Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin answers questions after attending the launch event for the technology hub "SCBX Next Tech" at the Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok on October 4, 2023, a day after a shooting at the mall that left two people dead. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)...
This handout photograph released by the Indian Army and taken on October 4, 2023, shows a flooded street in Lachen Valley, in India's Sikkim state following a flash flood caused by intense rainfall. (Photo by INDIAN ARMY / AFP) GUWAHATI, India -- The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were...
This handout image released by the Baltimore Police Department on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows police vehicles at the scene of an active shooter situation near Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Handout / BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT / AFP) ...
This handout from the Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police released on October 3, 2023, shows the arrest of a 14-year-old boy suspect of a shooting at Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok. (Photo by Handout / Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police / AFP) BANGKOK,...
Hunter Biden (Bloomberg photo) WILMINGTON, United States -- Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an illegal gun possession charge, marking the latest chapter in his troubled life just as his father President Joe Biden accelerates his campaign for reelection next year. Hunter Biden, 53,...
This photograph taken on October 3, 2023 shows a placard reading "Bed bugs" on a mattress abandoned on the pavement in a street in Marseille, southern France. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) PARIS, France -- The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine...
Health workers wearing protective gears shift a man with symptoms of Nipah virus to an isolation ward at a government hospital in Kozhikode in south Indian state of Kerala on September 16, 2023. (Photo by AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- No new cases of Nipah virus have been detected in India since...
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on October 03, 2023 in Mestre, near Venice. At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge in the northern Italian city of Venice, a city hall spokesman told AFP. The crash caused "at least 20 deaths, including two children,"...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Kevin McCarthy was axed Tuesday as speaker of the US House of Representatives in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right Republicans accusing him of a string of broken promises and furious at his cooperation with Democrats. The maneuver laid bare the chaotic levels of...
MADRID, Spain - A Spanish court on Tuesday opened a manslaughter probe into a deadly fire that killed 13 people inside a nightclub which had ignored an earlier closure order. The court in Murcia, where the blaze broke out early Sunday, said it had opened the investigation to "clarify the facts...
BANGKOK, Thailand - One person was killed and six wounded in a shooting in a packed Bangkok shopping mall on Tuesday, a Thai medical official said in revising down an earlier toll, with police arresting a 14-year-old suspect. Hundreds of people fled the upmarket Siam Paragon mall in the heart...
MADRID - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday tasked outgoing Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez with trying to form a government, the parliamentary speaker said. If Sanchez is to be reinstated as premier, he will need to pass a key parliamentary vote for which he will need the backing of a hard...
