TEHRAN, Iran- Iran on Monday warned Iraq that it would take action if Baghdad does not honour its commitment by mid-September to disarm Iranian Kurdish rebel groups on its territory. "According to a deal reached between the Iranian and Iraqi governments, the Iraqi government has pledged to...
ATHENS, Greece - Five people including an 11-month girl died Monday and 54 people were rescued when two migrant boats sank off Greece, officials said. The first capsize took place around 3:00 am (0000 GMT) off the island of Samos near the Turkish border. The coastguard rescued 37 people, including...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A Pakistan court granted bail on Monday to a prominent human rights activist and a former lawmaker, their lawyer said, after they were detained for protesting against enforced disappearances. Police officials present arrested lawyer and human rights activist Imaan Mazari-Hazir...
TOKYO, Japan - Japan's prime minister urged China to ensure its people "act in a calm and responsible manner" after instances of stones being thrown at diplomatic missions and schools, following the release of wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear plant. "There have been numerous harassment calls...
PARIS, France - The wearing of abaya dresses by some Muslim women in French schools is a "political attack", the government's spokesman said Monday as he explained a ban announced on the clothing. A photograph taken on August 28, 2023 shows a woman wearing an abaya walking in the streets of Paris....
This handout picture courtesy of NASA taken on August 26, 2023 shows Crew-7 mission launching on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 26, 2023. NASA and SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft...
Emergency vehicles are parked at the site of a plane crash near the village of Kuzhenkino, Tver region, on August 24, 2023. Russian state-run news agencies on August 23, 2023 said that Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner group that led a mutiny against Russia's army in June, was on the list...
MARSEILLE, France– Rescue ship Ocean Viking has saved 438 migrants in distress in the Mediterranean over the last two days, the organisation that runs it, SOS Mediterranee, said on Friday. The rescues took place in international waters off the coasts of Libya and Tunisia, the...
A portrait of Yevgeny Prigozhin is seen amid flowers at a makeshift memorial in front of the Private Military Company (PMC) Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, on August 25, 2023. The plane crash that reportedly killed Yevgeny Prigozhin wiped out the entire top leadership of Russian paramilitary...
TOPSHOT - This handout image courtesy of NASA shows a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Dragon spacecraft on top is seen after sunset on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A as preparations continue for the Crew-7 mission, on August 23, 2023. (Photo by Joel KOWSKY / NASA / AFP) NASA and...
A man watches a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean satellite-carrying rocket launch, at a railway station in Seoul on August 24, 2023. North Korea's latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit has ended in failure, state media said on August 24, just...
LONDON, United Kingdom– Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) said Friday it had launched an investigation into the deaths of 88 people in the country who bought substances to assist with suicide from Canadian websites. "The NCA has taken the decision to conduct an investigation into...
