Plumes of smoke rise as wildfire approaches a home during the Fairview Fire near Hemet, California, in Riverside County on September 7, 2022. The US state of California sued five of the world's largest oil companies on September 15, 2023, alleging the firms caused billions of dollars in damages and...
Photo from AFP FRANKFURT, Germany -- NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has warned there will be no swift end to the Ukraine war, in an interview published Sunday, as Kyiv pushes on with its counteroffensive against Russia. "Most wars last longer than expected when they first begin," Stoltenberg said in...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Fourteen people were killed Saturday when a plane crashed in the Brazilian Amazon while attempting to land in stormy weather in the popular tourist town of Barcelos, the incident fatal for all aboard, officials said. The small plane's pilot was approaching the town in...
MOSCOW, Russia - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met Saturday with the Russian defense minister in Vladivostok, where he inspected state-of-the-art weapons including a hypersonic missile system on the latest leg of a rare visit outside his country. Upon arriving in Vladivostok, a Pacific port...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused the European Union of pulling away from Turkey, whose efforts to join the bloc have stalled amid criticism of Ankara's efforts to address democracy and rule of law concerns. Erdogan secured a pledge from Brussels to...
LONDON, United Kingdom - London's Metropolitan Police has apologized and reached a settlement with a man who sustained a brain injury after an officer hit his head with a baton during a protest more than a decade ago. Alfie Meadows was injured on December 9, 2010, when he was a 20-year-old...
SANAA, Yemen - Flooding and lightning strikes in Yemen have killed eight civilians, an official and a doctor told AFP on Saturday, underscoring the threat of extreme weather in the war-ravaged country. The lightning strikes occurred on Friday in the Al-Layha and Al-Zahra districts of Hodeida...
CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian court has sentenced prominent dissident Hisham Kassem to six months in prison, his lawyer and political movement said, a move barring him from taking part in campaigning for next year's presidential election. It comes one day after Egypt's only candidate campaigning...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A European Union regulator hit Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok with a 345-million-euro fine over child data breaches on Friday, in the bloc's latest salvo against the business practices of tech titans. The fine, equivalent to $369 million, is the culmination of a...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg will face another trial at the end of September, Malmo's public prosecutor said Friday, charged with "resisting arrest" at a July protest. Police forcibly removed the 20-year-old campaigner from a climate rally in the Swedish port city on...
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Serious water shortages plaguing Central Asian countries have become "irreversible" and will only get worse, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev warned Friday, as global warming and increased competition weigh on resources. Central Asian countries such as Uzbekistan face a...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations on Friday said Morocco could ask for aid "today or tomorrow" to help it recover and rebuild following a devastating earthquake that has killed nearly 3,000 people and destroyed tens of thousands of homes. "We are expecting and hoping, but expecting from our...
