CHASIV YAR, Ukraine- Lyudmila Gaidai celebrated Easter last year with her children around her kitchen table, but Russian forces have shelled her town in east Ukraine so heavily, the church closed this year and everyone fled. In her cluttered and darkened kitchen -- its blown-out...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A fire in a residential building in Dubai has killed 16 people and injured nine others, the Gulf emirate's government said on Sunday. The fire broke out at midday on Saturday on the fourth floor of the building in the Al-Ras neighbourhood in the old part...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday condemned clashes in Sudan that have left dozens of civilians dead including three workers for the global body's food agency, demanding swift justice over the killings. Guterres "strongly condemns the deaths and...
NAIROBI, Kenya- The independent Committee to Protect Journalists and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission have condemned a swathe of arrests of journalists, including some sympathetic to the Amhara ethnic group. In a statement the CPJ said "at least eight journalists" had been arrested since April...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Three Sudanese civilians were killed Saturday as fighting raged between the regular army and paramilitaries in Khartoum and other cities, the doctors' union said. In a statement on Facebook, the medics said "two people were killed in Khartoum airport" and another person was killed...
HANOI, Vietnam- The United States and Vietnam said Saturday they hoped to upgrade diplomatic ties, days after a flare-up in tensions with China over Taiwan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, passing through Hanoi on his way to a Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' meeting in Japan, met...
MOSCOW, Russia- Russia on Saturday claimed advances on the northern and southern outskirts of Ukraine's embattled city of Bakhmut, the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle of Moscow's military campaign. Russian troops have been battling since last summer to capture the town in eastern Ukraine,...
BEIJING, China - Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is set to forge closer ties with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Beijing on Friday, a day after he lashed out at the power of the US dollar and the IMF. The veteran leftist, whose government recently announced a deal with...
TUNIS, Tunisia - A professional footballer in Tunisia has died after setting himself alight earlier this week in what he said was a protest against the "police state" ruling the country, his brother said Friday. Nizar Issaoui, 35, suffered third-degree burns from his action in the village of...
LONDON, United Kingdom - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday denounced a video purporting to show the beheading of a Ukrainian prisoner of war, saying those responsible should be brought to book. Downing Street said Sunak told Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in a call that the footage...
WASHINGTON, United States - A 21-year-old national guardsman was due to appear in court on Friday, authorities said, after he was arrested on suspicion of leaking a trove of sensitive US government secrets. Jack Teixeira, an employee of the US Air Force National Guard, was to make an initial...
DUBLIN, Ireland - US President Joe Biden was winding down an emotive visit to Ireland with a visit Friday to the Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in Knock, before delving deeper into his Irish family history. The Irish-American Democrat was wrapping up a three-day trip with an outdoors address to...
