State news agency IRNA said Raisi was flying in a US-made Bell 212 helicopter.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was declared dead on Monday (May 20) after rescue teams found his crashed helicopter in a fog-shrouded western mountain, near the Azerbaijan border.
Despite President Lai Ching-te's call for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to pursue peace, China sees him as a "dangerous separatist." Beijing has increased military activities near Taiwan since his election win.
Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday (May 20) that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Taiwan’s 16th President Lai Ching-te (賴清德) was sworn in on Monday, alongside Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴). Following the inauguration, the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) released a statement from U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, congratulating President Lai......more
Despite President Lai Ching-te's call for both sides of the Taiwan Strait to pursue peace, China sees him as a "dangerous separatist." Beijing has increased military activities near Taiwan since his election win.
Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te, said in his inauguration speech Monday (May 20) that he wants peace with China and urged it to stop its military threats and intimidation of the self-governed island that Beijing claims as its own territory.
Two people were killed and 10 others injured after a knife attack at a primary school in Guixi City, east China’s Jiangxi Province on Monday noon, said local authorities, Xinhua reports. The injured have received medical treatment, among which six were slightly injured while trying to dodge the attack, according to the local public security …
The US says its soldiers will be out by 15 September, after the junta-led government asked them to leave.
KINSHASA, DRC — The leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people, including three American citizens, arrested, a spokesman for the Central African country's army told Reuters. Gunfire rang out around 4 a.m. in the capital Kinshasa, a Reuters reporter said. Armed men attacked the presidency in the city center, according to spokesman Sylvain Ekenge. Another attack took place at the nearby home of Vital Kamerhe, a member of parliament who is tipped to become speaker, Kamerhe's spokesman, Michel Moto Muhima, and the Japanese ambassador said in [...]
A London court could decide the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday: Will he be freed, or will he be sent to the U.S. to face 18 charges under the Espionage Act?
NIAMEY — Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be finished by Sept. 15, they said in a joint statement. Niger's ruling junta last month told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from the country. Until a coup last year Niger had been a key partner in Washington's fight against insurgents in the Sahel region of Africa, who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. The agreement between Niger's defense ministry and the U.S. [...]
The Democratic Republic Congo army said they have stopped an attempted coup involving Congolese and foreign soldiers.
The US says its soldiers will be out by 15 September, after the junta-led government asked them to leave.
NIAMEY — Niger and the United States have reached an agreement on the withdrawal of American troops from the West African country, a process that has already begun and will be finished by Sept. 15, they said in a joint statement. Niger's ruling junta last month told the U.S. to withdraw its nearly 1,000 military personnel from the country. Until a coup last year Niger had been a key partner in Washington's fight against insurgents in the Sahel region of Africa, who have killed thousands of people and displaced millions more. The agreement between Niger's defense ministry and the U.S. [...]
South Africa's top court ruled on Monday that former president Jacob Zuma was not eligible to run for parliament in this month's election, a closely-watched decision as it could affect the outcome.
Ukraine says it downed all 29 Shahed-type kamikaze drones launched by Russia against Kharkiv in the early hours of May 20.
Forty-seven dead in heavy rain, floods in northern Afghanistan, official says.
Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina's President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's wife during a far-right rally in Madrid.
Bratislava — Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico's life is no longer in danger following an assassination attempt, Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak said on Sunday. A lone gunman, who appeared in court Saturday, shot Fico four times and he was at one stage said to be fighting for his life. "He has emerged from the immediate threat to his life, but his condition remains serious and he requires intensive care," Kalinak, Fico's closest political ally, told reporters. The Slovak premier was shot as he was greeting supporters after a government meeting in the central town of Handlova. He underwent a [...]
Budapest, Hungary — Police say two people have died and five are missing following a boat collision on the Danube River in Hungary. Hungarian police received a report late Saturday night that a man had been found with a head injury on the shore of the Danube near the town of Veroce, around 50 kilometers north of the capital, Budapest. The bodies of a man and a woman were later discovered nearby. Hours after the police began their search, they discovered a damaged boat in the water, which they towed to shore. They are still searching for five adults — [...]