MANCHESTER, United States - Donald Trump was set to hold a final rally Monday in New Hampshire on the eve of the primary where polls show him likely to trounce the sole remaining challenger, Nikki Haley, for the Republican presidential nomination. Trump spent the first part of the day in New...
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry on Sunday said the death toll in the war-torn Palestinian territory breached 25,000 as Israel pushed its southward offensive and renewed bombardment in the north. Israel is pressing its push against Hamas in southern Gaza as it seeks to...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's top diplomat said her country is "ready to greet" Russian President Vladimir Putin, state media reported Sunday, in the latest sign of deepening ties between the two authoritarian states. Traditional allies Russia and North Korea have recently boosted ties, with...
ANKARA, Turkey - Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh has held a meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, diplomatic sources said Sunday, in the first official contact between the two for more than three months. Hamas's Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh (AFP/KARIM JAAFAR) Foreign Minister...
YANSHANPU, China - Authorities in central China's Henan Province were on Sunday looking into the cause of a night-time fire that killed 13 schoolchildren as they slept in a dormitory. Police stand outside a school where 13 people died in a fire in Yanshanpu, in China’s central Henan province on...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian plane believed to be carrying six people has crashed in mountainous northeastern Afghanistan, the air transport agency Rosaviatsia announced Sunday. The Falcon 10 "disappeared from the radar" and communication was lost on Saturday evening, the federal agency said....
MOSCOW, Russia - A Ukrainian strike on a market in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine left at least 18 people dead and 13 more wounded on Sunday, said the head of the Russian-controlledregion. Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed Donetsk region leader, said on Telegram that "at present, there are 18 dead...
MOSCOW, Russia - A blaze at a natural gas terminal in the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga on Sunday was caused by an "external factor", said Novatek, Russia's biggest exporter of liquified natural gas. This handout photograph published on the official Telegram account of the governor of the Leningrad...
YANSHANPU, China - Thirteen schoolchildren died in a dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday. Police stand outside a school where 13 people died in a fire in Yanshanpu in China’s central Henan province on January 20, 2024. Thirteen...
DAMASCUS, Syria - Iran on Saturday accused Israel of a strike in Damascus that killed five Revolutionary Guards members, and vowed to avenge the latest attack on the Islamic republic's personnel abroad. Security and emergency personnel cordon-off the area surrounding a building destroyed in a...
WASHINGTON, United States - Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley turned a spotlight on Donald Trump's mental fitness Saturday, after the former president falsely accused her of failing to stop the violent assault on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Trump, speaking Friday at a campaign...
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia- Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Saturday said neighbouring Ukraine was not a sovereign nation but was under the absolute control of the United States. Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico gives a press conference with his Hungarian counterpart (not in picture) at...
