PARIS, France - President Emmanuel Macron will meet leaders of all of France's political parties Wednesday, including his most bitter opponents, outside Paris in a bid to break the deadlock of a hung parliament. Deprived of an absolute majority in the National Assembly lower house since last year's...
This handout screen grab taken and released by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on August 25, 2023, shows the Chandrayaan-3 rover as it manoeuvred from the lunar lander to the surface of the Moon. (Photo by ISRO / AFP) NEW DELHI , India -- India's Moon rover has confirmed the presence...
This handout image released by the Fulton County Sheriff's Office on August 24, 2023 shows the booking photo of former US President Donald Trump. Former US president Donald Trump was photographed for a police mug shot after his arrest on August 24 at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia, multiple US...
NEW DELHI, India -- India issued a "strong protest" to China on Tuesday after a Beijing map claimed land that New Delhi says is theirs, including territory close to where the neighbours battled in 2020. "We have today lodged a strong protest through diplomatic channels with the Chinese side on the...
An undated and unplaced handout phooto received from The Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra on August 29, 2023 shows a brain scan. A parasitic roundworm typically found in snakes has been pulled "alive and wriggling" from a woman's brain in a stomach-churning medical first, Australian...
Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan (Photo from AFP) STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- The tritium concentration in wastewater being released from Japan's stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant is under expected levels and poses no risk to the population, the head of the UN atomic watchdog said Tuesday. "So far...
A Covid-19 testing tent sits along a Manhattan street on March 09, 2023 in New York City. Three years since the outbreak of the global pandemic, which resulted in the deaths of millions of people, many parts are the world are nearly back to normal with few mask restrictions and falling...
This illustration photo created in Washington, DC, on July 24, 2023, shows the Twitter page of Elon Musk in front of the new X Twitter logo and old bird Twitter logo. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / AFP) SAN FRANCISCO , United States -- Elon Musk on Tuesday lifted a ban on political ads put in place...
Graves are seen in the municipal cemetery of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada, July 28, 2022. (Photo by Anne-Sophie THILL / AFP) MONTREAL, Canada -- An Indigenous community in western Canada has discovered nearly 100 suspected unmarked graves near the site of a former residential school, officials said...
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) released videos and photos on Tuesday of water cascading into the Times Square-42nd Street station in the heart of Manhattan at around 03:00 am (07:00 GMT). Photo from MTA on X (formerly Twitter) NEW YORK, United States - New York's best-known and...
A member of the Cuban Red Cross works on a flooded street in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba on August 29, 2023, during the passage of tropical storm Idalia. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) ST. PETERSBURG, United States -- Hurricane Idalia intensified late Tuesday as it hurtled towards northwest...
A view of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- A Russian airport near the border with Estonia came under drone attack, the local...
