Rescue workers gather at the site after a tunnel collapsed in the Uttarkashi district of India's Uttarakhand state on November 13, 2023. Rescue workers in northern India said on November 13 they had made contact with 40 workers trapped for over 24 hours after the road tunnel they were building...
MOSCOW, Russia– Russia has sent the first of its promised shipments of free grain to Africa, the country's agriculture minister said Friday. "The first two ships have already left Russian ports for Somalia and Burkina Faso. We expect them to arrive in late November to early December,"...
SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE– Singapore and Indonesia launched cross-border payment services Friday, the countries' central banks said, as part of a regional drive to boost connectivity. Customers of a dozen banks in Singapore and Indonesia will now be able to make payments to merchants in both...
HIGH-STAKES SUMMIT – US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California on November 15, 2023. (AFP) SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- US President Joe Biden...
LONDON, United Kingdom - British newspaper The Guardian has removed from its website a 21-year-old message written by Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, after it was shared several million times on social media. Bin Laden's "Letter to America" began being shared on TikTok on Tuesday, sparking a...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday voiced optimism about a recent meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo from AFP) "We understand that this fact is good for us -- their meeting,"...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The UN's top court on Thursday ruled that Syria must stop its torture programme that investigators say killed tens of thousands, in the first international case over the brutal civil war that began in 2011. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad (Photo from AFP) The...
BEIJING, China - Chinese leader Xi Jinping warned US President Joe Biden at a summit to stop arming Taiwan, but agreed to restart high-level military-to-military talks, Beijing said Thursday. US President Joe Biden (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the...
LONDON, United Kingdom - King Charles III on Sunday led Britain in a two-minute silence to honour its war dead in his first remembrance service since being crowned, a day after violence marred commemorations. Britain's King Charles III (C) leads members of the Royal Family during the National...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU on Sunday condemned Hamas for using "hospitals and civilians as human shields" in Gaza, while also urging Israel to show "maximum restraint" to protect civilians from the war it is waging. Gaza Bombing (Photo from AFP) "The EU is gravely concerned about the deepening...
PARIS, France - More than 180,000 people turned out on Sunday to march against anti-Semitism in France, after a surge in anti-Jewish incidents across the country in the wake of the Israel-Hamas conflict. A group of counter-demonstrators from left-wing Jewish organisation Golem attempt to prevent...
BARCELONA, Spain - A celebratory light show graced the newest towers of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia basilica on Sunday as the iconic attraction moves closer to completion 141 years after construction started. The Sagrada Familia basilica's towers of the Evangelists are lit up for the first time,...
