TOPSHOT - This undated picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and released on January 10, 2024 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting a major munitions factory to learn about the production of weapons and equipment at an undisclosed location in North...
Chinese visitors take photos with Chinese flags, with Taiwan’s Kinmen Island as a background, on the beach at Xiamen, in China’s southeast Fujian province, on January 11, 2024, two days before Taiwan’s Presidential election. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) BEIJING, China– China on Thursday...
People hold placards as they take part in an interfaith protest in solidarity with Palestinian people outside the High Court in Cape Town on January 11, 2024. Dozens of people took to the streets in Cape Town on January 11, 2024, in one of several demonstrations planned across South Africa in...
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, speaks to reporters outside the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, April 3 2005. Wisconsin Judge, David Reddy, on January 10, 2024, suspended McCarrick's sexual abuse trial, court records showed. But after McCarrick, 93,...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Misinformation and disinformation are the leading short-term risks in 2024, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned in a new report released on Wednesday ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF's Global Risks Report 2024 also emphasized that...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Holiday gatherings and the globally dominant JN.1 variant fueled the spread of Covid-19 across the world in December, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Xinhua) Almost 10,000 deaths...
CANBERRA, Australia -- Record-high global temperatures in 2023 exacerbated droughts, floods and wildfires, an Australian-led international research has found. Unprecedented floodings have been seen in countries around the world following incessant rains and other weather conditions. The...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Xinhua) JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel "has no intention" of maintaining the occupation of Gaza or displacing civilians. Netanyahu made the remarks a day before the opening of...
Photo taken on Jan. 3, 2024 shows damaged buildings after earthquakes in Wajima, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. (Xinhua) TOKYO, Japan -- The death toll rose to 213 in the central Japanese prefecture of Ishikawa on Thursday, after a series of strong quakes of up to 7.6 magnitude jolted the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Republicans recommended Wednesday that Hunter Biden be held in criminal contempt of the US Congress for snubbing a summons -- after scenes of chaos erupted on Capitol Hill when the president's son turned up in person to defend himself. Hunter Biden (AFP) Two...
NEW YORK, United States -- Donald Trump's legal team will deliver closing arguments Thursday in a New York civil fraud case after the judge barred the former president from using the trial finale as an election campaign grandstand. Former US President Donald Trump (AFP) Prosecutors are demanding...
STATE OF EMERGENCY -- Members of the Armed Forces patrol a street during an operation to protect civil security in Quito, on January 10, 2024. Ecuador's president Daniel Noboa gave orders on Tuesday to "neutralize" criminal gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio, as bandits...
