(VILNIUS, Lithuania) -- President Joe Biden highlighted allied unity in a major speech Wednesday following a two-day, high-stakes NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania. Biden spoke to a large crowd gathered in the courtyard at Vilnius University, where he touted the strength of the alliance and the importance of continued support…
(SEOUL, South Korea) -- North Korea test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew about 621 miles before falling in the East Sea, neighboring Japan and South Korea said Wednesday. The launch amounted to a "serious provocation that undermines the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula as well as the…
(VILNIUS, Lithuania) -- President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Tuesday amid questions about how much the potential sale of U.S. F-16 fighter jets factored into Turkey's decision to back Sweden's entry to NATO. Biden thanked Erdogan for his "diplomacy and courage to take that on" as…
(NEW YORK) -- U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that NATO is "stronger," "bigger" and "more united than it's ever been" with Sweden now close to becoming the alliance's 32nd member following the addition of Finland. "That sends a very strong message to Vladimir Putin that he's not…
(NEW YORK) -- Six people, including a Nepalese pilot, were killed in a helicopter crash near Mount Everest on Tuesday, local officials said. Five tourists -- all Mexican nationals -- were onboard a sightseeing aircraft when it crashed near Lamjura Pass in the Solukhumbu District, the Civil Aviation Authority of…
(NEW YORK) -- Three MQ-9 Reaper drones that the U.S. military said had been "harassed" by Russian fighter jets over Syria on Friday were the same drones that later carried out an airstrike that killed a top Islamic State group leader, U.S. Central Command announced Sunday. Usamah al-Muhajir was killed…
(VATICAN CITY) -- Pope Francis announced Sunday he's elevating 21 clergymen from around the world to become cardinals in a ceremony later this year. The pope made the announcement during his noontime Sunday prayer from St. Peter's Square, saying the ceremony will be held on Sept. 30. In his decade-long…
(NEW YORK) -- Nearly two dozen armed men stormed a hospital operated by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières in the Tabarre section of Port-au-Prince Thursday night, forcibly removing a gunshot victim as he was being operated on and threatening to kill the staff inside the facility, the organization said. MSF…
(NEW YORK) -- For four days in a row, the planet reached its hottest day ever recorded as regions all over the world endure dangerous heat. Earth warmed to the highest temperature ever recorded by human-made instruments when the average global temperature reached 17.18 degrees Celsius, or 62.92 degrees Fahrenheit,…
(MOSCOW) -- Friday marks journalist and U.S. citizen Evan Gershkovich's 100th day being detained by Russian government authorities. The 31-year-old Wall Street Journal reporter has sat in Moscow's Lefortovo prison for more than three months, held on espionage charges -- charges he and the outlet vehemently deny. The U.S. has…
