TOKYO, Japan -- Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is willing to meet North Korea's Kim Jong Un "without preconditions", a top government official said Friday. The prime minister has previously said he was ready to hold talks with Kim, but the reiterated invitation comes after the North Korean...
This handout picture posted on September 15, 2023, on the official telegram channel of the Governov of Khabarovsk region Mikhail Degtyaryov shows North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (C) visiting an aviation plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. (Photo by Official telegram channel of the Governov of Khabarovsk...
A staff member poses with the "Black Sheep Jumper" designed by Sally Muir and Joanna Osborne and worn on several occasions by Britain's late Princess Diana, during a press view at Sotheby's auction house in London on July 17, 2023. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) NEW YORK , United States -- An...
PARIS, France -- The AI models that power chatbots and other applications still have difficulty distinguishing between nonsense and natural language, according to a study released on Thursday. The researchers at Columbia University in the United States said their work revealed the limitations of...
People walk on a footbridge across the flooded St. Mark's Square by St. Mark's Basilica (Rear) and the Doge's palace (R) on November 14, 2019 in Venice. Venice officials agreed on September 12, 2023 to test a fee on day tourists to the overcrowded historic centre, weeks after UNESCO warned it could...
This photo illustration created in Los Angeles, California, on September 13, 2023, shows a person looking on a computer screen at artwork by Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele entitled "Russian War Prisoner" (L), "Portrait of a Man" (R) and "Girl With Black Hair" (top), which were seized by...
NASA building logo from headquarters at Washington DC, United States (Photo from NASA.gov website) WASHINGTON, United States -- NASA on Thursday officially joined the search for UFOs -- but reflecting the stigma attached to the field, the US space agency kept secret for hours the identity of the...
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (R) walks next to Cuban Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feito, upon his arrival at Havana's José Martà International Airport, September 14, 2023. Cuba will host on Friday an extraordinary summit of the G77+China, made up of...
Hunter Biden, son of United States President Joe Biden, attends the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House on April 18, 2022 in Washington, DC. The Easter Egg Roll tradition returns this year after being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. (PHOTO BY GETTY IMAGES...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's prosecutor general said Thursday the International Criminal Court (ICC) had opened a field office in Kyiv, as part of efforts to hold Russian forces accountable for potential war crimes. Kyiv has called for a special tribunal to be created to hold Moscow responsible for...
A tsunami-sized flash flood killed at least 4,000 people, with thousands more missing, in Libya. (Photo from AFP) DERNA, Libya -- A global aid effort for Libya gathered pace Thursday after a tsunami-sized flash flood killed at least 4,000 people, with thousands more missing -- a death toll...
This pool image distributed by Sputnik agency shows Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un (L) shaking hands during their meeting at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Amur region on September 13, 2023, ahead of planned talks that could lead to a weapons deal with...
