TUNIS, Tunisia - Four Tunisian migrants died and 21 others were rescued after their boat sank while trying to reach the Italian coast, a judicial source said on Wednesday. The boat capsized after leaving Sfax in eastern Tunisia on Tuesday, court spokesman Faouzi Masmoudi told AFP, noting that an...
HANOI, Vietnam - Fifty-six people died in a fire at an apartment block in Vietnam's capital Hanoi, police said Wednesday, with witnesses reporting screams from inside and a small boy thrown from the building. Vietnam's deadliest fire in 20 years started just before midnight on Tuesday (1700 GMT) in...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that visiting North Korean leader Kim Jong Un would oversee a display of the potential of Russian warships in the Far East. "There is also a military component in Vladivostok, on the lines of the defence ministry, but it is simply to...
This handout picture taken on September 12, 2023 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 13 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (R) alongside Alexander Kozlov, minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia, inspecting Russian guard of honor at...
This picture taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) on September 13, 2023 shows rescue workers carrying victims following a major fire at an apartment block in Hanoi. (Photo by STRINGER / Vietnam News Agency / AFP) HANOI, Vietnam - Dozens of people have been killed after a huge fire at...
PARIS, France -- Replacing half of the pork, chicken, beef and milk products we consume with plant-based alternatives could reduce global greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and related land use by nearly a third, and virtually halt forest loss, according to research published on Tuesday....
GENEVA, Switzerland -- A third of the world's population is still without access to the internet, even though the number of people connected has never been so high, according to the latest UN statistics published on Tuesday. Around 100 million more people are able to access the internet since last...
PARIS, France -- French regulators on Tuesday ordered Apple to halt sales of the iPhone 12 for emitting too much electromagnetic radiation, and to fix existing handsets. The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits more electromagnetic waves...
This handout photograph released on September 12, 2023 by ETH Zurich shows the 'mythen' electric vehicle during test at Dubendorf airport. (Photo by ALESSANDRO DELLA BELLA / ETH ZURICH / AFP) GENEVA, Switzerland -- From zero to 100 km/h in less than a second: a racing car built by students has...
Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods in eastern Libya killed more than 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone, the emergency services of the Tripoli-based government said on September 12....
US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside of his office at the US Capitol Building on September 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he endorsed launching a formal impeachment inquiry into US President Joe Biden. (Photo by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Far Eastern Federal University campus on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un departed Pyongyang on September 12, 2023 on a train to Russia...
