UNITED NATIONS, United States - The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday a watered-down resolution that demands all sides in the Israel-Hamas conflict allow the "safe and unhindered delivery of humanitarian assistance at scale." After days of delays, the resolution also called...
KYIV, Ukraine - Poland's new foreign minister on Friday urged the West to rally around Ukraine, choosing the war-torn country for his first visit abroad in a sign of support as other allies waver on aid. Poland's Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski delivers a press conference during...
VATRY, France - French police were questioning two men Friday a day after officials grounded a Nicaragua-bound plane carrying more than 300 Indian passengers over suspected "human trafficking," prosecutors said. The Airbus A340 had flown in from the United Arab Emirates on Thursday, landing at...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US Supreme Court declined on Friday to immediately hear former president Donald Trump's claim that he is immune from prosecution, potentially delaying his 2020 election interference trial. Special Counsel Jack Smith had asked the nation's highest court to take...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that his government would step up efforts to contain irregular migration flows, ahead of a high-level US visit next week. This handout picture released by the Mexican Presidency shows Mexico's President Andres...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian woman who says she is committed to peace on Wednesday declared her candidacy for the presidency, to which Vladimir Putin is expected to be comfortably re-elected next March. Yekaterina Duntsova, the 40-year-old independent politician who declared her intention to run...
WASHINGTON, United States - A 71-year-old man has been declared innocent in the US state of Oklahoma after spending nearly 50 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Glynn Simmons, who is Black, served more time behind bars before being exonerated than any other inmate in US history,...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The UN Security Council on Thursday will try once again to pass a resolution calling for a halt in fighting between Israel and Hamas after previous efforts to win Washington's backing fell short. The empty Security Council Chamber is pictured at UN headquarters...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States released an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in exchange for 10 American detainees and a fugitive dubbed "Fat Leonard" in a sweeping prisoner swap deal between the rival governments Wednesday. Colombian businessman Alex Saab speaks next...
WATERLOO, United States - Former US president Donald Trump, who has come under sharp criticism for attacks on immigrants which some say hark back to Nazi philosophy, says he's never read Adolf Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf." Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump...
ROME, Italy - A Pakistani couple was sentenced to life in prison by an Italian court on Tuesday for the 2021 murder of their daughter after she refused an arranged marriage. Saman Abbas, 18, was living in Novellara near Bologna when she disappeared in May 2021, having rejected the previous year her...
NEW YORK, United States - Meta's independent oversight board on Tuesday criticized the social media titan of removing posts that showed human suffering in the Middle East conflict. The board, set up by Meta in 2020 as a supreme court of sorts for the social media titan, overturned two post removal...
