Live News
Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday’s arrival of a much weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought record downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that rose neck-high in places. Businesses and schools were shut in most southern areas of the island, with 51 people
Politics
China’s President Xi Jinping told Spain’s King Felipe on Wednesday that the world’s second-largest economy seeks to work with Madrid to boost the global influence of both nations, as the heads of state met in Beijing ahead of a signing ceremony. Felipe is the first Spanish monarch
Economy
Afghanistan’s economic recovery is buckling as nine in 10 households are forced to skip meals, sell belongings or take on debt to survive, the United Nations said on Wednesday, warning that mass returns are exacerbating the country’s worst crisis since the Taliban returned to power. A United Nations
News
Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection. Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the UN compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending
reports
It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher. When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered the city in late October, Abderahmane was at the Saudi hospital, watching over his
Live News
All 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia were killed, Turkiye’s defense minister announced on Wednesday. The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkiye when it crashed Tuesday in Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality, close to the
Live News
Russia on Tuesday denounced as illegal and “unacceptable” US strikes on boats from Venezuela — a Moscow ally — that Washington says are transporting drugs. “This is how, in general, lawless countries act, as well as those who consider themselves above the law,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised remarks,
Live News
A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., Sohail A. and Basel O., received sentences ranging from
Live News
France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of an appeal trial over Libyan funding. Sarkozy, 70, earlier Monday left La Sante prison in Paris — a 20-day experience the former president called a
Politics
The US Senate on Monday approved a compromise that would end the longest government shutdown in US history, breaking a weeks-long stalemate that has disrupted food benefits for millions, left hundreds of thousands of federal workers unpaid and snarled air traffic. The 60-40 vote passed with the support of nearly
Live News
Rescuers using backhoes and chainsaws began digging the Philippines out from the devastation of Typhoon Fung-wong on Tuesday, as floodwaters receded in hundreds of villages and the storm’s death toll climbed to 18. Fung-wong, which displaced 1.4 million people, had weakened into a severe tropical storm even as
News
Lebanon released Hannibal Qaddafi, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, on bail on Monday after nearly a decade in prison, his lawyer told AFP. “We left, he is free,” Laurent Bayon said, hours after Qaddafi’s bail of $900,000 was paid. The younger Qaddafi, 49, was accused
News
Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In a letter to Hamas’ Qassam Brigades published late Monday, the Houthis offered their clearest signal that their attacks have halted. “We
News
Israel’s military chief called on Monday for a “systemic investigation” into the failures that led to Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack, as the government dragged its feet on establishing a state commission of inquiry on the matter. Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir made the call following the publication of
Politics
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday for unprecedented talks, just days after Washington removed him from a terrorism blacklist. Sharaa, whose opposition forces ousted longtime ruler Bashar Assad late last year, is the first Syrian leader to visit the White House
Live News
A car explosion in the bustling heart of the Indian capital on Monday killed at least eight people and injured another 19, officials said. Police have not given details on the cause, but said that forensic and anti-terrorism agencies were at the site, near the landmark Red Fort. The blast