KHERSON, Ukraine - Ukraine said Thursday that at least one civilian was killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson city centre, as the region deals with massive flooding from the destruction of a dam in Russian-held territory. "Due to targeted strikes by the occupiers during evacuations in the...
LIBREVILLE, Gabon - The UN's health agency on Thursday declared an end to a nearly four-month epidemic of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, saying the disease, a cousin of Ebola, had caused 35 confirmed or suspected deaths. "The outbreak of Marburg Virus Disease in Equatorial Guinea ended...
ANNECY, France - A man armed with a knife stabbed four preschool children and injured two adults by a lake in the French Alps on Thursday in an attack that sent shock waves through the country. The suspect is a Syrian in his early 30s who was granted refugee status in Sweden in April, a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Britain announced Thursday new sanctions against Belarus, its latest punishment for the eastern European country's support of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and suppression of anti-government activists. London said the new curbs would hit Belarus exports that have...
Gjystina Grisha, a "Burrnesha" (sworn virgin), sits in front of a fire in her home in the mountain village of Lepushe, 200 km from Tirana, on May 25, 2023. (ORSOLA MEMA / AFP) LEPUSHE, Albania -- For decades, Gjystina Grishaj chopped wood, drove tractors and tended livestock as the man of the house...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- The World Health Organization will use the European Union's digital Covid pass as a basis for a global health certification system, according to a new partnership deal agreed Monday. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and EU health commissioner Stella Kyriakides signed what...
Members of the Tengger sub-ethnic group carries a goat for offering on the active Mount Bromo volcano as part of the Yadnya Kasada festival in Probolinggo, East Java province on June 5, 2023. (Juni Kriswanto / AFP) PROBOLINGGO, Indonesia -- Thousands of Hindu worshippers scaled an active Indonesian...
This handout photograph taken on June 5, 2023 and released by the Indian Ministry of Defence shows India's Defence Minister Rajnath Singh (R) and US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin (L) during their meeting in New Delhi. (Indian Ministry of Defence / AFP) NEW DELHI, India -- The United States and...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US officials said Monday there were no survivors from the Virginia crash of a small plane carrying four people, a day after the unresponsive aircraft prompted the scrambling of fighter jets from Washington. The Cessna Citation slammed into mountainous terrain Sunday...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Prince Harry will become the first senior British royal to give evidence in court for more than a century when he testifies this week against a tabloid newspaper publisher. Harry, 38, is expected to take the witness stand at London's High Court in a trial considering...
A passenger looks out from a carriage of a long-distance train as it runs on the newly restored track at the accident site of a recent three-train collision near Balasore, about 200 km (125 miles) from the state capital Bhubaneswar in the eastern state of Odisha, on June 5, 2023. (Punit PARANJPE /...
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) SYDNEY, Australia -- New Zealand honoured former prime minister Jacinda Ardern with the title of dame on Monday, citing her leadership after the 2019 Christchurch mosque massacre and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ardern, 42,...
