The Russian military on Tuesday launched massive naval and air drills spanning across both hemispheres and including China in joint maneuvers. The “Ocean-24” exercise spans the Pacific and Arctic Oceans, the Mediterranean, Caspian and Baltic Seas and involves over 400 warships, submarines and support vessels, more than 120 planes and helicopters and over 90,000 troops
LONDON (AP) — King Charles III is preparing to visit Australia and Samoa on a tour from Oct. 18-26, a long trip and test of the monarch’s stamina as he recovers from cancer treatment. The trip, described Tuesday at Buckingham Palace briefing, marks a watershed moment for the 75-year-old king, who has been slowly returning
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — A pilot is missing after ejecting from a fighter jet during a nighttime training exercise on Tuesday night, Taiwan’s defense ministry said The Mirage 2000 fighter jet lost power at around 8 p.m. local time, the defense ministry said. Rescuers were searching for the pilot. The plane was flying in the
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A new foreign minister was named in Sweden on Tuesday, nearly a week after the post was vacated in a surprise resignation. The move to appoint Maria Malmer Stenegard, 43, came after Tobias Billström said on Sept. 4 that he was leaving the government in a shock departure . Malmer Stenegard
LONDON (AP) — Former Spice Girl Mel B is among dozens of Black Britons urging Parliament to update the country’s equality laws and prohibit Afro hair discrimination. In an open letter to lawmakers on Tuesday, campaigners including Mel B, singer Beverley Knight and lawmaker Paulette Hamilton called for the U.K. to introduce a law to
CHURCHILL, Manitoba (AP) — Change has broken, remade and continues to reshape this remote town where tundra meets forest on the shore of Hudson Bay. The economic base collapsed when the military left town. Rail service and cargo ships — the lifeblood of supplies for a town not connected to the rest of the world
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Authorities in Congo said that 50,000 doses of mpox vaccine from the United States arrived in the country on Tuesday, a week after the first batch arrived from the European Union. Adults in Equateur, South Kivu and Sankuru, the three most affected provinces, will be vaccinated first, starting on Oct. 2
DERNA, Libya (AP) — A year since two dams burst upstream from the eastern Libyan city of Derna , unleashing a wall of water that swept away thousands of people, its residents no longer hold out hope of finding many of their loved ones. For Libya, the disaster on the night of Sept. 10 was
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary’s threat to send a bus convoy of migrants to Brussels in protest against European Union policies is unacceptable and would prompt EU retaliatory action, the bloc’s powerful executive branch warned on Tuesday. Hungary’s anti-immigrant government signaled last week that it is serious about giving migrants free one-way travel to Brussels, a
LONDON (AP) — The United States formally accused Iran on Tuesday of supplying short-range ballistic missiles to Russia for its war in Ukraine and will take measures to punish those involved. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking alongside British Foreign Secretary David Lammy during a visit to London, said that sanctions would be announced
