NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump's sexual assault defamation trial was delayed until Wednesday after a juror reported Covid symptoms on the eve of the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary vote. The juror in the civil case, at which Trump says he will testify, reported symptoms...
BEIJING, China - A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck along the mountainous China-Kyrgyzstan border on Tuesday, triggering warnings of potentially widespread damage though no casualties were immediately reported. Local authorities dispatched a team to reach the quake's epicentre, the Xinhua...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US Supreme Court voted Monday to let the Biden administration remove concertina wire border barriers that Texas erected to fight illegal immigration from Mexico -- a hot button issue in this election year. The barriers are the brainchild of Texas governor Greg...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization chief fears plans for a global pandemic preparedness agreement will fall apart amid wrangling and disinformation, warning on Monday that future generations "may not forgive us." Shaken by the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO's 194 member...
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police on Monday said they had arrested a Pakistani man in connection with the killing of three siblings in their 70s, over debts reportedly linked to an online romance scam. The 43-year-old suspect had "turned himself in" on Sunday night, "admitting his...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday announced draft legislation that could pave the way for foreigners fighting against Russia in his country to receive Ukrainian citizenship. Thousands of foreigners rushed at the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to help fend off...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Moscow will be asked to explain at the UN on Monday what has happened to thousands of Ukrainian children believed to have been forcibly sent to Russia since its 2022 invasion. Head of Russian NOG Crew Against Torture, human rigths defender and lawyer Olga Sadovskaya...
KYIV, Ukraine - Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Monday said that the war between Ukraine and Russia was a fight "between good and evil" in a visit to Kyiv to show support, almost two years into Moscow's invasion. In this handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Monday placed four men in pre-trial detention for taking part in rare protests that shook the Urals region of Bashkortostan, a republic with a large ethnic minority. Thousands took to the streets of the small town of Baymak last week, and some clashed with riot...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Britain on Monday updated travel advice to some western Ukraine regions, giving the green light to essential trips having previously warned against visiting the whole country following Russia's invasion. In this handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian...
BEIJING, China - Forty-seven people were buried when a landslide struck a remote and mountainous part of southwestern China on Monday, state media reported. Rescue personnel search for missing victims following a landslide in Liangshui village at Zhaotong, in southwestern China's Yunnan...
MOSCOW, Russia—Artillery shells struck a suburb of the Russian-occupied city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine Sunday, killing at least 27 people, including many at a crowded market, Moscow-backed officials said. This photograph taken on January 21, 2024 shows bodies of people, killed as a...
