SHANGHAI, China - Young Chinese flocking home for Lunar New Year this weekend have turned to an AI chatbot game to help train for the most dreaded social interaction of the year -- the dinner table interrogation by nosy relatives. The annual inquisition as extended families gather for China's...
KYIV, Ukraine - The Ukrainian army needs to change its "methods" to win the war against Russia, Kyiv's new commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Friday in his first comments in the role. The 58-year-old replaced commander Valery Zaluzhny this week in the biggest shake-up of Ukraine's...
PARIS, France - A man was killed by an electric shock after climbing on top of a stationary Eurostar train in Paris, a police source and prosecutors said Friday. The man crossed over tracks from another platform at the Gare du Nord station to the Eurostar at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The war raging in Sudan could leave over 700,000 children severely malnourished this year, the UN said on Friday, warning tens of thousands could die unless aid was dramatically increased. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF urged the world to stop turning a blind...
NEW DELHI, India– India's interior minister said Thursday that he had "recommended the immediate suspension" of a free movement border agreement with Myanmar, from where thousands have fled since fighting between the junta and its opponents surged last year. Amit Shah said the...
This photo taken on January 31, 2024 shows a worker packing firework for the upcoming Lunar New Year of the Dragon at a firework factory in Liuyang, in central China's Hunan province. Sparklers, rockets and spinning sunflowers with flammable petals -- the fireworks stores in China's Hangzhou are...
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar and President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia Alexander Boroda in Moscow late on February 7, 2024. (Photo by POOL / AFP)...
This handout picture released by the Icelandic Coast Guard on February 8, 2024 shows billowing smoke and flowing lava pouring out of a new fissure during a new volcanic eruption on the outskirts of the evacuated town of Grindavik, western Iceland. AFP PHOTO /HANDOUT/ICELANDIC COAST GUARD...
A United Nations Security Council meeting UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Wednesday that the world is entering "an age of chaos" with a deeply divided Security Council unable to address critical issues such as the Israel-Hamas war. With the war in Gaza...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's rubber-stamp parliament has voted to abolish laws on economic cooperation with the South, state media said Thursday, as relations between the two neighbors hit new lows. Ties between the two Koreas have been in a deep freeze as Pyongyang accelerates its weapons...
This handout illustration taken on February 7, 2024 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on February 8 shows two photos - one the location of a contaminated water leak (L) - and a second image (R) showing a close-up of the vent (R) where the water was released, at part of the...
MADRID, Spain - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez met Tuesday in Madrid with families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas and called for their "immediate and unconditional release". The Palestinian militant group seized around 250 hostages during an unprecedented attack against Israel...
