WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden warned Republicans Wednesday that blocking vital US military aid for Ukraine threatened the "free world" as talks with congressional leaders at the White House failed to produce a breakthrough. US President Joe Biden steps off Air Force One after...
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador - The prosecutor investigating a dramatic armed assault by gangsters on live television was shot dead Wednesday, officials said, in a bloody escalation of an ongoing "war" between the government and criminal groups. A soldier holds a Belgian-made FAL 7.62mm caliber rifle...
WASHINGTON, United States - Washington on Wednesday designated former Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei who left office earlier this week as ineligible to enter the United States due to his involvement in corruption. Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei speaks during the last...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday she was "scared as heck" that Donald Trump would return to the White House in the November election and urged Democrats to "fight back." US Vice President Kamala Harris Her comments came after Trump stormed to victory...
DAVOS, Switzerland - Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday said his country's priority for 2024 was to gain control over its skies, as Russia's full-scale assault enters its third year. His comments at the World Economic Forum in Davos came just hours after Russian drone and...
PARIS, France - President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday sought to breathe new life into his final term with a promise for a "stronger and fairer" France, at a rare news conference peppered with a string of announcements aimed at forging greater civic responsibility and security. With over three years...
OTTAWA, Canada - The Canadian government unveiled Tuesday restrictions on research funding to prevent the sharing with China, Iran and Russia of advanced technologies developed by Canadian universities, citing national security concerns. It also published a long list of sensitive research it does...
ATKINSON, United States - Donald Trump steamrolled toward New Hampshire Tuesday after his crushing win in Iowa cemented him as the likely Republican presidential nominee -- stopping on the way for a defamation trial that underscores how the road to November's election remains in uncharte d...
NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump went straight from his victory in the Republican Iowa caucuses to a New York courtroom Tuesday for the start of a defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll after an earlier jury found he had sexually assaulted her in the 1990s. Alina Habba, lawyer of...
PARIS, France - France will deliver to Ukraine a new batch of around 40 SCALP long-range cruise missiles as well as hundreds of bombs as Kyiv fights the Russian invasion, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Macron told reporters at a news conference that Europe's priority must be to "not let...
MONTPELLIER, France - A French court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 30 years in jail for the murder of his partner, after her body was found in 2021 buried under a concrete slab in their home. Samire Lymani, 41, had reported Aurelie Vaquier, 38, missing on February 23 that year, around a month after...
KYIV, Ukraine - At least 16 people were injured in a Russian rocket strike on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Tuesday evening, the regional governor said. In a post on social media, Governor Oleg Synegubov said Russian strikes hit residential buildings in the city centre, injuring at least 16,...
