A member of the Cuban Red Cross works on a flooded street in Batabano, Mayabeque province, Cuba on August 29, 2023, during the passage of tropical storm Idalia. (Photo by YAMIL LAGE / AFP) ST. PETERSBURG, United States -- Hurricane Idalia intensified late Tuesday as it hurtled towards northwest...
A view of a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center (Moskva City) following a reported drone attack in Moscow on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) MOSCOW, Russia -- A Russian airport near the border with Estonia came under drone attack, the local...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin will not go to the funeral of Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died last week in a plane crash, the Kremlin said Tuesday. Prigozhin -- a Putin confidant turned "traitor" -- was killed last Wednesday two months after ordering...
VATICAN CITY, Holy See - The Vatican sought Tuesday to defuse a row with Ukraine after Kyiv accused Pope Francis of spreading "imperial propaganda" in a video message to young Catholic Russians. The pope told the group gathered in a Catholic church in St Petersburg that "you are children of...
PARIS, France - Nearly 2,000 people have been convicted in France over nationwide riots sparked in late June by the fatal police shooting of a teenager during a traffic stop near Paris, Justice Minister Eric Dupond-Moretti said on Tuesday. The minister had called for a "rapid, firm and...
BRUSSELS, Belgium - A forest blaze in Greece is "the largest wildfire ever recorded in the EU" and the bloc is mobilizing nearly half its firefighting air wing to tackle it, a European Commission spokesman said Tuesday. (Photo from AFP) Eleven planes and one helicopter from the EU fleet have...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Meta on Tuesday said it purged thousands of Facebook accounts that were part of a widespread online Chinese spam operation trying to covertly boost China and criticize the West. The campaign, which became known as "Spamouflage", was active across more than 50...
This picture shows a general view of the Emergency & Trauma Center of the Royal Darwin Hospital in Darwin on August 27, 2023, as rescue work in progress to transport those injured in the US Osprey military aircraft crash at a remote island north of Australia's mainland. Three US Marines died on...
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Foxconn's billionaire founder Terry Gou announced Monday that he will run for president of Taiwan as an independent candidate. Gou has long-running ambitions to become the leader of the self-ruled island, and sought the nomination of the main opposition Kuomintang party this year....
This photo illustration created in Washington, DC, on August 27, 2023, shows the mugshot of former US President Donald Trump next to a website called Trump Save America JFC, a joint fundraising committee on behalf of Donald J. Trump for President 2024, which is selling merchandise bearing his...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (AFP photo) NEW DELHI , India -- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Sunday for the African Union to be made a G20 member, while also pitching his country as the solution to supply chain woes ahead of the bloc's summit in New Delhi next month. The Group of...
Women wearing traditional Emirati Abaya, from a delegation of the United Arab Emirates, attend the Pope's the weekly general audience on November 27, 2019 at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican. / AFP / Tiziana FABI PARIS, France -- French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses...
