GENEVA, Switzerland - The Swiss government and the European Commission want to begin talks on a cooperation agreement "without delay", they said in a joint statement Friday. Both parties said they believed a positive outcome was now "within reach" two years after the Swiss suddenly slammed the...
TOKYO, Japan -- A worker at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant has had a high radiation level detected in his nose, authorities said, in a reminder of the hazards involved in cleaning up the facility crippled in 2011. This file picture taken on January 20, 2023 shows the storage tanks for...
BRUSSLES, Belgium - EU leaders agreed Thursday to open talks with Ukraine on joining the bloc, after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban ducked out of his threat to veto the plan. TOPSHOT - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (CL) and France's President Emmanuel Macron (CR) shake hands ahead of...
TOULOUSE, France - A British boy who disappeared in Spain six years ago when he was 11 has been found in a mountainous area in France, prosecutors said on Thursday. The boy, Alex Batty, now 17, was found close to the town of Revel southeast of the southern city of Toulouse, regional prosecutors...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged "victory" in Ukraine on Thursday as he staged an upbeat press conference a week after announcing plans to stay in the Kremlin until at least 2030. This pool photograph distributed by Russia's state agency Sputnik shows Russian President...
WASHINGTON, United States - A federal jury began deliberations on Thursday to determine how much former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani should pay for defaming two Georgia poll workers with his false claims that they engaged in election fraud. Ruby Freeman and her daughter Wandrea "Shaye" Moss are...
HONG KONG, China– Hong Kong police on Thursday issued bounties of HK$1 million for each of five prominent activists currently living overseas, accusing them of national security crimes. All five are living abroad after Beijing imposed a sweeping national security law on the...
MOSCOW, Russia– President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russian had deployed more than 600,000 military personnel in Ukraine, nearly two years after he ordered his troops to capture the capital Kyiv. Kyiv and Moscow are believed to have suffered massive casualties after months of...
BRUSSELS, Belgium– Facebook owner Meta's text-based app Threads arrived in the European Union on Thursday, months after its global launch in July, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. Threads is a spin-off of the Instagram photo app and is intended to be a rival to X, formerly known as...
HANOI, Vietnam - China and Vietnam should oppose any "attempt to mess up Asia-Pacific", President Xi Jinping said Wednesday during a trip to Hanoi, as Beijing seeks to counter expanding US influence with the communist nation. The trip is Xi's first to neighbouring Vietnam in six years, and the...
STRASBOURG, France - EU chief Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday backed imposing sanctions on "extremist" Israeli settlers responsible for attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. "The rise in violence by extremist settlers is inflicting immense suffering on the Palestinians. It undermines the...
OSLO, Norway - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged allies in Europe and the US to continue to back Kyiv, as disputes in Brussels and Washington hold up new aid packages. He was speaking ahead of a meeting with the leaders of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden,...
