Sea drones struck a container ship off Bulgaria's Black Sea coast on Wednesday, the latest in a string of attacks that have raised concerns about the growing scope of Russia's war in Ukraine.
Flavio Bolsonaro and his family arrived in Miami, where the US government will grant them entry visas after he refused to obey a Brazilian Supreme Court order to surrender his passports.
NEW YORK, United States — Alvin Hellerstein, the US judge overseeing the case against deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, has died aged 92, an official said Wednesday. As one of the oldest US federal judges…
A Filipino national sustained a minor injury after a deadly train crash in Toledo, Spain, the Philippine Embassy in Spain has confirmed.
BANGKOK — The Philippines’ top diplomat arrived in Myanmar on Wednesday to oversee the distribution of humanitarian aid, as Myanmar’s military-backed government seeks to improve strained relations with its neighbors and…
'We heard a massive roar, a truly enormous thud that went on for 10 seconds, as if the train were about to derail. Through the right-hand window, we could see a wrecked train,' says a passenger traveling with several…
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday hosted dozens of African leaders at a Russia-Africa summit, part of Moscow’s efforts to expand its influence across the continent. Speaking at the opening of the…
ROME — Even though Pope Leo XIV is recovering well from lung cancer surgery and is going ahead with a big trip to Latin America next week, the diagnosis is “a bit of a game-changer” for the Vatican and Leo’s still-young…
The Houthis on Wednesday called on people to evacuate immediately from the international airport in Aden, where the internationally recognized, Saudi-backed government is based.
URDA — A collision between two high-speed trains south of Madrid killed 30 people on Wednesday and the toll could rise, regional authorities said in Spain's second such disaster this year. Images shared by local media…
SEPANG, Malaysia -- Malaysia foiled an attempt to smuggle advanced artificial intelligence chips through the country's main airport, customs officials said Wednesday, in a case worth more than $12 million.
Students and civil society groups staged protests on Wednesday in cities including Jakarta against President Prabowo Subianto's policies, including the handling of ongoing wildfires.
TUCSON — Christine, a retired widow in Arizona, placed food staples in her cart at a charity food distribution event — as she's had to do monthly since the Trump administration slashed federal food assistance programs…
SINGAPORE — The pounding of running shoes echoes through a Singapore shopping mall as fitness enthusiasts desperate to exercise take refuge from choking haze. Smoke from wildfires in neighboring Indonesia has sent air…
PARIS, France - Climate change must be declared a "global health emergency" to shape governments' policies after heat caused three million deaths between 2016 and 2023, a report in The Lancet said Wednesday.
Families in Gaza are bracing for a fourth winter in tents and makeshift shelters as UN aid operations face mounting obstacles, with transport suspended on Tuesday due to Israel’s closure of the key Kerem Shalom crossing…
From Gaza to Yemen, women and girls are facing ever greater dangers this year simply surviving in war zones. The Security Council meets Tuesday to debate the best way to improve security for women caught up in conflict…
The outage prevents organizations from filing the Federal Election Commission's 24-hour and 48-hour spending reports, which show how much political groups and others are spending on specific races
BHUBANESWAR/HYDERABAD, India - Trees crashed onto highways, electricity poles were uprooted and thousands took shelter against Arnab, a powerful cyclone which made landfall on India's east coast on Wednesday…
LUBBOCK, Texas — Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Tuesday decried a "corruption crisis” he says is plaguing the U.S. political system, competing for the spotlight with President Donald Trump in deeply…
NEW YORK — Three brothers convicted of leveraging their wealthy lifestyle to drug and rape dozens of women were each sentenced Tuesday to 30 years in prison after one victim described her attack as an “eternity of…
The Pentagon's latest estimate is tied to the operational costs of carrying out the war, with a projected cost of more than $29 billion to replace expended munitions used in the conflict
The number of confirmed Ebola cases in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen above 10,000, government data showed on Tuesday.
BRASILÍA — Defeated right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro left Brazil and is traveling to the United States despite a court order banning him from exiting the country, US media reported Tuesday. The son of…
Intensifying hostilities between Yemen and Saudi Arabia further disrupt oil supplies and heighten the risk of a wider regional conflict, eight months since the Iran war began
JERUSALEM — Israel's opposition candidate Gadi Eisenkot vowed Wednesday to work quickly to form a government, saying voters had rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's divisive rule, but neither bloc secured a…
JERUSALEM - Israel's wartime election appeared deadlocked on Tuesday, exit polls showed, a potential setback for veteran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if the projections hold, with neither side having a clear path…
The turnout was 77.7%, the highest in more than two decades and around 7 percentage points higher than in the previous election in 2022
PARIS, France — Stan Wawrinka bid farewell to tennis as he brought the curtain down on a decorated 24-year career following a first-round exit at the Basel Open on Tuesday. The 41-year-old Swiss announced earlier in the…
NEW YORK, United States — An American woman who joined the Islamic State group before being caught by anti-IS forces in Syria was found guilty on Tuesday of receiving military training from the jihadists. Halima Salman…
VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo's lung cancer diagnosis and surgery has affected how Catholics view his health and papacy, the Vatican's foreign minister said on Tuesday, in an unusual acknowledgment by one of the Church's most…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — King Charles III arrived in the Bahamas on Tuesday as part of a nine-day trip to the Caribbean, where he faces calls for an apology and slavery reparations. It's his first official visit to the…
LONDON, United Kingdom — England's record Test wicket-taker James Anderson was treated with disrespect when he was released by Lancashire, according to his former pace bowling partner Stuart Broad. Lancashire announced…
CAIRO, Egypt — Egyptian authorities released independent journalist Lina Attalah from custody on Tuesday, hours after she was detained and after a court ordered her website shut, her lawyer told AFP. Attalah is one of…
KAKINADA, India — Authorities in India ordered nearly 100,000 people to evacuate their homes in the eastern states of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha, ahead of a severe cyclone that the South Asian nation’s weather office…
AMMAN — Jordan’s military said it had struck “terrorist organizations” in neighboring Syria on Monday in retaliation for a deadly jihadist attack on a church last week, hours after authorities arrested three men they…
SAO PAULO, Brazil — Flavio Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party recognized on Monday the outcome of Brazil’s presidential runoff election, despite the candidate’s objections to the poll won by leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da…
NEW DELHI — The Indian government’s privacy law, which would require journalists to seek consent from people they write about, amounted to pre-censorship and could lead to newsrooms shutting down, media groups told the…
GENEVA, Switzerland — Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere rose to new record highs in 2025, locking in climate impacts that will persist for centuries to come, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Levels of…
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