OUAGADOUGOU: Burkina Faso's government denied that the army had seized control of the country on Sunday after exchanges of gunfire took place at multiple army barracks, including two in the capital. "Information on social media would have people believe there was an army...

SEOUL: South Korea posted its second-highest daily number of coronavirus cases on Sunday, despite extended Covid-19 curbs and a high vaccination rate, raising concerns of further spread during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday. The country recorded 7,630 new cases on Saturday, the...

NEW YORK: Gun violence has rocked the first three weeks of Eric Adams' tenure as New York mayor, piling pressure on the former cop to deliver on his promise to improve public safety in America's largest city. A shooting in the neighborhood of...

US military aid to help Ukraine defend against a possible invasion by Russia has began arriving on Friday night, according to the American Embassy in Kyiv. The embassy, in a Twitter post, said the material “includes close to 200,000 pounds of lethal aid,...

WASHINGTON: The crash in Pennsylvania of a truck transporting 100 monkeys to a laboratory allowed four of them to escape, triggering a search by police who warned the public not to approach the animals. The vehicle collided with a dump truck near Danville,...

HELSINKI: The Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will send US-made anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine in a move that Washington says it is fully endorsing amid Kyiv's escalating tensions with Russia. US secretary of state Antony Blinken said in a...