World
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In Israel, Blinken looks to planning for post-war Gaza as bombardment, fighting continue to rage
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken faced tough talks with Israeli leaders on Gaza's post-war future Tuesday, while Israel's military pushed...
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France gets its youngest-ever prime minister, Gabriel Attal, as Macron shakes up government
Gabriel Attal was named Tuesday as France's youngest-ever prime minister, as President Emmanuel Macron seeks a fresh start for the rest of his term...
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Taiwan's Defense Ministry mistranslates an alert, erroneously saying China launched a missile
Taiwan's Defense Ministry mistranslated an alert into English on Tuesday, saying China had launched a missile instead of a satellite and urging...
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Campaign to save Benito the Giraffe wins him a new, more spacious home in warmer southern Mexico
A campaign to save Benito the giraffe from extreme temperatures and a small enclosure in Mexico's arid northern border city of Ciudad Juarez has...
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Markets welcome new Nvidia AI chips, tools even as China warns on export sales
Nvidia's stock surged to a new record on Monday as it unveiled tools and readied new artificial intelligence chips designed for the China market,...
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Biden's speech in South Carolina church interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters
President Biden was interrupted Monday by pro-Palestinian protesters who shouted "ceasefire now" over his remarks during a campaign speech at a...
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Canada frets over FDA allowing Florida to import prescription drugs
Canada is vowing to safeguard its drug supply after the Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Florida's plan to import cheaper drugs en...
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Runway at Tokyo's Haneda airport reopens a week after fatal collision
Tokyo's Haneda airport is almost back to its normal operation Monday as it reopened the runway a week after a fatal collision between a Japan...
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Geert Wilders, Dutch lawmaker, has withdrawn a 2018 proposal to ban mosques and the Quran
Far-right Dutch election winner Geert Wilders made a key concession to potential coalition partners on Monday, announcing that he's withdrawing...
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Pope calls for global ban on surrogate motherhood, says practice exploits women, harms children
Pope Francis lashed out Monday against surrogate motherhood, calling it a "deplorable" practice that turns an unborn child "into an object of...
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Idris Elba calls for tougher action on knife crime after a spate of teen killings in Britain
Actor Idris Elba on Monday urged the British government to ban machetes and serrated "zombie" knives to help stop young people falling victim to...
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Trump says Defense Secretary Austin should be fired over his undisclosed hospital stay
Former President Donald Trump said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin should be fired "immediately" for not alerting the White House, Congress or...