BANGKOK (AP) — Thai navy ships and helicopters searched Monday for more than 30 sailors still missing more than 17 hours after their warship sank in rough seas in the Gulf of Thailand. As of Monday afternoon, 75 sailors from the HTMS...
KABUL (AP): At least 19 people were killed and 32 injured when a fuel tanker exploded in a tunnel north of the Afghan capital Kabul, a local official said on Sunday. The Salang Tunnel, which is around 80 miles north of Kabul, was originally...
KHAN YOUNIS (AP) Thousands of people on Sunday joined the funerals of eight young Palestinian men who drowned off the coast of Tunisia nearly two months ago as they tried to sail to new lives in Europe. The drownings have reverberated across...
LONDON (AP) The British government said it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas. Ambulance crews are due to strike on...
Elon Musk's abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organisations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York Times,...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has defrocked an anti-abortion US priest, Frank Pavone, for what it said were “blasphemous communications on social media” as well as “persistent disobedience” of his bishop. A letter to...
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AP) —On Monday, the Netherlands is expected to become one of the few nations to apologise for its role in slavery. However, in Suriname, activists and officials say they have not been asked for input about the apology,...
CAIRO (AP) — Iranian authorities arrested one of the country's most famous actresses on charges of spreading falsehoods about nationwide protests gripping the country, state media said Saturday. The report by IRNA said Taraneh Alidoosti,...
CHENNAI, India (AP) — Arjun Viswanathan stood on the street, his hands folded, eyes fixed on the idol of the Hindu deity Ganesh. On a humid morning, the information technology professional was waiting outside the temple, the size of a small...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — More than 25,000 people could face starvation in conflict-plagued parts of West Africa next year, a United Nations official warned Friday. Federico Doehnert of the World Food Program said violence and the...
Elon Musk's abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organisations that have used the platform to build their audiences. Individual reporters with The New York...
KYIV, Ukraine (AP): Russia’s Foreign Ministry warned Thursday that, if the US delivers sophisticated air defence systems to Ukraine, those systems and any crews that accompany them would be a “legitimate target” for the Russian military, a blunt...
WASHINGTON (AP): President Joe Biden told dozens of African leaders gathered in Washington that the United States is “all in on Africa’s future”, laying out billions in promised government funding and private investment Wednesday to help the...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP): Guyana’s government said Thursday it has asked world police agency Interpol to help it investigate the background of a Nigerian national who earlier in the day tried to illegally enter the residence of President Irfaan Ali...
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP): The congress of El Salvador has voted to extend President Nayib Bukele’s emergency powers to crack down on gangs for yet another month. The vote late Wednesday extends for the ninth time the measures, enacted after a...
LIMA, Peru (AP): Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was not invited to a summit of Western Hemisphere leaders in June. But by October, he travelled to Egypt for a conference where he joked with French President Emmanuel Macron and shook hands with...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The US House passed a bill Thursday that would allow Puerto Rico to hold the first-ever binding referendum on whether to become a state or gain some sort of independence, in a last-ditch effort that stands little...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Business is bouncing back in Bethlehem after two years in the doldrums during the coronavirus pandemic, lifting spirits in the traditional birthplace of Jesus ahead of the Christmas holiday. Streets are bustling...
KEITHVILLE, Louisiana (AP) — A storm system that spawned dozens of reported tornadoes from east Texas to the Florida Panhandle was all but done with the South on Thursday after killing at least three people and uprooting families across...
OTTAWA (CMC): Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says while he does not rule out the possibility of Canada being part of a military intervention, or even leading one in Haiti, he also wants European countries to join the North American country in...
LIMA (AP): Peru’s new government imposed a police state Wednesday in response to violent protests following the ouster of President Pedro Castillo. The 30-day national emergency declaration suspends the rights of “personal security and freedom”...
BOSTON (AP): The Boston City Council voted Wednesday to form a task force to study how it can provide reparations for and other forms of atonement to black Bostonians for the city’s role in slavery and its legacy of inequality. The unanimous vote...
NEW YORK (AP) — Grant Wahl died of a ruptured blood vessel when he was stricken while covering a World Cup match last weekend, according to an autopsy of the well-known American football writer. Wahl's wife, Dr. Céline Gounder,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve reinforced its inflation fight Wednesday by raising its key interest rate for the seventh time this year and signalling more hikes to come. But the Fed announced a smaller hike than it had in its past...
KINSHASA (AP): At least 100 people have been killed and dozens injured on Tuesday by widespread floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Prime Minister Jean-Michel Sama Lukonde said officials were still searching...
