Taj Mahal reopens as India eases pandemic restrictions.AGRA, India (AFP) - The Taj Mahal reopened to visitors Wednesday, as Indian authorities loosened restrictions following an easing in the country&...
Car bomb attack at Colombian military base wounds 36.Colombia (AFP) - A car bomb blast inside an army base in the Colombian city of Cucuta wounded 36 people Tuesday, officials said, blaming the attack...
5.8 magnitude quake hits eastern Indonesia.JAKARTA (AFP) - A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia s remote Maluku islands on Wednesday, the United States Geological Survey s...
'No time to waste' warns Japan climate activist.TOKYO (AFP) - Kimiko Hirata has spent nearly half her life fighting to wean Japan off its dependence on coal, and now isn t the time to slow down, ...
New ICC prosecutor takes on daunting job.THE HAGUE (AFP) - Britain s Karim Khan starts Wednesday as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court with a daunting caseload including a probe into ...
What's at stake in Iran's presidential election?.NICOSIA (AFP) - Iran holds a presidential election on Friday, with ultraconservative Ebrahim Raisi who heads the judiciary the most likely to win from ...
Jobs fears as Italy eyes end to Covid ban on layoffs.MILAN (AFP) - Trade unions warn about a "social tsunami", left-wing parties of a "massacre for employment" -- the imminent end ...
Peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government resumed in Qatar on Tuesday.
.DOHA (AFP) - Peace negotiations between the Taliban and the Afghan government resumed in Qatar on Tues...
Erdogan on Tuesday pledged support for Azerbaijan if the ex-Soviet country was attacked.
.BAKU (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday pledged support for Azerbaijan if the ex-Sov...
The so-called Swiss Humanitarian Trade Arrangement (SHTA), took effect in February last year.
.GENEVA (AFP) - The United States has vowed to provide increased support to a Swiss mechanism allowing ...
The strikes were the first under the new coalition government headed by Naftali Bennett..GAZA CITY (AFP) - Israel carried out air strikes on the Gaza Strip early Wednesday after militants in the Pales...
More than a thousand ultranationalist demonstrators poured into Jerusalem's flashpoint Old City..JERUSALEM (AFP) - More than a thousand ultranationalist demonstrators bearing Israeli flags poured into...
New antibody testing study found that coronavirus was present in US from at least December 2019..WASHINGTON (AFP) - A new antibody testing study published Tuesday has found further evidence that the c...
The real death tolls in the US and around the globe are thought to be significantly higher.(AP) – The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 topped 600,000 on Tuesday, even as the vaccination drive has d...
No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks .KABUL (AP) — Gunmen on Tuesday targeted an anti-polio drive in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five members of two vac...
The aid crossing from Turkey into rebel-held northwest Syria serves up to 4 million people in Syria.(AP) – President Joe Biden will seek to stave off another surge of civilian suffering in the d...
Khamenei set to tighten grip in Iran vote as frustrations grow
.(Reuters) - Iranians elect a new president on Friday in a race dominated by hardline candidates close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali K...
Turkey's Erdogan to visit symbolic Karabakh city.BAKU (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was on Tuesday to visit the symbolic town of Shusha recaptured by ally Azerbaijan during last year&...
