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...
US Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. (Photo by Ed JONES / AFP) UNITED NATIONS, United States -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is set Wednesday to host a climate meeting marred at...
JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Indonesian court has sentenced a woman to two years in prison and handed her a heavy fine after she recited an Islamic prayer before eating pork in a viral TikTok video widely criticised in the Muslim-majority country. Lina Mukherjee, 33, was found guilty of "spreading...
X (formerly Twitter) (Photo from AFP) PARIS, France -- Elon Musk has suggested charging all users of his social media platform X, which would be the biggest shake-up since he took over the site then known as Twitter last October, but experts say he might struggle to get users on board. During a...
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- A report presented by France and Germany on Tuesday calls on the EU to pass a raft of reforms to be ready by 2030 to accept new members such as Ukraine. Experts from the two European heavyweights drew up the proposals aimed at streamlining the way the bloc works as Brussels...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Photo from AFP) MONTREAL, Canada -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday demanded that India treat with "utmost seriousness" Canada's allegations of New Delhi's possible involvement in the slaying of a Sikh exile, a concern echoed by Washington. Canada's...
