MOSCOW, Russia - Wives of Russians mobilised to fight in Ukraine symbolically laid flowers Saturday at the flame of the unknown soldier right beneath the walls of the Kremlin and demanded the return of their husbands from the front. Relatives of Russian soldiers, taking part in the so-called...
CHANIA, Greece - Washington's top diplomat Antony Blinken said Saturday that he wants to make sure the conflict in the Middle East "doesn't spread", as he held meetings in Turkey and Greece. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken waves as he boards a plane leaving Crete for Amman, on January 6, 2024,...
NEWTON, United States - Donald Trump hit the campaign trail Saturday in the first-in-the-nation presidential nominating state of Iowa, vowing to win "for the third time" as Americans marked the anniversary of the deadly assault on the US Capitol by a mob of his supporters. (FILES) Police detain a...
SAO PAULO (AFP) -- The first person to win the FIFA World Cup as both a player and coach, Mario Zagallo was as instrumental a figure as any in Brazil's rise to prominence as a global football power. This 12th of July 1998 file photo shows Brazilian national soccer team coach Mario Zagallo during...
KYIV, Ukraine - Russian officials in the southern border city of Belgorod offered to evacuate worried residents on Friday, an unprecedented announcement that follows waves of fatal Ukrainian attacks. A policeman stands in front of a heavily damaged residential building, three days after a...
BLUE BELL, United States - US President Joe Biden launched his harshest attack yet on Donald Trump as he kickstarted his 2024 reelection campaign Friday, accusing the Republican of echoing Nazi Germany and posing a threat to democracy. US President Joe Biden The 81-year-old Democrat branded...
LOS ANGELES, United States - A white US police officer was sentenced to 14 months in prison Friday over the 2019 death of a young Black man who was put in a police chokehold and injected with ketamine. The death of Elijah McClain in the western United States occurred months before the...
WASHINGTON, United States - US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized earlier this week due to complications from a medical procedure, the Pentagon said Friday, at a time when Washington is facing a growing crisis in the Middle East. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Austin was...
WASHINGTON, United States - The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to put back in place a near-total ban on abortion in the western state of Idaho while it hears an appeal against the law. The conservative-dominated court, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion in June 2022,...
PARIS, France - Google has begun limiting third-party cookies for some users of its Chrome web browser, a first step towards eventually abandoning the files that have raised privacy concerns. (Photo by JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP) Google, which announced...
NEW YORK, United States - An imam who was shot Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died, said a state's attorney who added that the killing did not initially appear to be driven by "bias" or domestic terrorism. The prosecutor said that the man, Hassan Sharif, was shot multiple times...
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - An Argentine court has approved the transfer of a grounded Venezuelan plane to US authorities, the justice ministry said Wednesday, in a long-running judicial and diplomatic saga also involving Iran. View of the Boeing 747-300 registrered number YV3531 of Venezuelan...
