CULIANCÃN, Mexico - Authorities in Mexico said Saturday that they have found 18 people alive a day after they were abducted in the country's northwest. On Friday, an emergency hotline received reports of abductions from several homes in a working-class neighborhood of Culiacan, Sinaloa state...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Two cross-country skiers have been killed in an avalanche near the plush resort of Klosters in southeast Switzerland, police said Saturday. The accident happened on Friday, the Graubunden regional police said. "In the Schintersiten area they took a slope with a steep...
ROME, Italy - Italy's deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, accused French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday of endangering Europe by refusing to rule out sending Western ground troops to Ukraine. Italy's deputy Prime Minister and leader of Italian far-right party "Lega" Matteo Salvini, salutes...
SYDNEY, Australia - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hit northern Papua New Guinea on Sunday morning, the United States Geological Survey said. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre said there was "no tsunami threat" from the inland quake, which struck at 6:22 am local time (2022 GMT Saturday) at a depth of...
WASHINGTON, United States - Tucked in the massive funding bill signed Saturday by President Joe Biden is a provision banning the flying of LGBTQ Pride flags over US embassies, but the White House has vowed to work toward its repeal. The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2024. The US House...
KYIV, Ukraine - Russia on Saturday claimed a new territorial victory over Ukrainian forces struggling to find weapons and troops while the two sides staged deadly aerial attacks on each other. This handout photograph posted on the Telegram account of the Head of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Military...
MONTREAL, Canada - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney was remembered Saturday as a man who loved his country "with all his heart," as mourners bid farewell to Canada's last Cold War leader. Canadian ministers, business leaders and friends were among the crowd at the state funeral at Notre-Dame...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The UN secretary-general and Security Council offered their "strongest" condemnations of the deadly attack Friday at a concert hall on the outskirts of Moscow and offered condolences to the victims of the "terrorist" incident. UN Chief Antonio Guterres UN chief...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit the Egypt-Gaza border city of Rafah on Saturday to reiterate his call for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, his spokesman said Friday. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Guterres, who is...
WASHINGTON, United States - The White House wished Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, a full recovery on Friday after her cancer diagnosis -- with First Lady Jill Biden saying "we love you." A handout still from a recording released by The Prince and Princess of Wales on March 22, 2024...
OTTAWA, Canada - Ottawa and the provincial government of Manitoba on Friday committed Can$40 million (US$30 million) to search a landfill for the remains of Indigenous women who were allegedly murdered by a serial killer. The two governments agreed to split the cost, an Indigenous leader and...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - Plans to reverse a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) in The Gambia, which outlawed the practice in 2015, risks setting a "dangerous precedent," UN representatives warned Friday. Anti Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) protesters hold placards outside the...
