MOSCOU, Russia - Russia said it would evacuate hundreds of children from villages due to intensifying shelling in the border region of Belgorod, where the situation was deemed "alarming" by the Kremlin. Russia has seen intensifying attacks on its soil over a year into its Ukraine campaign, with an...
COPENHAGEN Denmark - More than 1,000 attacks on health care systems in Ukraine have been recorded since the start of the Russian invasion, more than in any other humanitarian emergency, the WHO said Tuesday. The attacks have impacted health providers, supplies, facilities...
WASHINGTON, United States- Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter, the 95-year-old wife of former president Jimmy Carter, has dementia, the Carter family said Tuesday. "She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains (Georgia) and visits with loved...
SK Bioscience, a global biotech company, has obtained Marketing Authorization (MA) from the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) for its Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovion. The authorization establishes SKYCovion as a primary series vaccine for individuals aged 18 and...
KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Monday signed into law a controversial anti-gay bill, his office and the country's parliament said, introducing draconian measures against homosexuality that have been described as among the world's harshest. Museveni "has...
PARIS, France- Countries grappling with the "immense" task of ending plastic pollution began a new round of talks in Paris on Monday, amid protests and warnings of the urgency to act.  Representatives of 175 nations with divergent ambitions met at the UNESCO headquarters with...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A harness-wearing Beluga whale that turned up in Norway in 2019, sparking speculation it was a spy trained by the Russian navy, has appeared off Sweden's coast, an organisation following him said Monday. First discovered in Norway's far northern...
OTTAWA, Canada - More than 16,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in Canada's eastern province of Nova Scotia, officials said Monday, as one of hundreds of wildfires raging across the country threatened the city of Halifax. The fire, still burning out of control along the...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Sunday appealed for humanitarian organisations to be given access to areas hit by a deadly cyclone which tore through parts of Myanmar and Bangladesh two weeks ago. "I appeal to those responsible to facilitate the access of humanitarian aid," the...
ANKARA, Turkey- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday called for "unity and solidarity" after narrowly winning a historic election runoff that extended his two-decade rule until 2028. "We should come together in unity and solidarity," Erdogan told a sea of supporters outside his...
ISTANBUL, Turkey- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appealed for national unity Monday after winning a historic runoff election that extended two decades of his transformative but divisive rule until 2028. The 69-year-old overcame Turkey's worst economic crisis in a generation and...
NEW YORK, United States- United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked" by a letter from Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, reportedly requesting the replacement of special envoy Volker Perthes amid a brutal war with paramilitaries. Guterres "is proud of the work done by...
