British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would not be deterred from supporting Ukraine by "irresponsible" Russian rhetoric, after Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the
November 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a revamped version of his country's nuclear doctrine that lowers the bar on when he could use Moscow’s atomic arsenal
November 19, 2024
China rebuffs meeting with US defense secretary
November 19, 2024
South Africa will use its G20 presidency to focus on advancing inclusive economic growth, food security and artificial intelligence, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday
November 19, 2024
Groups of European countries agreed on Tuesday to work together to develop missile defence, electronic warfare and other military assets as part of a drive to foster closer
November 19, 2024
Afghan girl who encouraged others to sing wins children’s peace prize
November 19, 2024
Donald Trump's presidency in the United States is going to be "pro-business and pro-growth" and good for the tech services industry,
November 19, 2024
The leaders of Italy, Japan and Britain have discussed a potential broadening of the GCAP jet fighter project to other countries, the office of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
November 19, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday it was time for Germany to support Ukraine's longer-range strike capabilities against Russia.
November 19, 2024
The U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran has defied international demands to rein in its nuclear program and has increased its stockpile of uranium enriched to near weapons-grade levels
November 19, 2024
A powerful gang coalition has launched a new attack on Haiti’s capital
November 19, 2024
Armed forces chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday criticised factional strife within its former ruling party as risky for Sudan after a move to reinstate an ally of deposed autocrat
November 19, 2024
Fighters from Hamas and other Gaza factions have formed an armed force to prevent gangs pillaging aid convoys in the embattled territory, residents and sources
November 19, 2024
The United States was not surprised by Russia lowering its threshold for a nuclear strike and does not plan to adjust its own nuclear
November 19, 2024
Stocks shrug off concerns about heightened US-Russia tensions
November 19, 2024
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that an attack on Russia's Bryansk region by Ukraine using U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles was a clear signal that the West
November 19, 2024
Congo’s government says the mausoleum of assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba has been vandalized
November 19, 2024
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum asked U.S.
November 19, 2024
Brazil's federal police have arrested five officers accused of plotting a coup that included plans to overthrow the government following the 2022 elections and kill then-President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
November 19, 2024
The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of vulnerable boats making the risky journey towards Europe
November 19, 2024
Intensifying efforts for a truce in Lebanon have brought into focus the role of the country's army, which would be expected to keep the south free of Hezbollah
November 19, 2024
Saudi Arabia's King Salman chaired the weekly cabinet meeting on Tuesday, according to state television, for the first time since Sept. 24.
November 19, 2024
From foster grandparents who volunteer at an early child care center to citizen scientists who collect water quality data in remote locations, nonprofit volunteers have come back after the pandemic
November 19, 2024
The authorization of longer-range missiles by the Biden administration is seen as an effort to counter a buildup of Russian troops supported by fighters from North Korea.
November 19, 2024
Two high-profile mass killings and a car crash at a primary school in just over a week are raising questions about how well-equipped China is to deal with the
November 19, 2024
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken several pro-farmer but inflation-stoking measures in recent months, such as easing curbs on rice and onion
November 19, 2024
Dozens of schools were closed and road and train travel ground to a halt as a cold snap brought snow, ice and sleet across parts of the UK
November 19, 2024
Spain will legalise about 300,000 undocumented immigrants per year over the next three years as it seeks to expand its labour force in the face of an ageing population, Migration
November 19, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy addressed Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday in a speech marking 1,000 days since Russia's full-scale invasion.
November 19, 2024
It’s not just you. Fall hasn’t really felt like fall this year and it’s a sign of things to come
November 19, 2024
As officials from around the world strive this week to reach a deal on funding for poorer countries to tackle climate change,
November 19, 2024
Ukraine fires US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time
November 19, 2024
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday that the war had reached a decisive moment, as he urged citizens to stay "resilient" and touted plans for a huge
November 19, 2024
Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, has made another application for parole after spending more than a decade behind bars
November 19, 2024
More and faster aid deliveries are needed in Sudan, the U.S. special envoy to the war-weary country told Reuters, ideally through the implementation of humanitarian corridors and
November 19, 2024
An Iowa-based group that strives to alleviate world hunger is announcing a leadership change as it works to expand its international focus
November 19, 2024
A senior U.S. mediator said on Tuesday there was a "real opportunity" to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah and that gaps were narrowing
November 19, 2024
Officials say Ukraine fired several American-supplied longer-range missiles into Russia, marking the first time Kyiv has used such weapons since the start of the war
November 19, 2024
The Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war has stirred debate among the enclave's Palestinian clerics, with some saying it was not worth the heavy
November 19, 2024
The Nasdaq rose more than 1% and S&P 500 also ended higher on Tuesday, led by a jump in technology shares as investors eagerly awaited results this week
November 19, 2024
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has condemned China's dangerous actions against the Philippines and renewed a warning that the United States would defend its treaty ally if Filipino forces come under an armed attack in the disputed South China Sea
November 19, 2024
Italian village offers $1 homes to Americans upset by the US election result
November 19, 2024
The number of North Korean troops stationed inside Russia could grow to 100,000, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday.
November 19, 2024
Germany’s defense minister says officials have to assume that damage to two data cables under the Baltic Sea was caused by sabotage
November 19, 2024
USMNT beats Jamaica to book place in CONCACAF Nations League semifinals
November 19, 2024
Britain sanctioned 10 Russian officials and state-linked youth organisations on Tuesday, saying they were involved in a systematic attempt to indoctrinate Ukraine's children to mark
November 19, 2024
Rheinmetall aims for 20 billion euros ($21.08 billion) in sales for 2027, boosted by increased defence spending by EU and NATO country leaders in response to the Ukraine war, the
November 19, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein says an agreement to end the Israel-Hezbollah war is “within our grasp” after meeting with officials in Lebanon
November 19, 2024
Putin fine-tunes Russia’s nuclear doctrine after Biden’s arms decision on Ukraine, in clear signal to West
November 19, 2024
Safe-haven assets bounced sharply on Tuesday, after a warning from Russia over its updated nuclear doctrine that was aimed at making possible enemies aware of inevitable retaliation
November 19, 2024
President Vladimir Putin formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons, following U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russian territory with American-supplied longer-range missiles
November 19, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional
November 19, 2024
Kyiv said on Tuesday it struck a Russian arsenal near the town of Karachev in the Bryansk region, over 110 km (70 miles) from Ukraine, in what two Ukrainian media outlets
November 19, 2024
The separatist leader of Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday after days of unrest, in which the opposition and its supporters seized key government buildings and at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police
November 19, 2024
A U.S. envoy has held talks in Beirut with Lebanese officials about a possible cease-fire in the Israel-Hezbollah war
November 19, 2024
A top Ukrainian diplomat warned against any appeasement of Russian President Vladimir Putin, saying that the latest deadly attacks on Ukraine showed he had no desire
November 19, 2024
Russia has begun serial production of mobile bomb shelters that can protect against a variety of threats including shockwaves and radiation from a nuclear blast.
November 19, 2024
Twelve people including a child were killed in an overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine's northeastern region of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday.
November 19, 2024
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has undergone a complex surgery in Iran that saw part of a bone in her right leg removed over cancer fears
November 19, 2024
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein landed in Beirut on Tuesday for talks with officials on a truce between armed group Hezbollah and Israel, Lebanon's state news agency said, hours after a
November 19, 2024
Forty-five prominent activists in Hong Kong have been sentenced to up to 10 years in jail, sparking criticism from foreign governments and rights groups
November 19, 2024
Massive crowds march on New Zealand parliament protesting Māori bill. Here’s what to know
November 19, 2024
United States Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday the U.S. alliance with the Philippines would transcend changes in administrations, as he reiterated his support for the
November 19, 2024
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra had a phone call with U.S.
November 19, 2024
Big money to respond to climate change is key to the United Nations talks underway in Azerbaijan
November 19, 2024
Companies from Iran, Israel, China, Russia and the United States will showcase military equipment at an arms expo in Hanoi in December, Vietnam's
November 19, 2024
What is expected to be one of the strongest storms in the northwest U.S. in decades has arrived
November 19, 2024
A man convicted of human smuggling testified that he shuttled more than 500 Indian migrants across the U.S.-Canada border over four years
November 19, 2024
Bangladesh's interim leader Muhammad Yunus hopes ties with the U.S., the biggest buyer of Bangladeshi clothes, will strengthen despite strong criticism from President-elect Donald
November 19, 2024
Developing nations have a long list of changes their farmers need to make to adapt to a warming climate
November 19, 2024
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday urged leaders of the Group of 20 major economies to accelerate their national
November 19, 2024
Forests of native trees and plants once blanketed the Western Ghats mountains in southern India, but nearly 200 years ago, British colonists installed rows upon rows of tea plantations there
November 19, 2024
The Osprey is back in the air after being grounded for months following a crash last November that killed eight U.S. service members in Japan
November 19, 2024
‘My whole body was praying for my death’: LGBTQ Afghans say they face abuse in detention as Taliban crackdown intensifies
November 19, 2024
Chinese and Russian foreign ministers discussed bilateral ties, the conflict in Ukraine and the situation on the Korean Peninsula on the sidelines of the Group of 20 meeting in Brazil, the
November 19, 2024
Police in Georgia detained 16 people in the capital Tbilisi on Tuesday after clashing with protesters opposing the results of last month's parliamentary election, which the
November 19, 2024
Brazil’s president has opened the second day of a meeting of the world’s 20 major economies by calling for more action to slow global warming, saying developed nations must speed up their initiatives to reduce harmful emissions
November 19, 2024
Changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine have been drawn up and will be formalised as necessary, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, signalling again Moscow's concern over the latest
November 19, 2024
Arthur Frommer, travel writer and guidebook publisher, dead at 95
November 19, 2024
Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday sentenced 45 leading democrats to jail terms of up to 10 years in what critics say is a major blow to the
November 19, 2024
Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday jailed a leading pro-democracy activist for 10 years at the start of sentencing in a years-long national security trial that has damaged the
November 19, 2024
A driver in an SUV ploughed into students and pedestrians outside a primary school in southern China on Tuesday, leaving several people injured, state media said, as worries spread
November 19, 2024
Joshua Wong shouts ‘I love Hong Kong’ as more than 40 leading democracy leaders handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial
November 19, 2024
Oil prices were broadly unchanged on Tuesday as signs of escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war kept investors cautious of supply disruptions, but the partial restart
November 19, 2024
Forty-five ex-lawmakers and activists have been sentenced to four to 10 years in prison in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case under a Beijing-imposed law that crushed a once-thriving pro-democracy movement
November 19, 2024
Hong Kong's High Court on Tuesday jailed 45 pro-democracy activists for up to 10 years following a national security trial that has damaged the
November 19, 2024
Nearly a hundred aid trucks looted in Gaza, as UN warns of ‘collapse of law and order’
November 19, 2024
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena was discharged from a hospital early on Tuesday, his office said, a day after he was taken in for tests while attending the G20 summit in
November 19, 2024
The leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia resigned on Tuesday and was replaced by his deputy until new elections, days after protesters seized government
November 18, 2024
WWII soldier receives proper funeral more than 80 years later: "He's home"
November 18, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping said China and Mexico should continue to enhance exchanges, renew friendship, and make good use of the highly complementary nature of the two economies,
November 18, 2024
Britain will restart talks with India on a free trade deal in the new year, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office said on Monday, following a months-long pause in
November 18, 2024
President Joe Biden inadvertently was a missing man in the traditional photo of world leaders at the final Group of 20 summit of his presidency
November 18, 2024
Russian man accused of being connected to multimillion-dollar ransomware gang is extradited to US
November 18, 2024
Ukraine used U.S.
November 18, 2024
Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire with Israel with some comments on the content,
November 18, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned at the Group of 20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro that artificial intelligence should not be a "game of rich countries and the wealthy," state
November 18, 2024
New York City issued its first drought warning in 22 years and paused major repairs to its main water aqueduct out of concern for the lack of rainfall
November 18, 2024
The United States said on Monday it was Russia that is escalating the conflict in Ukraine by deploying North Korean troops, after the Kremlin warned that Washington would deepen
November 18, 2024
The United Nations Humanitarian Air Service will restart flights within Haiti on Wednesday after around a week's hiatus and resolving regulatory issues, according to a
November 18, 2024
President Joe Biden is requesting nearly $100 billion in emergency disaster aid after Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and other natural disasters
November 18, 2024
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan travelled to the African country for the first time on Monday to seek an increase in the flow of aid to millions of people in need and an
November 18, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday he would discuss the delivery of dual-use goods with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit, following a report that a
November 18, 2024
The U.K. government has hit Iran with new sanctions for sending ballistic missiles and other weapons to Russia in support of the war against Ukraine
November 18, 2024
The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on organizations and firms involved in illegal settlement development in the occupied West Bank, including a well-established decades-old group that has close ties with Israeli leadership
November 18, 2024
Hungary’s foreign minister is criticizing U.S. President Joe Biden’s decision to authorize Ukraine to use missiles supplied by Washington to strike deeper inside Russia
November 18, 2024
Members of the United Nations Security Council called on Monday for a surge in assistance to reach people in need in Israeli-basieged Gaza,
November 18, 2024
Biden admin sanctions Israeli West Bank settlement organization
November 18, 2024
European Union foreign ministers on Monday rebuffed a proposal to suspend political dialogue with Israel put forward by the bloc's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, who cited concerns
November 18, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a raft of measures designed to support the "Global South" at a gathering of leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) major
November 18, 2024
The world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday said it had found traces of tear gas in samples taken last month on the frontline with Russia in Ukraine's central-east
November 18, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's call with Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "strategic mistake" that weakened European unity in the face of Moscow's war
November 18, 2024
Russia on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council draft resolution that called on Sudan's warring parties to cease hostilities immediately
November 18, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the eastern frontline towns of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Monday, areas where Russia has been making steady advances to close in on the
November 18, 2024
Stockpile diapers, medication, baby food: NATO members Sweden and Finland advise citizens on how to survive war
November 18, 2024
The only alternative to the U.N.
November 18, 2024
US envoy heads to Beirut as Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire talks gain momentum
November 18, 2024
South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul said on Monday he is "strongly confident" the South Korea-U.S. alliance will continue to thrive
November 18, 2024
Jordan's King Abdullah opened a newly elected parliament with a larger contingent of Islamists on Monday, giving a speech that took a firm line towards Israel
November 18, 2024
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he wants a strong and durable relationship with China as he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Brazil
November 18, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, has reignited a debate that many thought was settled long ago: Should women be allowed to serve their country by fighting on the front lines
November 18, 2024
Ecuador's government declared a 60-day national emergency due to raging forest fires made worse by a severe drought, risk management officials said on Monday.
November 18, 2024
A Russian-installed governor in Crimea pledged revenge on Monday against the "terrorists" who killed a high-ranking captain in the Russian navy last week in a hit claimed by Ukrainian
November 18, 2024
Russia said Ukraine has fired U.S.-made longer-range weapons inside its territory days after the U.S. said it would allow Kyiv to use American-supplied systems to conduct strikes inside Russian territory
November 18, 2024
Survivors of clergy sexual abuse are urging the Vatican to adopt the same zero-tolerance policy that it approved for the U.S. Catholic Church in 2002
November 18, 2024
Leaders of the world's biggest economies must send a clear signal on the need to tackle global warming, COP29 climate summit host
November 18, 2024
Pope Francis calls for investigation into Gaza genocide allegations
November 18, 2024
A former top Vatican official who dealt with clergy sexual abuse issues joined victims on Monday in urging Pope Francis to enact a zero-tolerance law
November 18, 2024
Satellite images show major expansions at five complexes where Russia has made solid-fuel missile engines, indicating the Kremlin plans to significantly boost missile production
November 18, 2024
China's relationship with Australia has achieved a turnaround and the two countries are maintaining a positive momentum of development, Chinese President Xi Jinping told Australian
November 18, 2024
Trump’s influence already generating drama among world leaders as G20 gets underway
November 18, 2024
At least one person died in the past 24 hours during a third straight day of ethnic unrest in the troubled eastern Indian border state of Manipur, a
November 18, 2024
The European Union has widened its sanctions against Iran over Tehran's support of Russia in its war with Ukraine, the European Commission said on Monday.
November 18, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Keir Starmer Monday that the two countries enjoy a vast space for cooperation, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
November 18, 2024
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine reaches its 1,000th day on Tuesday, a grim milestone in Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two.
November 18, 2024
The president of Vanuatu, Nikenike Vurobaravu, signed an order to dissolve the Pacific island nation's parliament on Monday, Vanuatu broadcaster VBTC reported.
November 18, 2024
The U.S. decision to authorise long-range Ukrainian strikes could help Kyiv defend the foothold in Russia's Kursk region that it seized as
November 18, 2024
A Russian missile attack killed 10 people and wounded 44 in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, local governor Oleh Kiper and national police said.
November 18, 2024
Funding for a climate-friendly farming effort led by the U.S. and United Arab Emirates has reached $29.2 billion, the countries announced on Monday at the COP29 climate
November 18, 2024
A Russian district court fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($38,057) on Monday for failing to remove banned content.
November 18, 2024
Hundreds of people defied a curfew to stage demonstrations in India's northeastern state of Manipur over the weekend and 23 were arrested for violence as tensions between two ethnic
November 18, 2024
Nearly 100 trucks carrying food for Palestinians were violently looted on Nov. 16 after entering Gaza in one of the worst aid losses during 13 months of war in the enclave,
November 18, 2024
Demonstrators in Georgia’s capital have set up tents on a central thoroughfare and vowed to stay around the clock to demand new parliamentary elections in the country
November 18, 2024
Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Monday that a U.S. decision to allow Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia may be a decisive moment in the war.
November 18, 2024
A deal at the COP29 climate talks on trading carbon credits could see billions of dollars move into emissions-reduction projects this decade but
November 18, 2024
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a
November 18, 2024
Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 20 Palestinians on Monday, including six people in attacks on tents housing
November 18, 2024
Muhammad Awad and his family are among dozens who escaped Sudan's Tuti island earlier this year amid a siege by the Rapid Support Forces, finding refuge at a shelter after
November 18, 2024
The Kremlin warns that Washington's decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles would stoke the war and escalate international tensions
November 18, 2024
The United States has taken an important decision in terms of its military support for Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Monday, while stressing that this
November 18, 2024
Police say tens of thousands of people have arrived at New Zealand's Parliament in protest of a proposed law that would redefine the country’s founding agreement between Indigenous Māori and the British Crown
November 18, 2024
Israeli airstrikes targeted a neighborhood in the heart of Lebanon’s capital, slamming into an area of Beirut near the Parliament, several embassies and the U.N. headquarters
November 18, 2024
Trump might nix America as a climate tech leader. 5 charts show China winning that race
November 18, 2024
The European Union's top diplomat on Monday confirmed he would suggest to members of the bloc that the EU pauses its political dialogue with Israel, citing the country's conduct of
November 18, 2024
The United States and the Philippines have signed an agreement to secure the exchange of highly confidential military intelligence and technology in key weapons the U.S. would provide to Manila
November 18, 2024
Ukrainians in the Black Sea port city of Odesa on Monday morning had been without power for 24 hours and further cuts were planned across the country after a massive Russian missile
November 18, 2024
An Israeli airstrike killed five people in central Beirut on Monday, Lebanon's health ministry said, the second day in a row Israel
November 18, 2024
The tariffs promised by U.S.
November 18, 2024
Six high-ranking Armenian officials resigned on Monday, Russia's Interfax news agency reported, after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said he had asked a number of them to step down from
November 18, 2024
When Yuriy Shelmuk co-founded a company last year making drone signal jammers, he said there was little interest in the devices.
November 18, 2024
Sri Lanka’s new Marxist-leaning president has sworn in a 22-member Cabinet after his party secured a two-thirds parliamentary majority in last week's election
November 18, 2024
China's jobless rate for 16-to-24-year-olds, excluding college students, dropped to 17.1% in October from 17.6% in September, the statistics bureau data showed on Monday.
November 18, 2024
United Nations climate talks resumed Monday with negotiators urged to make progress on a deal that could see developing countries get more money to spend on clean energy and adapting to climate-charged weather extremes
November 18, 2024
As leaders and negotiators grapple with big questions of money and power, youth COP attendees and activists from around the world grapple with their own questions about how much their voices matter
November 18, 2024
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese met China's President Xi Jinping in Brazil on Monday, as Beijing seeks to promote Australia as a model for trading with
November 18, 2024
Typhoon Man-yi has left at least seven people dead in a landslide, destroyed houses and displaced large numbers of villagers before blowing away from the northern Philippines, worsening the crisis wreaked by multiple back-to-back storms
November 18, 2024
Authorities in India’s capital have shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season
November 18, 2024
Toxic smog engulfed much of northern India on Monday and pollution readings in New Delhi hit their highest of this pre-winter season, after dense fog overnight.
November 18, 2024
After 1,000 days of war, a makeshift memorial has grown in the heart of Kyiv with thousands of blue-and-yellow flags honoring soldiers who died defending Ukraine
November 18, 2024
Leaders from the Group of 20 major economies on Monday issued a joint statement highlighting the suffering caused by conflicts in
November 18, 2024
Federal prosecutors say two men put financial profit over human life when they attempted to smuggle a couple from India and their two young children across the U.S.-Canada border in heavy snow, leading to the family freezing to death
November 18, 2024
Americans are expected to set a new record for Thanksgiving travel, with nearly 80 million to hit the roads, catch flights and board cruises over the holiday
November 18, 2024
The summit of the Group of 20 leading economies in Rio de Janeiro has produced a joint declaration that, while not totally endorsed by one of the group’s members, succeeded in addressing most topics host Brazil had prioritized addressing: both ongoing major wars, a global pact to fight hunger, taxation of the world’s wealthiest people and changes to global governance
November 18, 2024
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key finance minister portfolio and reappointed Harini Amarasuriya as prime minister on Monday as the
November 18, 2024
Australian senators have voted to censure an Indigenous colleague who yelled at King Charles III during a reception in Parliament House last month
November 18, 2024
A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Monday told investigators they have one month to complete their work on ousted former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her close aides
November 18, 2024
Robert F.
November 18, 2024
The Philippines and the United States signed a military intelligence-sharing deal on Monday, deepening defence ties between the two nations facing common security
November 18, 2024
Dozens of prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activists are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in the biggest case under a national security law that critics say has crushed political activism in the semi-autonomous Chinese city
November 18, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called on Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to establish "consistent, durable" relations between their two nations, pressing on with
November 18, 2024
The United States will allow Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons such as ATACMS rockets, which have a range of up to 190 miles (306 km), to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials
November 18, 2024
Hong Kong's High Court jailed 45 pro-democracy activists on Tuesday for up to 10 years following a years-long subversion trial that has damaged
November 18, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has renewed his call for a “limitless” expansion of his military nuclear program to counter what he characterizes as U.S.-led threats
November 18, 2024
Oil prices climbed more than $2 a barrel on Monday after news that crude production at Norway's Johan Sverdrup oilfield had been
November 18, 2024
A Hong Kong court will this week sentence 45 democratic campaigners in a major national security trial, with potentially heavy jail terms poised
November 18, 2024
Britain will seek backing from other United Nations Security Council members on Monday for its demand that Sudan's warring parties stop hostilities and allow deliveries of aid, the
November 18, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday to attend the G20 summit and is set to have in-depth talks with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
November 18, 2024
Two children were among 11 people killed when a Russian missile hit a residential building in Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy, Ukrainian officials said, while another missile
November 17, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the country's military to improve capabilities for fighting a war in a speech last week, state media KCNA said on Monday, after
November 17, 2024
Peru's president signed defense and mining cooperation deals with her Japanese counterpart on Sunday, following an official visit between the two leaders just after the Asia-Pacific
November 17, 2024
California to remove derogatory term for Indigenous women from names of streets, parks and other places in 15 counties
November 17, 2024
Washington's decision to let Kyiv strike deep into Russia with long-range U.S. missiles escalates the conflict in Ukraine and could lead to World War Three, senior Russian lawmakers
November 17, 2024
A Russian air strike on Ukraine on Sunday shook a fragile consensus among the Group of 20 major economies drafting their joint
November 17, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday the missiles would "speak for themselves", after reports that Washington had granted Kyiv permission to conduct strikes deeper
November 17, 2024
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he has no plan to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he said support for Ukraine was the U.K.’s top priority at this week’s G20 summit
November 17, 2024
The UK government is believed to be in talks with Turkey, Vietnam and officials in the Kurdistan region of Iraq about possible payments to help slow the flow of migrants heading for
November 17, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron said that a major Russian air barrage against Ukraine on Sunday showed that Russian President Vladimir Putin "does not want peace and is not
November 17, 2024
US Air Force Col. Cedric Leighton (Ret.) says that he thinks President Joe Biden reversed course and authorized Ukraine to use US-made long-range attack missiles in response to North Korea military personnel entering the conflict.
November 17, 2024
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use long-range US weapons in Russia
November 17, 2024
Slow-moving Tropical Depression Sara headed on to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula after unleashing widespread floods over Honduras and Belize that killed at least one person and
November 17, 2024
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied missiles to strike deeper inside Russia
November 17, 2024
President Joe Biden's administration has allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-made weapons to strike deep into Russia, two U.S. officials and a source
November 17, 2024
All Ukrainian regions will experience temporary restrictions on power on Monday following Russia's massive air strike on the energy system, the national grid operator said.
November 17, 2024
Opposition protesters in Georgia’s breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were injured in clashes with police
November 17, 2024
India said on Sunday that it would tighten restrictions including on construction activities and vehicle movements in New Delhi and surrounding areas from Monday
November 17, 2024
About 1,500 people died in protests that brought down Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina this year, and as many as 3,500 may have been forcibly abducted during her 15-year rule
November 17, 2024
‘Everything’s getting weird’: New Yorkers have experienced tornadoes, an earthquake, and an extreme fire season this year
November 17, 2024
Pakistan discussed its $7 billion bailout reform agenda with the International Monetary Fund during an unscheduled staff visit last week, Finance Minister
November 17, 2024
Prominent Russian opposition figures are leading a march of more than 1,000 people in central Berlin
November 17, 2024
Nigeria and India on Sunday agreed to deepen collaboration in maritime security, intelligence and counter-terrorism during a state visit to the West African country by
November 17, 2024
Start your week smart: Trump’s Cabinet picks, Russian air attack, Texas execution, Bela Karolyi, Miss Universe
November 17, 2024
Police arrested 23 people on Sunday in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur for ransacking and setting fire to the homes of lawmakers and ministers,
November 17, 2024
Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence is facing scrutiny over her past remarks that supported Kremlin propaganda about Russia's invasion of Ukraine
November 17, 2024
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Friday had given no indication of a shift in the Russian President's thinking on the war
November 17, 2024
Israeli strike kills Hezbollah spokesperson as group prepares response to fresh ceasefire proposal
November 17, 2024
Lebanese armed group Hezbollah confirmed its media relations chief Mohammad Afif was killed by an Israeli strike on a building in central Beirut on Sunday.
November 17, 2024
Pope Francis has suggested the global community should study whether Israel's military campaign in Gaza constitutes a genocide of the Palestinian people, in some of his most explicit
November 17, 2024
Israel's economy grew more than expected in the third quarter, bouncing back somewhat from a weak spell since the start of war in Gaza with Palestinian Islamist
November 17, 2024
Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
November 17, 2024
Pope Francis has called for an investigation to determine if Israel’s attacks in Gaza constitute genocide
November 17, 2024
Jon Jones retains UFC heavyweight title with spinning kick to stop Stipe Miocic, celebrates with President-elect Donald Trump
November 17, 2024
Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20
November 17, 2024
Joe Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Amazon rainforest on Sunday, flagging the dangers of global warming often dismissed by
November 17, 2024
Massive Russian strikes across Ukraine trigger blackouts and kill at least five people
November 17, 2024
A group of 32 students from the United States have been selected to attend the University of Oxford as part of the prestigious Rhodes scholar program in the coming year
November 17, 2024
A Ukrainian official says a Russian strike on a nine-story building in the city of Sumy killed eight people and wounded dozens, as Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack described by officials as the largest in recent months
November 17, 2024
When Russia poured troops into Ukraine nearly three years ago, Yaroslav Simkiv expected a global backlash that would force it to quickly end
November 17, 2024
A rare Israeli strike in central Beirut has killed the chief spokesman for the Hezbollah militant group
November 17, 2024
Wreck of US Navy’s heroic ‘dancing mouse’ WWII warship found off Australia
November 17, 2024
Dozens of Palestinians were killed or injured in an Israeli strike on a multi-storey residential building housing at least six families in northern Gaza's Beit
November 17, 2024
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the conventional wisdom was that the capital, Kyiv, would soon fall and the rest of the country wouldn’t last long against a much larger enemy
November 17, 2024
Russia unleashed its largest air strike on Ukraine in almost three months on Sunday, launching 120 missiles and 90 drones that killed at least seven
November 17, 2024
Tropical Storm Sara is the third named storm to emerge this November, serving up a reminder that the Atlantic hurricane season isn't quite over
November 17, 2024
The world's warming tropical wetlands are releasing more methane than ever before, research shows — an alarming sign that the world's climate goals are slipping
November 17, 2024
Distractions were bigger than deals in the first week of United Nations climate talks, leaving a lot to be done, especially on the main issue of money
November 17, 2024
Joe Biden witnessed the devastation of drought up close as the first sitting American president to set foot the Amazon rainforest
November 17, 2024
Denmark’s Victoria Kjær Theilvig wins Miss Universe 2024
November 17, 2024
Japanese troops will begin regular deployments in northern Australia as part of military cooperation with Australia and the U.S., Australia's Defence Minister Richard Marles said on
November 17, 2024
A powerful typhoon has wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it barreled across the northern Philippines in the sixth major storm to pound the Southeast Asian country in less than a month
November 17, 2024
Super typhoon Man-Yi swept across the Philippines' main island of Luzon on Sunday, threatening heavy rain in the capital region Metro Manila, after triggering more than a million
November 17, 2024
Brazil's first lady, Janja Lula da Silva, swore at billionaire Elon Musk during a G20 social event on Saturday at which she spoke about the need to regulate social media to
November 17, 2024
China's President Xi Jinping told his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden that the issues of Taiwan, democracy, human rights and rights to development are "red lines" for China and not to
November 17, 2024
Duterte returns as Philippines’ political clans wage ‘a fight to the death’
November 17, 2024
Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan's representative at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Lima, said on Saturday that he greeted China's President Xi Jinping
November 16, 2024
Celebrations on Russian state television after President-elect Donald Trump picked Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for highly sensitive roles in his administration. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen reports from Moscow.
November 16, 2024
Diplomats from the Group of 20 major economies struggled on Saturday to overcome differences on paying to tackle climate change, taxing the super rich and
November 16, 2024
Two flash bombs were fired towards Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday and fell into the garden, police said.
November 16, 2024
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum has wrapped up with a spirit of detente that many fear the annual summit may not see again for four years
November 16, 2024
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi on Saturday strongly denied a reported meeting between Tehran's United Nations envoy and U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, in an interview with state
November 16, 2024
Republicans rally around Hegseth, Trump's Pentagon pick, as Gaetz withdraws for attorney general
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Pep Guardiola signs a 2-year contract extension at Manchester City
3-year-old girl in Fern Creek dies from apparent self-inflicted gunshot, LMPD says
Mexico tweaks reform on scrapping regulatory bodies to avoid USMCA issues
New maps show high-risk zones for whale-ship collisions − vessel speed limits and rerouting can reduce the toll
Three BofA bankers in India leave over alleged client tips, FT reports
Crypto industry jockeys for seats at Trump's promised council
FAA could slow air traffic during what’s expected to be the busiest Thanksgiving period on record
Drama surrounds final 3 races of F1 season as drivers voice displeasure with recent FIA decisions