Russia's health regulator denied on Thursday that someone had fallen ill after coming into contact with a worker at a plague research laboratory in Siberia who died last week.
WASHINGTON, United States — A convicted US killer who survived a botched execution was almost taken off life support before she regained consciousness, her lawyer said Wednesday, as a court ordered prison authorities to…
British police said that search warrants it secured to search properties linked to King Charles' brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor had been incorrectly granted and must be quashed.
UKRAINE — The tired troops moved through the forest in east Ukraine at dawn, imitating assault rifle fire while searching for non-existent Russians between the trees. Unlike the thousands of Ukrainians who enlisted when…
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — The US policy of deporting migrants to third-party African countries is against international law and exploits suffering to deter immigration, Human Rights Watch said in a report Thursday. After…
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have stepped up their deadly campaign of strikes on Riyadh, where booms were heard on Thursday, flights disrupted, and some office staff told to work from home.
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia — Myanmar will accept more Burmese migrants held in Malaysia "as soon as possible", the war-torn nation's leader said Thursday despite human rights concerns over the opaque repatriation scheme. Min…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — American scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led development of the computer system used by NASA's Apollo lunar program, has died at the age of 90, her former employer said Wednesday. In a statement, the…
Maricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old Spanish woman whose dramatic eviction last month sparked mass housing protests that led to an early election, has died.
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea flight-tested on Thursday its first domestically developed hypersonic weapon, designed to fly at least five times the speed of sound and evade missile defense systems, bringing Seoul…
STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded on Thursday to Canadian poet Anne Carson, an essayist and classicist who brings a modern twist to mysticism and antiquity in her writings about love, desire and…
A 15-year-old former pupil killed one person and injured two others at a Polish school just a day after a 19-year-old wounded 10 people including himself in an attack at another school.
NASHVILLE, Tennessee — Christa Pike was “angry and confused” in the hours after regaining consciousness following Tennessee’s failed execution attempt, first asking, “Where am I?” her lawyer said Wednesday. Pike…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States, the latest effort from the Trump administration to crack down…
The group operated mainly between 11 pm and 4 am, using fish bait and traps placed outside homes with pet cats, police say
RIYADH — Diplomats stationed in the Saudi capital were sheltering in place and international schools took safety measures on Thursday, diplomats and residents told Agence France-Presse, after explosions echoed across…
New data on child migrants published on Wednesday highlighted the harrowing treatment many face while travelling to Europe in search of work and shelter. Just over 31,000 children arrived in Greece, Italy, Spain…
'This is the kind of birthday present that Putin gave himself: the killing of children, the killing of people,' says Ukraine President Zelenskyy, noting that the attacks coincided with the Russian leader's birthday
Children in constant danger “Families must never live through the horror of seeing their children placed in constant danger or buried under the rubble of their own homes. This pattern of increasing harm to civilians…
Health authorities in Russia say there is “no plague case” in Siberia following reports last week that a lab technician had died of pneumonia of an unknown origin in the region, World Health Organization (WHO) officials…
One person was killed and eight wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, and two were killed and 28 wounded in an attack on facilities at Abha airport, Saudi civil aviation…
GENEVA — El Niño will intensify even more before peaking in December, the United Nations said Thursday, warning it could be among the strongest witnessed since at least 1950. The naturally occurring weather phenomenon…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two lawsuits filed Wednesday challenged President Donald Trump's recent series of federally funded television advertisements, which promote his political message while costing taxpayers millions of…
Seven Filipino crew members from cruise ships that docked in Boston were apprehended by US Customs and Border Protection, the latest in a series of arrests that involved other Filipino sailors at the same port.
JERUSALEM — As Israel gears up for its first elections since the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his opponents are putting it at the heart of their campaigns. Nearly every poster…
Tropical Storm Isaias formed Wednesday in the warm waters of eastern Mexico, and mandatory evacuations were issued for some coastal areas in Florida as forecasters predicted it would strengthen into the first hurricane…
'They have a reputation for maybe not giving it to people like me,' says US President Donald Trump of the Norwegian Nobel Committee
MATAKING, Malaysia — The palm-sized green turtle hatchling flailing through the sand on a Malaysian island may seem vulnerable, but its species has emerged as a symbol of hope for wildlife conservation. Green turtles…
RIYADH — Saudi authorities said Wednesday that three people were killed in attacks on two of the kingdom's international airports, including in the capital Riyadh, after Yemen's Houthis claimed to have fired on both…
Three people have been killed in attacks on Saudi airports, the country's civil aviation authorities said on Wednesday, as fighting intensified in Yemen between the Iran-aligned Houthis and Saudi-backed government…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump will present close ally Elon Musk and other tech bosses with the top US scientific award at a ceremony on Thursday, the White House said. Google co-founder Sergei Brin, Nvidia…
SAN FRANCISCO, United States — Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than $2,500, the company…
Democratic Party officials sued US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking a court order blocking his administration from using taxpayer money to pay for election-related TV ads.
NEW YROK, United States — US authorities on Wednesday charged a man who allegedly planned a mass shooting at a shopping mall in Minnesota in support of the Islamic State group. The FBI arrested Sheikhdoon Abdullahi…
WASHINGTON, United States — The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that price increases for necessities like food and energy, fueled by the wars in Iran and Ukraine, were more persistent than previously…
Saudi Arabia has launched an air accident probe following last week's cockpit stabbing on a flydubai jet, as experts examine any fallout for aviation safety alongside a separate UAE-led criminal investigation, three…
LOS ANGELES — An extremely wealthy Chinese immigrant and his wife amassed a brood of 21 children through a surrogacy scheme and raised them in a “house of horrors,” prosecutors alleged Tuesday. Guojun Xuan, 66, and…
WASHINGTON, United States — Physicist Francis Halzen has an impressively long list of academic accolades -- but every October, as the Nobel Prize rolled around, his failure to bag the biggest award of them all left him…
Lawyers for Christa Pike will ask a judge to order prison officials to let them inspect the syringes and equipment used in Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her last week for a 1995 murder.
PHOENIX — A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system stole personal information for more than a million people and is believed to have started when a court employee clicked a malicious link in an email. The Arizona Supreme…
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