Singaporeans (background) arrive to vote at a polling station during the city-state's presidential election in Singapore on September 1, 2023. Singaporeans head to the polls September 1 in the city-state's first contested presidential election in more than a decade, a vote being closely watched as...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A Russian-German man arrested earlier this week in Cyprus was charged Thursday by US authorities with seeking to export American-made electronics to Russia for military use. The US Department of Justice said Arthur Petrov, 33, violated export controls in a scheme to...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US President Joe Biden's administration moved Thursday to close loopholes that allow people to sell guns without a dealer license, which would require them to perform background checks on purchasers. The Justice Department released detailed rules that follow the...
Family members of Claude Amani, 32, allegedly killed by the army as he planned to demonstrate against the UN presence, mourn his death on the day after a military operation in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on August 31, 2023. At least 48 people have been killed and 168 arrested in a...
Norm Pattis, a lawyer for the Proud Boys walks outside the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC, on August 31, 2023, after the sentencing of Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl. A leader of the Proud Boys militia who called for a "war" to keep Donald Trump as president was...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon - The general who led the overthrow of the 55-year Bongo dynasty will be sworn in on Monday as transitional president of the west African state, the army announced. The military sought to reassure donors they would "respect all commitments" at home and abroad and "phase in"...
MADRID, Spain - Police across Europe have seized 25 tonnes of eels and baby eels destined for Asia in a huge operation targeting smugglers of the critically endangered creatures, Spanish police said Thursday. Officers arrested 256 suspected smugglers as part of the "historic" operation coordinated...
Graphic content / Firefighters and members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) are deployed in front of a burned apartment block in Johannesburg on August 31, 2023. GUILLEM SARTORIO/AFP JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- A fire that ripped through a five-storey building taken over...
Customers are stand next to street vendors in Libreville on August 31, 2023. People in the central African state of Gabon eagerly awaited a steer on their future on August 31, 2023 after military officers put an end to 55 years of rule by the Bongo family. President Ali Bongo Ondimba, son of Omar...
HONG KONG - China issued its highest typhoon warning on Thursday as Super Typhoon Saola drew closer to Hong Kong and the mainland's southern coast, with several cities delaying the start of the school year as a precaution. Saola's wind speeds topped 200 kilometres (125 miles) per hour by 6 pm (1000...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - Pope Francis revealed Wednesday he will publish an update to his seminal 2015 thesis on the environment in October, just weeks before the next round of UN climate talks. The 86-year-old pontiff earlier this month mentioned plans to write a second part of "Laudato Si" but...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur rejected Wednesday a new Chinese map that claims waters off Malaysia's coast in the South China Sea, in the latest war of words between the Asian allies over Beijing's assertiveness in the waterway. China claims sovereignty over almost the entire South China...
