WASHINGTON, United States - A man who crashed a U-Haul truck containing a Nazi flag near the White House has been arrested and charged with trying to kill or harm the president, police said Tuesday. The driver apparently drove deliberately into bollards...
WASHINGTON, United States- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, vowing to lead Americans into a new era of success and fight for their freedoms -- though a planned launch event with Elon Musk was marred by glitches. "I'm Ron DeSantis and I'm...
SYDNEY, Australia - A 95-year-old great-grandmother died Wednesday a week after being tasered by an Australian police officer inside her nursing home, police said. Clare Nowland had been in critical condition in hospital since being shot with an electronic stun gun on May 17 in a confrontation that...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan - A suicide bomber killed four people when he detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in a marketplace in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said. Pakistan is grappling with an uptick in militancy since the Taliban returned to power in neighbouring Afghanistan,...
HERAT, Afghanistan - Six people have been killed and dozens of homes washed away in flooding in central Afghanistan, local authorities said Wednesday. Abdul Wahid Hamas, a spokesman for the Taliban governor in central Ghor province, said three women and a child were killed when their house in the...
LOS ANGELES, United States - Typhoon Mawar roared over the US territory of Guam on Wednesday, bringing destructive winds to the Pacific military outpost. The eye of the storm passed just north of the island, its governor said, after forecasters had warned that winds of up to 140 miles per hour (225...
BEIJING, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping offered Beijing's support on Moscow's "core interests" at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on Wednesday. China and Russia have in recent years ramped up economic and diplomatic cooperation, growing even closer since Moscow's...
OSLO, Norway - The world's biggest warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, arrived in Oslo on Wednesday for a stopover criticised by neighbouring Russia as an "illogical and harmful" show of force. The 337-metre (1,106-foot)Â nuclear-powered ship with a displacement of more than 100,000...
SAO PAULO, Brazil - Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, has declared a nationwide "animal health emergency" after confirming eight cases of avian flu in wild birds, authorities said. The 180-day measure was announced Monday night by the agriculture ministry. It said in a statement...
HONG KONG, China - A Patek Philippe wristwatch once owned by China's last emperor sold for more than $6 million at auction in Hong Kong on Tuesday. The Ref 96 Quantieme Lune timepiece, which boasts a crown-like moon phase, originally belonged to Aisin-Gioro Puyi, the final monarch of the...
NEW YORK, United States - A frustrated-looking Donald Trump appeared in a New York court via video-link Tuesday to be informed by a judge that he cannot post certain evidence in his criminal case on social media. Trump denies 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up alleged hush...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The world is failing to protect civilians as the number of people caught up in conflicts and their humanitarian aftershocks skyrocketed last year, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Tuesday. In 2022, the United Nations tallied a 53 percent increase in...
