TAIPEI, Taiwan– More than 40 Chinese warplanes were detected around Taiwan in a day, the self-ruled island's defence ministry said on Wednesday. Beijing claims democratic Taiwan as its own territory to be seized one day, by force if necessary, and has ratcheted up military and...
Japanese firefighters stand outside a post office near Tokyo where an 86-year-old man took two women hostage on Tuesday © Philip FONG / AFP TOKYO, Japan–Japanese police on Wednesday were probing the motives of an 86-year-old who took two women hostage in a post office after...
Lexicographers at Collins Dictionary said use of the term AI had "accelerated" and that it had become the dominant conversation of 2023 © Josep LAGO / AFP/File LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – The abbreviation of artificial intelligence (AI) has been named the Collins Word of...
Natalia, whose elderly mother was killed during an overnight Russian attack stands in the damaged apartment where they both lived, in the southern city of Kherson, on October 30, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia– Russia said...
This picture taken from a position near Sderot along the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip on October 31, 2023, shows flares dropped by Israeli forces above the Palestinian enclave amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. (Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP)...
TOKYO, Japan– US military bases in Japan will offer service personnel local seafood in a gesture of support after China banned imports over worries about water discharges from Fukushima, the US embassy said Tuesday. Japan began releasing treated wastewater from the stricken...
NEW DELHI, India–Police in India say they have charged a man in connection with a bomb blast at a Jehovah's Witnesses prayer meeting that killed three people. Dozens were also injured in Sunday's explosion at a convention centre where more than 2,000 people had gathered for a three-day...
SEOUL, South Korea– Two South Korean police officers were stabbed outside a compound that houses the presidential office in Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported Tuesday. The 77-year-old assailant, identified by his surname Park, began yelling in front of the compound and stabbed the...
MOSCOW, Russia - A mob looking for Israelis and Jews overran an airport in Russia's Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday, after rumours spread that a flight was arriving from Israel. The violence in the mostly Muslim region, which erupted amid the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, prompted...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to stand up to "imperialist" forces as he led Turkish centenary celebrations in the shadow of Israel's escalating war with Hamas militants in Gaza. People walk around Eminonu square in Istanbul on October 29, 2023, during...
WASHINGTON, United States- Israel must protect innocent Gaza residents by distinguishing between Hamas militants and civilians, the White House warned Sunday, as world leaders stepped up calls for desperately needed humanitarian aid to reach the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israel has...
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Acapulco was struggling Sunday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. TOPSHOT - Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Puerto...
