COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe strongly condemned the burning of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden, urging Western nations to uphold the value system of the Global South and refrain from inciting unrest in the guise of freedom of expression, said the President's...
TAIYUAN, China -- Four people were killed and six injured in a car overturn accident in Hunyuan County of Datong City, north China's Shanxi Province, on Wednesday morning, local authorities said. A minibus carrying 18 people overturned near Erling Village in Hunyuan County at around 8 a.m. Despite...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- One of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia, Mount Merapi, erupted 16 times on Wednesday, releasing incandescent lava up to 1,800 m, according to the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG). Â Â Â "The lava was released towards Bebeng River up...
NICOSIA, Cyprus— A sickly ginger kitten named Bebe is pulled out of a cat carrier at a veterinary clinic in the Cypriot capital, Nicosia. The six-month-old is suffering from a strain of feline coronavirus that is wreaking havoc on the prolific cat population of Cyprus. Cats are everywhere on...
VILNIUS, Lithuania— Western powers will propose long-term security commitments for Ukraine on Wednesday after NATO dashed President Volodymyr Zelensky's hopes of a clear timeline for joining the alliance. Zelensky will hold symbolic talks with NATO's 31 leaders at their summit in the...
SEOUL, South Korea- North Korea has fired a long-range ballistic missile, the South Korean military said Wednesday, days after Pyongyang threatened to down US spy planes that violated its airspace. Relations between the two Koreas are at one of their lowest points ever, with diplomacy stalled and...
VILNIUS, Lithuania— US President Joe Biden thanked his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday for his "courage" in dropping opposition to Sweden's entry to NATO. At a meeting during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Biden celebrated the conclusion of a major diplomatic push to get...
WASHINGTON, United States–U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared an emergency in Vermont as the state is being struck by catastrophic flooding. The White House said in a statement that Biden has ordered federal assistance to supplement the northeastern U.S. state and local response...
VILNIUS, Lithuania-- Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Tuesday failed to set a timetable for Ukraine's membership of the alliance, following the first day of the NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. Speaking at a press conference, NATO Secretary-General Jens...
MOSCOW, Russia– The Kremlin said Monday that President Vladimir Putin had met with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin days after the mercenary group attempted to topple Russia's military leadership. The meeting in the Kremlin took place on June 29, several days after the short-lived rebellion....
MANILA, Philippines– The Philippines' total external trade in goods dropped by 5.1 percent in May 2023 to 17.28 billion U.S. dollars from 18.20 billion dollars in May 2022, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said on Tuesday. Of the total external trade in May, the agency said that 62.7...
PARIS, France– The beginning of July was the hottest week on record for the planet, according to early findings Monday from the World Meteorological Organization, after a series of scorching days saw global temperature records tumble. "The world just had the hottest week on record,...
