BAGHDAD, Iraq - A former Iraqi religious official convicted of corruption has escaped police custody, prompting the arrest of more than two dozen officers suspected of helping him flee, the government said Wednesday. Saad Qambash was once head of Iraq's Sunni Waqf, the state body overseeing...
A five-year-old Filipino-American died after members of a gang shot at the vehicle she and her family were riding in, mistaking it for their rival gang's car, in Fremont, California. In a CBC report, California Highway Patrol Capt. Ezery Beauchamp said the victim, Eliyanah Crisostomo, and her family...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization voiced concern Tuesday at courts limiting the right of women to access safe abortion services, following fresh legal manoeuvres in the United States. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said restricting access to safe abortion methods...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization on Tuesday warned the Covid pandemic was still volatile, saying there could be further trouble before the virus settles into a predictable pattern. In the last 28 days, more than 23,000 deaths and three million new cases have been reported...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met troops in a frontline town Tuesday, a day after Russian leader Vladimir Putin visited occupied zones as Kyiv builds up to an expected counteroffensive. While 45-year-old Zelensky spoke with soldiers in the heavily...
NEW YORK, United States- At least one person died and four were rushed to hospital after a multi-story parking garage in New York City collapsed on Tuesday, emergency responders said. Aerial video footage circulating on social media showed cars piled on top of one another in a...
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Explosions shook Sudan's capital Tuesday evening despite claims of a ceasefire on the fourth day of fighting that has killed nearly 200. A weeks-long power struggle erupted into battles Saturday between the forces of two generals who seized power in a 2021 coup: army chief...
LONDRES, United Kingdom -Â Move over Coronation Chicken, there's a new culinary concoction with UK royal approval for the crowning of King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla -- "Coronation Quiche". Â Seven decades after the lightly curried chicken dish was created for Queen Elizabeth II's...
HELSINKI, Finland - Hours after Germany closed out its atomic era by turning off its last three nuclear reactors, the largest single reactor in Europe entered regular production in Finland, its operator said Sunday. The next-generation Olkiluoto 3, now producing...
NEW YORK, United States- US authorities arrested two men Monday for allegedly setting up a Chinese "police station" in New York and charged dozens of Chinese security officials over a campaign to monitor and harass US-based dissidents. The arrests of Harry Lu Jianwang, 61, and Chen Jinping,...
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Fighting between the army and paramilitaries in Sudan has killed around 200 people and wounded 1,800, damaging hospitals and hampering aid on Monday after three days of urban warfare. A weeks-long power struggle exploded into deadly violence Saturday between the forces of...
WASHINGTON, United States - At least four people were killed and more than 20 others injured, mostly teens, in a Saturday night shooting at a birthday party in Alabama, officials said, in the latest spasm of American gun mass violence. Local news reports said the shooting occurred...
