KYIV, Ukraine - Russian bombardment killed four people and injured nine over 24 hours in the frontline southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the region's governor said on Sunday. Russian forces fired 71 shells at Kherson from Saturday to Sunday morning, hitting the city centre, residential areas,...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - At least 13 people were killed and 38 injured in eastern Indonesia on Sunday in an explosion at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant, the owner of the industrial park that hosts the facility said. A Chinese worker who was injured in the explosion at a nickel smelter furnace...
KYIV. Ukraine - Many Ukrainians will on Monday celebrate Christmas Day on December 25 for the first time, after the government changed the date from the Orthodox Church observance of January 7 in a snub to Russia. Passengers walk along a platform decorated with a Christmas tree at a subway...
WASHINGTON, United States - Nearly three years after President Joe Biden took office vowing "America is back," the country's international image is taking a beating as his administration backs Israel in its war with Hamas. An Israeli army self-propelled artillery howitzer fires rounds from a...
ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey launched air operations "against terrorist targets in the north of Syria and Iraq", its defence ministry said Saturday, after 12 of its soldiers were killed over two days. In a press release on its website, the ministry said "29 targets, including caves, bunkers, shelters,...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States on Saturday voiced deepening concern over the fate of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has not been heard from since early December. "We are deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Alexei Navalny, who has now been missing in...
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Church bells rang, flags flew at half-mast and masses were held across the Czech Republic on Saturday, a day of national mourning for the victims of a deadly shooting at Prague's Charles University. A mother and her child place a candle at a makeshift memorial for the the...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations called Saturday for the urgent rescue of 185 people, mainly women and children, on a distressed boat last heard to be near the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean. Around 70 of those onboard are children and 88 are women, the UNHCR refugee agency...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden on Saturday pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to protect civilian lives in Gaza, the White House said, as the country's forces mounted fresh military strikes in the territory. The conversation came a day after the UN Security Council...
WASHINGTON, United States - A Japanese-owned chemical tanker struck Saturday off the coast of India was targeted by a drone "fired from Iran," the Pentagon said, a sign of expanding risks to commercial shipping beyond the Red Sea. The attack came amid a flurry of drone and missile strikes by...
LONDON, United Kingdom - UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has branded Iran "a thoroughly malign influence in the region and in the world" in an interview published Sunday in which he also pledged stepped-up deterrence towards Tehran. The former British prime minister's warning echoes accusations...
RENNES, France - More than 700 staff working for Airbus Atlantic in France have fallen ill since their annual company Christmas dinner, health authorities said Friday. Airbus Atlantic, a subsidiary of aerospace group Airbus, employs 15,000 people in five countries. Staff at the company's...
