WASHINGTON, United States — One year after American journalist Evan Gershkovich was arrested in Russia on espionage charges, his family vowed Friday to continue fighting for his release, a pledge echoed by President Joe Biden. An illustration of The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich,...
OTTAWA, Canada– Four of Canada's largest school boards have launched lawsuits accusing social media platforms including Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok of disrupting student learning, they said Thursday. Local education authorities in the United States have also filed similar lawsuits in...
A Ukrainian twin-engine fighter aircraft Mikoyan MiG-29 flies over the Donetsk region, on March 28, 2024, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) WARSAW, Poland–Polish security services said Thursday they had raided a Russian spy network in cooperation with...
File Photo/ MANILA BULLETIN LONDON, United Kingdom–UK greenhouse gas emissions fell by 5.4 percent in 2023, largely due to a reduction in the amount of gas used in power stations, according to official data published on Thursday. Net emissions of all greenhouse gases were estimated to...
Bangkok, Thailand–A prominent Thai "Red Shirt" dissident returned to the kingdom on Thursday after 15 years of self-imposed exile and was immediately detained by police, his lawyer said. Jakrapob Penkair was a government spokesman for former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, and then a...
TOPSHOT - Cho Kuk (bottom C), leader of the South Korean Rebuilding Korea Party, gestures in front of supporters at a campaign event in Seoul on March 28, 2024. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) SEOUL, South Korea–Official campaigning for South Korea's upcoming general election kicked...
US President Joe Biden arrives at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on March 26, 2024, as he returns to the White House from Raleigh, North Carolina. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States–A monster fundraiser for one, a tribute to a fallen police officer for the...
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks on eastern and southern Ukraine killed at least three people on Wednesday, officials said, as Kyiv called for more Patriot air defence systems to battle a surge in missile strikes. Ukrainian law enforcement officers examine debris outside a residential...
WASHINGTON, United States — Joe Lieberman, who made history as the first Jewish vice presidential candidate for a major US party and lately returned to the spotlight as a leader of a push for a third candidate in the 2024 election, died Wednesday, US media reports said. Joe Liberman (AFP)...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The governing council that aims to oversee a political transition in Haiti vowed Wednesday to restore "public and democratic order" in its first statement to the Caribbean nation wracked by a worsening security crisis. TOPSHOT - The charred remains of vehicles that...
BALTIMORE, United States — Emergency services combed the cold waters of Baltimore harbor Wednesday in search of the bodies of six men -- all reported to be Latin American immigrants -- presumed killed when a giant cargo ship slammed into the bridge where they were working the night shift...
PARIS, France — Prime Minister Gabriel Attal on Wednesday defended French secularism following the resignation of a Paris school principal who received death threats after asking a student to remove her Muslim veil on the premises. Prime Minister Gabriel Attal (AFP) Attal, a former education...
