Odesa, Ukraine - Ukraine said Friday that Russian forces had pounded the Black Sea port city of Odesa with missiles, killing more than a dozen people including a paramedic and a rescue worker. AFP journalists on the scene saw bodies covered by blankets arrayed on the street while images...
Washington, United States + US President Joe Biden called for an end to discrimination Thursday after an autopsy found a nonbinary teenager died by suicide a day after clashing with three other students. The case of Nex Benedict, 16, from Oklahoma, had drawn widespread outrage and calls...
Sydney, Australia - Australia said Friday it will resume funding for the UN's Palestinian refugee agency, after investigating claims some staff were linked to the Hamas attack on October 7. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees -- UNRWA -- has been at the centre of controversy since Israel...
New parents heading to the Paris Olympics are calling for a ticketing rule change after discovering that their infants will be refused entry to venues unless they have their own seats. Margaux Giddings, a nurse from southwest France, bought her place for the gymnastics last year when they first...
Moscow, Russia - Russian police detained at least eight people Friday for acts of vandalism at polling stations on the first day of voting in presidential elections, officials said. Authorities did not say if the protests were directed against longtime leader Vladimir Putin, and state-media...
Washington, United States - Eight months ahead of the US presidential election, the campaign moves from the parties' nominating contests to the trench warfare of what promises to be one of the longest, most brutal head-to-head showdowns in memory. US President Joe Biden speaks during a...
Sydney, Australia - One man has died and 29 workers have been rescued after a gold mine collapsed in the Australian state of Victoria, police and union officials said Thursday. Emergency services rushed to the Ballarat Gold Mine at Mount Clear on Wednesday evening after reports of "a rockfall"...
Milwaukee, United States - President Joe Biden needled "loser" Donald Trump Wednesday, in his first battleground campaign stop since the two rivals secured their parties' nominations for what promises to be one of the most rancorous elections in US history. US President Joe Biden walks to...
Bangkok, Thailand - Thailand's former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra visited a Bangkok temple Thursday, an AFP reporter saw, in his first public appearance since being freed early from a jail sentence for graft and abuse of power. Thailand’s former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra (L)...
London, United Kingdom - The UK government on Thursday unveiled a new definition of extremism, as church leaders warned it risked disproportionately affecting Muslim communities. Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak talks with Ahmad Al Dubayan, Director General of the London Central Mosque,...
Tokyo, Japan - A rocket made by a Japanese company exploded seconds after launch on Wednesday, in a spectacular failure for the start-up's bid to put a satellite into orbit. Tokyo-based Space One's 18-metre (60-foot) Kairos rocket blasted off in the coastal Wakayama region of western Japan,...
Paris, France - The eldest son of French World War II Resistance leader and first postwar president Charles de Gaulle has died aged 102, his family said Wednesday. Philippe de Gaulle heeded his father's call to join Free French forces in the fight against Nazism in World War II and...
