SEOUL, South Korea -- The UN Command has started a conversation with Pyongyang over American soldier Travis King, who ran across the border into North Korea last week, its deputy commander said Monday. "A conversation has commenced with the Korean People's Army through the mechanism of the armistice...
HARBIN, China -- The death toll from a roof collapse in a school gymnasium Sunday in Qiqihar City, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, has risen to 10, rescuers said Monday. As of 5:30 a.m. Monday, rescuers had brought out 14 people from the debris. Among the casualties, four were confirmed...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States -- Twitter owner Elon Musk and the chief executive he brought aboard just a month ago say the social media network will ditch the bird logo, rebrand the platform with the name X and move quickly into payments, banking and commerce. "Powered by AI, X will connect us in...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia's latest strike on Odesa on Sunday killed two people and severely damaged a historic Orthodox cathedral, drawing a vow of retaliation from Ukraine's leader. The attack came as President Vladimir Putin met his Belarusian counterpart for talks in Russia and claimed Kyiv's...
PARIS, France --Â The inner-city area of Sydney, once the epicentre of Australia's HIV epidemic, is very close to becoming the first place in the world to reach the UN's target for ending transmission of the virus, researchers said on Monday. UNAIDS has set a goal of ending AIDS as a global health...
NEW DELHI, India -- The death toll in India's landslide, which hit a village in the southwestern state of Maharashtra four days ago, has risen to 27, according to local authorities on Sunday. About 80 people are still missing and feared to be buried under the debris. Rescue efforts have been...
KYIV, Ukraine -- The Ukrainian port city of Odesa came under renewed Russian missile attack early Sunday, just hours before President Vladimir Putin was due to hold a summit with his staunch Belarus ally Alexander Lukashenko. At the meeting in Saint Petersburg, the pair plan to discuss the...
TOKYO, Japan -- Three people were hurt in a knife attack on a train in western Japan on Sunday, with police saying they had arrested a man for allegedly carrying out the stabbings. The victims -- a train conductor in his 20s and two male passengers aged in their 20s and 70s -- were taken to...
Protesters against the Israeli government's judicial overhaul enter Jerusalem during a march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on July 22, 2023. (Xinhua/Chen Junqing) JERUSALEM -- Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated across the country on Saturday evening against the government's plan to overhaul...
ATHENS, Greece -- Around 30,000 people were moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes where a wildfire burned on Saturday, while people in the southern United States struggled under a record-breaking heatwave. Tens of millions of people have been suffering through intense heat this summer and...
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen prepares to cast his vote at a polling station in Kandal province on July 23, 2023 during the general elections. (Photo by TANG CHHIN SOTHY / AFP) PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia's ruling party declared on Sunday that it was on course for a "landslide" victory in...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - A notorious Indonesian animal market has ended the sale of dog and cat meat after years of activist pressure to stop the trade and its brutal methods of slaughter, according to campaigners. Canine and feline meat were on the menu alongside bats, rats, snakes and monkeys at...
