RAIPUR, India - Ten police and their driver were killed in India's central Chhattisgarh state Wednesday when their vehicle hit an improvised explosive device, an attack police blamed on Maoist rebels. India's long-running Maoist insurgency began in the 1960s and has cost thousands of lives in the...
SINGAPORE - Singapore hanged a prisoner on Wednesday after he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle one kilogram of cannabis, despite rights groups decrying "many flaws" in the case. Tangaraju Suppiah was hanged in defiance of a plea by the United Nations Human Rights Office for Singapore to...
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's top court has confirmed a death sentence for a German-Iranian national whose trial over a deadly mosque bombing in 2008 has strained relations with Berlin, the judiciary said Wednesday. "Jamshid Sharmahd's sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court," judiciary spokesman...
BEIJING, China - Chinese President Xi Jinping has spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the phone, state media reported on Wednesday. "Xi Jinping had a phone call with Ukrainian President Zelensky," state broadcaster CCTV said. During the call Xi told Zelensky that "talks and...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday, April 26, said the temporary ceasefire in Sudan could save the lives of civilians who have been trapped in their homes with no access to food, clean water, or medical care. “We welcome the reports of a ceasefire and urge the...
PADANG, Indonesia - A 7.1-magnitude earthquake rattled residents on islands west of Indonesia's Sumatra on Tuesday, forcing them to flee to higher ground before an hours-long tsunami warning was lifted. The epicentre of the quake, which struck at 3 am (2000 GMT Monday), was in the sea...
MOSCOU, Russia - Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday called Joe Biden a senile and "desperate grandpa" after the US president announced his candidacy for re-election in 2024. "Biden has taken his decision. A desperate grandpa," Medvedev wrote...
NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump raped a prominent former American columnist then "ridiculed" her with defamatory comments, a US civil trial hearing a lawsuit against the ex-president was told Tuesday. A lawyer for Trump, who denies the allegations, said the plaintiff E. Jean Carroll...
KYIV, Ukraine -Â President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said Russia was trying to erase Ukraine's history and culture after a missile strike on a museum killed two people and wounded 10. Zelensky reported the strike on a local history museum in Kupiansk, a city near the frontline in the...
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol was in hot water Tuesday after comments he made about former colonial power Japan not needing to "kneel down" to improve ties went viral on social media. Yoon, who is on a six-day state visit to the United States, has...
EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS - A handout picture taken and released on April 25, 2023 by Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency (BNPB) shows villagers taking shelter at Sigapokna village, on Mentawai island, after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit the area. (Handout/Indonesia’s disaster mitigation...
OUT OF SUDAN -- Internationally-recruited personnel of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan are evacuated from Port Sudan on April 24, 2023. A UN convoy carrying 700 people completed an arduous 850-kilometer (530 mile) road trip from the Sudanese capital, where...
