PARIS, France - A feminist French minister who posed for Playboy told the magazine she backed the right of women to pose nude if they wanted to amid fresh criticism from her cabinet colleagues about her stunt on Wednesday. Marlene Schiappa, currently minister for the social economy and...
BLUMENAU, Brazil - A 25-year-old man burst into a preschool in southern Brazil and killed four children with a hatchet-like weapon Wednesday before turning himself in to police, an attack President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned as "monstrous." The attacker, who jumped a wall to get...
PARIS, France - An inquiry into allegations that a junior minister in France raped patients during gynaecological examinations has been dropped, the Paris prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Three women filed complaints in May and June last year against the foreign ministry's state secretary...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Finland becomes the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday, in a historic shift that drew an angry warning of "countermeasures" from the Kremlin. Moscow's all-out invasion of Ukraine last year upended Europe's security landscape and prompted Finland -- and its neighbour Sweden --...
MOSCOW, Russia - The son of a senior Russian official arrested in Italy at Washington's request reappeared in Russia on Tuesday after escaping house arrest. "I'm in Russia! In these few particularly dramatic days, I had strong and reliable people by my side. I want to thank them," Artyom...
GANGTOK, India - At least seven people were killed Tuesday when an avalanche in the Indian Himalayas struck on the road to a popular tourist destination at the Chinese border, officials said. Cascading snow buried at least half a dozen vehicles on the route to Nathu La Pass, a scenic outpost...
WASHINGTON, United States- A tornado tore through the southern US state of Arkansas and killed three people on Friday, while severe storms further north in Illinois and Indiana left three dead, authorities said. The Arkansas tornado whipped across the state in the afternoon, causing what Governor...
WASHINGTON, United States- The United States on Thursday condemned Russia's detention of an American journalist writing for The Wall Street Journal and said it was seeking consular access. US officials said they were in touch with the family of detained journalist Evan Gershkovich as well as the...
NEW DELHI, India- The death toll after a floor collapsed at a Hindu temple in India had risen to 36 on Friday after rescuers discovered the body of the last person still missing, police told AFP. Dozens of worshippers celebrating a major religious holiday plunged into the stepwell –- a...
GENEVA, Switzerland- Russia's war in Ukraine has made severe rights violations "shockingly routine" and is distracting humanity from battling existential threats to its survival, the United Nations rights chief warned on Friday. Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council, Volker Turk denounced...
NAKHON NAYOK, Thailand -- Hundreds of Thai firefighters and soldiers battled a forest blaze less than 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Bangkok on Friday as the kingdom grapples with air pollution that has made more than 1.7 million people ill already this year. The fire has affected at least 800,000...
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala -- Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen began a visit to Guatemala and Belize on Friday to shore up ties with dwindling allies following a trip to the United States that angered China. Tsai's visit to the Central American neighbors comes after Honduras became the latest country...
