WASHINGTON, United States - Apple said on Tuesday it will appeal a US import ban on its latest smartwatch models after the Biden administration opted to not veto a ruling on patent infringements. This illustration photo shows an Apple Watch 9 displaying the blood-oxygen level detection settings, in...
KYIV, Ukraine - A Russian strike on a train station filled with fleeing civilians in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson has killed at least one person and wounded four others, the interior minister said on Tuesday. "Kherson in the evening. Around 140 civilians waiting at the station for an...
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities said Tuesday that a singer named the best Spanish-language rapper by Rolling Stone did not commit suicide eight years ago but was in fact killed. This handout picture released by the Agencia Venezolana de Noticias (AVN) shows Venezuela's Attorney General,...
UNITED NATIONS, United States - The United Nations named an outgoing Dutch minister its humanitarian coordinator for Gaza on Tuesday following last week's watered-down Security Council resolution which called for aid to be delivered to the strip "at scale." Sigrid Kaag's appointment comes as the...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The United Nations said Tuesday it was "gravely concerned" by Israel's continued bombardment of the central Gaza Strip and urged Israeli forces to take all available measures to protect civilians. TOPSHOT - The shrouded bodies of Palestinians killed in nothern Gaza, that were...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The head of the WHO said Tuesday the world needs to properly prepare for future pandemics after finally ending three years of Covid "crisis, pain and loss," In his end-of-year message, World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said 2023 had marked a...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin on Tuesday acknowledged a Ukrainian attack had damaged a warship in the occupied Crimean port of Feodosia in what Ukraine and its Western allies called a major setback for the Russian navy. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhnyi gestures as...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday said he was "fine" after a "pretty exhausting" 20-day transfer to a penal colony beyond the Arctic Circle. Navalny's supporters said on Monday that the Kremlin critic, whose whereabouts had been unknown for more than two weeks,...
MEAUX, France - French police on Tuesday arrested a 33-year-old man with a history of psychiatric illness on suspicion of murdering his wife and their four children, a prosecutor said. The bodies were discovered on Christmas Day, the latest in a series of shocking cases around Paris in recent...
MUMBAI, India - India's navy said it is deploying three warships and reconnaissance aircraft in the Arabian Sea to "maintain a deterrent presence" after a string of recent shipping attacks. Three guided-missile destroyers as well as P8I long-range maritime reconnaissance aircraft were being...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's air force said Tuesday it had destroyed a Russian fleet ship off the Crimean peninsula suspected of carrying drones for use in Moscow's war against Kyiv. "Around 2:30 am (0030 GMT) on December 26, tactical aviation of the Air Force attacked with cruise missiles the...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The death toll after an explosion at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant in eastern Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 18 with dozens still being treated in hospital, a police official said Tuesday. The island of Sulawesi is a hub for the mineral-rich country's...
