WASHINGTON, United States -- Former US president Donald Trump said Tuesday he expected to be charged over the January 6 attack on the US Capitol -- an indictment that would ramp up his legal woes as he makes another White House run. Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential...
SEOUL, South Korea --Â A US soldier who served around two months in a South Korean jail on assault charges was believed to be in North Korean custody Wednesday after crossing the heavily fortified border without authorisation, officials said. The soldier -- identified by the US military as Travis...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The world should get ready to face increasingly intense heatwaves, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, as countries across the Northern Hemisphere reeled from soaring temperatures. Health authorities have sounded the alarm from North America to Europe and Asia, urging...
SEOUL, South Korea - A United States national entered North Korea during a tour of the heavily fortified border and is believed to have been detained, the United Nations Command said Tuesday. "A US national on a JSA orientation tour crossed, without authorisation, the Military Demarcation Line...
MADRID, Spain - Spain issued hot weather red alerts for three regions on Tuesday due to the "extreme" danger posed by scorching temperatures as firefighters made gains in their battle against a blaze raging in the Canary Islands. Weather agency Aemet said temperatures would hit highs between 38...
GANDHINAGAR, India - The new head of the World Bank said Tuesday that growing divides between rich and poor nations risked deepening poverty in the developing world, at a meeting of G20 finance ministers in India. Many countries are still recovering from the double blow of the coronavirus pandemic...
KYIV, Ukraine - Russia on Tuesday issued a veiled warning over the future of grain exports via the Black Sea, after Moscow refused to extend a key agreement to allow safe passage for cargo ships from Ukrainian ports. The caution came hours after Ukraine said a Russian strike overnight had damaged...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's president vowed Monday to "completely overhaul" the country's approach to extreme weather from climate change, after at least 39 people were killed by recent flooding and landslides during monsoon rains. Rescue workers waded through thick mud as they drained a...
JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was discharged from hospital on Sunday with a heart monitor implanted under his skin, a day after he was hospitalized for dehydration. The 73-year-old prime minister was kept overnight under observation at Sheba Medical Center outside Tel Aviv,...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine on Sunday said fighting had "intensified" on the eastern front as Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed Kyiv's counteroffensive a failure. Putin is yet to decide if Russia will renew the grain deal -- expiring late Monday -- that allowed the resumption of Ukrainian exports...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country had enough cluster munition to answer if Ukraine was to use the weapons, in an interview published Sunday. Ukraine started receiving cluster weapons from the United States, a move that sparked concerns due to the long-term risk...
BEIJING, China --Â US climate envoy John Kerry held four hours of talks with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on Monday, reviving stalled diplomacy on reducing planet-warming emissions. Climate talks between the two biggest greenhouse gas emitters came to a halt last year after Nancy Pelosi,...
