WASHINGTON, United States -- Veteran Senator Dianne Feinstein, a titan of US political history who notched a string of legislative achievements during a trailblazing three-decade career in the Senate, has died at 90 years old, US media said Friday. US Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of...
QUETTA, PAKISTAN -More than 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday by a suicide bomber targeting a procession marking the birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, officials said. Volunteers shift a blast victim on a stretcher at a hospital in Quetta...
TUNIS, TUNISIA - The jailed leader of Tunisian opposition party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, 82, began a hunger strike on Friday to protest his detention and express support for other "political prisoners", his party said. The head of Tunisia's Islamist-inspired Ennahdha party, Rached Ghannouchi,...
This aerial photo taken on Feb. 4, 2023 shows the Quanzhou Bay cross-sea bridge, a part of the Fuzhou-Xiamen-Zhangzhou high-speed railway, in southeast China's Fujian Province. (Xinhua) FUZHOU, China -- China's fastest cross-sea high-speed rail started operation on Thursday, with...
A staff of a small shoe manufacturer shows their new products to make an introductory video to be posted on social media in Bogor, West Java on September 27, 2023. Indonesia has banned goods transactions on social media platforms such as TikTok, Facebook or Instagram in a new regulation, its trade...
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event with the Ukrainian-Canadian community and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, not pictured, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on September 22, 2023. Canada's prime minister said on September 25, 2023, the singling out of a Ukrainian...
Founder and CEO of Meta Platforms Inc. Mark Zuckerberg laughs as he uses a childhood photo of him to demonstrate new technology during the Meta Connect Developer Conference at Meta's headquarters in Menlo Park, California on Wednesday September 27, 2023. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP) MENLO...
SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea's rubber-stamp legislature has enshrined the country's status as a nuclear weapons power in the constitution, state media reported Thursday. "The DPRK's nuclear force-building policy has been made permanent as the basic law of the state, which no one is...
BEIJING, China -- The APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting, slated for November in the United States this year, is supposed to be a stage for promoting cooperation, instead of a wrestling ground for provoking confrontations, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Tuesday. China's Foreign...
The US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2019. The Moody's ratings agency warned on September 25, 2023, that a US government shutdown this weekend, amid political deadlock in Congress, would have negative implications for the country's top tier credit rating. Just four months after...
Beijing, China– North Korea will allow foreign nationals to enter the country from Monday, Chinese state media reported, after over three years of Covid-induced isolation. North Korea has been largely closed off from the outside world since early 2020, when it shut its borders in...
PARIS, France– An anti-Covid drug widely used across the world may have caused mutations in the virus, researchers said on Monday, but there was no evidence that the changes had led to more dangerous variants. Pharmaceutical giant Merck's antiviral pill molnupiravir was one of the...
