Category: International

Cars go past the headquarters of the Federal Security Service, and Lubyanka Square in front of it in central Moscow on March 3, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP） MOSCOW - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said Thursday it had arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter on espionage charges. The FSB...

This file photo taken on May 24, 2018 shows flags of Ukraine and the European Union outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. (PHOTO/ XINHUA) KYIV - Ukraine aims to join the European Union within a year after the start of the membership talks, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said...

Hundreds of people attend a public vigil to honor victims and survivors of a shooting at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, March 29, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) NASHVILLE, Tennessee - Protesters flooded Tennessee's statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that...

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro greets supporters from a window at the Liberal Party headquarters in Brasilia on March 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) BRASILIA – Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro returned from three months in the United States on Thursday and was welcomed back by hundreds of chanting...

Ambassador Zheng Zeguang speaks at a news conference on Tuesday in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (XING YI / CHINA DAILY) The United Kingdom government's recent decision to prohibit ministers and officials from having the TikTok app on their mobile phones has drawn criticism from China's ambassador to the UK. "To ban...

People walk past a tree with brown leaves in St James' Park in London, Aug 24, 2022. Searing summer temperatures in the UK have not just parched the earth and dried up rivers, lakes and reservoirs but are also seeing trees shed their leaves early. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON -...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (right) and Finnish President Sauli Niinisto (left) hold a joint press conference held after their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on March 17, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) ANKARA - Türkiye’s parliament approved a bill on Thursday to allow Finland to join NATO, clearing...

In this handout photo from the US Department of Defense, an HH-60M Medevac Black Hawk helicopter flies over airspace in the Parwan province of Afghanistan. Two US Army HH60 Black Hawk helicopters crashed in Kentucky during a training mission, killing nine soldiers, a military spokesman said. (HANDOUT / DOD /...

Editor's note: Xinhua News Agency issued a report on Thursday on the United States' human rights abuse against refugees and immigrants. Following is the full text. United States Border Patrol agents try to stop Haitian migrants from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna...

Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) NEW YORK - Donald Trump has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, becoming the first former...

This photograph taken on March 14, 2023 shows the flags of European Union's member countries displayed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS - European Union negotiators struck a political deal on Thursday on more ambitious targets to expand the use of renewable energy by 2030, an...

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt makes an autumn budget statement in the House of Commons in London on Nov 17, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) LONDON — Britain's government has lost tens of billions of pounds to fraud in recent years, with most public bodies unable to grasp the...

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023 on March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (PHOTO / AP) BRASILIA - Brazil's far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro, who never conceded defeat in last year's election, returns from self-imposed exile in Florida...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (left) looks on as he waits for the arrival of Pope Francis at the Presidential Palace in Juba, South Sudan, on Feb 3, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) JUBA - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has appointed a member of his own party as defense minister,...

In this file photo dated March 10, 2014, Brazilian scientists work in front of the Brazilian Comandante Ferraz Antartic station. (PHOTO / AFP) SINGAPORE - Rapidly melting Antarctic ice is dramatically slowing down the flow of water through the world's oceans, and could have a disastrous impact on global climate,...

Military personnel of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division take off with a Black Hawk helicopter during a demonstration drill at Mihail Kogalniceanu Airbase near Constanta, Romania on July 30, 2022. (PHOTO / AFP) The governor of Kentucky said on Thursday fatalities were expected after two US Army Black Hawk...

Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin arrives for a EU Summit, at the EU headquarters in Brussels, on March 24, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) HELSINKI - Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin, who in 2019 became the world's youngest premier at 34, is battling to stay in power in an election on...

This photograph taken on March 14, 2023 shows the flags of European Union's member countries displayed at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. (PHOTO / AFP) BRUSSELS - European Union negotiators struck a political deal on Thursday on more ambitious targets to expand the use of renewable energy by 2030, an...

Pope Francis speaks on March 29, 2023 during the weekly general audience at St. Peter's square in The Vatican. (PHOTO / AFP) VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has a respiratory infection and will need to spend "a few days" in hospital for treatment, the Vatican said in a statement on...

This file photo taken on March 30, 2021 shows an exterior view of the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. (PHOTO / XINHUA) GENEVA - Equatorial Guinea has confirmed 13 cases of Marburg disease since the beginning of the epidemic, its health officials said on Wednesday after the...