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...
ATLANTA, United States– Donald Trump is to surrender on racketeering charges at a Georgia jail on Thursday, setting the stage for a fourth criminal trial next year as he campaigns to recapture the White House. The 77-year-old former president will be arrested at Atlanta's notorious...
A protester holds a sign reading "Don't throw contaminated water into the sea!, Keep your promise" as he takes part in a rally outside the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) headquarters building in Tokyo on August 24, 2023, against the Japanese government's plan to release treated wastewater...
LONDON, United Kingdom– A UK court on Wednesday found a teenager responsible for a hacking campaign that included one of the biggest breaches in the history of the video game industry. Arion Kurtaj, 18, was described by the prosecution as one of the "key players" in the Lapsus$ group...
Rescue workers conduct a search operation at the site of an accident where an under-construction railway bridge collapsed in Sairang town of the Aizwal district in India's eastern state of Mizoram on August 23, 2023. At least 17 labourers working on a railway bridge being built across a...
MILWAUKEE, United States – Eight Republican presidential candidates face off for the first primary debate of the 2024 cycle Wednesday -- with frontrunner Donald Trump bidding to steal the spotlight despite spurning the showdown. The former president announced at the weekend that he would not...
NAMIE, Japan– Engineers at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant were due to start releasing wastewater on Thursday in an operation that Japan insists is safe but which has angered China and caused unease elsewhere. The discharge of around 540 Olympic swimming pools' worth of water into...
SEOUL, South Korea– North Korea's latest attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit has ended in failure, state media said Thursday, just months after Pyongyang's first launch crashed into the ocean shortly after blast off. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made the development of an...
BENGALURU, India- India on Wednesday became the first nation to land a craft near the Moon's south pole, a historic triumph for the world's most populous nation and its ambitious, cut-price space programme. People watch as India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulates the Indian Space Research...
BENGALURU, India- India's lunar spacecraft landed safely near the Moon's little-explored south pole on Wednesday, sparking wild celebrations and applause among technicians guiding the mission. This handout screen grab taken and received from the live feed of Indian Space Research Organisation...
TOKYO, Japan- Final preparations to discharge wastewater from the crippled Fukushima power plant in Japan were under way Wednesday, its operator said, a day before the scheduled release into the Pacific Ocean. Hong Kong fishermen hold a protest outside the Japanese consulate in Hong Kong on August...
BANGKOK, THAILAND- Thailand's new prime minister vowed to bring four years of change to the kingdom as he took office Wednesday at the head of a controversial coalition including pro-military parties linked to former coup-makers. Thailand's new Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin is pictured on a large...
