BEIJING, China -- Chinese President Xi Jinping will make a state visit to Moscow next week, where he will hold talks with his strategic ally Vladimir Putin just over a year into Russia's war in Ukraine. Xi will be in Russia from Monday to Wednesday, Beijing's foreign ministry and the Kremlin said on...
BLANTYRE, Malawi -- The death toll in Malawi from Cyclone Freddy has risen to 326, the country's president said Thursday, bringing the total number of victims across southern Africa to more than 400 since February. Rescuers were unearthing more bodies as the chances of finding survivors faded after...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Russia's forced transfer and deportation of Ukrainian children to areas under its control amounts to a war crime, UN investigators said Thursday, adding that they are probing allegations of genocide in the Ukraine conflict. Presenting their first report, the high-level team of...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- The UK government and unions representing various health workers in England said Thursday they have agreed a deal to increase pay by 5 percent in the next financial year, potentially ending damaging strikes. The package, impacting around one million National Health Service...
PARIS, France -- Half of all women scientists worldwide have been the victim of workplace sexual harassment at some point during their career, according to a survey published on Thursday. In the survey, which included more than 5,000 researchers across 117 countries, 49 percent of women scientists...
BERLIN, Germany -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday fiercely defended disputed legal reforms on a visit to Berlin, where German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged him to reconsider a compromise. The package of judicial reforms has sparked weeks of protests in Israel since its...
SAN FRANCISCO, United STATES -- Meta on Thursday released a framework for exposing and combating malicious online campaigns from election lies to terrorist recruitment. A paper authored by Meta's Ben Nimmo and Eric Hutchins details how to create a "kill chain" for targeting key links in deception...
MADRID, Spain -- Spain's parliament on Thursday gave the green light to an animal welfare law, while also amending the penal code to bring in stiffer penalties for abuses. "This is a very important day because parliament has passed the first animal rights law," since Spain returned to democracy...
BENGHAZI, Libya -- Several containers of natural uranium reported missing by the UN's nuclear watchdog in war-scarred Libya have been found, a general with one of the country's two rival camps said Thursday. General Khaled al-Mahjoub, commander of eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar's communications...
MOSCOW, Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday was hosting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for talks as the Kremlin seeks to mend ties between Damascus and Turkey's Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting follows the surprise announcement last week of a Chinese-brokered restoration of...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- A year after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a majority in Switzerland now support closer ties with NATO, the government said Thursday -- a first in the country known for military neutrality. The Swiss military academy and the Centre for Security Studies -- both...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Almost exactly 20 years after US forces invaded Iraq to remove Saddam Hussein from power, the US Senate moved Thursday to revoke the law that authorized then-president George W. Bush to launch the war. In a procedural vote that came over a decade after the war's official...
