WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- New Zealand's sheep outnumber people by fewer than five to one, official figures showed Monday, clipping their lead over humans to the lowest level since the 1850s. New Zealanders have far fewer of the woolly grazers than their Australian rivals, said the government body...
US Secretary of States Antony Blinken (3rd-R) holds a bilateral meeting with Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape (L) during the Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation at APEC Haus in Port Moresby on May 22, 2023. (ADEK BERRY / AFP) PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea -- Papua New...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Weather-related disasters have surged over the past 50 years, causing swelling economic damage even as early warning systems have meant dramatically fewer deaths, the United Nations said Monday. Extreme weather, climate and water-related events caused 11,778 reported disasters...
Leaders take part in the "Outreach Session 6" meeting during the second day of the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. (Handout / Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan) HIROSHIMA, Japan -- The world must urgently assess the impact of generative artificial intelligence, G7...
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky disembarks upon his arrival at Hiroshima Airport at Mihara, Hiroshima prefecture, on the second day of the G7 Summit Leaders' Meeting on May 20, 2023. (Yuichi YAMAZAKI / AFP) HIROSHIMA, Japan -- President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Hiroshima for talks with...
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (C) hosts a working session as part of the G7 Leaders' Summit in Hiroshima on May 20, 2023. (LUDOVIC MARIN / POOL) HIROSHIMA, Japan -- G7 leaders on Saturday warned China over its "militarisation activities" in the Asia-Pacific region but said the bloc also...
SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian police will not release bodycam footage of an officer tasering a 95-year-old great-grandmother with dementia inside her nursing home, a state police chief said Saturday. The woman, Clare Nowland, is in a critical state in hospital, three days after being shot with an...
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during a press conference on the seventh anniversary of her tenure, at the Presidential Office in Taipei on May 20, 2023. (Sam Yeh / AFP) TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen vowed Saturday to maintain peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait...
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) and Uzbekistan President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (L) shake hands during a signing ceremony on the sidelines of the China-Central Asia Summit in Xian, Shaanxi province on May 18, 2023. (Mark CRISTINO / POOL / AFP) XIAN, China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed a "new...
This handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows Syria's President Bashar al-Assad (2nd-L) speaking with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit (L) while Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad (R) speaks with the Deputy Emir of Mecca Prince Badr bin Sultan bin...
Picture of the dried Canelon Grande reservoir and dam-bridge just north of Canelones, in southern Uruguay, taken on March 14, 2023, as the country goes through a severe drought. (Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States -- More than half of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs are...
An aerial view shows farmers gathering pigs to transport them away from their flooded enclosure at a pig farm in the town of Lugo on May 18, 2023, after heavy rains caused flooding across Italy's northern Emilia Romagna region (Andreas SOLARO / AFP) LUGO, Italy -- The death toll from floods that...
