Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said disrupting the Russian offensive near the north-eastern city of Kharkiv is the army's "number one task" at the moment. "The accomplishment of this task depends on every soldier, every sergeant, every officer," he said in his daily video address published on Saturday evening. Russian troops have occupied five ...

Tesla boss Elon Musk said Friday the electric vehicle manufacturer would invest over $500 million this year to install new superchargers, just days after a report of massive layoffs in this branch of the company."Just to reiterate: Tesla will spend well over $500M expanding our Supercharger network to create thousands of NEW chargers this year," Elon said ...

A long-awaited State Department report on Friday said that Israel likely violated norms on international law in its use of US weapons but it did not find enough evidence to block shipments.The report said it was "reasonable to assess" that Israel, which receives some $3 billion in US weapons a year, has used the arms in ways inconsistent with standards on ...

Swedish police said Saturday they had launched a probe into alleged intimidation at Eurovision after the Dutch contestant was mysteriously pulled from rehearsals on the eve of the final.European Broadcasting Union organizers announced that Dutch competitor Joost Klein had been prevented from rehearsing Friday over an unspecified "incident"."The police is ...

Activists tried to break into Tesla's electric car factory in Germany just outside Berlin on Friday during a demonstration against a proposed plant expansion, according to police. So far, the demonstrators had not succeeded in accessing the Tesla plant grounds, a police spokesman told dpa on Friday afternoon, but had managed to overcome the first fences on ...

Paris (AFP) - Taylor Swift-fever struck Paris on Thursday as the highest-grossing tour in history finally arrived in Europe, with fans treated to the first-ever performance of songs from her latest album. The Eras Tour began its European leg with four dates at the La Defense Arena in Paris and attendance on the first night alone was 45,387, according to her ...

The bodies of two Australian surfers murdered in Mexico were taken to the United States on Thursday to be delivered to their relatives for the long journey home.The funeral home transporting the remains of brothers Jake and Callum Robinson, who were aged 30 and 33 respectively, confirmed that they had been transferred from Tijuana to San Diego where their ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn in Budapest on Thursday on the last stop of his trip to Europe and the two leaders committed to closer ties. They agreed on a "comprehensive strategic partnership" between the two countries, the leaders said in a joint statement broadcast on Hungarian state television. Orbn ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will defend itself alone if necessary amid growing international criticism of the war in Gaza. "If we have to stand alone, we will stand alone," he said in a video message released on Thursday. He said Israel would fight "with our fingernails" to win, in his first public statement after Washington said it would ...

Russia commemorated the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler's Germany in 1945 with its traditional military parade on Thursday, the third such parade since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin was on hand at Moscow's Red Square on a chilly morning amid light snowfall. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected Thursday's ...

A Mexican court on Wednesday ordered the alleged murderer of two Australians and an American killed during a surfing trip to be prosecuted, as grieving relatives awaited the repatriation of their bodies.It followed a hearing held for Jesus Gerardo "N" -- alias "El Kekas" -- in Ensenada, Baja California, where the bodies of brothers Callum and Jake Robinson, ...

The dazzling Thai holiday islands made famous by Hollywood film "The Beach" are facing a severe water shortage following a blistering heatwave across Asia, a tourism official and locals said Thursday.The Koh Phi Phi archipelago, off the west coast of southern Thailand, draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to its pristine beaches and turquoise waters each ...

Outside Moscow's patriotic Victory Museum, 11-year-old Saveliy beamed with excitement: "I've seen real machine guns!".Standing with his younger brother and mother, Arina, under a grey Moscow sky, the child was well versed in weaponry."I'm really interested in all this. I know about old German weapons, Soviet weapons," he said.The family visited the museum ...

After a run-up in the shadow of the war in Gaza, the Eurovision Song Contest final gets underway on Saturday in Sweden's Malmo, where representatives from 26 countries will compete.Up to 30,000 demonstrators are expected to protest against Israel's participation in the competition over its offensive in Gaza on Thursday, when the country's representative ...

Tourists have a few more days to snap Mount Fuji at a popular vantage point after Japanese authorities said Thursday that the construction of a barrier has been delayed.Fujikawaguchiko town is building the screen to deter people from taking pictures of Japan's most famous landmark from a pavement opposite a Lawson convenience store.Residents complain that ...

On the anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has compared his country's current defence against a Russian invasion to Ukrainian efforts to defeat Nazi Germany. "Eighty years ago, millions of Ukrainians fought to defeat Nazism forever," he said in a video message recorded during his Wednesday visit to the ...

WASHINGTON The United States has revoked some export licenses that allowed companies such as US chip firm Qualcomm to supply Chinese tech giant Huawei, the Commerce Department confirmed on Wednesday. The move adds pressure on Huawei, which has long been caught in an intense technological rivalry between Beijing and Washington over U.S. fears it could be ...

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey is facing a civil trial in London over a sexual abuse claim after a judge on Tuesday set aside a previous default ruling against the actor.A man made the claim against the Oscar-winning actor at the High Court in London in 2022, alleging he was sexually assaulted and was suffering "psychiatric damage" as a result.But the case was ...

Americans Harold Terens and Jeanne Swerlin promise their courtship is "better than Romeo and Juliet": He is 100, she's 96, and they marry next month in France, where the groom-to-be served during World War II.U.S. Air Force veteran Terens will be honored on June 6 at a commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, the historic ...

Two paintbrushes between the toes, two in her hands, and fierce concentration etched on her face, Dutch artist Rajacenna van Dam is crafting 10 paintings at the same time.An astronaut, a self-portrait, a bespectacled panda and seven other pictures burst into life from her brush, painted on 10 canvasses laid out on a table, upside-down on the floor, and two ...

This article originally appeared in The Texas Tribune. The Texas Tribune is a member-supported, nonpartisan newsroom informing and engaging Texans on state politics and policy.TAMAULIPAS, Mexico Claudia Gonzlez was living a quiet, comfortable life in Houston with her husband and their son. She worked as a data entry clerk at an elementary school and went ...

WASHINGTON The U.S. military has completed construction of its Gaza aid pier, but weather conditions mean it is currently unsafe to move the two-part facility into place, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The pier -- which the U.S. military started building last month and which will cost at least $320 million -- is aimed at boosting deliveries of desperately ...

Humanitarian aid arrived Tuesday in Porto Alegre and other flood-ravaged municipalities of southern Brazil, where queues formed for drinking water as forecasters warned of more downpours.The worst natural calamity ever to hit the state of Rio Grande do Sul has claimed at least 90 lives, with 362 people reported injured and 131 still missing, according to ...