Dozens hurt in Turkish forest fire
Dozens of people were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation and several for burns as a forest fire ravaged several communities near a Mediterranean tourist resort in the south of…
Iran blames ‘cowardly’ Washington over nuclear deal revival impasse
Iran's supreme leader on Wednesday declared Tehran would not accept Washington's "stubborn" demands in talks to revive a 2015 nuclear deal and said the United States had failed to guarantee…
Meeting focused mainly on arms control issues
The US and Russia said Wednesday they had business-like and substantive talks in Geneva in their second effort in as many months to bring stability to a fraught relationship. The…
Tsunami alert after quake hits Alaska Peninsula
A shallow earthquake of magnitude 8.2 struck the Alaska Peninsula late on Wednesday, prompting tsunami warnings in the region, authorities said. There were no immediate reports on loss of property…
US Senate votes to advance trillions of infrastructure
The US Senate voted to advance a historic, trillion dollar infrastructure package late Wednesday, a breakthrough after weeks of often-bitter negotiations on a bill that President Joe Biden said could…
Blizzard protested
Employees gather at Activision Blizzard offices in California, the US, on Wednesday. They protest the company's responses to a recent sexual discrimination lawsuit and demanding more equitable treatment for underrepresented…
Coffee rush snarls French traffic after capsule spill
Drivers in eastern France got a surprise coffee fix Friday after hundreds of capsules scattered onto a highway in a traffic accident, prompting quick pullovers by people who snatched up…
Something to take home
People wearing protective masks look at souvenirs in Biarritz, southwestern France, on Tuesday. France's highest constitutional authority said on Monday it would rule next week on new legislation passed by…
COVID-19 origin-tracing must not be politicized: Cambodian scholar
A Cambodian scholar on Monday called on some Western countries not to politicize the COVID-19 origin-tracing issue, saying that any origin-tracing should be scientific, not political. "Virus origin-tracing is a…
3 Armenian soldiers killed in clash with Azerbaijan
Three Armenian troops died in border clashes with Azerbaijani forces on Wednesday, Yerevan said, in the deadliest military incident between the arch-foes since their war last year over the disputed…