In this picture taken on June 8, 2023, a boy fills up a canister with water from a tanker truck on the outskirts of Yemen's third city of Taez. AHMAD AL-BASHA / AFP TAEZ, Yemen --Â Every day at dawn, 14-year-old Salim Mohammad leaves home to fetch water, trekking through his city in southwestern...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said Friday that conditions were not yet right for ASEAN to open high-level talks with Myanmar on the country's political situation. "We believe it would be premature to re-engage with the junta at a summit level or even at...
Residents are seen at the premises of an attack in Mpondwe, Uganda, on June 17, 2023 at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School. AFP MPONDWE, Uganda -- Militants linked to the Islamic State group hacked and burned 37 students to death in western Uganda in the country's worst such attack in over a...
(L-R) Britain's Prince George of Wales, Britain's Catherine, Princess of Wales, Britain's Prince Louis of Wales, Britain's Prince William, Prince of Wales, Britain's Princess Charlotte of Wales, Britain's King Charles III, Britain's Queen Camilla, Britain's Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh and...
TOKYO, Japan -- Japan's age of consent was raised from 13, among the world's lowest, to 16 years old on Friday as lawmakers passed key reforms to sex crime legislation. The reforms, which also clarify rape prosecution requirements and criminalise voyeurism, cleared parliament's upper house in a...
Children cycle along a street in Khartoum on June 14, 2023. AFP KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The conflict in Sudan has displaced more than one million children including 270,000 in the Darfur region, the United Nations children's agency said, warning many more were at "grave risk". Fighting has raged in...
VILLAROCHE, France -- France will pump hundreds of millions of euros into developing low-emission aircraft, engines and aviation fuel in the coming years, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday. Paris would dedicate 300 million euros ($330 million) to aircraft and motor research, Macron said during a...
LA ROCHE-SUR-YON, France -- A man confessed to the killing of his wife who has been missing for two and a half months in western France and has led investigators to her body, police said on Friday. Karine Esquivillon, 54, a mother-of-five, disappeared on March 27 without a trace from her home in the...
WASHINGTON, United States -- A "horrific" tornado ripped through a northern Texas town Thursday causing widespread destruction, with reports that at least three people were killed and up to 100 others injured. Several million Americans across multiple southern and midwestern states were under severe...
WASHINGTON, United States -- Babies born by cesarean section don't acquire the same healthy bacteria as those delivered vaginally, a setback to the development of their immune system thought to increase their risk of certain diseases later in life. But a new study, published Thursday in the journal...
PARIS, France -- Pressure to speed cuts in carbon pollution took a back seat at UN climate talks that ended late Thursday night, as emerging economies, including China, demanded that rich ones vastly scale up climate financing. The stand-off over 10 days of technical negotiations in Bonn stymied...
A surfer holds his board in front of the sea on Castelo beach in Costa da Caparica on May 4, 2023. Patricia DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP UNITED NATIONS, United States -- The world's first international treaty to protect the high seas is scheduled to be adopted Monday at the United Nations, a huge step for...
