US secretary of state John Kerry is in a stable condition in a Geneva hospital after being injured in an accident while cycling in the Alps near Scionzier, France on Sunday, his spokesman said. The accident...
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck off the east coast of Japan, shaking buildings in Tokyo, but there was no danger of a tsunami and no reports of damage since the quake was extremely deep . There were no reports of further irregularities at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, damaged four years...
The sudden deaths of tens of thousands of endangered antelopes in ex-Soviet Kazakhstan over the past two weeks have left scientists scrambling for answers and conservationists worried about the animal’s future. More than 120,000 rare saiga antelopes — more than one-third of the total global...
VOA NewsSyrian activists said an airstrike by Syrian government forces has killed 71 people, most of them civilians, in the northern province of Aleppo. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said military helicopters dropped barrel bombs – crude weapons made of oil drums, gas cylinders or...
An Isis fighter, who has called for jihad in an online video, was trained in counterterrorism tactics by the United States State Department, officials have confirmed. Gulmurod Khalimov was an officer of the primary counterterrorism unit which responds to threats in Tajikistan, a State Department...
The United States today called for an "immediate and lasting halt" to reclamation works in disputed waters in the South China Sea, saying Beijing's behaviour in the area was "out of step" with international norms. "First, we want a peaceful resolution of all disputes. To that end, there should be an...
