WASHINGTON, United States- A US woman who faced a charge of abusing a corpse after she suffered a miscarriage will not be criminally indicted, a grand jury decided Thursday, US media reported. The unusual case, which sparked an outcry amid a nationwide row over abortion rights, began when Brittany...
WASHINGTON, United States- The United States and Britain struck Huthi rebels over the Iran-backed group's attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, US media reported Thursday, as witnesses reported air strikes in Yemeni cities. The strikes involved fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles, several US media...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico- Bullfighting will make a comeback in Mexico City this month after a legal tussle led to a more than one-year suspension at the world's largest bullring, organizers announced Thursday. TOPSHOT - View of the Plaza de Toros Mexico in Mexico City on January 11, 2024. The Supreme...
A Filipino couple died in a car accident in Michigan on Jan. 6. According to a report posted on GoFundMe at 1:30 a.m., Ryan and Jen Ambrosio perished after their car collided head-on with a stolen truck as they were heading home from a date night. The couple left behind their six children aged two...
TOPSHOT - This undated picture taken by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and released on January 10, 2024 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (C) inspecting a major munitions factory to learn about the production of weapons and equipment at an undisclosed location in North...
Chinese visitors take photos with Chinese flags, with Taiwan’s Kinmen Island as a background, on the beach at Xiamen, in China’s southeast Fujian province, on January 11, 2024, two days before Taiwan’s Presidential election. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) BEIJING, China– China on Thursday...
People hold placards as they take part in an interfaith protest in solidarity with Palestinian people outside the High Court in Cape Town on January 11, 2024. Dozens of people took to the streets in Cape Town on January 11, 2024, in one of several demonstrations planned across South Africa in...
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop of Washington, speaks to reporters outside the Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle in Washington, DC, April 3 2005. Wisconsin Judge, David Reddy, on January 10, 2024, suspended McCarrick's sexual abuse trial, court records showed. But after McCarrick, 93,...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Misinformation and disinformation are the leading short-term risks in 2024, the World Economic Forum (WEF) warned in a new report released on Wednesday ahead of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF's Global Risks Report 2024 also emphasized that...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Holiday gatherings and the globally dominant JN.1 variant fueled the spread of Covid-19 across the world in December, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday. World Health Organization headquarters in Geneva. (Xinhua) Almost 10,000 deaths...
CANBERRA, Australia -- Record-high global temperatures in 2023 exacerbated droughts, floods and wildfires, an Australian-led international research has found. Unprecedented floodings have been seen in countries around the world following incessant rains and other weather conditions. The...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Xinhua) JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Israel "has no intention" of maintaining the occupation of Gaza or displacing civilians. Netanyahu made the remarks a day before the opening of...
