SYDNEY, Australia -- Millions of dead and rotting fish have clogged a vast stretch of river near a remote town in the Australian outback as a searing heatwave sweeps through the region. Videos posted to social media showed boats ploughing through a blanket of dead fish smothering the water, with the...
ANKARA, Türkiye -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended months of diplomatically charged delays on Friday and asked parliament to quickly back Finland's bid to join NATO. A simultaneous decision by fellow holdout Hungary to schedule a Finnish ratification vote for March 27 means the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea will fully implement a key military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a defence ministry official told AFP on Saturday, as the two countries move to thaw long-frozen relations and renew diplomacy to counter Pyongyang. At a fence-mending summit on Thursday,...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands --Â The International Criminal Court on Friday announced it had issued an arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin for the "unlawful deportation" of Ukrainian children. The Hague-based ICC said it had also issued a warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia's...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand will ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from lawmakers' devices, officials told AFP Friday, becoming the latest Western nation to act on security fears about the platform. TikTok will be banned on all devices with access to the parliamentary network,...
SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, accompanied by his daughter, personally oversaw the recent test-firing of the country's most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile, state media images showed Friday. The launch on Thursday -- Pyongyang's second ICBM test this year --...
CARACAS, Venezuela -- Venezuela's Supreme Court on Thursday annulled a controversial article of the military justice code that had criminalized homosexuality within the armed forces. The court annulled the provision, which had provided for a penalty of up to three years in prison, "for lacking...
BEIJING, China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Moscow next week, where he will hold talks with his strategic ally Vladimir Putin just over a year into Russia's war in Ukraine. Xi will be in Russia from Monday to Wednesday, Beijing's foreign ministry and the Kremlin said on...
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February. Rescuers were unearthing more bodies as the chances of finding survivors faded after...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Russia's forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said Thursday, adding that they are probing allegations of genocide in the Ukraine conflict. Presenting their first report, the high-level team of...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- The UK government and unions representing various health workers in England said Thursday they have agreed a deal to increase pay by 5 percent in the next financial year, potentially ending damaging strikes. The package, impacting around one million National Health Service...
PARIS, France -- Half of all women scientists worldwide have been the victim of workplace sexual harassment at some point during their career, according to a survey published on Thursday. In the survey, which included more than 5,000 researchers across 117 countries, 49 percent of women scientists...
