MOSCOW, Russia - An exiled Russian reporter who protested Moscow's offensive in Ukraine live on state TV was handed over eight years jail in absentia Wednesday for spreading disinformation about Moscow's army. Marina Ovsyannikova, 45, held up a protest placard during an evening news programme...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday axed a key section of England's new high-speed railway, diverting billions of pounds instead into improving existing transport routes in the north. Addressing his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester,...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev attends a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart following their talks in Baku on June 13, 2023. (HANDOUT/ Azerbaijani presidency/AFP) BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has turned down an EU-hosted meeting with Armenia's Prime...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday vowed to introduce legislation to reduce tobacco use saying there was "no safe level of smoking." "I propose that in future, we raise the smoking age by one year every year. That means a 14-year-old today will never...
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin answers questions after attending the launch event for the technology hub "SCBX Next Tech" at the Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok on October 4, 2023, a day after a shooting at the mall that left two people dead. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)...
This handout photograph released by the Indian Army and taken on October 4, 2023, shows a flooded street in Lachen Valley, in India's Sikkim state following a flash flood caused by intense rainfall. (Photo by INDIAN ARMY / AFP) GUWAHATI, India -- The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were...
This handout image released by the Baltimore Police Department on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows police vehicles at the scene of an active shooter situation near Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Handout / BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT / AFP) ...
This handout from the Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police released on October 3, 2023, shows the arrest of a 14-year-old boy suspect of a shooting at Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok. (Photo by Handout / Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police / AFP) BANGKOK,...
Hunter Biden (Bloomberg photo) WILMINGTON, United States -- Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an illegal gun possession charge, marking the latest chapter in his troubled life just as his father President Joe Biden accelerates his campaign for reelection next year. Hunter Biden, 53,...
This photograph taken on October 3, 2023 shows a placard reading "Bed bugs" on a mattress abandoned on the pavement in a street in Marseille, southern France. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) PARIS, France -- The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine...
Health workers wearing protective gears shift a man with symptoms of Nipah virus to an isolation ward at a government hospital in Kozhikode in south Indian state of Kerala on September 16, 2023. (Photo by AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- No new cases of Nipah virus have been detected in India since...
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on October 03, 2023 in Mestre, near Venice. At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge in the northern Italian city of Venice, a city hall spokesman told AFP. The crash caused "at least 20 deaths, including two children,"...
