SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has sent athletes to a taekwondo competition in Kazakhstan, a photo from organizers showed Saturday, the first time in years that Pyongyang has allowed a delegation to travel overseas. The country has been under a rigid self-imposed Covid-19 blockade since...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Elon Musk said Friday his social media company X would scrap a feature that allows users to block posts from specific accounts. "Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs," Musk posted, indicating the option would still be available for "direct...
TOULOUSE, France - A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris's emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, died on Friday in the Pyrenees mountain range...
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens on Saturday, authorities said, hours after President Vladimir Putin met Moscow's top army commanders. Chernihiv, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Kyiv...
BEIJING, China - China held air and sea drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it said was a "stern warning" after the island's vice president visited the United States. William Lai -- the frontrunner in Taiwan's presidential election next year and a vocal opponent of Beijing's claims to...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian air accident investigators were analyzing on Friday the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of a light plane that crashed into a road near the capital, killing all eight people on board and two on the ground. The Beechcraft Model 390 aircraft exploded into a...
MOSCOW, Russia - Ukrainian forces crossed into the Russian-occupied east bank of Kherson region and took positions there, the region's Russian-installed governor said Friday. He said Ukrainian "sabotage groups" had managed to hide out on the outskirts of the Russian-controlled town of Kozachi...
BANGKOK, Thailand - A huge black statue of an emaciated, winged figure with golden fangs and scarlet talons glares down on a busy Bangkok street, its sudden appearance triggering alarm and calls for its removal. Bangkok authorities have ordered an investigation after the five-metre-tall Kru...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan scrambled fighter jets on Friday after Russian patrol aircraft were seen off the Sea of Japan and East China Sea, the country's Joint Staff said. Two planes flew along the coast between Japan's central and southern regions, passing through the Tsushima Strait and returning...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian drones targeting Moscow and its Black Sea Fleet, officials said Friday, the latest in a surge of attacks on the capital and the flashpoint waterway. The drone assaults came as a Russian-proxy official confirmed speculation that Ukrainian...
Search and recovery team members, accompanied by cadaver dogs, check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui Fires in Lahaina, West Maui, Hawaii, August 17, 2023. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) LOS ANGELES, United States -- The embattled head of Maui's emergency management agency,...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US President Joe Biden on Friday will announce new security cooperation at a first-of-a-kind three-way summit with the leaders of Japan and South Korea, hoping to send a message of strength to China which has already made clear its displeasure. The summit at the Camp...
