The Japan Meteorological Agency issued an emergency earthquake warning, urging people from Hokkaido in the north to the Tokai region in central Japan to brace for strong shaking as a massive temblor occurred in the…
ZAGREB, Croatia — Police in the Croatian city of Split on Friday arrested at least a dozen fans of the Hajduk Split soccer team a day after unruly supporters held an anti-Semitic rally, clashed with officers and…
About 575 Filipino nurses in 30 US states will receive payments and other benefits after a New Jersey court approved a $1.85 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over allegedly excessive charges imposed on…
ISTANBUL — Catastrophic flooding in Istanbul in recent days is the worst in more than 80 years, Turkey’s interior minister said Friday as the death toll rose to four. Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city with 16 million…
About 575 Filipino nurses in 30 US states will receive payments and other benefits after a New Jersey court approved a $1.85 million settlement in a class action lawsuit over allegedly excessive charges imposed on…
HONG KONG — China on Friday said it plans to restrict or ban exports of 40 technologies that span artificial intelligence, chips and solar power as its technology race with countries including the United States…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo will appear in public on Sunday for the first time since undergoing lung cancer surgery as the 71-year-old pontiff shows steady improvement and is able to work and do normal daily activities…
EFFORTS to raise hundreds of billions of dollars to preserve the world's oceans, forests, rivers, lakes and other parts of the natural world have fallen short ahead of a key U.N. summit on biodiversity. The yawning gap…
PARIS, France — Kering chief executive Luca de Meo is accelerating his shake-up of the struggling fashion conglomerate with the ousting of Alexander McQueen's chief designer, just days after a purge at Saint Laurent…
Sources say leaders at the Defense Department received a message that the SpaceX Starshield service for the Ukrainian military needed to be slowed
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks on nine regions of Ukraine caused emergency power outages for hundreds of thousands of households and damaged numerous homes, wounding at least 15 people, officials said Friday, as…
ROME — Doctors said Friday that tests have confirmed the “continued improvement” in Pope Leo XIV’s condition following lung cancer surgery. The 71-year-old Leo presided over Mass, and distributed Communion, in a special…
Russia and Ukraine had agreed to halt attacks on energy sites but in the days that followed, Russia rained down missile and drone strikes, including on energy targets such as power stations, knocking out power to…
HOUSTON, Texas — Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled what he described as a "flying" car, equipped with thrusters, during a livestreamed event at his SpaceX rocket company's facility on Thursday. Technical and regulatory…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Authorities in Pakistan ordered inspections of all private schools in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a school roof collapsed and killed 34 children and a teacher, as some victims’…
Reports indicate the shooter was 16 years of age
NEW YORK — Manhattan's Upper West Side has been reveling in the company of its latest celebrities: A family of barn owls nested in a water tower atop a building near Central Park. This is the first documented instance…
ATLANTA — A growing number of amusement parks have shut down roller coasters as police and state regulators investigate what caused a man to fall out of his seat and plummet to his death at a Georgia park. Sea World…
The world's 1.4 billion Catholics are again unexpectedly facing the reality of a sick pope
BRUSSELS, Belgium — France and Germany have backed a further scaling down of EU emission rules for cars as part of a long-negotiated deal on the automotive industry struck Thursday, diplomatic sources confirmed to AFP…
WASHINGTON, United States — US President Donald Trump on Thursday canceled plans to livestream the firing squad execution of a convicted military base mass shooter, reversing a widely condemned move by Defense Secretary…
A shooting at an elementary school in the northwestern state of Oregon on Thursday left "multiple victims," police said, with several media outlets reporting three children and one adult had been killed.
NEW YORK, United States — Wall Street stocks bounced back from a shaky start after disappointing inflation data on Thursday, while pressure on artificial intelligence shares moderated somewhat following a battering of…
BRUSSELS, Belgium — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky is seeking to rally European allies at a Brussels summit on Friday after saying Kyiv would no longer abide by US President Donald Trump's demands not to strike…
Rome's Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Leo is recovering after surgery for lung cancer, is known as the "hospital of the popes".
LOS ANGELES, United States — A shooting has left "multiple victims" at an elementary school in the northwestern US state of Oregon, police said Thursday, adding that the shooter is dead. "We don't have confirmation yet…
WASHINGTON, United States — Nine FBI employees who were fired this year -- who had all worked on the criminal probe of President Donald Trump's handling of classified documents -- filed suit Thursday demanding their…
Ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores pleaded not guilty on Thursday to a new US indictment accusing them of conspiring to torture political opponents.
WASHINGTON, United States — New White House press secretary Katie Zacharia, under scrutiny over her legal credentials, seemed to acknowledge Thursday that she had failed the bar exam, but argued she was accurate in…
NEW YORK, United States — Google announced Thursday it will start displaying links to websites and articles more prominently and higher up in search results powered by artificial intelligence (AI), as brands and news…
The Philippine Embassy in Saudi Arabia has advised Filipinos, who plan to travel to the Kingdom amid the security situation in the region, to be in constant contact with travel agencies, Umrah service providers, and to…
15 October 2026 Human Rights Brain signals recorded by a gaming headset or a wellness gadget could one day be used as evidence against you in court, according to a new UN report which warns that neurotechnology is…
15 October 2026 Climate and Environment Fewer than half of the national targets set to protect the world’s plants, animals and ecosystems are on track, the UN warns in a new report, days before countries gather in…
Trump has canceled the planned livestream of the execution of the former US Army major who killed 13 people, saying that he overruled his defense chief who wanted it to be a public spectacle.
15 October 2026 Health The World Health Organization (WHO) continues to support Kenya’s efforts to contain Ebola after a second person tested positive for the Bundibugyo virus, the UN agency’s representative in the…
15 October 2026 Peace and Security Ongoing and deadly Russian attacks across Ukraine are causing serious healthcare disruption, with more than $1.5 million-worth of medicines and supplies destroyed in four separate…
For over a month, Luna, a Jack Russell terrier that bolted from her family's cabin during a vacation at Yellowstone National Park, eluded capture as fears for her survival mounted and winter weather approached. On…
SAINT-GERVAIS LES BAINS — France's tallest mountain was nearly two meters higher last month than its last reported measurement in 2023, surveyors said Wednesday, putting the Alpine peak at 4,807.47 meters (15,772.5…
DIVO, Ivory coast — Kofi Alexis Amani has watched the trees on his cocoa plantation wilt and sometimes wither as rains became unpredictable and less abundant in Ivory Coast over the past several decades. "You can lose…
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian authorities launched search and rescue operations off the Black Sea coast Thursday after a drone struck a ship which then caught fire, the latest in a spate of strikes that has raised fears…
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