Protestors wear CGT union jacket during a strike of the Eiffel Tower's staff, over the financial management of the monument by the city, closing the monument to the public during the second week of the French school holidays, in Paris on February 20, 2024. Unions of the operating company of the...
TAIPEI, Taiwan–Taiwan's coast guard said on Thursday a Chinese boat that capsized during a chase was trying to evade a patrol vessel and "lost its balance" in a deadly incident condemned by Beijing. It gave more details about the incident after China accused Taiwanese authorities of...
This screen grab obtained by AFPTV from Ukraine's GUR military intelligence agency made on February 21, 2024, shows Maxime Kouzminov, a Russian pilot who defected for Ukraine. The death of a Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine remained shrouded in mystery on February 20, 2024, with Spanish...
LONDON, United Kingdom—Lawyers for the United States on Wednesday urged a UK court to block a last-ditch bid by Julian Assange to appeal his extradition there to face espionage charges. TOPSHOT - Demonstrators hold placards as they protest outside of the Royal Courts of Justice, Britain's...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—At least two people died and two more were injured when a bridge under construction collapsed in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Dutch officials said. Photo from AFP "An industrial accident occurred while building a bridge. Unfortunately, this resulted in two fatalities....
SEOUL, South Korea—Pregnant women had C-sections cancelled and cancer treatments were postponed Wednesday as the number of South Korean trainee doctors to walk off the job over proposed reforms swelled, officials and local reports said. Doctors hold placards reading "Stop populist medical...
MOSCOW, Russia—A court in the Russian Far North will next month hear a case brought by the mother of dead opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has been prevented from seeing his body, his allies said Wednesday. A portrait of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a...
A customer walks out from a Daiso shop at a shopping mall in Shinjuku district of Tokyo on February 20, 2024. Hirotake Yano, the Japanese 100-yen shop pioneer and the founder of the Daiso chain, has died, the company said. (Photo by Philip FONG / AFP) TOKYO, Japan– Hirotake Yano, the...
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits Uralvagonzavod, the country's main tank factory in the Urals, in Nizhny Tagil on February 15, 2024. (Photo by Ramil SITDIKOV / POOL / AFP) SEOUL, South Korea– Russian President...
This photograph taken on February 6, 2024 shows employees working at Greenlab Diamonds, a firm manufacturing lab-grown gems on the outskirts of Surat. Man-made gems are reshaping the $89 billion global diamond jewellery market, especially in the west Indian city of Surat where 90 percent of...
A boy accompanied by his father receives a dose of the measles and rubella vaccine from medical personnel at a community health center in the Lidice neighborhood of Caracas, on August 17, 2022. Measles cases went up 79 percent worldwide in 2023, the World Health Organization announced on February...
US climate envoy John Kerry (L) and French Minister for the Economy and Finances Bruno Le Maire attend the International Energy Agency (IEA) 2024 ministerial meeting and 50th Anniversary event, in Paris on February 13, 2024. Energy and climate ministers from around the world will meet in Paris on...
