GENEVA, Switzerland - The UN stressed on Tuesday it was opposed to most dress codes for women, after France barred its Olympic athletes from wearing the Muslim hijab during the 2024 Paris Games. "No-one should impose on a woman what she needs to wear or not wear," United Nations rights office...
PARIS, France - Rich and developing nations alike must sharply improve their net-zero targets, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, warning that a clean energy surge was the main reason the world's climate goals are still achievable. IEA chief Fatih Birol Wealthy countries must now...
BUDAPEST, Hungary - A Hungarian court sentenced a Ukrainian ship captain to five-and-a-half years in prison on Tuesday over a collision on the Danube in 2019 that killed 25 South Korean tourists and two crew members. The disaster, on a busy stretch of the river in the heart of Budapest, was...
TOKYO, Japan - Campaigners filed a fresh petition with almost 225,000 signatures on Monday against plans to fell large numbers of trees and tear down a historic baseball stadium in a rare green area of central Tokyo. Lush with trees donated to honour Emperor Meiji a century ago, Meiji Jingu Gaien...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin said on Monday it "categorically" disagreed with criticism of its peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, after Armenia accused Moscow of failing to intervene in Azerbaijan's lightning offensive last week. The offensive, which saw Azerbaijan seize control of the...
MOSCOW - Russia said Monday it had placed Piotr Hofmanski, the president of the International Criminal Court, which is seeking the arrest of President Vladimir Putin, on its wanted list. "Hofmanski Piotr Jozef, Polish. Wanted under an article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation," said a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - A British nurse jailed for life for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others will face a retrial on an outstanding charge of attempted murder, prosecutors said on Monday. Lucy Letby, 33, was convicted last month of killing five baby boys and two baby girls,...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said his army had taken delivery of US Abrams battle tanks, boosting Kyiv's forces in their slow-moving counteroffensive against Russian troops. Kyiv announced the push to claw back ground from Russian forces in June after...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States on Monday condemned a deadly clash between authorities in Kosovo and gunmen near the Serbian border which left one officer dead. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on Kosovo and Serbia to avoid any actions or language that could further inflame...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian President Joko Widodo said new regulation on social media commerce could be passed as soon as Tuesday, as Jakarta aims to rein in sales on tech platforms it says are harming local businesses. Indonesian users spent more money on TikTok than anywhere else in Southeast...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Four months after barely avoiding a catastrophic default, the world's largest economy is once again on the verge of a major fiscal crisis. President Joe Biden's Democrats are engaged in a bitter feud with Republican rivals in Congress over spending bills, which, if not...
An aerial view shows smoke billowing from a factory after a fire in Pingtung, southern Taiwan on September 23, 2023. (Photo by Johnson LIU / AFP) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- At least nine people were killed in a fire at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan over the weekend, including four firefighters who...
