LONDON, United Kingdom - Prince Harry was back on the stand for a second day of cross-examination in a London court on Wednesday, the first British royal in more than a century to give evidence on the witness stand. The younger son of King Charles III is testifying against a tabloid publisher for...
MADRID, Spain - Spain has experienced its hottest spring in over 60 years of recordkeeping, with average temperatures almost two degrees Celsius above average, the national weather agency reported Wednesday. The country also saw its second driest-ever spring on record, behind that of 1995, the...
ROME, Italy - Pope Francis will undergo an operation for a painful abdominal hernia on Wednesday, reviving concerns over the 86-year-old's increasingly fragile health. Francis was admitted mid-morning to the Gemelli hospital in Rome, where he is expected to stay for several days. The 86-year-old,...
KHERSON, Ukraine - An attack on a major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine on Tuesday unleashed a torrent of water that flooded two dozen villages and forced the evacuation of 17,000 people, sparking fears of a humanitarian disaster. Washington warned there would be "likely many...
UNITED NATIONS, United States- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday that the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine was "another devastating consequence" of Russia's invasion of its neighbor. An attack on the major Russian-held dam in southern Ukraine...
WASHINGTON, United States- A conservative US think tank urged a federal judge on Tuesday to order the release of the immigration records of Britain's Prince Harry, who was awarded a visa despite the admission in his memoir that he had used illegal drugs. Lawyers for the Washington-based...
KVIY, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Vatican peace envoy on Tuesday that a ceasefire would not lead to peace and any deal to end the conflict should be on Ukrainian terms. Pope Francis's peace envoy to Ukraine, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, met with Zelensky during a...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said Tuesday dozens of its soldiers were killed when repelling a long-awaited Ukrainian offensive, a rare admission of losses among Moscow's forces. "For three days, the Ukrainian regime has launched a long-promised offensive in different sectors of the front," Russia's...
ROME, Italy -Pope Francis visited a Rome hospital for a medical check-up on Tuesday, the Vatican said, just over two months after he was hospitalised with bronchitis. "This morning Pope Francis went to the Gemelli Polyclinic to undergo some clinical tests and returned to the Vatican before noon,"...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said the "world must react" to the Kakhovka dam attack, blaming Russia for the breach which has caused extensive flooding. "The world must react," he said on social media, adding that Russia had carried out "an internal explosion of...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Prince Harry on Tuesday said he had suffered lifelong "press invasion" and accused some media of having blood on their hands, as he became the first royal in more than 100 years to give evidence in court. Harry, 38, said he had been the victim of relentless and distressing...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti  - An earthquake shook parts of western Haiti on Tuesday, killing at least three people and injuring more than two dozen others, civil protection authorities said. The magnitude 4.9 quake occurred in the isolated Grand'Anse department nearly 300 kilometers (185...
