LONDON (AP) — A confidential United Nations report into alleged missteps by senior World Health Organization staffers in the way they handled a sexual misconduct case during an Ebola outbreak in Congo found their response didn't...
Countries have rushed to dispatch aid, personnel and equipment to help rescue efforts in quake-stricken areas of Turkey and Syria. Here's a glance at what's being provided so far: — The European Union has mobilised search and rescue...
The death toll from the powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked wide swaths of Turkey and neighbouring Syria on Monday, now stands at more than 2,500. Thousands more were injured as the quake toppled thousands of buildings and...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Monday accused the United States of indiscriminate use of force in shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon, saying it “seriously impacted and damaged both sides' efforts and progress in stabilising...
AZMARIN, Syria (AP) — A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake rocked wide swaths of Turkey and Syria early Monday, toppling hundreds of buildings and killing more than 1,900 people. Hundreds were still believed to be trapped under rubble,...
ISLAMABAD (AP): General Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the United States war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a former...
MYRTLE BEACH (AP): The downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon just off South Carolina’s coast created a spectacle over one of the state’s tourism hubs and drew crowds reacting with a mixture of bewildered gazing, distress and cheering. The...
BRUSSELS (AP): Some refugees and asylum-seekers in Brussels have been spending months in-between the Street of Palaces and the Small Castle — quite literally. Unfortunately, it’s not a dream come true at the end of their fearful flight from half...
JUBA, (AP) Pope Francis made a final appeal for peace in South Sudan on Sunday as he celebrated mass before tens of thousands of people to close out an unusual mission by Christian religious leaders to nudge forward the country’s recovery from...
NEW YORK, United States (AP): United States health officials have advised that a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
IOWA, United States (AP): Gwendolyn Yeo opened her eyes, and the staff standing around her last Wednesday morning at UnityPoint Health-Finley Hospital’s Family Birthing Suites in Dubuque, Iowa, cooed and smiled. Her mother, Traci Yeo, looked down...
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — At least five people have died as a result of the more than 150 wildfires burning across Chile that have destroyed homes and thousands of acres of forests while the South American country is in the midst of a scorching...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Kenyan former policeman was sentenced to death on Friday for the murder of a human rights lawyer, his client and a taxi driver. Frederick Leliman and three others were convicted of carrying out the murders in 2016, in...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Biden administration task force designed to reunite children separated from their families during President Trump's presidency has reconnected nearly 700 children with their families, officials said Thursday...
BEIJING (AP) — China said Friday that a balloon spotted over American airspace was used for weather research and was blown off course, despite US suspicion it was spying. The discovery further strained already tense relations...
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas woman accused of killing a close friend in 2019 who had just given birth and abducting the baby as part of an elaborate scheme to pass the infant off as her own pleaded guilty to murder charges Thursday,...
KINSHASA (AP): Pope Francis on Wednesday urged Congo’s people to forgive those who committed “inhuman violence” against them, celebrating a Mass for one million people and then hearing firsthand of the atrocities some of them have endured: a...
MIAMI (AP): Four key suspects in the killing of Haiti’s president appeared for the first time in US federal court Wednesday to face accusations that they plotted and participated in his assassination, a day after they were transferred to the United...
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A Brazilian magazine on Thursday released audio of a senator claiming then President Jair Bolsonaro sought help in a plot to annul the October elections and keep himself in power. In the recording, Senator Marcos do Val...
NEW YORK (AP) — US health officials said Thursday a company is recalling its over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week sent a...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US is tracking a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that has been spotted over US airspace for a couple days, but the Pentagon decided not to shoot it down due to risks of harm for people on the ground, officials...
NEW YORK (AP) — United States health officials are advising people to stop using over-the-counter eye drops that have been linked to an outbreak of drug-resistant infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday night...
Hong Kong (AP) — Hong Kong will give away air tickets and vouchers to woo tourists back to the international financial hub, racing to catch up with other popular travel destinations in a fierce regional competition. During the pandemic, the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Africa's public health agency says countries with deadly cholera outbreaks on the continent have no “immediate access” to vaccines amid a global supply shortage. The acting director of the...
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — King Charles III won't feature on Australia's new $5 bill, the nation's central bank announced Thursday, signalling a phasing out of the British monarchy from Australian bank notes, although he is still...
