China, which has been investing in infrastructure and logistics around the world for years, is building a $1.3 billion port in Chancay, Peru, to streamline shipping to South America.
The European heat wave is increasing the risk of falling rock and ice in Switzerland's Alpine region, according to police. Many mountaineers have fallen victim this year.
A commercial flight from North Korea landed and took off in Beijing Tuesday following severe COVID-19 restrictions that closed its borders for three years.
Antigovernment demonstrations in southern Syria have been intensifying. Protestors angered by the country’s economic crisis raided local offices of the ruling Baath party Wednesday.
A Norwegian plane was intercepted by a Russian fighter jet over the Baltic Sea on Aug. 23, 2023. The plane turned away from the Russian border after seeing the jet.
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy, were vandalized with graffiti on the exterior columns. The director of the galleries is calling for stiff penalties for the vandals.
Restaurants would review previous spending and insist that customers pay around $5,400 for a table, in addition to trying to force customers to pay double the usual tip.
A bus on the Prithvi highway, a key road that leads to Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu, has crashed into the Trishuli River. At least eight people died from the incident.
Following a coup that overthrew President Mohamad Bazoum, Niger’s neighboring countries have shut border crossings. Thousands of African migrants were left stranded in the country.
A couple of tankers, flagged by Singapore and the Cayman Islands, have collided in Egypt’s Suez Canal, a waterway vital to global trade. Authorities are working to remove the vessels.
Thaksin Shinawatra, a former prime minister who returned to Thailand after being exiled for over a decade, was transferred from a prison to a hospital in less than a day.
A construction platform adjacent to a railroad bridge, which is more than 300 feet tall at its peak, collapsed Wednesday, leaving dozens of workers dead.
The government of Hong Kong is now allowed to appeal a court decision that refused to ban “Glory to Hong Kong," a song protestors have sung to promote the city’s separation from China.