This handout picture released on December 8, 2023 by the Pompeii archaeological park, shows the Regio IX area of the site where a prison-bakery has been discovered, announced the archaeological park on the same day. According to historians the bakery was a space where enslaved people and donkeys...
Environmental activists hold up placards during a demonstration outside the headquarters of BP (formerly British Petroleum) in central London on December 9, 2023, gathering in solidarity with people on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Climate negotiators at the COP28 talks in Dubai are...
BEIJING, China– Deflation in China accelerated in November, official data showed Saturday, underlining the difficulties the world's second-largest economy faces in reviving slowing demand. The figures came after President Xi Jinping said Friday that the Asian giant's post-pandemic...
JAKARTA, Indonesia– A tanker carrying oil from sanctioned Venezuela has run aground near the Singapore strait, according to a ship tracking firm and Indonesian officials. The Cameroon-flagged MT Liberty ship, carrying a cargo of 139,000 tonnes of oil, has been grounded since at least...
This photograph taken on December 9, 2023, shows the cover of a document from the Department of Information of the United Nations, dated March 1949, bearing the "Declaration Universelle des Droits de l'Homme" (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of...
Workers walk on a platform at Union Station in Washington, DC, on November 28, 2023. Old-fashioned, slow, infrequent and often non-existent, trains have long been the poor relation of cars and planes in the United States. President Joe Biden's administration is hoping to change that as it unveils...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living in "utter, deepening horror", the UN human rights chief said Wednesday, as he pleaded for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Volker Turk said there was a high risk of atrocity crimes being committed in such...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The head of the United Nations children's agency condemned on Wednesday acts of sexual violence committed against women during Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel -- a condemnation that Israel deemed insufficient. Anger over the accusations of rape and other sexual...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The European Union will seek to thrash out an agreement on sweeping rules to regulate artificial intelligence on Wednesday, following months of difficult negotiations in particular on how to monitor generative AI like ChatGPT. The EU is racing to approve the world's first...
Kyiv, Ukraine - Kyiv said Wednesday that Moscow had launched dozens of Iranian-designed attack drones towards Ukraine overnight from southern Russia and the annexed Crimean peninsula, in its latest aerial barrage. Officials in Kyiv say Russian forces have been stockpiling drones and missiles...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Boris Johnson on Wednesday apologised for "the pain and the loss and the suffering" caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, as he gave evidence at a public inquiry into his government's handling of the global health crisis. The former prime minister, who has faced a barrage...
ROME, Italy - Italy has withdrawn from China's vast Belt and Road infrastructure initiative, more than four years after becoming the only G7 nation to sign up, a government source said Wednesday. The long-expected decision was communicated to Beijing three days ago, according to Italian...
