Washington, United States - US senators were scrambling to vote by the end of Friday on a government funding package that would keep open several key departments threatened with closure this weekend after months of bitter wrangling failed to produce a 2024 budget. The US Capitol in Washington,...
Los Angeles, United States - The US Coast Guard is investigating a two-mile-long oil spill just off the California coast near Los Angeles, officials said Friday. This handout photo released on March 8, 2024 by the United States Coast Guard (USCG) shows an aerial view of a Unified Command with...
Geneva, Switzerland - Expanding Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories constitutes "a war crime" and risks eliminating any likelihood of a viable Palestinian state, the UN rights chief warned on Friday. Yemenis brandish weapons and chant slogans as they march in the...
Istanbul, Turkey - Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said that the country's March local elections would be his last, suggesting an end to his more than two decades in power. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends a joint press conference with Ukrainian President at the...
Moscow, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday hailed women soldiers fighting in Ukraine and those supporting his country's armed forces, in a video message celebrating International Women's Day. TOPSHOT - Ukrainian servicemen from a guard of honour hold a Ukrainian flag over the...
Beijing, China - Relatives of passengers lost on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 gathered in Beijing Friday, still seeking answers and holding out hope a decade after the plane mysteriously vanished. Relatives of passengers on board the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, speak with police...
Tokyo, Japan - Japan moved closer Friday to allowing joint custody after divorce, with the cabinet approving changes to laws that critics say cut children off from one parent. For decades, one parent -- almost always the mother -- has been granted legal custody when a marriage ends, a rule...
New Delhi, India - The mother-in-law of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was on Friday appointed to serve in India's parliament, capping a career working for the philanthropic arm of her billionaire husband's tech firm. Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak attends a Q&A at The Queens...
Paris, France - World food prices dropped for the seventh month in a row February as falling cereal prices outweighed more costly sugar and meat, the Food and Agricultural Organization said Friday. The United Nations agency said its FAO Food Price Index dropped 0.7 percent in February and is...
Washington, United States - Donald Trump on Wednesday challenged Joe Biden to an election debate after the two men emerged from primary voting as the all-but-certain Republican and Democratic candidates in November's US presidential vote. This combination of pictures created on March 06, 2024...
Washington, United States - The Republican-led US House of Representatives approved a deal on Wednesday to avert a partial government shutdown due to start this weekend, moving a long-running row over the federal budget one step closer to resolution. The vote comes on the eve of President Joe...
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The UN Security Council expressed its concern over the deteriorating situation in violence-gripped Haiti on Wednesday, as Washington ramped up pressure on absent Prime Minister Ariel Henry to secure a political settlement. Armed gangs who control swaths of the...
