The North Korean and Russian ministers of sport met in Pyongyang on Sunday to discuss strengthening exchanges and cooperation between the sports sectors of the two countries, North Korean state media KCNA said on Monday. Russia’s Minister of Sport Mikhail Degtyarev and his North Korean...

The United States and Britain launched raids on the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the Amran governorate and other areas, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement, reported on Sunday. Houthi media and residents said about nine raids had targeted Sanaa, its suburbs...

Trump’s speech itself was a bit rambling, pulling on some of the themes he used in his campaign. He says he is going to make the economy great again, the country great again, the environment great again. But he didn’t give any real details. One of the first things he said he will do is to...

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and the Republican nominee Donald Trump tied in an iconic midnight vote, marking the official start of US Election Day 2024. According to ABC News, with six registered voters in Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire, a northeastern US state of about...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said the country would use nuclear weapons if enemies attempt to use armed forces encroaching upon Pyongyang sovereignty, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Friday. Kim made these remarks during an inspection of a special operations...

US President Joe Biden led the condemnation after his election rival Donald Trump was wounded in a shooting incident at a rally in Pennsylvania Saturday that also reportedly killed at least one bystander. Political leaders on both sides of the aisle slammed the violence minutes after the...

UNICEF on Tuesday said that 3 million children face the "highest registered level of overlapping and interconnected crises' in the Central African Republic (CAR). "The Central African Republic now holds the tragic distinction of being ranked first among 191 countries as the most at-risk for...

Addressing a concerned nation and anxious world, President Joe Biden vowed in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night to check Russian aggression in Ukraine, tame soaring U.S. inflation and deal with the fading but still dangerous coronavirus. Biden declared that he and all...

Azerbaijani army positions have been subjected to fire by Armenian forces, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Starting from Wednesday evening, the Armenian armed forces units in the Yukhari Shorzha settlement of the Basarkechar region opened fired periodically at the...

Russia warned Wednesday it would quickly take “retaliatory measures” if the U.S. and its allies reject its security demands over NATO and Ukraine, raising pressure on the West amid concerns that Moscow is planning to invade its neighbor. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied it has any such...

Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week's devastating eruption and tsunami as a massive clean up continued Saturday in the Pacific kingdom. The powerful eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano last Saturday triggered a...

OLD FANGAK, South Sudan (AP) — Nyayiar Kuol cradled her severely malnourished 1-year-old daughter as they traveled for 16 hours on a crowded barge to the nearest hospital to their home in rural South Sudan. For months she had been feeding her four children just once a day, unable to cultivate...

Almaty (Kazakhstan) (AFP) – More than a hundred people have died in Kazakhstan in the wake of violent riots that have shaken Central Asia's largest country this week, media reported Sunday citing the health ministry. The energy-rich nation of 19 million people has been rocked by a week of...

How do I know if I have a cold, the flu or COVID-19? Experts say testing is the best way to determine what you have since symptoms of the illnesses can overlap. The viruses that cause colds, the flu and COVID-19 are spread the same way — through droplets from the nose and mouth of...

Kazakhstan is experiencing the worst street protests the country has seen since gaining independence three decades ago. Police in the country's largest city, Almaty, say that dozens of people have been killed in attacks on government buildings. At least eight law enforcement officers have...

HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of passengers were being held Wednesday on a cruise ship in Hong Kong for coronavirus testing after health authorities said nine passengers were linked to a recent omicron cluster and ordered the ship to turn back. Authorities forced the Royal Caribbean’s Spectrum...

BEIJING (AP) — China on Wednesday reported a major drop in local COVID-19 infections in the northern city of Xi’an, which has been under a tight lockdown for the past two weeks that has tested the city's ability to provide supplies for those confined to their homes. With the Beijing Olympics...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Firefighters are battling a blaze at South Africa's national Parliament Building in Cape Town, an official confirmed Sunday. A dark plume of smoke and flames can be seen rising from the building in the center of the city. The fire started in the early hours...

SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A stampede at a popular Hindu shrine in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 12 people and injured 13 others on New Year’s Day, officials said. An investigation has been ordered into what caused the stampede early Saturday at the Mata Vaishnav Devi shrine, where...

Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022. New Year's Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a...