GUWAHATI, India - The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were missing after a flash flood caused by intense rainfall tore through a valley in the mountainous northeast Sikkim state. A video released by an Indian army spokesman showed a thick torrent of raging brown water sweeping down...
PARIS, France - France on Wednesday condemned the eight-year jail term handed down to exiled journalist Marina Ovsiannikova, who became famous for criticising Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "Russian propaganda is a weapon in its own right in Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine," Foreign...
MOSCOW, Russia - An exiled Russian reporter who protested Moscow's offensive in Ukraine live on state TV was handed over eight years jail in absentia Wednesday for spreading disinformation about Moscow's army. Marina Ovsyannikova, 45, held up a protest placard during an evening news programme...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday axed a key section of England's new high-speed railway, diverting billions of pounds instead into improving existing transport routes in the north. Addressing his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester,...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev attends a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart following their talks in Baku on June 13, 2023. (HANDOUT/ Azerbaijani presidency/AFP) BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has turned down an EU-hosted meeting with Armenia's Prime...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday vowed to introduce legislation to reduce tobacco use saying there was "no safe level of smoking." "I propose that in future, we raise the smoking age by one year every year. That means a 14-year-old today will never...
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin answers questions after attending the launch event for the technology hub "SCBX Next Tech" at the Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok on October 4, 2023, a day after a shooting at the mall that left two people dead. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)...
This handout photograph released by the Indian Army and taken on October 4, 2023, shows a flooded street in Lachen Valley, in India's Sikkim state following a flash flood caused by intense rainfall. (Photo by INDIAN ARMY / AFP) GUWAHATI, India -- The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were...
This handout image released by the Baltimore Police Department on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows police vehicles at the scene of an active shooter situation near Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, on October 3, 2023. (Photo by Handout / BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT / AFP) ...
This handout from the Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police released on October 3, 2023, shows the arrest of a 14-year-old boy suspect of a shooting at Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok. (Photo by Handout / Central Investigation Bureau of the Royal Thai Police / AFP) BANGKOK,...
Hunter Biden (Bloomberg photo) WILMINGTON, United States -- Hunter Biden pleaded not guilty Tuesday to an illegal gun possession charge, marking the latest chapter in his troubled life just as his father President Joe Biden accelerates his campaign for reelection next year. Hunter Biden, 53,...
This photograph taken on October 3, 2023 shows a placard reading "Bed bugs" on a mattress abandoned on the pavement in a street in Marseille, southern France. (Photo by Nicolas TUCAT / AFP) PARIS, France -- The French government said Tuesday it would host emergency meetings this week to examine...
