PARIS, France - A man suspected of stabbing a German tourist to death near the Eiffel Tower was charged on Wednesday with carrying out a terror attack and placed in solitary confinement, his lawyer said. A forensic police officer works at the scene of a stabbing in Paris on December 2, 2023. A...
LAS VEGAS, United States - At least three people were hospitalized after a shooting at a US university on Wednesday, police said, with the suspect dead. Emergency crews and law enforcement respond to a shooting at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus in Las Vegas on December 6, 2023....
WASHINGTON, United States - Republican senators blocked a White House request for $106 billion in emergency aid primarily for Ukraine and Israel Wednesday as conservatives balked at the exclusion of immigration reforms they had demanded as part of the package. The vote marked a...
WASHINGTON, United States - The president of Harvard University on Wednesday faced criticism and calls for her resignation over her comments at a Capitol Hill hearing on campus anti-Semitism. Claudine Gray The deadly conflict between Israel and Hamas militants has ignited tensions on many...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The UN secretary-general, warning he expects public order in Gaza to break down completely and soon, struck a rare and powerful alarm bell in a letter Wednesday to the Security Council. TENT SHELTERS – This handout satellite image courtesy of Maxar...
BOSTON, United States - US President Joe Biden called on Tuesday for global condemnation of what he said was "horrific" sexual violence by Hamas during the October 7 attacks on Israel. US President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on December 5, 2023. Biden...
WASHINGTON, United states - Several Republican senators walked out of a classified briefing on Ukraine Tuesday as it descended into a row over the border crisis, after President Volodymyr Zelensky unexpectedly canceled a videolink appearance to appeal for continued US funding. (FILES) Ukrainian...
LOS ANGELES, United states - An off-duty US pilot who tried to shut down the engines of a commercial passenger plane in mid-flight has been indicted on 84 counts, prosecutors said Tuesday. (FILES) An Alaska airlines plane seen at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on January 11, 2023. An...
PARIS, France - Members of the Iranian security forces raped and used other forms of sexual violence against women and men detained in the crackdown on nationwide protests that erupted from September 2022, Amnesty International said Wednesday. Amnesty said in a report it had documented 45 such...
PARIS, France - Humanity faces an "unprecedented" risk from tipping points that could unleash a domino effect of irreversible catastrophes across the planet, researchers warned Wednesday. Activists protest against fossil fuels on the sidelines of the COP28 United Nations climate summit in Dubai on...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Foreign minister David Cameron heads to Washington on Wednesday to stress the importance of the UK-US relationship in his first visit to the United States since his shock return to frontline politics. The former prime minister will also pledge the UK's "unwavering support...
WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States unveiled sanctions on Tuesday against the head of the Belarus Red Cross, accusing him of being complicit in the deportation of Ukrainian children to Russia. Since its invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Russia has been accused of forcibly...
