BERLIN, Germany - NATO began its largest ever air force deployment exercise in Europe on Monday, in a display of unity toward partners and potential threats such as Russia. The German-led "Air Defender 23" will include some 250 military aircraft from 25 NATO and partner countries including...
PARIS, France - The United States plans to rejoin UNESCO from July this year, ending a lengthy dispute that saw Washington end its membership in 2018, the UN cultural agency announced on Monday. "It is a strong act of confidence in UNESCO and in multilateralism," said its director general Audrey...
WASHINGTON, United States -- An expected El Nino climate phenomenon has arrived, raising fears of extreme weather and temperature records, scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday. Marked by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Donald Trump said Thursday he has been indicted over his handling of classified documents after leaving office, the US ex-president's most serious legal threat yet as a firestorm of criminal investigations imperil his bid for a second White House term. "The corrupt Biden...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Instagram is the main platform used by pedophile networks to promote and sell content showing child sexual abuse, according to a report by Stanford University and the Wall Street Journal. "Large networks of accounts that appear to be operated by minors are openly...
Heavy smog covers the skylines of the boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York on June 7, 2023. Ed JONES / AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- Smoke from Canadian wildfires shrouded US cities in a noxious haze again Thursday, delaying flights and disrupting outdoor events in what President Joe...
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 08: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a joint press conference with US President Joe Biden in the East Room at the White House on June 8, 2023 in Washington, DC. POOL / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States and...
LUXEMBOURG, Luxembourg -- EU nations on Thursday reached agreement on a long-stalled revision of the bloc's rules to share the hosting of asylum seekers and migrants more equitably. Sweden, which holds the bloc's rotating presidency, announced the breakthrough after a fraught day of negotiations...
Flowers for the victims are placed at a playground in the 'Jardins de l'Europe' in Annecy, in the French Alps, on June 8, 2023, following a mass stabbing in the park of the city. (OLIVIER CHASSIGNOLE / AFP) ANNECY, France -- A Syrian refugee armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and...
BONN, Germany -- The head of the upcoming COP28 climate summit, who also is the chief executive of the UAE's national oil company, acknowledged Thursday that a reduction in the use of fossil fuels is inescapable. "The phase down of fossil fuels is inevitable," Sultan al-Jaber said on the sidelines...
PARIS, France -- People who took a cheap diabetes drug after testing positive for Covid-19 had a 40 percent lower risk of getting long Covid, a US-based study said Friday. The finding was hailed as a potential "landmark" in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World...
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan - At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded by a blast Thursday at a funeral service for an Afghan acting provincial governor assassinated by a suicide bomber earlier this week, the ministry of interior said. "The Ministry of Interior of the IEA condemns this...
