People fill plastic jugs with water at a neighbourhood water tank in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on June 11, 2023. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP BRUSSELS, Belgium -- International donors led by the EU on Thursday pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.1 billion) for Syrian refugees, but Brussels stressed...
Singapore Police Force (SPF) officers patrol with a police robot at Changi Airport in Singapore on June 15, 2023. Kua Chee Siong / The Straits Times / AFP SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore will "progressively deploy" more patrol robots across the city-state, police said Thursday, after more than...
PARIS, France -- Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union's climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a "substantial margin", it said on Thursday. The news comes as the El Nino climate phenomenon has officially...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at the State Department in Washington, DC, June 15, 2023. SAUL LOEB / AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States on Thursday denounced the scourge of human trafficking, calling out...
Smoke comes out of a car following a road accident that left 15 dead near Carberry, west of Winnipeg, Canada on June 15, 2023. Nirmesh VADERA / AFP MONTREAL, Canada -- A semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying seniors collided in central Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday, killing at least 15...
TOKYO, Japan - A researcher from China was arrested in Japan on Thursday for allegedly leaking information on sensitive technology to a Chinese company, police in Tokyo said. The 59-year-old man, who worked at a Japanese research institute, has been held on suspicion of violating unfair...
VATICAN CITY, Â Holy See -Â Pope Francis, 86, will be discharged on Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said. "The medical team that is following Pope Francis has confirmed the Holy Father's discharge" from Rome's Gemelli hospital for...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's military said Thursday, shortly after Pyongyang warned of an "inevitable" response to ongoing US-South Korea joint military drills. South Korea and the United States, which have ramped up defence...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Boris Johnson deliberately lied to MPs about lockdown-breaking parties during the Covid pandemic that would have seen him face a 90-day suspension had he not quit as a lawmaker, a parliament committee ruled Thursday. The Privileges Committee, which probes breaches of...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations slammed Tuesday the Myanmar junta's "unfathomable" decision to suspend travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach more than a million people in cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state. Cyclone Mocha brought lashing rain and winds of 195 kilometres...
WASHINGTON, United States - Nine people were shot and injured and a suspect put in custody in the US city of Denver, police said early Tuesday, after a shooting near the arena where the Nuggets won their first NBA title. Three victims were in critical condition and the others sustaining...
NOTTINGHAM, United Kingdom - Police arrested a man Tuesday after three people were found dead and a van tried to mow down three others in the central English city of Nottingham in incidents authorities believe are linked. Nottingham's centre was cordoned off, with a heavy police presence,...
