A woman walks past a screen displaying a broadcasting of Russia's President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address on the facade of a building in Moscow on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia– President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday of a "real"...
This handout taken on February 28, 2024 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on February 29, 2024 shows a drone landing during the "primary containment vessel internal investigation" of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. The...
Israeli flags are placed around pictures of hostages in Gaza, at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2024. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that an invasion of Rafah in far-southern Gaza would "put the final nail in the coffin" of aid operations, after Israel...
US singer Taylor Swift (2nd L) and her father Scott Kingsley Swift (R) look on as they watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on December 17, 2023. Australian police said they were investigating a 71-year-old man for the alleged...
This picture taken on January 26, 2024 in a train station of Chuo district in Tokyo shows a poster of Satoshi Kirishima, who was a member of The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical leftist organization responsible for bombing attacks in Japan's capital in the 1970s. DNA analysis has...
A police officer puts handcuffs on Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old human rights campaigner and co-chair of the Nobel Prize winning Memorial group, after Orlov was sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of repeatedly "discrediting" the Russian army, in Moscow on February 27, 2024. (Photo...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A French journalist has been arrested and detained in Ethiopia since February 22 on suspicion of conspiring "to create chaos" in the country, his employer announced on Monday. File photo: A man waves an Ethiopian flag as he joins others gathering in Addis Ababa,...
PALESTINIAN Territories—Israel said Monday its army had readied a plan to evacuate Gazans ahead of a feared invasion of far-southern Rafah, leading the UN chief to warn a ground attack would "put the final nail in the coffin" of its aid operations. This picture taken from Rafah shows smoke...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark—Danish police said Monday that they were closing their investigation into the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia and Germany, a move dubbed "close to absurd" by the Kremlin. Neighbouring Sweden closed its investigation in early February citing a...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso—An attack on a mosque in eastern Burkina Faso has killed dozens of Muslims on the same day as another deadly attack on Catholics attending mass, local and security sources told AFP on Monday. The two attacks struck on Sunday in different regions of the junta-ruled...
BUDAPEST, Hungary—Hungary's parliament was expected to ratify Sweden's NATO bid on Monday, the final obstacle for an enlargement of the alliance spurred by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (L) and his Hungarian counterpart and host Viktor Orban shake hands...
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates—The World Trade Organization opened a high-level ministerial meeting in Abu Dhabi Monday with calls for consensus as geopolitical tensions and the looming US election undermine chances of a major breakthrough. Delegates take a group picture during a session on...
