A helicopter carrying Colombia's President Ivan Duque and others was struck by multiple bullets in an attack on Friday, he said in a video message.

1945 - The United Nations Charter was signed by 50 nations in San Francisco, creating a successor to the League of Nations. It became effective on October 24.

Wearing a baseball cap and knee-length traditional Gho robe, carrying a backpack, Bhutan’s king has walked through jungles infested with leeches and snakes, trekked mountains and quarantined several times in a hotel in the capital.

For me, Hungary has no place in the EU anymore. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte slams Hungary over new bill banning LGBTQ

Former policeman Derek Chauvin could be ordered behind bars for 30 years yesterday when he is sentenced for the murder of African American George Floyd.

More than 750 unmarked graves have been found near a former Catholic boarding school for indigenous children in western Canada, a tribal leader said Thursday -- the second such shock discovery in less than a month.

The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that people most vulnerable to Covid-19, such as the elderly, will need to get an annual vaccine booster to be protected against variants, an internal document seen by Reuters shows.

EU leaders yesterday said the bloc had rejected a push by Germany and France to relaunch meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin after fierce resistance from member states worried about Moscow’s aggressions.

The United States and France yesterday warned Iran that time was running out to return to a nuclear deal, voicing fear that Tehran’s sensitive atomic activities could advance if talks drag on.

Indian police yesterday said that around 2,000 people were injected with fake Covid-19 vaccines in Mumbai, and another 500 -- some of them disabled -- may have suffered the same fate in Kolkata.

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, 81, yesterday received the first dose of a domestically produced coronavirus vaccine, his social media announced.

At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of yesterday, according to the local government.

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock apologised yesterday for breaching social distancing guidelines after pictures appeared of him embracing and kissing his top aide, and the prime minister said he believed the matter was now closed.

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials on Friday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four.

The minority government of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau survived a parliamentary vote of no confidence Wednesday in a face-off over the proposed budget, eliminating the possibility of early elections this summer.

The world’s highest luxury hotel, boasting a restaurant on the 120th floor and 24-hour personal butler service, has opened in Shanghai to guests with deep pockets and a head for heights.

France and Germany yesterday called for a European Union summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin but met firm resistance from Poland and Baltic countries who distrust the Kremlin.

1950 - North Korea invaded the South, heralding the beginning of the Korean War.

They (Big Techs) bury or buy rivals and abuse their monopoly power, conduct that is harmful to consumers, competition, innovation and our democracy.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy Apple Daily tabloid said it was a “victim of tyranny” in a defiant final edition yesterday after it was forced to close under a new national security law, ending a 26-year run of taking on China’s authoritarian leaders.