The crew of a merchant ship was missing after the vessel sank in the Black Sea off NATO member Bulgaria following a drone strike that it described as a gross violation of international law.
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian air defenses intercepted nearly 900 Ukrainian drones overnight over multiple regions of the country, as well as the occupied Crimean Peninsula and the Sea of Azov, the Defense Ministry in Moscow…
PAPHOS, Cyprus — Details were presented on Tuesday in the trial of a British man who pleaded guilty to a charge of negligence regarding the fatal fall of his 3-year-old son from a hotel window in Cyprus. According to…
Russia's health watchdog said on Tuesday that no cases of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week
PARIS — Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in cities across France on Tuesday in support of protests by school pupils demanding more education funding, increasing pressure on the government of outgoing President…
BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish Supreme Court judge lifted the arrest warrant for Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on Tuesday, clearing the way for him to return home without fear of detention for the first time…
Two Filipino-Americans are among 40 individuals facing government efforts to revoke their American citizenship over various offenses, in what the US Justice Department described as the largest denaturalization effort of…
BERLIN — A former head of Germany 's foreign intelligence service was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion that he had passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, the federal prosecutor's office said. August…
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful “The PTL Club” TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86…
The award-giving body cites Halzen's 'decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin'
STOCKHOLM — Belgian physicist Francis Halzen on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for work on subatomic particles at the South Pole, the award jury said. "This year's prize is about ghostly messengers from space,"…
HANOI, Vietnam — Police in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City arrested 12 men suspected of operating a citywide ring that stole and resold about 2,700 cats for meat, Vietnamese state media said. Police identified 39-year-old…
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday that around 10,000 Myanmar nationals have been sent back to their country since January, part of efforts to repatriate refugees who fled a civil war.
GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that it deemed the public health risk in Russia to be low, following reports that a laboratory technician had died of plague. A worker at the anti-plague institute in…
STOCKHOLM — This year's Nobel literature prize could go to a Chinese or a Caribbean woman when it is awarded later this week, literary critics say, in a bid to diversify an award that has most often gone to Western male…
The breach triggers concern across the FBI and the wider intelligence community
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has begun a three-nation tour of NATO allies with a stop Tuesday in Iceland, where unease persists about the Trump administration's Arctic intentions even after a…
Some of Tennessee's top Republicans said Monday they want to explore alternative ways of executing condemned prisoners after the failed execution of Christa Pike, which relied on a large dose of pentobarbital. U.S. Sen…
Cornell University students staged a mass rally on Monday voicing solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape allegations have ignited a national uproar and demanding that the Ivy League school take firmer action…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Research in particle physics, astrophysics or the invention of an "invisibility cloak" are some of the achievements that could be honoured when the Nobel physics prize is awarded Tuesday. The award…
LOS ANGELES — The FBI arrested a California real estate agent as she prepared to fly to China, accusing her of secretly working for Beijing to surveil the president of Taiwan's family in the US, federal officials said…
As recently as July, the Department of Homeland Security said it had issued more than 103,000 fines to migrants amounting to about $84 billion in total since President Trump returned to the White House in 2024
ITHACA, New York — Cornell students thronged a campus plaza to protest the university's response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house, and the school's main administration building was splashed with…
Over a dozen leaders touched down on the tiny Pacific atoll nation of Tuvalu on Tuesday for a first-hand look at a once-vibrant ecosystem wiped out due to climate change. The getaway comes on the sidelines of the…
ASEAN's reliance on Middle Eastern crude oil, coupled with rising global prices, has prompted discussions on implementing regional fuel-security measures and long-term initiatives like the ASEAN Power Grid and renewable…
TAIZ, Yemen — Iran-backed Houthis on Monday said they had struck Riyadh's international airport, an Aramco refinery and several other sites in Saudi Arabia, as the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen said they had destroyed…
The Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis filed a lawsuit against the federal government on Monday, alleging that detainees at an immigration detention facility in Missouri are being deprived of their right to speak…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A double decker bus drove off a road and tipped over in southern Sweden on Monday, killing an 18-year-old and injuring dozens, officials said. Images from the accident, which occurred between the…
LONDON, United Kingdom — British author Jeffrey Archer, who penned a series of best-selling novels, served as a Conservative MP and was convicted of perjury, died suddenly at 86, his publisher HarperCollins said. Archer…
A teenager's hand was blown off as high-school protesters clashed with riot police in France on the eve of a national demonstration against underfunding, overcrowding and dilapidation.
More than 500 of France's 3,700 lycees were fully or partially closed on Monday, and bigger demonstrations dubbed "Act III" by a secondary school students' union are expected on Tuesday as social media calls mount for a…
THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court on Monday gave more details about arrest warrants issued last year for two Afghan education ministers accused of committing crimes against humanity through the…
BRASILIA — Brazilian senator Flavio Bolsonaro, son of the far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro, finished ahead of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sunday’s election, which will go to a runoff in three weeks. In…
WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel Monday to Iceland to continue pressing US interests in the Arctic, two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland. Rubio will meet with…
MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Monday he would call an early election on Nov. 29, after parliament rejected housing relief measures proposed by his minority government. The defeat in parliament on…
LOS ANGELES — A woman accused of spying for China on Taiwanese leader Lai Ching-te’s son and his family was arrested Sunday in the United States, US and Taiwanese officials said. Wanying Zhang, 34, was detained by the…
WASHINGTON — The United States confirmed Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford, a British airbase at the center of a counter-terrorism probe after a mysterious security incident last month…
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi calls China an “important neighbor” and pledges to build a stable relationship between the rival nations in a policy address on Monday, according to media reports…
YANGON — Myanmar has repatriated nearly 10,000 migrants from Malaysia this year, state media said on Monday, a day after a flotilla returning almost 1,500 of its citizens docked in the country. The United Nations (UN)…
NADI — Fiji urged developed nations on Monday to back a just transition to renewable energy and support those most vulnerable to climate change with much-needed financing, as the UN “pre-COP” gathering kicked off in the…
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