VIENNA, Austria - Austria has set aside millions of euros to compensate thousands of gay people who until two decades ago faced prosecution, its justice minister said Monday. Austria decriminalised homosexuality in 1971 but certain discriminatory provisions remained in force until the early...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Sunday a blast triggered by "local resistance movements" in the Moscow-controlled Ukrainian city of Melitopol the previous day killed Russian military officers at a headquarters of the occupation authorities. Melitopol, with a pre-war population of around 150,000...
DEHRADUN, India - At least 40 construction workers were trapped Sunday after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India, with rescuers scrambling to reach them beneath piles of debris. The collapse occurred early Sunday morning in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand when a...
MOSCOW, Russia - Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the European Union of attempting to drive Russia out of Central Asia, and said the bloc was failing, in an interview broadcasted Sunday. Moscow's sway over a region it considers its sphere of influence has waned since the offensive in...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Saturday dismissed US bishop Joseph Strickland, a prominent conservative who had repeatedly criticised his papacy, following concerns over the clergyman's leadership and governance. The Vatican did not explain the move, a rare sacking in the...
SEOUL, South Korea - The defence chiefs of the United States, South Korea and Japan agreed Sunday to activate a real-time data-sharing operation on North Korean missile launches next month, the allies said. This handout photo taken and released on November 13, 2023 by the South Korean...
MARSIELLE, France - A woman and a man, both in their twenties, were killed in a shooting late Saturday in French Mediterranean city Marseille and three others hurt, prosecutors told AFP. "The five people were in their car in the car park of a McDonald's when a vehicle pulled up alongside,...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories -- Dozen of foreigners and dual nationals, as well as several wounded Palestinians, were evacuated from the Israeli-bombed Gaza Strip to Egypt Sunday, reports from both sides of the border said. "Fifty dual nationals arrived at Rafah" on the Egyptian side, along with...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia has evacuated dozens of citizen from the Gaza strip, the country's emergency services said Sunday, after Moscow denounced the long waiting time this week. A man waits with a child at the traveller's terminal on the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt in...
BANGKOK, Thailand -- A Myanmar military jet has crashed in the east of the country where fighting is ongoing, the junta said on Sunday, with anti-coup fighters claiming they had shot it down. The country has been riven by conflict since the 2021 military coup, with multiple armed ethnic groups...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia on Sunday accused Ukraine of carrying out a series of attacks in the border regions of Bryansk and Belgorod, damaging five train carriages and causing one injury. Moscow said it would open an investigation into a Ukrainian strike which injured a civilian in a village on the...
DEHRADUN, India -- At least 40 construction workers were trapped Sunday after the road tunnel they were building collapsed in northern India, with rescuers scrambling to reach them beneath piles of debris. The collapse occurred early Sunday morning in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand when a group...
