WASHINGTON, United State - A US federal appeals court on Wednesday imposed restrictions on a widely used abortion pill, but the ruling will remain on hold as the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case. The ruling by a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals...
MADRID, Spain - Around 250 firefighters on Wednesday battled a wildfire raging "out of control" on Spain's holiday island of Tenerife that forced road closures and the evacuation of five villages, officials said. The fire, which broke out on Tuesday night, was raging through a forested area with...
OTTAWA, Canada -- China -- a major source of outbound tourists -- has left Canada off a list of countries now approved for travel by tour groups, its embassy in Ottawa said Wednesday, due to anti-Beijing rattling by Ottawa. Last week Beijing lifted a Covid-era ban on group tours to dozens of...
JERUSALEM, Aug. 14-- An international team of astronomers has discovered a hot Jupiter with an extreme temperature difference between its two sides, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy. "Hot Jupiter" is a term used by astronomers to describe a category of...
HANOI, Aug. 15 -- Vietnamese capital city Hanoi has reported 3,180 dengue fever cases so far this year, surging 5.7 times year-on-year, local newspaper Vietnam News reported on Tuesday. The city could become the country's hotspot for dengue fever due to its high population density and rapid...
Fishing boats sail to protest against Japan's planned discharge of radioactive wastewater into the ocean, in waters off Incheon, South Korea on Aug. 14, 2023. (Xinhua/Wang Yiliang) SEOUL, South Korea -- A group of South Korean fishing boats on Monday staged a maritime parade in...
ATLANTA, United States– Prosecutors investigating Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in the US state of Georgia presented evidence to a grand jury Monday for what could be a sprawling, multi-defendant indictment. The case would be the fourth brought against the...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- July 2023 was hotter than any other month in the global temperature record since 1880, according to analysis released by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) on Monday. People cool themselves at...
This photo released by the County of Maui on Aug. 10, 2023 shows houses destroyed in a devastating wildfire on Maui Island, Hawaii, the United States. (County of Maui/Handout via Xinhua) LOS ANGELES, United States -- Josh Green, the governor of US state of Hawaii, warned in an...
This photo released by the County of Maui on Aug. 10, 2023 shows houses destroyed in a devastating wildfire on Maui Island, Hawaii, the United States. (County of Maui/Handout via Xinhua) LOS ANGELES, United States -- As the death toll rose to 96 in the wildfires in Hawaii's Maui...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC) experts have recovered more than 2,000 pieces of war-era unexploded ordnance (UXO) buried on a school campus in northeastern Kratie province, a mine clearance chief said on Monday. REMNANTS OF WAR -- This handout photo taken...
A woman casts her vote at a polling station during the state election in Selayang, Malaysia's Selangor state on August 12, 2023. (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia– Malaysians in six states went to the polls Saturday to vote for state assembly members in elections...
