HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnam has executed long-time death row prisoner Le Van Manh, a lawyer confirmed Saturday, despite international pleas to spare his life. In 2005 Manh was charged with robbery, as well as the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in the northern Thanh Hoa province. The...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -A landslide tore apart a stretch of motorway in Sweden on Saturday, injuring three people, police and emergency services said. It ripped up a petrol station car park, overturned lorries and caved in the roof of a Burger King restaurant. Three people were taken to hospital...
MARSEILLE, France - Pope Francis on Saturday urged European governments to welcome migrants instead of viewing them as invaders, striding into in a hugely sensitive political debate again inflamed by mass arrivals on the second day of his visit to France's Mediterranean port of Marseille. The...
KANO, Nigeria - Gunmen have kidnapped more than 30 people, including at least 24 female students, in a raid in and around a university in northwest Nigeria's Zamfara state, residents said Saturday. Dozens of gunmen from criminal gangs called bandits stormed Sabon Gida village on the edge of a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - British police on Friday released new pictures and renewed their appeal for information into the death of a 10-year-old girl, whose father will face trial for her murder. Sara Sharif's body was discovered at her family's home in southern England on August 10. A post-mortem...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian missile attack Friday struck the headquarters of Moscow's Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea, leaving one missing and sparking a fire in Kyiv's latest assault on the peninsula. The Ukrainian army claimed responsibility for the strike, saying it took place at around 0900...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African poultry farmers have warned of possible chicken and egg shortages as they battle what the industry says is the worst bird flu outbreak ever to hit the country. Producer Quantum Foods said on Friday that this year it had lost almost two million chickens --...
Pope Francis headed Friday to Marseille for a two-day visit focused on the Mediterranean and migration, bringing a message of tolerance amid bitter debate over how Europe manages asylum seekers. Marseille was decked out in the yellow and white colours of the Vatican for the first visit by a pope to...
WASHINGTON, United States - The United States and China on Friday announced two new working groups on economic and financial policy, in the latest effort to stabilize fraught relations between the world's biggest economies. The formation of the groups was agreed during talks in July between US...
BENGHAZI, Libya - Libya's eastern-based administration said on Friday that it would host an international conference next month in the flood-hit port city of Derna to aid reconstruction efforts. A tsunami-sized flash flood broke through two ageing dams upstream from Derna after a hurricane-strength...
Lubao-MCFASolver Tech Centrale is ready to shock the world when it makes its debut in the 2023 FIBA 3x3 World Tour Chooks-to-Go Cebu Masters this weekend. Lubao-MCFASolver Tech Centrale The Philippine club will have to top the qualifying draw to earn its spot in the main draw, but the squad led by...
(From L) Britain's Queen Camilla, Britain's King Charles III, French President Emmanuel Macron and French President's wife Brigitte Macron pose on the steps of the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, on September 21, 2023, before departing for Bordeaux, where they'll continue their three day state...
