PARIS, France- Countries grappling with the "immense" task of ending plastic pollution began a new round of talks in Paris on Monday, amid protests and warnings of the urgency to act.  Representatives of 175 nations with divergent ambitions met at the UNESCO headquarters with...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A harness-wearing Beluga whale that turned up in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it was a spy trained by the Russian navy, has appeared off Sweden's coast, an organisation following him said Monday. First discovered in Norway's far northern...
OTTAWA, Canada - More than 16,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in Canada's eastern province of Nova Scotia, officials said Monday, as one of hundreds of wildfires raging across the country threatened the city of Halifax. The fire, still burning out of control along the...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for humanitarian organisations to be given access to areas hit by a deadly cyclone which tore through parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh two weeks ago. "I appeal to those responsible to facilitate the access of humanitarian aid," the...
ANKARA, Turkey- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for "unity and solidarity" after narrowly winning a historic election runoff that extended his two-decade rule until 2028. "We should come together in unity and solidarity," Erdogan told a sea of supporters outside his...
ISTANBUL, Turkey- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed for national unity Monday after winning a historic runoff election that extended two decades of his transformative but divisive rule until 2028. The 69-year-old overcame Turkey's worst economic crisis in a generation and...
NEW YORK, United States- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked" by a letter from Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reportedly requesting the replacement of special envoy Volker Perthes amid a brutal war with paramilitaries. Guterres "is proud of the work done by...
STRASBOURG- Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Archbishop of Strasbourg Luc Ravel, who stepped down last month following complaints about his management, the Bishops' Conference of France said on Saturday. The diocese of the eastern French city is unusual in the Catholic Church, as...
BERLIN, Germany- Hundreds of German civil servants working in the education and cultural sectors will need to leave Russia following a request by Moscow, a German government source told AFP Saturday. It follows Russia's decision to force Germany to slash its diplomatic staff and presence at public...
MOSCOW, Russia-Two drones damaged an administration building of an oil pipeline in Russia's western Pskov region, the regional governor said Saturday. The explosion is the latest in an escalating series of attacks in Russia amid the Ukraine offensive. "Early morning, an explosion damaged the...
SAQQARA, Egyp- Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, discovered in the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, the government said on Saturday. The vast burial site, at the ancient Egyptian capital Memphis, is a UNESCO World Heritage site...
HONG KONG, China- The Civic Party, one of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy groups, voted Saturday to disband due to a leadership vacuum, after its members were squeezed out of local councils and charged under Beijing's national security law. Nicknamed "the barristers' party", it was founded...
