MADRID, Spain- Spain will invest 1.3 billion euros ($1.43 billion) in vocational training to fight youth unemployment, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said Saturday. The measure will create 824 new training centres for digital skills, 45,000 vocational training places and 1,500 classrooms for...
WASHINGTON, United States- Washington's political and media elites observe their annual truce -- of a few hours -- Saturday at the White House Correspondents Association dinner, where President Joe Biden will find himself the butt of jokes and hit back with his own. The ritual is a landmark on the...
BUDAPEST, Hungary- Pope Francis called for a recovery of the European spirit and a rejection of "adolescent belligerence" amid rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, during his visit to Budapest Friday. The pontiff's three-day trip started with a meeting with Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Three Pakistani soldiers and seven militants were killed in multiple clashes in the country's restive northwest, the military said on Friday. The clashes occurred in the Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which shares a border with Afghanistan. In one...
UMAN, Ukraine - Russian strikes battered cities across Ukraine early Friday, killing at least 19 people as Kyiv said preparations for a highly anticipated offensive against Moscow's forces were nearly complete. The barrage of almost two dozen missiles overnight ended a weeks-long pause following...
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - A human rights group in Burkina Faso reported Friday that the toll from a village massacre carried out by men in army uniform was more than double the official figure of 60 dead. Armed men dressed in the fatigues of the country's armed forces slaughtered villagers at...
KINSHASA- DR Congo's spending auditor has pointed to massive public payroll fraud, with tens of thousands of apparently fictitious employees costing the country an estimated $794 million a year. In a statement dated Thursday, the Inspection Generale des Finances (IGF), the official spending...
KIGALI, Rwanda - A transgender Rwandan fashion designer, who counted President Paul Kagame among their customers, has been detained on forgery accusations after claiming their passport has been changed to reflect their gender, police said Friday. Moses Turahirwa, 35, was taken into custody on...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations voiced alarm Friday at the prison breaks amid the violence raging in Sudan that have seen Sudanese war crimes suspects escape, and deepening impunity. The UN also warned that the conflict was reigniting ethnic clashes in the western Darfur region which had...
FLEEING KHARTOUM -- People flee the southern part of Khartoum as street battles between the army and paramilitaries continue, on April 27, 2023. (AFP) KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudanese fighter jets pounded paramilitaries in Khartoum on Thursday while deadly fighting and looting...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Weeks after a health scare, Pope Francis heads to Hungary Friday to meet Ukrainian refugees and nationalist leader Viktor Orban, with whom he has not always seen eye to eye. The 86-year-old pontiff spent three nights in hospital with bronchitis at the end...
SINGAPORE, Singapore - Singapore hanged a prisoner on Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, despite rights groups decrying "many flaws" in the case. Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged in defiance of a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office...
