Hunter Biden (Bloomberg photo) WILMINGTON, United States -- Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an illegal gun possession charge, marking the latest chapter in his troubled life just as his father President Joe Biden accelerates his campaign for reelection next year. Hunter Biden, 53,...
This photograph taken on October 3, 2023 shows a placard reading "Bed bugs" on a mattress abandoned on the pavement in a street in Marseille, southern France. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) PARIS, France -- The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine...
Health workers wearing protective gears shift a man with symptoms of Nipah virus to an isolation ward at a government hospital in Kozhikode in south Indian state of Kerala on September 16, 2023. (Photo by AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- No new cases of Nipah virus have been detected in India since...
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on October 03, 2023 in Mestre, near Venice. At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge in the northern Italian city of Venice, a city hall spokesman told AFP. The crash caused "at least 20 deaths, including two children,"...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Kevin McCarthy was axed Tuesday as speaker of the US House of Representatives in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right Republicans accusing him of a string of broken promises and furious at his cooperation with Democrats. The maneuver laid bare the chaotic levels of...
MADRID, Spain - A Spanish court on Tuesday opened a manslaughter probe into a deadly fire that killed 13 people inside a nightclub which had ignored an earlier closure order. The court in Murcia, where the blaze broke out early Sunday, said it had opened the investigation to "clarify the facts...
BANGKOK, Thailand - One person was killed and six wounded in a shooting in a packed Bangkok shopping mall on Tuesday, a Thai medical official said in revising down an earlier toll, with police arresting a 14-year-old suspect. Hundreds of people fled the upmarket Siam Paragon mall in the heart...
MADRID - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday tasked outgoing Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez with trying to form a government, the parliamentary speaker said. If Sanchez is to be reinstated as premier, he will need to pass a key parliamentary vote for which he will need the backing of a hard...
Armenian lawmakers attend a plenary session at the parliament in Yerevan on October 3, 2023. (KAREN MINASYAN/AFP) YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenian lawmakers approved a key step towards joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, a move that is set to escalate tensions with the...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he was visiting frontline areas in eastern Ukraine where Russian forces have been pressuring Kyiv's troops. "Today we are visiting our brigades performing combat missions in one of the hottest areas -- Kupiansk-Lyman," Zelensky said in a...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin on Tuesday criticised a decision by Armenia's parliament to move towards joining the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We are doubtful that from the point of view of bilateral relations,...
Face-to-face classes will be suspended for the celebration of this year’s World Teachers’ Day (WTD) and the 2023 Barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan Elections (BSKE) on activities that would need the participation of teachers. A teacher is sorting out the modules to be used by students for...
