LONDON, United Kingdom - Train drivers belonging to Britain's Aslef union on Friday voted to continue strike action for the next six months in a long-running dispute over pay that has caused chaos on the country's rail network. The union said its members had not had a pay rise for nearly five years...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - King Charles III told world leaders Friday that the UN's COP28 talks in Dubai must be a turning point in the fight against climate change, as tough negotiations over the fate of fossil fuels began. Britain's King Charles III poses for a family photo with other...
MOSCOW, Russia - Russia said on Friday its troops were advancing in every section of the Ukrainian front, despite observers seeing little movement. TOPSHOT - This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on November 30, 2023 shows Ukrainian President...
JERUSALEM - Israel resumed its deadly bombardment of Gaza on Friday, vowing to destroy suspected Hamas positions in the densely-inhabited Palestinian territory after a week-long truce expired despite global calls for its extension. TOPSHOT - Israeli police and security forces stand next to the...
WASHINGTON, United States - Henry Kissinger, the instantly recognizable US diplomat whose unapologetic promotion of raw American power helped shape the post-World War II world, died Wednesday. He was 100. (FILES) Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger meets with the US President in the Oval...
NEW YORK, United States - Tesla began customer deliveries of the Cybertruck on Thursday, bringing to fruition an Elon Musk passion project that the billionaire boasts is stronger than bullets and faster than a Porsche. Elon Musk (Photo from AFP) "It's very rare that a product comes along that is...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden and his Angolan counterpart Joao Lourenco met at the White House on Thursday to discuss infrastructure and regional security, as the United States seeks to counter China's growing influence in Africa. US President Joe Biden shakes hands with Angolan...
PARIS, France– The European Space Agency announced on Thursday that the long-delayed first launch of its next-generation Ariane 6 rocket will take place between June 15 and July 31 next year. The rocket launcher system was initially planned to blast off in 2020, but the Covid-19...
TOKYO, Japan - A US Osprey military aircraft crashed on Wednesday off a Japanese island, killing one crew member and leaving five unaccounted for, the coastguard said, in the latest incident involving the tilt-rotor military aircraft. One unconscious person had been found in the sea near...
KYIV, Ukraine - Extreme weather that stormed through Ukraine's south earlier this week killed 12 people, while bad weather and the war with Russia have left more than 800 villages without power, Kyiv said on Wednesday. Hurricane winds and snowfall hit southern Ukraine, already severely...
BERLIN, Germany - Germany's domestic intelligence chief on Wednesday warned that the risk of Islamist attacks is "real and higher than it has been for a long time" because of the Israel-Hamas war. "We see calls in jihadist spectrums for attacks and for Al-Qaeda and IS to tag on to the Middle...
HELSINKI, Finland - Finland's Olkiluoto 3, the largest nuclear reactor in Europe, stopped production on Wednesday after a test caused the plant unit to unexpectedly go offline, its operator TVO said. "During the test, the plant was supposed to produce electricity normally," said...
