ACAPULCO, Mexico - Mexican authorities rushed to send emergency aid, restore communications and assess damage in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco on Wednesday after a powerful hurricane left a trail of destruction. (Photo from AFP) President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador personally joined an...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - X is tinkering with video and audio calling at the platform formerly known as Twitter, according to a post Wednesday by owner Elon Musk. Elon Musk "Early version of video and audio calling on X," Musk wrote in a post that contained a screen capture showing...
DAMASCUS, Syria - Israeli strikes killed eight soldiers in southern Syria on Wednesday, later returning to bomb Aleppo airport for the fourth time in a fortnight, the defence ministry in Damascus said. Israel said the first strike was in response to earlier rocket fire. Hours later,...
WAD MADANI, Sudan - The Sudanese army said Wednesday it has accepted an invitation to resume US- and Saudi-brokered talks aimed at ending more than six months of conflict with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The war between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his...
AMMAN, Jordan - Jordan's Queen Rania accused Western leaders of a "glaring double standard" for not condemning Israel's killing of Palestinian civilians in its ongoing bombardment of Gaza, in an interview aired Wednesday "The people all around the Middle East, including in Jordan, we are just...
CAIRO, Egypt - French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, an AFP correspondent reported, for talks with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the latest leg of a whistlestop crisis tour. On Tuesday Macron was in Israel where he voiced support for its retaliation...
LONDON, United Kingdom - UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Wednesday that "specific pauses" are needed in Israel's war with Hamas to allow aid into Gaza, but again stopped short of calling for a ceasefire. Facing calls from some opposition lawmakers during weekly questions in parliament to...
ADEN, Yemen - A tropical cyclone has killed at least two people in war-torn Yemen and displaced around 10,000 others, authorities said, after floods destroyed buildings and cut off major roads. Tropical cyclone TEJ made a landfall over the coast of Al Mahra governorate, in the country's...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden hosts Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a lavish state visit Wednesday where their focus on China risks being overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas conflict. The 80-year-old Biden will treat Albanese to a gala dinner on the White House...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said Wednesday it would study US proposals to resume dialogue on nuclear arms control, but that it would not accept them unless Washington dropped its "hostile" stance towards Moscow. The US and Russia used to regularly inspect each other's nuclear facilities and limit...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Chinese research ship Shi Yan 6 arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a year after a similar port call by a spacecraft-tracking vessel raised security concerns from neighbouring India. New Delhi is suspicious of China's increasing presence in the Indian Ocean and its...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The number of people worldwide living in forced displacement from their homes is estimated to have exceeded 114 million, the United Nations said Wednesday -- a record figure. "The number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights violations...
