PARIS, France - King Charles III on Thursday said France and the UK should team up on a new pact to battle the climate emergency, as he hailed the "indispensable" cross-Channel partnership in a rapturously received speech at the French Senate. Charles won a standing ovation from lawmakers...
WASHINGTON, United States - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington on Thursday for his second wartime visit, seeking fresh aid to fight Russian invaders despite signs of war fatigue among US lawmakers. After another overnight wave of deadly missile attacks on his country,...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine on Thursday warned that difficult winter months lay ahead after a "massive" Russian missile barrage targeted civilian infrastructure, leaving several dead and wounded in towns across Ukraine. Russia launched the strikes as Ukraine prepares for a third winter during...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia's government announced Thursday it was temporarily limiting exports of petrol and diesel fuel to avoid shortages on the domestic market. The exchange price of domestic petrol soared to a record high this week, in part due to a weaker ruble, rising global oil prices and...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine on Thursday said it had struck a military airfield on the Russia-annexed Crimean peninsula, the latest claimed attack on the Black Sea territory Kyiv has vowed to recapture. The Russian-installed authorities there immediately denied the claim. "On the night of September...
PARIS, France - King Charles III on Wednesday began his first state visit to France as monarch, a rescheduled trip aimed at showing the fundamentals of the cross-Channel alliance remain strong despite a litany of political tensions after Brexit. The trip was initially planned for March and was...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he hoped for a "peaceful" resolution to the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, without mentioning a ceasefire agreement between Armenian separatists and Azerbaijan. "We are in close contact with all the sides of the conflict: with...
TUNIS, Tunisia - A sudden power outage hit Tunisia Wednesday, causing a nationwide blackout for about three hours due to technical problems, the electricity and gas company STEG said. The outage came about 1:00 am (0000 GMT) "due to a sudden breakdown" in the Rades power plant in the southern...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Hospital chiefs on Wednesday warned of danger to patient safety from the latest doctors strike, the first time consultants and junior doctors in England have walked out at the same time. The doctors and government are deadlocked over the medics' pay demands amid the biggest...
PARIS, France - Four memorials to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda of more than 800,000 people, mainly Tutsi, were added to UNESCO's World Heritage list on Wednesday, the UN cultural body said. The sites at Nyamata, Murambi, Gisozi and Bisesero commemorating the mass killings were "just inscribed on the...
The United States on Wednesday announced $225 million in investments to support emerging democracies in the face of a rise in autocracies around the world. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), were to announce...
LONDON, United Kingdom -- AI is both a threat and an opportunity for journalism, with more than half of those surveyed for a new report saying they had concerns about its ethical implications on their work. While 85 percent of respondents had experimented with generative AI such as ChatGPT or...
