CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico A letter claiming to be from the Mexican drug cartel blamed for abducting four Americans and killing two of them condemned the violence and said the gang turned over to authorities its own members who were responsible.In a letter obtained by The Associated Press thr...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a live-fire artillery drill simulating an attack on a South Korean airfield and called for his troops to be ready to respond to the enemies’ “frantic war preparation moves” — apparently referring to the recent series o...
PARIS “I came back to life.”Like other victims of child abuse by priests, 52-year-old Stéphane said getting an official recognition from France’s Catholic Church of what happened is helping him get better, at last.Stéphane is among 201 victims granted financial or other reparations from the chu...
NEW YORK CITY, New York: Bloomberg News reported that Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms will cut thousands of jobs as soon as this week, only months after it laid off more than 11,000 employees.The report stated that the new round of job cuts is being driven by financial targets and is no...
US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy plans to meet Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen in the US during his upcoming visit.The meeting could replace Republican McCarthy's anticipated but sensitive trip to the democratically governed island claimed by China.Tsai was invited to speak at the Ronald Reag...
LONDON — Trains were canceled, some schools were shut and drivers were stuck for hours on a major highway as a blast of snow and wind hit Britain on Friday for the second time in a week.,The weather system, named Storm Larisa by meteorologists, brought gales and blizzards to much of the...
BERLIN — German police said Monday they have disrupted a ransomware cybercrime gang tied to Russia that has been blackmailing large companies and institutions for years, raking in millions of euros.,Working with law enforcement partners including Europol, the FBI and authorities in Ukra...
More than 100 young people and foreign friends across the Straits wrote a song "Happy New Year" through the network "Cloud", which was composed by Lu Hongya and Zhou Yang. Singers: Zhou Ziqi, Mei Yang Xiaoshuai, Lin Yihua, Qiu Qingling, Ruby Shabu, Liu Leyan, Huang Kaijia, Xia Yu...
Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFP...
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd via a video conference in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2022. Negotiating does not mean giving in to the enemy, he said as talks are taking place in Vienna between his country and world powers on the nuclear issue.Photo: AF...
