VENICE, Italy - The Venice overpass from which a bus plunged killing 21 people this week had been earmarked for renovation for years and had a hole in the barrier which was due to be closed, it emerged Thursday. (Photo from AFP) A repair project was launched in 2016 but works only began...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Emirati energy giant ADNOC said Thursday it had awarded contracts to build a major gas project, just a few weeks before the Gulf state hosts the COP28 climate conference. The company said it would invest in the Hail and Ghasha offshore fields, pledging that it...
PARIS, France - The United States offered no fresh cash to the world's largest climate fund on Thursday, overshadowing pledges of financial support for nations most vulnerable to global warming and infuriating campaigners. The Green Climate Fund (GCF), seen as a key element of the landmark...
BEIJING, China - Beijing lashed out Wednesday at Washington following US sanctions on a China-based drug network over the production of chemicals believed to fuel the fentanyl crisis, saying the opioid problem was "rooted in" the United States. The US administration of President Joe Biden...
GUWAHATI, India - The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were missing after a flash flood caused by intense rainfall tore through a valley in the mountainous northeast Sikkim state. A video released by an Indian army spokesman showed a thick torrent of raging brown water sweeping down...
PARIS, France - France on Wednesday condemned the eight-year jail term handed down to exiled journalist Marina Ovsiannikova, who became famous for criticising Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "Russian propaganda is a weapon in its own right in Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine," Foreign...
MOSCOW, Russia - An exiled Russian reporter who protested Moscow's offensive in Ukraine live on state TV was handed over eight years jail in absentia Wednesday for spreading disinformation about Moscow's army. Marina Ovsyannikova, 45, held up a protest placard during an evening news programme...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday axed a key section of England's new high-speed railway, diverting billions of pounds instead into improving existing transport routes in the north. Addressing his Conservative party's annual conference in Manchester,...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev attends a joint press conference with his Turkish counterpart following their talks in Baku on June 13, 2023. (HANDOUT/ Azerbaijani presidency/AFP) BAKU, Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev has turned down an EU-hosted meeting with Armenia's Prime...
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday vowed to introduce legislation to reduce tobacco use saying there was "no safe level of smoking." "I propose that in future, we raise the smoking age by one year every year. That means a 14-year-old today will never...
Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin answers questions after attending the launch event for the technology hub "SCBX Next Tech" at the Siam Paragon shopping centre in Bangkok on October 4, 2023, a day after a shooting at the mall that left two people dead. (Photo by Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP)...
This handout photograph released by the Indian Army and taken on October 4, 2023, shows a flooded street in Lachen Valley, in India's Sikkim state following a flash flood caused by intense rainfall. (Photo by INDIAN ARMY / AFP) GUWAHATI, India -- The Indian army said Wednesday that 23 soldiers were...
