KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile struck an apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, Kyiv officials said, injuring at least nine people including two children. "Dnipro. Another terrorist attack," said Sergiy Kruk, head of the Ukrainian State Emergency Service, on...
BRISBANE, Australia - Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday said that the United States believes Russia's defence minister is in North Korea to secure supplies of weapons to aid the stalled invasion of Ukraine. Following Sergei Shoigu's arrival on a rare trip to Pyongyang, Blinken said...
ATHENS, Greece - Wildfires that have scorched Greece for more than two weeks were on Saturday mostly under control, but firefighters remained in key hotspots with strong winds still a threat, officials said. "Scattered fire pockets are being extinguished," the fire department said in an update to...
NEW DELHI, India - At least four people were electrocuted Saturday and seven others injured after a Muslim religious procession came into contact with a high-voltage wire in India, police told AFP. The Islamic calendar is currently in the month of Muharram, the holiest time for Shiites across the...
NEW DELHI, India - India's wild tiger population is estimated to now exceed 3,600, according to new government figures released Saturday, in a vindication of conservation efforts for the endangered species. Tigers once roamed throughout central, eastern and southern Asia, but have lost nearly 95...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday he was visiting "advanced positions" of Ukraine's special forces near the hotspot of Bakhmut as Kyiv ramps up its counter-offensive. "The Bakhmut direction, advanced positions of the Special Operations Forces," Zelensky said on...
A police officer walks through a flooded street caused by heavy rains after Typhoon Doksuri landfall in Xiamen, in China's eastern Fujian province on July 28, 2023. (Photo by AFP) BEIJING, China -- Typhoon Doksuri hit southeastern China on Friday morning, bringing high winds and battering rains to...
SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore on Friday hanged a 45-year-old citizen for drug trafficking, the city-state's first execution of a woman in nearly 20 years, officials said. The execution was carried out despite appeals from rights groups, who argue capital punishment has no proven deterrent effect...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered free grain to six poor African countries as he launched a summit with leaders from the continent days after withdrawing from the Ukraine grain export deal. The two-day summit in Putin's native Saint Petersburg is being...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Authorities were racing Thursday to prevent a possible ecological disaster off the Dutch coast where a blaze raged aboard a car carrier ship for a second day. The Fremantle Highway, a Panamanian-flagged vessel, remained tethered to a salvage ship but was drifting...
CHENNAI, India - G20 environment ministers in India readied a fresh bid on Thursday to strike deals tackling climate change, days after heavy criticism for failing to agree on cutting fossil fuel use. Environment chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies -- constituting more than 80...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Two tram operators were slapped with a £14 million ($18 million) fine on Thursday for a 2016 tram derailment which killed seven and seriously injured 21 people. The sentencing at London's Old Bailey court fined Transport for London (TfL) £10 million and Tram...
