TEL AVIV, Israel - Israel was eagerly awaiting what one official called the "miracle" release Friday of women and children taken hostage by Palestinian militants during the deadliest attack in the country's history. But the authorities were also gearing up for the complex task of helping those...
MOSCOW, Russia - President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that the West had a "dangerous" monopoly over artificial intelligence and Russia needed to rival "biased" Western chatbots with its own technology. The race to develop AI has heated up since the breakout launch of the ChatGPT generative...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The Belgian city of Charleroi on Thursday condemned anti-Semitic vandalism after at least 85 Jewish graves in one of its cemeteries were damaged and objects stolen. A gravedigger in a cemetery in the Marcinelle neighbourhood of the southern city discovered the damage in...
SILKYARA TUNNEL, India - Ambulances were on standby Thursday as Indian rescuers dug through the final metres of debris separating them from 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for nearly two weeks. TOPSHOT - A rescue personnel stands near an entrance of the Silkyara under construction...
DUBLIN, Ireland - Protesters on Thursday fought running battles with police, torched vehicles and looted shops in Dublin, after three young children were injured in a knife attack outside a school. Protestors sort through looted goods in Dublin on November 23, 2023, as people took to the streets in...
Lee Young-soo (2nd R), 95, a victim of Japan's alleged forced sexual slavery during World War II, is presented with flowers at a Lawyers for a Democratic Society meeting in Seoul on November 23, 2023, after the High Court overturned a lower court's rejection of a damages suit filed by victims of...
JAKARTA, Indonesia– Indonesia has named the chairman of its anti-graft commission as a suspect in a corruption case, according to police, in a setback to the reputation of an agency set up two decades ago after the fall of dictator Suharto. It is the first time the head of the country's...
Children and their parents wait at an outpatient area at a children hospital in Beijing on November 23, 2023. The World Health Organization has asked on November 23, 2023, China for more data on a respiratory illness spreading in the north of the country, urging people to take steps to reduce the...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - US fighter jets struck two targets in Iraq early on Wednesday, killing eight pro-Iran fighters in retaliation for repeated attacks on American troops, US and Iraqi sources said. The twin strikes, which followed similar bombardment of Iran-backed forces on Tuesday, drew...
SILKYARA TUNNEL , India - Indian rescuers have drilled three-quarters of the way through debris towards 41 workers trapped in a collapsed road tunnel for the past 11 days, officials said Wednesday, raising hopes of a breakthrough with diggers in the final stretch. Engineers are working to...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syria's two main airports are still shut a month after simultaneous Israeli strikes put them out of service -- the longest such closure since the Syrian conflict began, a war monitor said Wednesday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported two...
LONDON, United Kingdom - UK finance minister Jeremy Hunt on Wednesday promised more funding to tackle anti-Semitism, saying he was "deeply concerned" by the rise in hostility towards the Jewish community. Outlining the latest government spending plans, Hunt told parliament he was allocating...
