KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine claimed Friday to have retaken swathes of ground near the frontline city of Bakhmut, as Russia reported having repelled an attack along a broad stretch of the front line. The rival reports from the battlefront indicated an increase in fighting after months of relative...
NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenyan investigators unearthed 29 more bodies on Friday bringing the number of victims linked to a doomsday starvation cult to 179, many of them children. Police believe most of the bodies found in a forest near the Indian Ocean town of Malindi belong to followers of Paul...
OSLO, Norway - Norway's 86-year-old King Harald V, admitted to hospital earlier this week, will be on sick leave until May 16, the eve of the country's national day, the palace announced Friday. That is several days longer than initially planned. The palace had on Monday said the popular monarch had...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was granted bail by the Islamabad High Court on Friday, after his arrest on corruption charges this week sparked deadly clashes before being declared illegal. The high court also ruled that Khan, who remained on the court premises,...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States said Friday it was sending reinforcements to the Gulf after what it called increasing harassment by Iran of ships in the oil-rich waters. "The Department of Defense will be making a series of moves to bolster our defensive posture" in the Gulf, National...
GENEVA, Sudan - 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 200,000 refugees and...
ENTWISTLE, Canada- A lull in high temperatures brought some relief on Wednesday from wildfires in Alberta in western Canada as reinforcements arrived to help battle the blazes. In total, 76 forest and brush fires remained active in the province compared to 110 a few days ago, authorities said....
KANO, Nigeria - Fifteen children drowned and 25 others were missing after their overloaded boat capsized on a river in northwest Nigeria, a local official said Wednesday. The children were on their way from Dundeji village in Sokoto State to collect firewood in the bush on Tuesday on the...
WASHINGTON , United States- For the first time since formally entering the 2024 presidential race, Joe Biden headed Wednesday on a fundraising trip for a contest that could once again top all campaign spending records. After taking the Republicans to task on the debt ceiling standoff in a...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- The war between Sudan's generals is having increasingly severe consequences for civilians, with a doubling over the past week of the number uprooted from their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Hundreds have been killed so far. New worries emerged as separate...
OTTAWA, Canada - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday slammed Meta after executives said it would block news for Canadian Facebook and Instagram users in response to a proposed law that would require digital giants to pay for local journalism content. In February, Google announced it...
CHASIV YAR, Ukraine - AFP's Ukraine video coordinator Arman Soldin was killed on Tuesday by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said. The attack happened at around 4:30 pm (1330 GMT) on the outskirts of...
