MOSCOW, Russia - Journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who fell ill in France where she lives in exile after protesting the offensive in Ukraine on Russian state TV, said Friday that tests had not revealed poisoning. Several Kremlin critics have reported being poisoned, and on Thursday French prosecutors...
DOHA, Qatar - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is working with Israel to assign safe areas for civilians in Gaza, an official said, as the top US diplomat Friday toured the region ahead of an expected major Israeli offensive in response to Hamas attacks. After a visit to Israel to show...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Several thousand Pakistani Muslims protested across the country after Friday prayers against Israel's massive bombardment of Gaza in retaliation to Hamas attacks. Political and religious parties staged dozens of small demonstrations across the cities of Karachi, Lahore,...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories - At least nine Palestinians were killed Friday by Israeli fire across the occupied West Bank during rallies in solidarity with war-battered Gaza, the Palestinian health ministry said. AFP correspondents and a security official reported clashes in Ramallah,...
ARRAS, France - A man of Chechen origin stabbed to death a teacher and severely wounded two other adults Friday at a school in northeastern France, with prosectors opening a probe into a suspected act of terror. The attack in the town of Arras comes with France, which has large Jewish and Muslim...
In this handout photograph taken and released late on October 11, 2023 by Nolsom Comunicacion, Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Albares greets Spanish citizen as they disembark from a Spanish Air Force plane landing from Israel, at Madrid airport. (Photo by Pepe MENDEZ / Nolsom...
Delegates stand for a minute of silence following war between Israeli forces and the Palestinian militant group Hamas and a series of earthquakes in western Afghanistan, during a session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on October 9, 2023. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) GENEVA,...
PARIS, France -- More than 40 percent of Antarctica's ice shelves lost volume in 25 years, increasing the risk of sea levels rising and with human-induced warming the likely cause, scientists said on Thursday. Ice shelves are freshwater extensions of the ice sheets that cover much of Antarctica,...
This combination photograph created on October 12, 2023 shows (L) a file photograph taken on October 24, 2022 of Israel's former defence minister Benny Gantz in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv, and (R) a file photograph taken on October 12, 2023 of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) talks to members of the media as he arrives to a candidate forum with House Republicans to hear from members running for US Speaker of House in the Longworth House Office Building on October 10, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)...
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has launched a negotiation process with Hamas for the release of Israeli hostages kidnapped by the Palestinian militants, an official source told AFP on Wednesday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan "They are negotiating to...
GENEVA, Switzerland - A Swiss university has suspended a lecturer who commented positively online about the unprecedented Hamas attacks that left 1,200 people dead in Israel and unleashed a new war. The comments posted on X, formerly Twitter, were "unacceptable", the University of Bern told...
