Fukushima Nuclear Plant in Japan (Photo from AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- Japan will begin releasing a second batch of wastewater from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in August. On August 24, Japan began...
A woman wearing a face mask is seen on a street in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Dec. 16, 2022. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua) LOS ANGELES, United States -- SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands -- A gunman dressed in combat gear and wearing a bulletproof vest went on a shooting rampage at a house and a hospital in Rotterdam Thursday, killing a 14-year-old girl, her mother, and a teacher. Dutch police said they were still investigating the motive for the twin attacks...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- Six teenagers kidnapped in Mexico's violence-racked northern state of Zacatecas are confirmed dead, authorities said Thursday -- the latest abduction of youths to shock the Latin American nation. Six bodies found the previous day have been identified as those of the...
Asylum seekers walk along the road where thousands are living with out shelter and exposed to the elements following the burning down of their camp, near the Kara Tepe camp on the island of Lesbos on September 13, 2020. AFP / LOUISA GOULIAMAKI BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union was poised...
Flowers are pictured near the scene of the murder of 15-year-old Elianne Andam, cose to the Whitgift Centre on Wellesley Road in Croydon, south London, on September 28, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) LONDON, United Kingdom -- A judge in western England on Thursday sentenced a teenager who...
The US Capitol is seen as a government shut down looms in Washington, DC, on September 28, 2023. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP) WASHINGTON, United States -- The US government began Thursday to inform workers of an impending shutdown that could see millions of federal employees and military personnel...
WASHINGTON, United States -- China is spending billions of dollars globally to spread disinformation and threatening to cause a "sharp contraction" in freedom of speech around the world, warned a US State Department report published Thursday. China's "global information manipulation is not simply a...
US President Joe Biden (Photo by AFP) TEMPE, United States -- President Joe Biden launched a blistering personal attack on "extremist" Donald Trump Thursday, accusing his likely 2024 challenger of plotting to subvert the US constitution if he wins a return to power next year. The Democrat said in a...
LONDON, United Kingdom - British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in six of the eight "Harry Potter" films, has died in hospital aged 82, his family announced Thursday. Michael Gambon Gambon won four television BAFTAs and an Olivier award during a...
MADRID, Spain - A 14-year-old, described by fellow pupils as hot-headed, on Thursday stabbed three teachers and two students in a school in southern Spain before being overpowered, police said. The boy, who has not been named, allegedly stabbed the five victims repeatedly shortly after classes...
NEW DELHI, India - India on Thursday mourned the death of scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, the architect of the 1960s "green revolution" that brought an end to the chronic food shortages then plaguing the country. Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan The plant geneticist died at the age...
