International

Fears of a recession caused by sharp interest rate hikes aimed at fighting soaring inflation sent Asian markets tumbling Wednesday, tracking a sharp drop on Wall Street. The hefty selling came after more than a week of gains across the…

Bogota - At least 49 inmates were killed and dozens more injured early Tuesday after a fire broke out during a prison riot in southwestern Colombia, the national prisons agency said. The tragedy occurred when rioting inmates set a fire to…

Aqaba, Jordan - Thirteen people were killed, including at least four Asian migrants, when toxic chlorine gas escaped on the dockside in the Jordanian Red Sea port of Aqaba, officials said. More than 250 people were injured in the accident…

Moscow - The Russian military claimed on Tuesday that it struck a weapons depot in central Ukraine the previous day and the resulting explosions hit a closed shopping mall. A Russian missile strike on a crowded mall in the city of…

Kabul - Hundreds of religious leaders and “people of influence” from around Afghanistan have been summoned to the capital to attend a three-day grand council in support of the country’s Taliban rule. Officials are providing scant details…

Geneva - The United Nations on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into the deaths of at least 23 people after about 2,000 migrants tried to cross from Morocco into Spain last week. The UN rights office voiced alarm at the…

At least 12 people died and 251 were injured in a chlorine gas leak from a storage tank at Jordan’s Aqaba port, officials and state media reported on Monday. The leak came after a tank filled with 25 tonnes of chlorine gas being exported…

| Poltava region Governor Dmytro Lunin denounces attack as a “war crime” and “crime against humanity”   KYIV   -   A Russian missile strike on Monday hit a crowded mall in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, Ukraine’s President…

ELMAU CASTLE   -   The United States is planning to send Ukraine sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to defend against Russian attacks, a source familiar with the process told AFP on Monday. President Joe Biden, who is attending the G7…

BOGOTA   -   At least four people were killed and another 30 seriously injured on Sunday when the grandstand at a bullring in Colombia collapsed during a popular event at which members of the public face off with small bulls, officials…

COLOMBO   -    Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said Monday that fuel filling stations across the country will issue tokens for consumers as only limited stocks of fuel were available. Speaking to journalists in…

TEHRAN    -    Iran and the United States plan to resume indirect talks this week in a Gulf country, in a fresh bid to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal, both sides said Monday. They did not name a country, but Iranian state media said…

TOKYO   -   Japan’s government warned Monday of a power crunch as extreme heat hits the country, with temperature records toppling and Tokyo’s rainy season declared over at the earliest date on record. Temperatures of 35 degrees Celsius…

An estimated 284 million people between the age of 15 and 24 used drugs worldwide in 2020, a 26% increase over the previous decade, said a UN report released on Monday. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) report, titled World Drug…

Russia on Monday expelled eight Greek diplomats over the latter's "confrontational course" towards Moscow. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it summoned Greek Ambassador Ekaterini Nassika and expressed a decisive protest over…