PARIS, France– Russia has cemented its position as the world's top grain exporter with the help of a bumper harvest and cut-rate prices while its war in Ukraine has upended the market. Ukraine was a major exporter of wheat and other food commodities to developing nations before Russia's...
The statue of Lady Justice is seen at the Court of Final Appeal building in Hong Kong on September 5, 2023, as the court decides the latest ruling on same-sex marriage. Hong Kong's top court on September 5 ruled in favour of same-sex partnerships including civil unions, though it stopped short of...
HANOI, Vietnam– Tried in secret for "abusing democratic freedoms" and detained in a psychiatric hospital, journalist Le Anh Hung knows well the price of standing up to Vietnam's communist government. A noted critic of the Vietnamese state, Hung, 50, spent three years held against his...
Pope Francis said Monday he was referring to Russia's rich cultural tradition when he spoke of a "great Russia" in a speech last month, comments that sparked outrage in Ukraine. In a video message to young Catholic Russians on August 25, the 86-year-old pontiff said they should remember they were...
Pope Francis attends the press conference with accredited journalists on the return flight from Mongolia, at the end of his apostolic journey to the Asian country, on september 4, 2023. (Photo by CIRO FUSCO / POOL / AFP) Pope Francis returned to Rome Monday after the first papal voyage to Mongolia,...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa– Police in South Africa on Friday arrested more than 100 undocumented foreigners living in a house east of Johannesburg, some as young as 10 years old. Police arrested them following a tip-off and invited immigration officers along, home affairs minister Aaron...
SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea fired multiple cruise missiles off its west coast on Saturday, Seoul's military said, the latest in a string of recent Pyongyang military actions. The launches come three days after the North launched a pair of short-range ballistic missiles as part of a...
NEW DELHI, India– India's space agency takes aim at another milestone Saturday with the launch of a probe to study the Sun, a week after its successful unmanned landing on the Moon. Aditya-L1 will carry scientific instruments to observe the Sun's outermost layers, blasting off at 11:50...
ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia– Pope Francis is due to meet the tiny but vibrant community of Catholics in Mongolia on Saturday, part of his first papal visit to the Buddhist-majority nation strategically located between China and Russia. The 86-year-old Jesuit was feted in the morning with an...
Russia's top independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta chief editor and the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov meets with reporters outside the newspaper's office in Moscow on October 8, 2021. Russia on September 1, 2023 added respected journalist and Nobel Prize co-recipient Dmitry Muratov to...
Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam greets his supporters while waiting for the Presidential election results in Singapore on September 1, 2023. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP) SINGAPORE, Singapore– Singapore's former deputy prime minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was elected...
A car drives past tree branches crashed by high winds brought by Super Typhoon Saola in Tseung Kwan O in Hong Kong on September 2, 2023. (Photo by Mehdi LEBOUACHERA / AFP) Hong Kong, China– Typhoon Saola roared ashore in southern China early Saturday as a weakened but still dangerous...
