US President Joe Biden is helped up after falling during the graduation ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy, just north of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, on June 1, 2023. (AFP) COLORADO SPRINGS, United States – President Joe Biden took a...
OTTAWA, Canada - F irefighters on Wednesday faced a grueling uphill battle against wildfires in Canada's Nova Scotia province, including one threatening suburbs of Halifax. Federal help was coming, officials said, along with firefighters from the United States. "We're in a crisis in the...
SEOUL, South Korea - An emergency evacuation alert sent in error across Seoul over a North Korean rocket launch triggered widespread panic on Wednesday, crashing internet services and raising fears the government could not be trusted to handle a real crisis. The alert, sent...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft bill to parliament that would ban legal or surgical sex changes, as Moscow sharpens its conservative turn during the Ukraine offensive. Russia has for years been an inhospitable environment for anyone whose views differ from the hard-line...
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe will hold nationwide elections on August 23, the government gazette said Wednesday, ending months of speculation over the date. The government's official record, seen by AFP, said President Emmerson Mnangagwa "fixes the 23rd day of August, 2023, as the day of the...
MOSCOU, Russia - Russia on Wednesday claimed it had destroyed the last major warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, which it said was stationed in the southern port of Odesa. "On May 29, a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship anchorage site in the port of Odesa destroyed the...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Embattled Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan returned to court on Wednesday, as the nation's human rights watchdog warned all sides are to blame in a rapidly deteriorating democratic crisis. Khan's brief arrest earlier this month sparked days of deadly unrest before...
MOSCOU, Russia - Russia said it would evacuate hundreds of children from villages due to intensifying shelling in the border region of Belgorod, where the situation was deemed "alarming" by the Kremlin. Russia has seen intensifying attacks on its soil over a year into its Ukraine campaign, with an...
COPENHAGEN Denmark - More than 1,000 attacks on health care systems in Ukraine have been recorded since the start of the Russian invasion, more than in any other humanitarian emergency, the WHO said Tuesday. The attacks have impacted health providers, supplies, facilities...
WASHINGTON, United States- Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, the 95-year-old wife of former president Jimmy Carter, has dementia, the Carter family said Tuesday. "She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains (Georgia) and visits with loved...
SK Bioscience, a global biotech company, has obtained Marketing Authorization (MA) from the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovion. The authorization establishes SKYCovion as a primary series vaccine for individuals aged 18 and...
KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a controversial anti-gay bill, his office and the country's parliament said, introducing draconian measures against homosexuality that have been described as among the world's harshest. Museveni "has...
