RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A cyclone tore through southern Brazil killing at least 13 people and forcing thousands from their homes, authorities said Sunday. Authorities lowered the number of people declared missing amid the violent weather in Rio Grande do Sul state Thursday and...
MPONDWE, Uganda - Grieving families buried their dead in western Uganda on Sunday while others searched desperately for missing loved ones after militants killed dozens of students in a "brutal" school attack. Officials say at least 41 people, mostly students,...
TOKYO, Japan- A new military recruit shot and killed two fellow soldiers and wounded a third at a training range in central Japan on Wednesday, the military said, with the 18-year-old suspect detained at the scene. "During a live-bullet exercise as part of new personnel training, one Self-Defense...
BEIJING, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping reiterated to Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Wednesday his call for a state of Palestine to become a "full member" of the United Nations, state media reported. Xi expressed Beijing's position during a summit with Arab countries in Saudi Arabia in...
KYIV, Ukraine - Deadly Russian missile strikes hit southern and eastern Ukraine on Wednesday, as Kyiv claimed fresh advances in its long-awaited counter-offensive. After Russia fired four Kalibr missiles on the southern port city of Odesa from a warship in the Black Sea, Ukraine's air force said....
WASHINGTON, United States - Secretary of State Antony Blinken will seek to reduce the chances of miscalculation on a rare visit to Beijing, officials said, but both sides expect long-term tensions to fester. The State Department confirmed that Blinken will travel this weekend to Beijing on the...
ATHENS, Greece - At least 78 migrants died after their fishing boat sank off the Peloponnese, Greece's coastguard said Wednesday, as fears mounted that the death toll could rise much higher. Some 100 people were rescued after the boat capsized in international waters in the Ionian Sea in an...
BEIRUT, LEBANON - Lebanese lawmakers on Wednesday failed for a 12th time to elect a new president, as bitter divisions between the Iran-backed Hezbollah and its opponents risk miring the country in a protracted power vacuum. Crisis-hit Lebanon has already been without a head of state for more than...
LUKAVAC, Bosnia - Bosnian police on Wednesday arrested a child who allegedly shot a teacher at an elementary school in the northeastern city of Lukavac, officials and the family of the victim said. The incident comes a month after back-to-back shootings rocked neighbouring Serbia, including a...
WASHINGTON, United States- The latest twist in Donald Trump's attritional war with US law enforcement, as with so much else in the former president's story, throws the United States into unprecedented territory. Facing multiple federal charges over his hoarding of government secrets, the mercurial...
ROME, Italy- Pope Francis is recovering well from a hernia operation but will not appear in public for Sunday's Angelus prayer, his doctor said on Saturday. Francis underwent a three-hour operation at the Gemelli hospital in Rome on Wednesday, the latest health procedure for the 86-year-old leader...
ANNECY, France- The Syrian refugee detained in the stabbing of six people including four young children in the French Alpine town of Annecy has been charged with "attempted murder", a prosecutor said Saturday. Abdalmasih H. "did not wish to speak" during his 48 hours in police custody nor before the...
