WASHINGTON, United States -- TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew faced relentless questioning from combative US lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle Thursday over the video-sharing app's alleged ties to China and its danger to teens. The 40-year-old Singaporean suffered unusually intense grilling by...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday told European leaders that "delays" sending fighter jets and long-range missiles could extend the war, after he paid a visit to the frontline southern region of Kherson. On the train home from the war-ravaged areas, Zelensky gave an...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea claimed Friday it had tested an underwater nuclear attack drone able to unleash a "radioactive tsunami", as it blamed recent US-South Korea exercises for a deteriorating regional security situation. Pyongyang carried out drills in response this week, the official...
OTTAWA, Canada -- US President Joe Biden arrived Thursday in Canada where he will meet Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and address parliament, with reports that a deal has been struck on managing undocumented migration across the neighbors' long border. Trade, Canada's anemic defense spending, and a...
NEW YORK, United States -- Donald Trump created a "false expectation" of his imminent arrest, the New York prosecutor investigating the ex-president over hush money said Thursday, as tensions build over a possible indictment. The comments come amid uncertainty over when a grand jury hearing the case...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A burgeoning row between France and Germany fired by differences over nuclear energy and combustion engines threatened to spill over into a gathering of the 27 European Union leaders Thursday. Existing strains between the European Union's two biggest players after Berlin...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday was visiting the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson partially controlled by Russian forces, after Kyiv's troops captured the regional capital late last year, the presidency said. Ukraine forces recaptured Kherson city, the...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A London jury on Thursday found Nigeria's former deputy Senate president guilty of plotting to harvest a street trader's kidney for his sick daughter, in the first UK case of its kind. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and a doctor, Obinna Obeta, 50, were found...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A 28-year-old man was remanded in custody on Thursday accused of attempting to murder two elderly men who were set on fire shortly after leaving mosques in the UK. Mohammed Abbkr, 28, from Edgbaston in Birmingham, central England, was placed in custody by the city's...
FRANKFURT, Germany - German unions called a major transport strike for Monday as workers demand higher wages to cope with surging inflation, the latest industrial action in Europe's top economy. Staff at airports, ports, the railways, buses and subways will walk out across much of the...
MADRID, Spain - Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday he will meet with President Xi Jinping in Beijing next week to discuss China's peace plan for Ukraine. "I think it is important to learn first-hand" what China's position is, Sanchez told reporters in Brussels where he was...
PARIS, France - There is no sign the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Moscow will rein in President Vladimir Putin in his war on Ukraine, even if it again highlights a lopsided relationship where Russia is clearly the junior partner, analysts say. Xi held two days of talks this week...
