Southeast Asia was coping with a weekslong heat wave on Monday as record-high temperatures led to school closings in several countries and urgent health warnings throughout the region. Millions of students in all public schools across the Philippines were ordered to stay
The Church of England has set aside £100 million in a fund intended “to address past wrongs” related to the institution’s historic links with the transatlantic slave trade. The church said the money, which is not being called “reparations” because it will
A 17-year-old suspected of killing one of his teachers at a vocational school in Germany is said to have had “problems at school” and been suspended for the day hours before the stabbing took place, authorities said Wednesday. Officials say the boy
Brazil’s 11-day old administration braced on Wednesday under the renewed threat of mass protests by supporters of the far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro after they raided the nation’s capital just three days ago. The Sunday attacks were not only an eerie copy
A police officer on patrol was attacked and burned to death by protesters in the Peruvian region of Puno as the death toll from demonstrations in the wake of the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo rose to 47, authorities said Tuesday.
A report from the United Nations suggests that India will become the most populous nation in the world, surpassing China, in the next three months. The United Nations report shows that India is expected to overtake China in terms of overall population
British police found a small amount of uranium in a package at London’s Heathrow Airport last month. “While the uranium was detected and reportedly posed no harm to the public, it’s never good to hear about fissile material from one nuclear weapons
A blast at the Taliban’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul, Afghanistan, as employees were leaving for the day resulted in multiple causalities. “I’m here at the Ministry,” Ahmadullah Muttaqi, an official from the Taliban’s office of the first deputy prime minister,
At least six people were injured in an unprovoked attack by a suspect carrying a “bladed weapon” at the busy Gare du Nord train station in Paris Wednesday. At least one police officer was attacked along with five civilians before shots here
MANCHESTER, England – A “bogus” psychiatrist spent two decades working for the country’s National Health Service – earning more than $1m – after forging her qualifications, a court heard. Zholia Alemi, described as a “most accomplished forger and fraudster”, is alleged to
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video message Tuesday at the 80th Golden Globes award ceremony and vowed that Ukraine will not only win the war against Russia but will prevent a third World War from happening. Zelenskyy began his remarks