TAIPEI (Taiwan) -- The president of Taiwan met Thursday with a French parliamentary delegation. They pledged their support for Taiwan. Tsai Ig-wen was told by Senator Joel Guerriau, vice chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and the Armed...

BAGHDAD - Eight months after the national elections, Iraq still does not have a government. There seems to be no way out of this dangerous impasse. The country is facing increasing challenges as a result of severe drought and war in Ukraine, which has led...

SEOUL, South Korea -- A fire broke out in an office building in South Korea's Daegu city on Thursday, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more, according to local police and fire officials. Shin Ju-han, a Daegu Fire Department official,...

BEIJING -- China's trade growth rebounded after the lifting of anti-virus restrictions that had closed down Shanghai and other industrial centres. According to a statement from the customs agency, exports grew 16.9% to $308.3 Billion in April compared...

BAKHMUT (Ukraine) -- Workers pulled up to 100 bodies from every smashed building in Mariupol, a brutal effort described by one official as an "endless caravan death". Fears of a global food shortage grew as a result of Ukraine's inability export millions...

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a conference to review state affairs including a COVID-19 epidemic and perhaps address relations with Washington, Seoul, and Washington amid his renewed nuclear brinkmanship. According to the...

GUATEMALA CITY -- The Ocean Cleanup, a non-profit organization, has placed a massive, steel mesh screen on a river that is heavily polluted outside of Guatemala City in an effort to prevent plastics from reaching the ocean. Fluctuating river currents have...

HUIXTLA (Mexico) -- Wilber Pires from Venezuela spent two days walking along rural roads in southern Mexico with many thousand of migrants. He asked for help to purchase medicine for his daughter and took what was supposed be a day off. Valesca Pires, a two-year-old...

ABUJA (Nigeria) -- A former governor from Lagos, Nigeria's biggest city, was nominated as the presidential candidate of the ruling party in the next year's presidential elections. Bola Tinubu is widely known as the "godfather of Lagos" because of...

SAO PAULO -- Brazil's Javari Valley in the Amazon region, where a British journalist was missing and an Indigenous affairs official were reported missing, is Brazil's second-largest Indigenous territory. It lies in an isolated area that borders...

ISTANBUL -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday as the Russian foreign minister, a key ally to the ostracized Latin American government, was also there. After being rejected by Washington, Maduro has been on an Eurasian tour....

ISTANBUL -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday as the Russian foreign minister, a key ally to the ostracized Latin American government, was also there. After being rejected by Washington, Maduro has been on an Eurasian tour....

ISLAMABAD -- According to video released by Afghanistan's new rulers, the Taliban arrested a well-known Afghan fashion designer and three of his associates. They accused them of disrespecting Islam as well as the Quran, the holy book of Muslims, and...

WARSAW (Poland) -- The prime minister of Poland was questioned Wednesday about his purchase of Polish Treasury Bonds for 4.6 million Zlotys (over $1,000,000). This investment, which traditionally provides protection against inflation, came at a time when...

JERUSALEM -- Israel's justice minister has said that he will grant the government one last chance to approve a controversial bill that extends legal protections to West Bank residents in an effort to preserve the fragmented coalition. Gideon Saar, Justice...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Brazilian police announced Wednesday that they were questioning a suspect in a disappearance of a British journalist, and an Indigenous affairs official, who disappeared in a remote area of the Amazon rainforest three days ago. The suspect...

SKOPJE (North Macedonia) -- On Wednesday, a court in North Macedonia imposed a new sentence on Nikola Gruevski. This time, it was a six-year term for a violation of power regarding the financing of the party's headquarters in Skopje. Gruevski was convicted...

TUNIS -- Tunisian judges and lawyers staged a small protest Wednesday outside the capital's courts as part of their week-long strike after the dismissal of 57 judges by the president. As President Kais Saied tightens control of power, the president's...

BRUSSELS -- Wednesday's decision by the European Parliament to ban cars with a combustion engine in the middle decade of the next decade could make the future of European car transport clearer and more transparent. The vote scheduled for the European...

CAIRO -- Talks to end Sudan's political impasse began Wednesday, according to the United Nations. However, Sudan's main prodemocracy alliance has decided not to attend due the ongoing police crackdown against protestors of the military coup in October....

BERLIN -- Officials said Wednesday that the German government would like to temporarily keep coal-fired power stations on standby for nearly two years in order to prevent a potential electricity shortage in the event of a sudden reduction in natural gas supplies...

KINSHASA (Congo) -- On Wednesday, King Philippe of Belgium bestowed a top honour on the last Congolese veteran from World War II. This began a six-day-long visit as part of ongoing efforts to atone and undo colonial-era injustices. The Order of the Crown...

BANGKOK -- Wednesday's sentence for a former Thai police colonel, nicknamed "Jo Ferrari", for his extravagant collection luxury cars, was accompanied by five subordinates to life imprisonment for torturing and killing a drug suspect they were trying...

BRUSSELS -- Wednesday's rousing plea by the speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament for Ukraine to be made for European Union membership. This would allow the nation, which has been devastated by war, to get closer to the EU but not guarantee its admission....