France's President Emmanuel Macron greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as he arrives at presidential Elysee Palace in Paris on July 28, 2022. Bertrand GUAY / AFP PARIS, France -- French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday hosts Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for talks in...
ROME, Italy -- Pope Francis is due to leave hospital Friday, nine days after a hernia operation, and return to the Vatican, where his health will be under increasing scrutiny ahead of a busy summer. The 86-year-old has suffered a series of health issues since his election in 2013, from hip problems,...
Stray dogs roam along the Arabian Sea's coast, at the Zero Point in Badin district, Sindh province on June 15, 2023. Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP MANDVI, India -- Cyclone Biparjoy slammed into the Indian coast with powerful winds, sowing fear and prompting evacuations, but began weakening in the early...
People fill plastic jugs with water at a neighbourhood water tank in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on June 11, 2023. Delil SOULEIMAN / AFP BRUSSELS, Belgium -- International donors led by the EU on Thursday pledged 5.6 billion euros ($6.1 billion) for Syrian refugees, but Brussels stressed...
Singapore Police Force (SPF) officers patrol with a police robot at Changi Airport in Singapore on June 15, 2023. Kua Chee Siong / The Straits Times / AFP SINGAPORE, Singapore -- Singapore will "progressively deploy" more patrol robots across the city-state, police said Thursday, after more than...
PARIS, France -- Average global temperatures at the start of June were the warmest the European Union's climate monitoring unit has ever recorded for the period, trouncing previous records by a "substantial margin", it said on Thursday. The news comes as the El Nino climate phenomenon has officially...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the release of the 2023 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report at the State Department in Washington, DC, June 15, 2023. SAUL LOEB / AFP WASHINGTON, United States -- The United States on Thursday denounced the scourge of human trafficking, calling out...
Smoke comes out of a car following a road accident that left 15 dead near Carberry, west of Winnipeg, Canada on June 15, 2023. Nirmesh VADERA / AFP MONTREAL, Canada -- A semi-trailer truck and a bus carrying seniors collided in central Canada's Manitoba province on Thursday, killing at least 15...
TOKYO, Japan - A researcher from China was arrested in Japan on Thursday for allegedly leaking information on sensitive technology to a Chinese company, police in Tokyo said. The 59-year-old man, who worked at a Japanese research institute, has been held on suspicion of violating unfair...
VATICAN CITY, Â Holy See -Â Pope Francis, 86, will be discharged on Friday from the Rome hospital where he underwent abdominal surgery last week, the Vatican said. "The medical team that is following Pope Francis has confirmed the Holy Father's discharge" from Rome's Gemelli hospital for...
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea's military said Thursday, shortly after Pyongyang warned of an "inevitable" response to ongoing US-South Korea joint military drills. South Korea and the United States, which have ramped up defence...
LONDON, United Kingdom - Boris Johnson deliberately lied to MPs about lockdown-breaking parties during the Covid pandemic that would have seen him face a 90-day suspension had he not quit as a lawmaker, a parliament committee ruled Thursday. The Privileges Committee, which probes breaches of...
