NEW YORK, United States - US Senator Robert Menendez entered a not guilty plea in a New York court Monday to a new charge alleging that the Democratic lawmaker conspired to act as an agent of the Egyptian government when he chaired the Senate foreign relations committee. US Senator Robert...
ACAPULCO, Mexico - Two armed attacks on Monday left at least 16 people dead, including a dozen police officers, in regions of Mexico plagued by violence related to drug trafficking, authorities said. (Photo from AFP) In the southern state of Guerrero, unidentified attackers targeted a security...
DHAKA, Bangladesh - At least 15 people have been killed and 100 others injured in Bangladesh after two trains collided on Monday, with officials saying they fear the death toll will rise. The crash in the eastern city of Bhairab saw a freight train smash into a passenger train travelling...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq on Monday condemned as "unacceptable" attacks against bases on its territory housing US forces, which have multiplied since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war. Since Wednesday, at least five rocket and drone attacks have targeted three Iraqi military bases where...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry said Monday that more than 5,000 people have been killed in the besieged Palestinian enclave since Israel launched its withering bombing campaign more than two weeks ago. Alarm has surged about the spiralling humanitarian crisis...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - More than 19,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon amid an uptick in tensions between Israel and Hezbollah at the country's southern border, figures released Monday by a United Nations agency showed. "An increase in cross-border incidents" has resulted in the displacement...
BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan's defence ministry said on Monday it had begun joint drills with its ally Turkey near the border with Armenia, weeks after Baku recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh from Armenian separatists. Azerbaijan last month took control of the long-disputed region in a 24-hour...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's coastguard said Monday it was working to clean up a large oil spill in the Baltic Sea after a passenger ferry ran aground over the weekend. "We know that the spill currently stretches over five kilometres (three miles) out at sea," Erik Svensson, who was...
MADRID, Spain - Spanish police said Monday they have seized centuries-old gold artefacts worth over 60 million euros ($64 million) that were stolen and taken out of Ukraine illegally. The 11 pieces, including necklaces, bracelets and earrings, were displayed at a Kyiv museum between 2009...
NAIROBI, Kenya - A widow of a Pakistani journalist who was shot dead by police in Kenya after he fled arrest in his home country filed a lawsuit against Kenyan police on Monday, her lawyer said. Arshad Sharif, a strident critic of Pakistan's powerful military establishment and supporter of...
TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's judiciary on Sunday announced lengthy jail sentences for two female journalists who were arrested after reporting on the death last year of Mahsa Amini, which sparked nationwide protests. Elaheh Mohammadi, 36, and Niloufar Hamedi, 31, were both found guilty of collaboration...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories -- A 17-truck aid convoy entered Gaza from Egypt on Sunday as Israel intensified strikes on the Palestinian enclave facing a "catastrophic" humanitarian situation in the war sparked by Hamas's bloody attack. As fears mount of a wider conflagration, Iran warned the...
