WASHINGTON, United States -- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has warned against Russia's Wagner mercenaries taking advantage of instability in coup-hit Niger, whose neighbor Mali has become a partner of Moscow. In an interview with the BBC released Tuesday, Blinken doubted that Wagner -- which...
MARSEILLE, FRANCE - Five French police were arrested on Tuesday over the death of a 27-year-old man in the southern city of Marseille in early July during nationwide rioting, prosecutors said. France was convulsed in late June and early July by violent rioting over the killing outside Paris on June...
SYDNEY, Australia - Western Australia said Tuesday it is axing a five-week-old law to protect Indigenous sites, introduced after Rio Tinto blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred rock shelter in the state. The decision to repeal the legislation was condemned by Indigenous groups, who complained of...
TBILISI, Georgia - Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili branded Russia an "aggressor" Tuesday as he marked 15 years since the two countries fought a war over a breakaway region. Russia sent thousands of troops into Georgia on August 8, 2008 after Tbilisi launched a large-scale military...
KYIV, Ukraine - Rescue workers combed through the rubble of damaged apartments in the city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, a day after Russian strikes killed at least seven people. The target of the missile attack was a command post of the Ukrainian armed forces, the Russian defence...
BEIJING — China renewed calls Tuesday for the Philippines to remove an ageing ship from a reef that Manila uses to press its stake in the Spratly Islands in defiance of Beijing's claim to nearly the entire South China Sea. The move comes after the Philippines accused the China Coast Guard of...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Police in London arrested a man Tuesday after a stabbing outside the British Museum which led to the evacuation and temporary closure of the popular tourist attraction. The incident unfolded at around 10:00 am (0900 GMT) on the street bordering the southern perimeter of the...
WASHINGTON, United States of America - President Joe Biden is set to begin a series of visits Monday touting his climate agenda in the southwestern United States, which has suffered a blistering summer of record-breaking heat. The first stop on his tour will be to the Grand Canyon in Arizona...
MOSCOW - Russia said Monday it plans to launch a lunar lander this week after multiple delays, hoping to return to the Moon for the first time in nearly fifty years. The launch, which is scheduled for the early hours of Friday, comes as Russia's Ukraine offensive stretches into a second year,...
LOS ANGELES, United States of America - Three people were killed in California when their helicopter crashed into a hillside after colliding with another chopper as the team battled a wildfire, emergency officials said early Monday. The helicopters were dispatched to fight a fire that had erupted...
KVIV, Ukraine - Ukraine said Monday that 22 of its soldiers had been freed from Russian captivity, the latest apparent prisoner swap between the two sides. "Today, another 22 Ukrainian soldiers were returned home from captivity," Andriy Yermak, the head of Ukraine's presidential office said in a...
MOSCOW - Russia said Monday its troops had advanced three kilometres (two miles) along the Kupiansk front in northeast Ukraine over the last three days, as it seeks to regain territories it lost earlier in its offensive. The city of Kupiansk and surrounding areas of Ukraine's Kharkiv region were...
