WASHINGTON, Oct 17 — A White House official said Friday that Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was leaving her role after just a few days on the job, following a lackluster

PARIS, Oct 17 — President Emmanuel Macron called for calm on the eve of nationwide cost-of-living protests today that authorities fear could lead to a violent escalation of weeks of student

  SEOUL, Oct 17 — North Korea has tested a “new-type” precision-guided torpedo system that uses artificial intelligence for target detection and guidance, state news agency KCNA reported this morning. 

  MOSCOW, Oct 17 — Ukrainian forces controlled only a small part of the eastern Donetsk region and its capture was among Russia’s “main objectives”, President Vladimir Putin told military

PARIS, Oct 17 — The French navy seized about 8.6 tonnes of narcotics, mainly cocaine, during several operations this month in the Caribbean and the Atlantic Ocean, authorities said yesterday. 

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 17 — Lying on a hospital bed, rolled-up blankets propping up the remains of her legs, 10-year-old double-amputee Iyerusalem is among scores of civilians wounded in northern Ethiopia

ABUJA, Oct 17 — Nigerian models donned outfits of seemingly impossible amounts of fabric folded and moulded into massive silhouettes, or overlapping in shingled, feather-like patterns. The colourful, detailed textiles

PARIS, Oct 16 — Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have built up a missile and drone arsenal capable of launching varied and sustained strikes, as Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni government it

WASHINGTON, Oct 16 — New White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia acknowledged today that she had failed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practicing law in the United States, as

PARIS, Oct 16 — After weeks of student protests, France is set to be swept by broader, nationwide demonstrations Saturday over the cost of living, setting up a potentially fraught period