Berlin, Germany - Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, there are still about 245,000 Holocaust survivors alive across more than 90 countries, a study showed Tuesday. Many memorials, like this mural in Martel, France, remember the millions of Jews killed during the holocaust but the...
Oslo, Norway - Norway's frail 86-year-old King Harald has no plans to abdicate, he reiterated Tuesday in his first public remarks since the surprise decision by Denmark's Queen Margrethe to stand down. Queen Margrethe II of Denmark rides in a carriage escorted by the Guard Hussar Regiment's...
Almaty, Kazakhstan - Three people were killed and dozens injured after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck along the mountainous China-Kyrgyzstan border on Tuesday, authorities said. The major quake was registered just after 2:00 am (1800 GMT Monday) at a depth of 13 kilometres in China's...
MANCHESTER, United States - Donald Trump was set to hold a final rally Monday in New Hampshire on the eve of the primary where polls show him likely to trounce the sole remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump spent the first part of the day in New...
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry on Sunday said the death toll in the war-torn Palestinian territory breached 25,000 as Israel pushed its southward offensive and renewed bombardment in the north. Israel is pressing its push against Hamas in southern Gaza as it seeks to...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's top diplomat said her country is "ready to greet" Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported Sunday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two authoritarian states. Traditional allies Russia and North Korea have recently boosted ties, with...
ANKARA, Turkey - Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh has held a meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, diplomatic sources said Sunday, in the first official contact between the two for more than three months. Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh (AFP/KARIM JAAFAR) Foreign Minister...
YANSHANPU, China - Authorities in central China's Henan Province were on Sunday looking into the cause of a night-time fire that killed 13 schoolchildren as they slept in a dormitory. Police stand outside a school where 13 people died in a fire in Yanshanpu, in China’s central Henan province on...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian plane believed to be carrying six people has crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia announced Sunday. The Falcon 10 "disappeared from the radar" and communication was lost on Saturday evening, the federal agency said....
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine left at least 18 people dead and 13 more wounded on Sunday, said the head of the Russian-controlledregion. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed Donetsk region leader, said on Telegram that "at present, there are 18 dead...
MOSCOW, Russia - A blaze at a natural gas terminal in the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga on Sunday was caused by an "external factor", said Novatek, Russia's biggest exporter of liquified natural gas. This handout photograph published on the official Telegram account of the governor of the Leningrad...
YANSHANPU, China - Thirteen schoolchildren died in a dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Police stand outside a school where 13 people died in a fire in Yanshanpu in China’s central Henan province on January 20, 2024. Thirteen...
