Japan is preparing for its second typhoon in a week, with airline companies canceling flights and rail operators planning to halt some operations. Typhoon Lan is forecast to make landfall Tuesday in central Japan near Osaka, the country’s second largest metropolitan area. The Japan...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See -- The number of migrants dying in the Mediterranean is an "open wound" for humanity, Pope Francis said Sunday after a week marked by a string of deadly shipwrecks. At his weekly Angelus prayer, the 86-year-old pontiff offered his prayers for the 41 people reported missing on...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia's next leader Hun Manet said he met China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in the capital Phnom Penh on Sunday and they pledged to boost ties between the two countries. Wang arrived in Cambodia on Saturday, the first Chinese official to visit since Hun Manet was appointed...
QUETTA, Pakistan -- Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) separatists attacked a convoy carrying Chinese engineers to the Beijing-financed Gwadar Port in Pakistan's southwest on Sunday, the group said. Various Baloch militant groups have claimed attacks on projects linked to the China-Pakistan Economic...
TOPSHOT - A Ukranian servicewoman pays her respect to the coffin of Daria Filipieva, a Ukrainian army combat medic who was killed in the Donetsk region, during her funeral at the Independence Square in Kyiv, on August 12, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Roman PILIPEY / AFP)...
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh -- At least 55 people have been killed and more than a million affected by two weeks of torrential rains causing floods and landslides in southeast Bangladesh, officials said Sunday. Administrators of four of the worst-hit districts said floods and landslides since...
SANAA, Yemen -- Lightning strikes killed four people and injured four others in separate accidents in Yemen's northern provinces, local health authorities said on Sunday. The accidents occurred on Saturday evening in the provinces of Hodeidah, Raymah, and al-Bayda. ...
BEIJING, China -- The death toll from a landslide triggered by heavy rains in northern China has risen sharply to at least 21, authorities said on Sunday, with six others missing. China has faced deadly floods and historic rainfall in recent weeks, with dozens killed in storms in the northern part...
Taylor Ganer and Hano Ganer search for their belongings in the ashes of their family's burnt-down house in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 11, 2023. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) Anger was growing Saturday over the official response to an inferno that...
BEIJING, China -- China on Sunday vowed "resolute and forceful measures" over a weekend trip by Taiwan Vice President William Lai to the United States it said it was closely monitoring. Lai -- the frontrunner in Taiwan's presidential elections next year -- is officially making only transit stops in...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's ruling coalition thwarted a challenge by an opposition alliance in state elections, official results showed Sunday, with analysts saying the win would buy him time to consolidate power in the largely Islamic Southeast Asian nation....
WASHINGTON, United States - The US government said Friday it will spend up to $1.2 billion for two pioneering facilities to vacuum carbon out of the air, a historic gamble on a still developing technology to combat global warming that is criticized by some experts. The two projects -- in Texas...
