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Americas

Person of interest detained in fatal mass shooting at Brown University

Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said at a midday news conference that the person detained in connection with Saturday's gun violence was in his 20s but declined to share further details. Perez said earlier on Sunday that authorities were not seeking other suspects at this time.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Father and son gunmen kill 15 at Jewish festival on Australia's Bondi Beach

The duo fired into crowds packing the beach for the start of Hanukkah on Sunday evening, sending people fleeing in panic across the tourist hotspot. ...

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Witnesses tell of courage, panic in wake of Bondi Beach shootings

A father-and-son duo opened fire as crowds thronged Australia's famous surf beach for a yearly Jewish celebration on a balmy summer evening, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more. ...

5 months ago

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Asia & Pacific

Thailand confirms first civilian killed in week of Cambodia fighting

The conflict, rooted in a colonial-era demarcation dispute along their 800-kilometer border, has displaced around 800,000 people, officials said.

5 months ago
Americas

Trump accused of physical decline, economic denial

The Republican, back in power for nearly a year, continues to compare himself to his predecessor.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

India tightens pollution curbs as Delhi's air quality worsens

The Commission for Air Quality Management invoked stage four, the highest level, of the Graded Response Action Plan for Delhi and surrounding areas on Saturday evening, according to an advisory by India's environment ministry.

5 months ago
Americas

Chile picks new president with far right candidate the front-runner

Almost 16 million citizens can cast their ballot in the runoff vote between father-of-nine Jose Antonio Kast and his rival Jeannette Jara, a longstanding member of the Communist Party.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

North Korean leader Kim hails troops returning from Russia mission

North Korean news agency KCNA said the army engineering unit had been dispatched in early August and carried out combat and engineering tasks in the Kursk region of Russia during Moscow's war with Ukraine.

5 months ago
Europe

Two Indonesians tested positive for leprosy in Romania, first cases in 40 years

Romania's last confirmed case of leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease, was detected 44 years ago.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia says Thailand still bombing hours after Trump truce call

The reported bombing by Thai military came after Trump said Friday that Thailand and Cambodia had agreed to halt fighting along their disputed border, which has killed at least 20 people this week.

5 months ago
Middle East and Africa

US aims for international Gaza force deployment early next year

More than 25 countries are expected to send representatives to the conference, which will include sessions on the command structure and other issues related to the Gaza force, according to United States officials.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Thai PM dissolves parliament, paving way for national elections

The dissolution comes as fighting stemming from a decades-long territorial dispute over ancient temples has flared again on the border with Cambodia, where clashes have killed at least 20 people and displaced around 600,000, mostly in Thailand.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Warmer seas, heavier rains drove Asia floods: scientists

Two tropical storms dumped massive amounts of rain on the countries last month, prompting landslides and flooding that killed more than 600 people in Sri Lanka and nearly 1,000 in Indonesia.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

US bombers join Japanese jets in show of force after China-Russia drills, Tokyo says

US nuclear-capable bombers flew over the Sea of Japan alongside Japanese fighter jets on Wednesday, Tokyo said, in a show of force following Chinese and Russian drills in the skies and seas around Japan and South Korea.

5 months ago
Americas

Venezuelan opposition leader emerges from hiding after winning Nobel

It was unclear how Machado managed to travel to Norway, or how she will return after Venezuela said it would consider her a fugitive if she left the country. 

5 months ago
Middle East and Africa

US to host meeting of G20 officials without South Africa's participation

South Africa, this year's host country, was not invited to join the meeting of the G20 deputy sherpas, the sources said on condition of anonymity.

5 months ago
Americas

US plans to order foreign tourists to disclose social media histories

The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to order visa-exempt foreign tourists to disclose their social media histories from the last five years before entering the country, according to an official notice.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Thailand, Cambodia keep fighting across border ahead of Trump calls

Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia entered its fourth day on Thursday as both sides waited for a promised telephone call from United States President Donald Trump, who says he believes he can again end the conflict between the two Southeast Asian nations.

5 months ago
Europe

Putin meets Prabowo to discuss military and energy ties, wheat exports

It was the second time the pair have met this year in Russia, as Putin courts Prabowo, the leader of the world's fourth most populous country, to build stronger ties with the Global South while his economy remains under Western sanctions because of the war in Ukraine.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Prabowo bestowed with highest Pakistani honor in Islamabad

President Prabowo Subianto became the second Indonesian to receive Pakistan's highest civilian honor Nishan-e-Pakistan after former president and his former father-in-law Soeharto, who received the award in 1982.

5 months ago
Europe

Suspense swirls if Nobel peace laureate will attend ceremony

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, who lives in hiding, is due to receive her Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Wednesday, but hours before the ceremony it was still unclear whether she would attend.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Trump says to make phone call to stop Thai-Cambodia fighting

Thailand's foreign minister said in an interview on Tuesday that he saw no potential for negotiations in the border conflict, adding the situation was not conducive to third-party mediation, while a top adviser to Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet told Reuters his country was "ready to talk at any time".

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia pull out of SEA Games in Thailand: Organizers

Cambodia withdrew on Wednesday from the Southeast Asian Games, a Games official said, as a border conflict with hosts Thailand escalated and forced a mass exodus of civilians from both sides of the disputed frontier. 

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban

For social media businesses, the implementation marks a new era of structural stagnation as user numbers flatline and time spent on platforms shrinks, studies show.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

US backs Japan in dispute with China over radar incident

The United States has for the first time criticized China for aiming radars at Japanese military aircraft during a training exercise last week, incidents that the Asian neighbors have given differing accounts of amid escalating tensions.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Prabowo focuses on health on Pakistan trip

President Prabowo Subianto announced on Tuesday that Pakistan has agreed to help bolster Indonesia's health sector and ease its medical worker shortage, as well as intensify trade and other cooperation, in a visit to Islamabad after wrapping up his tour to flood-hit Aceh.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific premium

Indonesia tells citizens in Japan to stay vigilant after earthquake

Indonesia has urged its citizens in Japan to remain calm but to remain vigilant after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Aomori prefecture on Monday evening and triggered a tsunami warning.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Major Japan quake injures 30, damages roads

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 30 people were injured in the quake off the coast of the northern Aomori region, which triggered tsunami waves up to 70 centimeters.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Cambodia-Thailand clashes spread on border as toll rises

This week's clashes are the most deadly since the neighboring nations engaged in five days of intense combat in July that killed dozens of people and displaced around 300,000 before a truce took effect.

5 months ago
Asia & Pacific

Thai border clashes kill four Cambodian civilians

"At least four Cambodian civilians were killed in the Thai attacks" in the border provinces of Oddar Meanchey and Preah Vihear, said Neth Pheaktra, adding that 10 other civilians were wounded.

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