TOMIOKA, Japan -- Japanese premier Fumio Kishida said Sunday his government has not yet decided when to begin releasing treated water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Media reports suggest that the discharge of some of the 1.34 million tonnes of water, which Japan...
Local residents clear debris and shattered glass of the windows at the site of a missile strike in Chernihiv, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP) CHERNIHIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv killed seven people and wounded 144 on Saturday,...
A wildfire rages out of control through forested slopes in La Matanza on the Canary island of Tenerife on August 19, 2023. (Photo by DESIREE MARTIN / AFP) LA OROTAVA, Spain - Firefighters made gains in their battle against a vast wildfire on Tenerife on Sunday after better-than-expected overnight...
The McDougall Creek wildfire burns in the hills West Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, on August 17, 2023, as seen from Kelowna. (Photo by Darren HULL / AFP) KELOWNA, Canada - Officials in western Canada's British Columbia implored tens of thousands of residents to heed warnings and evacuate...
A man walks along a street in Cabo San Lucas, Baja California State, Mexico, as rain and gusts of wind of Hurricane Hilary reach the area, on August 19, 2023. (Photo by Alfredo ESTRELLA / AFP) CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - States across the typically arid US southwest braced on Sunday for torrential...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea has sent athletes to a taekwondo competition in Kazakhstan, a photo from organizers showed Saturday, the first time in years that Pyongyang has allowed a delegation to travel overseas. The country has been under a rigid self-imposed Covid-19 blockade since...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Elon Musk said Friday his social media company X would scrap a feature that allows users to block posts from specific accounts. "Block is going to be deleted as a 'feature', except for DMs," Musk posted, indicating the option would still be available for "direct...
TOULOUSE, France - A former French army chief in charge of restoring Paris's emblematic Notre-Dame cathedral following a devastating 2019 fire has died during a mountain hike, prosecutors told AFP on Saturday. General Jean-Louis Georgelin, 74, died on Friday in the Pyrenees mountain range...
CHERNIHIV, Ukraine - A Russian missile strike on Ukraine's northern city of Chernihiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens on Saturday, authorities said, hours after President Vladimir Putin met Moscow's top army commanders. Chernihiv, some 150 kilometres (90 miles) north of Kyiv...
BEIJING, China - China held air and sea drills around Taiwan on Saturday, in what it said was a "stern warning" after the island's vice president visited the United States. William Lai -- the frontrunner in Taiwan's presidential election next year and a vocal opponent of Beijing's claims to...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Malaysian air accident investigators were analyzing on Friday the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of a light plane that crashed into a road near the capital, killing all eight people on board and two on the ground. The Beechcraft Model 390 aircraft exploded into a...
MOSCOW, Russia - Ukrainian forces crossed into the Russian-occupied east bank of Kherson region and took positions there, the region's Russian-installed governor said Friday. He said Ukrainian "sabotage groups" had managed to hide out on the outskirts of the Russian-controlled town of Kozachi...
