TAIPEI, Taiwan– A record eight Chinese balloons have been detected around Taiwan, with two directly flying over the island, Taipei's defence ministry said Saturday. The ministry said the balloons were spotted on Friday, the day before the start of the Lunar New Year holiday, at an...
Paris, France– Removing cars from an expanse around the Eiffel Tower to create a green pathway sounds pretty good on paper, but the mayor of Paris is struggling to win over residents and above all the police force to revamp one of the city's most celebrated views. Thousands of tourists...
AFP/MANILA BULLETIN GENEVA, Switzerland–The war raging in Sudan could leave over 700,000 children severely malnourished this year, the UN said on Friday, warning tens of thousands could die unless aid was dramatically increased. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF urged the...
In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to US talk show host Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 6, 2024. (Photo by Gavriil GRIGOROV / POOL / AFP) WARSAW, Poland– Poland's defence minister...
Thursday's volcanic eruption in Iceland © Sophie RAMIS, Sylvie HUSSON, Jean-Michel CORNU / AFP REYKJAVIK, Iceland– Icelanders were working Friday to get hot water supplies fixed in thousands of houses a day after a third volcanic eruption in two months, as experts said the eruption...
BRUSSELS, Belgium– Social media TikTok on Friday lost a court bid to suspend strict new EU rules designating it a market "gatekeeper", pending a final ruling on the video-sharing app's legal challenge to the law. The landmark European Union law would force major tech firms to change...
TBILISI, Georgia - A gunman killed four people at a market in the southeastern Georgian city of Rustavi, before being detained by police, the Black Sea nation's interior ministry said on Friday. It said the suspect -- identified only as a man born in 1988 -- fired several rounds at a market in...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed Pyongyang would not hesitate to "put an end" to South Korea if attacked, state media said Friday, as relations between the neighbours hit new lows. The nuclear-armed North this year declared South Korea its "principal enemy",...
SHANGHAI, China - Young Chinese flocking home for Lunar New Year this weekend have turned to an AI chatbot game to help train for the most dreaded social interaction of the year -- the dinner table interrogation by nosy relatives. The annual inquisition as extended families gather for China's...
KYIV, Ukraine - The Ukrainian army needs to change its "methods" to win the war against Russia, Kyiv's new commander-in-chief Oleksandr Syrsky said Friday in his first comments in the role. The 58-year-old replaced commander Valery Zaluzhny this week in the biggest shake-up of Ukraine's...
PARIS, France - A man was killed by an electric shock after climbing on top of a stationary Eurostar train in Paris, a police source and prosecutors said Friday. The man crossed over tracks from another platform at the Gare du Nord station to the Eurostar at around 10:00 pm (2100 GMT) on...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The war raging in Sudan could leave over 700,000 children severely malnourished this year, the UN said on Friday, warning tens of thousands could die unless aid was dramatically increased. The United Nations children's agency UNICEF urged the world to stop turning a blind...
