Divided Brazil barrels towards uncertain presidential run-off
A deeply polarized Brazil stood at a political crossroads Monday as the bruising first round of the presidential election left voters with a stark...
UN warns paradigm shift needed to avert global climate chaos
Avoiding global climate chaos will require a major transformation of society and the world economy that is "unprecedented in scale," the UN said Monday...
Kim, Pompeo agree to 2nd US-North Korea summit ‘at earliest date’
Kim Jong Un has agreed to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump as soon as possible, Seoul said Sunday, after Washington's...
DR Congo’s Dr Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Murad win Nobel Peace...
Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege and Yazidi campaigner Nadia Murad won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for their work in fighting sexual violence...
US Senate braces for key vote on embattled court nominee
The US Senate girded Friday for a critical, too- close-to-call vote on moving ahead with the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,...
More than 1,000 may still be missing in Indonesia disaster: official
More than a thousand people could still be missing after Indonesia's devastating quake-tsunami, officials said Friday, drastically upping the total number of people unaccounted...
South Korea ex-president Lee jailed for 15 years over corruption
Former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak was jailed for 15 years for corruption Friday, becoming the latest of the country's ex-leaders to be sent...
Dutch thwart Russian cyber attack on chemical weapons watchdog: intel agency
Dutch intelligence thwarted a Russian cyber attack targeting the global chemical weapons watchdog in April and expelled four Russian agents, the government said Thursday.
The...
Senators to review new FBI material on Kavanaugh
US Senators prepared Thursday to review the results of the new FBI probe into the background of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh ahead of...
Russia’s GRU ‘targeted chemical weapons watchdog OPCW’
Dutch security services expelled four Russians over a cyber attack plot targeting the global chemical weapons watchdog, officials said.
The operation by Russia's GRU military...
