(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin met with Cambodia's prime minister Tuesday amid concerns in Washington over the kingdom's relationship with China, which may look to the country as a foothold in southeast Asia.The Pentagon chief, who met with Prime Minister Hun Manet for the first time since…
(NEW YORK) -- Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected president of Mexico, marking the first time a woman has been chosen to lead the country, Mexico's election institute announced early Monday."For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a woman president and she will be transformative,"…
(NEW YORK) -- A North Korean official on Sunday vowed that the secretive country would stop floating trash-carrying balloons over the border into South Korea, but warned that the campaign may resume if South Korean groups continued sending leaflets north.North Korea sent about 3,500 balloons of various sizes across the…
(LONDON) -- Sudanese army leaders are rejecting peace talks with the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group following U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken's call with Sudanese Army Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan earlier this week.“We will not go to Jeddah, and whoever wants us to, should kill us in our…
(ZIMBABWE) -- A remarkable fossil finding in Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe has led to a new dinosaur species being named by researchers: Musankwa sanyatiensis.The fossilized remains of the species' single hind leg, including its thigh, shin, and ankle bones were discovered embedded into a rock in the lake's shoreline, according…
(RAFAH, GAZA) -- Sumaya Samir Al-Tot, a mother-of-one in Rafah, Gaza, said she has been displaced 17 times. On Wednesday, she fled for the 18th.Sumaya is among one of the more than one million people, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), who have fled the southern…
(SEOUL, South Korea and LONDON) -- Around 260 air balloons carrying bags of manure and trash have been spotted across South Korea on Wednesday after they were sent over the border from North Korea, according to South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff.The incident reportedly stems from an incident on Sunday…
(LONDON) -- A person has died after being sucked up into the running turbine engine of a plane at Amsterdam’s international airport, officials said.KLM Royal Dutch Airlines made the announcement on Wednesday that a “person ended up in a running aircraft engine” of a plane that was bound for Billund,…
(NEW YORK) -- A massive volcanic eruption at the Sundhnúkur crater in Iceland on Wednesday spewed lava over 160 feet into the air, officials announced.The crater is located on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, where authorities evacuated the seaside town of Grindavík, including the country's biggest tourist attraction, the…
(RAFAH, GAZA) -- World Central Kitchen (WCK) said it has paused its operations in Rafah due to "ongoing attacks" by Israeli forces as aid organizations warned the humanitarian response is on the brink of "collapse."The announcement comes as Israel's offensive on Rafah -- the southern city on the Gaza-Egypt border…
