MARRAKESH, Morocco - Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco's search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the...
WARSAW, Poland - The Polish government on Tuesday agreed to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally even if the current EU restrictions expire on September 15. "Regardless of the (European) Commission's further decision, we will not open the border to Ukrainian grain after that...
MARSEILLE, France - A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a stray bullet in an attack on a drug-dealing hotspot in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The woman was hit late on Sunday evening when a burst of fire from a Kalashnikov rifle tore...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in numerous countries, the UN rights chief said Monday, stressing the need to fight the impunity of those who "plunder our environment." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk pointed to recent...
HAMBURG, Germany - Leaders of nine small island states turned to the UN maritime court on Monday to seek protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change that threatens the very existence of entire countries. The island states are asking the International Tribunal for the Law of...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine has increased security in the city of Uman as Jewish pilgrims arrived there to mark a religious holiday, despite warnings not to travel to the war-torn country. Thousands of Orthodox Jews come to Uman from Israel and elsewhere every year to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah...
BENGHAZI, Libya - At least 150 people were killed in freak floods in eastern Libya as a result of storm Daniel which has swept the Mediterranean, an official said on Monday. Images filmed by residents of the disaster area showed massive mudslides, collapsed buildings and entire neighbourhoods...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Monday that leader Kim Jong Un would visit Russia and meet President Vladimir Putin, with the reclusive leader's armoured train reportedly on its way to the border. Experts suggest that Putin is seeking artillery shells and antitank missiles from North Korea...
TALAT NYACOUB, Morocco - Moroccan rescuers supported by newly-arrived foreign teams on Monday faced an intensifying race against time to dig out any survivors from the rubble of mountain villages, on the third day after the country's strongest-ever earthquake. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the...
LONDON, United Kingdom - The UK government on Monday faced calls to get tougher with China, after police arrested a parliamentary researcher on suspicion of spying for Beijing. The arrest, made earlier this year but only made public this weekend, prompted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to warn Premier...
Vietnam's President Vo Van Thuong (R) shakes hands with US President Joe Biden during a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on September 11, 2023. (Photo by Nhac NGUYEN / POOL / AFP) HANOI, Vietnam -- President Joe Biden and senior executives from top US tech firms including Google and...
France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) speaks as Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina looks on during the ceremony of signing bilateral agreements at the Prime Minister's office in Dhaka on September 11, 2023. (Photo by Munir uz zaman / AFP) DHAKA, Bangladesh -- President Emmanuel Macron was...
