BEIJING, China - China has sentenced a 78-year-old US citizen to life in prison for espionage, a court said Monday, but revealed few details about the previously unreported case. Such heavy terms are relatively rare for foreign citizens in China, and the jailing of American passport holder John...
PARIS, France - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in Paris Sunday for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, after accepting a prize for his country's fight for "European ideals" during a visit to Germany. "Paris. With each visit, Ukraine's defense and offensive...
ISTANBUL, Turkey- One embraces chaos and glorifies Turkey's Islamic past. The other promises the badly divided country a slightly calmer and more prosperous future. Voters decided to give President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his rival Kemal Kilicdaroglu another chance Sunday to convince...
ANTAKYA, Turkey - "We need change, we've had enough," said Mehmet Topaloglu, one of the first to cast his ballot on Sunday in the southern Turkish city of Antakya, destroyed by this year's devastating earthquake. For Topaloglu, the 7.8-magnitude February tremor that killed more than...
KYAUKTAW, Myanmar - Cyclone Mocha crashed through Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, sparing sprawling refugee camps but bringing a storm surge to swathes of western Myanmar where communications were largely cut off. Mocha made landfall between Cox's Bazar in Bangladesh...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Air strikes pummelled Khartoum Saturday, with representatives of Sudan's warring factions meeting in Saudi Arabia for talks to prevent a "humanitarian catastrophe" as the fighting entered a fifth week. A witness in west Khartoum reported army air strikes on paramilitary...
BELEDWEYNE, Somalia - Around 200,000 people have been displaced due to flash flooding in central Somalia, a regional official told AFP on Saturday, as the Shabelle River burst its banks and submerged roads. Inhabitants of Beledweyne town in Hiran region were forced out of their homes as...
ROME Italy - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met Pope Francis Saturday during a trip to Rome, as Berlin unveiled a huge new weapons package ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive. Zelensky spent 40 minutes with the 86-year-old pontiff at the Vatican, after earlier meeting...
LUSAKA- Zambia- Twenty-four people were killed Saturday when a bus carrying churchgoers heading for a religious service rammed into a truck in southern Zambia, police said. The crash left 12 others seriously injured, including the driver, they said. "The deceased have... been identified as 23 female...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Some 200,000 people have now fled Sudan to escape fighting that erupted in mid-April, the UN said Friday, also warning a factory producing life-saving treatments for malnourished children had burned down. "As violence in Sudan continues for a fourth week, nearly...
FATIMA, Portugal-Â Pope Francis intends to visit Portugal in August, the Vatican's secretary of state said Friday during a pilgrimage to the shrine of Fatima in centre of the country. The Argentinian pontiff plans to attend World Youth Day, a global gathering of young Catholics, to be held this...
WASHINGTON, United States- US President Joe Biden on Friday expressed his gratitude to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for his support for Ukraine after the Russian invasion, and for the strengthening of Madrid's military ties with Washington. "I can't thank you enough for your...
