PARIS, France -- Around 2,000 people defied a ban to join a memorial rally in central Paris Saturday for a young black man who died in police custody, while marches took place throughout France to denounce police brutality, as tensions run high after days of rioting engulfed the country. Nationwide,...
TOKYO, Japan -- Plans to discharge treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant cleared their last regulatory hurdle in Japan on Friday, as China said it would ban some food imports over the move. South Korea meanwhile said Tokyo's plan to dilute the treated water and release it into the sea over...
MIAMI (AFP) -- The United States will compete at the Basketball World Cup in August with a team coached by Steve Kerr but without any of the NBA's top stars. The 12-man roster was announced on Thursday for the tournament which runs from August 25 to September 10 in the Philippines, Japan and...
PARIS (AFP) -- The first-ever 32-team Women's World Cup begins in Australia and New Zealand on July 20, with the United States aiming to win a third consecutive title in a landmark month for the women's game. *FIFA Women's World Cup trophy. (AFP)* It has been a rapid expansion for a tournament that...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- Mainly women and girls get water for the 1.8 billion people living without home water supplies, a new report by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. The report said women and girls aged 15 and older primarily...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date, the agency said on Thursday. Photo from NASA / MANILA BULLETIN The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is...
PRAGUE, Czech REPUBLIC -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted in Prague Thursday that Ukraine's counteroffensive was "not fast" but said Kyiv's troops were advancing. Zelensky arrived in Prague as part of a diplomatic push for Ukraine to join NATO and woo allies for more weapons for its...
MIAMI, United STATES -- A personal aide to former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to federal charges of mishandling classified government documents. Waltine "Walt" Nauta, 40, a US Navy veteran from Guam, entered the plea at a brief hearing in a US District Court in Miami....
WASHINGTON, United States -- Twitter threatened to sue Meta just hours after the Instagram parent company launched Threads, an app it hopes will beat out the struggling site owned by Elon Musk. In a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, published by online news outlet Semafor on Thursday, Musk lawyer...
BEIJING, China - China has launched its first homegrown open-source operating system for computers, state media said on Thursday, as Beijing seeks to reduce its foreign dependence at a time of increased rivalry with the United States. The announcement of the new system came just before US...
BEIJING, China - US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen arrived in Beijing on Thursday, kicking off a visit aimed at improving communication and stabilising the tense relationship between the world's two largest economies. Yellen's trip through Sunday is her first to China as treasury secretary, and...
ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine - Authorities in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia near Europe's largest nuclear plant, under Russian control, said Thursday they are preparing for the "worst" as fears of sabotage mount. Kyiv and Moscow accused each other this week of planning an incident at the plant,...
