This photograph taken in Moscow on August 15, 2023, shows the logo of a new Russian digital ruble displaying on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Natalia KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- Russia launched the test phase of a digital ruble on Tuesday, in a bid to limit the impact of international...
OSLO, Norway -- Oil producer Norway's sovereign wealth fund earned 131 billion euros in the first half of the year, the country's central bank said on Tuesday. The performance, lifted by the financial markets, represented a return of 10 percent and helped boost the fund's value to 15,299 billion...
LOS ANGELES , United States -- A California judge charged with drunkenly killing his wife with a gun he kept in an ankle holster allegedly texted a colleague after the shooting to say "I won't be in tomorrow. I will be in custody," a court heard Tuesday. Judge Jeffrey Ferguson had dozens of guns...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The US soldier who ran across the border into North Korea last month "admitted that he illegally intruded," Pyongyang's state news agency KCNA said Wednesday, citing an investigation. The report is the first public comment from North Korea on the case of Travis King, who was...
PARIS, France - Two American tourists were found sleeping off a heavy night in the heights of Paris' Eiffel Tower on Monday, after dodging security the night before, the monument's operator said Tuesday. Security guards roused the men "in the early morning" as they were making their rounds...
YANGON, Myanmar - Rescuers have recovered 25 bodies while 14 people remain missing after a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote region of Myanmar, emergency workers said Tuesday. Myanmar has been hit with torrential rain and floods in recent days and the landslide occurred Sunday...
DEHRADUN, India - Rescuers searched Tuesday for people feared missing in floods and landslides that have killed at least 65 in India, including 11 who died in the collapse of a popular temple. Days of torrential downpours have washed away vehicles, demolished buildings and destroyed bridges in...
BERLIN, Germany - An unidentified vandal defaced a memorial to the LGBT victims of the Nazis in central Berlin with homophobic flyers and attempted to set fire to it, police said Tuesday. The man, who was spotted by a security guard but remains at large, threw a burning object at the memorial...
WASHINGTON, United States - Donald Trump has been indicted four times this year, but the latest charges -- in Georgia -- may carry particular peril for the former president. The Georgia case is the only trial likely to be televised, with the historic proceedings streamed and broadcast into...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said Tuesday its forces struck military industrial facilities at several sites across Ukraine overnight after authorities in the west of the country announced aerial attacks had left three dead. "Ukraine's military-industrial complex suffered significant damage," the...
OSLO,Norway - A railway bridge in southern Norway that had been closed to traffic since last week due to heavy flooding collapsed on Monday but no one was injured, police said. The metal structure broke in half after a pillar weakened by rising floodwaters gave way and fell in to the Lagen river,...
PARIS, France - King Charles III will travel to France for a state visit in September, a French newspaper has reported, six months after a scheduled trip was cancelled because of violent protests. The planned journey, intended to highlight warming Franco-British relations, had been postponed in...
