Health workers wearing protective gears shift a man with symptoms of Nipah virus to an isolation ward at a government hospital in Kozhikode in south Indian state of Kerala on September 16, 2023. (Photo by AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- No new cases of Nipah virus have been detected in India since...
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident on October 03, 2023 in Mestre, near Venice. At least 20 people were killed Tuesday when a bus plunged off a bridge in the northern Italian city of Venice, a city hall spokesman told AFP. The crash caused "at least 20 deaths, including two children,"...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Kevin McCarthy was axed Tuesday as speaker of the US House of Representatives in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right Republicans accusing him of a string of broken promises and furious at his cooperation with Democrats. The maneuver laid bare the chaotic levels of...
MADRID, Spain - A Spanish court on Tuesday opened a manslaughter probe into a deadly fire that killed 13 people inside a nightclub which had ignored an earlier closure order. The court in Murcia, where the blaze broke out early Sunday, said it had opened the investigation to "clarify the facts...
BANGKOK, Thailand - One person was killed and six wounded in a shooting in a packed Bangkok shopping mall on Tuesday, a Thai medical official said in revising down an earlier toll, with police arresting a 14-year-old suspect. Hundreds of people fled the upmarket Siam Paragon mall in the heart...
MADRID - Spain's King Felipe VI on Tuesday tasked outgoing Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez with trying to form a government, the parliamentary speaker said. If Sanchez is to be reinstated as premier, he will need to pass a key parliamentary vote for which he will need the backing of a hard...
Armenian lawmakers attend a plenary session at the parliament in Yerevan on October 3, 2023. (KAREN MINASYAN/AFP) YEREVAN, Armenia - Armenian lawmakers approved a key step towards joining the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday, a move that is set to escalate tensions with the...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said he was visiting frontline areas in eastern Ukraine where Russian forces have been pressuring Kyiv's troops. "Today we are visiting our brigades performing combat missions in one of the hottest areas -- Kupiansk-Lyman," Zelensky said in a...
MOSCOW, Russia - The Kremlin on Tuesday criticised a decision by Armenia's parliament to move towards joining the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We are doubtful that from the point of view of bilateral relations,...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The new head of the UN's migration agency will visit Africa on her first official trip from Sunday to highlight the scale of migration happening around the continent. Amy Pope, the first woman elected to lead the International Organization for Migration, will then head to...
KYIV, Ukraine - President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday told a gathering of European Union foreign ministers in Kyiv that the length of the war with Russia will depend on support Ukraine receives from allies. The ministers were in Kyiv to signal the bloc's long-term support for Ukraine, convening...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Lebanese security forces said Monday they had arrested two Syrian nationals previously based in Libya who were involved in smuggling people from the North African country to Europe. The men were arrested in Lebanon's east, an area near the Syrian border, after they entered the...
