SHANGHAI, China - Chinese police have shut down 34,000 online accounts and punished more than 6,300 people for allegedly spreading rumours as part of a crackdown launched in April, state media reported on Friday. The Chinese internet is tightly controlled by the ruling Communist Party, and...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - Several EU nations, led by France, on Friday rejected a reform that supporters argue would improve conditions for app workers in the gig economy. The European Parliament and member states on December 13 agreed on a reform that could have been the world's first covering...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The Red Cross said Friday that it had appointed Pierre Krahenbuhl, a controversial former head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, as its director-general. The Swiss national, with more than 30 years of experience in the humanitarian sector, will take over in...
BEIJING, China - The toll from China's deadliest earthquake in years rose to 148 on Friday, state media reported, as authorities turned their attention to resettling thousands of people displaced by the disaster. The quake, which struck northwest China just before midnight on Monday, has...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Czech authorities sought a motive Friday in a student's gun attack that killed 13 people at a Prague university, where tearful mourners have left a sea of candles to grieve for the victims. The gunfire Thursday at the Charles University's Faculty of Arts sparked...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States said Friday it will sanction foreign banks that support Russia's war in Ukraine, in a new bid to exert economic pressure on Moscow as it diversifies from the West to China. Under an executive order to be signed Friday by President Joe Biden, the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Poland's new foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski vowed Warsaw's support for Ukraine as he met Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Kyiv on Friday on his first trip abroad since taking office. The visit signals the new Polish government's promises of support for Ukraine,...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - A 24-year-old student killed 14 people and wounded 25 at a Prague university on Thursday in the Czech Republic's worst shooting in decades, before authorities said the attacker was "eliminated". Armed police are seen on the balcony of the Charles University in central...
NEW YORK, United States - Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, filed for bankruptcy on Thursday, just days after being ordered to pay $148 million in damages for defaming two Georgia poll workers. Rudy Giuliani, the former personal lawyer for former US president Donald Trump,...
KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian drone attack hit a residential building and injured at least two people in Kyiv on Thursday, authorities said, in a rare breach of the Ukrainian capital's air defences. This handout photograph taken and released by Ukrainian State Emergency Service on December 21, 2023,...
WASHINGTON, United States– The White House said Thursday it was preparing a new proposal to Russia to seek the release of two imprisoned Americans after Moscow rejected an earlier attempt. "We're working hard to see what we can do to get another proposal that might be more successful,"...
A man walks past a collapsed house in Dahejia in Jishishan County in northwest China's Gansu province on December 20, 2023. Survivors of China's deadliest earthquake in years huddled in aid tents on December 20 after overnight temperatures plunged well below zero, with the death toll rising to 131....
