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...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin said Friday that no agreements had been signed during North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's ongoing visit to Russia, amid Western concern that the two isolated countries could be preparing an arms deal. Kim is on a rare trip out of his reclusive country in the Russian Far...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A man has died after a dog attack in central England, emergency services said Friday, the latest in a spate of attacks that prompted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to vow action. Emergency services were called on Thursday to reports that a man had been left seriously injured...
In this photo taken on September 14, 2023, a health worker walks past Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Nipah virus mobile testing facility at a government hospital in Kozhikode in south Indian state of Kerala. India has curbed public gatherings and shut some schools in the southern state...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is willing to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un "without preconditions", a top government official said Friday. The prime minister has previously said he was ready to hold talks with Kim, but the reiterated invitation comes after the North Korean...
This handout picture posted on September 15, 2023, on the official telegram channel of the Governov of Khabarovsk region Mikhail Degtyaryov shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting an aviation plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. (Photo by Official telegram channel of the Governov of Khabarovsk...
A staff member poses with the "Black Sheep Jumper" designed by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne and worn on several occasions by Britain's late Princess Diana, during a press view at Sotheby's auction house in London on July 17, 2023. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) NEW YORK , United States -- An...
