KYIV, Ukraine - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday thanked his South Korean counterpart Yoon Suk Yeol for a substantial first visit to his war-torn country. "Today, during this first visit of the President of the Republic of Korea to Ukraine in the history of our relations, we...
A 51-year-old Filipina was found dead in a pier in Hong Kong on Thursday, July 14, Hong Kong authorities said. A concerned citizen discovered the cadaver of a woman in a corner of Tsing Yi Public Pier at around 6:37 a.m. Hong Kong firefighters immediately responded to the scene where they recovered...
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The top US and Chinese diplomats met Thursday for the second time in as many months, seeking to manage tensions that risk flaring anew over alleged Chinese hacking. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Wang Yi, China's top foreign policy official, saw each other on the...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Hospital doctors in England on Thursday staged the biggest walkout in the history of the UK's state-funded National Health Service, prompting fears for patient safety. The unprecedented five-day stoppage over pay and staff retention is the latest in eight months of...
PARIS, France - The combination of "warp speed" advances in neurotechnology, such as brain implants or scans that can increasingly peek inside minds, and artificial intelligence poses a threat to mental privacy, UNESCO warned on Thursday. The UN's agency for science and culture has started...
GENEVA, Switzerland - "The end of AIDS" is still possible by 2030, the United Nations insisted Thursday, but cautioned that the world's deadliest pandemic could only be halted if leaders grasped the opportunity. "AIDS can be ended by 2030," the UNAIDS agency said as it outlined a roadmap of...
PARIS, France - French prosecutors said Thursday they had opened an investigation after the discovery of a severed fingertip in a letter addressed to the presidential palace. The gruesome find was reported by staff working for President Emmanuel Macron at the beginning of the week, with police...
VILNUS, Lithuania - France will provide Ukraine with SCALP long-range cruise missiles to help Kyiv's forces strike targets deep behind Russian lines, President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday. Arriving at a NATO summit focused on Kyiv's battle against Moscow's invasion, Macron said Paris would send...
MOSCOW, Russia - A Russian official tasked with organising military recruitment was shot dead in the southwestern city of Krasnodar, authorities said, as the army looks to mobilise forces to fight in Ukraine. The body of a 42-year-old man with "gunshot wounds" was found on Monday morning, the...
VILNUS, Lithuania - A frustrated President Volodymyr Zelensky launched a furious broadside against Ukraine's NATO allies Tuesday as they began a summit still unsure how to advance Kyiv's membership bid. Zelensky, who will come to Vilnius during the two-day summit, denounced as "absurd" the...
The United Nations (UN) urged world leaders to work double time in implementing the measures in mitigating climate change as the world risks "big misses" across its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2023: Special Edition, the UN said that...
PARIS, France -- The Threads app launched by Instagram as a rival to Twitter has signed up more than 100 million users in less than five days, data tracking websites said on Monday, smashing the record of AI tool ChatGPT for fastest-growing consumer app. While ChatGPT took two months to hit the 100...
