BERLIN, Germany -- Former chancellor Angela Merkel will receive Germany's highest honour on Monday despite facing continued criticism of her legacy since leaving office, especially over her policy towards Moscow. Merkel, who led Europe's biggest economy from 2005 to 2021, is due to receive the...
SAN PEDRO, United States -- Floating in the port of Los Angeles, a strange-looking barge covered with pipes and tanks contains a concept that scientists hope to make waves: a new way to use the ocean as a vast carbon dioxide sponge to tackle global warming. Scientists from University of California...
STARBASE, United States -- SpaceX is counting down to the first test flight on Monday of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, designed to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars and beyond. The giant rocket is scheduled to blast off from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas, at...
KARUIZAWA, Japan -- The G7's top diplomats began talks in Japan on Monday, looking to project a unified message on concerns about China after controversial remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron. The foreign ministers are keen to move past the firestorm created by Macron's assertion, following...
KHARTOUM, Sudan --Â Explosions rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum Monday as fighting between the army and paramilitary forces led by rival generals raged for a third day with the death toll surpassing 100. The violence erupted Saturday after weeks of power struggles between the two generals who...
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's junta on Monday began releasing more than 3,000 prisoners to mark the Buddhist New Year, without specifying whether those jailed in its bloody crackdown on dissent would be freed. The military has arrested thousands since its coup more than two years ago, which plunged...
NAIROBI, Kenya- The independent Committee to Protect Journalists and the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission have condemned a swathe of arrests of journalists, including some sympathetic to the Amhara ethnic group. In a statement the CPJ said "at least eight journalists" had been arrested since April...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Three Sudanese civilians were killed Saturday as fighting raged between the regular army and paramilitaries in Khartoum and other cities, the doctors' union said. In a statement on Facebook, the medics said "two people were killed in Khartoum airport" and another person was killed...
HANOI, Vietnam- The United States and Vietnam said Saturday they hoped to upgrade diplomatic ties, days after a flare-up in tensions with China over Taiwan. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, passing through Hanoi on his way to a Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers' meeting in Japan, met...
KHARTOUM, Sudan- Sudan's paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo vowed Saturday that his fighters will keep on fighting until "all army bases are captured." "We will not stop fighting until we capture all the army bases and the honourable members of the armed forces join us," Daglo told Al...
WASHINGTON, United States- Violent clashes in Sudan between the army and paramilitary groups must end "immediately," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Saturday. The top US diplomat said he was "deeply concerned" about the reports of fighting. He said US embassy staff in the capital Khartoum...
BRASILIA, Brazil -- A Supreme Court judge ordered Brazil's ex-president Jair Bolsonaro Friday to face questioning by police over his supporters' invasion of the presidential palace, Congress and high court on January 8. Justice Alexandre de Moraes ruled Bolsonaro had to appear before federal police...
