WASHINGTON, United States -- Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday requested an April 2026 trial date on the federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election -- long after next year's presidential vote. The request comes as lead prosecutor Jack Smith is pushing for a January 2 start...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level Thursday to four on a scale of five after angry reactions in the Muslim world to Koran burnings in Sweden made the country a "prioritised target". The level was increased from "elevated", where it had been since...
PARIS, France - France's government said Thursday it would hold a crisis meeting to tackle a heatwave that could reach its high point at the weekend, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office told AFP Thursday. Senior civil servants from Borne's office as well as the interior, health, agriculture and...
KYIV - Ukraine said Thursday that Russian shelling in the northern region of Kharkiv had killed an elderly woman, while Moscow announced its forces had taken up improved positions along the frontline. The Russian military has said over recent days it is advancing towards Kupiansk, a frontline town...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A light plane crashed into a street in Malaysia's central Selangor state on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said. Members of the fire and rescue department inspect the crash site of a plane in Shah Alam,...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will visit Hawaii next week after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century killed more than 100 people there, the White House said Wednesday. Biden and the first lady on Monday will "meet with first responders, survivors, as...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Tuesday that any greater relationship with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers was contingent on improving treatment of women, two years after the movement toppled the US-backed government. No country has recognized the Taliban...
YANGON, Myanmar - The death toll from a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote part of Myanmar has hit at least 31, with eight people still missing, rescuers said Wednesday. The disaster struck on Sunday outside northern Kachin's Hpakant township, after torrential rain and floods ravaged...
SYDNEY, Australia - A man in Australia who sent his faeces and urine to Hollywood actors Leonardo Di Caprio and Jared Leto was sentenced on Wednesday to a two-year good-behaviour bond. Veronica Grey sent parcels from post offices around the state of Western Australia in February, a court in the...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Wednesday the first cargo ship to use new Black Sea shipping lanes had exited a southern port despite threats from Russia that its navy could target vessels leaving the country. Kyiv announced the maritime corridors for civilian vessels last week after Russia exited an...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's FSB security service said Wednesday it had "eliminated" a group of four Ukrainian fighters who tried to cross into Russia's western Bryansk region from northern Ukraine, Russian news agencies reported. The announcement came a day after Moscow said it had prevented...
Aftermath of the wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii. (Photo from AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) KAHULUI, United States -- The number of people known to have died in the horrific wildfire that levelled a Hawaiian town topped 100 Tuesday, the state's governor said, as a makeshift morgue was expanded to deal...
