STOCKHOLM, April 23 (Xinhua) -- "NATO is nothing but the war machine of the United States," Nellie Puig, a Swede protesting her country joining the military alliance, told Xinhua in central Stockholm on Saturday. "It is not a defensive alliance as they claim. It is an organization that runs the...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Sunday called for dialogue between warring military factions in Sudan as a bloody outbreak of fighting entered a second week. "Unfortunately the situation remains grave in Sudan. "That is why I am renewing my call for the violence to stop as...
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Khartoum, Sudan (AFP) - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had "coordinated with" American troops to evacuate Washington's embassy in Khartoum, where fighting between the paramilitary group and the army entered a second week following a brief lull. The fighting in Sudan has left...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia- More than 150 people, including foreign diplomats and officials, rescued from battle-scarred Sudan arrived Saturday in Jeddah, the Saudi foreign ministry said, in the first announced evacuation of civilians since fighting began. The evacuation was carried out by the...
TEL AVIV, Israel - Tens of thousands of Israelis packed Tel Aviv streets on Saturday for the 16th consecutive week to protest government judicial reforms they see as an attack on democracy. The weekly protests have continued despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 27 announcing a...
LILLE, France - Ten people were injured, four seriously, after a car drove into a crowd at an international kite-flying festival in northern France on Saturday, local officials said. Initial reports suggested that the elderly driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil- On his farm in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil's grain basket, Ilson Jose Redivo finished planting his corn crop a few weeks ago, acting quickly once he'd harvested the soybeans that he'd grown on the same fields. In this region of west-central Brazil, the fields stretch as...
WARSAW, Poland- Poland on Friday resumed transit shipments of Ukrainian grain and other food through its territory, partially lifting a nearly week-long ban imposed in response to protests from farmers. Poland and other EU countries bordering Ukraine imposed temporary bans on Ukrainian grain imports...
PARIS, France- A Paris court on Friday sentenced Lebanese-Canadian citizen Hassan Diab to life in prison for the 1980 bombing of a synagogue in which four people died. The court followed prosecutors' request for the maximum possible punishment against Diab, now 69 and a university professor, who was...
WASHINGTON, United States- The US Supreme Court was poised Friday to wade into the legal battle over the abortion drug mifepristone with a ruling on lower court-ordered restrictions on the widely used pill. The nation's highest court has until midnight Friday (0400 GMT Saturday) to decide how it...
BEIJING, China- Beijing accused the United States Friday of "naked economic coercion and technological bullying", in response to Washington's potential new restrictions on US firms' ability to invest in Chinese entities. The Biden administration is considering a programme to restrict certain US...
