-- 2019-09-08 11:15:09
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he cancelled peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban leaders after the insurgent group claimed responsibility last week for an attack in Kabul that kill...
Reuters 2019-09-07 11:47:41
Seven Amazonian countries on Friday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thous...
-- 2019-09-07 10:44:52
Brazil doesn’t have the funding to hire more permanent environmental enforcement agents in the wake of surging Amazon fires but will contract local environmental police on a short-term basis, En...
Reuters 2019-09-06 11:20:23
The United States said on Thursday (local time) it was deeply concerned about the Myanmar army’s filing of a lawsuit against a religious leader who told President Donald Trump the military oppre...
-- 2019-09-05 10:45:42
Guatemala’s government on Wednesday declared a state of siege in five northeastern provinces in an effort to regain control after three soldiers were killed by suspected drug traffickers, author...
-- 2019-09-04 10:55:41
The United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s civilian space agency and two research organisations on Tuesday, saying they were being used to advance Tehran’s ballistic missile programme....
-- 2019-09-03 17:19:44
US presidential hopeful Cory Booker unveiled a $3.0 trillion plan to address climate change on Tuesday, vowing to reach a 100 per cent clean energy economy by 2045 by sharply curbing fossil fuels whil...
Reuters 2019-09-03 12:21:59
Hurricane Dorian pounded the Bahamas on Monday, killing at least five people and inundating homes with floodwater ahead of its expected advance on the US coast, where more than a million people were o...
Reuters 2019-09-03 10:53:22
Divers found 25 bodies on Monday after a pre-dawn fire sank a scuba diving vessel off a Southern California island, leaving nine people unaccounted for, as the US Coast Guard continued its search, med...
-- 2019-09-02 18:48:52
The most powerful storm to hit the Bahamas since records began has torn off roofs and caused severe flooding. The slow-moving, category five Dorian - the second-strongest Atlantic hurricane on record...
Global Times 2019-09-02 18:17:38
The US tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile on August 19 shortly after it formally withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, making it quite...
-- 2019-09-01 21:02:12
At least seven people were killed after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in west Texas on Saturday. Police say the mass shooting, the second within the state during August, began with a traffic st...
Reuters 2019-09-01 11:07:56
A white male in his 30s who was known to police killed four people and wounded 21 others on Saturday in a gun rampage between the West Texas cities of Midland and Odessa that started with a traffic st...
-- 2019-08-31 14:49:13
The US Treasury has blacklisted an Iranian tanker it claims is being used to ship oil to Syria. The Adrian Darya 1, previously known as Grace 1, was detained by British authorities in Gibraltar in Ju...
-- 2019-08-31 13:17:36
A trial date has been set for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged architect of the 9/11 attacks on the US. Mr Mohammed will be tried, along with four other men, at a military court in Guantána...
CNN 2019-08-30 19:19:39
US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the official establishment of the US military's Space Command. "Those who wish to harm the United States, to seek to challenge us on the ultimate high gro...
Xinhua 2019-08-30 16:57:34
The Brazilian government on Thursday launched a pilot project to fight violent crimes in five towns across the country. The project called "Ahead, Brazil" involves joint actions by the federal govern...
-- 2019-08-29 21:29:42
A former commander in the Farc rebel group in Colombia, Iván Márquez, has called on his followers to take up arms less than three years after the rebels signed a peace agreement with the...
Reuters 2019-08-28 14:22:16
At least 23 people have died after a fire raged through a bar in Mexico’s southern port city of Coatzacoalcos, NBC News reported early on Wednesday, citing a statement by the office of Veracruz...
-- 2019-08-28 12:13:03
Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will travel to Jerusalem to inaugurate a ‘diplomatic office’ in the city on Sept 1, the Honduran government said in a statement on Tuesday. The o...
Reuters 2019-08-28 11:08:58
The Trump administration is shifting $271 million earmarked for disaster aid and cyber security to pay for immigration-related facilities, the US Department of Homeland Security and a leading congress...
-- 2019-08-27 12:33:32
The Brazilian government has said it will reject an offer of aid from G7 countries to help tackle fires in the Amazon rainforest. French President Emmanuel Macron - who hosted a G7 summit that ended...
-- 2019-08-26 21:53:49
US President Donald Trump said it was realistic to think that a meeting with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani could happen in the coming weeks, according to Reuters. "I have a good feeling. They have...
Reuters 2019-08-26 16:35:39
US President Donald Trump on Monday offered an olive branch to China after days of intense feuding over trade and opened the door to diplomacy on Iran, easing tension on the last day of a strained G7...
-- 2019-08-25 22:22:37
US President Donald Trump appeared to brush aside French efforts to mediate with Iran on Sunday, saying that while he was happy for President Emmanuel Macron to reach out to Tehran to defuse tensions...
-- 2019-08-25 15:39:30
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he was getting along well with Western allies at a G7 summit in France, dismissing reports of rifts among leaders and declaring that they “respect”...
Reuters 2019-08-25 12:07:45
Six states in Brazil’s Amazon region requested military help on Saturday (local time) to combat record fires that are tearing through the rainforest, provoking an international outcry because of...
-- 2019-08-24 10:33:05
European leaders on Friday threatened to tear up a trade deal with South America, reflecting growing international anger at Brazil as a record number of fires in the Amazon rainforest intensified an u...
Reuters 2019-08-23 19:58:29
American billionaire industrialist David Koch, a driving force behind conglomerate Koch Industries who as one of the world’s richest people became a major financier of conservative causes and po...
Reuters 2019-08-23 11:53:28
The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seize...
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