TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwan's Vice President William Lai flies to the United States on Saturday in a sensitive trip that has angered Chinese officials. The democratic island is claimed by China, which has vowed to take the territory one day -- by force, if necessary -- and has ramped up political...
LAHAINA, United States - Anger was growing Saturday over the official response to a horrific wildfire that levelled a Hawaiian town, killing at least 80 people as it consumed everything in its path. Over 2,200 structures were damaged or destroyed in the fire that tore through Lahaina, the...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia air defense forces shot down three Ukrainian missiles over a bridge connecting Moscow-annexed Crimea to the Russian mainland, an official said on Saturday. "Air defence forces shot down two enemy missiles over the Kerch Strait. The Crimean bridge was not damaged,"...
PARIS, France - The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France's most emblematic symbol, was evacuated for several hours on Saturday after a bomb alert. SETE, the body running the site which draws millions of visitors every year, said bomb disposal experts and police scoured the area, including a...
VIENNA, Austria - At least 385 Ukrainian children deported to Russia have been returned home, an Austria-based international charity involved in some of the repatriations confirmed Friday. According to Kyiv, more than 19,000 Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia since the February 2022...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Hospital doctors in England on Friday launched their latest walkout as the government said their strike to demand a 35-percent pay increase served "only to harm patients." The four-day stoppage comes with health chiefs estimating that the repeated industrial action had cost...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Climate activists who on Friday scaled down from a bridge in the heart of Basel, blocking oil tankers and other vessels on the Rhine for hours, have ended their operation, organisers said. "The blockade has been lifted," the Collective Climate Justice said shortly after 2:00...
KYIV, Ukraine - Kyiv said Friday that Russian forces had fired four Kinzhal hypersonic missiles at an airfield in western Ukraine, an attack that regional officials earlier reported had left one child dead. "One Kh-47 missile was destroyed within the Kyiv region. The rest hit near the airfield....
WINTZENHEIM, France - French prosecutors said Friday they had opened a manslaughter investigation into the death of 11 people in a fire in a holiday home which failed to meet safety standards. Wednesday's fire, near Colmar in eastern France, was the deadliest such disaster in the country since a...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday dismissed officials responsible for military conscription in each region of the country, citing corruption allegations that he said could amount to treason. "We are dismissing all regional military commissars," Zelensky said in a post...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains have killed five people and forced the evacuation of around 40,000 others in Myanmar, officials said Friday. Footage from Rakhine state, which was ravaged in May by Cyclone Mocha, showed large areas of villages and farmland submerged...
WASHINGTON, United States -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Thursday for a peaceful solution to reverse Niger's coup after the West African bloc ECOWAS approved a "standby" military force. "The United States appreciates the determination of ECOWAS to explore all options for the...
