KYIV, Ukraine - US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Monday, in a bid to stem Kyiv's concerns that support from its biggest ally could waver. The United States has provided over $40 billion of security aid to Ukraine since Russia's invasion and pledged to...
PARIS, France - The global average temperature on Friday was more than two degrees Celsius hotter than pre-industrial levels for the first time on record, Europe's Copernicus climate monitor said Monday. Months of extraordinary heat is expected to make 2023 the hottest year in history, with...
A Palestinian medic cares for premature babies evacuated from Al Shifa hospital to the Emirates hospital in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 19, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. (AFP) RAFAH, Palestinian Territories -- Palestinian...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, the wife of former president Jimmy Carter, died Sunday at 96 at the couple's home in the southern state of Georgia, their nonprofit organization announced. Former US president Jimmy Carter receives a kiss from his wife...
WASHINGTON, United States -- If either Joe Biden or Donald Trump prevails in the November 2024 US elections, the next president will be the oldest in history to take the oath of office. Donald Trump (AFP) But while Biden's age and public slips and stumbles have been more widely scrutinized...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Joe Biden will turn 81 on Monday with the traditional pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys at the White House, but don't expect him to mention the issue that has US voters in a flap. US President Joe Biden turns 81. (AFP) His birthday will turn an...
Argentine congressman and presidential candidate for La Libertad Avanza Alliance Javier Milei gestures after casting his vote at a polling station in Buenos Aires, during the presidential election runoff on November 19, 2023. (Photo by Luis ROBAYO / AFP) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina --...
ANKARA, Turkey - A Turkish cargo ship and its 12 crew are missing in a storm off the northwest coast of the country, Turkish authorities said Sunday. The Kafkametler vessel sent out a distress signal at 10:29 am (0729 GMT), according to a subdivision of the ministry of transport, which added that...
HODEIDA, Yemen - Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels said on Sunday they had seized an Israeli ship in the Red Sea, a claim immediately denied by Israel. Yemenis march during a rally in support of Palestinians on November 18, 2023, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement...
PARIS, France - France is preparing to send its Dixmude helicopter carrier to the eastern Mediterranean to offer medical assistance in war-torn Gaza, the office of the French president said Sunday. The Dixmude will set sail "at the start of the week and arrive in Egypt in the coming days,"...
A man checks the damage inside a burned-out house, in the aftermath of an Israeli raid on the refugee camp of Balata, east of the occupied West Bank town of Nablus on November 19, 2023. Five fighters in the armed wing of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement were killed in a rare...
Police and officials stand at the entrance of the under construction road tunnel tha collapsed in Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on November 17, 2023, as resuce operations continue to reach the 40 men trapped inside the tunnel. Indian rescuers said on November 17 they had drilled...
