Slovaks vote in tight polls key for foreign policy, Ukraine aid
Slovaks voted on Saturday in a tight early election seen as key to whether the country will keep supporting neighboring...
Month: September 2023
Pope appoints 21 new cardinals to fill highest ranks of Church
Pope Francis on Saturday elevated 21 clergymen from distant corners of the world to the rank of cardinal, saying diversity...
Muizzu: Maldives election’s pro-China frontrunner
The frontrunner in Saturday's Maldives presidential vote is an ardent advocate of Chinese investment and has promised to steer the...
Yemenis at Asian Games divided by war, united by sport
One delivered gas cylinders in government-run Aden for a living and the other cooked meals in rebel-held Sanaa. Now the...
US government hours from shutdown, as lawmakers scrabble for solutions
With the US government just hours from shutting down on Saturday, Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy pitched a last-gasp stopgap measure...
France’s Mayotte feels left high and dry as water crisis worsens
Water has been cut off two days out of every three this month in France's poorest department Mayotte, an Indian...
Kosovo on edge after deadly clashes stir unease
Nearly a week after deadly clashes in Kosovo triggered one of the gravest escalations in the former breakaway province in...
Pro-China frontrunner closes in on Maldives presidency
Pro-China frontrunner Mohamed Muizzu was set to win Saturday's presidential vote in the Maldives, according to local media tallies, after...
Almost all ethnic Armenians flee Nagorno-Karabakh
The flood of refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh dwindled to a trickle Saturday as Armenia said nearly the entire population of the...
Crossing glaciers and fjords: Norwegian reindeer migrate for winter
A herd of reindeer with white, brown or grey coats climb mountains and swim between glaciers on their great migration...
Libya flights to Italy resume after nearly 10 years
A Rome-bound aircraft departed on Saturday from Libya's capital, restarting flights to Italy after a nearly decade-long suspension due to...
Lula ‘stable’ after hip replacement: doctors
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is in "stable" condition a day after undergoing hip surgery, and began physical...
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China’s gateway to North Korea waits in vain for border opening
Stranded North Korean workers and merchants who rely on cross-border trade see scant signs that the frontier with China will...
Trump, in campaign mode, attempts to back off abortion
Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the...
Top US military officer General Mark Milley retires
General Mark Milley steps down on Friday after a tumultuous term as the top US military officer that saw him...
Burkina still battling insecurity one year after coup
When he seized power, Captain Ibrahim Traore set himself "two to three months" to improve security in Burkina Faso, but...
7 Nigerien soldiers killed in jihadist attack, 5 more in ensuing accident
Seven soldiers were killed Thursday in Niger's southwest in an attack by suspected jihadists, and five others died in a...
India space chief unfazed by Moon mission’s apparent end
As hopes dim of further contact with India's Moon rover, the country's space chief has said he was satisfied with...
Philippines vows to remove future barriers at disputed reef
The Philippine Coast Guard vowed Friday to "do whatever it takes" to remove any more floating barriers installed by China...
IEA, ECB urge Europe to move faster on energy transition
Europe must invest more quickly and massively in its energy transition if it wants to remain a global industrial power,...
Relatives of detained Saudis urge ‘ashamed’ prince to act on cases
Relatives of Saudis facing heavy sentences for social media posts are calling on the kingdom's de facto ruler to take...
More than 50 killed, dozens wounded in Pakistan blasts
More than 50 people were killed and dozens more wounded in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Friday by a suicide bomber...
Jailed Tunisia opposition chief begins hunger strike
The jailed leader of Tunisian opposition party Ennahdha, Rached Ghannouchi, 82, began a hunger strike on Friday to protest his...
Four more officials held after Libya flood disaster
Libya's prosecutor general has ordered the arrest of four more officials, bringing to 12 the number held as part of...
New Yorkers mark historic inauguration of Ota Benga Day
New Yorkers have gathered in Co-op City yesterday to mark the inauguration of the annual observance of Ota Benga Day....
Israel reopens Gaza crossing to Palestinian workers
Israel on Thursday allowed thousands of Palestinian workers to cross from Gaza for the first time in two weeks through...
Biden to blast ‘dangerous’ Trump in 2024 democracy speech
President Joe Biden will warn that Donald Trump and his "extremist" allies pose a danger to US democracy in a...
Grief, anger at Iraq mass for victims of wedding fire
Survivors of a fire that tore through an Iraqi wedding and those mourning the at least 100 lives lost filled...
Burkina Faso detains four officers after thwarted coup
Burkina Faso said on Thursday that four officers had been detained a day after the military government announced it had...
Farm scientist behind India’s ‘green revolution’ dies
India on Thursday mourned the death of scientist Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan, the architect of the 1960s "green revolution" that brought...
Armenia, Azerbaijan: ex-Soviet neighbors and enemies
The fate of the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh has poisoned relations between fellow ex-Soviet neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan since the...
Israel top court weighs rules on removing prime minister
Israel's top court heard appeals Thursday against a law restricting how a prime minister can be removed from office, as...
Fighting for democracy in Africa’s last absolute monarchy
The king does not take kindly to dissent in Africa's last absolute monarchy. But it doesn't stop political opponent Nomalungelo...
Germany and Israel sign ‘historic’ missile shield deal
Germany on Thursday signed a deal to acquire the Israeli-made Arrow 3 hypersonic missile system that will become a key...
A win would have been a game changer for Namibian rugby: Coetzee
Namibia's head coach Allister Coetzee says had they secured their first ever win at a Rugby World Cup it could...
Mali military reports two attacks on army posts
The Malian army has reported attacks on two of its posts in the north and west of the country, with...
Kosovo seeks international sanctions against Serbia
Kosovo on Thursday called for international sanctions against Serbia, claiming that Belgrade had supplied the weapons used by gunmen suspected...
Germany defends migrant NGO funding against Italian complaint
Charities rescuing migrants stranded in the Mediterranean play a vital role in saving lives, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock insisted...
Academie Francaise, guardian of French language, gets new leader
"The Immortals" have spoken: the 388-year-old Academie Francaise, custodian and promoter of the French language, has a new leader in...
Ashwin replaces injured Axar in India World Cup squad
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin replaced left-arm spinner Axar Patel on Thursday in India's squad for the Cricket World Cup on home...
Musk guts X’s election integrity teams ahead of major votes
X-owner Elon Musk said that he had gutted the platform's team dedicated to preserving election integrity as key votes in...
US sanctions former Sudan foreign minister
The United States placed sanctions Thursday on former Sudan foreign minister Ali Karti, accusing him of obstructing efforts to bring...
Two killed in Rotterdam twin shootings
Two people died and a teenager was left fighting for her life after a gunman dressed in combat fatigues and...
Mineral-hungry clean tech sees countries seeking to China’s shadow
With a clean energy transition hungry for more minerals, representatives from dozens of countries and industry met in Paris on...
Stimac calls astrologer claim ‘a disgrace’ as India exit Asian Games
Igor Stimac said Thursday a report claiming he consulted an astrologer to pick his India teams was "a disgrace" and...
Swiss indict daughter of late Uzbek leader in corruption case
Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of Uzbekistan's former president, was on Thursday indicted in Switzerland in a vast case of corruption,...
Hundreds of Sikh Canadians protest against India
Hundreds of Sikh protesters rallied outside Indian diplomatic missions in Canada on Monday, trampling pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
US refuses Iran top diplomat’s request to visit Washington
The United States said Monday it refused a request by Iran's foreign minister to visit Washington last week, pointing to...
South Korea stages first military parade in a decade
South Korea staged its first military parade in a decade on Tuesday, showcasing its advanced arsenal in the face of...
EU trade chief warns China data laws could have ‘unintended consequences’
The EU trade commissioner warned Tuesday that Chinese regulations governing the transfer of data out of the country, including a...
Rich nations, China must accelerate race to net zero: IEA
Rich and developing nations alike must sharply improve their net-zero targets, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday, warning that a...
Eswatini, Africa’s last absolute monarchy, holds elections
The last absolute monarchy in Africa, the Kingdom of Eswatini, holds parliamentary elections on Friday, with political parties banned from...
Slovakia campaign rhetoric raises LGBTQ concern
A year after a homophobic double murder, Slovakia's LGBTQ community is concerned about the increase in hate speech ahead of...
China warns Philippines not to ‘stir up trouble’ over disputed reef
Beijing warned Manila on Tuesday not to "stir up trouble" after the Philippine Coast Guard said it removed a floating...
China, S. Korea, Japan leaders to hold first summit since 2019
China said on Tuesday it had agreed with Japan and South Korea to hold a summit between the three countries'...
UK interior minister to question role of UN refugee convention
UK interior minister Suella Braverman was on Tuesday to question whether the United Nations Refugee Convention was "fit for our...
25 dead as Damascus loyalists clash with Kurdish-led forces: monitor
Fighters loyal to the Syrian government have clashed with Kurdish-led forces in a mainly Arab district of eastern Syria, leaving...
Niger regime wants ‘negotiated framework’ for French army pullout
Niger's coup leaders are demanding a "negotiated framework" for former colonial ruler France to withdraw its troops, which Paris says...
Greek flood victims race to rebuild before new storm hits
When Storm Daniel this month dumped cataclysmic amounts of rain on his village in central Greece, Nikos Falangas barely had...
