Dalai Lama apologises for asking boy to ‘suck my tongue’
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetans’ 87-year-old spiritual leader, apologised on Monday after footage showed him asking a young boy to “suck my tongue” at a public event.
“A video clip ...
China practices blockades on last scheduled day of Taiwan drills
China’s military carried out aerial and naval blockade drills around Taiwan on Monday, its last scheduled day of exercises, with a Chinese aircraft carrier joining in combat patrols as ...
Intel leak has U.S. officials bracing for impact at home and abroad
The U.S. national security community is grappling with the fallout from the release of dozens of secret documents, including the impact on sensitive information-sharing within the government and ties ...
Fifth body found in French Alps following avalanche
French rescue services have found a fifth body following an avalanche southwest of Mont Blanc in the French Alps, local authorities said on Monday.
The avalanche occurred in the middle ...
Israel signs $400 mln deal to sell Greece anti-tank missiles
Israel signed a 1.44 billion shekel ($400 million) deal to sell Spike anti-tank missiles to Greece, Israel’s Defence Ministry said on Monday, just days after reaching a similar-sized deal to provide ...
French rescue workers recover two bodies from rubble of collapsed buildings
French rescue workers have found two bodies in the rubble of buildings in the southern city of Marseille which collapsed following an explosion, the city’s mayor said on Monday.
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Turkey and north condemn US submarine arrival in Limassol (updated)
The Turkish-Cypriot ‘foreign ministry’ reacted strongly on Monday to the presence of the US attack submarine USS San Juan in Limassol and accused Washington of not keeping the balance on ...
Russian forces step up strikes on two key Ukrainian cities
Russia’s forces kept up a barrage of attacks along the front concentrated in two Ukrainian cities in the eastern Donetsk region, Ukraine’s military reported, as Kyiv said it ...
Four killed in avalanche in the French Alps
Four people have died and a number of others have been injured in an avalanche in the French Alps, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said on Sunday.
The avalanche occurred in ...
Japan following China’s Taiwan drills with ‘great interest’
By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard
China’s military simulated precision strikes against Taiwan in a second day of drills around the island on Sunday, with the island’s defence ...
Russia says it has destroyed 70,000-tonne fuel depot near Zaporizhzhia
Russia has destroyed a depot containing 70,000 tonnes of fuel near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, the Russian defence ministry said on Sunday.
It also said Russian forces had destroyed ...
Pope appeals to Russians on Ukraine, decries Middle East violence, in Easter message
Pope Francis appeared to ask Russians to seek the truth about their country’s invasion of Ukraine in his Easter message to the world on Sunday and appealed for dialogue ...
Hamburg police warn of possible toxins in air due to fire; 140 evacuated
Police in the German city of Hamburg warned locals on Sunday of possible toxins in the air after a fire at a storage facility.
Some 140 people have been evacuated, and ...
After tense night, thousands pray at Jerusalem’s Western Wall
Dawn Ramadan prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound ended peacefully on Sunday after days of heightened tension at the flashpoint Jerusalem site, as a mass Passover benediction at the adjacent ...
Two killed in Russian strike on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia: officials
50-year-old man and his 11-year-old daughter were killed after Russian forces struck a residential building in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia early on Sunday, authorities said.
Ukraine’s State ...
What is the Good Friday Agreement and when was it signed?
The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the “Troubles”, three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 – which fell that year ...
Visits to Ireland by U.S. presidents
John F. Kennedy, June 1963
President John F. Kennedy came to Ireland five months before his assassination for a visit that drew huge crowds wherever he travelled. He later told aides ...
US IRS to hire nearly 30,000 staff over two years with $80 bln in new funds
The US Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve ...
Saudi officials arrive in Iran to discuss reopening diplomatic missions
Saudi officials have arrived in Iran to discuss procedures for reopening Riyadh’s embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad after China brokered a deal to restore relations between the ...
DeSantis takes aim at Disney, vows to void Florida theme park development agreement
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ramped up his fight against Walt Disney Co DIS.N, seeking to void an agreement that Disney passed to limit the power of a board appointed ...
Chinese planes cross Taiwan Strait median line as angry China starts drills
Seventy-one Chinese military aircraft crossed the sensitive median line of the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as China began drills around Taiwan in anger at President Tsai Ing-wen’s meeting with ...
Iraq calls on Turkey to ‘apologize’ for shelling Sulaymaniyah airport
Iraq called on Turkey on Saturday to apologize for what it said was the shelling of Sulaymaniyah airport in Iraq’s north, saying the Turkish government must cease hostilities on ...
Russia likely behind document leak, US says
Russia or pro-Russian elements are likely behind the leak of several classified U.S. military documents posted on social media that offer a partial, month-old snapshot of the war in ...
US job growth expected to moderate but remain at brisk pace in March
The US economy likely continued to churn out jobs at a brisk clip in March even though the labor market is losing its luster as Federal Reserve interest rate hikes ...