GENEVA, Switzerland– Climate change threatens to deliver a "truly terrifying" dystopian future of hunger and suffering, the United Nations' human rights chief warned Monday. Volker Turk slammed world leaders for only thinking of the short term while dealing with the climate crisis. Turk told...
SAN FRANCISCO, US – Two people died and three others were injured Sunday afternoon in a plane crash on Kodiak Island, U.S. state of Alaska, officials said on Monday. The Piper PA-32-300 plane took off from Old Harbor and was headed to its base of operations in Kodiak when it crashed in...
HONG KONG, China -- Hong Kong's leader has called on eight overseas activists to turn themselves in a day after police put out bounties on them for violating the city's national security law. Â ...
PARIS, France -- Mayors across France held rallies Monday calling for an end to violent clashes that erupted after a teen was shot dead by police last week, as signs emerged that the unrest was beginning to ease. TOGETHERÂ FOR THE REPUBLIC -- The Mayor of L'Hay-les-Roses Vincent Jeanbrun (3rdR)...
NEW DELHI, July 3 (Xinhua) -- One person was killed and another wounded critically in a crude bomb explosion in India's eastern state of West Bengal, police said Monday. The explosion took place late Sunday night in Shalipur village in the Haroa area of North 24 Parganas district, about 41 km east...
WINDHOEK, Nambia -- The Namibian government is taking a proactive stance to protect and sustain its dwindling lion population in the northwestern part of the country, an official said on Monday. Uakendisa Muzuma, an official with the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism, told Xinhua in an...
TOKYO, Japan - Four people were injured after a suspected gas explosion at a bar caused a fire on Monday afternoon near Shimbashi in downtown Tokyo of Japan. The explosion was reported at around 3:15 p.m. local time as a fire broke out in an eight-story building near the centrally located JR...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa - A total of 15 people, including a baby and a toddler, died in an accident involving a minibus taxi and a heavy-duty truck in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa on Sunday evening, local media reported on Monday. According to Unathi Binqose, provincial transport...
DISPERSAL -- Demonstrators run as French police officers use tear gas in Paris on July 2, 2023, five days after a 17-year-old man was killed by police in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. French police arrested 1311 people nationwide during a fourth consecutive night of rioting over...
WASHINGTON, United States --Â US President Joe Biden will host Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson next week to talk about transatlantic security cooperation and the war in Ukraine, the White House said Saturday. USÂ President Joe Biden (left) and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson...
SAN PEDRO HUAMELULA, Mexico --Â As onlookers clapped and danced, a mayor of a small southern Mexico town entered into holy matrimony with a female reptile in a traditional rite to bring good fortune to his people. KISSÂ THE BRIDE -- Victor Hugo Sosa, Mayor of San Pedro Huamelula, kisses...
WASHINGTON– The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down the Biden administration's plan to forgive student debt for millions of borrowers. In a 6-to-3 decision along ideological lines, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration's arguments that the plan was...
