The FBI found more classified documents at the Wilmington, Delaware, home of President Joe Biden during a consensual search Friday that lasted nearly 13 hours, his personal lawyer and a prosecutor said Saturday evening. The discovery was the fourth time since November that classified
One of Haiti’s gangs stormed a key part of the capital, Port-Au-Prince, and battled with police throughout the day, leaving at least three officers dead. The violence Friday was the latest episode of lawlessness that has torn through the Caribbean nation. A police patrol was
Turkey has cancelled a visit by Sweden’s defence minister over a planned demonstration by a right-wing hardline group in Stockholm. A day after summoning the Swedish ambassador over the issue, Turkey said on Saturday it was cancelling the visit aimed at overcoming Turkey’s
The two top-ranking female officials from the United Nations made some progress in engaging with the Taliban to have them reverse their crackdown on women's rights, a UN spokesman said. What do we know about the trip? The UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed and the
A rescue operation to find people trapped in an avalanche on a Tibetan highway has now ended, with Chinese state media reporting the death toll to be at least 28. People were left trapped in their vehicles as falling snow engulfed the exit of a tunnel in the south-eastern city of
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been fined for not wearing a seatbelt in a moving car while filming a social media video. Lancashire Police said it had issued a 42-year-old man from London with a conditional offer of a fixed penalty. No 10 said Mr Sunak "fully accepts this was a
New Zealand Labour MP Chris Hipkins is set to replace Jacinda Ardern as prime minister after becoming the only nominee for the party's leadership. He was first elected to parliament in 2008 and was appointed minister for Covid-19 in November 2020. In Ms Ardern's shock
A US judge has ordered Donald Trump and one of his lawyers to jointly pay nearly $1m (£809,190) in fines for a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and others. The lawsuit accused Mrs Clinton and others of trying to rig the 2016 US presidential election by
British police will be “looking into” a video in which Prime Minister Rishi Sunak can be seen riding in a car without a seatbelt -- an “error of judgment” for which he has apologized, according to Downing Street. In Thursday’s video, produced for
The avalanche occurred on a section of road between Pai village in Mainling county and the exit of the Doxong La tunnel in Medog county at around 8 p.m. (1200 GMT) on Tuesday, with people and vehicles stranded, according to the Xinhua News Agency. It was not clear how many people were
NATO countries are set to announce new "heavier weapons" for Ukraine, the alliance's chief said on Wednesday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his backers to speed up their decision-making. US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin will convene a meeting of
Technology to remove the planet-warming greenhouse gas CO2 from our atmosphere must be urgently ramped up, leading climate experts say in a new report. Scientists say big cuts in CO2 emissions won't be enough to limit global warming. And nature alone will not remove enough of it
New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said that she will resign next month and will not contest this year’s general elections. Fighting back tears, Ardern told reporters on Thursday that February 7 will be her last day in office. “I am not leaving because
An offshore earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0 hit near eastern Indonesia's Maluku islands on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported, triggering a tsunami warning. The epicentre of the tremor was located 150 kilometres (93 miles) northwest of the eastern Indonesian
Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has announced he is stepping down, sparking a potential power shift among the communist-ruled country's leaders. The move had been widely rumoured and follows the departure of two deputy prime ministers who served under him. Mr Phuc, a
International visitor arrivals more than doubled in 2022 over the previous year and should resemble pre-pandemic levels in 2023, according to the UN's tourism organisation, as a result of the relaxation of travel restrictions, particularly in China. The World Tourism Organization,
At least three people died Saturday night in a fire at a nursing home in Reutlingen, in the southwestern German state of Baden Württemberg. A police spokesman said there were also two seriously injured and several slightly injured, he told the dpa news agency. Firefighters are
After the carnage, the Ukrainians pressed ahead with talks to obtain more Western weapons, and Ukraine's army chief Valery Zaluzhny met Mark Milley, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, for the first time in person in Poland. Ukrainian authorities said on Tuesday the Russian
Western and Ukrainian officials are piling pressure on Germany to approve the transfer of heavy battle tanks to Ukraine, with United Kingdom Defence Minister Ben Wallace saying the move could unlock support from other nations ahead of a United States-hosted meeting later this week to
Six people – including a 17-year-old mother and her 6-month-old baby – were killed in a shooting early on Monday at a home in central California, and authorities are searching for at least two suspects, sheriff’s officials said. Deputies responded around 3.30am to