LONDON – A little more than nine months after British voters chose to break with the European Union, the next big step loomed Wednesday as Britain prepared to make a decisive – and likely irreversible – move toward leaving a partnership that has …
UNITED NATIONS – In a village nestled in clouds in the thickly wooded hills of eastern Congo, Michael Sharp, a slight, bespectacled Mennonite from Kansas, looked perfectly at ease.
Ayr (Australia) (AFP) – Towns remained cut off in northern Australia Wednesday after being pummelled by a powerful cyclone that washed battered yachts ashore and ripped roofs off houses, as the military mobilised to help with the clean-up.
Ten people were arrested in a second night of protests in Paris over the killing by police of a Chinese father of five, an incident that has caused tensions with Beijing.
Flags of member nations fly outside NATO headquarters in Brussels. (AP Photo/Geert van den Wijngaert, File). (CNSNews.com) – The United States on Tuesday became the second to last NATO member to ratify the accession of Montenegro, paving the way …
South African President Jacob Zuma will not attend the funeral of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Kathrada “in compliance with the wishes of the family,” according to the presidency.
Sean M. Spicer, the White House press secretary, will skip the White House Correspondents Dinner next month, along with the rest of the White House staff.
François Fillon and his wife, Penelope, in Paris in January. The decision to place Mrs. Fillon under a formal investigation comes two weeks after Mr. Fillon was charged with embezzlement.
Countries around the disputed South China Sea are opening tiny islets, some once tiny reefs, for tourism as a way of proving territorial claims, but the trend is expected to falter long term for lack of economic returns.
BANGKOK (AP) – Conservationists say they have evidence that the critically endangered Indochinese tiger is breeding in a Thai jungle, giving hope for the survival of an animal whose total population may be less than 300.
LOS ANGELES – As a billionaire developer, Donald Trump built casinos, luxe condo towers and lush golf courses. Now, as president, Trump aims to develop perhaps his most ambitious and surely his most contentious project yet: A wall along the nearly …
TOKYO – Let’s say you’re North Korea and you have this nuclear device you really want to test. And let’s say you’d rather some of the more sensitive details remain private.
MOSCOW, March 28 Protests across Russia on Sunday marked the coming of age of a new adversary for the Kremlin: a generation of young people driven not by the need for stability that preoccupies their parents but by a yearning for change.
The top U.S. general in Europe said Tuesday the United Nations’ proposed ban on nuclear weapons had serious problems, telling Congress that it was “just not realistic” amid ongoing threats from North Korea and Russia.
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