WASHINGTON, United States - Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor events in what President Joe Biden called a "stark reminder" of climate change. Thick skies and an acrid campfire smell hung over the capital...
BEIJING, China - Millions of Chinese students sat for notoriously tough college entrance exams on Wednesday, the first since the country lifted zero-Covid rules that forced classes online for months on end. China's education ministry says nearly 13 million students, a record, are registered this...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Twenty-one people, most of them members of the security forces, have been killed in Burkina Faso in attacks by suspected jihadists, security sources said on Wednesday. Fourteen members of the VDP volunteer militia and four soldiers died on Monday in Sawenga in...
KHERSON, Ukraine - Thousands were fleeing their homes Wednesday after the destruction of a frontline Russian-held dam flooded dozens of villages and parts of a nearby city in Ukraine, sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster. Downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam, Ukrainian police and troops...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Authorities in Mexico are investigating the alleged extrajudicial killing of five men in the country's northwest, after a Spanish newspaper and a US broadcaster published video appearing to show them being beaten and shot. El Pais and Univision said the incident happened on...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Prince Harry was back on the stand for a second day of cross-examination in a London court on Wednesday, the first British royal in more than a century to give evidence on the witness stand. The younger son of King Charles III is testifying against a tabloid publisher for...
MADRID, Spain - Spain has experienced its hottest spring in over 60 years of recordkeeping, with average temperatures almost two degrees Celsius above average, the national weather agency reported Wednesday. The country also saw its second driest-ever spring on record, behind that of 1995, the...
ROME, Italy - Pope Francis will undergo an operation for a painful abdominal hernia on Wednesday, reviving concerns over the 86-year-old's increasingly fragile health. Francis was admitted mid-morning to the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he is expected to stay for several days. The 86-year-old,...
KHERSON, Ukraine - An attack on a major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday unleashed a torrent of water that flooded two dozen villages and forced the evacuation of 17,000 people, sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster. Washington warned there would be "likely many...
UNITED NATIONS, United States- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine was "another devastating consequence" of Russia's invasion of its neighbor. An attack on the major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine...
WASHINGTON, United States- A conservative US think tank urged a federal judge on Tuesday to order the release of the immigration records of Britain's Prince Harry, who was awarded a visa despite the admission in his memoir that he had used illegal drugs. Lawyers for the Washington-based...
KVIY, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Vatican peace envoy on Tuesday that a ceasefire would not lead to peace and any deal to end the conflict should be on Ukrainian terms. Pope Francis's peace envoy to Ukraine, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, met with Zelensky during a...
