WASHINGTON, United States—The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved a stopgap measure to avert a damaging election-year government shutdown, extending funding for several key federal agencies past a weekend deadline. US House of Representatives (AFP/File) Five months into the...
MADRID, Spain—Spain's top court said on Thursday it was opening an investigation into Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont on "terrorism" charges over protests linked to Catalonia's failed 2017 independence bid. Protesters clash with Spanish policemen on the highway leading to El Prat...
This handout photograph taken and released by Reliance on February 28, 2024, shows Mukesh Ambani (C), chairman at Reliance Industries with his son Anant Ambani (4R) attending to guests during Anna Seva (community food service) to seek blessings from various community members for the pre-wedding...
WASHINGTON, United States–The United States is launching an investigation into the national security risks of "connected vehicles," focusing in particular on China-made technology, the US government said Thursday, as worries over data security grow. The latest probe concerns vehicles...
Members of the League of Social Democrats hold up a banner which reads "Without democracy, there can be no livelihood, "Put the people above the country, human rights above the regime. There can be no national security without democracy and human rights." outside the Central Government offices in...
A woman walks past a screen displaying a broadcasting of Russia's President Vladimir Putin's annual state of the nation address on the facade of a building in Moscow on February 29, 2024. (Photo by Olga MALTSEVA / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia– President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday of a "real"...
This handout taken on February 28, 2024 and released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) on February 29, 2024 shows a drone landing during the "primary containment vessel internal investigation" of Unit 1 at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture. The...
Israeli flags are placed around pictures of hostages in Gaza, at the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC, on February 26, 2024. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that an invasion of Rafah in far-southern Gaza would "put the final nail in the coffin" of aid operations, after Israel...
US singer Taylor Swift (2nd L) and her father Scott Kingsley Swift (R) look on as they watch the Kansas City Chiefs play the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on December 17, 2023. Australian police said they were investigating a 71-year-old man for the alleged...
This picture taken on January 26, 2024 in a train station of Chuo district in Tokyo shows a poster of Satoshi Kirishima, who was a member of The East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical leftist organization responsible for bombing attacks in Japan's capital in the 1970s. DNA analysis has...
A police officer puts handcuffs on Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old human rights campaigner and co-chair of the Nobel Prize winning Memorial group, after Orlov was sentenced to two and a half years in jail on charges of repeatedly "discrediting" the Russian army, in Moscow on February 27, 2024. (Photo...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—A French journalist has been arrested and detained in Ethiopia since February 22 on suspicion of conspiring "to create chaos" in the country, his employer announced on Monday. File photo: A man waves an Ethiopian flag as he joins others gathering in Addis Ababa,...
