ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Turkey's ailing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday will try to offset his absence from the campaign trail weeks before crucial elections by unveiling a Russian-built nuclear plant by video link. Erdogan is also expected to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden announced Tuesday he is running for re-election in 2024, plunging at the record age of 80 into a ferocious new White House campaign "to finish the job." "Every generation has a moment where they have had to stand up for democracy. To stand up for...
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has charged two prominent actresses for publishing pictures of themselves flouting the country's dress code for women, just weeks after announcing a crackdown on breaches, local media reported. Police in Tehran have referred the case against Katayoun Riahi and Pantea...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - The EU's 27 member countries gave final approval Tuesday to a sweeping reform of the bloc's carbon market to accelerate the reduction in greenhouse gases, including a new carbon border tax on imports. The sign-off, in a Luxembourg meeting of EU agriculture ministers,...
SINGAPORE, Singapore - The United Nations Human Rights Office pressed Singapore on Tuesday to "urgently reconsider" its scheduled execution of a man over one kilogram of cannabis. Singaporean Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, is set to be hanged on Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiracy to traffic...
GENEVA, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said Tuesday that fighters in conflict-ravaged Sudan had occupied the national public laboratory holding samples of diseases including polio and measles, creating an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation. Fighters "kicked out all the...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak sought to repair the government's tarnished economic record Monday, reaching out to the business community rocked by a scandal engulfing the Confederation of British Industry. Sunak's Conservatives and the main opposition Labour party are...
MALINDI, Kenya -- Kenyan President William Ruto on Monday vowed to crack down on "unacceptable" religious movements after police discovered the bodies of 51 people suspected of belonging to a Christian cult that practised starvation. A major search is underway in a forest near the coastal town of...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Multiple nations pushed on Monday with frantic evacuations of their citizens from chaos-torn Sudan, where fighting raged for a 10th day between forces loyal to two rival generals. As army and paramilitary forces again clashed in Khartoum and across the country, terrified Sudanese...
KATHMANDU, Nepal -- Nepal has issued a record 454 permits to climb Mount Everest this spring, officials said Monday, four years after at least four deaths on the world's highest peak were blamed on overcrowding. "This is the highest number of permits the department has issued to summit Mount...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven "very sharp" rises in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25. Cases in Pakistan last year, after devastating floods left a third of the country under water,...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol flew to Washington Monday for a six-day state visit, as the allies move to bulk up military cooperation over North Korea's expanding nuclear threats. Pyongyang has conducted another record-breaking string of sanctions-defying launches this...
