World
Troops deployed around Baghdad on Sunday following the failed assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted the residence of Iraq’s prime minister. The attack significantly ramped up tensions sparked by the refusal of Iran-backed militias to accept last month’s parliamentary elec...
An early-season snowstorm blanketed much of northern China including the capital Beijing, prompting highway closures and flight and train cancellations and delays.Temperatures plunged to freezing and below as a cold front moved from west to east. A steady, blowing snow fell Sunday in Beijing, the ne...
Bumping their elbows in greeting, European lawmakers met with Taiwan’s premier on Wednesday in the first official visit of a European Parliament delegation to the self-ruled island, which is also claimed by China.Seven members of the European Parliament committee on foreign interference in dem...
Ethiopia’s Tigray forces on Friday joined with other armed and opposition groups around the country in an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to seek a political transition after a year of devastating war, and they left the possibility open for his exit by force.“There is no limit...
A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany has injured several people, police confirmed Saturday morning.Local police told The Associated Press that they received a call about the attack around 9 a.m. local time on Saturday.The train in question, one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, wa...
While conducting research in Greenland, ice scientist Twila Moon was struck this summer by what climate change has doomed Earth to lose and what could still be saved.The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the planet and is on such a knife’s edge of survival that the UN clima...
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In the fight to curb climate change, several major coal-using nations announced steps Thursday to wean themselves — at times slowly — off of the heavily polluting fossil fuel.The pledges to phase out coal come on top of other promises made at the UN climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, t...
The generation of young people who will inherit a warmer future is telling the generation that caused carbon pollution to clean up its mess — from both inside and outside United Nations climate talks.Or better yet, let us do it ourselves, many say.“It’s our future. Our future is be...
A train struck and killed a migrant from Eritrea and at least two bodies were recovered from the sea and on a beach in northern France during what has been a particularly deadly week for migrants attempting treacherous crossings to Britain.Many hundreds of people, setting off in a flotilla of boats,...
South Korea’s conservative former top prosecutor, who has called for a stronger US security guarantee to neutralize North Korean nuclear threats, won the main opposition party’s hotly contested nomination for next March’s presidential election on Friday.Recent opinion surveys showe...
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World food prices are the highest since July 2011, reflecting in part reduced wheat harvests by major exporters and higher palm oil prices, the United Nations' food agency said Thursday.The Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said international prices of its basket of food commodi...
Business & Commerce
Asian shares rose on Thursday, boosted by the U.S. Federal Reserve's announcement on winding down the extraordinary aid for the economy it has been providing since the early days of the pandemic.Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 0.7% in afternoon trading to 29,729.44. South Korea's Kos...
Over five days abroad at two global summits, President Joe Biden showed a new willingness to openly confront China over climate change and its lack of leadership on the global stage.Biden ended his time at the UN climate summit in Scotland on Tuesday by chastising Chinese President Xi Jinping for ph...
Republican Glenn Youngkin won the Virginia governor’s race early Wednesday, tapping into culture war fights over schools and race to unite former President Donald Trump’s most fervent supporters with enough suburban voters to become the first GOP candidate to win statewide office in a do...
Poland’s foreign ministry said Wednesday that it summoned a Belarusian diplomat over an “intrusion” into Polish territory of “uniformed individuals armed with long guns.”Polish soldiers noticed three uniformed people with long weapons, said Stanislaw Zaryn, the spokesma...
Australia leaking French President Emmanuel Macron’s text messages to the media was a “new low” and a warning to other world leaders that their private communications with the Australian government could be weaponized and used against them, the French ambassador said on Wednesday.F...
President Joe Biden is joining other world leaders in highlighting the importance of preserving forests as a force against global warming, whipping up ambitions at a UN climate summit abroad even as a coal-state US senator is again threatening Biden’s landmark climate legislation at home.Comme...
On a train hurtling toward Glasgow, the mayors of Seattle and Freetown, Sierra Leone, greeted each other like long lost sisters, bonded by years of Zoom calls and collaboration in the fight against climate change.They lead cities on different sides of the economic and climate divide — one in t...
The findings of the only human rights investigation allowed in Ethiopia’s blockaded Tigray region will be released Wednesday, a year after war began there. But people with knowledge of the probe say it has been limited by authorities who recently expelled a UN staffer helping to lead it.And ye...
A roadside bomb injured 13 people Tuesday when it exploded near a vehicle carrying security forces in a bazaar in southwest Pakistan, police said.The attack happened in the district of Kharan in the Baluchistan province, according to local police official Din Mohammad Hassani. Most of those injured ...
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