DAMASCUS, Syria - Israeli strikes targeted north Syria's Aleppo province late Monday, killing a soldier, wounding seven people and putting the area's international airport out of service, state media reported. "At around 11:35 pm (2035 GMT)... the Israeli enemy carried out an air attack with...
KAMPALA, Uganda - Uganda's parliament on Tuesday passed a new draft of anti-gay legislation, retaining many draconian provisions despite President Yoweri Museveni's call to rework an earlier version of the bill following an outcry by Western governments. "The bill passed," parliamentary...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Tuesday responded to US-hosted peace talks between Armenia and Azerbaijan this week saying there was "no alternative" to a deal that Moscow signed with the two warring countries in 2020. "For the moment, there is no other legal basis that would help a resolution....
NEW YORK, United States - Pfizer reported a drop in first-quarter profits Tuesday on declining Covid-19 vaccine revenues, but said it was on track for a heavy series of product launches later in 2023. Shares of the pharma giant edged higher as Pfizer Chief Executive Officer Albert Bourla...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -Â A global crackdown has halted a major "dark web" marketplace, with international police arresting 288 suspects and recovering more than 50 million euros ($54.8 million) in cash and virtual currency, Europol said on Tuesday. The joint operation called SpecTor by US,...
BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazilian authorities were investigating Sunday the death of an Indigenous man who they say was shot by miners illegally encroaching on territory belonging to the Yanomami people. The incident, which occurred Saturday in the northern state of Roraima, also left two...
BANGUI, Central African Republic - Around 6,000 people, most of them women, have fled the fighting in Sudan to neighbouring Central African Republic over the last two weeks, the UN refugee agency told AFP Sunday. "The number is made up of 70 percent women, 15 percent girls, 10 percent men...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - At least 18 Mexican tourists died and two dozen were injured when their tourist bus plunged into a ravine in the western state of Nayarit, a local official told AFP on Sunday. The bus, from a private company, was transporting tourists on a 220-kilometer (136-mile)...
ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, Undefined -Â Pope Francis on Sunday called on Hungarians to "open doors" to migrants, as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the central European country led by a prime minister who is staunchly anti-immigration. Throughout his visit to Budapest -- dominated by the war in...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - The suspected leader of the Islamic State group has been killed in Syria in an operation carried out by Turkey's MIT intelligence agency, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. "The suspected leader of Daesh, codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been...
WASHINGTON, United States - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to the Sudan region amid the "unprecedented" situation there, as deadly hostilities enter a third week, his spokesman said Sunday. The announcement came as the army and heavily armed paramilitaries in...
IDUKKI, India -- Indian forest officials have tranquillised and relocated a rice-loving wild tusker elephant that killed at least six people, media reports said. The male elephant -- dubbed Arikomban, or "rice-tusker" -- was infamous for raiding shops for rice and grains in the southern state of...
