JAKARTA, Indonesia - Two people are dead and at least 10 are missing after flash floods and a landslide swept away dozens of houses and destroyed a hotel in an Indonesian village last week, a rescue official said Monday. The landslide and floods caused by torrential rain hit residential areas...
KYIV, Ukraine - Russian forces are assaulting the industrial town of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine from two new directions, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, as Moscow expanded its bid to capture the near-encircled town. Collected anti-tank mines and explosives are detonated by the...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Red Cross president arrived in war-torn Gaza on Monday, calling for the protection of civilians in the Palestinian territory, where she warned that human suffering was "intolerable." The International Committee of the Red Cross said ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric's...
TOKYO, Japan - US and Japanese rescuers found five bodies on Monday following the crash of an Osprey military aircraft last week off Japan with eight crew on board, the US military said. "Today (Monday), the combined Japanese and United States teams... had a breakthrough when their surface...
Pope Francis gestures during an audience to Members of the committee and the foundation World Youth Day Lisbon 2023 on November 30, 2023 at Paul-VI hall in The Vatican. (AFP) VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- Pope Francis said Sunday that he was saddened the truce in the Gaza Strip had been broken...
SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea warned Saturday it would "destroy" US spy satellites if Washington tries "any attack" on its space asset, after Pyongyang launched its first military eye in the sky last week. A spokesman for the North's defence ministry said it would consider such a move...
SEOUL, South Korea– South Korea confirmed Saturday its first military spy satellite had reached orbit after a successful SpaceX rocket launch and that communication was established with ground control. Seoul's reconnaissance satellite, carried by one of Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates– Pope Francis called on leaders at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai Saturday to step up and "turn a corner" on saving the planet. "Let this COP be a turning point: let it demonstrate a clear and tangible political will, leading to an acceleration of the...
ATHENS, Greece–Greece's coastguard on Friday said it was ending a search for 12 sailors missing on a cargo ship that sank last weekend in gale-force winds in the Aegean Sea. The Comoros-flagged Raptor was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt to Istanbul with a crew of 11 Egyptians including...
A statue of Themis, an ancient Greek Goddess of Justice, and a Russian national state emblem are seen at the entrance of Russia's Supreme Court in Moscow on November 30, 2023. Russia's supreme court on November 30, 2023 banned the "international LGBT movement" claiming the organisation was an...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Train drivers belonging to Britain's Aslef union on Friday voted to continue strike action for the next six months in a long-running dispute over pay that has caused chaos on the country's rail network. The union said its members had not had a pay rise for nearly five years...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - King Charles III told world leaders Friday that the UN's COP28 talks in Dubai must be a turning point in the fight against climate change, as tough negotiations over the fate of fossil fuels began. Britain's King Charles III poses for a family photo with other...
