The UN Security Council meets at UN headquarters in New York on August 17, 2023, to discuss the situation in North Korea. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) UNITED NATIONS , United States -- North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council Thursday of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while...
ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey warned Moscow to avoid further escalations after a Turkish-owned cargo vessel was attacked by the Russian navy last weekend, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's office said Thursday. "After the (Russian) intervention, our interlocutors in the Russian Federation were warned...
GENEVA, Switzerland -- Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Thursday a deal aimed to bring long-term preventative HIV treatment to vulnerable populations was on hold after the drugmaker imposed pricing confidentiality. In a statement, MSF called on ViiV Healthcare, to withdraw unacceptable conditions...
UNITED NATIONS, United States -- A total of 62 humanitarian aid workers have died this year around the world, the United Nations said Thursday as it prepared to mark 20 years since a devastating attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad. The UN observes World Humanitarian Day on August 19 each year...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Lawyers for Donald Trump on Thursday requested an April 2026 trial date on the federal charges that he conspired to overturn the 2020 election -- long after next year's presidential vote. The request comes as lead prosecutor Jack Smith is pushing for a January 2 start...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Sweden's intelligence agency heightened its terror alert level Thursday to four on a scale of five after angry reactions in the Muslim world to Koran burnings in Sweden made the country a "prioritised target". The level was increased from "elevated", where it had been since...
PARIS, France - France's government said Thursday it would hold a crisis meeting to tackle a heatwave that could reach its high point at the weekend, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne's office told AFP Thursday. Senior civil servants from Borne's office as well as the interior, health, agriculture and...
KYIV - Ukraine said Thursday that Russian shelling in the northern region of Kharkiv had killed an elderly woman, while Moscow announced its forces had taken up improved positions along the frontline. The Russian military has said over recent days it is advancing towards Kupiansk, a frontline town...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A light plane crashed into a street in Malaysia's central Selangor state on Thursday, killing eight people on board and two motorists on the ground, the local police chief said. Members of the fire and rescue department inspect the crash site of a plane in Shah Alam,...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden and his wife Jill Biden will visit Hawaii next week after the deadliest US wildfire in over a century killed more than 100 people there, the White House said Wednesday. Biden and the first lady on Monday will "meet with first responders, survivors, as...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken reiterated Tuesday that any greater relationship with Afghanistan's Taliban rulers was contingent on improving treatment of women, two years after the movement toppled the US-backed government. No country has recognized the Taliban...
YANGON, Myanmar - The death toll from a landslide at an unregulated jade mine in a remote part of Myanmar has hit at least 31, with eight people still missing, rescuers said Wednesday. The disaster struck on Sunday outside northern Kachin's Hpakant township, after torrential rain and floods ravaged...
