefecture and a chemical company to recognize more than 120 plaintiffs as patients of the decades-old Minamata mercury poisoning and pay compensation they have been denied because they developed symptoms after moving away from the region
September 27, 2023The Biden administration has admitted Israel into a select group of countries whose citizens are allowed to travel to the United States without getting a visa in advance
September 27, 2023Scottish authorities have approved a multimillion pound drug consumption room
September 27, 2023When Brazilian soccer player Paulinho scored a goal at the Tokyo Olympics, he celebrated by pointing an imaginary arrow at the flashing cameras as homage to a deity in his persecuted Afro-Brazilian faith
September 27, 2023Egypt's Tourism and Antiquities Minister Ahmed Issa says they are seeking to double the number of tourists in the next five years, to reach 30 million visitors by 2028
September 27, 2023The Ryder Cup’s food scene is decidedly local at the Marco Simone club outside Rome
September 27, 2023A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions two years ago submitted two empty canvases, causing an uproar
September 27, 2023A 13-year-old girl from China has won a gold medal in stakeboarding at the Asian Games
September 27, 2023British police say that a 15-year-old girl has been stabbed to death while on her way to school and a 17-year-old male suspect has been arrested in connection with her death
September 27, 2023Berlin's city government says Christian Thielemann has been chosen as the new general music director of the city's Staatsoper, months after Daniel Barenboim ended his three-decade reign
September 27, 2023Russia has accused Ukraine’s Western allies of helping plan and conduct last week’s missile strike on the Black Sea Fleet’s headquarters in Crimea
September 27, 2023The White House says the American soldier who sprinted into North Korea across the heavily fortified border between the Koreas two months ago has been released into U.S. custody
September 27, 2023Europe is missing a lot of its Ryder Cup stalwarts at Marco Simone because of their defections to join LIV Golf
September 27, 2023The leader of Spain’s conservatives has failed in his long-shot first bid to become the country’s next prime minister, falling short of the votes he needed in the Spanish parliament to form a government
September 27, 2023Britain has given the go-ahead for a major oil and gas project in the North Sea, ignoring warnings from scientists and the United Nations that countries must stop developing new fossil fuel resources if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate change
September 27, 2023The French troops who are being forced out of Niger were seen as a key line of defense in efforts led by the West, particularly the U.S. and France, to fight against jihadi violence in Africa’s hard-hit Sahel region
September 27, 2023Azerbaijan has detained the former head of Nagorno-Karabakh’s separatist government as he tried to cross into Armenia following Azerbaijan’s 24-hour blitz last week to reclaim control of the enclave
September 27, 2023Iran is claiming that it has successfully launched an imaging satellite into space
September 27, 2023Asian shares were mostly lower Thursday in subdued trading on looming worries about China property woes
September 27, 2023Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey will address his Democratic colleagues on Thursday as calls grow for Menendez to resign over federal bribery charges
September 27, 2023Six Portuguese young adults and children between 11 and 24 years of age were at the European Court of Human Rights Wednesday, accusing 32 European governments of violating their human rights for what they say is a failure to adequately address climate change
September 27, 2023Counting upwards in chant, bereaved families marched through Mexico City in remembrance of 43 students abducted by the government nine years ago
September 27, 2023The Biden administration has suspended most non-humanitarian aid to Gabon after a military takeover in the country last month that was at least the second this year in an African nation
September 26, 2023A South Korean judge has denied an arrest warrant for the country’s opposition leader on broad corruption allegations, saying there wasn’t a clear threat that he would destroy evidence
September 26, 2023A suspended New York City police officer who had been accused of spying for China — and later cleared — is fighting to be reinstated
September 26, 2023A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq has killed around 100 people and injured at least 100 others and authorities warn the death toll could rise
September 26, 2023Nearly all the world’s on stage, and all the men and but 20 women merely players
September 26, 2023Togo’s foreign minister wasn’t having any of it
September 26, 2023Cuba's ambassador to the United States says an incident in which at least one incendiary device was thrown into the Cuban embassy compound was a “terrorist attack.”
September 26, 2023Officials say the Amazon rainforest in Brazil is facing a severe drought that may affect around 500,000 people by the end of the year
September 26, 2023The U_N_’s most powerful body is being asked to support governments seeking to legally declare the crackdown by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on women and girls “gender apartheid."
September 26, 2023Luzineide Marques da Silva knows the location of each of the 748 rubber trees in the Brazilian Amazon that she and her family have rights to tap for latex
September 26, 2023Nelson Mandela's granddaughter Zoleka has died at age 43
September 26, 2023A court in Moscow has upheld a 19-year prison sentence for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was convicted on charges of extremism in August
September 26, 2023Donatella Versace slammed the Italian government for what she described as anti-gay policies in a heartfelt and personal speech that referenced her late brother, Gianni Versace, while receiving a fashion award this weekend
September 26, 2023North Korea is accusing the United States of making 2023 an “extremely dangerous year."
September 26, 2023Amid the electric ambiance of strobe lights and an usually sweltering Parisian fall, Dior presented its spring/summer 2024 womenswear collection
September 26, 2023Thousands of Nagorno-Karabakh residents are fleeing their homes after Azerbaijan's swift military operation to reclaim control of the breakaway region
September 26, 2023Britain’s immigration minister has argued Tuesday that international refugee rules must be rewritten to reduce the number of people entitled to protection
September 26, 2023The foreign minister of Belarus says he can't envision a situation where his country would enter the war in Ukraine alongside Russian forces
September 26, 2023Swiss federal prosecutors say they have indicted a former employee of the Geneva-based commodities trading firm Gunvor over bribes paid to obtain access to the Republic of Congo’s petroleum market more than a decade ago
September 26, 2023The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons is resigning for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president
September 26, 2023Indian and Canadian diplomats steered clear of their countries’ row over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader when they addressed the U.N. General Assembly
September 26, 2023A rights group says Egyptian authorities have detained at least 73 people campaigning for a challenger to incumbent President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the December election
September 26, 2023A top European Union official says the social network X, formerly known as Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news and urged owner Elon Musk to comply with the bloc’s laws aimed at combating disinformation
September 26, 2023Serbia’s president has demanded that a NATO-led peacekeeping force in Kosovo take over for the national law enforcement agency in northern Kosovo
September 26, 2023Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) is becoming harder but a narrow window remains because clean energy infrastructure has grown around the world, a new report said Tuesday
September 26, 2023Saudi Arabia’s newly appointed envoy to the Palestinian Authority has presented his credentials to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
September 26, 2023Ukrainian officials say Russia struck the Black Sea region of Odesa in a drone barrage that damaged a warehouse, charred dozens of trucks and injured two drivers in fiery explosions
September 26, 2023Gatwick Airport, London’s second-busiest, is limiting flights this week, partly because of an outbreak of COVID-19 within air traffic control
September 26, 2023Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba says it will spin off its logistics arm, Cainiao Smart Logistics Network, in an initial public offering in Hong Kong
September 26, 2023Spanish prosecutors have charged pop star Shakira with failing to pay 6.7 million euros ($7.1 million) in tax on her 2018 income, in Spain’s latest fiscal allegations against the Colombian singer
September 26, 2023The leader of Spain’s conservatives is trying to win the endorsement of the nation’s parliament to form a new government
September 26, 2023South Korea’s Constitutional Court has struck down a 2020 law that criminalized the sending of anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets to North Korea, calling it an excessive restriction on free speech
September 26, 2023The U.N. health agency says cholera and dengue outbreaks have been reported in eastern Sudan, where thousands of people are sheltering in crowded camps as deadly fighting grinds on between the country’s military and a rival paramilitary force
September 26, 2023Two powerful explosions have ripped through dwellings in central Sweden, injuring at least three people and damaging buildings
September 26, 2023The Americans have won more majors
September 26, 2023Outward aggression has taken a backseat to unctuous charm at the Asian Games as China seeks to win the hearts of more than 40 participating Asian nations and regions
September 26, 2023India’s army chief says the country is committed to maintaining a free and stable Indo-Pacific, where the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations is respected
September 26, 2023An explosion at a crowded gas station in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region has killed and injured scores of people as thousands of ethnic Armenians have rushed to flee to Armenia
September 26, 2023Researchers say they have verified 1,329 deaths from hunger in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since a cease-fire ended a two-year conflict there in November
September 26, 2023Shares in Asia are mostly lower after Wall Street’s ugly September got even worse, with benchmarks dropping back to where they were in June
September 26, 2023The doping case involving teenage Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva that marred the 2022 Beijing Olympics has returned to the Court of Arbitration for Sport
September 26, 2023Japan’s health ministry has approved Leqembi, a drug for Alzheimer’s decease that was jointly developed by Japanese and U.S. pharmaceutical companies
September 26, 2023South Korea has paraded thousands of troops and an array of weapons capable of striking North Korea through its capital as part of its biggest Armed Forces Day ceremony in 10 years, as its president vowed to build a stronger military to thwart any provocation by the North
September 26, 2023As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Army Gen. Mark Milley has spent the better part of the last two years rallying allies to provide weapons for the Ukrainians as they defend their country against the Russian forces
September 26, 2023Actor David McCallum, who became a teen heartthrob in the hit series “The Man From U.N.C
September 25, 2023Opposition parties in Canada have called on the speaker of the House of Commons to resign for inviting a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II to attend a speech by the Ukrainian president
September 25, 2023Canadian auto workers say General Motors will be their next target after members ratified a new three-year labor contract with Ford
September 25, 2023The U.S. military says it has captured an operator for the Islamic State extremist group during a helicopter raid in northern Syria
September 25, 2023U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says nuclear fusion is a pioneering technology and the Biden administration wants to harness it as part of the transition to clean energy
September 25, 2023If another pandemic happens, the world will again be unprepared
September 25, 2023The Biden administration says it is offering $2 billion in loans to Poland to support the defense modernization of the ally which has been a hub for weapons going into Ukraine
September 25, 2023President Joe Biden has informed leaders from the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum that he has heard their warnings about the impact of climate change on their region
September 25, 2023The head of the European Central Bank says interest rates will stay high long enough to restrict business activity for “as long as necessary” to beat back inflation because upward pressure on prices “remains strong.”
September 25, 2023Egypt says it will hold a presidential election over three days in December with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi highly likely to prolong his stay in power until 2030
September 25, 2023At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured
September 25, 2023Homophobic chanting by sections of Paris Saint-Germain fans targeting Marseille players has again marred the biggest game in French soccer and prompted calls for sanctions
September 25, 2023Tensions between Serbia and Kosovo flared anew over the weekend when some 30 heavily armed Serbs barricaded themselves in an Orthodox monastery in northern Kosovo, setting off a daylong gunbattle with police that left one officer and three attackers dead
September 25, 2023The Asian Games offer a preview of what could soon be coming to the Olympics
September 25, 2023An agent for film legend Sophia Loren says the Italian actor is recovering from successful surgery for a leg fracture after she fell in her home in Switzerland
September 25, 2023Amazon is investing up to $4 billion in artificial intelligence startup Anthropic and taking a minority stake in the company
September 25, 2023Ukrainian officials say the missile that blasted the Crimean headquarters of Russia’s navy last week killed 34 officers, including the fleet commander, though it provided no evidence to support its claim
September 25, 2023New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is facing an uphill battle to woo voters less than three weeks before an election
September 25, 2023Denmark’s Lego says it remains committed to its quest to find sustainable materials to reduce carbon emissions, even after an experiment by the world’s largest toymaker to use recycled bottles did not work
September 25, 2023A powerful blast has rocked Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region as ethnic Armenians are streaming out of the breakaway territory following its retaking by the Azerbaijani military
September 25, 2023A trial is opening in a French counterterrorism court over the killing of two police officers in their home in 2016, in front of their 3-year-old son
September 25, 2023The European Union’s executive arm is blocking leading U.S. online travel agency Booking from acquiring Sweden’s flight booking provider Etraveli Group
September 25, 2023Oil prices are up, and that affects people far and wide
September 25, 2023First came the castle
September 25, 2023Taiwan authorities have fined a golf ball manufacturer $75,000 and warned of criminal charges after a major factory fire killed nine people and left one other missing
September 25, 2023Libya’s chief prosecutor says he has ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams
September 25, 2023Kosovo is observing a day of mourning for the Kosovar Albanian police officer killed by Serb gunmen in the north of the country in one of the worst confrontations since it declared independence from Serbia in 2008
September 25, 2023Top Thai officials have welcomed hundreds of Chinese tourists at Bangkok’s international airport on the first day of a new visa-free entry program that officials say will boost tourism
September 25, 2023The European Union’s trade commissioner has called for a more balanced relationship with China, noting an EU trade deficit of nearly 400 billion euros ($425 billion)
September 25, 2023The Ukrainian government wants to spend more than $1 billion to build an army of drones
September 25, 2023Just a few years ago, artificial intelligence got barely a mention at the U.N. General Assembly’s convocation of world leaders
September 25, 2023This fall, the United Nations is to convene an advisory group on artificial intelligence
September 25, 2023Asian shares are mostly sinking over worries about a possible U.S. government shutdown and the troubled Chinese economy
September 25, 2023Lithuanian teenager Dominika Banevič and American Victor Montalvo have qualified for next year’s Paris Olympics after winning the World Breaking Championship on Sunday
September 24, 2023Canadian autoworkers have ratified a new labor agreement with Ford Motor Co., averting a threatened strike
September 24, 2023Europe has retained the Solheim Cup after securing a first-ever tie with the United States
September 24, 2023The Biden administration is poised to allow Israeli citizens to travel to the United States without a U.S. visa
September 24, 2023Early next month, the Vatican will open an unprecedented gathering of Catholic clergy and laypeople from around the world
September 24, 2023London’s police force says some officers are refusing to conduct armed patrols after a colleague was charged with murder in the shooting of an unarmed Black man
September 24, 2023The governor of southern Ukraine's Kherson region says Russian airstrikes have killed two people and wounded eight others
September 24, 2023The recent G20 Summit hosted by India couldn't have gone better for Prime Minister Narendra Modi
September 24, 2023A space capsule carrying NASA’s first asteroid samples has landed in the Utah desert
September 24, 2023The British government is considering scrapping a big chunk of an overdue and over-budget high-speed rail line once touted as a way to attract jobs and investment to northern England
September 24, 2023The death toll from a bombing attack at a government checkpoint in central Somalia has reached 21
September 24, 2023President Joe Biden is set to establish diplomatic relations Monday with two South Pacific nations, the Cook Islands and Niue, as his administration aims to show to Pacific Island leaders that's committed to increasing American presence in the region
September 24, 2023At least 30 Serb gunmen have killed a Kosovar Albanian police officer then stormed an Orthodox monastery in Kosovo near its border with Serbia, setting off ongoing gunbattles that have left three assailants dead and raised tensions between the two former wartime foes as they seek to normalize ties
September 24, 2023Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solutions
September 24, 2023The Israeli military said it struck militant sites in Gaza for the third day in a row, after Palestinian militants near the border fence launched incendiary balloons into Israel and threw an explosive at soldiers
September 24, 2023The science of human evolution has made big leaps in recent years, and it’s painting a new picture of our origins
September 24, 2023Nearly a day after being downgraded from a tropical storm, Ophelia is still threatening much of the Northeast with coastal flooding, life-threatening waves and heavy rain from Washington to New York City
September 24, 2023The train that runs from Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, to the city of Kramatorsk in the east stands apart from others in Ukraine
September 24, 2023A group of about 5,000 mostly Venezuelan migrants hoping to make it to the U.S. spent three days in the Mexican town of Irapuato waiting for a train that many in the group worried would never come
September 24, 2023The six-day United Nations General Assembly formally wrapping Tuesday shows how in-person diplomacy has fully come back
September 24, 2023It’s Day 6 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 23, 2023Pope Francis is labeling the weapons industry as being a key driver of the “martyrdom” of Ukraine’s people in Russia’s war
September 23, 2023More badly needed humanitarian aid was on its way to the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh via both Azerbaijan and Armenia
September 23, 2023The U.S. ambassador to Canada has said that information shared from members of an intelligence-sharing alliance was part of what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used to make public allegations of the Indian government's possible involvement in the assassination a Sikh Canadian
September 23, 2023Every look in Ferragamo creative director Maximilian Davis’ latest collection, shown on the fourth day of Milan Fashion Week, offered a little mystery to unravel, some detail to marvel
September 23, 2023Security researchers say a leading Egyptian opposition politician was targeted with Predator spyware after announcing a president bid
September 23, 2023Israel says it has unleashed airstrikes targeting a militant site in Gaza for the second time in as many days
September 23, 2023At the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, African leaders are relaying a unanimous message, that their continent of more than 1.3 billion people is done being a “victim” of a post-world war order and must be recognized and partnered with as a global power in itself
September 23, 2023Russia’s top diplomat is lashing out at the U.S. and the West as self-interested defenders of a fading international power structure
September 23, 2023Inside, those who administer the world look for peace
September 23, 2023An explosives-laden vehicle has detonated at a security checkpoint in the central Somalia city of Beledweyne
September 23, 2023It probably wasn’t how President Joe Biden envisioned his big foreign policy week ending
September 23, 2023Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced several support measures for Ukraine including military, economic and humanitarian assistance
September 23, 2023The opening ceremony of the Asian Games in China offered all the staples of a major international sports event
September 23, 2023Russia says Ukraine has launched another missile attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula
September 23, 2023Pope Francis is challenging French President Emmanuel Macron and other European leaders to open their ports to people fleeing hardship and poverty
September 23, 2023Pakistan’s interim prime minister says he expects elections to take place in the new year, dismissing the possibility that the country’s powerful military would manipulate the results to ensure that jailed former premier Imran Khan’s party doesn’t win
September 23, 2023A human rights foundation says a prominent Uyghur scholar specializing in the study of her people’s folklore and traditions has been sentenced to life in prison in China
September 23, 2023The shocking allegation that India may have been behind the assassination of a Sikh separatist leader in Canada is shining the light on various layers of activism as well as diverse views on a separate Sikh state or Khalistan within the North American diaspora
September 23, 2023Residents in parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia have experienced flooding after Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near a North Carolina barrier island, bringing rain, damaging winds and dangerous surges
September 23, 2023A 23-year-old Venezuela man is preparing to say goodbye to a pet squirrel he says he brought from his home country on a journey to Mexico
September 23, 2023The Biden administration's grant of temporary legal status to nearly 500,000 Venezuelans already in the United States may complicate its messaging abroad
September 23, 2023At the annual meeting of world leaders last year, the United Nations chief sounded a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet
September 23, 2023A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in keeping the demise of the profane and outspoken Wagner chief as low-key as possible
September 23, 2023For Lachlan Murdoch, this has been a long time coming — assuming, that is, his moment has actually arrived
September 23, 2023Britain is pitching itself to the world as a ready leader in shaping an international response to the rise of artificial intelligence
September 22, 2023It’s Day 5 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 22, 2023Mexico’s top diplomat, Alicia Bárcena, says President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wants to travel to Washington D
September 22, 2023Some archaeologists describe Peru’s capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises
September 22, 2023The Colombian government manipulated a video to alter the applause received by President Gustavo Petro received during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York
September 22, 2023A government official says that Germany is considering establishing short-term border controls with Poland and the Czech Republic to keep irregular migrants from entering the country
September 22, 2023Spain’s World Cup-winning women’s team have gotten back to being soccer players
September 22, 2023The president of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council said in an interview that he will prioritize the creation of a separate country in negotiations with their rivals, the Houthi rebels
September 22, 2023Sabato De Sarno wants people to fall in love with Gucci again, titling his debut collection “Gucci Ancora,” Italian for “Gucci Again.”
September 22, 2023Animals at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro have been getting cold treats to cool them down during a rare winter heat wave
September 22, 2023Rupert Murdoch stirs mixed feelings in Britain, where he transformed the media over half a century
September 22, 2023A military judge at Guantanamo Bay has ruled one of the 9/11 defendants too mentally ill to stand trial
September 22, 2023Poland's right-wing leaders are denouncing a new feature film by Polish director Agnieszka Holland as it opens in the country
September 22, 2023Brazil’s top court is deciding whether abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy will be decriminalized nationwide
September 22, 2023The Biden administration is pledging $100 million to support a proposed Kenyan-led multinational force to restore security to conflict-ravaged Haiti and urged other nations to make similar contributions
September 22, 2023The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Ophelia has formed off the U.S. mid-Atlantic coast and was producing winds just below hurricane force
September 22, 2023Catholic church officials in Germany say a statue of late Cardinal Franz Hengsbach will be removed from outside a cathedral after allegations of sexual abuse against him surfaced
September 22, 2023Across New York City, civil society groups and large philanthropies meet on the sidelines of the United Nations while world leaders gather at the annual General Assembly
September 22, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is "at the cusp” of a historic breakthrough leading to a peace agreement with Saudi Arabia
September 22, 2023A Chinese dissident known for regularly commemorating the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square has fled to Taiwan and is pleading for help in seeking asylum in the United States or Canada
September 22, 2023The U.S. Treasury Department and China’s Ministry of Finance have launched a pair of economic working groups in an effort to ease tensions and deepen ties between the nations
September 22, 2023European Union antitrust enforcers have slapped Intel with a fresh $400 million fine in a long-running legal fight that the chipmaker appeared to have won last year
September 22, 2023A Ukrainian missile struck the headquarters of Russia's navy in Crimea
September 22, 2023Another member of K-pop supergroup BTS has begun his mandatory military service in South Korea
September 22, 2023In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of athletes are arriving in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, looking very different
September 22, 2023China and Syria have announced the formation of a strategic partnership as Chinese leader Xi Jinping kicked off a series of diplomatic meetings ahead of the upcoming Asian Games
September 22, 2023Russia's Defense Ministry says that ethnic Armenian separatists in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh are surrendering their arms to Russian peacekeepers
September 22, 2023British competition regulators has signaled that Microsoft’s restructured $69 billion deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard is likely to receive antitrust approval
September 22, 2023King Charles III has traveled to the southwestern French city of Bordeaux to focus on climate and the environment
September 22, 2023Mali’s military junta is struggling to fight growing violence in the West African nation's hard-hit northern region
September 22, 2023U.S. breaking pros who hope to compete in the Paris Olympics next year have a challenge
September 22, 2023Pope Francis has blasted what he calls the “fanaticism of indifference” that greets migrants seeking a better life in Europe
September 22, 2023Wall Street wheezed to more losses as it limped to the finish of its worst week in six months
September 22, 2023It’s one of the United Nations’ more obscure bodies, with no space to call its own within the riverside headquarters
September 22, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Canada to stay with his country to victory as he went to the Canadian Parliament seeking to bolster support from Western allies for Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion
September 22, 2023A top official of upcoming international climate negotiations hopes to prove critics wrong and surprise them with a “course correction” for an ever-warming world
September 22, 2023India’s Parliament has approved landmark legislation that reserves one-third of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, ending a 27-year impasse over the bill amid a lack of consensus among political parties
September 22, 2023It’s Day 4 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 22, 2023North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has ordered unspecified steps to further develop his nation's relations with Russia after his recent visit
September 22, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will address the Canadian Parliament on Friday as he continues his efforts to shore up support from Western allies for Ukraine’s war against the Russian invasion
September 21, 2023Indigenous people in Brazil are celebrating after the country's Supreme Court ruled to enshrine their land rights
September 21, 2023Brazil's firefighters in the northeastern state of Bahia are battling wildfires, fanned by strong winds and abnormally high temperatures for the season
September 21, 2023The Biden administration is giving temporary legal status to Afghan migrants who have already been living in the country for a little over a year
September 21, 2023Thousands have marched across Nigeria over the mysterious death of an Afrobeat star whose body has been exhumed for an autopsy as authorities investigate the cause of his demise
September 21, 2023Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as the leader of both Fox News’ parent company and his News Corp media holdings, with his son, Lachlan, set to take his place
September 21, 2023The Justice Department says a contractor for the U.S. government who is originally from Ethiopia has been arrested on espionage charges, accused of providing a foreign country classified information that he downloaded and printed from his work computer system
September 21, 2023Designers Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons have achieved an unbearable lightness in a series of translucent chiffon dresses that gently cosseted the form, trailed by wispy strands of the finest organza
September 21, 2023Haiti’s government is doubling down on the construction of a canal on Haitian soil that prompted the neighboring Dominican Republic last week to shutter land, air and sea borders that both countries share
September 21, 2023The head of the junta in Guinea has defended the recent coups in Africa
September 21, 2023It’s not every day that VIP visitors venture out to the town of Saint-Denis, one of the poorest and toughest parts of the Paris region
September 21, 2023Migrants have always come to the U.S., but the immigration system now seems strained nationwide more than ever
September 21, 2023Spain’s women players say a turning point has been reached in their fight for equality
September 21, 2023The National Hurricane Center says a storm off the eastern U.S. will deliver tropical storm conditions to the coast of North Carolina
September 21, 2023A lion cub, only a few months old, has been taken to a zoo in northern Serbia after it was found wandering on a local road
September 21, 2023Police say banned New Zealand Olympic runner Zane Robertson has been arrested at his home in Kenya over allegations of sexual assault and possession of an unlicensed AK-47 assault rifle
September 21, 2023Tourists in Rome can now enjoy a “new” ancient attraction
September 21, 2023A serial killer in Rwanda has pleaded guilty at a court saying he killed 14 people
September 21, 2023Turkey's central bank has raised its key interest rate by 5 percentage points to 30%
September 21, 2023Poland’s prime minister says his country is no longer sending arms to Ukraine
September 21, 2023The Bank of England has paused nearly two years of interest rate increases after a surprising fall in U.K. inflation eased concerns about the pace of price rises
September 21, 2023Congo’s president wants the world’s second largest United Nations peacekeeping mission to move up its departure from the country, starting this December, saying it has failed
September 21, 2023Sweden’s central bank has raised its key interest rate, saying the “inflationary pressures in the Swedish economy are still too high.”
September 21, 2023Azerbaijan regained control of its breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh in a deadly two-day military offensive and held initial talks with representatives of its ethnic Armenian population on reintegrating the area into the mainly Muslim country
September 21, 2023A Canadian official says the allegation of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian is based on surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada, including intelligence provided by a major ally
September 21, 2023Three South African navy personnel have died and a senior officer is in critical condition after seven crew members of a submarine were swept off its deck and out to sea by big waves
September 21, 2023Singapore police say they have uncovered more luxury watches, gold bars and other assets from a massive money laundering scheme that was busted last month, bringing the total amount of assets seized or frozen to $1.75 billion
September 21, 2023Kenya’s president is committing his country to lead a multinational force in Haiti to combat gang warfare, even as residents of both countries question the plan being pushed by Washington
September 21, 2023King Charles III has made an emotional stop in front of Paris' fire-damaged Notre Dame cathedral on the second day of his state visit to France
September 21, 2023Israeli authorities are trying to figure out how a tank was stolen from a military training zone in northern Israel
September 21, 2023Lebanese authorities are investigating a late-night shooting outside the heavily fortified U.S. Embassy just outside Beirut
September 21, 2023Asian shares are mixed after another slump on Wall Street driven by expectations for U.S. interest rates to stay high well into next year
September 21, 2023Syrian President Bashar Assad has arrived in China on his first visit to the country since the start of Syria’s 12-year conflict
September 21, 2023If you are bored with day-in, day-out sports like basketball or swimming or volleyball, then check out the Asian Games when they open in Hangzhou, China
September 21, 2023Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that relations with the United States can move forward if the Biden administration demonstrates it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal, and a first step should be easing sanctions
September 21, 2023Ukrainian authorities say Russian missiles pounded cities across Ukraine, starting fires, killing at least five people and trapping others under rubble
September 21, 2023Protests by thousands of Guatemalans this week supporting President-elect Bernardo Arévalo suggest that the efforts by some officials to derail his presidency have awakened a new will among many citizens to defend democracy
September 21, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has delivered an upbeat message to U.S. lawmakers and President Joe Biden in a whirlwind visit to Washington
September 21, 2023Canada is making an explosive allegation that India may have been involved in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil, but thus far Canada’s allies are voicing measured concern about what happened
September 21, 2023Toshiba says a 2 trillion yen ($14 billion) tender offer for the troubled electronics and energy giant by a Japanese consortium has been completed, clearing the way for it to be delisted
September 21, 2023The Biden administration says it’s granting temporary legal status to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans already in the country
September 20, 2023It’s Day 3 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 20, 2023The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his long-delayed trial may be pushed back indefinitely
September 20, 2023Adidas CEO Bjørn Gulden said he doubts that Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, “meant what he said” when he made a series of antisemitic and offensive remarks last year
September 20, 2023At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal, however fragmented and complex
September 20, 2023Seven valuable art pieces plundered by the Nazis more than 80 years ago are being returned to the heirs of a cabaret performer, who was killed during the Holocaust and whose massive art collection was stolen by the Third Reich
September 20, 2023Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says in an interview with Fox News that aired Wednesday that ongoing negotiations over Israel means the prospects of normalized relations between both countries “get closer” every day but that treatment of Palestinians is “very important.”
September 20, 2023South Korea’s president sounded a warning to fellow world leaders about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia
September 20, 2023Tenor Stephen Gould, who announced earlier this month that he had been diagnosed with incurable bile duct cancer, has died
September 20, 2023A military medical panel has concluded that one of the five 9/11 defendants held at Guantanamo Bay has been rendered delusional and psychotic by the torture he underwent years ago while in CIA custody
September 20, 2023A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya has further complicated the work of teams searching for bodies under the rubble and at sea
September 20, 2023Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki
September 20, 2023It was a moment the diplomatic world was watching for — but didn’t get
September 20, 2023The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $200 million to help save the lives of mothers and children during childbirth
September 20, 2023New court documents show Oscar Pistorius was eligible for parole in March under South African law
September 20, 2023Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help Tehran’s program become more lethal, raising risks across the wider Middle East
September 20, 2023India’s Parliament has taken a major step toward reserving 33% of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, an issue that languished for nearly three decades because of a lack of consensus among political parties
September 20, 2023UNESCO has added World War I funerary and memorial locations across the Western Front to its prestigious World Heritage registry, expanding its list of landmarks of monumental importance
September 20, 2023Prime Minister Rishi Sunak says he’s delaying by five years a ban on new gas and diesel cars that had been due to take effect in 2030
September 20, 2023A dispute about whether Ukrainian grain should be allowed to enter the domestic markets of Poland and other European Union countries has pushed the tight relationship between Kyiv and Warsaw to its lowest point since Russia invaded Ukraine last year
September 20, 2023A new exhibition is opening in London to chart for the first time the contributions Black British culture made to U.K. fashion and design history and to celebrate Black designers who haven't received public recognition
September 20, 2023Forecasters in Bermuda are warning of dangerous swells and rip currents as Hurricane Nigel spun through open waters in the northern Atlantic
September 20, 2023The United Nations chief says Earth is facing a hellish problem in climate change and its leaders still aren’t doing nearly enough to curb carbon emissions that’s causing it
September 20, 2023Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to impose heavier penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory Islamic headscarf in public and those who support them
September 20, 2023Ukraine’s president is accusing Russia of undermining all norms of war and the United Nations Charter
September 20, 2023British lawmakers have approved an ambitious but controversial new internet safety law with wide-ranging powers to crack down on digital and social media companies like TikTok, Google and Facebook and Instagram parent Meta
September 20, 2023A U.N.-backed panel investigating human rights violations in Venezuela says the South American country’s government has intensified efforts to curtail democratic freedoms with use of threats, surveillance and harassment as President Nicolás Maduro faces a re-election contest next year
September 20, 2023Britain’s state-owned health service is operating on holiday-level staffing in England as doctors in the early stages of their careers joined their more senior colleagues in their first-ever joint strike action
September 20, 2023Relations between Canada and India have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries swap accusations and expel each other’s diplomats over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader
September 20, 2023India has advised its citizens to be careful when traveling to Canada as a rift between the two nations widens further in the wake of Ottawa’s allegations that India may have been involved in the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in suburban Vancouver
September 20, 2023President Joe Biden and his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, focused on workers’ rights as the leaders of the Western Hemisphere’s largest democracies met Wednesday in New York
September 20, 2023Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain’s environmental commitments, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers
September 20, 2023Azerbaijan claimed full control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region after local Armenian forces there agreed to lay down their weapons following the latest outbreak of fighting in the decades-long separatist conflict
September 20, 2023Most of Spain’s World Cup-winning players have ended their boycott of the women’s national team after the government intervened to help shape an agreement to make immediate structural changes at the country’s soccer federation
September 20, 2023The United Nations says it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities during arrests and detentions of people
September 20, 2023Inflation in Britain fell unexpectedly in August to its lowest level since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
September 20, 2023Pope Francis is travelling to the French port city of Marseille to join Catholic bishops in a meeting focusing on the Mediterranean and migration
September 20, 2023Asian shares are lower, tracking a slump on Wall Street after the Federal Reserve said it may not cut interest rates next year by as much as it earlier thought
September 20, 2023King Charles III has praised France’s “wonderful welcome” at a grand dinner held in his honor in the sumptuous Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles
September 20, 2023Palestinian health officials say the death toll from a day of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip has risen to six
September 20, 2023Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east
September 20, 2023Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right “to have peaceful nuclear energy” and urged the United States “to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that it wants to return to the 2015 nuclear deal
September 20, 2023President Joe Biden raised “hard issues,” including protecting the “checks and balances” in a democracy, in a Wednesday meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York
September 20, 2023A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America
September 20, 2023Saudi Arabia has praised the “positive results” of negotiations with Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they visited the kingdom for peace talks
September 20, 2023It’s Day 2 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 19, 2023Britain’s Prince William and wealthy entrepreneurs Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg promise hope to a warming world
September 19, 2023A Mexican railway operator has announced it is suspending train runs in the northern part of the country because so many migrants are climbing aboard freight cars and getting hurt in the process
September 19, 2023Tunisian President Kais Saied’s remarks that have been denounced as antisemitic have prompted an uproar on social media across the world
September 19, 2023Women who say they were abused by a once-prominent Jesuit artist say they are now being revictimized by his superiors
September 19, 2023Colombian President Gustavo Petro has delivered an ominous prophecy with grandiose language
September 19, 2023Argentina is celebrating a decision by a United Nations conference to include a former clandestine detention and torture center as a World Heritage site
September 19, 2023Scientists say climate change made the devastating storm along the Libyan coast up to 50 times more likely and 50% more intense
September 19, 2023The news of a cease-fire in Nagorno-Karabakh, a day after Azerbaijan shelled Armenian forces, toned down fears of a third full-scale war over the region, But it also left significant unresolved questions
September 19, 2023The U.N.’s refugee agency says that more than 1,200 children under age 5 have died in nine camps in war-scarred Sudan in the past five months because of a deadly combination of measles and malnutrition
September 19, 2023The U.S. has imposed sanctions on seven people and four companies in China, Russia and Turkey who officials allege are connected with the development of Iran’s drone program
September 19, 2023German government officials have held talks with their Polish counterparts asking them to clarify how many visas were issued in an illegal program in which some Polish consulates issued visas in Africa and Asia in exchange for bribes
September 19, 2023Palestinian health officials say the Israeli military has killed a 25-year-old Palestinian along the volatile border with the Gaza Strip during a violent protest along the separation fence
September 19, 2023A joint report from three U.N. agencies says the mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country
September 19, 2023Ukraine is filing a complaint at the World Trade Organization against Hungary, Poland and Slovakia after they banned grain and other food products coming from the war-torn country
September 19, 2023The International Criminal Court says it responded urgently to “anomalous activity affecting its information systems” last week
September 19, 2023The 2023 Latin Grammy nominations are here
September 19, 2023The European Union is urging Serbia and Kosovo to respect an agreement meant to end tensions between them and set their relations on a more normal path
September 19, 2023The tiny Pacific island nation of Niue has come up with a novel plan to protect its vast and pristine territorial waters — it will get sponsors to pay
September 19, 2023Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich appeared in a Moscow court, seeking release from jail on espionage charges, but it declined to hear his appeal and returned the case to a lower court due to unspecified procedural violations
September 19, 2023A Sikh independence advocate who was killed two months ago in western Canada is at the center of a widening breach between the Indian and Canadian governments
September 19, 2023The Americans released by Iran after being detained for years have arrived back home and declared, “Freedom!”
September 19, 2023A network of ancient American Indian ceremonial and burial mounds in Ohio noted for their good condition, distinct style and cultural significance has been added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites
September 19, 2023A Ukrainian governor says Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv, burning down a warehouse said to house humanitarian supplies and killing one man
September 19, 2023Azerbaijan’s forces fired artillery at Armenian positions in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh
September 19, 2023Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is urging defense leaders to “dig deep” and provide more air defense systems for Ukraine, to help the country block increasing barrages of Russian missiles
September 19, 2023The prime minister of Libyan’s eastern administration says authorities have divided the flood-stricken city of Derna into four sections to create buffers in case of disease outbreaks
September 19, 2023Victor Wembanyama will be aiming for the gold medal at the Paris Olympics
September 19, 2023President Joe Biden has made his case before the U.N. General Assembly that the world must remain united in defending Ukraine against Russian aggression
September 19, 2023Some of Spain’s World Cup-winning players have started reporting to training camp despite not wanting to be called up for the national team while fighting for changes in the soccer federation
September 19, 2023Ukraine is insisting that the United Nations’ highest court has jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that Moscow abused the genocide convention to justify launching its devastating invasion last year
September 19, 2023Hundreds of London police officers are facing dismissal as the department steps up efforts to get rid of police officers accused of corruption and other misconduct
September 19, 2023Tensions between Canada and India have reached new heights with dueling diplomatic expulsions and an allegation of Indian government involvement in the killing of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil
September 19, 2023YouTube says Russell Brand will no longer make money from the video streaming site after several women made allegations of sexual assault against the comedian-turned influencer
September 19, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much he trusts the West
September 19, 2023France is rolling out the red carpet for King Charles III’s state visit at one of its most magnificent and emblematic monuments: The Palace of Versailles, which is celebrating its 400th anniversary
September 19, 2023Germany racked up one economic success after another for most of this century
September 19, 2023English Heritage has unveiled its 1,000th blue plaque, the famous discs that dot the walls of buildings throughout London to mark the places where scientists, artists, politicians and activists have made history
September 19, 2023Asian shares are mostly lower as markets await a decision by the Federal Reserve on interest rates
September 19, 2023Hong Kong’s leader says the territory will scrutinize the regulation of digital assets after police arrested eight people over allegations of fraud at an unlicensed cryptocurrency exchange that impacted more than 1,600 investors and over $150 million in assets
September 19, 2023The United Nations chief delivered a dire warning to leaders from across the world
September 19, 2023“Brazil is back."
September 19, 2023North Korea says leader Kim Jong Un has returned home from a trip to Russia where he deepened a “comradely fellowship and friendly ties” with President Vladimir Putin
September 19, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington this week comes at a critical time as Republican leadership in the House and Senate diverge on the best way to get more military and humanitarian aid over the finish line
September 19, 2023A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that while Americans generally view Israel as a partner or ally, many question whether its far-right government shares American values
September 19, 2023Foreign companies operating in China say tensions with Washington over technology, trade and other issues and uncertainty over Chinese policies are damaging the business environment and causing some to reassess their plans for investing in the giant market
September 19, 2023More than 30 Atlantic countries on four continents have committed to bolster coordination on economic development, environmental protection, maritime issues and more
September 19, 2023India has expelled a senior Canadian diplomat and is accusing Canada of interfering in its internal affairs
September 19, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia is “weaponizing” everything from food and energy to abducted children in its war against Ukraine
September 18, 2023The U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders is here
September 18, 2023It’s Day 1 of the U.N. General Assembly high-level meeting that brings world leaders together at U.N. headquarters in New York
September 18, 2023The U.N. nuclear chief says he asked to meet Iran’s president on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting, His goal is to reverse Tehran’s ban on many of the agency’s inspectors
September 18, 2023Experts hope the sputtering global public health system and efforts to curb global warming through collaboration can combine to create a better system for handling the problem
September 18, 2023Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with China's Vice President Han Zheng on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly as the Biden administration and Beijing step up high-level contacts ahead of what could be a leader-level summit this fall
September 18, 2023Canada has expelled a top Indian diplomat as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations of ties to the assassination of a Sikh activist in Canada
September 18, 2023Iran’s president is denying his country sent drones to Russia for use in the war in Ukraine
September 18, 2023Farmers across Bulgaria protested Monday after the government lifted a ban on food products from Ukraine, complaining that the move will cause an influx that drives down prices for local growers
September 18, 2023Mexico's president is defending the participation of a contingent of Russian soldiers in a military parade over the weekend
September 18, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off a U.S. trip in California to talk to billionaire businessman Elon Musk about antisemitism on his social media platform X — while Musk asked him to address his judicial overhaul in Israel
September 18, 2023The Italian Cabinet has approved new measures to crack down on migration
September 18, 2023Hundreds of soccer fans have stormed into a hotel in Tehran, hoping for a glimpse of star player Cristiano Ronaldo, who arrived along with his Saudi teammates ahead of a game
September 18, 2023Officials are warning that a disease outbreak in Libya’s northeast, where floods have killed thousands, could create “a second devastating crisis” as adults and children fell ill from contaminated water
September 18, 2023Just playing is a small victory for Shakhtar Donetsk but the Ukrainian champions won’t stop there
September 18, 2023Six Ukrainian deputy defense ministers have been fired following the dismissal two weeks ago of the defense minister in a corruption scandal, as heavy fighting against Russian forces continues in the east
September 18, 2023An expert commissioned by the U.N.’s top human rights body says in her first report on Russia that the rights situation in the country has “significantly deteriorated” since President Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine last February
September 18, 2023British police say they received a sexual assault allegation after media outlets published claims against comedian Russell Brand
September 18, 2023Americans held for years in Iranian custody walked arm-in-arm off a plane into freedom
September 18, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on Elon Musk, the head of electric carmaker Tesla, to establish a factory in Turkey
September 18, 2023Russia is calling a Ukrainian case alleging that Moscow abused the Genocide Convention to justify its invasion last year an “abuse of process.”
September 18, 2023China’s top diplomat is in Russia for security talks after two days of meetings with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser over the weekend in Malta
September 18, 2023A populist former prime minister whose party is favored to win Slovakia’s early parliamentary election plans to reverse the country’s military and political support for neighboring Ukraine if he returns to power
September 18, 2023The commitments were far-reaching and ambitious
September 18, 2023For two years, it was the coronavirus pandemic
September 18, 2023Pope Francis urged all people to do their part to address the world’s problems, especially climate change and the care of children, to open The Clinton Global Initiative Monday in New York in a talk with former President Bill Clinton
September 18, 2023Asian shares are mostly weaker in cautious trading ahead of the Federal Reserve’s looming decision on interest rates
September 18, 2023Australia’s government is telling the online dating industry to improve safety standards or be forced to make changes through legislation
September 18, 2023China has flown 103 military planes toward Taiwan in a new daily high for the activity the island considers harassment
September 18, 2023The president of the Dominican Republic is defending his decision to close air, sea and land traffic with neighboring Haiti in a dispute over construction of a canal targeting a river that runs through both countries
September 17, 2023Libya' health minister says four Greek rescue workers dispatched to Libya following devastating flooding in the eastern city of Derna were killed in a road collision
September 17, 2023A federal jury in Mississippi has rejected a civil lawsuit seeking money damages from two police officers who fatally shot a man while serving a warrant at the wrong house
September 17, 2023The war in Ukraine and its visiting president take center stage at the United Nations this week
September 17, 2023Tens of thousands of people in New York City have kicked off a week of demonstrations seeking to end the use of coal, oil and natural gas blamed for climate change
September 17, 2023President Joe Biden’s national security adviser met with China’s foreign minister over the past two days on the Mediterranean island nation of Malta
September 17, 2023Two cargo ships have arrived in one of Ukraine’s ports this weekend, using a temporary Black Sea corridor established by the government
September 17, 2023Dozens of demonstrators against a divisive plan to redevelop a beloved Tokyo park are forming a human chain outside the Japanese Education Ministry to demand a revision
September 17, 2023French President Emmanuel Macron is extending an olive branch to video gamers after previously linking computer games to rioting that rocked France earlier this year
September 17, 2023EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged the swift return of “irregular” migrants and a crackdown on smugglers Sunday during a visit with Italy’s premier to a tiny fishing island overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 migrant arrivals in a single day this week
September 17, 2023Police in a southern Chinese city say they have detained some staff at China Evergrande Group’s wealth management unit in the latest trouble for the heavily indebted developer
September 17, 2023A U.N. committee has voted to list prehistoric ruins near the ancient West Bank city of Jericho as a World Heritage Site in Palestine
September 17, 2023Lawyers for an opposition party councilor in Zimbabwe say he and a relative were abducted, beaten and whipped by unknown men amid a post-election crackdown on criticism of recently reelected President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ruling ZANU-PF party
September 17, 2023South Korea’s president says the international community “will unite more tightly” to cope with deepening military cooperation between Russia and North Korea, as he plans to raise the issue with world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this week
September 17, 2023The disastrous flooding that killed more than 11,000 people has fostered national solidarity among Libyans, long governed by opposing powers
September 17, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is on his way home from Russia at the end of a six-day trip that raised concerns about weapons transfer deals between two countries locked in standoffs with the West
September 17, 2023The U.N. nuclear watchdog has harshly criticized Iran for effectively barring several of its most experienced inspectors from monitoring the country’s disputed atomic program
September 16, 2023Three British news organizations are reporting that comedian and social influencer Russell Brand has been accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse based on allegations from four women who knew him over a seven-year period at the height of his fame
September 16, 2023An aircraft of the Italian acrobatic air team the Frecce Tricolori has crashed during a practice run in the northern Turin province
September 16, 2023European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel on Sunday to the Italian island of Lampedusa amid an influx of migrants who arrived this week
September 16, 2023Hundreds of people have gathered in central London to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini
September 16, 2023The heat is about to be turned up on fossil fuels, the United States and President Joe Biden
September 16, 2023The top American military officer says North Korea may be able to boost Russia’s supply of artillery munitions for the war in Ukraine
September 16, 2023Hundreds of people have rallied in the Malaysian capital accusing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of helping his key ally to escape prosecution in exchange for political support
September 16, 2023President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkey may part ways with the European Union
September 16, 2023Thousands of South Korean school teachers are calling for tighter legal protections from bullying by parents, a rising problem in a country known for its brutally competitive school environments
September 16, 2023Libya’s top prosecutor says he has opened an investigation into the collapse of two dams that caused a devastating flood in a coastal city
September 16, 2023Newly discovered correspondence in the Vatican archives suggests that Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6,000 Jews and Poles were being gassed each day in German-occupied Poland
September 16, 2023A war monitoring group says that dozens of Syrians who fled war at home are among the thousands killed and missing in the deadly flooding in Libya
September 16, 2023Mexico has extradited Ovidio Guzmán López, a son of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán, to the United States to face drug trafficking charges
September 15, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, hypersonic missiles and an advanced warship on a trip to Russia’s Far East that has sparked concerns about an arms alliance that could fuel President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine
September 15, 2023The Brazilian government is reinstating a stricter greenhouse gas emissions target first announced in 2015 as part of the Paris Agreement
September 15, 2023A former top U.S. ambassador has been sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay a $93,350 fine for improperly helping a wealthy Persian Gulf country influence U.S. policy and for not disclosing gifts he received from a disgraced political fundraiser
September 15, 2023President Joe Biden has a busy foreign policy agenda next week
September 15, 2023Kenya’s president is wooing American tech companies, promising a business-friendly environment — even though he has raised taxes on businesses at home
September 15, 2023Guatemala's President-elect Bernardo Arévalo says he plans to call people into the streets next week to protest efforts to derail his presidency before he can take office
September 15, 2023The Pentagon’s Central Command has ordered interviews of roughly two dozen more service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during U.S. forces’ chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal, as criticism persists that the deadly assault could have been stopped
September 15, 2023Thousand of migrants reached the Italian island of Lampedusa on more than 100 boats this week
September 15, 2023The International Monetary Fund has warned that Lebanon is still facing enormous economic challenges, four years after the country's historic meltdown began
September 15, 2023As the Biden administration heralds the forthcoming release of five U.S. citizens detained by Iran, it’s also confronting questions about the price being paid to bring them home
September 15, 2023An Egyptian village is mourning dozens of its men killed in the horrific floodwaters that tore through the city of Derna in neighboring Libya
September 15, 2023President Joe Biden has announced new U.S. sanctions on “some of Iran’s most egregious human rights abusers” as he marks the anniversary of the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini
September 15, 2023Renowned Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero, whose depictions of people and objects in plump, exaggerated forms became emblems of Colombian art around the world, has died
September 15, 2023The U.N.’s World Heritage Committee has placed two major historical sites in Ukraine on its list of such sites that it considers to be in danger
September 15, 2023A red sweater adorned with a flock of sheep worn by the young Princess Diana has sold at auction for $1.1 million
September 15, 2023U.S.-based pharmaceuticals company Johnson & Johnson is being investigated in South Africa for allegedly charging “excessive” prices for a key tuberculosis drug
September 15, 2023British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has described American XL Bully dogs as a “danger to our communities” and announced plans to ban them following a public outcry after a series of recent attacks
September 15, 2023European regulators have slapped TikTok with a $368 million fine for failing to protect children's privacy
September 15, 2023Finland is joining its three Baltic neighbors in banning vehicles with Russian license plates from entering their territory, a joint move in line with a recent interpretation of the European Union’s sanctions against Moscow over its war on Ukraine
September 15, 2023Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted a meeting with his Belarusian ally, who referred to this week’s summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and suggested that Minsk could join Moscow’s efforts to revive an old alliance with Pyongyang
September 15, 2023Around 3,000 workers at Britain’s biggest steelworks face the prospect of losing their jobs as part of a government-backed package to make the plant “greener.”
September 15, 2023Belgium authorities are getting worried by a series of school arsons believed to be connected to newly mandatory school sessions in some parts of the country
September 15, 2023Russia's central bank has raised its key lending rate by one percentage point to 13%, a month after imposing an even larger hike
September 15, 2023Prague’s High Court has cancelled a lower court ruling that acquitted former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of fraud charges in a $2 million case involving European Union subsidies
September 15, 2023Apple has agreed to install updates for iPhone 12 smartphones in France after French regulators ordered the company to stop selling the model
September 15, 2023A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain has tried to return to the island kingdom to press for her father's release but was turned away from her flight in London
September 15, 2023The European Union has decided not to renew a ban on Ukrainian food imports heading to nearby countries
September 15, 2023The new coach of Spain’s women’s team has had to delay the announcement of her first squad after nearly all of the country’s World Cup-winning players maintained their boycott of the national team
September 15, 2023Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni is vowing to take “extraordinary measures” to deal with an influx of migrants
September 15, 2023Bangladesh is struggling with a record outbreak of dengue fever, with experts saying a lack of a coordinated response is causing more deaths from the mosquito-transmitted disease
September 15, 2023Spain's National Court says the former president of the country's soccer federation has been given a restraining order and is prohibited from contacting the player he kissed on the lips last month at the Women’s World Cup
September 15, 2023The Nobel Foundation has decided to raise the award amount for this year’s Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor ($986,270) as the Swedish currency has plummeted recently
September 15, 2023A human rights lawyer who was arrested in Laos has been deported back to China despite pleas from rights groups and United Nations experts for his release
September 15, 2023Barry Steenkamp, the father of Reeva Steenkamp, the woman who was fatally shot by Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius, has died
September 15, 2023Libyan authorities have limited access to the flooded coastal city of Derna to dig through the mud and hollowed-out buildings for the more than 10,000 people still missing and presumed dead following a disaster that has already claimed more than 11,000 lives
September 15, 2023Ukrainian officials say their forces recaptured a war-ravaged settlement in the country’s embattled east — a small territorial win in a churning counteroffensive marked so far by small victories but no major breakthroughs
September 15, 2023Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, giving the S&P 500 its second losing week in a row
September 15, 2023Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrates his golden jubilee on Friday, marking 50 years since he ascended the throne on Sept. 15, 1973
September 15, 2023Germany’s city of Munich is getting ready to tap the kegs for Oktoberfest
September 15, 2023Iraq is stepping up repatriation of its citizens from a camp in northeastern Syria housing tens of thousands of people, mostly wives and children of Islamic State fighters but also supporters of the militant group
September 15, 2023The head of the United Nations food agency says a global hunger crisis has left more than 700 million people not knowing when or if they will eat again
September 15, 2023A delegation from Yemen’s Houthi rebels has flown into Saudi Arabia for talks with the kingdom on potentially ending the yearslong war tearing at the Arab world’s poorest nation
September 15, 2023The leaders of China and Zambia have announced an upgrading of their ties as the world’s second-largest economy forges deeper ties with the Global South
September 15, 2023From Europe to Africa to southeast Asia, tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as Earth suffers from dramatic weather extremes
September 15, 2023Nearly one in 10 of America’s unionized auto workers went on strike Friday at Detroit’s three automakers
September 15, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspected Russia’s most advanced fighter jet at an aircraft factory on his extended visit to the country
September 15, 2023Mexican transgender rights activists Kenya Cuevas and Andrea Luna sat in front of their longtime friend Paola Buenrostro’s pink grave in Mexico City
September 15, 2023The Biden administration will withhold less military aid from Egypt over its human rights abuses this year
September 14, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected on Capitol Hill and at the White House next week
September 14, 2023Britain, France and Germany have announced that they will keep their sanctions on Iran related to the Mideast country’s atomic program and its development of ballistic missiles
September 14, 2023As the Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres, there has been no more fraught turf than the land that families try to eke out a life on, amid geopolitical storms knocking on the front door
September 14, 2023The Biden administration has tapped former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to coordinate U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine
September 14, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says he will meet billionaire businessman Elon Musk during a trip to the United States next week
September 14, 2023Poland's President Andrzej Duda says he is awaiting results of an investigation into allegations that Polish consulates sold a quarter of a million work visas to migrants from Asia and Africa for thousands of dollars
September 14, 2023By meeting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Russia’s Far East spaceport, President Vladimir Putin signaled his readiness to share rocket technology with Pyongyang
September 14, 2023The United States Federal Aviation Administration has returned Mexico’s aviation safety rating to the highest level two years after downgrading it
September 14, 2023The players who won the Women's World Cup for Spain are still in revolt one day before their new coach announces her first squad
September 14, 2023Montenegro’s president says whoever dug an underground tunnel into a court storage area in the capital attacked the country and its justice system
September 14, 2023Russia’s Foreign Ministry has declared two U_S_ diplomats “persona non grata” and is ordering them to leave the country within seven days for alleged involvement in “illegal activity.”
September 14, 2023Regional health officials in France say a 32-year-old woman is dead and a dozen people have been hospitalized after an apparent botulism outbreak
September 14, 2023The United States is sanctioning more than 150 businesses and individuals as it tries to crack down on evasion and deny Russia access to technology, money and financial channels that fuel Moscow's war in Ukraine
September 14, 2023A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as authorities work to transfer to transfer thousands of newly arrived migrants to the mainland
September 14, 2023France is sending military forces to distribute water on the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte
September 14, 2023The storied Italian lagoon city of Venice escaped inclusion on UNESCO’s list of world heritage in danger during a meeting of the World Heritage Committee in Saudia Arabia on Thursday, as member states commended efforts to preserve both the storied and fragile city and its lagoon
September 14, 2023Spain has recorded its third hottest summer since official records began 62 years ago
September 14, 2023The players in Spain’s women’s soccer league have called off a strike after reaching a deal to increase minimum wage
September 14, 2023Moroccan families whose homes were destroyed by last week's earthquake face difficult decisions about whether to relocate
September 14, 2023An American researcher says he thought he would die after falling ill while exploring a Turkish cave system
September 14, 2023China's Commerce Ministry has protested a decision by the European Union to investigate exports of Chinese electric vehicles, saying it is a protectionist action aimed at distorting the supply chain
September 14, 2023Police in Vietnam say that 10 children are among the 56 people killed in a blaze in a Hanoi high-rise
September 14, 2023The Libyan Red Crescent says that the death toll from floods in the eastern Libyan city of Derna has soared to 11,300
September 14, 2023The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have failed again to make progress in talks meant to improve their testy ties
September 14, 2023Authorities says the luxury cruise ship MV Ocean Explorer has been successfully pulled free three days after running aground in Greenland with 206 people on board
September 14, 2023The wall of water several stories high smashed into apartment buildings, drowning entire families in minutes
September 14, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in far eastern Russia where he is expected to tour a Russian aircraft plant that builds fighter jets
September 14, 2023Asian shares are trading mostly higher, with solid gains for Chinese markets after the central bank eased the reserve requirements for banks
September 14, 2023The European Central Bank has hiked its key interest rate to a record high
September 14, 2023The rapid depreciation of the Argentine currency and one of the world’s highest inflation rates has made it difficult for Argentines to make ends meet
September 14, 2023Cambodia's new prime minister, Hun Manet, has arrived in Beijing on his first official trip abroad since taking office last month
September 14, 2023The father of imprisoned Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich is calling on world leaders meeting at the United Nations next week to stand up for freedom of the press and urge Russia to release him
September 14, 2023Consumer prices in Argentina have soared 12.4% in August, compared to the previous month, a number that puts the government on the defensive a little more than a month before presidential elections in which a right-wing populist who admires Donald Trump appears the favorite to win
September 13, 2023The top Air Force commander for Europe and Africa says the U.S. military has resumed counterterrorism missions in Niger, flying drones and other aircraft out of Niger air bases more than a month after a coup temporarily halted all those activities there
September 13, 2023The sister of a Russian-Israeli academic at Princeton University who went missing in Iraq nearly six months ago says the United States should use its influence to help win her freedom
September 13, 2023Argentina’s Federal Police have shut down a publisher that sold books that praised Nazi ideology, seized hundreds of texts and arrested one person as part of what authorities characterized as a “historic seizure” of Nazi propaganda
September 13, 2023A group of two dozen officers posed for a photo with escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante, minutes after his capture
September 13, 2023The chairman of a Senate investigations subcommittee is subpoenaing Saudi officials for documents on the kingdom’s new golf partnership with the PGA Tour
September 13, 2023Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip say at least five people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an explosion next to the separation fence along the Israeli frontier with Gaza
September 13, 2023Law Roach collaborated with luxury Indian husband and wife designers Falguni Shane Peacock as creative director for their “2.0” collection that debuted at New York Fashion Week Monday
September 13, 2023A new study of Earth's health says the planet is outside its “safe operating space for humanity” on six out of nine key measurements
September 13, 2023Pennsylvania authorities say they were able to capture escaped murderer Danelo Cavalcante thanks to thermal imaging equipment in the air, search teams working through a stormy night, a search dog and the element of surprise
September 13, 2023Indigenous women in Brazil’s capital Brasilia showcased their creations during a fashion event as part of the Third March of Indigenous Women to claim women’s rights and the demarcation of Indigenous lands
September 13, 2023The famous stopwatch will still announce the show as “60 Minutes.”
September 13, 2023The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi says he has always avoided talking to the media, but this time is different
September 13, 2023A major new exhibition is opening at London’s V&A Museum to honor and celebrate the life and iconic designs, as well as many more lesser-known creations by famed French designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel
September 13, 2023The world is largely relying on North Korean and Russian media for information about the meeting between the nations' leaders Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin at a space facility in Russia's Far East
September 13, 2023Apple is ditching its in-house iPhone charging plug and falling in line with the rest of the tech industry by adopting USB-C, a more widely used connection standard
September 13, 2023The Taliban have hailed China’s new ambassador to Afghanistan with fanfare, saying his arrival is a sign for other nations to come forward and establish relations with them
September 13, 2023Defense officials in NATO member Romania say they have found new fragments of drones similar to those used by the Russian army near its border with war-torn Ukraine, in the third such finding in the past week
September 13, 2023In the small town of Lamego in Portugal's Douro River Valley, where harvesting grapes for wine is in full swing in early September, one of Portugal’s largest and oldest religious festivals draws thousands
September 13, 2023The Russian space launch facility where President Vladimir Putin has hosted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reflects an ambitious attempt by Moscow to burnish its scientific glory that faded after the Soviet collapse
September 13, 2023Hurricane Lee is starting to spin away from the northern Caribbean as the Category 2 storm leaves big waves in its wake and aims for New England and Atlantic Canada
September 13, 2023Moroccan rescuers have been joined by crews from Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar as they dig through rubble for bodies still buried in devastated communities in the Atlas Mountains
September 13, 2023Some analysts are questioning whether Russia would be willing to share secret weapons technologies with North Korea
September 13, 2023A flotilla of flimsy boats, crowded with migrants and launched from Tunisia, is overwhelming a tiny Italian island south of Sicily
September 13, 2023French regulators have ordered Apple to stop selling the iPhone 12, saying it emits electromagnetic radiation levels that are above European Union standards for exposure
September 13, 2023Search teams are combing streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed at least 5,100 people
September 13, 2023Shares are mostly higher in Asia after a highly anticipated report showed inflation accelerated across the U.S. in August, but not by much more than expected
September 13, 2023Authorities say a fire in a nine-story apartment building in Vietnam’s capital has killed at least 56 people, including at least four children, while an additional 37 people are being treated for injuries
September 13, 2023Russian authorities say a Ukrainian attack on a strategic shipyard in Crimea wounded 24 people, damaged two ships undergoing repairs and caused a fire at the facility
September 13, 2023Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites
September 13, 2023North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vowed “full and unconditional support” on Wednesday for Russia’s Vladimir Putin
September 13, 2023Preventing dengue fever has long meant teaching people to fear mosquitoes and avoid their bites
September 13, 2023The United Auto Workers union says it will go on strike at three factories as it presses Detroit companies to come up with better wage and benefit offers
September 12, 2023Scientists say the Mediterranean storm that dumped torrential rain on the Libyan coast is just the latest extreme weather event to carry some hallmarks of climate change
September 12, 2023The U.S. could have the first Ukrainian pilots trained on F-16 fighter jets before the end of the year, though it will be longer than that before they are flying combat missions
September 12, 2023Melinda French Gates says she takes personally the deaths of hundreds of thousands of women and babies during child birth each year and believes more people should get involved in the fight for improving maternal health care. French Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder and co-chair told The Associated Press that when her daughter, Jennifer, gave birth to Leila — Jennifer’s first child and the Gateses’ first grandchild — earlier this year, she couldn’t help but think of her own experience giving birth. “That’s a terrifying day whether you’re in a great hospital in
September 12, 2023Customers filed in and out of Mark Abramson’s gun shop on the outskirts of Albuquerque as outrage grew over the governor’s order to suspend the right to carry firearms to address what she said is an epidemic of gun violence. Abramson agreed that a debate is long overdue on how to tackle irresponsible, unjustified shootings such as the ones in Albuquerque that led to the deaths of an 11-year-old and a teen. “But to ban the largest city and the most populous county in the state simply because bad people engaged in bad behavior seems overkill,”
September 12, 2023The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s. Amer Mohamed Akil Rada was described as “one of the operational members” who carried out the attack on the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds. A 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina killed 29 people. “Today’s action underscores the
September 12, 2023The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s. Amer Mohamed Akil Rada was described as “one of the operational members” who carried out the attack on the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds. A 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina killed 29 people. “Today’s action underscores the
September 12, 2023The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday slapped terrorism sanctions on a family network of seven individuals and businesses in Lebanon and South America accused of financing the militant group Hezbollah, including a Lebanese man who officials say was involved in two deadly attacks in Argentina in the 1990s. Amer Mohamed Akil Rada was described as “one of the operational members” who carried out the attack on the Argentine-Israelite Mutual Association in Buenos Aires in 1994, which killed 85 people and wounded hundreds. A 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina killed 29 people. “Today’s action underscores the
September 12, 2023Rescue teams in Europe are frustrated that Morocco did not throw open its doors to more outside assistance after last week's deadly earthquake
September 12, 2023Community leaders along the Mississippi River worried that dry southwestern states will someday try to take the river’s water may soon take their first step toward blocking such a diversion. Mayors from cities along the river are expected to vote on whether to support a new compact among the river’s 10 states at this week’s annual meeting of the Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative, according to its executive director Colin Wellenkamp. Supporters of a compact hope it will strengthen the region’s collective power around shared goals like stopping water from leaving the corridor. “It is
September 12, 2023A painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh has been recovered more than three years after it was stolen from a museum that was shut to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
September 12, 2023Iran on Tuesday identified the five prisoners it hopes to see freed in the United States in exchange for five Iranian-Americans now held in Tehran and billions in assets once held by South Korea. The acknowledgment by the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York comes as the Biden administration has issued a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. The moves by both Tehran and Washington appear to signal the prisoner swap is progressing as
September 12, 2023The mining of minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries and other green technologies in Congo has led to human rights abuses, including forced evictions and physical assault, according to a new report from Amnesty International and another rights group. Congo is by far the world’s largest producer of cobalt, a mineral used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and other products, and it is also Africa’s top producer of copper, which is used in EVs, renewable energy systems and more. Rights groups and U.S. officials have long criticized the trade of Congo’s cobalt, copper and
September 12, 2023Ahead of the High Holidays that begin this week, a network of Jewish security experts and religious leaders hosted several webinars to help prepare for the season. Among the topics: How to respond to an “active threat” targeting the Jewish community, and how to stop severe bleeding. The holidays, encompassing Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, are meant to be a period of joy and reflection. Over recent years — in the face of increased antisemitic threats and violence — the season also is a time of heightened vigilance. “The High Holidays are about renewal — about trying to build a
September 12, 2023Thousands of Israeli academics and artists have urged U.S. President Joe Biden and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres to shun Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to the United States next week, underlining the divide between Israel’s far-right government and segments of the country’s population. In an open letter published Wednesday, over 3,500 signers, including well-known Israeli writer David Grossman and painter Tamar Getter, called on Biden and Guterres not to meet with Netanyahu or invite him to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s yearly meeting of world leaders. The prime minister’s office has said
September 12, 2023A sweeping, year-long study of sex abuse by Catholic priests and others in Switzerland published Tuesday has turned up more than 1,000 cases since the mid-20th century, as the Swiss church becomes the latest in Europe to reckon with the abuse scandal. With few exceptions, those accused of wrongdoing were all male. Nearly three-fourths of the documents examined showed the sexual abuse involved minors. The report, commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Bishops and led by two University of Zurich historians, offers a deep look at sexual abuse and harassment that has confounded the Catholic Church across
September 12, 2023An American researcher was “doing well” at a Turkish hospital, officials said Tuesday, after rescuers pulled him out of a cave where he fell seriously ill and became trapped 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance for over a week. Rescuers from Turkey and across Europe cheered and clapped as Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, emerged from Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains strapped to a stretcher at 12:37 a.m. local time Tuesday. He was whisked to the hospital in the nearby city of Mersin in a helicopter. Dickey fell ill on Sept.
September 12, 2023Authorities warned that an escaped murderer who has evaded capture in southeastern Pennsylvania for nearly two weeks was armed and urged residents Tuesday in the area where he was being pursued to lock up, secure vehicles and remain indoors. Pennsylvania State Police posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the department was pursuing Danelo Souza Cavalcante in South Coventry Township. Police also asked that the public call 911 if Cavalcante is seen and not to approach him. At least one nearby school district announced early Tuesday that it would close all schools and offices for the day
September 12, 2023Heavy rainfall has flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, with one city declaring a state of emergency as water poured into homes, created sinkholes and stranded drivers. Mayor Dean Mazzarella in Leominster, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Boston, urged people not to venture outside as roads flooded Monday night, but some residents were evacuated as water came into their basements. All schools were closed Tuesday and two shelters were set up. “Everything’s just one big lake,” Mazzarella said in a recording posted online Monday night. “Find a high spot somewhere. Find a high
September 12, 2023Turkish officials say an American researcher who was pulled out of a deep Turkish cave after becoming too sick to climb out on his own is doing well in a Turkish hospital
September 12, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has arrived in Russia to see President Vladimir Putin. It will be the two isolated leaders’ second meeting. Their governments have not confirmed an agenda, but U.S. officials say Putin may ask for artillery and other ammunition for his war in Ukraine. Such a request would mark a reversal of roles from the 1950-53 Korean War, when the Soviet Union provided ammunition, warplanes and pilots to support communist North Korea’s invasion of the South, and the decades of Soviet sponsorship of the North that followed. Despite their often aligning
September 12, 2023Rescue teams in eastern Libya have retrieved hundreds of bodies from the rubble in a coastal city that has been inundated by devastating floods, a humanitarian agency said Tuesday. Authorities estimated that as many as 2,000 people are believed dead in the city of Derna. Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods in many towns in eastern Libya. But the worst destruction was in Derna, where heavy rainfall and floods broke dams and washed away entire neighborhoods, authorities said. Ossama Hamad, prime minister of the east Libya government, said that several thousands of people were missing in the
September 12, 2023Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa was acquitted of a final tax evasion charge Tuesday though she still faces two remaining legal cases she believes the former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used to muzzle her critical reporting. Ressa and her online news organization Rappler had faced five tax evasion charges but a court acquitted her of four of the charges in January. A different court heard the fifth charge and acquitted her Tuesday. “Facts wins, truth wins, justice wins,” she told reporters outside the courthouse. Ressa and Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov were awarded the 2021 Nobel
September 12, 2023Asian shares were trading mixed Tuesday following a Big Tech rally on Wall Street, as investors awaited an update on U.S. consumer prices set for later in the week. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 surged 1.0% to 32,776.37. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 added 0.2% to 7,206.90. South Korea’s Kospi shed 0.8% to 2,536.80. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped 0.2% to 18,056.17, while the Shanghai Composite fell nearly 0.2% to 3,137.73. The Federal Reserve is weighing whether to keep raising interest rates steady in its effort to get inflation back to 2%. On Wednesday, the U.S. government will offer the
September 12, 2023Emergency workers uncovered more than 1,500 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away entire neighborhoods of the city
September 12, 2023Several major Japanese companies have decided to stop using stars who are represented by Johnny & Associates, an entertainment company at the center of a sexual assault scandal. Beverage maker Asahi Group Holdings — known for its Super Dry beer — will no longer air its ads featuring Junichi Okada, Toma Ikuta and Sho Sakurai, the company said Tuesday, and there are no plans to sign singers, dancers or actors affiliated with Johnny’s. Other companies, including Japan’s flagship carrier Japan Airlines and major insurer Nippon Life Insurance Co., are following suit in distancing themselves from the scandal.
September 12, 2023Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday opened the first case to look at the legality of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul — deepening a showdown with the far-right government that has bitterly divided the nation and put the country on the brink of a constitutional crisis. In a sign of the case’s significance, all 15 of Israel’s Supreme Court justices are hearing appeals to the law together for the first time in Israel’s history. A regular panel is made up of three justices, though they sometimes sit on expanded panels. The proceedings were also being livestreamed.
September 12, 2023A slide for technology stocks weighed on Wall Street as it prepped for a highly anticipated report on inflation due the next day
September 12, 2023How much does an extramarital affair matter to whether Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton keeps his job? An answer may arrive soon. The question hangs over the Republican’s impeachment trial that resumes Tuesday and is approaching the final stretch of testimony before a jury of state senators decides whether Paxton should be removed from office on charges of corruption and bribery. Most of the senators are Republicans and one is his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, although she will not have a vote in the verdict. But she has attended the entire trial so far, including
September 12, 2023Israel’s Supreme Court has heard the first challenge to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contentious judicial overhaul
September 12, 2023It took four and a half months for Shannon Ross’ life to unravel. Ross, who describes himself as Indigenous and a person of color, was arrested in Chicago in October 2019 on weapons charges and ultimately found not guilty. But that came only after he spent months in jail awaiting trial, lost his home, car, job and countless moments with his children. Ross couldn’t afford the $75,000 bond set during a hearing that he recalls lasted only a few minutes. “I had to lose everything to prove that I wasn’t guilty,” he told The Associated Press. “It
September 12, 2023Rainstorms battering southern China have killed at least seven people and allowed dozens of crocodiles to escape from a farm. Nearby residents were advised to stay at home after more than 70 crocodiles escaped in Maoming, a city near the coast in western Guangdong province, according to Chinese media reports. An emergency official was quoted as saying that 69 adult crocodiles and six juveniles had escaped. Some have been captured, but the operation was difficult because of the depth of a lake they are in, the media reports said. No injuries have been reported. Further west, seven
September 12, 2023Joined by his top military officials handling his nuclear-capable weapons and munitions factories, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un arrived in Russia on Tuesday before an expected meeting with President Vladimir Putin that has sparked concerns about a potential arms deal for Moscow’s war in Ukraine. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said Kim boarded his personal train Sunday afternoon accompanied by unspecified members of the country’s ruling party, government and military. South Korea’s military assessed the train crossed into Russia sometime early Tuesday, Jeon Ha Gyu, spokesperson of South Korea’s Defense Ministry, said
September 12, 2023New Zealand’s economy is expected to remain sluggish for another two years, although the overall picture is rosier than many observers had feared, new figures released Tuesday indicate. The nation’s Treasury released the projections ahead of an election next month. They showed a slight deterioration from earlier predictions, with tax takes lower than expected and high inflation causing ongoing headaches. Unemployment is expected to jump from a current rate of 3.6% to 5.4% in 2025 before falling again, while economic growth is expected to fall from 3.1% this year to 1.3% next year, before bouncing
September 12, 2023North Korea’s Kim Jong Un rolled into Russia on an armored train to see President Vladimir Putin
September 12, 2023Major corporations from oil and gas companies to retail giants would have to disclose their direct greenhouse gas emissions as well as those that come from activities like employee business travel under legislation passed Monday by California lawmakers, the most sweeping mandate of its kind in the nation. The legislation would require thousands of public and private businesses that operate in California and make more than $1 billion annually report their direct and indirect emissions. The goal is to increase transparency and nudge companies to evaluate how they can cut their emissions. “We are out of
September 12, 2023Apple is expected to take the wraps off its next iPhone on Tuesday during what has become an annual late summer rite aimed at giving more people more reasons to buy the technology trendsetter’s marquee product. The showcase at Apple’s Cupertino California, headquarters comes as the company is mired in a mild slump that has seen its sales drop from last year in three consecutive quarters — with management signaling another downturn is likely during the current quarter that will be capped with the release of its iPhone 15 lineup. The malaise is a key reason Apple’s stock price has
September 11, 2023California may soon lift a ban on state-funded travel to states with anti-LGBTQ+ laws and instead focus on an advertising campaign to bring anti-discrimination messages to red states. California started banning official travel to states with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ+ people in 2017, starting with Kansas, Mississippi, North Carolina and Tennessee. Since then, the list has grown to include a total of 26 states, most of them Republican-led, following a surge of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation these past few years. The prohibition has prevented elected officials, state workers and university scholars from traveling to more than
September 11, 2023SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s refusal to allow Ukraine to use Starlink internet services to launch a surprise attack on Russian forces in Crimea last September has raised questions for the Pentagon
September 11, 2023Nearly 1 million California workers are poised to win major salary increases after labor unions flexed their collective muscle in the state’s Democratic-led Legislature on Monday following a summer of high-profile strikes in the entertainment and hospitality industries. Most of the state’s 500,000 fast food workers would be paid at least $20 per hour next year under a new bill aimed at ending a standoff between the industry and labor unions over wages and working conditions. About 455,000 health care workers — not doctors and nurses, but the people who do everything else at hospitals, dialysis
September 11, 2023Alabama on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to let it keep Republican-drawn congressional lines in place as the state continues to fight a court order to create a second district where Black voters constitute a majority or close to it. Despite losing at the Supreme Court earlier this year in the long-running redistricting case, Alabama is pursuing another appeal, hoping for a different result with the most recent GOP version of the map. Alabama asked the justices to stay a ruling issued last week by a three-judge panel that that blocked the use of the
September 11, 2023The Biden administration has cleared the way for the release of five American citizens detained in Iran by issuing a blanket waiver for international banks to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of U.S. sanctions. In addition, as part of the deal, the administration has agreed to release five Iranian citizens held in the United States. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the sanctions waivers late last week, a month after U.S. and Iranian officials said an agreement in principle was in place. Congress was not informed
September 11, 2023South Dakota regulators on Monday rejected a permit application for a proposed carbon dioxide pipeline through the state, dealing a fresh setback to the company behind the multistate project after North Dakota refused a siting permit for another leg there. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to turn down Summit Carbon Solutions’ application to build a 469-mile (755-kilometer) in-state route — part of an intended $5.5 billion, 2,000-mile (3,220-kilometer) pipeline network through five states. The decision complicates an already complex process for Summit Carbon Solutions as it seeks similar authorization in other states amid opposition from landowners and
September 11, 2023A “cybersecurity issue” led to the shutdown of some casino and hotel computer systems at MGM Resorts International properties across the U.S., a company official reported Monday. The incident began Sunday and the extent of its effect on reservation systems and casino floors in Las Vegas and states including Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York and Ohio was not immediately known, company spokesman Brian Ahern said. “MGM Resorts recently identified a cybersecurity issue affecting some of the company’s systems,” the company said in a statement that pointed to an investigation involving external cybersecurity experts
September 11, 2023The sheriff in New Mexico’s largest metro area vowed Monday not to enforce an emergency order by the governor to temporarily suspend the right to carry firearms in public in and around the city of Albuquerque. “It’s unconstitutional, so there’s no way we can enforce that order,” Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen said during a news conference. “This ban does nothing to curb gun violence.” Reaction has been swift after Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the order Friday, telling reporters that she expected legal challenges and that state police would handle enforcement. “I welcome the
September 11, 2023The deadly firestorm in Hawaii and Hurricane Idalia’s watery storm surge helped push the United States to a record for the number of weather disasters that cost $1 billion or more. And there’s still four months to go on what’s looking more like a calendar of calamities. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Monday that there have been 23 weather extreme events in America that cost at least $1 billion this year through August, eclipsing the year-long record total of 22 set in 2020. So far this year’s disasters have cost more than $57.6 billion and claimed at least
September 11, 2023The United States and Britain have invited ambassadors, journalists and representatives of a broad spectrum of society to a U.N. screening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war. UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the Monday evening screening at U.N. headquarters is important because “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens what the U.N. stands for: an international order where the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries is fundamental.” The screening comes at
September 11, 2023The United States and Britain have invited ambassadors, journalists and representatives of a broad spectrum of society to a U.N. screening of the award-winning documentary “20 Days in Mariupol,” which follows a trio of Associated Press journalists during Russia’s relentless siege of the Ukrainian port city in the early days of the war. UK Ambassador Barbara Woodward said the Monday evening screening at U.N. headquarters is important because “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens what the U.N. stands for: an international order where the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries is fundamental.” The screening comes at
September 11, 2023A’ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart head into the playoffs this week as the top contenders to become the WNBA’s most valuable player. That’s no surprise. They are the two superstars on the league’s two “super teams” — the Las Vegas Aces (34-6) and the New York Liberty (32-8). But there is a third contender for MVP as well. Connecticut’s Alyssa Thomas has played her way into the conversation, recording a league-record six triple-doubles in leading the Sun (27-13) to the No. 3 seed. Thomas is the first player in league history to record at least 600
September 11, 2023An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this year’s Balzan Prize. Their work in the humanities and natural sciences advances the study of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s comparative literature department, was recognized for “his creative approach to world literature as a translational circulation of works that remain alive because they are embraced and changed,’’ the Balzan Foundation said in its citation. Frenchman Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max-Planck-Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig was cited
September 11, 2023An American literary historian, a French paleoanthropologist, a Danish evolutionary geneticist and a German-Dutch astrophysicist have been named the winners of this year’s Balzan Prize. Their work in the humanities and natural sciences advances the study of comparative literature, human evolution and black holes. David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s comparative literature department, was recognized for “his creative approach to world literature as a translational circulation of works that remain alive because they are embraced and changed,’’ the Balzan Foundation said in its citation. Frenchman Jean-Jacques Hublin of the Max-Planck-Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig was cited
September 11, 2023The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two decades. The problems of democracy must be addressed through more democracy, President Gabriel Boric said at the La Moneda presidential palace, which was bombed by warplanes at the start of the coup half a century ago. “A coup d’état or the violation of the human rights of those who think differently is never justifiable,” Boric said in his address to a nation where
September 11, 2023The president of Chile issued a fervent defense of democracy on Monday, the 50th anniversary of the coup led by Gen. Augusto Pinochet that ushered in a brutal military dictatorship for almost two decades. The problems of democracy must be addressed through more democracy, President Gabriel Boric said at the La Moneda presidential palace, which was bombed by warplanes at the start of the coup half a century ago. “A coup d’état or the violation of the human rights of those who think differently is never justifiable,” Boric said in his address to a nation where
September 11, 2023Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ‘s impeachment trial on abuse of power charges could be in the hands of the jury as soon as this week, the presiding officer said Monday. The second week of the historic proceedings began with testimony from another of Paxton’s former aides who reported him to the FBI in 2020 and accused the Republican of misusing his office to help a donor. Paxton, who has pleaded not guilty, was again not in the Texas Senate for the testimony. The trial may not reach a third week. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick,
September 11, 2023The U.S. government is taking aim at what has been an indomitable empire: Google’s ubiquitous search engine that has become the internet’s main gateway. The legal attack will swing into full force Tuesday in a Washington D.C. federal courtroom that will serve as the battleground for the biggest U.S. antitrust trial since regulators went after Microsoft and its dominance of personal computer software a quarter century ago. The 10-week trial before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta is expected to include potentially revelatory testimony from top executives at Google and its corporate parent Alphabet, as well as other powerful technology companies.
September 11, 2023The Swedish government said Monday it wants to increase its defense budget by 28%, putting it on track to reach the military spending target 2% of gross domestic product set by the NATO alliance, which the Scandinavian country is preparing to join. “We are in the most serious security policy situation since the end of World War II, which requires Sweden to have a defense that is ready to protect Swedish territory,” defense minister Pål Jonson said. Unveiling a defense bill for 2024, Sweden’s center-right coalition government said military spending would increase by a total of 27
September 11, 2023The Ukrainian military said Monday that it recaptured strategic gas and oil drilling platforms from Russia in the Black Sea and claimed gains in occupied areas near Bakhmut, a city in eastern Ukraine left in ruins after the war’s longest and deadliest fighting. The recapture of the so-called Boyko Towers platforms provides an energy source and takes back an asset that Russia seized in 2015 and used to launch helicopters, Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense said. “Russia has been deprived of the ability to fully control the waters of the Black Sea, and this makes Ukraine many
September 11, 2023Stellantis is reporting progress in talks with the United Auto Workers union with just three days left before contracts expire with Detroit’s three automakers. Tobin Williams, head of human resources for North America, told employees in an email that the union made counteroffer to its economic proposal on Sunday. Stellantis released no details of its offer Monday. He also says both sides have reached agreement in a number of areas including health and safety. “There was good energy among both teams and great momentum to reach an agreement as we head into the final days before the
September 11, 2023NATO Deputy-General Secretary Mircea Geoana said on Monday there is “no risk” that Alliance member Romania will be dragged into a war following the recent discovery of drone fragments on its territory near the border with war-torn Ukraine. “The most important thing is to re-confirm the fact that there is no indication of a deliberate action (by Russia) to strike Romanian territory and therefore NATO territory,” Geoana told journalists during a visit to a school near Romania’s capital, Bucharest. The NATO deputy chief’s comments come days after Romanian authorities have twice confirmed the discovery of drone
September 11, 2023Hostess, the maker of snack classics like Twinkies and HoHos, is being sold to J.M. Smucker in a cash-and-stock deal worth about $5.6 billion. Smucker, which makes everything from coffee to peanut butter and jelly, will pay $34.25 per share in cash and stock, and it will also pick up approximately $900 million in net debt. Hostess Brands Inc. shareholders will receive $30 in cash and 0.03002 shares of The J.M. Smucker Co. stock for each share of stock that they own. “We believe this is the right partnership to accelerate growth and create meaningful value for consumers, customers and
September 11, 2023A major rescue operation is underway in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains to bring out an American researcher who fell seriously ill nine days ago at a depth of some 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) from the entrance of one of the world’s deepest caves. An experienced cave rescuer himself, Mark Dickey is being assisted by teams of international rescuers who by Monday had brought him to 300 meters (nearly 1,000 feet) from the surface. Here’s what to know about the caver and the rescue operation: WHAT HAPPENED? Dickey, a 40-year-old accomplished cave explorer from Croton-on-Hudson, New York, was
September 11, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan has plunged the country into nine months of unrest and exposed bitter divisions within Israeli society. On Tuesday, the country’s gaze shifts from the streets to the courtroom, where a panel of Supreme Court judges will deliberate over the very laws meant to curtail their power. Israel’s High Court is to hear the first of three flashpoint cases in the coming weeks, all dealing with the legality of the overhaul. Netanyahu unveiled the plan early this year, saying the country’s unelected judges hold too much power over parliament. He
September 11, 2023The British scientist who led the team that cloned Dolly the Sheep in 1996 has died at age 79
September 11, 2023The operator of the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant says it has safely completed the first release of treated radioactive water from the plant into the sea and will inspect and clean the facility before starting the second round in a few weeks
September 11, 2023A major rescue operation in Turkey’s Taurus Mountains has brought out an American researcher who fell seriously ill nine days ago, about 3,000 feet from the entrance of one of world’s deepest caves
September 11, 2023Russia’s Central Election Commission said Monday that the country’s ruling party won the most votes in elections held in occupied Ukrainian regions as Russian authorities attempt to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully control. Voting for Russia-installed legislatures began last week . According to the Central Election Commission, lawmakers from the ruling party, United Russia, came out on top in the four Ukrainian regions Moscow annexed illegally in 2022 — Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia — and on the Crimean Peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the
September 11, 2023Hurricane Lee whipped up waves of more than 15 feet (5 meters) on Monday as the Category 3 storm cranked through open waters just north of the Caribbean region. The storm is not expected to make landfall this week, although forecasters said those in New England and nearby areas should keep a close eye on Lee, whose future path is uncertain. It was located some 340 miles (545 kilometers) north of the northern Leeward Islands. It had winds of up to 120 mph (195 kph) and was moving northwest at 7 mph (11 kph).
September 11, 2023Authorities searched Monday for an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago after they said over the weekend he slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance, stole a dairy delivery van and tried to contact acquaintances. Lt. Col. George Bivens of the Pennsylvania State Police said Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante stole the unlocked van, which had the keys inside, sometime Saturday night about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 kilometers) from the northern perimeter of the search area where hundreds of
September 11, 2023Moroccan soldiers and aid teams in trucks and helicopters battled Monday to reach remote mountain towns devastated by a monstrous earthquake that killed more than 2,400 people, with survivors desperate for help to find loved ones feared trapped under the rubble. Moroccan officials have so far accepted government-offered aid from just four countries — Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates — and some foreign aid teams said they were awaiting permission to deploy. Morocco’s Interior Ministry says officials want to avoid a lack of coordination that “would be counterproductive.” The United Nations estimates that
September 11, 2023Authorities in eastern Libya declared the city of Derna a disaster zone Monday after the Mediterranean storm Daniel caused devastating floods over the weekend in different parts of the North African nation. At least seven people were reported dead Monday in an initial tally in the coastal town of Susa in northeastern Libya, according to the Ambulance and Emergency Authority, and one other person was confirmed dead Sunday. The man was stuck in his car and surrounded by floods in the eastern town of Marj, according to Walid al-Arfi, spokesperson for the government-run emergency response agency in
September 11, 2023India and Saudi Arabia agreed Monday to expand trade and security ties, two days after their leaders and others attending a Group of 20 summit announced a new railways and port corridor deal that will link India, Middle East and Europe. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met in New Delhi and chaired a meeting of the India-Saudi Arabia Strategic Partnership Council. The two leaders discussed issues ranging from energy security, trade and investment to defense, health care and food security, India’s foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said. The
September 11, 2023The European Union has lowered its forecast for economic growth this year and next, saying inflation is taking a heavy toll on people’s willingness to spend in shops — while higher interest rates are sharply restricting the credit needed for investment and purchases. The revised forecast Monday from the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, comes as fears of recession grow and as the European Central Bank faces a key decision this week on whether to keep raising rates, which are aimed at getting inflation under control. The 20 countries that use the euro currency are
September 11, 2023A North Korean train presumably carrying North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has departed for Russia for a possible meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, South Korean media said Monday. Citing unidentified South Korean government sources, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported that the train likely left the North Korean capital of Pyongyang on Sunday evening and that a Kim-Putin meeting is possible as early as Tuesday. The Yonhap news agency and some other media published similar reports. Japan’s Kyodo news agency cited Russian officials as saying that Kim was possibly heading for Russia in his
September 11, 2023The former CEO of Alibaba, Daniel Zhang, resigned as head of its cloud computing unit Monday in a surprise move as the Chinese e-commerce empire wraps up a leadership reshuffle. Alibaba said it will invest $1 billion in a technology fund Zhang will establish to support the firm’s strategies for future growth. Zhang stepped down on the same day he gave up his roles as Alibaba’s CEO and chairman. In a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, Alibaba said that Eddie Wu, its new CEO, will also head its cloud unit. Wu and Alibaba’s new
September 11, 2023An explosion and fire at an Archer Daniels Midland facility in Illinois injured eight employees and sent a tower of smoke into the air Sunday evening, officials said Monday. The explosion occurred shortly after 7 p.m. at the east plant in the ADM processing complex in Decatur, Illinois. Several employees were injured and transported to a hospital, the agricultural company said in a statement on its website Sunday. Battalion Chief Wade Watson with the Decatur Fire Department said in a statement Monday morning that eight ADM workers were injured, and six of them were taken from
September 11, 2023Thailand’s new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin vowed to act quickly to relieve the country’s economic problems in his inaugural speech to Parliament on Monday, following four months of political uncertainty while parliamentarians were unable to agree on a government. Srettha entered politics after a career as a major real estate develope r, and his government is facing high expectations and pressing demands to address a range of economic, political, social and environmental problems in its four-year term. Thailand’s economy has slumped after the COVID-19 pandemic all but crippled its lucrative tourism industry. Public debt rose to more
September 11, 2023Stock prices were mostly higher in Asia on Monday as investors awaited U.S. inflation figures and China’s latest economic data. Benchmarks fell in Hong Kong and Tokyo but rose in Shanghai, Sydney and Seoul. A surge in oil prices has added to worries that inflation may not be waning as hoped in the U.S and other major economies. That could lead the Federal Reserve and other central banks to keep interest rates higher for longer, which would hurt prices for shares and other investments. Over the weekend, China reported a slight increase in its own inflation data, suggesting deflationary pressures
September 11, 2023Ambulance and fire truck sirens wailed outside as Elsie Rosales stripped linens from king-sized mattresses at a beachfront resort in Lahaina. She tried to focus on the work, but was beset by dread: Had a wildfire taken the home she scrimped to buy on a housekeeper’s wages? It had. And now Rosales, like many other Filipino housekeepers used to cleaning hotels, is living in one with her family, a poignant example of how the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century has afflicted Maui’s heavily Filipino population. “All our hard work burned,” Rosales told The
September 11, 2023Americans are looking back on the horror and legacy of 9/11, gathering Monday at memorials, firehouses, city halls and elsewhere to observe the 22nd anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil. Commemorations stretch from the attack sites — at New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania — to Alaska and beyond. President Joe Biden is due at a ceremony on a military base in Anchorage. His visit, en route to Washington, D.C., from a trip to India and Vietnam, is a reminder that the impact of 9/11 was felt in every
September 11, 2023An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco
September 11, 2023Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, began erupting Sunday after a two-month pause, displaying glowing lava that is a safe distance from people and structures in a national park on the Big Island. The Hawaii Volcano Observatory said the eruption was observed in the afternoon at the summit of Kilauea. The observatory said gases released by the eruption will cause volcanic smog downwind of Kilauea. People living near the park should try to avoid volcanic particles spewed into the air by the eruption, the observatory said. The volcano’s alert level was raised to
September 11, 2023Xinyu Wen traveled to Thailand in June, planning a two-week vacation around Bangkok’s Pride parade. Instead, the 28-year-old stayed a month and a half, as her experience at the parade gave rise to discussions and discoveries in the Thai capital’s thriving LBGTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ people from China, frequently scorned and ostracized at home, are coming to Thailand in droves, drawn by the freedom to be themselves. When Wen walked along the parade on the streets in Bangkok, “I felt like I was in a big party or a huge amusement park. We could forget all upsetting things
September 11, 2023A Southern California school district will pay $2.25 million to settle the latest lawsuit involving a teacher who became pregnant by one of at least two students she was accused of sexually abusing. The settlement brings to $8.25 million the amount paid by Redlands Unified School District to Laura Whitehurst’s victims since her 2013 arrest, the Southern California News Group reported Sunday. In August 2016, the district agreed to pay $6 million to a former student who impregnated Whitehust while she was his teacher. The latest lawsuit was filed in 2021 by another former student who
September 10, 2023A pit bull puppy that California police believe got into its owners’ fentanyl stash was administered an overdose-reversing drug and is recovering, officials said. The dog’s owners, a man and a woman, were arrested and could face charges including drug possession and animal cruelty, according to the Irvine Police Department. The incident began with a “consensual” encounter between the couple and police on Wednesday outside a Walmart, department spokesman Kyle Oldoerp said. After officers discovered fentanyl in their car, the two were arrested, he said. “Then the female said, ‘Oh, I think my dog is overdosing,’
September 10, 2023Federal inspectors said they found an alarming number of defects in the locomotives and railcars Union Pacific was using at the world’s largest railyard in western Nebraska this summer, and the railroad was reluctant to fix the problems. Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose wrote a letter to UP’s top three executives Friday expressing his concern that the defects represent a “significant risk to rail safety ” on the Union Pacific railroad. Bose said the 19.93% defect rate on rail cars and the 72.69% rate for locomotives that inspectors found in July and August are both twice
September 10, 2023A historic heat wave continues to stifle Phoenix — but the end may finally be in sight for residents of Arizona’s largest city. The high temperature in Phoenix on Sunday was expected to hit 111 degrees Fahrenheit (43.8 degrees Celsius), tying the record for that date set in 1990. It also would be the 55th day this year that the official reading at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport reached at least 110 F (43.3 C). However, an excessive heat warning was expected to expire at 8 p.m. Sunday, and meteorologists were forecasting a high of 106 F (41.1
September 10, 2023It’s lunchtime at the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District and a colony of sabethes cyaneus — also known as the paddle-legged beauty for its feathery appendages and iridescent coloring — find their way to Ella Branham. “They’re not very aggressive and they’re kind of picky eaters,” said Branham, a technician, as she exhaled into a glass tank to attract the insects to the carbon dioxide in her breath. “So I’ll be feeding them with my arm.” Branham had volunteered to let the South American mosquitoes feed on her blood so they can produce eggs
September 10, 2023Eleven lighthouse enthusiasts were hurt when a walkway collapsed, sending people tumbling into mudflats below during an annual event that encourages tours of Maine’s beloved beacons. The wooden walkway collapsed at Doubling Point Lighthouse in Arrowsic on Saturday afternoon. The lighthouse was open to the public as part of Maine Open Lighthouse Day, which is a day when the state’s scenic lighthouses are open to the public. Five of the 11 injured people were taken to hospitals, said Bath Fire Department Deputy Chief Chris Cummings. The collapse of the bridge happened at low tide and caused
September 10, 2023Authorities say an escaped murderer who has eluded capture since breaking out of a southeastern Pennsylvania prison a week and a half ago has apparently slipped out of the search area, changed his appearance and is now being sought in a stolen vehicle. Pennsylvania State Police said in a statement on Sunday that Danelo Souza Cavalcante was seen overnight near Phoenixville in northern Chester County, more than 20 miles (32 kilometers) northeast of the area that until now has been the focus of the search. Cavalcante is now clean-shaven and wearing a yellow or green hooded
September 10, 2023Niger’s new military leaders accused France of amassing forces for a possible military intervention in the country following the coup in July. French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday that he would only take action at the demand of deposed Nigerien leader Mohamed Bazoum. Niger’s junta spokesman, Maj. Amadou Abdramane, said that France is also considering collaborating in such an intervention with the Economic Community of West African States, a regional bloc known as ECOWAS. “France continues to deploy its forces in several ECOWAS countries as part of preparations for an aggression against Niger,” Abdramane said late
September 10, 2023Prime Minister Rishi Sunak chastised China’s premier on Sunday for “unacceptable” interference in British democracy, after a newspaper reported that a researcher in Parliament was arrested earlier this year on suspicion of spying for Beijing. Sunak said he raised the issue with Premier LI Qiang when the two met at a Group of 20 summit in India. He told British broadcasters in New Delhi that he’d expressed “my very strong concerns about any interference in our parliamentary democracy, which is obviously unacceptable.” The two men met after the Metropolitan Police force confirmed that a man in his
September 10, 2023Sri Lanka’s president said Sunday he will appoint a committee chaired by a retired Supreme Court judge to investigate allegations made in a British television report that the South Asian country’s intelligence was complicit in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. The attacks, which included simultaneous suicide bombings, targeted three churches and three tourist hotels. The dead included 42 foreigners from 14 countries. President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s decision to appoint a committee headed by a judge to investigate claims that Sri Lankan intelligence had a hand in the bombings that were carried out
September 10, 2023Rescue teams on Sunday in Turkey successfully carried an American researcher up from the depth of a cave at 1,040 meters (3,410 feet) to the 700-meter (2,297 feet) mark where he will rest at a base camp before they continue the taxing journey to the surface. An experienced caver, Mark Dickey, 40, started vomiting on Sept. 2 because of stomach bleeding while on an expedition with a handful of others in the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains, one of the deepest in the world, according to experts. A rescue operation began Saturday afternoon
September 10, 2023Two foreign aid workers were reportedly killed in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Russian shelling hit a van carrying a team of four working with a Ukrainian nongovernmental organization, while dozens of Russian drones targeted Kyiv and wounded at least one civilian. The four volunteers from the Road to Relief group, which helps evacuate wounded people from front-line areas, were trapped inside the van as it flipped over and caught fire after being struck by shells near the town of Chasiv Yar, the organization said on its Instagram page. Road to Relief said that Anthony Ihnat
September 10, 2023Local elections kicked off in Russia this weekend in 79 regions, with voters are casting their ballots for governors, regional legislatures, city and municipal councils. Russian authorities are also holding local elections in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed illegally last year — the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia provinces. Voting for federal and local legislators is also underway on the Crimean peninsula, which the Kremlin annexed in 2014. Balloting in the occupied areas of Ukraine has been denounced by Kyiv and the West as a sham and a violation of international law. In Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin’s
September 10, 2023India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his country as well-placed to bridge gaps in the Group of 20 top economies and solve global problems, but many were skeptical ahead of the weekend’s summit given grave divisions within the bloc over the Russia’s war in Ukraine. He was able to dispel those doubts, announcing a unanimous final agreement a day before the G20 summit ended Sunday that included language on the European war which both Russia and China signed off on. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the group agreed to a “very strong” message. German Chancellor
September 10, 2023Thousands of soldiers from the United States, Indonesia, Australia and other allied forces demonstrated their armor capabilities on Sunday in combat drills on the Indonesian island of Java at a time of increased Chinese aggression in the region. President Joe Biden’s administration has been strengthening an arc of military alliances in the Indo-Pacific to reassure allies alarmed by Beijing’s increasingly provocative actions in the disputed South China Sea, which has become a battleground for U.S-Chinese rivalries. During the drills, Australian forces deployed five M1A1 Abrams battle tanks and the Indonesian military, deployed two Leopard-2 tanks for
September 10, 2023A drone attack Sunday on an open market south of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, killed at least 23 people, activists and medical workers said, as the military and a powerful paramilitary group battle for control of the country. At least three dozen others were injured in the attack in Khartoum’s May neighborhood, according to an activist group known as the Resistance Committees and two health care workers at the Bashair University Hospital, where the casualties were treated. The activist group posted footage on social media showing bodies wrapped in white sheets in an open yard at the
September 10, 2023Morocco worked Sunday to rescue survivors and prayed for victims of the country’s strongest earthquake in more than a century, while soldiers and aid workers brought water and supplies to mountain villages in ruins. More than 2,000 people are dead — a number that is expected to rise. Those left homeless by the destruction of Friday night’s earthquake slept outside Saturday, in the streets of the ancient city of Marrakech or under makeshift canopies in Atlas Mountain towns like Moulay Brahim, among the hardest-hit. The worst destruction is in small, rural communities that are hard for
September 10, 2023In an unprecedented move, the Vatican on Sunday is beatifying a Polish family of nine — a married couple and their small children — who were executed by the Nazis during World War II for sheltering Jews. Last year, Pope Francis pronounced the deeply Catholic Ulma family, including the child that Wiktoria Ulma was pregnant with, martyrs for the faith, paving the way for the beatification Mass that is taking place in their home village of Markowa, in southeastern Poland. The Ulmas were killed at home by German Nazi troops and by Nazi-controlled local police in
September 10, 2023Voters in a southern Swiss region on Sunday rejected a plan to allow large solar parks on their sun-baked Alpine mountainsides as part of the federal government’s push to develop renewable energy sources. The referendum in the Valais canton centered on economic and environmental interests at a time of high and rising concerns about climate change. The canton wrote on its official website that 53.94% voted against the proposal. Turnout was 35.72%. The vote was a noteworthy test of public opinion. “Not-in-my-backyard”-style opposition to the plan over a presumed blight on bucolic Swiss mountain vistas had made
September 10, 2023As young children went back to school across Sweden last month, many of their teachers were putting a new emphasis on printed books, quiet reading time and handwriting practice and devoting less time to tablets, independent online research and keyboarding skills. The return to more traditional ways of learning is a response to politicians and experts questioning whether the country’s hyper-digitalized approach to education, including the introduction of tablets in nursery schools, had led to a decline in basic skills. Swedish Minister for Schools Lotta Edholm, who took office 11 months ago as part of a new
September 10, 2023Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. The United Nations’ Office on Drugs and Crimes, which published the report, said meth in Afghanistan is mostly made from legally available substances or extracted from the ephedra plant, which grows in the wild. The report called Afghanistan’s meth manufacturing a growing threat to national and regional health and security because
September 10, 2023The ground shook with a force few had ever felt, thundering through the remote Moroccan village in the dark of night. When the earthquake was over late Friday, the town carved into the Atlas Mountains lay in devastation — possibly dozens dead, scores of homes crumpled and walls reduced to rubble. Soon crews were listening for desperate sounds of life within the ruins of Moulay Brahim. A village of fewer than 3,000 people, Moulay Brahim attracts tourists and outdoor enthusiasts with its stunning vistas and proximity to Marrakech. Streets brimmed with small hotels and cafes
September 10, 2023G20 leaders paid their respects at a memorial site dedicated to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi on Sunday — a day after the forum added a new member and reached agreements on a range of issues but softened their language on Russia’s war in Ukraine. India, this year’s Group of 20 leading rich and developing nations host, ended the first day of the summit with diplomatic wins. As the first session began, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that the group was adding the African Union as a member — part of the Indian leader’s drive
September 10, 2023After a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, Russia needs to replenish its supplies of ammunition for what could be a long war of attrition. Along with ramping up its domestic arms production, Moscow is turning to an old ally with a vast arsenal — North Korea. Estimates say the reclusive and isolated Asian country has tens of millions of artillery shells and rockets that could give a huge boost to the Russian army. United States officials expect North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to visit Russia in the coming days to seal a possible deal on munitions
September 10, 2023Redshirt freshman Hudson Clement caught three of Garrett Greene’s career-high four touchdown passes in his first college game and West Virginia withstood a nearly two-hour weather delay and its own early mistakes to beat Duquesne 56-17 Saturday night. West Virginia (1-1) bounced back from a blowout loss at Penn State with multiple long offensive plays that were lacking in the opener. In 2021, Clement set a West Virginia high school record at Martinsburg High when he scored eight touchdowns in the state title game. He never saw the field at West Virginia in 2022. On Saturday,
September 10, 2023How hot is it in Phoenix? In what has been the hottest summer ever measured, the sizzling city in the Sonoran Desert broke yet another record Saturday when temperatures topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius). It was the 54th day this year that the official reading at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport made the mark, eclipsing the previous record of 53 days set in 2020. Matt Salerno, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the hot streak could reach 55 days. “We do have one more day,” he said. An extreme heat warning remained in effect, with temperatures forecast
September 09, 2023Israeli security forces on Saturday killed a 16-year-old Palestinian in a confrontation in the southern occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said, the latest violence to roil the territory during one of the most violent stretches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in nearly two decades. The death of Milad al-Rai brings to 185 the number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank so far this year by Israeli fire, including over 30 youths under the age of 18. This year’s death toll in the West Bank and east Jerusalem has already overtaken that of 2022, which had been
September 09, 2023New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public in and around Albuquerque will spur a legal fight but might also raise public awareness about gun violence, legal scholars and advocates said. “It’s going to be challenged. But she’s trying to move the debate,” Jessica Levinson, a law professor at Loyola Marymount’s Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said after Lujan Grisham announced Friday that she was temporarily suspending the right to carry firearms in her state’s largest city and surrounding Bernalillo County. The 30-day suspension, enacted as an emergency public health measure,
September 09, 2023Most of West Maui will officially reopen to travelers Oct. 8 under a new wildfire emergency proclamation signed on Friday by Hawaii Gov. Josh Green. Nonessential travel to much of the island’s western coastline has been strongly discouraged since devastating wildfires killed at least 115 people in the historic town of Lahaina last month. State tourism officials initially urged travelers to stay away from Maui so residents and agencies could focus on emergency response efforts and supporting those displaced by the fires. In mid-August, officials began encouraging tourists to return to other parts of Maui, avoiding the
September 09, 2023“Poor Things,” a film about Victorian-era female empowerment, won the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely deprived of Hollywood glamour because of the writers and actors strikes. The film, starring Emma Stone, won the top prize at the 80th edition of the festival, which is often a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos said the film wouldn’t exist without Stone, who was also a producer but was not on the Lido for the festival. “This film is her, in front and behind the camera,” Lanthimos said. The film, based
September 09, 2023Hundreds of Pride activists gathered in the Serbian capital Saturday amid a heavy police presence and anti-gay messages sent by the country’s conservative leadership and far-right groups. Last year, the LGBTQ+ event was marred by skirmishes between the police and anti-Pride groups who believe the event goes against traditional Serbian Christian Orthodox values and should be banned. The participants of the march on Saturday held banners reading “We Are Not Even Close” — referring to the current status of the gay population is Serbia — as well as “Marriage” and “Queer Liberation not Rainbow Capitalism.” A
September 09, 2023Poland’s conservative governing party and the opposition showered potential voters with promises on Saturday as the country’s political parties revealed their campaign programs before the Oct. 15 parliamentary election. The nationalist ruling Law and Justice party, which took power in 2015, wants to win an unprecedented third term. The government’s tenure, however, has been marred with bitter clashes with the European Union over the government’s rule of law record and democratic backsliding. At a party convention, leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is Poland’s most powerful politician, made promises of new spending on social and military causes for
September 09, 2023Paris has rescinded a special honor it bestowed on Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas because of his recent antisemitic comments minimizing the Holocaust. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo published a letter Friday saying that “your remarks run counter to universal values and the historical truth of the Holocaust.” Noting that tens of thousands of Jews were rounded up in Paris under the Nazi occupation and deported to death camps, Hidalgo said, “We condemn your comments with the utmost firmness. No cause can justify revisionism and negationism.” Hidalgo awarded Abbas the city’s highest honor, the Grand Bronze of Paris, in
September 09, 2023Rescue teams began the arduous process Saturday of extricating an American researcher who became seriously ill while he was 1,000 meters (3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turkey, an official from Turkey’s disaster management agency said. It could take days to bring Mark Dickey to the surface since rescuers anticipate he will have to stop and rest frequently at camps set up along the way as they pull his stretcher through the narrow passages. “This afternoon, the operation to move him from his camp at 1040 meters to the camp at 700 meters began,” the official from
September 09, 2023Police on Saturday reported two more confirmed sightings of an escaped murderer on the run for more than a week in southeast Pennsylvania amid a search by hundreds of law enforcement officers. Danelo Souza Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County Prison while awaiting transfer to state prison on Aug. 31 after being sentenced to life for fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in 2021. Prosecutors say he wanted to stop her from telling police that he’s wanted in a killing in his home country of Brazil. Authorities, who have described Cavalcante as extremely dangerous, didn’t release
September 09, 2023Another village near a major Greek city was ordered evacuated Saturday afternoon as authorities frantically shored up flood defenses against a rising river following torrential rain earlier in the week. Rescue crews were evacuating stranded residents from already flooded areas in the central region of Thessaly. The death toll still stood at 10, with four people missing. The village of Omorfochori, about 8 kilometers (5 kilometers) by road from the city of Larissa, Thessaly’s capital and largest city, was ordered evacuated by SMS alert due to the rising water of the Pineios river. Residents were directed
September 09, 2023Group of 20 leaders have agreed to triple renewable energy and try to increase the funds for climate change-related disasters but maintained the status quo with regards to phasing out carbon spewing coal
September 09, 2023Follow live updates of a deadly, powerful earthquake that struck Morocco: ALGERIA OFFERS TO OPEN ITS AIRSPACE Algeria has offered humanitarian aid to neighboring Morocco after a powerful earthquake in the kingdom on Friday night left more than 1,000 people dead. In an exceptional move, Algeria offered to open its airspace to allow eventual humanitarian aid or medical evacuation flights to travel to and from Morocco. Algeria closed the airspace when its government severed diplomatic ties with Morocco in 2021 over a series of issues. The countries have a decades-long dispute involving the territory of Western
September 09, 2023The racist motivations of the white shooter who targeted and fatally shot Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, two weeks ago have revived concerns about the threat of hate violence and domestic terrorism against African Americans. Most hate crime victims in the U.S. are Black, and that has been the case since the federal government began tracking such crimes decades ago. But national attention on the rate of Black victimization is heightened in the wake of mass casualty racist attacks, like those in recent years at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a historic Black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
September 09, 2023About 146,000 U.S. auto workers are set to go on strike this week if General Motors, Ford and Stellantis fail to meet their demands for big pay raises and the restoration of concessions the workers made years ago when the companies were in financial trouble. Shawn Fain, the combative president of the United Auto Workers union, has threatened to strike any of the three companies that hasn’t reached an agreement by the time its contract with the union expires at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Thursday. Both sides began exchanging wage and benefit proposals last week. Though some
September 09, 2023Lawmakers in Nagorno-Karabakh, a breakaway Armenian-populated region of Azerbaijan, voted to elect a new separatist president on Saturday in a move that was strongly condemned by the Azerbaijani authorities. Samvel Shakhramanyan’s election as the new president of Nagorno-Karabakh follows the resignation of Arayik Harutyunyan, who stepped down on Sept. 1 as president of the region — which the Armenians call Artsakh. It comes amid soaring tensions between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry denounced the vote as a “gross violation” of the country’s constitution and a “serious blow to the efforts of normalization in the region.”
September 09, 2023The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how to mimic human writing. As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an
September 09, 2023A former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges was captured Saturday, police said. Daniel Abed Khalife was on the run four days before a massive search managed to nab him in Chiswick in west London. Khalife escaped on the bottom of a food delivery truck from Wandsworth Prison on Wednesday. The breakout ignited a storm of criticism as political opponents blamed the ruling Conservative party for incompetence. Khalife, 21, is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base and of violating Britain’s Official Secrets Act by gathering information “that
September 09, 2023Several thousand climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas revealed in a report earlier this week. The protesters — from Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and other organizations — broke through a police barrier and sat on a main road in The Hague heading to the temporary venue for the lower house of parliament. They threatened to stay until the subsidies are lifted, and to come back every day if the police remove them. The activists brandished signs with
September 09, 2023The United Nations atomic watchdog warned of a potential threat to nuclear safety due to a spike in fighting near Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine, whose forces continued pressing their counteroffensive on Saturday. The International Atomic Energy Agency said its experts deployed at the Russia-occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant reported hearing numerous explosions over the past week, in a possible indication of increased military activity in the region. There was no damage to the plant. “I remain deeply concerned about the possible dangers facing the plant at this time of heightened military tension in
September 09, 2023The group of the world’s 20 leading economies is welcoming the African Union as a permanent member, a powerful acknowledgement of Africa as its more than 50 countries seek a more important role on the global stage. U.S. President Joe Biden called last year for the AU’s permanent membership in the G20, saying it’s been “a long time in coming.” Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said the bloc was invited to join during the G20 summit his country is hosting this week. The African Union has advocated for full membership for seven years, spokesperson Ebba
September 09, 2023At the Ivangorod-Narva border crossing, the last glimpse of Russia is of a sprawling fortress and the first sight of Estonia is another fortress on the other bank of a slender river. They’re almost comically close: People with strong arms could have a game of catch between the ramparts. But the proximity is deceptive — the psychological distance between Estonia and Russia is immense and only widening. The countries that once were part of the Soviet Union took radically different paths after the USSR’s collapse. Estonia largely fulfilled the wish of its former President Toomas Hendrik
September 09, 2023During the 2020 census, Native American leaders across the U.S. invested time and resources to make sure their members were tallied during the head count, which determines political power and federal funding. But the detailed data sets from the 2020 census they will receive this month are more limited and less accurate than they were in the previous census — and it isn’t because the COVID-19 pandemic severely limited outreach efforts. Rather, it’s due to new privacy methods implemented by the U.S. Census Bureau in order to protect the confidentiality of participants, one of which
September 09, 2023North Korea invited visiting Chinese delegates and Russian artists to a paramilitary parade featuring rocket launchers pulled by trucks and tractors, state media said Saturday, in leader Kim Jong Un’s latest effort to display his ties with Moscow and Beijing in the face of deepening confrontations with Washington. The midnight parade in the capital, Pyongyang, which was to celebrate North Korea’s 75th founding anniversary, came amid expectations that Kim will travel to Russia soon for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin that could focus on North Korean arm sales to refill reserves drained by the
September 09, 2023The African Union has been granted permanent member status in the Group of 20 top world economies, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday, adding momentum to his drive to give a greater voice to the Global South as host of this year’s annual summit. Modi addressed the delegates from behind a nameplate that listed his country not as India but as “Bharat,” an ancient Sanskrit name championed by his Hindu nationalist supporters. The announcement came as Modi opened the weekend summit of the G20, one that comes as growing global rifts and the absence of
September 09, 2023Delta Air Lines has learned that summer is a good time to prepare for winter — and how to de-ice planes so they can keep flying safely in freezing temperatures. Every summer, Delta brings about 400 workers to Minneapolis to a three-day summer de-ice “boot camp.” They go through computer-based training, watch demonstrations by instructors, and then practice spraying down a plane — using water instead of the chemicals found in de-icing fluid. The boot campers, who rotate through in groups of 10 or so, return to their home bases and train 6,000 co-workers before October, says
September 09, 2023The Trump Organization has sold its right to operate a public golf course in the Bronx, city officials confirmed, offloading control of the publicly-owned property to a company that is seeking to build a casino in New York City. Bally’s Corporation, a gaming and entertainment company, will take over the job of running the 18-hole course, known as Trump Golf Links Ferry Point, according to a spokesperson for the city’s comptroller. The terms of the lease transfer were not immediately available. The deal appeared to mark a resolution in the city’s battle to rid the course
September 08, 2023New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Friday issued an emergency order suspending the right to carry firearms in public across Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least 30 days in the midst of a spate of gun violence. The Democratic governor said she is expecting legal challenges but felt compelled to act in response to gun deaths, including the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old boy outside a minor league baseball stadium this week. The firearms suspension is tied to a threshold for violent crime rates that only the Albuquerque area currently meets. Police
September 08, 2023Phoenix is on the cusp of yet another heat record this summer after an additional day of 110-degree weather. The National Weather Service said the desert city on Friday saw 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) for the 53rd day this year, tying it with the record set in 2020. If Phoenix reaches 110 degrees or more as expected Saturday, it would mark a record 54 days in one year. An extreme heat warning is in effect for the entire weekend, with temperatures forecast as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 Celsius) on Saturday and 111 degrees Fahrenheit
September 08, 2023A powerful earthquake struck Morocco late Friday, damaging buildings in major cities and sending panicked people pouring into streets and alleyways from Rabat to Marrakech. There was no immediate word on any casualties, nor any reports from government officials on the tremor’s impact. Moroccans posted videos showing some buildings turned to rubble. Tourists and others posted videos of people evacuating restaurants in Marrakech as throbbing club music played. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 when it hit at 11:11 p.m. Morocco’s National Seismic Monitoring and Alert Network measured it
September 08, 2023The number of people still missing following wildfires that destroyed the historic community of Lahaina a month ago has dropped to 66, Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Friday, while the number of confirmed deaths remained at 115. The tally of the missing is now significantly lower than a week earlier, when authorities said 385 remained unaccounted for. The deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century swept through Lahaina on Aug. 8, causing dozens of people to flee to the ocean to escape the flames, destroying more than 2,000 structures and doing an estimated $5.5 billion in
September 08, 2023After months of complaints from the Authors Guild and other groups, Amazon.com has started requiring writers who want to sell books through its e-book program to tell the company in advance that their work includes artificial intelligence material. The Authors Guild praised the new regulations, which were posted Wednesday, as a “welcome first step” toward deterring the proliferation of computer-generated books on the online retailer’s site. Many writers feared computer-generated books could crowd out traditional works and would be unfair to consumers who didn’t know they were buying AI content. In a statement posted on its
September 08, 2023California lawmakers on Friday voted to limit when local governments can count election ballots by hand, a move aimed at a rural Northern California county that canceled its contract with Dominion Voting Systems amid unfounded allegations of fraud pushed by former Republican President Donald Trump and his allies. Shasta County’s board of supervisors, which is controlled by a conservative majority, voted in January to get rid of the voting machines it used to tabulate hand-marked ballots for its roughly 111,000 registered voters. County supervisors said there was a loss of public confidence in the machines from
September 08, 2023Texas’ power grid has been under tremendous stress during this summer’s sweltering heat, with the state setting 10 new records for electricity demand. The grid’s reliability has been questioned by residents and lawmakers since a deadly winter blackout in 2021 knocked out power to millions of customers for days and resulted in hundreds of deaths. Concerns were renewed this week after Texas’ power grid manager issued an emergency alert due to low reserves and high demand. Following the alert, the U.S. Department of Energy granted an emergency order allowing Texas to temporarily suspend emissions rules so power
September 08, 2023Elon Musk’s social media platform formerly known as Twitter has sued the state of California over a law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for removing offending material such as hate speech, misinformation and harassment. The first-of-its-kind legislation was signed into law a year ago by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. In a lawsuit filed Friday against state Attorney General Robert Bonta, X Corp. challenged the “constitutionality and legal validity” of the law, saying it violates the First Amendment. Assembly bill 587 requires social media platforms to post their content moderation policies — which they already do — and
September 08, 2023As Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial neared the halfway point Friday, a former state lawman said he warned the Republican in 2020 that he was risking indictment by helping a donor under FBI investigation. Four days into the historic proceedings, Paxton continued to stay away from the trial in the Texas Senate that has put his embattled career on the line after being shadowed for years by criminal charges and allegations of corruption. He has pleaded not guilty to the articles of impeachment and his defense team has not yet had its turn to
September 08, 2023An engine on a United Airlines jet broke up over Denver in 2021 because of wear and tear on a fan blade that was not adequately inspected for signs of cracking, federal investigators said Friday. The National Transportation Safety Board said manufacturer Pratt & Whitney did not call for inspections to be done frequently enough, which allowed tiny cracks to grow undetected, until the fan blade broke. The NTSB said the design and testing of the engine inlet contributed to the severity of the situation, and other factors made the engine fire worse than it should have
September 08, 2023Ohio authorities on Friday released additional bodycam and surveillance footage of the events leading up to the death of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother fatally shot by police in a grocery store parking lot late last month. Young, who was suspected of shoplifting, was killed by a Blendon Township police officer who fired a single bullet into her windshield after she refused to leave her car and it started rolling toward him. Her unborn daughter did not survive. Young’s family members held a funeral for her on Thursday. They have called for the officer,
September 08, 2023The United Nations doubled down on its pledge to revive stalled negotiations over the disputed Western Sahara during a visit to the region this week in which its top negotiator met with officials on all sides before the release of a highly anticipated U.N. report next month. The visit was Staffan de Mistura’s first to the Western Sahara since he was appointed in 2021 to oversee U.N. efforts to guide negotiations that date back more than three decades. Morocco annexed Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony in 1975, sparking a conflict with the pro-independence Polisario Front.
September 08, 2023The Federal Aviation Administration indicated Friday that it is moving toward requiring that planes be equipped with technology designed to prevent close calls around airports. Many new airline jets are equipped with some of this technology, but older ones are not, and neither are many private planes. The FAA asked an internal advisory panel to make recommendations on how to require systems that would alert pilots if they are lined up to land on the wrong runway or a taxiway, or when the runway they have chosen is too short. The FAA said the move is part of its effort
September 08, 2023The United Auto Workers union on Friday rejected wage and benefit offers from all three Detroit automakers, raising tensions just six days before a strike deadline for 146,000 employees. Union President Shawn Fain told workers in a Facebook Live appearance that he filed proposals from Ford, General Motors and Stellantis in a wastebasket. “The automakers have yet to offer our members a fair contract,” he said. Negotiations are continuing through the weekend, but Fain warned that if there aren’t agreements by 11:59 p.m. Thursday “there will be a strike at all three if need be.” On Friday,
September 08, 2023If you have watched a telecast involving basketball superstar LeBron James during the past 20 years, you probably have heard an announcer declare: “You can’t stop him, you can only hope to contain him.” That sentiment sums up how Inflection.ai CEO Mustafa Suleyman feels about artificial intelligence — a technology that he helped advance as a co-founder of DeepMind, which Google acquired in 2014. After leaving Google last year, Suleyman started Inflection with LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman in an effort to create artificial intelligence, or AI, that won’t veer into racist, sexist or violent behavior. Inflection’s first proof point is
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September 08, 2023Travelers to Greece’s popular island destinations will face disruptions next week because of a 24-hour strike on Sept. 13 by ferry crews who cite safety and labor concerns. The PNO union said the decision was made Friday “on the occasion of the repulsive incident” this week in Greece’s main port of Piraeus, in which a tardy passenger drowned after being pushed into the sea by a ferry crew member. The union didn’t directly link the reasons for the strike with Tuesday’s drowning, which sparked anger and condemnation across Greece. A PNO statement deplored what it called
September 08, 2023A U.S.-backed Syrian force declared its operations in eastern Syria completed Friday after almost two weeks of fighting with local tribesmen left dozens of people dead. The Syrian Democratic Forces said the fighting ended with its recapture of areas in Deir el-Zour province that the Kurdish-led force had lost during the battles triggered by the militia’s arrest of a rival U.S.-backed commander. The clashes were among the worst in recent years in the region along the border with Iraq where hundreds of U.S. troops have been based since 2015 to help in the fight against the Islamic
September 08, 2023A former Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a driver who was sitting in his car turned himself in Friday morning and will now face murder charges in the fatal shooting. Former Officer Mark Dial surrendered on a criminal warrant and was scheduled to be arraigned later Friday. The district attorney said the charges against Dial include murder, official oppression and other counts. His attorney said the shooting was justified. The district attorney’s office also released police bodycam footage of the fatal shooting of 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry. It showed Dial firing his weapon through the driver’s
September 08, 2023U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Friday urged the Group of 20 top economic powers, which are responsible for more than 80% of the emissions that cause global warming, to use their weekend summit to send a strong message on climate change. Guterres said all licensing or funding for new fossil fuel projects should be stopped and that the G20 must keep the “1.5-degree goal alive,” referring to the 2015 Paris climate agreement that set 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) as a global guardrail in atmospheric warming, with countries pledging to try to prevent that much
September 08, 2023Cuban authorities have arrested 17 people in connection with what they described as a network to recruit Cuban nationals to fight for Russia in Ukraine. The head of criminal investigations for Cuba’s Interior Ministry, César Rodríguez, said late Thursday on state media that at least three of the 17 arrested are part of recruitment efforts inside the island country. He did not identify the alleged members of the network but said they had previous criminal records. Some families started speaking up about the case on Friday, and at least one mother said that her son was promised
September 08, 2023Sanitation workers Thomas Noatak and Joseph Moses start every workday riding a four-wheeler along the muddy roads of this small Yup’ik village on southwestern Alaska’s vast Kuskokwim River, looking for human waste. They’re checking honey bucket bins — large steel containers where residents dump their waste at neighborhood collection points. When they find a bin full enough to warrant a trip to the dump site just outside town, they load it up and haul it nearly a mile over deeply potholed and rutted streets, hoping to do it without splashing. Many Alaska villages don’t have running
September 08, 2023One of the country’s top botanical gardens has been closed indefinitely after reports that an escaped murderer on the run in southeast Pennsylvania may have once again been spotted on the property. When Longwood Gardens closed Thursday night, people who remained on the property were told to shelter in place as law officers searched part of the site for fugitive Danelo Souza Cavalcante. The 34-year-old Brazilian man escaped from the Chester County Prison on Aug. 31 by scaling a wall, climbing over razor wire and jumping from a roof. There was a possible sighting of
September 08, 2023An employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service and an acquaintance have been charged with treason for allegedly passing secret documents to Russia, prosecutors said Friday. The intelligence officer, who has been identified only as Carsten L. in line with German privacy rules, was arrested in Berlin on Dec. 21 last year. The second suspect, a self-employed German businessman identified as Arthur E., was arrested at Munich airport on Jan. 22 as he arrived from the United States. Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, said at the time of the first arrest that it brought in prosecutors immediately
September 08, 2023Lebanese judicial authorities have questioned two people at the request of Turkey on suspicion of being involved in the 2019 escape of auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon, officials said Friday. The recent questioning of the two men in Beirut came a week before a hearing in Lebanon about the $1 billion lawsuit that Ghosn, formerly the president of Nissan, filed against the company and about a dozen people in Beirut over his imprisonment in Japan and what he says is Fmisinformation spread against him. The officials said one of the two men who were
September 08, 2023A man who fatally shot a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana automotive seating plant was sentenced to 110 years in prison by a judge who called the killings “brutal and heinous.” Gary Ferrell II, 28, had avoided a possible death sentence when he pleaded guilty in April to two counts of murder in the 2021 killings of Promise Mays, 21, and Pamela Sledd, 62. He was sentenced Thursday. The Rossville women had driven to NHK Seating of America in Frankfort together and were about to start their shift on Aug. 18, 2021, when
September 08, 2023The European Union’s executive branch strongly criticized the bloc’s representative in Austria for accusing the country of paying “blood money” to Russia for gas supplies and said Friday he has been ordered back to Brussels. EU representative Martin Selmayr said during an event on Wednesday that Austria continues to get 55% of its gas from Russia — but no one, he noted, is out on Vienna’s central Ringstrasse boulevard to protest that, the Austria Press Agency reported. “That surprises me, because blood money is being sent to Russia every day with the gas bill,” Selmayr said, according
September 08, 2023A series of fires hit railway infrastructure in the German city of Hamburg overnight, causing widespread disruption to trains between Hamburg and Berlin and between the port city and the Baltic Sea coast. Police said they suspect that the damage was politically motivated. Railway operator Deutsche Bahn said that trains on the main high-speed route between Hamburg and Berlin were canceled because of vandalism. It said it was running some trains on an alternative route that takes up to an hour longer. Long-distance trains between Hamburg and Rostock also were canceled. Deutsche Bahn said it likely would
September 08, 2023With gun salutes and tolling bells, Britain is marking the first anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ascension of King Charles III, who remembered his mother as a symbol of stability during her 70-year reign. Charles and Queen Camilla are observing the anniversary at the family estate in Scotland and attended a service of remembrance at a small church nearby, where the late queen worshipped. “In marking the first anniversary of her late majesty’s death and my accession, we recall with great affection her long life, devoted service and all she meant to
September 08, 2023Severe rainstorms eased but floodwaters were still rising in parts of central Greece Friday, while fire department and military helicopters were plucking people from villages inundated by tons of water and mud that have left six dead, six missing and many people clinging to the roofs of their homes. Flooding triggered by rainstorms also hit neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey, killing a total of 18 people in all three countries since the rains began Tuesday. In Greece, severe rainstorms that lashed the country turned streams into raging torrents that burst dams, washed away roads and bridges and
September 08, 2023An American researcher who fell ill almost 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below the entrance of a cave in Turkey, has recovered sufficiently enough to be extracted in an operation that could last three or four days, a Turkish official was quoted as saying on Friday. Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, became suddenly ill with stomach bleeding during an expedition with a handful of others in the Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains. Rescuers from across Europe have rushed to the cave for an operation to save him, including a Hungarian doctor, who
September 08, 2023A Russian missile attack Friday on President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown in central Ukraine killed one policeman and injured at least 44 others, emergency officials said. It was among multiple Russian attacks across the country overnight, officials said. Ten buildings were damaged in the attack on Kryvyi Rih. Three of the people who were pulled out of the rubble were in serious condition, according to Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s minister of Internal Affairs. Photos posted by Klymenko on Telegram showed a building on fire and emergency services evacuating the injured. Three people were also injured in a Russian
September 08, 2023British police scoured a huge London park on Friday for an ex-soldier who escaped from prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges. The Metropolitan Police confirmed the search of Richmond Park in the city’s southwest, which involved two helicopters and officers on the ground, was connected to the hunt for Daniel Abed Khalife. The 21-year-old slipped out of Wandsworth Prison on Wednesday morning while working in the kitchen, apparently by clinging to the underside of a food-delivery truck, police said. Khalife is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base and of violating Britain’s Official Secrets
September 08, 2023The discovery of drone debris on Romanian territory this week has left some local residents fearing that the war in neighboring Ukraine could spread into their country, as Russian forces bombard Ukrainian ports just across the Danube River from NATO-member Romania. Moscow aims to disrupt Ukraine’s ability to export grain to world markets with a sustained campaign of attacks targeting Ukrainian Danube ports, and has attacked the port of Izmail four times this week, Ukrainian officials say. Across from Izmail, pieces apparently from a drone were found near the Romanian village of Plauru, Romanian Defense Minister
September 08, 2023Clashes resumed in Lebanon’s largest Palestinian refugee camp, with heavy gunfire and shelling wounding several people and prompting residents of the camp and the surrounding area to flee on Friday. Several days of street battles had broken out in the camp, Ein el-Hilweh, between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement and Islamist groups after Fatah accused the Islamists of gunning down one of their military generals on July 30. Those street battles left at least 13 dead and dozens wounded, and forced hundreds to flee from their homes. An uneasy truce had been in place since Aug.
September 08, 2023Shares fell Friday in Asia after Japan reported its economy grew less than earlier estimated in the last quarter. Oil prices declined, while U.S. futures edged higher. Japan, the world’s third largest economy, grew at a 4.8% annual pace in the April-June quarter, below the earlier estimate of 6% growth, according to data released Friday. Much of that growth was driven by exports, which rose nearly 13%, while private consumption fell 2.2% on weak investment spending. A separate report showed that wages declined in July for the 16th straight month, falling 2.5% from a year earlier. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 index
September 08, 2023Rain pouring onto Hong Kong and southern China overnight flooded city streets and some subway stations, halting transportation and forcing schools to close Friday. Videos circulating on social media show flooded streets in Hong Kong and nearby Guangdong province, with vehicles driving through the water and rescue teams using rafts to navigate the streets. Water rushed down the stairs and escalators of a flooded underground subway station in Hong Kong, and cars were caught in muddy water on flooded streets, including in the cross-harbor tunnel that connects Hong Kong Island with Kowloon. The heavy downpours led
September 08, 2023It began with a dinner invitation. How it ends could affect more than a billion people. State-issued invites sent to guests of this week’s G20 meeting referred to India’s president, Droupadi Murmu, as “President of Bharat.” Suddenly, in many circles, the question was everywhere: Would the country of more than 1.4 billion now be called by its ancient Sanskrit name? Since then, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ’s ministers, his Hindu nationalist supporters, Bollywood stars and cricketers have made similar public proclamations: India should officially be rebranded as Bharat. India is known by two names: India, used
September 08, 2023The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip said Thursday it is working to remove the product from stores as Massachusetts authorities investigate the death of a teen whose family pointed to the One Chip Challenge popularized as a dare on social media as a contributing factor. The cause of Harris Wolobah’s death on Sept. 1 has yet to be determined and an autopsy is pending, but the 14-year-old’s family blamed the challenge. Since his death, Texas-based manufacturer Paqui has asked retailers to stop selling the individually wrapped chips, a step 7-Eleven has already taken. A
September 08, 2023The impeachment trial that could remove Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton from office over corruption allegations is near the halfway point. The historic proceedings, which continued Friday, began this week with testimony about an extramarital affair and the Republican’s former top aides testifying they felt compelled to report him to the FBI. Paxton, who is accused of bribery and abuse of office, skipped all of the early testimony. His wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, sat and listened to it all. The articles of impeachment center on allegations that Paxton improperly used the powers of his office
September 08, 2023It’s never been easy for the leaders of the world’s largest economies to find common ground, but the global ramifications of Russia’s war on Ukraine mean even greater challenges for meaningful agreement at the Group of 20 meeting this year. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this year’s host, has pledged not to let Ukraine overshadow the needs of the mostly developing nations in the so-called “ Global South,” but many of those issues are closely affected by the war. “New Delhi will not want to distract from the main agenda, which is to address issues of
September 08, 2023Russian authorities are holding local elections this weekend in occupied parts of Ukraine in an effort to tighten their grip on territories Moscow illegally annexed a year ago and still does not fully control. The voting for Russian-installed legislatures in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions begins Friday and concludes Sunday. It has already been denounced by Kyiv and the West. “It constitutes a flagrant violation of international law, which Russia continues to disregard,” the Council of Europe, the continent’s foremost human rights body, said this week. Kyiv echoed that sentiment, with the parliament saying
September 08, 2023Women’s rights activists in Latin America have long looked to the United States as a model in their decades-long struggle to chip away at abortion restrictions in their highly religious countries. But after a historic Mexican Supreme Court ruling decriminalizing abortion on the federal level, some think U.S. activists should now turn to their counterparts south of the border as they navigate a post-Roe v. Wade reality. “In Mexico we have a lot of experience,” said Rebeca Ramos, a lawyer and director of GIRE, the organization behind the Mexican court case. “And given the current situation
September 08, 2023A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed Texas’ floating barrier on a section of the Rio Grande to stay in place for now, a day after a judge called the buoys a threat to the safety of migrants and relations between the U.S. and Mexico. The order by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals puts on hold a ruling that would have required Texas to move the wrecking-ball sized buoys on the river by next week. The barrier is near the Texas border city of Eagle Pass, where Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has authorized a
September 08, 2023Hong Kong on Friday closed schools and halted trading on the stock exchange as torrential rain lashed the city overnight, flooding streets in parts of the city as well as an underground subway station. Heavy rains poured down on the city from Thursday night, with the government warning that the weather would last till noon Friday. The Hong Kong Observatory said it recorded 158.1 mm (6.2 inches) of rain in the hour between 11 p.m. Thursday and midnight, the highest recording since records began in 1884. The highest “black” rainstorm warning, the first in nearly two
September 08, 2023Apple released a significant security update for iPhones and iPads Thursday to patch newly discovered security vulnerabilities in the devices’ system software. The issue was discovered by researchers at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, who said the software flaw was being “actively exploited” to deliver commercial spyware called Pegasus developed and sold by the Israeli company NSO Group. Pegasus is an expensive tool typically used to target dissidents, journalists and political opponents, so ordinary users likely have little to fear. Still, Citizen Lab recommends that all users should “immediately” update their devices. To install the update, open Settings on
September 08, 2023An autopsy shows a bacterial infection and other factors caused the death of a 3-year-old girl on a bus carrying immigrants from Texas to Chicago last month, an Illinois coroner said Thursday. The bacterial infection and aspiration pneumonia along with diarrhea and vomiting led to electrolyte problems, swelling of the brain and eventually the Aug. 10 death of Jismary Alejandra Barboza González, Marion County Coroner Troy Cannon said. Her extremely low weight and length for her age were contributing factors in her death, he said. The child reportedly began experiencing mild symptoms and feeling ill as
September 08, 2023North Korea said Friday it has launched a purported nuclear attack submarine it has been developing for years, a step leader Kim Jong Un described as crucial in his efforts to build a nuclear-armed navy to counter the United States and its Asian allies. The North’s official Korean Central News Agency said the vessel – named “Hero Kim Kun Ok” – is designed to launch tactical nuclear weapons from underwater but did not specify the number of missiles it could carry and fire. In his speeches at the vessel’s launching ceremony on Wednesday and an
September 07, 2023Two attacks by Islamist insurgents in the restive north of Mali on Thursday killed 49 civilians and 15 government soldiers, according to a provisional death toll given by the country’s military junta read on state television. A passenger boat near the city of Timbuktu on the Niger river and a Malian military position in Bamba further downstream in the Gao region were targeted, according to the statement, which said the attacks have been claimed by Islamist extremist insurgent group JNIM, an umbrella coalition of armed groups aligned with al-Qaida. The Malian government announcement said its forces,
September 07, 2023Nearly 1,600 migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. will be relocated from Chicago police stations to winterized camps with massive tents under a plan by Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to a report released Thursday. The relocations will occur “before the weather begins to shift and change,” Johnson said in an interview with the Chicago Sun-Times. The tents could hold up to 1,000 migrants, he said, and the camps would provide meals and recreational and educational programming. Sixteen city shelters now house 13,500 migrants, with more arriving every day, at a cost to the city of about $30
September 07, 2023Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long denied corruption accusations that have dogged him for years. But as his impeachment trial gets underway, another defense is emerging: that fellow Republicans plotted to oust him. His attorneys have so far presented no evidence in the trial, which continued Thursday, that Paxton was the victim of an attempt to replace him. But as former aides give testimony about how Paxton pressured them to help a political donor who was under FBI investigation, Paxton’s attorneys have raised questions about lobbyists and a meeting at Gov. Greg Abbott’s office, and
September 07, 2023A town in Virginia has agreed to independent reviews of misconduct allegations against its police force to settle a lawsuit filed after a Black and Latino Army lieutenant was pepper sprayed during a traffic stop. The town of Windsor also agreed to more officer training as part of a settlement agreement signed Thursday. In exchange, the state Attorney General’s Office will drop its argument that Windsor police broke a new law by depriving Caron Nazario of his rights. Windsor agreed to keep working toward accreditation by the Virginia Law Enforcement Professional Standards Commission. Police also will
September 07, 2023The maker of an extremely spicy tortilla chip sold as the One Chip Challenge and popularized as a dare on social media is pulling the product after the family of a Massachusetts teenager blamed the stunt for his death. The cause of Harris Wolobah’s death last Friday hasn’t been determined and an autopsy was still pending as of Thursday, but the 14-year-old’s family blames the challenge. Since his death, the Texas-based manufacturer, Paqui, has asked retailers to stop selling the individually wrapped chips — a step 7-Eleven has already taken. The One Chip Challenge chip sells
September 07, 2023A state grand jury has charged a now-91-year-old disgraced priest with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1975, an extraordinary prosecution that could shed new light on what Roman Catholic Church leaders knew about a child sex abuse crisis that persisted for decades and claimed hundreds of victims. The priest, Lawrence Hecker, has been at the center of state and federal investigations of clergy sex abuse and a deepening scandal over why church leaders failed to report his admissions to law enforcement even as they permitted him to work around children until he quietly left the
September 07, 2023The construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds, the official congressional watchdog said Thursday. A report released by the Government Accountability Office offers the first independent assessment of damage caused by the building of more than 450 miles ( 724 km) of wall while in-depth environmental reviews were waived and the concerns of Native American tribes went largely ignored in the rush to finish the barrier. Now, U.S. Customs and
September 07, 2023Texas’ power grid manager on Thursday again asked residents to cut their electricity use as the state endures another stretch of sizzling summer heat. The request carried fresh urgency, coming the day after the system was pushed to the brink of outages for the first time since a deadly winter blackout in 2021. The request by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which serves most of the state’s 30 million residents, came a day after low energy reserves prompted the grid operator to issue a level 2 energy emergency alert. Operating reserves fell as demand surged amid
September 07, 2023Several thousand protesters supporting the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul rallied in front of the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on Thursday, before a pivotal hearing next week on the legality of the first major bill of the overhaul. The bill, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition passed in July, bans the Supreme Court from striking down government decisions it deems unreasonable. With leading politicians signaling they won’t respect a court decision striking down the law, the stage could be set for a constitutional crisis. The hearing is set for Tuesday, though a ruling is likely months away.
September 07, 2023A former top executive at the failed FTX cryptocurrency exchange pleaded guilty Thursday to making tens of millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to U.S. politicians and engaging in a criminal conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer business. Ryan Salame, the former co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets, is the fourth high-ranking official at the company or its affiliates to plead guilty to criminal charges. Under a deal with prosecutors, he agreed to forfeit up to $1.55 billion in assets. He could also be called as a witness to testify at the trial of
September 07, 2023Belgium acknowledged Thursday that its major rail gateway, the Brussels Midi Station, has become a festering sore of drug abuse, poverty and violence that is a major stain on a nation preparing to take on the presidency of the European Union. The government vowed to tackle the problem, but some critics say action is coming way too late, while others say that any cleanup operation will only push the big-city problems to other neighborhoods. Belgium, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, with a major tourism industry, has neglected the once-stately Midi Station for decades. It
September 07, 2023Kosovo’s president on Thursday accused Serbian investigators of dragging their feet over an inquiry into attacks on NATO peacekeepers earlier this year in which dozens of troops and police officers were injured, some of them seriously. President Vjosa Osmani also called on European Union officials to refrain from showing any favoritism in talks next week aimed at improving Kosovo’s tense relations with Serbia. “Those who attacked NATO on the 29th of May are clearly known to law enforcement agencies,” she told reporters at NATO headquarters in Brussels after talks with Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Video footage, Osmani said,
September 07, 2023Descendants of enslaved people who populate a tiny island community are once again fighting local officials who have proposed eliminating protections that for decades helped shield the Gullah-Geechee residents from high taxes and pressure to sell their land to developers. Residents of Hogg Hummock say they were stunned last month when McIntosh County commissioners unveiled a proposal to cast aside zoning ordinances that limit homes to modest sizes in the enclave of 30 to 50 Black residents on Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia. The rules were enacted in 1994 for the sole purpose of
September 07, 2023Richie Olsten has been in Maui’s helicopter tour business for a half century, so long he’s developed a barometer for the tourism-dependent economy: rental cars parked at the island’s airport. There are so many since wildfires killed 115 people in the historic town of Lahaina that Olsten is worried about a full-blown economic catastrophe. Restaurants and tour companies are laying off workers and unemployment is surging. State tourism officials, after initially urging travelers to stay away, are now asking them to come back, avoid the burn zone and help Maui recover by spending their money. Airlines
September 07, 2023One of three men accused of assisting a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer testified in his own defense Thursday, telling jurors that government-imposed restrictions during the pandemic were excessive. Eric Molitor, 39, and twin brothers William Null and Michael Null are charged with providing material support for terrorist acts and gun crimes in a 2020 scheme to kidnap Whitmer at her vacation home in northern Michigan’s Antrim County. Molitor’s decision to testify was a rare move: In four trials so far in state and federal courts, only one other defendant has taken the witness stand. He was acquitted.
September 07, 2023Canada announced Wednesday that a judge would lead a public inquiry into whether China, Russia and other countries interfered in Canadian federal elections in 2019 and 2021 that re-elected Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals. Opposition Conservative lawmakers have demanded a full public inquiry into alleged Chinese interference since reports surfaced earlier this year citing intelligence sources saying China worked to support the Liberals and to defeat Conservative politicians considered unfriendly to Beijing. The opposition New Democrat party later pushed to expand any inquiry to include Russia, Iran and India. Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Thursday that
September 07, 2023General Motors’ first wage-and-benefit offer to the United Auto Workers on Thursday fell far short of the union’s initial demands. The offer comes just a week before the UAW’s national contracts with GM, Stellantis and Ford expire, and even though both sides are far apart, it’s a sign of movement on economic issues. Still, union President Shawn Fain called the offer “insulting.” He is threatening to strike against any automaker that hasn’t reached a tentative agreement by the time contracts expire at 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 14. A strike against one or more automakers by up to
September 07, 2023Myanmar’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is suffering from symptoms of low blood pressure including dizziness and loss of appetite, but has been denied treatment at qualified facilities outside the prison system, a medical worker said Thursday. Suu Kyi, 78, who was arrested in February 2021 when the army seized power from her elected government, fell ill late last month, said the medical worker, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of being punished by the military authorities. Separately, a military officer who also insisted on anonymity confirmed a report by the BBC’s
September 07, 2023Damien, age 5, was giddy with excitement as he left a Manhattan homeless shelter, sometimes running and skipping along the sidewalk accompanied by his wistful mother, a migrant from Ecuador. “What I want for him is a future,” Kimberly Carchipulla said in Spanish of her son, one of nearly 800,000 New York City public school students who headed off to class Thursday for their first day of the new school year. That is what school officials want, too, as the city’s classrooms work to accommodate nearly 20,000 migrant children newly arrived in the U.S. — a
September 07, 2023President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration after his first choice withdrew March after running into opposition from Republican senators. The White House said Thursday that Biden will nominate Michael G. Whitaker, a former deputy administrator at the FAA. He is currently the chief operating officer of a Hyundai affiliate working to develop an air taxi aircraft. Whitaker’s nomination had been expected for months, and Biden’s announcement was praised by several industry and labor groups. The FAA, which regulates airline safety and manages the nation’s airspace, has been run by back-to-back
September 07, 2023A wealthy Russian businessman with ties to the Kremlin was sentenced Thursday to nine years in prison for his role in a nearly $100 million stock market cheating scheme that relied on secret earnings information stolen through the hacking of U.S. computer networks. Vladislav Klyushin, who ran a Moscow-based information technology company that did work for the highest levels of the Russian government, was convicted in February of charges including wire fraud and securities fraud after a two-week trial in federal court in Boston. Authorities say he personally pocketed more than $33 million in the scheme, which
September 07, 2023A murderer who made a brazen escape from a suburban Philadelphia jail yard last week was still on the lam Thursday, but some schools that had closed due to the extensive manhunt planned to reopen, along with a tourist attraction that was shuttered when the escapee was spotted on its property. Danilo Souza Cavalcante, 34, escaped from the Chester County prison on Aug. 31. He scaled a wall, climbed over razor wire and jumped from a roof in a breakout that wasn’t detected by guards for a full hour, authorities have said. He has since
September 07, 2023Ta’Kiya Young treated her two little boys like kings, dressing them sharply, letting them have too many sweets, cooking them big gourmet meals of T-bone steak with broccoli, cheese and rice. The royal life also awaited her unborn daughter. When Young found out she was pregnant with her third child — a girl — she was thrilled. The 21-year-old Ohio mom and aspiring social worker bought a stack of adorable onesies in anticipation of the baby’s arrival. She scheduled a photo shoot to show off her baby bump. She applied for public housing and looked forward to the day when
September 07, 2023Japan’s prime minister said that China’s blanket ban on Japanese seafood in reaction to the release of treated radioactive water from a tsunami-ravaged nuclear power plant contrasts starkly with broad understanding shown by many other members of the international community. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s northeastern coast started releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater in late August into the Pacific Ocean. The release has been opposed by the Japanese fishing community, which is worried about the reputation of the fish it catches. China immediately banned all Japanese seafood. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told
September 07, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, long a proponent of cutting interest rates, now supports his advisers’ economic plan that includes raising rates, a member of his economic team said Thursday. In a theory that runs contrary to traditional economic thinking, Erdogan has long pressured Turkey’s central bank governors to lower rates. The move was blamed for inflaming a cost-of-living crisis in the country. After winning reelection in May, however, Erdogan appointed a new economic team, including two accomplished bankers, signaling a turn to more conventional policies. But questions have lingered over whether the team would retain
September 07, 2023A daughter of a long-detained human rights activist in Bahrain said Thursday she would return to the island nation to press for his release while he and hundreds of other inmates are on a major hunger strike and even though she could be imprisoned as well. The trip by Maryam al-Khawaja draws renewed attention to the plight of her 62-year-old ailing father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, a dual Danish-Bahraini national convicted of internationally criticized terrorism charges and held in what a United Nations panel calls an “arbitrary” imprisonment ever since. It also raises the stakes of
September 07, 2023Online gig work is growing globally, particularly in the developing world, creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce, according to a World Bank report released Thursday. The report estimates the number of global online gig workers at as many as 435 million people and says demand for gig work increased 41% between 2016 and the first quarter of 2023. That boost is generating concern, though, among worker rights advocates about the lack of strong job protections in the gig economy, where people work job to job
September 07, 2023Online gig work is growing globally, particularly in the developing world, creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce, according to a World Bank report released Thursday. The report estimates the number of global online gig workers at as many as 435 million people and says demand for gig work increased 41% between 2016 and the first quarter of 2023. That boost is generating concern, though, among worker rights advocates about the lack of strong job protections in the gig economy, where people work job to job
September 07, 2023Online gig work is growing globally, particularly in the developing world, creating an important source of employment for women and young people in poorer countries where jobs are scarce, according to a World Bank report released Thursday. The report estimates the number of global online gig workers at as many as 435 million people and says demand for gig work increased 41% between 2016 and the first quarter of 2023. That boost is generating concern, though, among worker rights advocates about the lack of strong job protections in the gig economy, where people work job to job
September 07, 2023A Norwegian man using a metal detector has found nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls someone might have worn as showy jewelry 1,500 years ago
September 07, 2023Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before Election Day, Google said in an update to its political content policy that disclosure of AI to alter images must be clear and conspicuous and be located somewhere that users are likely to notice it. Though fake images, videos or audio clips are not new to political advertising, generative AI tools are making it easier to do, and more realistic. Some presidential campaigns in the 2024 race —
September 07, 2023Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before Election Day, Google said in an update to its political content policy that disclosure of AI to alter images must be clear and conspicuous and be located somewhere that users are likely to notice it. Though fake images, videos or audio clips are not new to political advertising, generative AI tools are making it easier to do, and more realistic. Some presidential campaigns in the 2024 race —
September 07, 2023Google will soon require that political ads using artificial intelligence be accompanied by a prominent disclosure if imagery or sounds have been synthetically altered. Starting in November, just under a year before Election Day, Google said in an update to its political content policy that disclosure of AI to alter images must be clear and conspicuous and be located somewhere that users are likely to notice it. Though fake images, videos or audio clips are not new to political advertising, generative AI tools are making it easier to do, and more realistic. Some presidential campaigns in the 2024 race —
September 07, 2023Don’t rock the boat. A year after the death of Queen Elizabeth II triggered questions about the future of the British monarchy, King Charles III’s reign has been marked more by continuity than transformation, by changes in style rather than substance. Charles, who waited more than 70 years to ascend the throne, moved seamlessly into his new role, avoiding controversy and sidestepping major reforms despite questions about whether an unelected king can still represent the people of modern Britain. Most people seem to have shrugged off Charles’ occasional faux pas — most publicly when he threw a
September 07, 2023Over a thousand Syrian refugees each week fleeing to Lebanon from their country’s worsening economic and financial conditions “could create harsh imbalances” in the small Mediterranean nation, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned Thursday. Over the past months, thousands of Syrian citizens made it to Lebanon through illegal crossing points seeking a better life. But Lebanon is going through its own four-year meltdown, with a drowning economy pinning its hopes on tourism and crumbling infrastructure where electricity and water cuts are widespread. In the early years after conflict broke out in Syria in March 2011, Lebanon received
September 07, 2023Film director Agnieszka Holland demanded an apology from Poland’s justice minister after he compared her latest film, which explores the migration crisis at the Poland-Belarus border, to Nazi propaganda. Holland said Wednesday that she planned to bring defamation charges against Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro unless she receives an apology within seven days. She also demanded that he make a charitable donation of 50,000 Polish zlotys ($11,600) to an association that helps Holocaust survivors. Holland’s feature film, “Green Border,” explores a migration crisis that has played out along Poland’s border with Belarus over the past two years.
September 07, 2023Pets provide joy and companionship, but costs can add up quickly, especially if you’re a first-time owner and don’t know what to expect. Many prospective dog or cat owners only focus on the positive aspects of bringing a furry friend into their lives. And there are countless reasons why pets are great. But it’s also important to have realistic expectations so you don’t face sudden expenses that could hurt your financial stability. “It’s important to be able to choose a pet that is going to fit your budget and your lifestyle the best,” said Dr. Wendy
September 07, 2023Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters on Thursday as forecasters warned it could become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season. Lee was not expected to make landfall while on a projected path that will take it near the northeast Caribbean, although forecasters said tropical storm conditions are possible on some islands. Meteorologists said it was too early to provide details on potential rainfall and wind gusts. The storm was located some 965 miles (1,555 kilometers) from the northern Leeward Islands. It had winds of up to 80 miles per hour (130
September 07, 2023Gabon’s ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been under house arrest since he was deposed last week, is free Thursday and can embark on a medical trip, the country’s new military leaders said. Ondimba is “free to move given his state of health,” Col. Ulrich Manfoumbi, spokesman for the transition committee, said on state television a day earlier. “He can, if he wishes, go abroad to carry out his medical checks.” The ousted president’s health was not immediately clear. He had suffered a stroke in late 2018 that kept him from his duties for months.
September 07, 2023More than 800 people have been rescued over the past two days from floods in Greece, the fire department said Thursday, after severe rainstorms turned streets into raging torrents, hurling cars into the sea and washing away roads. The rainstorms have also hit neighboring Bulgaria and Turkey, leaving 14 people dead in the three countries, including three people in Greece. Fire department spokesperson Vasilis Vathrakogiannis said swift water rescue specialists and divers from the department’s disaster response units, as well as the army, were participating in rescue efforts and were trying to reach remote areas despite
September 07, 2023A powerful Japanese entertainment company tarnished by sexual assault allegations against its late founder appointed one of its stars as its new president Thursday after the previous chief resigned and apologized for the abuse young clients suffered over decades. Julie Keiko Fujishima announced she was stepping down as president of Johnny & Associates, the talent agency founded by her late uncle, Johnny Kitagawa. She said the alleged sex abuse had really happened and that she would stay on the company’s board to see through a victim compensation program. “This is what my uncle committed, and as a
September 07, 2023Researchers have discovered new documentation that substantiates reports that Catholic convents and monasteries in Rome sheltered Jews during World War II, providing names of at least 3,200 Jews whose identities have been corroborated by the city’s Jewish community, officials said Thursday. Researchers from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust research institute and Rome’s Jewish community released the findings at an academic conference Thursday held at the Museum of the Shoah, part of Rome’s main synagogue. The documentation doesn’t appear to shed any new light on the role of Pope Pius XII during the Nazi occupation
September 07, 2023British police hunted across the country on Thursday and put ports and airports on alert for a former soldier who escaped from a London prison while awaiting trial on terrorism charges. Opposition politicians demanded to know how Daniel Abed Khalife managed to slip out of medium-security Wandsworth Prison and why he was not being held at a maximum-security facility. Khalife, 21, is accused of planting fake bombs at a military base and of violating Britain’s Official Secrets Act by gathering information “that could be useful to an enemy.” He was discharged from the British army after his
September 07, 2023Five drones were shot down over three Russian regions overnight, with one targeting the capital, officials said Thursday. There were reports of no casualties. Meanwhile, Russia launched a fourth day of air attacks on the Ukrainian port city of Izmail, located on the Danube river. Oleh Kiper, regional Governor of Odesa, said infrastructure was damaged in the attack, including grain silos, and one person was injured. The attack came one day after a Russian missile struck a busy market in the eastern city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk, killing 17 and wounding at least 32. The attack overshadowed a two-day visit
September 07, 2023The United Nations chief renewed an urgent call to the international community Thursday to seek a unified strategy to end the worsening crisis in Myanmar. Secretary-General António Guterres said declining financial aid should be boosted to previous levels to enable the world body to respond to an “enormous tragedy.” He said the situation in Myanmar has further deteriorated since he met with ASEAN leaders in a 2022 summit, and again called on the crisis-wracked country’s military-installed government to immediately free all political prisoners and “open the door to a return to democratic rule.” Myanmar’s army seized
September 07, 2023Australia and China opened their first high-level dialogue in three years Thursday in a sign of a slight thaw to relations between countries that have clashed on everything from human rights to COVID-19 origins to trade. “I welcome the recent positive developments in the bilateral relationship, but we know that there is more work to do,” said Craig Emerson, the head of the Australian delegation and a former trade minister. The dialogue being held in Beijing will focus on trade, people-to-people links and security. China’s former Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said the two countries should work
September 07, 2023Three round-the-world sailors reached land safely Thursday after sharks nearly sank their catamaran in the Coral Sea. Both of the inflatable hulls on their 9-meter (30-foot) boat were damaged in several attacks by what were thought to be cookiecutter sharks — a small species not considered dangerous to people. Aerial photos of the men’s rescue showed major damage to the boat, which was nearly submerged and a front section of one hull was completely missing. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority coordinated the rescue of the two Russian and one French sailor after they activated an emergency
September 07, 2023Shares slipped Thursday in Asia as China reported weaker global demand hit its trade in August, adding to pressures on its economy. Oil prices and U.S. futures also fell. Hong Kong’s benchmark fell more than 1% and most other major regional markets also declined. China said its exports fell 8.8% in August from a year earlier, while imports were down 7.3%. The declines were smaller than the double-digit drops in July, however, and were better than most forecasts. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng, which has yoyoed this week on news about Chinese policy changes for the property sector, declined on selling
September 07, 2023A Mexican Supreme Court ruling that invalidated all federal criminal penalties for abortion continued a regional trend of widening access to the procedure, but left in place a patchwork of varying state restrictions. The high court ordered Wednesday that abortion be removed from the federal penal code, and will require the federal public health service and all federal health institutions to offer abortion to anyone who requests it. That will mean access for millions of Mexicans. The social security service and other federal institutions provide health care to most people who work in the formal economy.
September 07, 2023With the selection of former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as the candidate of the country’s ruling party in next June’s election, Mexico will for the first time have time two women from its main political movements competing for the presidency. Sheinbaum, as well as the opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, have insisted that Mexico is ready to be led by a woman, but it will not be an easy path. On Wednesday night, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party announced that Sheinbaum had defeated five internal party rivals – all men. López Obrador has put
September 07, 2023India, the current president of the Group of 20 industrialized and developing nations, has proposed a global biofuel alliance that seeks to accelerate the development of sustainable biofuels to support the global energy transition. The alliance is likely to get an official announcement at the G-20 summit that opens this week in New Delhi, and it’s expected that more than 15 countries will sign up to be part of the alliance. The United States, Canada and Brazil are among a few of the countries expected to join India in such an alliance. WHAT ARE BIOFUELS? Any
September 07, 2023Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says his country is “becoming the voice of the Global South,” and that at the upcoming Group of 20 meetings being held in New Delhi, that voice will be heard. At the August summit of the BRICS nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — current chair South Africa declared its goal was to “advance the agenda of the Global South.” And ahead of this May’s summit of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies in Hiroshima, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressed that the guest nations he had invited
September 07, 2023Ahead of India’s hosting of the G20 summit of leading economies, its prime minister invited 125 mostly developing countries to a virtual meeting in January to signal New Delhi’s intention to be their champion on the world stage. As the leaders logged onto Zoom, Prime Minister Narendra Modi listed major challenges he said could be better addressed if developing countries had a bigger share in the emerging global order: the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, terrorism, the war in Ukraine. “The world is in a state of crisis,” Modi said. “Most of the global challenges have not
September 07, 2023China’s exports declined at a slower pace in August, even as the world’s second-biggest economy remains under pressure from weaker demand both domestically and abroad. Exports for August slumped 8.8% from the same time last year, totaling $284.87 billion, and were slower than the 14.5% last month, according to customs data Thursday. Imports slid 7.3% from a year ago to $216.51 billion, but beat consensus estimates of a 9% decline. China’s trade surplus contracted 13.2% to $68.36 billion, lower than the $80.6 billion in July. Chinese leaders have in recent months rolled out several policy measures
September 07, 2023Lined up like soldiers guarding a nation’s treasures, dozens of shelves preserve an archive that gives account of a painful episode in Chile’s history: 47,000 instances of human rights violations during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The documents were gathered between 1976 and 1992 by workers of the Vicariate of Solidarity, a human rights organization founded by Chilean Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez. Led by social workers, lawyers, archivists and physicians, it provided support to those harmed by the regime. “The archive gives an account of how the repression occurred,” said María Paz Vergara, executive secretary at
September 07, 2023The former mayor of Mexico City will be the dominant ruling party’s presidential candidate, moving the country closer to electing its first female president next year. The decision driven by polls of Morena party members means that Claudia Sheinbaum will run as the party’s candidate in the June election. Mexico’s constitution bars outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador from a second six-year term. Morena national council president Alfonso Durazo said Sheinbaum beat former Foreign Affairs Secretary Marcelo Ebrard by double figures in five party surveys. Sheinbaum is a close ally of the popular López Obrador and
September 07, 2023Japan launched a rocket Thursday carrying an X-ray telescope that will explore the origins of the universe as well as a small lunar lander. The launch of the HII-A rocket from Tanegashima Space Center in southwestern Japan was shown on live video by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, known as JAXA. “We have a liftoff,” the narrator at JAXA said as the rocket flew up in a burst of smoke then flew over the Pacific. Thirteen minutes after the launch, the rocket put into orbit around Earth a satellite called the X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission, or
September 06, 2023South Dakota regulators on Wednesday denied a construction permit for a carbon dioxide pipeline project, one month after a North Dakota panel did the same to a similar project by another company. Navigator CO2 Ventures wants to build a 1,300-mile (2,092 kilometers) pipeline network across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota, to carry planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions from more than 20 industrial plants to be buried over a mile underground in Illinois. The South Dakota Public Utilities Commission voted unanimously to deny Navigator’s application for its Heartland Greenway pipeline. Chair Kristie Fiegen cited myriad reasons in her motion to
September 06, 2023Phoenix, already the hottest large city in America, is poised to set yet another heat record this weekend while confirmed heat-associated deaths are on track for a record of their own. The National Weather Service says after a brief respite from the heat over the Labor Day holiday, the city is expected to break its previous record of 53 days of 110-degree Fahrenheit (43.3 Celsius) weather in a single year, set in 2020. Afternoon weekend highs will range between 108 and 113 degrees Fahrenheit (42.2-45 Celsius) across Arizona’s lower deserts. “Remember to stay hydrated and avoid sun
September 06, 2023The felony convictions of four Navy officers in one of the worst bribery cases in the maritime branch’s history were vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct Wednesday, the latest misstep in the government’s yearslong efforts in going after dozens of military officials tied to a defense contractor nicknamed Fat Leonard. U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino called the misconduct “outrageous” and agreed to allow the four men to plead guilty to a misdemeanor and pay a $100 fine each. The surprising turn of events occurred at a sentencing hearing in federal court in San Diego for the former
September 06, 2023Texas must move a large floating barrier that Gov. Greg Abbott placed on the river between the U.S. and Mexico this summer as part of the Republican’s escalating attempts to stop migrants from crossing America’s southern border, a federal judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra stopped short of ordering Texas to dismantle the wrecking-ball sized buoys on the Rio Grande but called them a threat to safety and relationships between the neighboring countries. His preliminary injunction instructs Texas, for now, to move the barrier out of the water and onto the riverbank by Sept.
September 06, 2023Families perched atop houses pleading for help to escape the deadly flooding after a cyclone hammered southern Brazil, with the region’s governor calling it “an absolutely out of the ordinary event.” The world’s latest extreme weather disaster killed at least 31 people and left at least 1,600 homeless, authorities said Wednesday. The scope of the damage was enormous: Rio Grande do Sol Gov. Eduardo Leite said it was his state’s highest death toll from a climate event, with “entire cities that were completely compromised.” The toll included at least 15 bodies in a single house. Flooding also wracked Greece, Turkey
September 06, 2023Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion nationwide Wednesday, two years after ruling that abortion was not a crime in one northern state. That earlier ruling had set off a grinding process of decriminalizing abortion state by state. Last week, the central state of Aguascalientes became the 12th state to decriminalize the procedure. Judges in states that still criminalize abortion will have to take account of the top court’s ruling. The court’s sweeping decision Wednesday comes amid a trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on abortion, even as access has been limited in parts of the United
September 06, 2023The U.S. on Wednesday announced it was sending depleted uranium anti-tank rounds to Ukraine, following Britain’s lead in sending the controversial munitions to help Kyiv push through Russian lines in its grueling counteroffensive. The 120 mm rounds will be used to arm the 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks the U.S. plans to deliver to Ukraine in the fall. Such armor-piercing rounds were developed by the U.S. during the Cold War to destroy Soviet tanks, including the same T-72 tanks that Ukraine now faces in its counteroffensive. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process needed to
September 06, 2023Alex Murdaugh’s double murder case has been full of twists and turns: How did a dog crack the case? Where are the bloody clothes and weapons? And where did all the money Murdaugh is accused of stealing go? But one of the biggest surprises came on Tuesday, six months after Murdaugh was convicted of killing his wife and son. Murdaugh’s lawyers filed court papers saying he deserves a new trial because elected Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill allegedly tampered with the jury that found him guilty earlier this year. Prosecutors have 10 days to
September 06, 2023A high school football coach in Washington state who won his job back after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled he could pray on the field resigned Wednesday after just one game back. Assistant Bremerton High School coach Joe Kennedy made the announcement on his website, citing several reasons, including that he needed to care for an ailing family member out of state. He had been living full-time in Florida, and before the first game last Friday he said he didn’t know if he’d continue coaching. “I believe I can best continue to advocate for constitutional freedom and
September 06, 2023A blast of late summer heat caused disruptions Wednesday for schools from Michigan to Virginia, with some districts dismissing students early and others holding classes online just days into the new academic year. While temperatures weren’t as high as last month’s triple-digit deadly heat wave, schools in states including Michigan, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey cited inadequate air conditioning in cutting days short. One Massachusetts district canceled two days of classes because of hot classrooms. Temperatures in the mid-90s also led to online learning in Pittsburgh and Baltimore. Only 20% of public schools in Detroit, where the temperature reached 89
September 06, 2023A Victorian-style silver snake bangle Freddie Mercury wore with an ivory satin catsuit in the “Bohemian Rhapsody” video sold for the highest price ever paid for a piece of jewelry owned by a rock star, Sotheby’s said Wednesday. The bracelet went for 698,500 pounds ($881,000) — 100 times its estimated low price — as the late Queen star’s most prized possessions, including flamboyant stage costumes, handwritten drafts to hits such as “We are the Champions” and the baby grand piano he composed Queen’s greatest hits on went up for sale. It broke a record set when John
September 06, 2023West Virginia University faculty approved a symbolic motion on Wednesday expressing no confidence in President E. Gordon Gee as the university addresses a $45 million budget shortfall. The university is struggling with the financial toll of dwindling enrollment, revenue lost during the COVID-19 pandemic and an increasing debt load for new building projects. The budget shortfall is projected to grow as high as $75 million in five years. The faculty resolution on Gee said what it called his administration’s poor planning, faulty decision making and financial mismanagement has significantly contributed to the crisis. It called into
September 06, 2023Thirty-six states and the District of Colombia have reached an agreement in principle with Google to settle a lawsuit filed in 2021 over the tech giant’s alleged monopolistic control of app distribution for the software that runs most of the world’s cellphones. The agreement, cited in a court filing late Tuesday by both sides, is subject to approval by the state attorneys general and the board of directors of Google’s parent company, the execution of an agreement and court approval. Terms of the temporary agreement bar the parties from disclosing its details for now, according to the Utah attorney general’s
September 06, 2023The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in eastern Ukraine turned an outdoor market into a fiery, blackened ruin where weeping civilians looked for loved ones among the mangled, burned bodies scattered across the ground. The blast in the town of Kostiantynivka killed 17 people and wounded at least 32 in one of Russia’s deadliest strikes in months, Ukrainian officials said. “There was no military target here. This is a peaceful neighborhood in the city center,” Stefan Slovak, who lives in Kostiantynivka, said in a trembling voice. Behind him were the remnants of the market, where charred
September 06, 2023The head of the United Auto Workers warned Wednesday that the union plans to go on strike against any Detroit automaker that hasn’t reached a new agreement by the time contracts expire next week. “That’s the plan,” President Shawn Fain responded when asked if the union would strike any of the companies that haven’t reached a tentative deal by the time their national contracts end. A strike against all three major automakers — General Motors, Stellantis and Ford — could cause damage not only to the industry as a whole but also to the Midwest economy, and
September 06, 2023Delta Air Lines says it’s bringing former star quarterback Tom Brady on board as a “long-term strategic adviser.” Brady is a seven-time Super Bowl winner for the New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “Bringing a leader like Tom onto the Delta team furthers our mission to connect the world while accelerating our drive to continuously improve for our colleagues, customers and communities,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in a news release announcing the partnership. Delta did not disclose how much it is paying Brady. Delta said Brady will play a role in marketing and help the
September 06, 2023WeWork said Wednesday it will attempt to renegotiate nearly all of its leases and may exit some properties, an announcement coming just weeks after the workspace-sharing company sounded the alarm over its ability to remain in business. The New York company must reduce its operating costs — notably its current lease liabilities, which “remain too high and are dramatically out of step with current market conditions,” WeWork Interim CEO David Tolley said in a statement published on the company’s website. WeWork’s lease liabilities accounted for more than two-thirds of its operating expenses for the second quarter
September 06, 2023Meta lost a legal battle Wednesday to halt a Norwegian ban on its advertising practices that came with hefty daily fines, in a blow to the U.S. social media giant’s business model. Norwegian regulator Datatilsynet in July announced a “temporary ban” on Facebook and Instagram’s behavioral advertising — a common marketing practice that tech giants like Meta use at the heart of their business models to sell targeted ads based on user data ranging from personal interests to places they’ve been. Such practices without adequate consent violate user privacy and are illegal, Datatilsynet said, adding that
September 06, 2023Members of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing genocide in Ukraine. Their comments came a day before they were scheduled to meet with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The ICC in March issued an international arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine. However, it has not yet charged him with any other offenses committed by Russian forces since their invasion of Ukraine more than 18 months ago. The committee’s chairman, Rep.
September 06, 2023A two-day summit in Romania began on Wednesday that brings together 12 European Union member states situated between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic Seas, as the grouping of mostly formerly communist countries aim to boost ties and connectivity amid Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Three Seas Initiative, which is being held in the capital, Bucharest, brings together high-ranking officials from EU countries as well as representatives from partner countries and aims to improve interconnectivity in the transportation, energy, and the digital fields. Before the event, the office of Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said that he would
September 06, 2023An extratropical cyclone in southern Brazil caused floods in several cities, killing at least 27 people and leaving more than 1,600 homeless, authorities said Wednesday. More than 60 cities have been battered by the storm since Monday night, and Rio Grande do Sul Gov. Eduardo Leite said that the death toll was the state’s highest due to a climate event. Rescue efforts expanded farther west on Wednesday with helicopters headed to the Rio Pardo Valley. Search and rescue teams had been focusing around the Taquari Valley, about 150 kilometers (31 miles) northwest of the state
September 06, 2023Two suburban Philadelphia school districts remained shuttered and one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens was closed Wednesday as authorities worked to flush out a convicted murderer who escaped from prison last week. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, has been spotted five times since he escaped Thursday from the Chester State Prison. The most recent sighting came Monday night at Longwood Gardens, where trail surveillance video captured him walking through the area with a duffel bag, backpack and hooded sweatshirt he apparently stole while on the run. That sighting led officials to move the search area farther
September 06, 2023Gabriel Prout worked four seasons on his father’s crab boat, the Silver Spray, before joining his two brothers in 2020 to buy a half-interest plus access rights for a snow crab fishery that’s typically the largest and richest in the Bering Sea. Then in 2021, disaster: an annual survey found crabs crashing to an all-time low. The red king crab fishery was closed; the snow crab fishery cut to a tenth of the previous year’s take. After another bad survey last year, the red king crab fishery closed again and the snow crab fishery closed for
September 06, 2023The British government has been accused of “cutting corners” as it published Wednesday a list of 147 schools in England that are potentially at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete. The list from the Department for Education, which oversees schools in England, shows that 19 schools have had to delay the start of the new academic year because of the concrete crisis and that students at 24 others will receive some remote learning, with four having switched to fully remote learning at the weekend. Other educational establishments could be added to the list over the coming days
September 06, 2023Ukraine’s Greek Catholic bishops told Pope Francis on Wednesday that his words praising Russia’s imperial past had pained the Ukrainian people, bringing complaints about the Vatican’s diplomatic neutrality in Moscow’s war on their country to the heart of the Holy See. The bishops were in Rome for a periodic meeting and met with the pope in person for nearly two hours. While thanking Francis for his prayers, the bishops said certain statements and gestures from the pope and the Vatican “are painful and difficult for the Ukrainian people, who are currently bleeding in the struggle for their
September 06, 2023Romania’s defense minister said Wednesday that pieces apparently of a drone from Russia’s recent attacks on Ukraine’s port on the Danube River have been found on the territory of his country. Romania is a NATO member. Angel Tilvar, the minister, told local news channel Antena 3 CNN that parts of what was most likely a drone were discovered in the eastern Tulcea county, an area of the Danube that forms a natural border between Romania and war-torn Ukraine. “I confirm that in this area, pieces that may be of a drone were found,” he said, adding
September 06, 2023A former head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Israel is enforcing an apartheid system in the West Bank, joining a tiny but growing list of retired officials to endorse an idea that remains largely on the fringes of Israeli discourse and international diplomacy. Tamir Pardo becomes the latest former senior official to have concluded that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank amounts to apartheid, a reference to the system of racial separation in South Africa that ended in 1994. Leading rights groups in Israel and abroad and
September 06, 2023A Greek prosecutor brought criminal charges Wednesday against an island ferry captain and three of his crew over the death of a tardy passenger whom a crew member pushed into the sea as he tried to board the departing vessel in Greece’s main port of Piraeus. One crew member was charged with homicide with possible intent, and the other two with complicity, while the captain was charged with severe breaches of shipping regulations, state-run ERT television reported. Greece’s minister for merchant marine, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, expressed “shock, horror and sorrow” at the incident, and identified the victim
September 06, 2023South African officials did not know a sanctioned Russian ship was assigned to deliver military equipment to the country until the vessel was nearing national waters, according to an inquiry into an incident that caused diplomatic tensions between South Africa and the U.S. U.S. Ambassador Reuben Brigety accused South Africa in May of having weapons intended for Russia loaded on to the Lady R when the container ship docked near Cape Town in December. The ship is under U.S. sanctions for ties to a company that transported arms for Russia’s war on Ukraine. South Africa denied there
September 06, 2023Interpol is turning 100 with a mixed legacy — as a misconstrued crime-fighting organization, a network that merges police data from authoritarian states and democracies, and a global adviser on how to handle criminal trends. Secretary-General Jürgen Stock, a German who took office in 2014, has said he believes all police officers ultimately have the same goal: stopping criminals. The challenge, he said in an interview with The Associated Press, is that Interpol brings 195 very different countries into a network of databases of crimes and wanted fugitives. Interpol has no police force of its own,
September 06, 2023The Danish defense said Wednesday that they are abolishing the height requirements for people serving with the Danish Royal Life Guards, mainly known for being a ceremonial unit outside Denmark’s royal palaces. Joining the Danish defense “is not about whether you are male or female or tall or short. It is about the ability to solve the task,” the armed forces said. Until now, it was required for men had to be at least 175 centimeters tall (5-foot-9) and women 169 centimeters (5-foot-6) to serve in the unit. The Danish Royal Life Guards is a mechanized
September 06, 2023There’s often a point when car enthusiasts are looking to purchase their first new performance car or sports car. Inflation and price creep have pushed many desirable models out of reach, but fortunately, a handful of automakers remain committed to offering thrill-making machines with wallet-friendly price tags. Edmunds’ car experts have rounded up six of the best with starting prices under $33,000. These vehicles have a high Edmunds rating and are listed by the manufacturer’s suggested retail price and include the destination charge. MAZDA MX-5 MIATA The Miata has long been the quintessential affordable convertible sports car thanks to its
September 06, 2023A walk through the busy business district of Mombasa Road in Nairobi, or even a rural community in Kisii County, Kenya, highlights something that’s getting attention at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi this week — solar power that is not connected to the grid. With or without the encouragement of government policy, families and businesses are choosing off-grid solar in the face of an unreliable grid. According to the World Bank, the number of so-called minigrids, meaning solar systems that support a cluster of homes or businesses, has grown from 500 in Africa in 2000 to
September 06, 2023The European Union is targeting Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google parent Alphabet, Facebook owner Meta and TikTok parent ByteDance under new digital rules aimed at reining in the market power of online companies. The six companies were classified Wednesday as online “gatekeepers” that must face the highest level of scrutiny under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Markets Act. The act amounts to a list of do’s and don’ts that seeks to prevent tech giants from cornering digital markets, with the threat of whopping fines or even forcing Big Tech companies to sell of parts of their business to operate
September 06, 2023The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on a Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his troops in their monthslong conflict with Sudan’s army. In a lengthy statement, the U.S. Treasury said it had sanctioned Abdelrahim — a senior military commander and brother of Mohammed Hamdan Daglo who is the head of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces— accusing him of leading a group of soldiers responsible for “the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use of sexual violence.” Sudan plunged into chaos almost five months ago when long-simmering
September 06, 2023A Nigerian environmental activist declared Wednesday at the first African Climate Summit that carbon markets are “bogus solutions,” providing a sharp reminder that not all of Africa’s 1.3 billion people support richer countries using the continent’s green spaces to offset continued polluting at home. The summit has sought to reframe the African continent, which has enormous amounts of clean energy minerals and renewable energy sources, as less of a victim of climate change driven by the world’s biggest economies and more of the solution. But investment in the continent in exchange for the ability to keep
September 06, 2023In talks with Southeast Asian leaders Wednesday in the Indonesian capital, Chinese Premier Li Qiang underscored his country’s importance as the world’s second-biggest economy and as the top trading partner of the region. Countering renewed alarm over Beijing’s aggression in the disputed South China Sea, Li cited China’s long history of friendship with Southeast Asia, including joint efforts to confront the coronavirus pandemic and how both sides have settled differences through dialogue. “As long as we keep to the right path, no matter what storm may come, China-ASEAN cooperation will be as firm as ever and
September 06, 2023The death toll from severe rainstorms that lashed parts of Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria increased to eight Wednesday after rescue teams located the body of a missing vacation who was swept away by flood waters that raged through a campsite in northwest Turkey. A flash flood at the campsite near the border with Bulgaria carried away bungalow homes. Hundreds of homes and workplaces in several neighborhoods in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, also were inundated during Tuesday’s storms. At least five people died, three at the campsite and two in Istanbu, authorities said. Rescuers were still searching for
September 06, 2023U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit Wednesday, hours after Russia launched its first missile attack in a week against the Ukrainian capital. Blinken’s trip aimed to assess Ukraine’s 3-month-old counteroffensive and signal continued U.S. support for Kyiv’s efforts to drive out the Kremlin’s forces after 19 months of war amid concerns among some Western allies over the pace of progress, according to U.S. officials. Those Washington officials said possible alternative export routes for Ukrainian grain will also be discussed following Russia’s exit from the Black Sea Grain Initiative and
September 06, 2023Earth has sweltered through its hottest Northern Hemisphere summer ever measured, with a record warm August capping a season of brutal and deadly temperatures, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment, it was also the second hottest month measured, behind only July 2023, WMO and the European climate service Copernicus announced Wednesday. August was about 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than pre-industrial averages, which is the warming threshold that the world is trying not to pass. But the 1.5 C
September 06, 2023An appeals court in Nigeria convened Wednesday to rule on whether President Bola Tinubu’s February election victory was legitimate, a decision that has put Africa’s most populous country on edge. The opposition challenged the election results, arguing that Tinubu was not qualified to run for president because he was a citizen of Guinea and allegedly did not have the required academic credentials. The opposition has hinted at possible protests if the court rules in his favor. Tinubu has denied all the allegations. Security was tight in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, where five judges at the
September 06, 2023The U.K. announced Wednesday it will declare Russia’s Wagner mercenary group a banned terrorist organization, saying it remains a threat to global security even after the death of leader Yevgeny Prigozhin. The government said an order will be introduced in Parliament to proscribe the group under the Terrorism Act. The designation, once approved by lawmakers, will bar membership in or support for Wagner, which has played a major fighting role during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It also has operated in Syria and several African nations. The move, expected to take effect within days, puts Wagner in the
September 06, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s possible trip to Russia might be like his first one in 2019 — a rattling, 20-hour ride aboard a green-and-yellow armored train that is a quirky symbol of his family’s dynastic leadership. In what would be his first foreign travel since the start of the pandemic, United States officials say Kim may visit Russia this month for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, possibly to advance talks on North Korean arms sales to refill Russian reserves drained by its war on Ukraine. According to U.S. reports, a potential
September 06, 2023The weeklong clashes between rival U.S.-backed militias in eastern Syria, where hundreds of American troops are deployed, point to dangerous seams in the coalition that has kept a lid on the defeated Islamic State group for years. That could be an opportunity for the radical group to reemerge. The violence also points to rising tensions between Kurds who dominate the region and the mainly Arab population, opening the door for Syrian President Bashar Assad and his allies, Russia and Iran, to try to make inroads in an oil-rich territory where they seek to drive out U.S. troops
September 06, 2023Nearly a month after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century killed at least 115 people, authorities on Maui are working their way through a list of the missing that has grown almost as quickly as names have been removed. Lawsuits are piling up in court over liability for the inferno, and businesses across the island are fretting about the loss of tourism. Government officials from Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen to President Joe Biden have pledged support, and thousands of people have been put up in hotels and elsewhere as they await clearance to
September 06, 2023Lawyers for a former Michigan police officer are asking the state appeals court to throw out a murder charge in the killing of a Black motorist in 2022. The court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday in the case against Christopher Schurr, who shot Patrick Lyoya in the back of the head after a morning traffic stop in Grand Rapids turned into a short foot chase and vigorous struggle. In a filing, Schurr’s attorneys said lower courts wrongly applied the law to the circumstances of Lyoya’s death. “Officer Schurr reasonably believed a felony had occurred
September 06, 2023Shares were mostly lower in Asia on Wednesday after a decline on Wall Street as traders returned from a long holiday weekend. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index advanced but most other regional markets fell. Crude oil prices pushed higher, adding to inflationary pressures at a time when investors are hoping to see central banks back away from interest rate hikes. “While oil bulls are dancing in the street, the notable price uptick could prove challenging for central banks and financial markets, which were embellishing the current lower inflation groove,” Stephen Innes of SPI Asset Management said in a commentary. Coming off
September 06, 2023Sri Lanka’s government will appoint a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report that Sri Lankan intelligence had complicity in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed 269 people. Labor Minister Manusha Nanayakkara told Parliament on Tuesday that details on the investigation will be announced soon. A man interviewed in the Channel 4 videos released Tuesday said he arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired group and a top state intelligence official to hatch a plot to create insecurity in Sri Lanka and enable Gotabaya Rajapaksa to win the presidential
September 06, 2023Major roads in New Delhi are teeming with giant posters and billboards announcing India’s presidency of this week’s summit of the Group of 20 nations. And one leader’s picture — smiling benignly from every traffic circle — stands out from the rest: Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Modi is also on the front page of major newspapers, and Indian TV channels are flashing his picture, accompanied by the Hindi word “Vishwaguru” — a leader of the world. In public speeches, his ministers are touting him as a steward of a surging India. It is an unabashed homage
September 06, 2023After a visit to a warehouse where Hawaiian Electric Company is housing power poles and electrical equipment that may be key to the investigation of last month’s devastating fires on Maui, lawyers for Lahaina residents and business owners told a court Tuesday that cable TV and telephone companies share responsibility for the disaster because they allegedly overloaded and destabilized some of the poles. The lawyers said the cables were attached in a way that put too much tension on the poles, causing them to lean and break in the winds on Aug. 8 when flames burned down
September 06, 2023China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut. Authorities in China arrested the two men for smashing a path through a section of the ancient wall, a cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site. The area of the breach was a broken-down section far from the restored segments most Chinese and foreign tourists are familiar with. State media showed a dirt road cut through a the wall against a rural landscape in Youyu County, hundreds of kilometers (miles) west of
September 06, 2023China’s Great Wall has been pierced by Genghis Khan, the Manchus, and now, allegedly, a couple of construction workers named Zheng and Wang who wanted a shortcut
September 06, 2023Prosecutors in Japan indicted a 24-year-old man Wednesday on attempted murder and other charges in the explosive attack on Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April, Japanese media reported. Kishida was campaigning for elections in Wakayama in western Japan when a man threw a homemade pipe bomb at him. Kishida was unhurt, but two others had minor injuries. After a three-month psychiatric evaluation of the suspect, prosecutors determined that Ryuji Kimura, 24, is mentally fit for trial and that the bomb used in the attack was lethal, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported. Kyodo reported that court records show
September 06, 2023The humanitarian situation in conflict-wracked eastern Congo has deteriorated alarmingly in the past 18 months with 8 million people in urgent need of assistance and women and girls subjected to sexual violence on a massive scale — just in three provinces, a senior U.N. official said Tuesday. Edem Wosornu, the U.N. humanitarian office’s operations director who just returned from a trip to Congo with emergency directors from U.N. agencies and humanitarian organizations, said that what they saw and heard “was shocking, heartbreaking and sobering.” She said the situation in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces
September 06, 2023Green hydrogen is being touted around the world as a clean energy solution to take the carbon out of high-emitting sectors like transport and industrial manufacturing. The India-led International Solar Alliance launched the Green Hydrogen Innovation Centre earlier this year, and India itself approved $2.3 billion for the production, use and export of green hydrogen. Global cooperation on green hydrogen manufacturing and supply is expected to be discussed by G-20 leaders at this week’s summit in New Delhi. WHAT IS GREEN HYDROGEN? Hydrogen is produced by separating that element from others in molecules where hydrogen occurs.
September 06, 2023California lawmakers on Tuesday voted to outlaw discrimination based on caste, adding protections for people of South Asian descent who say they have been left out of traditional American safeguards for fairness in employment and housing. The bill — the first of its kind in the U.S. — now heads to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who must decide whether to sign it into law. Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment about the bill. Caste is an ancient, complex system that regulates people’s social status based on their birth. It’s primarily associated with
September 05, 2023Cars are getting an “F” in data privacy. Most major manufacturers admit they may be selling your personal information, a new study finds, with half also saying they would share it with the government or law enforcement without a court order. The proliferation of sensors in automobiles — from telematics to fully digitized control consoles — has made them prodigious data-collection hubs. But drivers are given little or no control over the personal data their vehicles collect, researchers for the nonprofit Mozilla Foundation researchers said Wednesday in their latest “Privacy Not Included” survey Security standards are also
September 05, 2023Air Canada says it has apologized to two passengers who were escorted off a plane by security after protesting that their seats were smeared in vomit. The airline said Tuesday that the passengers “clearly did not receive the standard of care to which they were entitled.” The incident during boarding for an Aug. 26 flight from Las Vegas to Montreal was described in graphic detail by another passenger, Susan Benson of New Brunswick, who said she was in the row behind two women and a man. “There was a bit of a foul smell but we didn’t know at first
September 05, 2023At least 21 people died in southern Brazil due to a fierce storm that caused floods in several cities, authorities said Tuesday. Rio Grande do Sul Gov. Eduardo Leite said the death toll is the state’s highest due to a climate event. He said about 60 cities had been battered by the storm, which was classified as an extratropical cyclone. Leite said 15 of the deaths occurred in one house in Mucum, a city of about 50,000 residents. The Rio Grande do Sul state government said it had recorded 1,650 people made homeless since Monday night.
September 05, 2023In a bid to slow deforestation in the Amazon, Brazil announced Tuesday that it will provide financial support to municipalities that have reduced deforestation rates the most. During the country´s Amazon Day, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva also signed the creation of two Indigenous territories that total 207,000 hectares (511,000 acres) — over two times the size of New York City — and of a network of conservation areas next to the Yanonami Indigenous Territory to act as a buffer against invaders, mostly illegal gold miners. “The Amazon is in a hurry to survive
September 05, 2023A pair of Alaska teachers needed good news after they lost nearly all their possessions when their house collapsed into a river swollen by a glacial-outburst flood and their cat went missing. Elizabeth Wilkins was holding onto hope that if any animal would survive the house falling into the Mendenhall River on Aug. 5, it would be Leo, the couple’s resilient big-eyed, black-and-white cat who shows no fear of bears. “I knew that he’s pretty smart, and so I felt pretty confident that he would escape and be OK somewhere,” she said. That faith paid off
September 05, 2023The United Nations released $125 million from its emergency relief fund Tuesdat to boost underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 countries around the world, saying needs are skyrocketing. Afghanistan and Yemen top the list of recipients, with each getting $20 million, followed by Burkina Faso and Myanmar at $9 million each and Mali, Haiti and Venezuela at $8 million each. The U.N. Central Emergency Relief Fund known will also provide $6.5 million to both Central African Republic and Mozambique, $6 million to both Cameroon and the Palestinian territories and $4 million to Malawi. The fund will also
September 05, 2023The permanent memorial to the victims and survivors of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history will feature 58 candle-like beams under a plan officials in Las Vegas approved Tuesday. With the design officially in place, Clark County commissioners will shift their focus to selecting a nonprofit that will oversee fundraising and the construction and maintenance of the project. It took years to get to this point in the process and could take years more before the memorial is unveiled at the site of the attack on the Las Vegas Strip. The commissioners voted unanimously
September 05, 2023A state commission went to work Tuesday on designing a new state flag and seal for Minnesota to replace a current emblem in both that’s considered offensive to Native Americans. One of the main elements of Minnesota’s state flag includes a prominent state seal against a blue background. The seal depicts a Native American riding off into the sunset while a white settler plows his field with his rifle leaning on a nearby stump. The imagery suggests to many that the Indigenous people were defeated and going away, while whites won and were staying. Not only do
September 05, 2023Fierce rainstorms battered neighboring Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria on Tuesday, triggering flooding that caused at least seven deaths, including two holidaymakers swept away by a torrent that raged through a campsite in northwestern Turkey. Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said four other people were missing after the flash flood swept over the campsite in Kirklareli province, near the border with Bulgaria. He said about 12 vacationers were at the site when the waters hit. Search teams had located two bodies, he said on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “The search and rescue
September 05, 2023A major aid group is concerned that there is not enough international attention given to Ukraine and is bracing for fewer donations used to finance operations in the battle-scarred country, its president warned on Tuesday. The head of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband said, his central concern is that the 19-month war and the resulting humanitarian crisis caused by Russia’s invasion and continued attacks on civilian infrastructure are becoming “normalized” by the international community while the needs brought about by the war show no signs of diminishing, he said. “We know that the 2022 figures
September 05, 2023Open Society Foundations said Tuesday that it will spin off its support for Europe’s Roma communities into a new foundation and pledged €100 million, around $107 million, for that work. The Roma Foundation for Europe, which will be independent of OSF, launches in January and will be based in Brussels, said the foundations. Zeljko Jovanovic, director of OSF’s Roma Initiatives Office, will lead the new foundation. “This is a true European project because we are the biggest European minority, the most neglected and disadvantaged,” Jovanovic told The Associated Press, referring to the Roma community. “So when you support the most
September 05, 2023Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a proposed police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.” In the sweeping indictment, prosecutors allege the defendants are “militant anarchists” who have supported a violent movement that prosecutors trace to the widespread 2020 racial justice protests. The Aug. 29 indictment under the state’s racketeering law, also known as a RICO law, was released by Fulton County officials on Tuesday and was brought by Republican Attorney General Chris Carr. The “Stop Cop City”
September 05, 2023United Airlines departures have resumed after being halted nationwide for a brief time Tuesday because of a technology outage. Federal officials said that United crews had been unable to contact airline dispatchers through normal means. “United asked the FAA to pause the airline’s departures nationwide,” the Federal Aviation Administration said on X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. The FAA said the issue was limited to United and its subsidiaries. It announced before 2 p.m. Eastern time that the ground stop on United flights had been lifted. Before flights resumed, United said in a statement that it and
September 05, 2023Wait times for tens of thousands of Burning Man partygoers trying to exit the mud-caked northern Nevada desert are beginning to decrease after flooded roads left them stranded there for days. Event organizers said they started to let traffic flow out on the main road around 2 p.m. local time Monday — even as they urged attendees to delay their exit to help ease traffic. About two hours after the mass departure began, organizers estimated a wait time of about five hours. By Tuesday morning, wait times had dropped to between two and three
September 05, 2023The U.S. government is taking a big step toward forcing a defiant Tennessee company to recall 52 million air bag inflators that could explode, hurl shrapnel and injure or kill people. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday said it has made an initial decision that the inflators made by ARC Automotive Inc., and under license by another company, are defective. The agency scheduled a public hearing for Oct. 5, a required step before seeking a court-ordered recall. In May the agency asked ARC to recall the inflators, which it says are responsible for at least
September 05, 2023Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday delayed the first of three pivotal hearings on the legality of the judicial overhaul, spearheaded by the far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu, after the country’s attorney general expressed staunch opposition to the plan. For the eight months since the coalition took power, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, a Netanyahu ally, has refused to convene the committee that selects the nation’s judges, leaving numerous judgeships open across the country. Lawyers for Attorney General Gail Baharav-Miara, will now argue against the justice minister’s counsel in court, a situation which experts said is highly exceptional. Levin,
September 05, 2023Attorneys for convicted murder Alex Murdaugh want a new trial, accusing the court clerk of improperly influencing the jury. They’re accusing the court clerk at his double murder trial of telling jurors not to trust him when he testified in his own defense. They say she also had private conversations with the jury foreperson, and pressured jurors to come to a quick verdict. The request filed by Murdaugh’s lawyers on Tuesday also accuses Colleton County Clerk of Court Rebecca Hill of giving jury members business cards from reporters. After the verdict, she traveled to New York
September 05, 2023Belarus’ authoritarian president on Tuesday banned citizens from renewing their passports while staying abroad, which could force those who fled the country amid growing repression to return to maintain their travel documents. An estimated 200-300,000 Belarusians have left the country in the last three years since massive protests against an election that returned President Alexander Lukashenko to office led to a harsh crackdown on the political opposition. The election results were widely regarded as manipulated. Lukashenko’s decree stated that a Belarusian passport can only be renewed where the holder was a registered resident before leaving the
September 05, 2023Information theft is on the rise. Over 1.1 million people in the U.S. alone reported the crime to the Federal Trade Commission in 2022. When a thief opens accounts in your name or otherwise uses your data, you might feel powerless. But there are steps you can take to prevent the worst outcomes. Colleen Tressler, a senior project manager for the FTC, has tracked consumer issues including identity theft for more than three decades. She said frauds and scams often emerge during specific emergencies such as the COVID pandemic, and in the wake of climate-related catastrophes.
September 05, 2023The Zaporizhzhia region of southeast Ukraine has become the most recent hot spot for battles in the 18-month war, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday, as Kyiv’s forces press ahead with their counteroffensive. Shoigu told Russian military officers that Ukraine has brought up reserve brigades there that were trained by Kyiv’s Western allies. He offered no evidence for his claim, which could not be independently verified. Fighting in the southeast could be one of the keys to the war. If Russian defenses there collapse, Ukrainian forces could push southward toward the coast and potentially split
September 05, 2023Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw will step down this month, the mayor said Tuesday, ending a turbulent three years in which she guided one of the country’s largest police forces through pandemic lockdowns and Black Lives Matter protests to take a leadership position with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Outlaw, the first Black woman to run the 6,000-member department, came aboard just before the pandemic shutdown and quickly had to oversee the city’s safety as intense protests broke out in Philadelphia and across the country in the summer of 2020 over the police
September 05, 2023Authorities have moved and expanded the search area for a convicted murderer who escaped from a suburban Philadelphia prison last week, after he was spotted on a trail camera at one of the nation’s premier botanical gardens. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, has been spotted five time since he escaped Thursday from the Chester State Prison. The most recent siting came Monday night at Longwood Gardens, where surveillance video captured him walking through the area with a duffel bag, backpack and hooded sweatshirt. That sighting led officials to move the search area farther south after they determined
September 05, 2023Federal judges said Tuesday that they will draft new congressional lines for Alabama after lawmakers refused to create a second district where Black voters at least came close to comprising a majority, as suggested by the court. In blocking the newly drawn congressional map, the three-judge panel wrote that they are “deeply troubled” that Alabama lawmakers flouted their instruction to create a second majority-Black district or something close to it. A designated special master will be tapped to draw new districts for the state, the judges ordered. “This is a significant step toward equal representation for
September 05, 2023Saudi Arabia and Russia agreed Tuesday to extend their voluntary oil production cuts through the end of this year, trimming 1.3 million barrels of crude out of the global market and boosting energy prices. The dual announcements from Riyadh and Moscow pushed benchmark Brent crude above $90 a barrel in trading Tuesday afternoon, a price unseen in the market since last November. The countries’ moves likely will increase the cost for motorists filling up at the pump and put new pressure on Saudi Arabia’s relationship with the United States. President Joe Biden last year
September 05, 2023It’s a transaction that would be commonplace for a corporation or a sports team, but it’s the kind of deal that is practically unheard of in the nonprofit sector. The philanthropy research organization Candid will send control of its CF Insights website and the staff that gathered information about community foundations to the Council on Foundations, the association of nearly 900 nonprofit members, on Friday. Candid CEO Ann Mei Chang says the shift will allow her nonprofit to focus more sharply on priority areas – including diversity, transparency and effectiveness in the sector – while providing
September 05, 2023In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Even though Wendi was drawn to early education, where “math was so easy,” she still felt unsure of her skills. In the story, she decided to skip math concepts, leaving them for the teachers her students would have next year. Across the room, people nodded their heads as they listened. “I am Wendi. Wendi is me,” said Ivory McCormick, a
September 05, 2023Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has replaced the name India with a Sanskrit word in dinner invitations sent to guests attending this week’s Group of 20 summit, in a move that reflects his Hindu nationalist party’s efforts to eliminate what it sees as colonial-era names. Indian President Droupadi Murmu is referred to as “President of Bharat” instead of “President of India” in the invitation sent to G20 attendees. The nation of more than 1.4 billion people is officially known by two names, India and Bharat, but the former is most commonly used, both domestically and internationally.
September 05, 2023North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia for a summit with President Vladimir Putin, a U.S. official said, in a trip that would underscore deepening cooperation as the two isolated leaders are locked in separate confrontations with the U.S. U.S. officials also said that Russia is seeking to buy ammunition from North Korea to refill reserves drained by its war in Ukraine. In return, experts said, North Korea will likely want food and energy shipments and transfers of sophisticated weapons technologies. A meeting with Putin would be Kim’s first summit with a
September 05, 2023As Goodhue Police Chief Josh Smith struggled this summer to fill vacancies in his small department, he warned the town’s City Council that unless pay and benefits improved, finding new officers would never happen. When nothing changed, Smith quit. So did his few remaining officers, leading the Minnesota town of 1,300 residents to shutter its police force in late August. America is in the midst of a police officer shortage that many in law enforcement blame on the two-fold morale hit of 2020 — the coronavirus pandemic and criticism of police that boiled over with the
September 05, 2023The U.N. food agency said Tuesday it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency’s support this year in the country, the World Food Programme said in a statement. The new cuts mean the agency will be able to provide food assistance to about a fifth of the 15 million people who need it in Afghanistan, the agency said. “Amid already worrying levels of hunger and malnutrition, we are obliged to
September 05, 2023Southeast Asian leaders decided that Myanmar won’t take over the rotating leadership of their regional bloc as scheduled in 2026, Asian diplomats and a leader said Tuesday, in the latest blow to efforts by its ruling generals to gain international recognition after violently seizing power in 2021. Western governments led by the United States have condemned the Myanmar army’s ouster of Aung San Suu Kyi’s democratically elected government in 2021 and have demanded her immediate release from yearslong detention along with other officials. The Philippines agreed to take over the regional bloc’s chairmanship in 2026 at
September 05, 2023After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with new policies making such books a higher priority for removal — and keeping out of collections. But that’s not all the library board has done. Campbell County also withdrew from the American Library Association, in what’s become a movement against the professional organization that has fought against book bans. This summer, the state libraries in Montana, Missouri and Texas and the local library in Midland, Texas, announced
September 05, 2023A leading member of Poland’s conservative government has sharply criticized a film that explores the humanitarian disaster affecting migrants along the Poland-Belarus border which premiered Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival. “Green Border,” by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, puts a spotlight on the refugee crisis that emerged two years ago at Belarus’ borders with the European Union nations of Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The film is in competition at the festival. Poland’s hard-right justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro, slammed the film, comparing it to Nazi propaganda. “In the Third Reich, the Germans produced propaganda films showing Poles
September 05, 2023A trial started Tuesday in Stockholm of two executives of a Swedish oil exploration and production company accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan 20 years ago by securing the company’s oil operations in the African nation. Prosecutors claim that Ian Lundin, former chairman of Lundin Oil, and Alex Schneiter, its former CEO, supported the Sudanese government of former dictator Omar al-Bashir. They said the two executives created “the necessary conditions for the subsidiary’s operations by conducting warfare in a way that entailed the Sudanese military and regime allied militia systematically attacking civilians or at least
September 05, 2023Asylum applications in the European Union continued to rise in the first half of 2023 following a major hike last year, pressuring limited hosting capacities and moving the issue up the political agenda in many nations. The European Union Agency for Asylum said applications in the 27-nation bloc plus Switzerland and Norway rose 28% in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year. In all of 2022, applications increased 53%. “Based on current trends, applications could exceed 1 million by the end of 2023” in the region of about 460 million people,
September 05, 2023Backers of an international agreement that bans cluster munitions, which harm and kill many more civilians than combatants, are striving to prevent erosion in support for the deal after what one leading human rights group calls an “unconscionable” U.S. decision to ship such weapons to Ukraine for its fight against Russia. Advocacy groups in the Cluster Munitions Coalition released their latest annual report on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting next week of envoys from the 112 countries that have acceded to or ratified the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the explosives and calls for clearing areas
September 05, 2023More than 300 people were killed and over 600 wounded by cluster munitions in Ukraine in 2022, according to an international watchdog, surpassing Syria as the country with the highest number of casualties from the controversial weapons for the first time in a decade. Russia’s widespread use of the bombs, which open in the air and release scores of smaller bomblets or submunitions as they are called, in its invasion of Ukraine — and, to a lesser extent, their use by Ukrainian forces — helped make 2022 the deadliest year on record globally, according to
September 05, 2023Indonesian President Joko Widodo will welcome fellow Asian and world leaders with a captivating jungle scene of a two-story waterfall, wild orchids and even an orangutan perched up a tree. The make-believe wilderness set up in elaborate detail in the huge lobby of the Jakarta Convention Center in the capital includes a widescreen video of a yellow beak hornbill gliding across an azure sky, swaying leaves and piped-in bird chirps. It’s a pleasant icebreaker for Widodo and his guests in Jakarta for a week of Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit talks starting Tuesday. “Indonesia wants
September 05, 2023Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an impeachment trial in the state Senate starting Tuesday on articles overwhelmingly approved by the House of Representatives. Paxton, a Republican and star of the conservatives legal movement, was suspended from office in May when the GOP-controlled House voted 121-23 to impeach him on 20 articles ranging from bribery to abuse of public trust. Most of the articles deal with Paxton using his office to benefit a wealthy donor, Nate Paul, prompting eight of the attorney general’s top deputies to report him to the FBI in 2020. Three other charges date back to Paxton’s
September 05, 2023The Texas Senate is set to gavel in Tuesday for the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton, a political reckoning of years of alleged corruption that could lead to his permanent ouster from office. The fate of Paxton, a 60-year-old Republican, is in the hands of GOP senators with whom he served before winning a statewide race to take charge of the attorney general’s office in 2015. In an era of bitter partisanship, the historic proceeding is a rare instance of a political party seeking to hold one of its own to account for allegations
September 05, 2023Shares fell back Tuesday in Asia after U.S. markets were closed for the Labor Day holiday. U.S. futures also were lower and oil prices were mixed. Hong Kong fell more than 1% as Chinese property stocks declined as investors sold to lock in gains fueled by recent efforts to support the ailing industry. China Vanke lost 1.2%, while Country Garden Holdings gave up 2%. Hong Kong-based Sun Hung Kai Properties shed 2.4%. Chinese services data came in weaker than expected, dulling hopes for a rebound in China’s lackluster growth. A survey showed business activity in China’s services sector increased at
September 05, 2023President Joe Biden will award the Medal of Honor on Tuesday to a Vietnam War Army helicopter pilot who risked his life by flying into heavy enemy fire to save four members of a reconnaissance team from almost certain death as they were about to be overrun. Biden is recognizing retired Capt. Larry Taylor of Tennessee at the White House. On the night of June 18, 1968, then-1st Lt. Taylor flew his Cobra attack helicopter to rescue the men after they had become surrounded by the enemy. Taylor, now 81, recalled in an interview last week that
September 05, 2023The boss of Australian airline Qantas said Tuesday he would leave his job immediately — two months earlier than planned — following a series of embarrassing revelations about the company, including allegations it sold tickets for flights that had already been canceled. Chief Executive Alan Joyce said that after 15 years running the national carrier he was bringing forward his planned retirement date. The airline said Vanessa Hudson would take over as managing director and group chief executive from Wednesday. The announcement came after a difficult few weeks for Qantas and Joyce. He was grilled by
September 05, 2023A fancy-looking French angelfish that was found one day with a funny float has its buoyancy back after taking some time out of its tropical trappings to get a CT scan at the Denver Zoo. A zoo worker recently noticed the blue and yellow fish was swimming with a tilt, prompting a visit last week to the facility’s on-site hospital for an ultrasound and the CT scan. The CT scan took place in a machine large enough to fit a 700-pound grizzly bear, so some special accommodations were required, zoo spokesperson Jake Kubie said. The seven-inch fish
September 04, 2023A U.S. official said Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may travel to Russia soon to meet with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin tries to acquire military equipment for use in its war in Ukraine. The official, who was not authorized to address the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. expects Kim will make the trip within the month. The official said the U.S. isn’t sure exactly where or when the meeting would take place, but the Pacific port city of Vladivostok would be a
September 04, 2023A driver plowed through a wall of a busy East Texas restaurant, injuring 23 people. Police in the Houston suburb of Rosenberg, Texas said a man crashed his SUV into a Denny’s restaurant just off the highway late Monday morning. The vehicle slammed into the restaurant’s south wall leaving patrons with injuries ranging from minor cuts to “severe injuries” that don’t appear to be life-threatening, police said in a statement. Victims ranged in age from 12 to 60 years old. The driver of the SUV was not injured, police said. The cause of the crash was
September 04, 2023Two high-ranking military officers in northeast Congo were arrested Monday for taking part in a crackdown on protests last week that left 43 people dead and another 56 severely injured, authorities said. Interior Minister Peter Kazadi said police arrested Commanders Mike Mikombe and Donat Bawili, who respectively headed the Republican Guard unit and the Congolese armed forces regiment in Goma, the eastern city where the violence unfolded. Defense and security forces in the Central African nation used lethal force last Wednesday to repress planned anti-U.N. protests in the city. A government delegation arrived in Goma on
September 04, 2023A member of Panama’s national soccer team was hanging out with friends in front of the building where his mother lives, when gunmen in a taxi opened fire, killing Gilberto Hernández and wounding seven others in the country’s violent port city of Colon, police and witnesses said Monday. Hernández, a 26-year-old defender, was the second member of the national team killed in Colon in the past six years. Authorities on Monday announced the arrest of one suspect in Sunday’s killing. Colon sits 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Panama City, where ships enter or exit the
September 04, 2023Tens of thousands of partygoers were still stranded Monday morning in the northern Nevada desert after a late-summer storm turned a week-long counterculture fest into a mud pit. Burning Man organizers said the main road leading out of the festival was still too muddy for a mass exodus of RVs and vehicles to safely exit but hoped traffic could begin flowing around noon Monday. Organizers closed the festival to vehicles after more than a half an inch (1.3 centimeters) of rain on Friday drenched the Black Rock Desert about 110 miles (177 kilometers) north
September 04, 2023Pope Francis defended the decision to keep the discussions of a big Vatican meeting on the future of the Catholic Church behind closed doors, saying Monday the three-week conference was a religious moment for the church and “not a television program” that was open to scrutiny. Francis was asked repeatedly on his way home from Mongolia about the Oct. 4-29 meeting, or synod of bishops, which is opening after an unprecedented two-year canvassing of rank-and-file Catholics around the globe about their hopes for the church. Many Vatican watchers consider the synod to be a
September 04, 2023On the same day that dejected students pleaded with the board of West Virginia’s flagship university not to eliminate its entire foreign languages department and dozens of other programs, Gov. Jim Justice said he was feeling hopeful about the future of education in the state. “We’ve had tough times — there will be more tough times — but absolutely we are rising from the ashes,” Justice said Aug. 22, while signing a bill allocating $45 million for another state school, Marshall University, to open a new cybersecurity center 200 miles from West Virginia University. Lawmakers approved
September 04, 2023Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday hailed recent elections as a sign of the country’s “mature democracy” and a victory over Western adversaries, as he took an oath of office following a vote whose credibility was questioned by both Western and African observers. Mnangagwa, 80, won disputed polls held on Aug. 26, garnering 52.6% of the vote ahead of main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s 44%. His ZANU-PF party, which has ruled the tiny nation of 15 million people since independence from white minority rule in 1980, also retained a parliamentary majority. “There are no losers but
September 04, 2023British lawmakers headed back to Parliament on Monday after their summer break. But thousands of U.K. children won’t be returning to their classrooms this week, because their schools are at risk of collapse from crumbling concrete. The news is a start-of-term headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he scrambles to shore up flagging support for the governing Conservative Party ahead of a national election next year. Sunak insists it’s not his fault that more than 150 schools were told last week — days before the start of the new school year — to shut some or
September 04, 2023The Federal Reserve has reached a delicate stage in its fight against inflation. Its policymakers have raised their key interest rate to about 5.4%, its highest level in 22 years, to try to slow borrowing and spending and cool inflation pressures. They now are considering whether to raise the rate even higher — a move that would heighten the risk of a recession — or leave it at its current level for an extended period. Though inflation has slowed for the past year, it’s showing signs of stickiness at its current levels. A recent uptick in gas
September 04, 2023Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov submitted a letter of resignation on Monday after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he would be replaced and named his successor. Oleksii Reznikov’s removal follows a scandal around the defense ministry’s procurement of military jackets. It was not the first similar case during the ongoing war. Zelenskyy made the announcement on his official Telegram account, writing that new leadership was needed after Reznikov went through “more than 550 days of full-scale war.” He named Rustem Umerov, a Crimean Tatar lawmaker, as the new defense minister. “Reznikov was a good and prominent international
September 04, 2023The fate of the mounted lion, tiger, polar bear and gorilla that have long greeted visitors entering South Dakota’s largest zoo is grim after arsenic was found to be widespread in the taxidermy collection, creating a raging debate about whether the more than 150 animals should be destroyed. Some locals who grew up around the menagerie, which used to fill a hardware store, are fighting the mayor and zoo officials to keep the collection, marshaling activism online and in the Sioux Falls City Council. They are buoyed by experts who say the arsenic risk is overblown, the mounts nothing short
September 04, 2023Gabon ‘s new military leader was sworn in as the head of state Monday less than a week after ousting the president whose family had ruled the Central African nation for more than five decades. Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, took the oath in the presidential palace in front of a packed, boisterous room of government officials, military and local leaders in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. Oligui is a cousin of the ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, served as a bodyguard to his late father and is head of the republican guard, an elite military unit. Speaking
September 04, 2023A massive wildfire that destroyed vast tracts of forest in northeastern Greece over 17 days was in abeyance on Monday, although hundreds of firefighters were still tackling pockets that continued to burn, the fire department said. Authorities also warned that parts of the country were at risk of flooding due to heavy rainstorms forecast overnight and on Tuesday that could pose a particular threat to fire-ravaged areas. Reinforcements were sent over the weekend to battle the wildfire burning in the Evros region near the border with Turkey, bringing the total number of firefighters on Monday to
September 04, 2023German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday tweeted a pirate-style picture of himself with a black eye patch and dark-red bruises on the right side of his face — the result of a jogging accident on the weekend. “Am excited to see the memes,” the chancellor wrote in the caption. To deflect any possible worries about his health, on the photo, which appears to have been taken at the chancellery, Scholz smiled slightly and also wrote: “Thanks for the well wishes, it looks worse than it is!” Scholz fell while jogging on Saturday and sustained bruises to his face, prompting him
September 04, 2023Iran has slowed its enrichment of uranium at nearly weapons-grade levels, a report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog seen by The Associated Press said Monday. The confidential report comes as Iran and the United States are negotiating a prisoner swap and the release of billions of dollars in Iranian assets frozen in South Korea. Slowing its enrichment of uranium could serve as another sign that Tehran seeks to lower tensions between it and America after years of tensions since the collapse of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. The report by the International Atomic Energy
September 04, 2023Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday dismissed Okinawa’s rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops’ presence. Monday’s ruling upheld a high court ruling in March that the central government’s plan and its instruction for Okinawa’s approval are valid. It will move forward the suspended construction at a time Okinawa’s strategic role is seen increasingly important for the Japan-U.S. military alliance in the face of growing tensions with China. Japan’s central government began the reclamation
September 04, 2023The presidents of Russia and Turkey meet on Monday, with Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan seeking to persuade Russia to revive an agreement that allowed Ukraine to export grain and other commodities from three Black Sea ports despite the war. Russian President Vladimir Putin in July refused to extend the agreement, which was brokered by Turkey and the United Nations a year earlier. Russia complained that a parallel deal promising to remove obstacles to Russian exports of food and fertilizer hadn’t been honored. It said restrictions on shipping and insurance hampered its agricultural trade, even though it has shipped record
September 04, 2023Chinese President Xi Jinping is apparently skipping this week’s Group of 20 summit in India as bilateral relations remain icy. Instead, Premier Li Qiang will represent China at the Sept. 9-10 gathering, the Foreign Ministry said Monday in a one sentence notice on its website. Relations between China and India have grown frosty over their disputed border, and three years ago the tensions resulted in a clash in the Ladakh region that killed 20 Indian and four soldiers. It turned into a long-running standoff in the rugged mountainous area, where each side has stationed tens of thousands
September 04, 2023When Gabon’s longtime leader was detained in the latest coup in Africa last week, France condemned the takeover but did little to intervene — despite having hundreds of troops in the country. It was a striking break from the past. African and French observers say that France, under pressure, is finally shedding its postcolonial tradition of “Françafrique” — an unflattering term that smacks of paternalistic influence and quiet deal-making among elites — as its economic and political powers wane and an increasingly self-confident Africa looks elsewhere. After repeated military interventions in its former colonies in recent
September 04, 2023The first African Climate Summit is opening as heads of state and others assert a stronger voice on a global issue that affects the continent of 1.3 billion people the most, even as they contribute to it the least. Kenyan President William Ruto’s government is launching the ministerial session on Monday while more than a dozen heads of state begin to arrive, determined to wield more global influence and bring in far more financing and support. The first speakers included youth, who demanded a bigger voice in the process. There is some frustration on the continent
September 04, 2023A Malaysian court on Monday dismissed 47 corruption charges against Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi at an advanced stage of his trial. Zahid told a news conference afterward that the High Court discharged him but refused to grant him a full acquittal, which means he can still be recharged. But he said he was grateful that the “political-motivated accusations against me have ended.” Zahid heads the United Malays National Organization, and his support has been pivotal in helping Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim form a unity government. Zahid’s dismissal could further hurt the anti-corruption stance
September 04, 2023The small band of soldiers gather outside to share cigarettes and war stories, sometimes casually and sometimes with a degree of testiness over recollections made unreliable by their last day fighting, the day the war took away their limbs. Some clearly remember the moment they were hit by anti-tank mines, aerial bombs, a missile, a shell. For others, the gaps in their memories loom large. Vitaliy Bilyak’s skinny body is a web of scars that end with an amputation above the knee. During six weeks in a coma, Bilyak underwent over 10 surgeries, including his jaw,
September 04, 2023The United Arab Emirates has created a federal authority to potentially run a national lottery and what it describes as “commercial gaming,” likely a sign that it is on the verge of allowing gambling as major casino operators flock to the Gulf Arab nation. The state-run WAM news agency carried an announcement late Sunday on the creation of the General Commercial Gaming Regulatory Authority, without offering many details about its structure or operations. It named Kevin Mullally as its CEO. Mullally once served as the executive director of the Missouri Gaming Commission, which oversaw
September 04, 2023Stocks were higher in Asia on Monday after Wall Street was boosted by a report that signaled the US jobs market, while still healthy, is showing some signs of cooling. That supported investors’ hopes that the Federal Reserve may soon ease up on its campaign to slow the U.S. economy by raising interest rates. “It appears that global markets are primed to be smitten with the idea of a ‘Nirvana’ Fed tightening outcome, entailing the ‘immaculate dis-inflation’ that does not cause employment pain,” Tan Boon Heng of Mizuho Bank said in a commentary. Fresh stimulus from China’s financial regulators for
September 04, 2023Pope Francis wrapped up the first-ever papal visit to Mongolia on Monday by inaugurating a church-run homeless clinic and shelter, insisting that such initiatives aren’t aimed at winning converts but are simply exercises in Christian charity. Francis toured the House of Mercy, a three-story structure housed in an old school, which the local church has opened as an expression of the roots that it has taken in the three decades that the Catholic Church has had an official presence in Mongolia. It was the final event of an historic four-day visit to a region where the
September 04, 2023Southeast Asian leaders led by Indonesian host President Joko Widodo are gathering in their final summit this year, besieged by divisive issues with no solutions in sight: Myanmar’s deadly civil strife, new flare-ups in the disputed South China Sea, and the longstanding United States-China rivalry. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations meetings will open Tuesday in the Indonesian capital Jakarta under tight security. The absence of U.S. President Joe Biden, who typically attends, adds to the already somber backdrop of the 10-state bloc’s traditional show of unity and group handshakes. After discussions Tuesday, the ASEAN heads
September 04, 2023South Korea’s president says he’ll tell world leaders about the need to faithfully enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korea and block the country’s illicit activities to fund its weapons programs when they converge in Indonesia and India for annual summits this week. President Yoon Suk Yeol is to visit Jakarta for four days starting Tuesday to attend a series of summits scheduled on the margins of a meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders. On Friday, he’ll travel on to New Delhi for a summit of the leading rich and developing nations. “At
September 04, 2023A 46% pay raise. A 32-hour week with 40 hours of pay. A restoration of traditional pensions. The demands that a more combative United Auto Workers union has pressed on General Motors, Stellantis and Ford — demands that even the UAW’s own president calls “audacious” — are edging it closer to a strike when its contract ends Sept. 14. The automakers, which are making billions in profits, have dismissed the UAW’s wish list. They argue that its demands are unrealistic at a time of fierce competition from Tesla and lower-wage foreign automakers as the world shifts from
September 03, 2023Israel’s prime minister on Sunday floated the idea of building infrastructure projects such as a fiber optic cable linking countries in Asia and the Arabian Peninsula with Europe through Israel and Cyprus. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s “quite confident” such an infrastructure “corridor” linking Asia to Europe through Israel and Cyprus is feasible. He said such projects could happen if Israel normalizes relations with other countries in the region. The 2020 U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords normalized relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and the Biden administration is trying to establish official ties
September 03, 2023A Minnesota prison has “resolved without incident” a situation involving about 100 inmates in one housing unit who would not return to their cells Sunday in what one former inmate there called an act of “self-preservation” amid dangerously high temperatures in the region. The situation was “calm, peaceful and stable throughout the day,” a Department of Corrections spokesperson said in a statement, adding that “incarcerated individuals in the unit indicated dissatisfaction” because the understaffed facility had to limit inmates’ time out of their cells. But advocates positioned outside of the Stillwater prison, some of whom have
September 03, 2023Jimmy Buffett, whose sun-drenched songs celebrated life by the shore, died of a rare, aggressive skin cancer, according to a statement on his website. Buffett, 76, had Merkel cell cancer, according to the statement, which was posted after initial news of his death emerged Saturday. The statement also disclosed where the “Margaritaville” singer died: at his home in Sag Harbor, New York, near the Hamptons. He had been fighting the cancer for four years while continuing to perform, the last time making a surprise appearance in Rhode Island in early July, the statement said. Merkel
September 03, 2023Guatemala’s top electoral authority said Sunday it blocked the suspension of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo’s Seed Movement, at least temporarily giving the party back its legal status and cutting off an attempt by opposing political forces to weaken Arévalo. The decision by the Supreme Electoral Tribunal came days after the electoral registry suspended the party on a judge’s order. The Attorney General’s office is investigating whether there was wrongdoing in the gathering of required signatures for the party’s formation years earlier. The tribunal said the suspension could not stand because it did not come from an electoral
September 03, 2023Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature is talking about impeaching a newly elected liberal state Supreme Court justice even before she has heard a case. The unprecedented attempt to impeach and remove Justice Janet Protasiewicz from office comes as the court is being asked to throw out legislative electoral maps drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature in 2011 that cemented the party’s majorities, which now stand at 65-34 in the Assembly and a 22-11 supermajority in the Senate. Here is a closer look at where things stand: HOW DID THE STATE GET HERE? Protasiewicz won election in April to a
September 03, 2023One of the few things that survived the fire and smoke that caused at least 76 horrific deaths in a rundown apartment block in Johannesburg is a circular plaque hanging on the brown brick exterior. It has a five-sentence inscription outlining the building’s history. No. 80 Albert Street – the scene of one of South Africa’s worst inner-city tragedies – was a central pass office during the apartheid era of racial segregation, a checkpoint for enforcing a despised law that controlled the movement of Black people nearly everywhere in the country. Without a pass from the apartheid
September 03, 2023The changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace may draw tourists from far and wide, but on Sunday visitors to the landmark were treated to a different sort of spectacle: a parade of corgis dressed up in crowns, tiaras and royal outfits. Around 20 royal fans and their pet corgis gathered to walk their dogs outside the palace in central London to remember Queen Elizabeth II a year since her death. Corgis were the late queen’s constant companions since she was a child, and Elizabeth owned around 30 throughout her life. Generations of the dogs descended from
September 03, 2023For small businesses that rely on summer tourism to keep afloat, extreme weather is replacing the pandemic as the determining factor in how well a summer will go. The pandemic had its ups and downs for tourism, with a total shutdown followed by a rush of vacations due to pent-up demand. This year, small businesses say vacation cadences are returning to normal. But now, they have extreme weather to deal with — many say it’s hurting business, but more temperate spots are seeing a surge. Tourism-related businesses have always been at the mercy of the weather.
September 03, 2023Two people were hospitalized following a 3½-hour Russian drone barrage against port infrastructure in Ukraine’s Odesa region on Sunday, officials said. The attack comes a day before Russian President Vladimir Putin is due to meet with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to discuss the resumption of food shipments from Ukraine under a Black Sea grain agreement that Moscow broke off from in July. Russian forces fired 25 Iranian-made Shahed drones along the Danube River in the early hours of Sunday, 22 of which were shot down by air defenses, the Ukrainian air force said on
September 03, 2023The governor of the German state of Bavaria said Sunday that he will let his deputy stay in office despite a furor that started with allegations he was responsible for an antisemitic flyer when he was a high school student 35 years ago. Governor Markus Soeder, a leading figure in Germany’s center-right opposition, said he had concluded that it would be “disproportionate” to fire Hubert Aiwanger, his deputy and coalition partner, but Aiwanger needs to rebuild confidence with Jewish groups and others. A state election is due in Bavaria within weeks. In August, the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung
September 03, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he wants Eritrean migrants involved in a violent clash in Tel Aviv to be deported immediately and has ordered a plan to remove all of the country’s African migrants. The remarks came a day after bloody protests by rival groups of Eritreans in south Tel Aviv left dozens of people injured. Eritreans, supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s government, faced off with construction lumber, pieces of metal and rocks, smashing shop windows and police cars. Israeli police in riot gear shot tear gas, stun grenades and live rounds while
September 03, 2023Much of the world takes daily weather forecasts for granted. But most of Africa’s 1.3 billion people live with little advance knowledge of what’s to come. That can be both deadly and expensive, with damage running in the billions of dollars. The first Africa Climate Summit opens Monday in Kenya to highlight the continent that will suffer the most from climate change while contributing to it the least. Significant investment in Africa’s adaptation to climate change, including better forecasting, will be an urgent goal. At the heart of every issue on the agenda, from energy to
September 03, 2023Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet with Vladimir Putin on Monday, hoping to persuade the Russian leader to rejoin the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow broke off from in July. Here are some key things to know and what’s at stake: WHERE WILL THE TALKS BE HELD? The meeting in Sochi on Russia’s southern coast comes after weeks of speculation about when and where the two leaders might meet. Erdogan previously said that Putin would travel to Turkey in August. WHY DID RUSSIA LEAVE THE GRAIN DEAL? The Kremlin refused to renew the grain agreement
September 03, 2023Aspiring Taiwanese independent presidential candidate Terry Gou has resigned from the board of Foxconn, the Apple supplier he founded nearly a half-century ago. The company, officially registered as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., issued a news release late Saturday saying Gou, its former chair, had resigned for personal reasons. It wasn’t clear what, if any, immediate effect Gou’s decision would have on the operations of Foxconn, ranked 20th in the 2023 Fortune Global 500 and considered one of the world’s largest technology companies. It is headquartered in Taiwan, but does the vast majority of its manufacturing
September 03, 2023If a baby was taken from their parents four decades ago during Argentina’s military dictatorship, what would that person look like today? Argentine publicist Santiago Barros has been trying to answer that question using artificial intelligence to create images of what the children of parents who disappeared during the dictatorship might look like as adults. Almost every day, Barros uploads these images to an Instagram account called iabuelas, which is a portmanteau in Spanish for artificial intelligence, or IA, and grandmother, or abuela — taken from the well-known activist group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo
September 03, 2023Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the United States failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago. Now their descendants are getting the land back. The state is taking the rare step of transferring the park with a fraught history back to a Dakota tribe, trying to make amends for events that led to a war and the largest mass hanging in U.S. history. “It’s a place of holocaust. Our people starved to death there,”
September 03, 2023As sirens blared across the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and cell phones lit up with alerts of an active shooter, Micah Baldonado cried quietly at his desk while his teacher proceeded with the lecture. “I know there’s no right way to react, but I just lost it,” he said. “I couldn’t hold back tears. My teacher actually kept teaching for maybe 30 minutes even after receiving alerts of an active shooter.” The senior from Charlotte said rumors spread quickly across campus during a three-hour lockdown and police manhunt on Aug. 28 resulting
September 03, 2023Body camera video of the fatal police shooting of Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant mother in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, has raised questions about how an allegation of shoplifting led to a bullet being fired through her windshield. It was unclear Saturday whether the Blendon Township Police Department has adopted a use-of-force continuum policy, which would outline measures that must be exhausted before lethal force can be used. The video of the Aug. 24 shooting, released Friday, shows Young in her car in a parking space as a police officer orders her to exit the vehicle. A second officer
September 03, 2023Seven weeks after catastrophic flooding in Vermont destroyed their mobile home, Sara Morris and her family don’t yet know what they will do for housing long-term. She and her husband, their three kids and his mother have been staying with Morris’ mother since the flooding mangled their home, boring a hole through the side and leaving it tilted in layers of mud. With winter fast approaching, some Vermonters hit by the July flooding are still deep in the throes of flood recovery, whether finding a place to live or repairing their homes or businesses. So far,
September 03, 2023With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday to highlight the role that religions can play in forging world peace, as he presided over an interfaith meeting highlighting Mongolia’s tradition of religious tolerance. Francis listened intently as a dozen faith leaders — Jewish, Muslim, Bahai, Hindu, Shinto and evangelical Christian among them — described their beliefs and their relationship with heaven. Several said the traditional Mongolian ger, or round-shaped yurt, was a potent symbol of harmony with the divine — a warm
September 03, 2023Taiwan suspended flights, rail transport and ferry services along with classes, outdoor events, and officials urged workers to stay home as the island prepared for the arrival of Typhoon Haikui later Sunday. The storm’s approach came as Typhoon Saola continued to weaken while moving along the Chinese coast, where 900,000 people and 80,000 fishing vessels had been moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and parts of the coastal mainland closed down businesses, transport and schools. Damage appeared to be minimal, however, and restrictions had largely been lifted by Sunday. Parts of Taiwan were already feeling
September 03, 2023A Florida redistricting plan pushed by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis violates the state constitution and is prohibited from being used for any future U.S. congressional elections since it diminishes the ability of Black voters in north Florida to pick a representative of their choice, a state judge ruled Saturday. Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh sent the plan back to the Florida Legislature with instructions that lawmakers should draw a new congressional map that complies with the Florida Constitution. The voting rights groups that challenged the plan in court “have shown that the enacted plan results in the diminishment of Black
September 02, 2023Thousands of Burning Man attendees trudged in sloppy mud on Saturday — many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet — as flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert, forcing organizers to close vehicular access to the counterculture festival. Revelers were urged to shelter in place and conserve food, water and other supplies. Vehicular gates will be closed for the remainder of the event, which began on Aug. 27 and was scheduled to end on Monday, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the Black Rock Desert where the festival is
September 02, 2023Some central Florida lawmakers said they were considering “all legislative, legal and executive options available” to stop business owners in a small town from voluntarily displaying rainbow decals in their windows indicating that they are “safe place” for LGBTQ+ people who feel threatened. Four Republican lawmakers wrote a letter to officials in Mount Dora two weeks ago warning that the new, optional city-sponsored program could put the central Florida community outside Orlando “in the crosshairs of potentially detrimental and absolutely unnecessary economic harm.” The lawmakers cited boycotts of Bud Light and Target, which followed the
September 02, 2023Two people were charged with looting a home damaged by Hurricane Idalia in Florida’s Big Bend region, as residents’ concerns grew that burglars could be tempted to hit other hurricane-ravaged homes since law enforcement is stretched thin in the remote, wooded area along the Gulf Coast. Some residents of Horseshoe Beach, Florida, one of the communities hardest hit after Idalia made landfall Wednesday as a Category 3 hurricane, urged law enforcement to set up checkpoints where people would have to show identification in order to get into the town. Marina worker Kerry Ford had high
September 02, 2023A recently convicted murderer who’s been on the run for days after escaping a suburban Philadelphia prison was spotted shortly after midnight Saturday by residential security cameras in an area not far from the prison, authorities said. Authorities haven’t disclosed the circumstances of how Danelo Cavalcante, 34, managed to escape Thursday morning from Chester State Prison, and say the episode is under investigation. He was sentenced to life in prison last month for killing his ex-girlfriend in front of her children, and escaped while awaiting transfer to state prison. Cavalcante was seen on cameras at
September 02, 2023The artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival, Carlo Chatrian, said on Saturday that he will step down next year after Germany’s culture minister announced a new management structure for the event. Chatrian joined the “Berlinale,” which along with its peers in Cannes and Venice is one of Europe’s major annual film festivals, as one of two leaders in 2019 alongside executive director Mariette Rissenbeek. The duo replaced long-serving festival director Dieter Kosslick. Earlier this year, officials said that Rissenbeek had decided not to extend her contract and would leave when it expires in March 2024.
September 02, 2023A former Italian premier, in an interview published on Saturday, contended that a French air force missile accidentally brought down a passenger jet over the Mediterranean Sea in 1980 in a failed bid to assassinate Libya’s then-leader Moammar Gadhafi. Former two-time Premier Giuliano Amato appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to either refute or confirm his assertion about the cause of the crash on June 27, 1980, which killed all 81 persons aboard the Italian domestic flight. In an interview with Rome daily La Repubblica, Amato said he is convinced that France hit the plane while targeting
September 02, 2023The Nobel Foundation on Saturday retracted its invitation for representatives of Russia, Belarus and Iran to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies after the controversial decision “provoked strong reactions”. Several Swedish lawmakers said Friday they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in the Swedish capital, Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend. Some of the lawmakers cited Russia’s war on Ukraine and the crackdown on human rights in Iran as reasons for their boycott. The
September 02, 2023Violent protests have erupted between hundreds of Eritrean asylum-seekers and Israeli police in Tel Aviv on Saturday during a protest against an event organized by the Eritrean Embassy. The Israeli police said 27 officers were injured in the clashes, and at least three protesters were shot by police firing live rounds after they felt “real danger to their lives.” Israeli police in riot gear and on horses tried to corral the protesters, who broke through barricades and hurled chunks of sidewalk, batteries and rocks at the police. Similarly violent protests have popped up all over
September 02, 2023Pakistani traders on Saturday went on strike against the soaring cost of living, including higher fuel and utility bills and record depreciation of the rupee against the dollar, which has led to widespread discontent among the public. The traders pulled their shutters down across the country, while protesters burned tires on roads to express their ange. The strike was called by ex-senator Sirajul Haq, who heads the religious political party Jamaat-e-Islami, and it was largely endorsed by trade and business bodies, market associations, lawyers associations and transporters. The country’s commercial and economic hub, Karachi, was almost completely
September 02, 2023A bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 18 people, medical officials said. Millions of believers converge on the city each year for the Shiite pilgrimage of Arbaeen, regarded as the largest annual public gathering in the world. Pilgrims come from various parts of Iraq as well as from Iran and the Gulf countries, with many making their way to Karbala on foot. Two Iraqi medical officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to the media said that the bus overturned near
September 02, 2023Russia’s Defense Ministry said early Saturday that its forces destroyed three Ukrainian naval drones being used in an attempt to attack a key bridge linking Russia to Moscow-annexed Crimea, forcing its temporary closure for a third time in less than a year. One naval drone was destroyed late Friday and two others early Saturday morning, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. There was no immediate comment from Ukrainian officials. A key supply route for Kremlin forces in the war with Ukraine, the Kerch bridge has come under repeated attack since Russia launched its full-scale invasion. An explosion
September 02, 2023K.C. Hwang, whose six-decade-long journalism career included 30 years chronicling South Korea’s tumultuous modern history for The Associated Press, latterly as Seoul bureau chief, has died at age 99. Hwang died Thursday of chronic ailments after undergoing kidney dialysis for two years, his son, Yoon Chul Hwang, said. From joining the AP in 1957, Hwang witnessed and reported on some of South Korea’s most dramatic and turbulent moments in its postwar history, from a public uprising that toppled the country’s first president, military coups and a presidential assassination to pro-democracy movements. “It was rare luck
September 02, 2023After consulting with several doctors in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir, Aayat Hameed was advised to seek help from a mental health expert for her bouts of unspecified anxiety, random palpitation attacks and occasional but strong suicidal thoughts. A psychiatrist diagnosed her with acute depression. On a recent hot summer day, Hameed was among scores of other patients visiting a mental health clinic in Srinagar, where she had been undergoing rounds of counselling along with prescription medication. “I realized seeing a psychiatrist or reaching out to someone you trust really helps to deal with suicidal
September 02, 2023They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big kids at elementary schools across the United States. Many still need profound help overcoming the effects of the pandemic. To catch up, schools have deployed a wide range of strategies. And among some incoming fourth-graders, there are encouraging signs of gains. But as this generation progresses, many will need extra reading support that schools are not as accustomed to providing for older students. Beyond
September 02, 2023Pope Francis on Saturday praised Mongolia’s tradition of religious freedom dating to the times of its founder, Genghis Khan, as he opened the first-ever papal visit to the Asian nation with a plea for peace and an end to the “insidious threat of corruption.” Francis met with President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh inside a traditional Mongolian ger, or round yurt, set up inside the state palace, and wrote a message in the guest book that he was visiting Mongolia, “a country young and ancient, modern and rich of tradition,” as a pilgrim of peace. Francis is visiting Mongolia
September 02, 2023Typhoon Saola made landfall in southern China before dawn Saturday after nearly 900,000 people were moved to safety and most of Hong Kong and other parts of coastal southern China suspended business, transport and classes. Guangdong province’s meteorological bureau said the powerful storm churned into an outlying district of the city of Zhuhai, just south of Hong Kong at 3:30 a.m. It was forecast to move in a southwesterly direction along the Guangdong coast at a speed of around 17 kph (10 mph), gradually weakening before heading out to sea. On Friday, 780,000 people in Guangdong were
September 02, 2023North Korea launched several cruise missiles into the sea Saturday, South Korea’s military said, extending its weapons testing activities in response to the United States-South Korea summer military drills. South Korea’s military detected the launches early Saturday morning off the North’s west coast, the South’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement. The statement said South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were analyzing details of the launches. It said South Korea has boosted its surveillance posture and maintains a firm military readiness in close coordination with the United States. The launches came two days
September 02, 2023A Louisiana company will receive $2.6 million to relinquish the last remaining oil and gas lease on U.S. forest land near Montana’s Glacier National Park that’s sacred to Native Americans, government officials and attorneys involved in the deal said Friday. The deal would resolve a decades-long dispute over the 10-square-mile (25-square-kilometer) oil and gas lease in the mountainous Badger-Two Medicine area of northwestern Montana. The lease was issued in 1982 but has not been developed. It’s on the site of the creation story for the Blackfoot tribes of southern Canada and Montana’s Blackfeet Nation. Tribal members
September 01, 2023Police in New Mexico’s capital city on Friday were investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to a 19th century frontiersman and U.S. soldier who had a leading role in the death of hundreds of Native Americans during Anglo-American settlement of the American West. The monument to Christopher “Kit” Carson has been encircled by a plywood barrier for its own protection since 2020, when Santa Fe was swept by the movement to remove depictions of historical figures who mistreated Native Americans amid a national reckoning over racial injustice. The monument’s upper spire was toppled
September 01, 2023Mohamed Al Fayed, former owner of the famed Harrods department store in London whose son was killed in a car crash with Princess Diana, has died, his family said. He was 94. Al Fayed, a self-made Egyptian businessman who was also a former owner of Fulham Football Club, was devastated by the death of son Dodi Fayed in the car crash in Paris with Princess Diana 26 years ago. He spent the rest of his life mourning the loss and fighting the British Establishment he blamed for their deaths. “Mrs Mohamed Al Fayed, her children and grandchildren
September 01, 2023The United Nations chief is going globetrotting to four major meetings before the biggest meeting of all – the annual gathering of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly starting Sept. 18. Secretary-General António Guterres heads first to Nairobi on Saturday for the Africa Climate Summit on Sept. 4-5, then to Jakarta for a U.N. summit with the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations known as ASEAN on Sept. 6-7. From there, he flies to New Delhi for the G20 summit of the world’s 20 major economies on Sept. 8-10 and then briefly returns to New
September 01, 2023A man charged with attempted murder who escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Oregon while fully shackled was arrested Friday after he was found floundering in a muddy pond. Christopher Pray was found buried up to the armpits in the pond in Portland, the Oregon State Police said. Portland Fire & Rescue personnel extricated the man using ropes and he was taken to the hospital. Police said he gave a false name, but a hospital employee recognized Pray and police were called. The Oregon State Police are investigating how Pray managed to escape on Wednesday as
September 01, 2023Criminal groups in Ecuador used explosives Friday to damage a bridge, authorities said, demonstrating their grip on the South American country where prison inmates took dozens of law enforcement officers hostage less than two days earlier. Government officials described the violent acts as the work of criminal groups with members in prisons responding to efforts by authorities to regain control of several large correctional facilities by relocating inmates, seizing weapons and other steps. Four car bombs and three explosive devices went off across the country in less than 48 hours. The latest explosion with dynamite happened
September 01, 2023Olivia Rodrigo’s much-anticipated sophomore album and LaKeith Stanfield starring in the eight-part horror fantasy series “The Changeling” are among the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you Among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press’ entertainment journalists are Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” starring Halle Bailey, the video game NBA 2K14 pays tribute to Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant and the popular comfort show “Virgin River” returns for its fifth season on Netflix. NEW MOVIES TO STREAM — The latest Disney live-action remake, “The Little Mermaid,” lands on
September 01, 2023French students won’t get past the door if they show up for school wearing long robes, President Emmanuel Macron made clear Friday, saying authorities would be “intractable” in enforcing a new rule when classes resume next week. French Education Minister Gabriel Attal announced at a news conference four days ago that robes worn mainly by Muslims, known as abayas for girls and women and khamis for boys and men, would be banned with the start of the new school year on Monday. Macron addressed the dress code for the first publicly after visiting a professional school in
September 01, 2023A Minnesota man who was a teenager when he was sent to prison for life in a high-profile murder case — then released 18 years later when his sentence was commuted — was charged Friday with gun and drug felonies after police said they found a handgun and drugs in his SUV during a traffic stop. Myon Burrell, now 37, made his first court appearance Friday, where bail was set at $50,000. His attorney said Burrell denies the allegations. “As in so many criminal prosecutions, things may not be as they first appear,” said his attorney, Paul
September 01, 2023Silicon Valley billionaires behind a secretive $800 million land-buying spree in Northern California have finally released some details about their plans for a new green city, but they still must win over skeptical voters and local leaders. After years of ducking scrutiny, Jan Sramek, the former Goldman Sachs trader spearheading the effort, launched a website Thursday about “California Forever.” The site billed the project as “a chance for a new community, good paying local jobs, solar farms, and open space” in Solano, a rural county between San Francisco and Sacramento that is now home to 450,000
September 01, 2023Clad in white shirts and carrying bouquets, children across Russia flocked back to school Friday, where the Kremlin’s narratives about the war in Ukraine and its confrontation with the West were taking an even more prominent spot than before. Students are expected each week to listen to Russia’s national anthem and watch the country’s tricolor flag being raised. There’s a weekly subject loosely translated as “Conversations about Important Things,” which was introduced last year with the goal of boosting patriotism. A new high school history textbook has a chapter on the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula
September 01, 2023An energy infrastructure project bigger than the Hoover Dam is how Hunter Armistead describes the $10 billion venture his company will be overseeing during the next three years. As the chief executive of one of the world’s largest wind and solar development companies, Armistead said breaking ground on Pattern Energy’s SunZia transmission line marks a major milestone as the United States looks to make good on promises to address climate change and bolster the nation’s already overwhelmed power grids as demand increases and weather events become more extreme. It is also a cautionary tale, he told
September 01, 2023A federal judge has struck down a Texas law requiring age verification and health warnings to view pornographic websites and blocked the state attorney general’s office from enforcing it. In a ruling Thursday, U.S. District Judge David Ezra agreed with claims that House Bill 1181, which was signed into law by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott in June, violates free speech rights and is overbroad and vague. The state attorney general’s office, which is defending the law, immediately filed notice of appeal to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans. The lawsuit was filed Aug. 4 by the
September 01, 2023Hundreds of law enforcement agents searched Friday for a man recently convicted of murder in Pennsylvania for the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, a day after he escaped from a county jail. Danelo Cavalcante, 34, is also wanted in his native Brazil in a separate slaying and is considered an extremely dangerous person, authorities said. The search dragged through a second day, with authorities using drones, helicopters and dogs. Searchers were focusing on railways, waterways and routes out of the area, Chester County’s district attorney, Deb Ryan, said at a news conference Friday. Ryan said
September 01, 2023In a small courtyard at a school in Bucha, scene of some of the worst atrocities committed by Russian soldiers during the war, Ukrainian children gathered Friday to celebrate the first day of the new school year. First graders dressed in Ukrainian embroidered costume shirts known as vyshyvankas, with neat hairstyles and holding bouquets of flowers, line up hesitantly along an improvised stage. Parents, many struggling to contain their emotions, smile and wave from the crowd, constantly taking photos. But the festive ambiance quickly shifts as the Ukrainian national anthem is played, followed by a solemn
September 01, 2023Maggie T. Sutrov showered, drank treated tap water and watered her garden before she learned that she shouldn’t be using the water in her home on Maui after wildfires devastated the island. Concerned about others making the same mistake, she quickly created a flier on water contamination from guidance she’d found on the county’s website and worked with a pop-up community center to get the word out. “Every day, people were showing up there going ‘What, I can’t drink the water? I didn’t know that,’” Sutrov said. Three weeks after the fire, Sutrov and others are anxious to know when
September 01, 2023The CEO of Walgreens Boots has stepped down after less than three years at the helm of the drug store chain that is undergoing a sizeable transformation, one that has come at a cost. Walgreens Boots Alliance confirmed Rosalind Brewer’s exit Friday. According to the Illinois company, the board of directors and Brewer “mutually agreed” to her resignation effective Thursday. Ginger Graham, who currently serves as Walgreen Boots Alliance’s lead independent director, has been named interim CEO. “I am grateful to have had the opportunity to lead Walgreens Boots Alliance and to work alongside such talented
September 01, 2023Greek firefighters rescued a group of 25 migrants trapped in a forest in northeastern Greece Friday as flames from a massive wildfire burning for two weeks approached, authorities said. The fire department said the group became trapped in the forest between two villages in the Evros region, near the border with Turkey. No injuries were reported. There was no immediate information on their nationalities. The blaze, burning for the 14th day Friday, has already been blamed for the deaths of 20 people whose bodies were found last week. All are believed to have been migrants who
September 01, 2023India’s fractured opposition parties decided Friday to jointly contest the 2024 national elections in their bid to unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and prevent his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party from achieving a third straight win. The 26 opposition parties decided to work out seat-sharing arrangements in different states in “a collaborative spirit of give-and-take″ to avoid splitting votes in favor of Modi’s party. India’s national elections are scheduled to be held around May next year. Congress party leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi joined other key opposition leaders, including Sharad Pawar, Arvind Kejriwal, Sitaram Yechury
September 01, 2023Gabon’s opposition leader accused the family of the recently ousted president of engineering his removal from power in order to retain their control in the oil-rich Central African nation. Speaking to French media outlet TV5 Monde Thursday, Albert Ondo Ossa said the junta who ousted Gabon’s president on Wednesday did not engage in a coup but rather a “palace revolution” in order to continue their family’s reign. Soldiers toppled President Ali Bongo Ondimba and put him under house arrest, accusing him of irresponsible governance that risked leading the country into chaos. They then put Bongo’s cousin
September 01, 2023The slaying of an endangered brown bear near an Italian national park left her two young cubs motherless and sparked outrage on Friday in Italy. Voicing anger and dismay over the killing of the bear in the mountainous Abruzzo region were Italy’s environment minister and animal rights advocates. Locals, including families with small children, would stop and watch the bear and her cubs on the animal family’s frequent evening excursions through streets of towns near the park. The National Park of Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise described the slain animal, nicknamed Amarena — or Black Cherry in Italian
September 01, 2023Emergency services teams have left the scene of one of South Africa’s deadliest inner-city fires and pathologists faced the grisly task Friday of identifying dozens of charred bodies and some body parts that have been transported to several mortuaries across the city of Johannesburg. That will establish whether the death toll of 74 rises following Thursday’s predawn blaze at a derelict downtown apartment building that was inhabited by mainly homeless people and others who found themselves marginalized in one of Africa’s biggest cities. Emergency services personnel conducted three searches through all five stories of the building and
September 01, 2023The Israeli military on Friday raided a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank, besieging an apartment and sparking a gunfight with local militants that killed an apparently uninvolved Palestinian teacher, Palestinian health officials and the man’s family said. The raid was the latest in a series of Israeli army actions in the occupied territory that have resulted in a high Palestinian death toll. Israeli security forces stormed into a town near Tubas, northeast of the Palestinian city of Nablus, and surrounded a house where militants were believed to be holed up. Israeli soldiers called on the
September 01, 2023Thailand’s king on Friday reduced the prison term of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra from eight years to one year following the divisive politician’s return from 15 years of self-imposed exile. The decision by King Maha Vajiralongkorn was published Friday in the Royal Gazette, making ii effective immediately. Thaksin was prime minister from 2001 to 2006, when he was ousted by a military coup. He fled Thailand in 2008 when he faced prison time on charges he described as politically motivated. He returned to Thailand last week and was immediately sent to prison, but was quickly transferred
September 01, 2023A 98-year-old man has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder as a guard at the Nazis’ Sachsenhausen concentration camp between 1943 and 1945, prosecutors said Friday. The German citizen, a resident of Main-Kinzig county near Frankfurt, is accused of having “supported the cruel and malicious killing of thousands of prisoners as a member of the SS guard detail,” prosecutors in Giessen said in a statement. They did not release the suspect’s name. He is charged with more than 3,300 counts of being an accessory to murder between July 1943 and February 1945. The
September 01, 2023Russian officials said Friday that air defenses intercepted drones heading toward three of the country’s western regions, while satellite images indicated that a major drone barrage earlier in the week destroyed at least two Ilyushin Il-76 military transport planes at a Russian air base. Regional governors said defense systems stopped three drones in the Kursk, Belgorod and Moscow regions. Moscow airports briefly halted flights but no major damage or injuries were reported, according to Russian authorities. Drones aimed at targets inside Russia — and blamed by Moscow on Ukraine — have become almost a daily occurrence as the war has
September 01, 2023The Nobel Foundation that administers the prestigious awards, has reversed its invitation policy and invited Russia, Belarus and Iran, as well as the leader of a far-right Swedish party, who had previously been banned. Vidar Helgesen, the executive director of the private foundation said in a statement that there was a global trend in which “dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced.” To counter that, he said, “we are now broadening our invitations to celebrate and understand the Nobel Prize and the importance of free science, free culture and free, peaceful societies.” The foundation said
September 01, 2023Asian shares were trading mixed Friday as investors looked toward a U.S. jobs report being released later in the day. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 rose 0.3% to finish at 32,710.62. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 slipped 0.4% to 7,278.30. South Korea’s Kospi added 0.3% to 2,563.71. The Shanghai Composite added 0.4% to 3,133.25. Trading was halted in Hong Kong because of an approaching typhoon. Schools and businesses were shut as an official warning was issued about Super Typhoon Saola. Later Friday, the U.S. government will report employment data for August. The strong job market, along with consumer spending, has
September 01, 2023Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida staged a televised disaster drill Friday based on a fictional earthquake in the capital region, as his country marked the centennial of the real-life 1923 Great Kanto Quake that killed more than 100,000 people. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that struck the Sagamihara area southwest of Tokyo on Sept. 1, 1923, just before noon triggered a widespread inferno in the region, causing most of the victims to perish in the fire. The blaze destroyed nearly 300,000 Japanese paper-and-wood homes as the country suffered major social and economic damage just as it was seeking to
September 01, 2023Border Patrol agents ordered the young Senegalese men to wait in the scant shade of desert scrub brush while they loaded a more vulnerable group of migrants — a family with three young children from India — into a white van for the short trip in triple-degree heat to a canopied field intake center. The migrants were among hundreds who have been trudging this summer in the scorching sun and through open storm gates in the border wall to U.S. soil, following a remote corridor in the sprawling Organ Pipe Cactus National
September 01, 2023Body camera footage showing the final moments of a pregnant Black woman who was shot and killed by police in an Ohio parking lot last week is expected to be released to the public on Friday. Ta’Kiya Young, a 21-year-old from Columbus, was pronounced dead shortly after the Aug. 24 shooting outside a grocery store in the suburb of Blendon Township. Her unborn daughter did not survive. Suspected of shoplifting, police say Young was killed after she accelerated her car toward an officer. The family’s lawyer, Sean Walton, claims the police department has waited to release
September 01, 2023Hurricanes and tropical storms are nothing new in the South, but the sheer magnitude of damage from Idalia shocked Desmond Roberson as he toured what as left of his Georgia neighborhood. Roberson took a drive through Valdosta on Thursday with a friend to check out damage after the storm, which first hit Florida as a hurricane and then weakened into a tropical storm as it made its way north, ripped through the town of 55,000. On one street, he said, a tree had fallen on nearly every house. Roads remained blocked by tree trunks and
September 01, 2023A vision of armed officers at every school in Texas is crashing into the reality of not enough money or police as a new mandate took effect Friday, showing how a goal more states are embracing in response to America’s cycle of mass killings is proving unworkable in many communities. Dozens of Texas’ largest school districts, which educate many of the state’s 5 million students, are reopening classrooms without meeting the state’s new requirements of armed officers on every campus. The mandate is a pillar of a safety bill signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who
September 01, 2023Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said Thursday his administration has opened several investigations into people who have allegedly made unsolicited offers for property in the fire-stricken Maui town of Lahaina in violation of a new emergency order. Green prohibited such offers by signing an emergency proclamation earlier this week aimed at preventing land in the historic coastal community from flowing into the hands of outside buyers. The order aims to give residents some “breathing room” as they decide what to do next, Green said in an interview with The Associated Press. Even before the Aug. 8 fire, Lahaina
September 01, 2023America’s employers added 187,000 jobs in August, evidence of a slowing but still-resilient labor market despite the high interest rates the Federal Reserve has imposed. Last month’s job growth marked an increase from July’s revised gain of 157,000 but still pointed to a moderating pace of hiring compared with the sizzling gains of last year and earlier this year. From June through August, the economy added 449,000 jobs, the lowest three-month total in three years. In addition, the government revised down the gains for June and July by a combined 110,000. Friday’s report from the Labor Department
September 01, 2023Most of Hong Kong and some other areas in southern China ground to a near standstill Friday with classes and flights canceled as Super Typhoon Saola edged closer to the region. The typhoon could make a landfall in parts of southern China and many workers were forced to stay at home. Pupils in various cities had the start of their school year postponed to next week. Hong Kong’s stock market trading was suspended and nearly 200 outbound flights for Friday were canceled in the key center for regional business and travel. China Railway Guangzhou Group said
September 01, 2023A founder of the classified site Backpage.com and four employees carefully strategized how to bring in ads for prostitution to maintain their top-earning platform, a prosecutor said Thursday at a federal trial in Phoenix. Attorneys for Michael Lacey and the other four defendants countered that their clients had nothing to do with the daily operations of classified ads. The clash over culpability was at the center of opening statements in the second trial of all five on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex
September 01, 2023Labor Day is right around the corner, along with the big sales and barbecues that come with it. But the activist roots of the holiday are especially visible this year as unions challenge how workers are treated — from Hollywood to the auto production lines of Detroit. The early-September tribute to workers has been an official holiday for almost 130 years — but an emboldened labor movement has created an environment closer to the era from which Labor Day was born. Like the late 1800s, workers are facing rapid economic transformation — and a growing gap
September 01, 2023The stepsister of a Colorado woman who was found dead along with her sister and teenage son at a remote Rocky Mountain campsite says the women fled into the wilderness after struggling to cope with societal changes in recent years, but they were unequipped to survive off the grid. Exposed to several feet of snow, chills below zero and with no food found at their camp, Christine Vance, Rebecca Vance and Rebecca’s son likely died of malnutrition and hypothermia, according to the autopsies released this week. Authorities haven’t released the boy’s name. Those reports contained another chilling
September 01, 2023A member of the violent MS-13 street gang pleaded guilty Thursday for his part in the murders of four people, including two teenage girls who were attacked with a machete and baseball bats as they walked through their suburban Long Island neighborhood seven years ago. Enrique Portillo, 26, was among several gang members accused of ambushing best friends Nisa Mickens, 15, and Kayla Cuevas, 16, in retaliation for a dispute among high school students in 2016. The murders in Brentwood, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) east of New York City, shook parents and local officials
September 01, 2023Prosecutors have asked Indiana State Police to investigate the recent deaths of at least eight dogs from heat-related injuries while being transported in the back of an uncooled box truck. The dead dogs were discovered July 27 in Lake Station while the truck traveled from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago to a training facility in Michigan. The animal rights group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals had called for a state police investigation, and the Lake County Prosecutor’s Office formally requested one Wednesday. The dogs that died were among 18 shepherds in the truck. The
August 31, 2023The United Auto Workers union says it has filed unfair labor practice complaints against Stellantis and General Motors for failing to make counteroffers to the union’s economic demands. Ford was the only company of the Detroit Three to make a counteroffer, but it rejected most of the union’s proposals, President Shawn Fain told workers Thursday in a Facebook Live meeting. Contracts between 146,000 auto workers and the Detroit companies expire at 11:59 p.m. Sept. 14, and Fain is once again threatening to strike. He told members that the companies have been warned not to wait until the
August 31, 2023Police in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where a professor was fatally shot on a college campus this week, received information on the suspect’s identity within minutes of the gunfire, according to a recording of the 911 call. Some portions of the audio sound redacted, but what was released describes the first moments after Monday’s shooting of Associate Professor Zijie Yan inside a science building in the heart of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Police said they arrested Tailei Qi, 34, of Chapel Hill, without force off campus less than two hours after the
August 31, 2023A Trump-era rule allowing railroads to haul highly flammable liquefied natural gas will now be formally put on hold to allow more time to study the safety concerns related to transporting that fuel and other substances like hydrogen that must be kept at extremely low temperatures when they are shipped, regulators announced Thursday. Right after it was announced in the summer of 2020, the rule was challenged in court by a number of environmental groups and 14 states. The uncertainty about the rule on transporting the fuel known as LNG kept railroads from shipping it. The
August 31, 2023A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a new law that would have required parental consent for minors to create new social media accounts, preventing the state from becoming the first to impose such a restriction. U.S. District Judge Timothy L. Brooks granted a preliminary injunction that NetChoice — a tech industry trade group whose members include TikTok, Facebook parent Meta, and X, formerly known as Twitter — had requested against the law. The measure, which Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed into law in April, was set to take effect Friday.
August 31, 2023Mexico’s broad opposition coalition announced Thursday it has chosen Senator Xóchitl Gálvez as its candidate in the June 2, 2024 presidential elections. The de-facto nomination — which will be formalized later when candidates are registered — suggests that Mexico’s next president will likely be a woman, as former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum leads most polls on the primary race for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s Morena party. Mexico has never had a woman president, though there have been several female candidates in the past. The opposition coalition — known as the Broad Front for Mexico
August 31, 2023A federal judge ruled Thursday that Kansas officials are no longer required to keep changing transgender people’s birth certificates so the documents reflect their gender identities. U.S. District Judge Daniel Crabtree approved Republican state Attorney General Kris Kobach’s request to block the changes because of a new state law rolling back trans rights. Kansas joins Montana, Oklahoma and Tennessee in barring such birth certificate changes. Kansas is for now also among a few states that don’t let trans people change their driver’s licenses to reflect their gender identities. That’s because of a separate state-court lawsuit Kobach
August 31, 2023Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone. The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday. “If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference. The
August 31, 2023A Utah woman who gave online parenting advice via a once popular YouTube channel has been arrested on suspicion of aggravated child abuse after her malnourished son escaped out a window and ran to a nearby house for help, authorities said. Ruby Franke, whose now defunct channel “8 Passengers” followed her family, was arrested Wednesday night in the southern Utah city of Ivins. She was taken into custody at the home of Jodi Hildebrandt, who owns a counseling business that she says teaches people to improve their lives by being honest, responsible and humble. Franke has recently appeared in YouTube
August 31, 2023Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution said Thursday they will spend an additional $2 billion and hire an extra 400 workers to make batteries at the automaker’s sprawling U.S. electrical vehicle plant that’s under construction in Georgia. The announcement by the South Korea-based companies — one a major automaker, the other a leading producer of lithium-ion batteries used to power electric vehicles — expands on a partnership they launched three months ago to produce batteries at the same site west of Savannah, where Hyundai plans to start EV production in 2025. The news Thursday brings
August 31, 2023A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked a new Texas law that drag show artists fear will be used to shut them down or put them in jail. The law, approved by the Republican-controlled Legislature, would expand the legal definition in the Texas criminal code of what is considered to be an illegal public performance of sexual conduct in front of children. It is part of a broader effort in Texas and other conservative states to crack down on drag shows and limit LGBTQ rights. Critics argued that the definition is so broad, it could include the
August 31, 2023Yale University President Peter Salovey, who has led the Ivy League school for the past decade, announced Thursday that he will step down from his post next year and plans to return to Yale’s faculty. Salovey, 65, has been president since 2013 after having served just over four years as Yale’s provost, following stints as dean of both Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as well as chairperson of the Psychology Department. He also earned master’s degrees and a doctorate in psychology at Yale in the 1980s before joining the Yale
August 31, 2023Two more teenagers have been arrested in a mass shooting that left two people dead and 28 others injured during a Baltimore block party earlier this summer, authorities announced Thursday afternoon. Police arrested Aaron Brown, 18, and a 14-year-old. Both face multiple charges, including attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder, authorities said. Police had already arrested a teen charged with possessing a firearm during the shooting and another who they say shot into a crowd alongside Brown. City leaders on Wednesday released a lengthy report detailing shortcomings in the police response to the shooting, which is
August 31, 2023A judge on Thursday granted a request by a teachers union in Texas’ largest school district to temporarily block a new system to evaluate educators that’s being implemented following a state takeover. The order comes days after the Houston school district began its first school year under a contentious takeover that replaced its superintendent and board of trustees. It also follows rare public comments on the takeover by Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath since he announced it in March. One of the changes being put in place by new superintendent Mike Miles is a new teacher evaluation
August 31, 2023The United States military called for an end to days of fighting between rival U.S.-backed groups in east Syria Thursday, warning it may help the resurgence of the Islamic State group. The fighting that broke out Monday — and left at least 40 people dead and dozens wounded in the eastern oil-rich province of Deir el-Zour — was the worst in years. East Syria is where hundreds of U.S. troops have been based since 2015 to help battle IS militants. The clashes pitted members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces against its former ally the Arab-led Deir
August 31, 2023A federal judge in Delaware ordered prosecutors and defense attorneys on Thursday to provide a status report regarding a felony gun charge against Hunter Biden. Judge Maryellen Noreika directed lawyers to provide the report by next Wednesday, including any steps they believe the court needs to take. Attorneys for Biden have argued that a “diversion agreement” sparing him from prosecution on the gun charge is still in place, even though it was inextricably linked to a plea deal on misdemeanor tax offenses that imploded during a court appearance in July. Noreika dismissed the tax case, and
August 31, 2023Tennessee’s first-in-the-nation law placing strict limits on drag shows is once again facing a legal challenge after a local district attorney warned Pride organizers that he intends to enforce the new statute despite a federal judge ruling the ban was unconstitutional. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee filed the lawsuit late Wednesday on behalf of a organization planning a Blount County Pride festival on Sept. 2. The ACLU is also representing drag performer Flamy Grant, who was hired to perform at the event. The plaintiffs are asking the federal court in eastern Tennessee to block
August 31, 2023A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that the 84-year-old white homeowner who shot a Black teenager after he mistakenly went to the man’s house must stand trial. Clay County Judge Louis Angles issued the ruling after hearing from several witnesses at a preliminary hearing, including Ralph Yarl, the teenager who was shot by Andrew Lester on April 13 when Yarl went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers. Lester, a retired aircraft mechanic, is charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action. He previously pleaded not guilty in the shooting that shocked the
August 31, 2023Canada this week updated its travel advisory to the U.S., warning members of the LGBTQ+ community that some American states have enacted laws that may affect them. The country’s Global Affairs department did not specify which states, but is advising travelers to check the local laws for their destination before traveling. “Since the beginning of 2023, certain states in the U.S. have passed laws banning drag shows and restricting the transgender community from access to gender-affirming care and from participation in sporting events,” Global Affairs spokesman Jérémie Bérubé said Thursday in an emailed statement. “Outside Canada, laws
August 31, 2023Pope Francis is travelling to Mongolia to encourage one of the world’s smallest and newest Catholic communities, the first papal visit to the Asian country at a time when the Vatican’s relations with Mongolia’s two powerful neighbors Russia and China are once again strained. Francis arrives in the Mongol capital Ulaanbaatar on Friday morning after an overnight flight passing through Chinese airspace, which will give him a rare opportunity to send a note of greetings to President Xi Jinping. Vatican protocol calls for the pope to send such greetings whenever he flies over a foreign country. After
August 31, 2023Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have committed $10 million to make direct payments to people on Maui who are unable to return to their homes because of the wildfires, through a new fund they announced Thursday. The People’s Fund of Maui will give $1,200 a month to adults who are not able to return to their primary residences because of the recent wildfires, including people who owned and rented their homes, according to the fund’s website. The fund will also seek donations to extend the length of time it can provide the support. “How do we help?” the “Young Rock”
August 31, 2023Ecuador’s fragile security situation was underscored Thursday by a series of car bombings and the hostage-taking of more than 50 law enforcement officers inside various prisons, just weeks after the country was shaken by the assassination of a presidential candidate. Ecuador’s National Police reported no injuries resulting from the four explosions in Quito, the capital, and in a province that borders Peru, while Interior Minister Juan Zapata said none of the law enforcement officers taken hostage in six different prisons had been injured. Authorities said the brazen actions were the response of criminal groups to the
August 31, 2023Commercial hunting of fin whales can resume in Iceland but with stricter requirements on hunting methods and increased supervision, the North Atlantic island nation’s government said Thursday. Animal rights groups responded to the decision with dismay and called it “shameful.” The temporary ban that Icelandic authorities imposed in June, on animal welfare grounds, ends Thursday. Iceland’s Food and Veterinary Authority estimated in a May report that 67% of the 58 whales caught by boats it monitored died or lost consciousness quickly or immediately. But it said 14 whales were shot more than once, and two were shot
August 31, 2023India’s economy registered impressive growth of 7.8% in the first quarter of the current financial year (April-June), attributed to good performance by the agriculture and financial sectors, according to official data released on Thursday. The World Bank says India is one of the fastest-growing economies of the world and is poised to continue on this path. India’s agriculture sector recorded growth of 3.5% in three months, up from 2.4% in the April-June quarter last year, according to the data released by the government-run National Statistical Office. The rise in financial, real estate and professional services was
August 31, 2023Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers (400 miles) away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western Russia. Zelenskyy said on his Telegram channel the weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but gave no other details. On Wednesday, a four-hour wave of drones that Moscow blamed on Ukraine hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports. The airport is in Russia’s Pskov region,
August 31, 2023U.S. applications for unemployment benefits fell slightly last week as companies held on to employees in an economy that has largely withstood rapidly rising interest rates, intended to cool hiring and spending, for more than a year. The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last fell week by 4,000, to 228,000 the week ending August 26, the Labor Department reported Thursday. The four-week moving average of claims, which evens out some of the weekly volatility, rose by 250 to 237,500. Jobless claim applications are seen as representative of the number of layoffs in a given week. The Federal Reserve,
August 31, 2023An inflation gauge closely tracked by the Federal Reserve remained low last month, adding to signs of cooling price increases and raising the likelihood that the Fed will leave interest rates unchanged when it next meets in late September. Thursday’s report from the Commerce Department showed that prices rose just 0.2% from June to July, the third straight modest increase. Compared with a year earlier, prices rose 3.3% in July, up from a 3% annual increase in June. The year-over-year figure, though, is down sharply from the 7% peak it reached a year ago, though still above
August 31, 2023Niger’s military junta has revoked the diplomatic immunity of France’s ambassador and ordered police to expel him from the country, according to a statement from the military regime. The mutinous soldiers who ousted Niger’s president more than a month ago gave French Ambassador Sylvain Itte 48 hours to leave the country last week. The deadline expired on August 28 without France recalling Itte. The French government says it doesn’t recognize the coup-plotters as the country’s legitimate leaders. The communique sent by Niger’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier this week and seen by The Associated Press on
August 31, 2023As the sun rose on an unusually steamy opening day of the Minnesota State Fair, Jeff Knott and his two daughters joined the already long breakfast line outside the Hamline Church Dining Hall. The Lutheran family, at the fair to show the teen girls’ pigs Billy and Lil’ Red, favor this Methodist all-volunteer diner for its early opening, variety of foods including the signature “hamloaf” sandwich, and religious mission. “They use their proceeds for mission work, which I think is important,” Knott said before the family bowed their heads to say grace at the hall’s
August 31, 2023The head of Sudan’s army warned Thursday that the northeast African country will be divided if the conflict between the military and rival paramilitary force is not resolved. Sudan was plunged into chaos after monthslong tensions between the military, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces, commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, exploded into open fighting on April 15. “We are facing a war, and if it is not resolved quickly Sudan will be fragmented,” Burhan said in a speech addressed to the country’s police force in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.
August 31, 2023Iran accused Israel on Thursday of trying to sabotage its ballistic missile program through faulty foreign parts that could explode, damaging or destroying the weapons before they could be used. Israel did not immediately acknowledge the accusation, made in a report aired on Iranian state television. The report described the alleged Israeli operation as “one of the biggest attempts at sabotage” it had ever seen. It accused Israeli Mossad agents of supplying the faulty parts, which the state TV report described as low-price “connectors.” Footage aired by state TV showed the alleged parts, some of them
August 31, 2023After mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced they had deposed the country’s president, many residents danced in the streets and declared themselves free from the presidential family’s 55-year rule. It’s becoming a familiar scene in West and Central Africa, which has recorded eight coups since 2020. “It is an expression of the popular dissatisfaction,” said Hermann Ngoulou in the Gabonese capital of Libreville. “The country has been experiencing a deep crisis on all levels due to bad governance, the rising cost of food (and) the high cost of living.” There have been about 100 documented coups across
August 31, 2023Batteries in older Nissan Leaf electric vehicles are getting a new life as portable power sources that can be used to run gadgets on the go or deliver emergency power in disasters. Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. has sold more than 650,000 Leaf EVs. Their batteries often retain a charging capacity longer than the car’s life span. Nissan says it is using the old batteries in portable power sources it developed with electronics maker JVCKenwood Corp. and 4R Energy Corp., a company co-owned by Nissan and Sumitomo Corp. which works on ecological vehicles and power storage
August 31, 2023North Korea said Thursday its latest missile launches simulated “scorched earth” nuclear strikes on South Korea and that it’s also been rehearsing an occupation of its rival’s territory in the event of conflict. Pyongyang has previously tested nuclear-capable missiles and described how it would use them in potential wars with South Korea and the U.S. But the North’s disclosure of detailed war plans reaffirmed its aggressive nuclear doctrine to intimidate its opponents, as it escalates its protest of the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military exercises that it views as a major security threat, observers say. North
August 31, 2023European Union ministers expressed deep concern Thursday at the growing number of military coups across Africa as the bloc draws up sanctions targeting the junta in Niger which overthrew an elected government a month ago. On Wednesday, the oil-rich nation of Gabon became the eighth Central or West African country to be hit by a military takeover in the last three years. The EU has not been training Gabon’s armed forces -– although French troops have -– but it has funded and taught troops in Mali and Niger. The military training has focused mainly on the volatile
August 31, 2023Five people have been shot in an Illinois neighborhood and two of them were in critical condition, police said. The wounded, as well as a sixth person who suffered a laceration, were taken to a hospital following the shooting, which happened about 9 p.m. Wednesday, the Peoria Police Department said in a news release, saying 29 rounds were fired. The wounded were men and juvenile males, police said. With the exception of those in critical condition, police described the injuries as non-life-threatening. “When we arrived here, obviously there was chaos,” Police Chief Eric Echevarria told WEEK-TV.
August 31, 2023The first giant pandas born in Germany celebrated their fourth birthday Thursday as the Berlin Zoo prepares to send them to China, a journey that was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Pit and Paule, who also are known by the Chinese names Meng Xiang und Meng Yuan, have been a star attraction at the zoo since their birth in 2019. On Thursday, keepers presented them with an ice cake made with apples, carrots and beetroot, and a side serving of snow. While China for decades gifted friendly nations with its unofficial mascot as part of a policy
August 31, 2023Two people closely linked to India’s Adani Group, one of the country’s largest conglomerates, secretly purchased millions of dollars of stocks in the group’s companies, possibly violating Indian law, according to a report Thursday by a network of investigative journalists. Market rules require that at least 25% of a company’s shares be available for public purchase. The report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project said the two men used “opaque investment funds based in the island nation of Mauritius” to obscure their involvement in controlling up to nearly 14% of the public shares. The
August 31, 2023Annual inflation held steady in Europe in August as food prices raced ahead of falling fuel costs, but there was no clarity about whether the European Central Bank can pause its record series of interest rate hikes. The consumer price index for the 20 countries that use the euro currency was unchanged at 5.3% from the July reading, supported by food, alcohol and tobacco prices that increased a painful 9.8%, according to official figures Thursday from EU statistics agency Eurostat. Another key inflation number — so-called core inflation that leaves out volatile fuel and food —
August 31, 2023Greek authorities further reinforced firefighting forces in the country’s northeast Thursday, where a massive blaze in its thirteenth day has flared up once more, triggering authorities to issue alerts to residents in the area to be on standby for possible evacuation. More than 100 extra firefighters were deployed, bringing the total to 582, backed by a fleet of 10 planes and seven helicopters from nine European countries, the fire department said. The fire that started Aug. 19 has decimated homes and vast tracts of forest in the Alexandroupolis and Evros region, near Greece’s border with Turkey.
August 31, 2023Japanese retailer Seven & i Holdings Co. is selling department store chain Sogo & Seibu Co. to a U.S. investment fund, even as the labor union went on strike ahead of the announcement Thursday. The transfer to Fortress Investment Group will be completed Friday, according to Seven & i Holdings. The decision came at a board of directors meeting. The proposed sales price is 220 billion yen ($1.5 billion) but won’t be final until the transfer’s completion set for Friday. Separately, some of Sogo & Seibu’s debts, or nearly 92 billion yen ($630 million), will be forgiven,
August 31, 2023U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace formally submitted his resignation on Thursday amid speculation that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will name his successor later in the day. Wallace, who said last month he would resign before the next Cabinet reshuffle, ended four years in the post in which he oversaw the military response to the war in Ukraine. He used his resignation letter to press for increased funding for the military, long his primary issue. “I genuinely believe that over the next decade the world will get more insecure and more unstable,’’ Wallace wrote in his letter to
August 31, 2023Gabonese awoke Thursday to a new military leader after mutinous soldiers ousted a president whose family had ruled the oil-rich Central African nation for more than five decades. The new leader is Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, head of the elite republican guard unit, who soldiers announced on state TV Wednesday, hours after President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared winner of last week’s presidential election, which Gabonese and observers say was marred with irregularities and a lack of transparency. The soldiers accused Bongo of irresponsible governance that risked leading the country into chaos and have put
August 31, 2023A Palestinian driver slammed his truck into pedestrians at a busy checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, wounding three people in the latest bloodshed in a relentless cycle of violence to roil the region. The violence came a day after Israeli police shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian boy who stabbed a man in a Jerusalem light-rail station and after Palestinian militants detonated a bomb near a convoy of Israeli troops escorting Jewish worshippers to a holy site in the West Bank, wounding four Israeli troops. The unrest is part of more than
August 31, 2023Swiss bank UBS announced Thursday plans to save $10 billion in costs as it moves ahead with “full integration” of longtime rival Credit Suisse’s domestic operations, as UBS released its first earnings report since the government-orchestrated merger to help stave off a possible global financial meltdown. The announcement came as the Zurich-based bank reported a whopping $29 billion in pre-tax profit in the second quarter. But underlying profit before taxes came in at $1.1 billion, which excludes some $29 billion in negative goodwill, integration costs and other impacts of the Credit Suisse takeover. In a separate statement,
August 31, 2023Asian stock markets were mostly lower Thursday after Japanese factory activity and Chinese service industry growth weakened. Shanghai, Hong Kong and Seoul declined. Tokyo gained. Oil prices edged lower. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index rose 0.4% on Wednesday after the U.S. government cut its estimate of economic growth for the second quarter to a still-robust level. Traders hope that and this week’s updates on hiring and consumer inflation will convince the Federal Reserve prices are under control and no more interest rate hikes are needed. Official data showed Japanese factory activity shrank by 2% from the
August 31, 2023Tropical Storm Idalia descended on the Carolinas on its way out to the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, leaving a trail of flooding and destruction throughout the Southeast that stretched back to its landfall as a hurricane in Florida. Rescue and repair efforts continued in the areas the storm passed Wednesday and there was no immediate word on the toll from the ferocious winds and inundating waters, but authorities counted at least one death. The storm left as many as a half-million customers without power in Florida and other states at one point as it ripped down
August 31, 2023At least 58 people died when a fire ripped through a multi-story building in Johannesburg that had been overtaken by homeless people, emergency services said Thursday. Spokesman Robert Mulaudzi said another 43 people were injured in the blaze that broke out in the predawn hours. He said the death toll was likely to still increase in what he described as effectively “an informal settlement.” “Over 20 years in the service, I’ve never come across something like this,” Mulaudzi said. A search and recovery operation was underway and firefighters were moving through the building, Mulaudzi said. The team
August 31, 2023Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model fully available to the public Thursday, raising the company’s stock price by over 3% following the announcement. Beijing sees artificial intelligence as a key industry to rival the United States and aims to become a global leader by 2030. Chinese technology firms have also raced to unveil their generative AI models — in which algorithms allow the technology to produce and create new content — after U.S. firm OpenAI launched the widely popular ChatGPT. Baidu said Thursday that Ernie Bot would be fully
August 31, 2023A fire killed 15 people Thursday in a small apparel factory in a Philippine residential area, where firefighters were delayed by flooding, traffic and a wrong address, a fire protection official. Most of the victims appeared to be factory workers and carpenters who were sleeping in rooms when the fire broke out Thursday morning. Some were found dead on an aisle outside the rooms and the factory owner and his child were among the dead, Chief Superintendent Nahum Tarroza of the Bureau of Fire Protection said. Three people survived with injuries by jumping off the second
August 31, 2023Diego Fonseca looked at the computer and took a breath. It was his final attempt at the math placement test for his first year of college. His first three tries put him in pre-calculus, a blow for a student who aced honors physics and computer science in high school. Functions and trigonometry came easily, but the basics gave him trouble. He struggled to understand algebra, a subject he studied only during a year of remote learning in high school. “I didn’t have a hands-on, in-person class, and the information wasn’t really there,” said Fonseca, 19, of
August 31, 2023Last year it was Hurricane Ian that drew a bead on Tampa Bay before abruptly shifting east to strike southwest Florida more than 130 miles (210 kilometers) away. This time it was Hurricane Idalia, which caused some serious flooding as it sideswiped the area but packed much more punch at landfall Wednesday, miles to the north. In fact, the Tampa Bay area hasn’t been hit directly by a major hurricane for more than a century. The last time it happened, there were just a few hundred thousand people living in the region, compared with more than 3 million today. “Tampa
August 31, 2023North Korea said Thursday its latest missile launches simulated “scorched earth” nuclear strikes on South Korea and that it’s also been rehearsing an occupation of its rivals’ territory in the event of conflict. Pyongyang has previously tested nuclear-capable missiles and described how it would use them in potential wars with South Korea and the U.S. But the North’s disclosure of detailed war plans reaffirmed its aggressive nuclear doctrine to intimidate its opponents, as it escalates its protest of the ongoing South Korean-U.S. military exercises that it views as a major security threat, observers say. North
August 31, 2023Before the fatal shootings of three Black residents in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend, the gunman, a young white man with swastikas painted on his rifle, pulled into a parking lot at Edward Waters University and began putting on tactical gear. Students reported him, a campus police officer approached and he sped off in his vehicle having never identified himself. The shootings dredged up memories of another infamous racist attack in the city nearly 60 years ago known as Ax Handle Saturday. In that incident, a mob of Ku Klux Klan members armed with ax handles chased and beat 17-year-old
August 31, 2023The National Weather Service on Wednesday warned gusty winds and low humidity have increased the risk that fires could spread rapidly in the western parts of each Hawaiian island, three weeks after a deadly blaze tore through a coastal Maui town during a similar alert. But the agency said winds would not be as powerful compared to Aug. 8 when flames burned down much of Lahaina, killing at least 115 people and destroying more than 2,000 structures. The fire was the deadliest in the U.S. in more than a century. Lahaina’s flames were fanned by wind gusts
August 31, 2023Groceries stashed in the back of an electric delivery scooter are an increasingly familiar sight in the Indian city of Bengaluru. In crowded markets, electric rickshaws drop off and pick up passengers. And the number of tech startups focused on electric transport has shot up as the city — and country — embrace electric vehicles. India is one of the fastest-growing electric vehicle markets in the world and now has millions of EV owners. More than 90% of its 2.3 million electric vehicles are the cheaper and more popular two- or three-wheelers — that’s motorbikes, scooters
August 31, 2023When Preethi moved to Bengaluru in southern India 10 years ago after being kicked out of her family home for being transgender, she hoped for a better future. But 38-year-old Preethi, who only uses her first name, couldn’t get consistent work. For most of the decade, her main way of making money was begging on the city’s streets, making her susceptible to abuse and violent crime. “I just didn’t want that kind of life anymore,” she recalls. Then in March last year, she got a chance to turn things around. She got the keys to her
August 31, 2023By some measures, air travelers have enjoyed a less stressful summer than last year, but canceled flights remain elevated as airlines face their last big test of the prime vacation season: Labor Day weekend. The Federal Aviation Administration predicts that this will be the third busiest holiday weekend of the year so far, behind only the Juneteenth weekend, which included Father’s Day, and the Presidents Day break. Hurricane Idalia weakened and headed out to sea Thursday. While the storm left damage and power outages, its impact on travel eased. Airlines canceled several dozen flights in Florida and
August 30, 2023JCPenney said Thursday it plans to spend more than $1 billion by the end of 2025 in a bid to revive the storied but troubled 121-year-old department store chain. The money is going toward remodeling JCPenney stores, upgrading its online shopping site and app, and making its supply network more efficient so that online orders are delivered more quickly. JCPenney’s CEO Marc Rosen, who took the company’s helm in November 2021 and has served as an executive at Levi Strauss and Walmart, is renewing the chain’s focus on its core middle-income shoppers with affordable fashion and
August 30, 2023Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has lost his phone privileges and his prison tablet computer after his lawyer recorded him reading his journal entries on a call for a documentary about his case, South Carolina Corrections Department officials said Wednesday. Prison policy prohibits inmates from talking to the media without permission because the agency “believes that victims of crime should not have to see or hear the person who victimized them or their family member on the news,” state prisons spokeswoman Chrysti Shain said in a statement. The media interview violation, along with another violation for using
August 30, 2023Guatemala’s Congress, which is controlled by the currently governing party, on Wednesday refused to recognize the seven lawmakers from the Seed Movement party of President-elect Bernardo Arévalo, following the suspension of his party earlier this week. Lawmakers declared their Seed Movement colleagues independents in the latest move against the party since Arévalo’s landslide win Aug. 20. Prosecutors have accused the Seed Movement of wrongdoing in gathering signatures for the party’s registration years earlier. The case was announced in July after Arévalo won a surprise place in the presidential runoff against former first lady Sandra Torres. Anti-corruption
August 30, 2023A shooting that left a faculty member dead and frightened students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has galvanized gun safety advocates and local Democrats, who rallied the grieving campus community Wednesday to fight for stricter state gun laws. About 600 students held protest signs on a large lawn in the heart of campus and bowed their heads during a moment of silence as the iconic campus Bell Tower rang in honor of the deceased associate professor, Zijie Yan. Yan, who led a research group in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences,
August 30, 2023Three people were arrested Wednesday in the Dominican Republic as part of an ongoing investigation into a powerful explosion at a plastics company that killed at least 34 people earlier this month. Those arrested include the owner of the company and his wife, a government official who was not authorized to speak to the media told The Associated Press. The explosion was caused by an accumulation of highly flammable gases that could have been generated by the plastics and organic peroxide material stored at the company, according to a preliminary report by the firefighting
August 30, 2023Residential customers of Georgia’s largest electrical utility could see their bills rise another $9 a month to pay for a new nuclear power plant under a deal announced Wednesday. Georgia Power Co. said customers would pay $7.56 billion more for Plant Vogtle construction costs under the agreement with utility regulatory staff. The Georgia Public Service Commission’s five elected commissioners must approve any deal, but such agreements are typically persuasive. With the commission’s Public Interest Advocacy staff and three leading ratepayer groups signing on, the agreement is likely to avert contentious hearings over how much blame the company
August 30, 2023Police west of Toronto on Wednesday warned drivers to keep their car windows closed after a truck spilled crates carrying five million bees onto a road. Halton Regional Police said they received a call around 6:15 a.m. reporting the bee crates had come loose from a truck and spilled onto Guelph Line, north of Dundas Street, in Burlington, Ontario, just west of Toronto. It was “quite the scene,” Const. Ryan Anderson said. “Crates were literally on the road and swarms of bees were flying around,” he said. “The initial beekeeper that was on scene was apparently stung
August 30, 2023The once-powerful Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick will not stand trial on charges he sexually assaulted a teenage boy decades ago, as a Massachusetts judge dismissed the case against the 93-year-old on Wednesday because both prosecutors and defense attorneys agree he suffers from dementia. McCarrick, the ex-archbishop of Washington, D.C., was defrocked by Pope Francis in 2019 after an internal Vatican investigation determined he sexually molested adults as well as children. The McCarrick scandal created a crisis of credibility for the church, primarily because there was evidence Vatican and U.S. church leaders knew he slept with
August 30, 2023A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old at an Oklahoma high school football game, the authorities said Wednesday. Deputies working with other law enforcement agencies took the boy into custody without incident early Wednesday in the Oklahoma City suburb of Spencer, Oklahoma County Sheriff Tommie Johnson III said. The boy’s name was not released because he is a juvenile, Johnson said. Johnson referred other questions to Choctaw police, who are leading the investigation into the shooting. The sheriff’s office is investigating a shot fired during the gunfire by an off-duty
August 30, 2023Former U.S. Open champion Gary Woodland said Wednesday he will have surgery to remove a lesion found on his brain. Woodland, a four-time PGA Tour winner, announced on social media he was diagnosed with the lesion a few months ago and has been trying to treat the symptoms with medication. “After consulting with multiple specialists and discussing with my family, we’ve made the decision that surgery to remove the lesion is the best course of action,” Woodland wrote. “I’m in good spirits with my family and team by my side and so thankful for the love and support of everyone.”
August 30, 2023When Patricia Otero watched the president of Spain’s soccer federation tarnish the greatest victory in the history of women’s sports in Spain by forcibly kissing a player on the lips during the Women’s World Cup medal ceremony, she was saddened — but not surprised. For this amateur soccer player, the kiss that Luis Rubiales pressed on Spain forward Jenni Hermoso was simply the most public and notorious example of the treatment she and her teammates received as girls and young women. “We have seen that all our lives,” the 30-year-old told The Associated Press from the southern
August 30, 2023North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, hours after the U.S. flew at least one long-range bomber to the Korean Peninsula in a show of force against the North. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the launch occurred Wednesday but gave no further details, such as how far the missile flew. Earlier Wednesday, the United States flew a B-1B bomber to the Korean Peninsula as part of field exercises with South Korea. The field training has been held on the sidelines
August 30, 2023Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son must compensate a woman who sued him after he implied she was having an affair with his father’s chief political opponent, a court ruled Wednesday. The court ordered Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair Netanyahu, to pay over $34,000 in compensation and $6,000 in legal costs to Dana Cassidy. Cassidy sued him for defamation in 2020 after he insinuated on social media that she was romantically involved with Benny Gantz, who was running against his father for prime minister at the time. Over the course of the election, which ultimately returned Benjamin Netanyahu
August 30, 2023A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death over his posts on X, formerly known as Twitter, and his activity on YouTube, the latest in a widening crackdown on dissent in the kingdom that has drawn international criticism. The judgement against Mohammed bin Nasser al-Ghamdi, seen Wednesday by The Associated Press, comes against the backdrop of doctoral student Salma al-Shehab and others facing decadeslong prison sentences over their comments online. The sentences appear part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s wider effort to stamp out any defiance in the kingdom as he pursues
August 30, 2023The president of Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, knew well the threat of military coups in his part of the world. But he swore one wouldn’t happen to him. “While our continent has been shaken in recent weeks by violent crises, rest assured that I will never allow you and our country Gabon to be hostages to attempts at destabilization. Never,” Bongo declared this month as the central African nation marked 60 years of independence from France, almost all of that time with his family in power. Now, according to a group of mutinous Gabonese security forces
August 30, 2023Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and three Cabinet ministers ate Fukushima fish sashimi at a lunch meeting Wednesday, in an apparent effort to show that fish is safe following the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that began last week. Kishida and the three ministers had sashimi of flounder, octopus and sea bass, caught off the Fukushima coast after the water release, along with vegetables, fruits and a bowl of rice that were harvested in the prefecture, Economy and Industry Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who was at the meeting, told reporters. The
August 30, 2023The U.S. economy expanded at a 2.1% annual pace from April through June, showing continued resilience in the face of higher borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, the government said Wednesday in a downgrade from its initial estimate. The government had previously estimated that the economy expanded at a 2.4% annual rate last quarter. The Commerce Department’s second estimate of growth last quarter marked a slight acceleration from a 2% annual growth rate from January through March. Though the economy has been slowed by the Federal Reserve’s strenuous drive to tame inflation with interest rate hikes, it
August 30, 2023Fighting erupted in a refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank Wednesday between Palestinians and their own security forces, Palestinian authorities said, leaving a 25-year-old Palestinian dead. The unrest underscored the challenges facing Palestinian police trying to impose order in the restive territory. Elsewhere in the occupied territory, Israeli security forces shot a Palestinian man who they said tried to ram his car into soldiers at a military checkpoint, hitting and lightly wounding a soldier, authorities said. It was the latest incident in one of the West Bank’s most violent phases in years. Palestinian police entered
August 30, 2023Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet on Wednesday classified Moldova and Georgia as so-called “safe countries of origin” meaning asylum seekers from there can be rejected and deported faster than in the past. The move, once parliament has approved the new regulation, is a further step in efforts to curb migration to Germany as the country struggles to house and integrate more than 1 million refugees who fled the war from Ukraine last year. Different from others fleeing to Germany, Ukrainians do not need to apply for asylum but get a right of residency immediately. In addition to Ukrainian
August 30, 2023Tesla is allowing some drivers use its Autopilot driver-assist system for extended periods without making them put their hands on the steering wheel, a development that has drawn concern from U.S. safety regulators. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has ordered Tesla to tell the agency how many vehicles have received a software update making that possible and it’s seeking more information on what the electric vehicle maker’s plans are for wider distribution. “NHTSA is concerned that this feature was introduced to consumer vehicles, and now that the existence of this feature is known to the public,
August 30, 2023Pricing for new electric vehicles can be daunting for many shoppers. But more and more EVs are becoming available on the used vehicle market, and that’s creating greater opportunities for buying a lower-priced used EV. There’s also a further incentive to purchase a used EV that costs less than $25,000 thanks to an available federal tax credit of up to $4,000. To qualify for the federal tax credit, the EV you’re interested in must meet these criteria: 1) It must be purchased from a licensed dealership; 2) the sale price must be $25,000 or less; and 3) it must be
August 30, 2023The Kremlin said Wednesday that “deliberate wrongdoing” is among the possible causes of the plane crash that killed mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin last week. Speaking to reporters during his daily conference call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov noted that “different versions” of what happened exist and “are being considered,” including “let’s put this way, deliberate wrongdoing.” He urged reporters to wait until the probe by the Russian Investigative Committee is concluded, and said there can’t be an international investigation into it. The committee said last week it has opened a criminal case on charges of flight safety violations,
August 30, 2023More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates have urged Bangladesh’s prime minister to suspend legal proceedings against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people. In an open letter, the leaders, including former U.S. President Barack Obama, former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and more than 100 Nobel laureates, said they were deeply concerned by recent threats to democracy and human rights in Bangladesh. “One of the threats to human rights that concerns us in the present context is the case of Nobel
August 30, 2023Another game, another blowout for the U.S. at the Basketball World Cup. And now the competition figures to get considerably tougher. Anthony Edwards scored 22 points and the Americans completed an easy march through the group stage Wednesday, beating Jordan 110-62 to improve to 3-0 and finish atop Group C. Second-round play for the U.S. starts Friday against Montenegro. Bobby Portis scored 13 for the U.S., which led by 19 after one quarter and 62-33 at the half. Jaren Jackson Jr. scored 12 and Jalen Brunson added 10. Rondae Hollis-Jefferson — the only player with any
August 30, 2023A former member of Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko’s special security forces is to face trial in Switzerland next month for the forced disappearances of political opponents in the late 1990s, rights groups said Wednesday. Activists called it a “watershed moment” in international justice that could trigger prosecutions abroad of other Belarus officials — including Lukashenko, whose regime has come under renewed criticism over a crackdown against opposition leaders that began in August 2020 and support for Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine last year, among other things. The case against Yuri Harauski, a former member of a military
August 30, 2023The governing body of European soccer heads to its annual awards gala on Thursday in Monaco amid turmoil created by its vice president from Spain. Luis Rubiales won’t be at the high-end ceremony in Monte Carlo where the awards for best player and coach will be made because he has been suspended by FIFA, the sport’s ultimate governing body. Spain could sweep the prizes for women’s soccer. FIFA suspended Rubiales, who is both the president of the Spanish soccer federation and a vice president at European soccer body UEFA, for at least 90 days while it investigates the kiss he
August 30, 2023Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will remain in a high-security prison for at least another two weeks despite being granted bail the previous day, as an anti-terrorism court extended his detention Wednesday in a case involving the revealing of an official secret document, a defense lawyer said. The anti-terrorism court announced the decision after a brief closed-door hearing that was held at a high-security Attock prison in the eastern Punjab province, lawyer Intazar Hussain Panjutha said. The next court hearing will be on Sept. 2, he said. Khan’s other lawyer, Salman Safdar, told reporters that he
August 30, 2023When Pope Francis travels to Mongolia this week, he will in some ways be completing a mission begun by the 13th-century Pope Innocent IV, who dispatched emissaries east to ascertain the intentions of the rapidly expanding Mongol Empire and beseech its leaders to halt the bloodshed and convert. Those medieval exchanges between Roman pope and Mongolian khan were full of bellicose demands for submission and conversion, with each side claiming to be acting in the name of God, according to texts of the letters that survive. But the exchanges also showed mutual respect at a time
August 30, 2023The Russian ruble’s wobble in value has exposed a crack in President Vladimir Putin’s fortress economy, a vulnerability quickly plastered over by the Kremlin’s economic team in a move that allowed the currency to regain its footing, at least for now. Yet the patch — an emergency interest rate increase — cannot hide the dilemma at the heart of the Russian economy: how to fund the military while not undermining the national currency and overheating the economy with corrosive and politically embarrassing inflation. Life in Moscow presents a facade of normality despite sweeping sanctions tied to the war in Ukraine
August 30, 2023Asian shares rose Wednesday, boosted by a Wall Street rally that came on positive reports on consumer confidence and job openings. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 added 0.3% in afternoon trading to 32,312.75. South Korea’s Kospi rose 0.4% to 2,563.37. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng gained 0.5% to 18,574.12, while the Shanghai Composite inched up 0.1% to 3,139.28. Australia’s S&P/ASX 200 jumped 1.2% to 7,297.70, after the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported the monthly Consumer Price Index indicator rose 4.9% in the 12 months to July. That was lower than the expected 5.2%, marking the first time since February
August 30, 2023Britain’s top diplomat, James Cleverly, began a long-awaited visit to China on Wednesday as the two countries attempt to stabilize bilateral ties that have frayed badly in recent years. The trip is the first by a United Kingdom foreign secretary to China in more than five years, underscoring the downturn in relations over Beijing’s curbing of civil liberties in Hong Kong, a former British colony, abuses against Muslim minorities in the Xinjiang region, China’s support for Russia and Britain’s close security ties with the United States. Cleverly met first with Vice President Han Zheng, who said the
August 30, 2023India is protesting a new Chinese map that lays claim to India’s territory ahead of next week’s Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, a foreign ministry official said, exacerbating tensions during a three-year military standoff between the two nations. The timing of the protest is key, as Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend the summit of industrialized and developing countries. “We reject these claims as they have no basis. Such steps by the Chinese side only complicate the resolution of the boundary question,” the External Affairs Ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi said in a
August 30, 2023Roaring chainsaws sent trees crashing to the ground, and bare-chested men hacked away at the branches beside a muddy road. Others heaved logs onto a truck, where they were tied in place with wire. The work was similar on the other side of the road, with a timber-laden truck coughing dark plumes of smoke as it pulled away. This was miles into the conservation zone of Omo Forest Reserve in southern Nigeria, a protected area where logging is prohibited because it’s home to threatened species like African elephants, pangolins and white-throated monkeys. But forest
August 30, 2023Mutinous soldiers in Gabon said Wednesday they were overturning the results of a presidential election that was to extend the Bongo family’s 55-year hold on power. The central African country’s election committee announced that President Ali Bongo Ondimba, 64, had won the election with 64% of the vote early Wednesday morning. Within minutes, gunfire was heard in the center of the capital, Libreville. A dozen uniformed soldiers appeared on state television later the same morning and announced that they had seized power. The soldiers intended to “dissolve all institutions of the republic,” said a spokesman for
August 30, 2023Florida residents living in vulnerable coastal areas were ordered to pack up and leave as Hurricane Idalia gained steam in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and authorities warned of a “catastrophic storm surge and destructive winds” when the storm moves ashore Wednesday morning. Idalia grew into a Category 2 system on Tuesday afternoon, with sustained winds of 110 mph (177 kph) by Tuesday night. It was projected to make landfall early Wednesday as a Category 4 storm with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kph) in the lightly populated Big Bend
August 30, 2023San Francisco right-hander Alex Cobb carried a no-hit bid through seven innings against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night with the help of a scoring change. Nick Senzel was credited with a single in the third inning on a two-hopper that third baseman Casey Schmitt snagged with a backhand grab. The rookie’s throw from foul territory was high and pulled a leaping J.D. Davis off the first-base bag. Official scorer Chris Thoms originally called the play a hit, then changed it to an errore. That was the only runner to reach through seven innings off Cobb,
August 30, 2023Lucas Giolito found out on X he could become an ex-Angel. ESPN reported Tuesday that Los Angeles has placed Giolito, relievers Dominic Leone, Matt Moore and Reynaldo Lopez, and outfielders Hunter Renfroe and Randal Grichuk on waivers. Teams have until 2 p.m. EDT Thursday to claim the players. Giolito said he read the news on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “I’d say, surprised,” Giolito said after a 12-7 loss to Philadelphia. “But at the end of the day, it’s a business. It can be a very strange business sometimes. You just roll with
August 30, 2023Australians will vote on Oct. 14 in a referendum that would enshrine in the nation’s constitution a mechanism for Indigenous people to advise Parliament on policies that effect their lives known as the Voice. Proponents say embedding the Voice in the constitution would recognize the special place that Indigenous people have in Australian history while giving them input in government policies. Opponents argue it would be the biggest change to Australia’s democracy in the nation’s history and divide Australians along racial lines without reducing Indigenous disadvantage. As Australia’s first referendum in a generation approaches, the bipartisan
August 30, 2023Australians will vote on Oct. 14 on a proposed law to create a so-called Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the nation’s first referendum in a generation. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday announced the referendum date, triggering just over six weeks of intensifying campaigning by both sides of the argument. The referendum would enshrine in the constitution an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, a collection of advocates aimed at giving the nation’s most disadvantaged ethnic minority more say on government policy. Albanese urged people to vote “yes” as polls showed more than 80% of Australia’s Indigenous population
August 30, 2023Russian officials accused Ukraine of targeting six Russian regions early Wednesday in what appeared to be the biggest drone attack on Russian soil since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine 18 months ago. Drones hit an airport in the western Pskov region and started a massive fire there, the governor and local media reported. More drones were shot down over Oryol, Bryansk, Ryazan, Kaluga and the Moscow region surrounding the Russian capital, according to the Defense Ministry. The strike in Pskov, which was first reported minutes before midnight, hit an airport in the region’s namesake capital and damaged
August 30, 2023Crews in Hawaii have all but finished searching for victims of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, authorities said Tuesday, and it is unclear how many people perished. Three weeks after the fire devastated Maui’s historic seaside community of Lahaina, the count of the dead stands at 115. But an unknown number of people are still missing. Officials suggested that responders likely have already recovered any remains that are recognizable as such, and they are shifting the response to focus on removing hazardous waste and making the area safe for residents to begin returning.
August 30, 2023The Biden administration will propose a new rule Tuesday that would make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, reviving an Obama-era policy effort that was ultimately scuttled in court. The new rule, shared with The Associated Press ahead of the announcement, would require employers to pay overtime to so-called white collar workers who make less than $55,000 a year. That’s up from the current threshold of $35,568 which has been in place since 2019 when Trump administration raised it from $23,660. In another significant change, the rule proposes automatic increases to the salary
August 30, 2023Upon further review, the U.S. Open’s new video replay system needs a little work. The new setup allowing players to challenge certain calls, such as double bounces, was used for the first time Tuesday when Corentin Moutet hoped to get a crucial call overturned in his match against Andy Murray. Unfortunately for the French player, the chair umpire’s tablet malfunctioned, preventing her from watching video footage and forcing the original call of a point for Murray to stand. “It obviously didn’t go to plan in a pretty important moment of the match,” Murray said. The video
August 29, 2023Kansas authorities must destroy all electronic copies they made of a small newspaper’s files when police raided its office this month, a judge ordered Tuesday, nearly two weeks after computers and cellphones seized in the search were returned. The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s office and the homes of its publisher and a City Council member have been sharply criticized, putting Marion, a central Kansas town of about 1,900 people, at the center of a debate over the press protections offered by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Attorney Bernie Rhodes, who represents the newspaper, said
August 29, 2023It’s become a stink at the U.S. Open: a pungent marijuana smell that wafted over an outer court, clouded the concentration of one of the world’s top players and left the impression there’s no place left to escape the unofficial scent of the city. While the exact source of the smell remained a mystery Tuesday, one thing was clear: Court 17, where eighth-seeded Maria Sakkari complained about an overwhelming whiff of pot during her first-round loss, has become notorious among players in recent years for its distinctive, unmistakable odor. “Court 17 definitely smells like Snoop Dogg’s
August 29, 2023A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, according to the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Four state residents — Donald Woods, Will Thomas, Joey Clark and Tanner White — harvested a male alligator Saturday in west Mississippi’s Sunflower River. It weighed 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms) and measured 14 feet, 3 inches (4.3 meters) long, breaking the previous record by over 2 inches, the department said. After capturing the animal, the hunters hoisted it with a forklift and posed for a picture at Red Antler Processing
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