VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo returned to the Vatican on Saturday, four days after undergoing surgery for lung cancer at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, where dozens of well-wishers saw him off with cries of “Holiness.” “I am much…
NEW DELHI, INDIA — India's Cockroach Janata Party founder Abhijeet Dipke was released from detention on Saturday, a day after his arrest during a police crackdown on protests against the election authority. Dipke, 31…
TOKYO -- An emergency alert warning of a magnitude 9.9 earthquake turned an otherwise ordinary afternoon in Japan into several minutes of anxiety on Friday, as phones rang across the country and people braced for…
KYIV — Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he feared the United States would lift more sanctions on Russia and that President Donald Trump's action only "rewards" Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin…
Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have put their growing military capabilities on display in recent weeks, repeatedly striking Saudi Arabia's main international airport hundreds of miles (kilometers) away and seizing…
President Vladimir Putin told Pope Leo he had agreed to cooperate after the pontiff asked him on Friday to help get vital supplies into the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky, the Kremlin said.
VATICAN CITY — There’s a telling anecdote from St. John Paul II's pontificate that illustrates how Pope Leo XIV and his American style of governing have changed the Vatican and the way it handles papal health crises…
SANTA ANA, California — A fast-moving fire fueled by high winds burned at least six homes in Southern California on Friday, engulfing expensive coastal properties and prompting thousands to evacuate. Black smoke…
A 16-year-old boy who shot and killed a teacher and three children in an Oregon special-needs classroom was stopped by another teacher who tackled him and an armed father who fatally shot him, officials said on Friday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that waived sweeping US sanctions and tariffs targeting Russia's energy revenues, marking a new low in Washington's ties with war-torn…
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the creator of the AI assistant Claude, confirmed on Friday it is circulating a draft bill among US lawmakers aimed at regulating artificial intelligence to address the lack of federal…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As Americans begin casting their ballots in the midterm elections, the prominent "No Kings" anti-Trump movement is organizing thousands of rallies Saturday to get voters fired up. "No Kings" has more…
SINGAPORE — Ongoing fires in Indonesia that have blanketed parts of Southeast Asia with toxic haze have triggered the highest-level alert by the regional bloc's climate and fire monitor. "Activation of Alert Level 3 for…
Two hundred overseas Filipino workers stranded in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia due to flight cancellations will be brought back to the Philippines on government expense, the Department of Migrant Workers said Saturday.
Less than a month before the UN climate conference COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, representatives of three successive summit presidencies gathered to address a pressing question: How can the world restore trust in…
The trend continued into October. On the night of 6 to 7 October alone, a Russian cruise missile and drone attack killed 22 civilians and injured 45 in Pryluky, in Chernihiv region. “The first two weeks of October were…
Missiles struck Yemen's Aden International Airport on Friday, while a Saudi-led military coalition said it had intercepted a ballistic missile headed for the Red Sea city of Yanbu, a key Saudi oil hub that allows…
The World Health Organization (WHO) is strengthening Ebola preparedness amid conflict and displacement affecting millions of lives in a region that spans parts of Africa, Asia and Europe. The UN agency’s eastern…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was pushed out Friday after less than a week in the high-profile job following a series of blunders that added to distractions for her embattled boss…
US President Donald Trump made a joke about the popularity of the name Mohammad in the Muslim world as he mocked Iran's presidency during a campaign speech on Friday.
SAO PAULO — Tech giant Meta denied accusations Friday that it acted with political bias during Brazil’s presidential campaign, less than a day after the country’s electoral court ruled the platform must give equal…
LONDON — A Norwegian teenager convicted of traveling to Britain to carry out a contract killing on behalf of an international crime gang linked to Iran was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison. Johannes Kongsnes…
LONDON - A Norwegian teenager who flew to Britain to commit murder after being recruited online by a Swedish organized crime group linked to Iran was jailed on Friday for 20 years.
BEND, Oregon — The teenage gunman who shot dead three children and a teacher in an Oregon school was a former special needs student there, officials said Friday, as they praised the heroism of people who helped to…
TEHRAN — Iran on Friday denied having anything to do with attacks by Yemen's Houthis, a day after Saudi Arabia accused it of having encouraged the group's recent escalation against the kingdom. Since Yemen's civil war…
WASHINGTON - White House press secretary Katie Zacharia was fired after less than a week on the job, two US officials said on Friday, after a rocky start as President Donald Trump's top spokesperson.
NEW YORK, United States — Disgraced music producer Sean "Diddy" Combs, who was sentenced for prostitution-related crimes, has been transferred to a new US prison following media reports detailing an alleged brawl and…
US President Donald Trump on Friday praised the armed bystander who shot dead a teenage gunman at an Oregon elementary school as a "great hero," saying the situation could have been "much worse." The 16-year-old…
A mandatory course to help incoming migrants and workers adapt and integrate into Czech society is now offered in Filipino.
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The International Olympic Committee is shutting down 12 permanent committees focusing on issues like human rights and gender issues, saying Friday it will instead create expert panels when…
SEOUL — North Korea has tested a "new-type" precision-guided torpedo system that uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance, state news agency KCNA reported early Saturday. The underwater test-fire…
MABLETON, Georgia— Six Flags Over Georgia is set to open its gates Friday evening for the first time since a man fell to his death from one of the amusement park's towering roller coasters. A trickle of cars began…
SAO PAULO — Brazil’s government announced Friday that annual deforestation in the Amazon fell to its lowest level since records began in 1988. Official satellite data showed the rainforest lost 3,335 square kilometers…
BRUSSELS — European leaders on Friday rallied around Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy as his country’s ties with Donald Trump have nosedived and worries grow that the United States president is increasingly siding with…
JAKARTA — Four people died on Indonesia’s Java island fighting the blazes that have sent toxic smoke across Southeast Asia, closed schools and fueled a surge of respiratory complaints, authorities said on Friday. The…
BEND, Oregon — A teenager shot and killed three children and a teacher at an elementary school in the northwestern United States on Thursday, police said, adding that the assailant was later killed by an armed bystander…
ROME — Pope Leo XIV’s recovery from lung surgery has progressed so normally that the Vatican on Friday stopped providing morning updates confirming he had woken up and had breakfast, even as questions continued about…
ADEN, Yemen — The Houthis launched on Thursday a deadly missile attack on the presidential palace in the Yemeni government’s interim capital of Aden, as Saudi Arabia blamed Iran for the recent dramatic escalation in the…
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The families of children killed in a roof collapse at a school in northwestern Pakistan called for "justice" on Friday, a day after more than 30 students and a teacher were crushed to death. A…
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