Foreign

2022 brought surge in killings of journalists: UNESCO
Killings of journalists and media workers surged 50 percent in 2022 to reach 86 worldwide, marking one death every four days, UN cultural body UNESCO ...
1 week ago
Cardinal George Pell dies aged 81 in Rome
Cardinal George Pell -- a giant of the Catholic Church who was convicted and later cleared of sexual abuse in Australia -- has died in Rome aged 81, a...
2 weeks ago
Pope Francis addresses faithful after ex-pope's death
Pope Francis will address the Catholic faithful on Sunday at the Vatican, the day after the death of his predecessor at the age of 95. The pontiff ...
3 weeks ago
Trump's tax returns released by US Congress
US lawmakers released Donald Trump's tax returns on Friday, ending a yearslong battle by the former president to keep his finances private as he p...
3 weeks ago
Global alarm grows over China's COVID surge
The United States has joined a growing number of countries in imposing restrictions on visitors from China after Beijing announced it would remove cur...
4 weeks ago
'Blizzard of the century' leaves nearly 50 dead across US states
Temperatures were expected to moderate across the eastern and midwest United States on Tuesday, after days of freezing weather from "the blizzard of t...
1 month ago
Time magazine names Ukraine's Zelensky 'Person of the Year'
Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as "the spirit of Ukraine" as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the res...
1 month ago
China nabs BBC journalist covering COVID protests
The BBC has said one of its journalists in China was arrested and beaten by police while covering protests on Sunday against the country's zero-CO...
1 month ago
Shallow quake kills 162, injures 326 on Indonesia's Java island
A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 162 people, with hundreds injured and others missing, when it toppled buildings and triggered lands...
2 months ago
Biden says no 'imminent' China plan to invade Taiwan
US President Joe Biden said Monday he did not believe China had "imminent" plans to invade Taiwan as he gave an upbeat assessment of talks w...
2 months ago