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Japan searches for dozens missing in resort town mudslide

Rescue workers slogged through mud and debris Monday looking for dozens feared missing after a giant landslide ripped through a Japanese seaside resort town, killing at

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Philippine military plane crashes, 31 dead, 50 rescued

A Philippine air force C-130 aircraft carrying combat troops crashed in a southern province while landing Sunday, killing at least 29 army soldiers on board and two civ

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Japan's leader pushes rescue after deadly mudslide hits town

More than 1,000 soldiers, firefighters and police on Sunday waded through a giant mudslide that ripped through a resort town southwest of Tokyo, killing at least two pe

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Fresh bid to impeach Brazil's Bolsonaro over Covid response

Opposition lawmakers in Brazil launched a fresh bid Wednesday to impeach President Jair Bolsonaro as more allegations broke of corruption in acquiring coronavirus vacci

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Democrats win meager GOP support for post-Trump effort to shield inspectors general

The House passed a comprehensive package of reforms Tuesday to protect inspectors general from being fired or otherwise prevented from doing their jobs, a measure inspi

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Long-awaited Pentagon report into UFO sightings finds 'no clear indication' of alien life

Officials say more information is needed to tell if any of the 144 sightings recorded since 2004 could be linked to alien life.

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Witness: air strike kills dozens in Ethiopia's Tigray region

An air strike killed dozens of people in a town of Tagogon in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Reuters reported citing an eyewitness and a medical official on Wednesday.The bomb hit a market at around 1 p.m

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Philippines: Int’l court probe of drug killings is insulting

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will never cooperate with a possible International Criminal Court investigation into the thousands of killings under his anti-drugs

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Rights group: Colombian police cause deaths of 20 protesters

An international monitoring group on Wednesday accused police officers in Colombia of responsibility for the deaths of 20 people and other violent actions against prote

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Eight people injured in Somali capital blast

At least eight people were injured after a landmine placed along the road went off in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, police and witnesses said Saturday.A police officer who did not want to be ident

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100 years since the Tulsa race massacre, the damage remains

A mural depicting the Tulsa Race Massacre in Tulsa, U.S., May 27, 2021. /CFP The Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, once known as "Black Wall Street," was razed to the ground by an angry w

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Ethiopians protest US sanctions over brutal Tigray war

Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the nation’s capital Sunday to protest outside pressure on the government over its brutal war in Tigray.Protesters at the rally in A

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California mass killer had arsenal of guns, ammo at his home

The gunman who nursed a seething hatred of his California workplace amassed an arsenal and 25,000 rounds of ammunition at the home he tried to burn down before killing

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New grand jury seated for next stage of Trump investigation

New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business dealings, a perso

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Shooting in downtown Minneapolis leaves 2 dead, 8 others injured

Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday in downtown Minneapolis, police. /VCG Two men were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting

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Former Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi seriously ill, prosecutor says

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is seriously ill and his trial on charges of bribing witnesses should be temporarily suspended, a Milan prosecutor says.

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China censures U.S. hearing on so-called Xinjiang human rights issues

China on Friday censured a U.S. Congressional hearing on the so-called human rights issues in China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, saying that it is a deliberate e