Huge crowds of protesters blocked streets in the capital and milled angrily outside the parliament building after lawmakers on Tuesday passed legislation that critics call a Russian-style threat to free speech and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. Soon after the 84-30 vote, a crowd of protesters in…
A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden's biggest amusement centers, causing the death of one person, a newspaper reported Wednesday. "When welding the water slide, a fire started which then spread to the rest of the…
Thailand’s prime minister on Wednesday offered his condolences to the family of a young activist after a monthslong hunger strike, amid a public debate on the country’s justice system. Netiporn "Bung" Sanesangkhom, 28, died on Tuesday after suffering cardiac arrest while she was being detained at Bangkok’s Central Women’s Correctional…
Singapore's deputy leader Lawrence Wong is set to be sworn in Wednesday as the nation's fourth prime minister in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure continuity and stability in the financial hub. A U.S.-trained economist, Wong, 51, succeeds Lee Hsien Loong, 72, who stepped down after two decades…
Russia claims its military shot down 10 missiles supplied by the US on Wednesday as the United States’ top diplomat is shoring up America’s support for the country.The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses detected 10 ATACMS missiles that were allegedly targeting Crimea early Wednesday and shot them down over…
JOHANNESBURG - As two countries in the vast Sahel region heavily lean towards Moscow, telling U.S. forces battling Islamist terror activity to leave and allowing Russian mercenary forces to enter, leading GOP Senators have struck out against the Biden administration’s foreign policy, with one calling it a "disaster." "President Biden’s…
The US has completed constructing a large metal pier expected to be inserted into a northern Gaza beach in coming days, officials said. Finishing the massive improvised structure - approximately 1,500 feet long or the length of five US football fields - is part of President Biden's administration's two-month, $320…
Hundreds of residents in four neighborhoods in the southern end of Canada’s oil sands hub of Fort McMurray, Alberta, were ordered to evacuate by Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. The Rural Municipality of Wood Buffalo said residents in Beacon Hill, Abasand, Prairie Creek and Grayling Terrace needed to leave by 4…
on Tuesday signed a decree appointing a new government, including replacing the defense minister with a former deputy prime minister who is an economics expert with no military background. When Putin was inaugurated for a new six-year term on May 7, the government submitted its resignation in line with Russian…
eased sharply to a single-digit rate in April for the first time in half a year, data released Tuesday showed, a closely watched indicator that bolsters severe austerity program aimed at fixing the country’s troubled economy.Prices rose at a rate of 8.8% last month, the Argentine government statistics agency reported,…
A court on Tuesday convicted one of the best-known figures in the far-right Alternative for Germany party of knowingly using a Nazi slogan in a speech and ordered him to pay a fine. The verdict in the trial comes months before a regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a Russian citizen and three Russia-based companies that it said were attempting to circumvent U.S. sanctions in a scheme that could have unfrozen over $1.5 billion belonging to Deripaska, who himself was placed under U.S. sanctions in April 2018. Deripaska had diversified into metals…
The hunt is underway for a tiger believed to have attacked a man in western Indonesia, killing him. The victim was identified as being 26 years old. He was found dead at a plantation in the Riau province on Thursday afternoon with a missing right hand and bite wounds on…
Nobel laureate Alice Munro, a literary giant who became one of the world’s most esteemed contemporary authors and one of history's most honored short story writers, has died at age 92. A spokesperson for publisher Penguin Random House Canada said Munro, winner of the Nobel literary prize in 2013, died…
The Georgian parliament on Tuesday approved a divisive bill that sparked weeks of mass protests, with critics seeing it as a threat to democratic freedoms and the country’s aspirations to join the European Union. The bill requires media and nongovernmental organizations and other nonprofits to register as "pursuing the interests…
A missile fired by a drone struck a house in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in northwestern Pakistan along the before dawn Tuesday, killing at least four villagers, including children, local police chief Hidayat Ullah said. He said it was not immediately clear who fired the missile and…
Armed assailants killed two French officers and seriously wounded three others in an attack on a convoy in Normandy on Tuesday and an inmate escaped, officials said. A search was underway.The convoy was transporting prisoner Mohamed Amra to Évreux jail after a court hearing in Rouen when it was ambushed…
Two men accused of plotting to gun down Jews in an Islamic State-inspired attack in England were held without bail Tuesday after appearing in a London court. Walid Saadaoui, 36, and Amar Hussein, 50, were accused of planning to use automatic weapons to kill Jews, police and military personnel, prosecutors…
Top envoys from the United States and China met in closed-door talks in Geneva on Tuesday to outline their national approaches to the opportunities and dangers of emerging artificial intelligence technology. The talks, which Presidents Joe Biden and agreed to launch in late 2023, are meant to open bilateral dialogue…
As Japan embarks on a major increase in its military, it's struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need, and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual harassment cases, the number of women applying to join the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) decreased by…