Category: 4. World

Investigators have boarded an Australian cruise ship more than 10 days after the death of an elderly female passenger who was left behind on a remote island.

Suzanne Rees, 80, had been hiking on Lizard Island with fellow passengers from the Coral…

TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry sent troops on Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have horrified residents in the mountainous region.

Bears have showed up near schools, train stations,…

TOKYO (AP) — Japan deployed troops Wednesday to the northern prefecture of Akita to help contain a surge of bear attacks that have terrorized residents in the mountainous region.

Reports of unexpected…

No wonder EU countries are eyeing Russian assets rather than coughing up to meet Ukraine’s multibillion-euro needs.

EU finances are in such bad shape that the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged states to rethink their social…

BANGKOK — Prosecutors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to a Cambodian businessman whom the U.S. accuses of heading a global scam syndicate.

It’s the latest in a string of…

BANGKOK (AP) — Prosecutors in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore seized hundreds of millions of dollars in assets belonging to a Cambodian businessman whom the U.S. accuses of heading a global scam…

Cheers, car horns, and chants echoed through the streets of New York City on Tuesday night as residents celebrated Zohran Mamdani’s historic mayoral victory.

Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic assemblymember, has been elected mayor…

The coalition government of center-right Christian Democrats and Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) and center-left Social Democrats (SPD), which has been in office since May 2025, is aiming to significantly increase the number of people who have…