ISTANBUL, Turkey - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to stand up to "imperialist" forces as he led Turkish centenary celebrations in the shadow of Israel's escalating war with Hamas militants in Gaza. People walk around Eminonu square in Istanbul on October 29, 2023, during...
WASHINGTON, United States- Israel must protect innocent Gaza residents by distinguishing between Hamas militants and civilians, the White House warned Sunday, as world leaders stepped up calls for desperately needed humanitarian aid to reach the war-torn Palestinian territory. Israel has...
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Acapulco was struggling Sunday to recover from the extraordinarily powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed 48 lives across southern Mexico and provoked widespread power, water and telephone outages. TOPSHOT - Aerial view of damages caused by the passage of Hurricane Otis in Puerto...
GENEVA, Switzerland– The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk warned on Saturday that there was the potential for thousands more civilians to die as Israel presses a ground operation in Gaza. "Given the manner in which military operations have been conducted until now, in...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (center left) and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (center right) look on during a meeting at the US Department of State in Washington, DC, on October 27, 2023. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States– The United States and China agreed...
Graphic content / Flares are fired from northern Israel over the southern Lebanese border village of Aita al-Shaab, on October 28,2023. Nearly 29,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid deadly exchanges between Iran-backed Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli army, a United Nations agency said...
Police stand guard along a road in central Dhaka on October 28, 2023, ahead of the Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami plan to hold a major rally banned by police to demand the restoration of the caretaker government. (Photo by Munir uz ZAMAN / AFP) DHAKA, Bangladesh– Police fired tear gas...
People take part in Taiwan's annual LGBTQ Pride Parade, set off from Taipei City Hall in Taipei on October 28, 2023. (Photo by I-Hwa CHENG / AFP) TAIPEI, Taiwan– Rainbow-coloured flags filled the streets of Taiwan's capital as tens of thousands took part in Asia's largest Pride parade...
This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on October 24, 2023 shows the wreckage of a jeep (bottom), which was swept away during its crossing of a stream while carrying four South Korean tourists who were later found dead, in Vietnam's Da Lat resort city in Lam Dong province....
Palestinians walk past a building damaged in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis on the southern Gaza Strip on October 24, 2023. Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians and Israelis, have died since October 7, 2023, after Palestinian Hamas militants based in the Gaza Strip entered southern Israel...
GENEVA, Switzerland– The United Nations human rights chief on Tuesday said he was "deeply disappointed" that Australians had roundly rejected greater rights for Indigenous citizens in a referendum. Speaking after observing the week of silence called for by many Indigenous leaders...
Former US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he takes a break during his civil fraud trial in New York City on October 18, 2023. Former president Donald Trump returned to his New York civil fraud trial on October 17, 2023 and complained about a partial gag order imposed on him by a judge...
