DIONS, France - French rescue workers were on Sunday searching for seven people, including two children, missing after violent storms swept the south of the country with most believed to have been swept away in cars on flooded bridges. The flooded Gardon river is seen following heavy rain over...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The death toll from flash flooding and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra has risen to 21, an official said Sunday, with six people still missing. Torrential rains on Thursday triggered the disaster in Pesisir Selatan regency in the West Sumatra province, with more...
KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian night-time strike on the east Ukrainian town of Myrnograd wounded at least 11 people, Kyiv said Sunday, while Moscow launched attack drones across the country. This handout photograph taken and released by Donetsk Region Prosecutor`s Office on March 10, 2024 shows a war...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis on Sunday offered his prayers for Haiti, where criminal gangs have unleashed havoc in recent days. "I am following with concern and pain the serious crisis affecting Haiti and the violent episodes that have occurred in recent days," the 87-year-old said after...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Officers arrested a man who crashed a car into the gates of London's Buckingham Palace over the weekend, police said on Sunday. The Metropolitan Police said the car "collided with the gates" of the royal residence at 02:30 GMT on Saturday. Armed officers arrested the man at...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Residents of Haiti's capital scrambled for safety Saturday following the latest spasm of gang violence, with a UN group warning of a "city under siege" after armed attackers targeted the presidential palace and police headquarters. TOPSHOT - An injured journalist is helped...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis has urged parties in the Ukraine war to "have the courage to negotiate", and do so "before things get worse", in an interview broadcast Saturday by Swiss television. The 87-year-old pontiff was asked by the public broadcaster RTS about a debate within Ukraine...
NICOSIA, Cyprus - Two hundred tonnes of food aid were "ready" to be sent from Cyprus to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, a Spanish NGO said Saturday, the first shipment along an EU-backed maritime corridor. The Open Arms vessel, carrying two-hundred tonnes of food aid to Gaza, is seen docked in the Cypriot...
WASHINGTON, United States - Days after Joe Biden delivered a combative State of the Union message, he and rival Donald Trump were campaigning on the same turf Saturday: the battleground state of Georgia, carried by Biden in 2020 by fewer than 12,000 votes. The president, hoping to ride the momentum...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US military airdropped more than 41,000 meals to Gaza on Saturday, in Washington's fifth operation this month to deliver urgently needed aid to the coastal territory. Israel has delayed the delivery of aid by ground, leading the United States and other countries to...
United Nations, United States - Up to 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti risk losing access to crucial health care, the UN warned Friday, as humanitarian conditions in capital Port-au-Prince continued to deteriorate. Haitians cross the border between Quanamienthe in Haiti and Dajabon in the...
Washington, United States - US President Joe Biden said Friday that Benjamin Netanyahu must allow more aid into Gaza, after he was caught on a hot mic saying he would confront the Israeli premier over the conflict. US President Joe Biden speaks to the press before boarding Air Force One at...
