KABUL, Afghanistan—A landslide caused by heavy snowfall has killed 25 people and injured eight others in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan, a disaster management ministry spokesman said on Monday. Earth, snow and rubble swept through the village of Nakre in the Tatin valley of Nuristan...
YANGON, Myanmar—Myanmar's junta has sentenced to death three high-ranking officers who oversaw the surrender of a strategic town on the Chinese border to ethnic minority fighters last month, military sources told AFP. Hundreds of troops put down their weapons and handed over the town of...
HONG KONG, China—Fourteen people went on trial Monday in Hong Kong for allegedly planning to carry out a bomb attack to murder police officers during pro-democracy protests in 2019, with prosecutors invoking the city's anti-terrorism act. A man walks through the entrance to the High Court in...
WARSAW, Poland—Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya on Monday accused President Vladimir Putin of killing her husband and vowed to continue his work, three days after he died in a Russian Arctic prison. Protestors hold up placards, one which reads "We will go on" at a memorial on February...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands—Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki told the UN's top court Monday his people were suffering "colonialism and apartheid" under the Israelis, urging judges to order an immediate and unconditional end to the occupation. A Pro-Palestinian supporter holds a...
BRUSSELS,Belgium—Alexei Navalny's widow will meet European foreign ministers in Brussels on Monday, EU officials announced, as Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva cautioned against rushing to judgement over his death. This photograph taken on February 17, 2024, shows portrait...
NOVOOLEKSANDRIVKA, Donetsk Region, Ukraine—Russian troops launched multiple attacks to the west of recently captured Avdiivka in a bid to force more gains on the battlefield, a Ukrainian army spokesperson said Sunday. A view of the Avdiivka Coke and Chemical Plant in the frontline town of...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea—Fifty-three people have been killed in tribal violence in Papua New Guinea's highlands, police said, the latest in a string of mass deaths linked to long-running feuds in the region. Police Commissioner David Manning said on Sunday that officers and soldiers...
MADRID, Spain—Spain's opposition conservative party retained control of Galicia, its traditional stronghold, in a tight regional election on Sunday, a boost for its under-fire leader. Galician regional president of Spanish right-wing opposition party Partido Popular (PP) Alfonso Rueda (R)...
People hold signs outside the Russian Embassy in Washington, DC, on February 16, 2024, following the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Navalny died February 16 in the Arctic prison colony where he was serving a 19-year-term, Russia's federal penitentiary service said. (Photo by...
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron (C) takes part in a panel discussion during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, southern Germany, on February 16, 2024. The 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC) will run from February 16 to 18, 2024. (Photo by...
In this photo illustration, a video created by Open AI's newly released text-to-video "Sora" tool plays on a monitor in Washington, DC on February 16, 2024. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E, said it was testing "Sora," which would allow users to create realistic videos with...
