MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Thursday that visiting US officials had agreed to keep legal border crossings open, following discussions aimed at addressing surging migration. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (C) attends a meeting with US...
BOBIGNY, France - A 33-year-old French man who admitted to killing his wife and their four children claimed he "heard voices" telling him to "cause harm", a prosecutor said on Thursday. French police on Tuesday arrested a man with a history of psychiatric illness on suspicion of murdering his...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Three people died on Thursday after their car fell into a river in northern England, local police said, as Storm Gerrit battered much of the UK. Police officials can be seen in this picture standing in London. — AFP/File Emergency services headed to the River Esk...
WASHINGTON, United States - An American warship shot down a drone and an anti-ship ballistic missile fired Thursday by Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels, the US military said. In this 2008 image released by the US Navy Visual News Service the guided-missile destroyer USS Mason osteams through the...
SYDNEY, Australia - A shark attacked and killed a 15-year-old boy at a remote surfing spot in South Australia, police said Friday. The marine predator struck Thursday afternoon near Ethel Beach on the Yorke Peninsula, state police said in a statement. "Sadly, the body of a teenage boy was recovered...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of Indonesian workers protested Wednesday against conditions at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant where an explosion killed at least 18 people and injured dozens more over the weekend. The accident occurred on Saturday morning as workers repaired a furnace...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The UK government said on Wednesday it had dropped its plan to start selling in imperial measures after a consultation revealed 99 percent support for keeping the metric system. Ministers had looked at changing the law after the UK's departure from the European Union...
WASHINGTON, United States - Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Mexico on Wednesday in hopes of tackling surging migration, which has become a major political headache for US President Joe Biden as he enters an election year. The unusual Christmas week trip by the top American...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Hundreds of university students in Indonesia's westernmost province stormed a temporary shelter for more than a hundred Rohingya refugees on Wednesday, forcing them to leave in the latest rejection of the persecuted Myanmar minority. More than 1,500 Rohingya...
Paris, France - The Eiffel Tower, one of the world's prime tourist attractions, was closed Wednesday after staff went on strike, the tower's operator said. The strike on the 100th anniversary of the death of engineer Gustave Eiffel, who built the tower, was to protest about "the current way it...
People walk through the streets as they take part in Christmas Eve celebration in Lviv, on December 24, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainians attend Christmas Eve services as they prepare to celebrate Christmas Day on December 25 for the first time, after the government changed the...
Palestinians collect food at a donation point in a refugee camp in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on December 23, 2023, amid continuing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (Photo by Mahmud HAMS / AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland– The World Health Organization said it led...
