WASHINGTON, United States - The US Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear a challenge to the use of a law behind one of the charges lodged against former president Donald Trump and hundreds of his supporters who took part in the 2021 attack on the Capitol. The US Supreme Court is seen in...
WASHINGTON, United States - The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives voted Wednesday to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden based on his son's controversial international dealings -- a move Biden himself slammed as a "baseless" stunt. US President Joe Biden...
STRASBOURG, France - Brussels proposed hiving off profits earned from frozen Russian state assets Tuesday, a step towards sending funds worth billions of euros to Ukraine, EU officials said. The EU has frozen some 200 billion euros of Russian central bank assets as punishment for Moscow's invasion...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday that the country risked losing global support for its war against Hamas because of its "indiscriminate" bombing of Gaza. In his most blunt remarks since the October 7 attack on Israel by...
SYDNEY, Australia - A sperm whale has died in Western Australia days after it was filmed in shallow waters among dozens of delighted beachgoers, authorities have said. This handout frame grab from video footage taken and released by the Western Australia Department of Bioiversity, Conservation and...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - The leaders of Australia, Canada and New Zealand on Wednesday warned Israel that efforts to destroy Hamas cannot spell "continuous suffering" for Palestinian civilians and issued a renewed call for a ceasefire. In a rare joint statement, prime ministers Anthony Albanese,...
PARIS, France - The United States will always insist on the need to protect journalists reporting from Gaza during the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a letter to Agence France-Presse on Tuesday. AFP and other international media groups had...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden said it was "outrageous" that a woman was forced to leave Texas to seek an emergency abortion, after the state's courts said she could not terminate her risky pregnancy. "No woman should be forced to go to court or flee her home state just to...
WASHINGTON, Unites States - President Joe Biden warned Tuesday that Russia was banking on the United States abandoning Ukraine, as he promised President Volodymyr Zelensky he would support Kyiv despite Republicans blocking new military aid. US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The UK defence ministry has been fined £350,000 ($440,000) for disclosing personal information of 265 Afghans seeking to flee the Taliban, a data watchdog announced on Wednesday. "This deeply regrettable data breach let down those to whom our country owes so much," said...
PARIS, France - Diamonds in the dust -- a ring worth 750,000 euros ($807,000), which went missing at the luxury Ritz hotel in Paris, has been found in a vacuum cleaner. The ring went missing on Friday and its owner suspected hotel staff of theft. On Sunday, it was found in a vacuum cleaner bag...
WASHINGTON, United States - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made an impassioned plea for continued US military support Monday in a Washington speech, warning that failure to help his country defeat Russian invasion is fulfilling the Kremlin's "dreams" of wrecking democracy in Europe....
