ROME, Italy - Italian ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who dominated politics for decades, was in intensive care on Wednesday for heart problems, a member of his entourage told AFP. The 86-year-old media mogul and senator, who has been in and out of the hospital in recent years, is currently in...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch authorities face a "monster" task to recover a crashed passenger train which will require building a bridge over a canal, rail officials said on Wednesday. The crash near The Hague on Tuesday, which killed one person and injured 30 others, left one double-decker...
WASHINGTON, United States - US President Joe Biden will travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland from April 11-14, the White House said on Wednesday. Biden will first visit Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement before traveling to Ireland, where he...
MEXICO CITY, Mexico - A journalist who was kidnapped in Mexico was found alive by authorities on Tuesday, the country's official organization for the protection of journalists said. "Reporter Ricardo Villanueva Ake, who had been illegally deprived of his freedom on Monday, was found alive," the...
VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands - A Dutch passenger train derailed after smashing into a crane early on Tuesday, killing a maintenance worker and injuring 30 other people in the Netherlands' worst rail accident for years. The double-decker train carrying around 50 people from Leiden to The Hague...
NEW YORK , United States - Dozens of Donald Trump supporters demonstrated outside the courthouse where the former president is due to be arraigned on criminal charges Tuesday, as a handful of vocal counterprotestors shouted an anti-fascist message. Members of the New York Police Department...
WASHINGTON, United States - President Joe Biden said at a meeting of advisors on the rapidly emerging artificial intelligence sector Tuesday that the jury is still out on whether AI poses a danger to society. It "remains to be seen. It could be," said Biden, when asked by reporters if AI is...
NEW YORK, United States - Prosecutors laid out a case of lies and cover-ups against Donald Trump on Tuesday over hush-money payments made to a porn star, a Playboy model and a doorman to hide potentially damaging information ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Here's an...
NEW YORK, United States - Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts inside a packed New York courtroom Tuesday, in a dramatic hearing that transfixed the nation and began the countdown to the first ever criminal trial of an American president. After a stern glare to waiting...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (AFP) YAGIDNE, Ukraine – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday he hoped Russian leader Vladimir Putin would spend the rest of his life in a dark basement with a bucket for a toilet. Zelensky spoke in the village of Yagidne,...
United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety Jean Todt is set to visit the Philippines on April 11 to 14 to advocate for the effective implementation of the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021-2030. Todt will meet with government officials, the private...
WASHINGTON, United States- The death toll from a major storm system that lashed the south-central and eastern United States with devastating winds and destructive tornadoes rose to at least 29 by Sunday, officials said. Tennessee, one of the hardest-hit states since...
