KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine said on Sunday it suffered several waves of aerial attacks overnight, which Moscow said targeted military airfields, a day after a strike on a Russian tanker on the Kerch Strait. The Ukrainian air force said Sunday it shot down 30 out of the 40 cruise missiles and all...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's prime minister hit out at Russian threats to use nuclear weapons as the country marked the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Sunday. Around 140,000 people died in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and 74,000 in Nagasaki three days later, when the United States...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Prosecutors have asked a US judge to limit information Donald Trump can publicly discuss regarding the latest indictments against him, citing a threatening post by the ex-president which his campaign defended Saturday as "political speech." Jack Smith, the special...
TBILISI, Georgia -- At least 16 people were killed and dozens were missing after a landslide at a resort town in northwestern Georgia, officials said Saturday. The landslide took place on Thursday in Shovi, a small resort town in Georgia's mountainous northwest famed for its vast forests and...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Moscow escalated its attacks in Ukraine on Saturday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky denouncing a deadly strike on a blood transfusion centre as a "war crime". A separate strike struck a key factory, both attacks coming just hours after Kyiv hit a Russian tanker in the Kerch...
PARIS, France -- Five people were injured on Saturday in an explosion at a residential building in the north of Paris, police and emergency services said. A photograph shows the damaged building due to an explosion in a third-floor flat on Rue Du Nord, in the 18th distrcit of Paris, on...
LISBON, Portugal -- A sea of 1.5 million pilgrims packed a riverside park near Lisbon on Saturday for a vigil held by Pope Francis as part of a global Catholic youth festival. Worshippers cheered as the 86-year-old pontiff slowly drove by on his "popemobile" to the stage at the Parque Tejo on the...
BEIJING, China -- A shallow 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck eastern China in the early hours of Sunday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with state media reporting at least 21 people injured and dozens of buildings collapsed. Videos on social media showed shaking light fixtures, trembling...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine carried out a drone strike overnight on a Russian tanker in the Kerch Strait, a day after one of Moscow's ships was hit in the Black Sea, a Ukrainian security source told AFP on Saturday. It was the latest attack around the Black Sea since Moscow exited a deal last...
PORTBAU, Spain - Firefighters said they evacuated more than 130 people as they fought Saturday to control a wildfire at Portbou on the Spanish border with France on the Mediterranean coast. Firefighters from Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia teamed up with French colleagues as the blaze...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia on Saturday said it captured a settlement in northeastern Ukraine, where Kyiv has reported increased attacks. "In the area of Kupiansk, as a result of the competent and professional actions of the military units of the Western command, the settlement of Novoselivske was...
FATIMA, Portugal - Around 200,000 pilgrims flooded the shrine of Fatima in Portugal on Saturday to attend a service held by Pope Francis at one of Catholicism's most revered sites devoted to the Virgin Mary. Worshippers waved and called out "Viva!" as the 86-year-old pontiff, wearing a white...
