SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine "glorifies" Adolf Hitler's SS killing squads and vowed to "eradicate Nazism," as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad. In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine on Saturday pressed Russia to provide proof that a military plane shot down earlier in the week had been carrying dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war, as it claimed. This grab taken from a handout footage released by the Russian Investigative Committee on January 26, 2024...
MADRID, Spain - Around 20,000 people marched in Madrid Saturday in support of Palestinians, a day after the UN's top court said Israel must prevent genocidal acts in its war with Hamas. Protestors wave Palestinian flags as they demonstrate in support of the people from Gaza, in the Palestinian...
PARIS, France - Several key donor countries to the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Saturday they would halt their funding, following accusations by Israel that several UNRWA staff were involved in Hamas's October 7 attack. UNRWA has fired several staff over Israel's accusations, promising a...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Firefighters in Argentina were battling an "out of control" blaze in a national park in Patagonia on Saturday, struggling to keep it from reaching two nearby towns. This handout picture released by Argentina's National Parks via Telam shows a helicopter dropping water to...
A 70-year-old Filipina was identified as one of the four bodies recovered by the Maui Police Department from Lahaina wildfire in Hawaii in August of last year. According to the Maui Coroners Office's DNA test, Lydia Coloma was among the 29 Filipino and Filipino-American casualties in the disaster....
Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization on Friday denied Israel's charges it had colluded with Hamas by ignoring Israeli evidence of the group's "military use" of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. Smoke billows after an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on January 26,...
Paris, France - The head of US Central Intelligence Agency will meet with his counterparts from Israel and Egypt, as well as Qatar's prime minister, "in the coming days in Paris" to seek a ceasefire in the Gaza war with Hamas, a security source told AFP on Friday. The source, from a country...
Vienna, Austria - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across Austria on Friday to protest against right-wing extremism and racism, inspired by similar rallies in neighboring Germany. People take part in a rally under the motto "Defend Democracy" against right-wing extremism, racism...
Caracas, Venezuela - Venezuela's Supreme Court, loyal to President Nicolas Maduro's government, on Friday ruled two-time presidential candidate Henrique Capriles ineligible to seek office in elections due this year. Henrique Capriles The court upheld 15-year ban imposed on Capriles in 2017 for...
Berlin, Germany - German police said Friday they had arrested a man as he allegedly attempted to flee with a hostage from a store in the Ulm city center. Contacted by AFP, a police spokesman in the southwestern city declined to give details about the hostage or the possible motivation behind...
Kyoto, Japan - A Japanese man found guilty of carrying out an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio in 2019 was sentenced to death on Thursday. The blaze that ripped through the studios of Kyoto Animation four-and-a-half years ago was Japan's deadliest crime in decades and...
