BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU and US slammed Belarus Thursday for a series of political raids this week, as rights groups said more than 150 people were detained or interrogated by the KGB security service in a single day. Belarus, ruled by President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994, has...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Britain and the United States on Thursday said they had imposed sanctions on key Huthi figures to protect maritime security in the Red Sea. British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the restrictions "reinforce our clear message to the Huthis in recent weeks,"...
TOKYO, Japan - The cost of the damage wreaked by a huge New Year's Day earthquake that killed at least 236 people in central Japan could reach $17.6 billion, a government official said Friday. The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on...
SEOUL, South Korea - China's vice foreign minister met his North Korean counterpart in Pyongyang on Friday, with the nuclear-armed state accelerating its weapons testing and threats toward Seoul in recent months. Beijing is North Korea's biggest economic benefactor and a traditional ally,...
BOGOTÃ, Colombia - Colombia appealed on Thursday for international aid as it battled dozens of forest fires burning vast swathes of the country and encroaching on homes in the capital. For four consecutive days, hundreds of firefighters and volunteers have fought the inferno tearing through...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Thursday opened a "terrorism" investigation over a military plane crash near the border with Ukraine after it accused Kyiv of downing the aircraft, which it said had more than 60 captured Ukrainian soldiers onboard. The Russian defence and foreign ministries have...
ARNAY-SOUS-VITTEAUX, France - Three lions kept in captivity in Ukraine arrived at a wildlife park in France on Friday, rescued from the war-ravaged country, an AFP reporter said. Atlas, a male, and lionesses Luladja and Queen -- all three around two years old -- arrived early in the day at the...
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 25, 2024 shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un addressing parliament during 19th Politburo Enlargement Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, which was held on...
This file photo taken on June 26, 2014 shows members of civic groups holding banners denouncing the death penalty during a demonstration in front of the Justice Ministry in Tokyo. A Japanese court handed down a death sentence on January 25, 2024 to Shinji Aoba, the perpetrator of a 2019 arson...
People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with a closed-circuit television footage of the scene where South Korean ruling People Power Party's lawmaker Bae Hyun-jin being assaulted in Gangnam district, at a railway station in Seoul on January 25, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)...
(Photo by Genya SAVILOV / AFP) PARIS, France– By flashing a perfect smile, online beauty influencers have proven adept at convincing their young followers that they too can have blindingly white, perfectly aligned teeth for very little money, time or effort. But the teeth whitening or...
Holocaust survivor Margot Friedlander talks with Prince Georg Friedrich Ferdinand of Prussia as they take a seat for a memorial event to honour the late politician Wolfgang Schaeuble at the German lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin on January 22, 2024. Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of the most...
