Former UK deputy PM Prescott dies, his family says
John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died, his family said on Thursday.
November 21, 2024John Prescott, a former British deputy prime minister in Tony Blair's Labour government, has died, his family said on Thursday.
November 21, 2024A new draft text released early Thursday which will form the basis of any deal reached at United Nations climate talks on money for developing countries to transition to clean energy and adapt to climate change left out a crucial sticking point: how much wealthy nations will pay
November 21, 2024Southeast Asian defense chiefs are meeting with China, the United States and other partner nations in Laos for security talks, which come as Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in its claim to most of the South China Sea is leading to more confrontations
November 21, 2024The deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a rail station in Serbia has raised tensions across the Balkan county
November 21, 2024A volcano on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland is spewing lava from a fissure in its seventh eruption since December
November 21, 2024Officials say an Australian teenager has died after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos, and the U.S. State Department has confirmed an American also died in the same party town, bringing the death toll to four
November 21, 2024Russia and China oppose changing the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping mission
November 21, 2024Chinese government advisers are recommending that Beijing should maintain an economic growth target of around 5.0% for next year, pushing for stronger fiscal stimulus
November 21, 2024The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money
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November 21, 2024Mexico's lower house of Congress approved on Wednesday a measure to abolish most of the autonomous bodies that regulate some economic sectors and ensure government
November 21, 2024A judge has ruled that the death penalty will remain a possibility for a man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students
November 21, 2024Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged the Crimea peninsula, seized by Russia in 2014, would have to be restored to Ukrainian sovereignty through diplomacy.
November 21, 2024Ukraine fired a volley of British Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia on Wednesday, the latest new Western weapon it has been
November 21, 2024Oil prices rose marginally on Thursday as geopolitical concerns over escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine countered the impact from a bigger-than-expected
November 21, 2024Legislation to create a world-first law banning children under 16 from social media has been introduced in Australia's Parliament
November 21, 2024Ukraine fires British-French Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for first time, say reports
November 21, 2024North Korea and Russia have signed a protocol on cooperation after meetings covering trade, the economy, science and technology in Pyongyang, North Korean state media KCNA said on
November 21, 2024Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 32 people who were convicted of extremism, according to the Pul Pervogo Telegram account which reports widely on his
November 21, 2024Angela Merkel sought advice from the pope on dealing with Donald Trump when he was first elected U.S. president, hoping to find ways of convincing
November 21, 2024An Indian national who survived a treacherous trek across the U.S.-Canada border in blizzard conditions has testified that he got separated from a family of four shortly before they froze to death
November 20, 2024Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega is proposing a constitutional reform that would officially make him and his wife, current Vice President Rosario Murillo, “copresidents” of the Central American nation
November 20, 2024Mexico's new president outlined a delicate balancing act on Wednesday, stressing the need to work constructively with President-elect Donald Trump and his
November 20, 2024The Senate has rejected attempts by Sen. Bernie Sanders to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel
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