PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech authorities sought a motive Friday in a student's gun attack that killed 13 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the victims. The gunfire Thursday at the Charles University's Faculty of Arts sparked...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States said Friday it will sanction foreign banks that support Russia's war in Ukraine, in a new bid to exert economic pressure on Moscow as it diversifies from the West to China. Under an executive order to be signed Friday by President Joe Biden, the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Poland's new foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski vowed Warsaw's support for Ukraine as he met Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv on Friday on his first trip abroad since taking office. The visit signals the new Polish government's promises of support for Ukraine,...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 at a Prague university on Thursday in the Czech Republic's worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was "eliminated". Armed police are seen on the balcony of the Charles University in central...
NEW YORK, United States - Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, just days after being ordered to pay $148 million in damages for defaming two Georgia poll workers. Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former US president Donald Trump,...
KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian drone attack hit a residential building and injured at least two people in Kyiv on Thursday, authorities said, in a rare breach of the Ukrainian capital's air defences. This handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on December 21, 2023,...
WASHINGTON, United States– The White House said Thursday it was preparing a new proposal to Russia to seek the release of two imprisoned Americans after Moscow rejected an earlier attempt. "We're working hard to see what we can do to get another proposal that might be more successful,"...
A man walks past a collapsed house in Dahejia in Jishishan County in northwest China's Gansu province on December 20, 2023. Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in aid tents on December 20 after overnight temperatures plunged well below zero, with the death toll rising to 131....
The port of the evacuated Icelandic town of Grindavik, western Iceland on December 21, 2023. A volcanic eruption began on Monday night in Iceland, south of the capital Reykjavik, following an earthquake swarm, Iceland's Meteorological Office reported. (Photo by Viken KANTARCI / AFP)...
BANGKOK, Thailand– Thai lawmakers on Thursday gave initial approval to legalising same-sex unions, moving the kingdom a step closer to marriage equality. The legislation must pass through several more stages before becoming law, but if it is enacted, Thailand would be the first country...
BEIJING, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping said Wednesday that maintaining close ties with Russia is a "strategic choice", calling for deeper bilateral cooperation during a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing, state media reported. The strong relationship between the...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that there was no end in sight to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as fatigue builds among Kyiv's allies nearly two years into the war and the Kremlin voices growing confidence of victory. Zelensky said he had turned down a...
