A group of journalists whose work has landed them in jail — or cost them their lives — have been named TIME's Person of the Year for 2018. “Like all human ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May is welcomed by Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of a meeting in the Hague, the Netherlands, Dec. 11, 2018.REUTERS
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- Top European Union officials on Tuesday ruled out any renegotiation of the divorce agreement with Britain as Prime Minister ...
Prime Minister Theresa May has delayed a vote in parliament to approve her Brexit deal in search of extra assurances from the European Union that will win ...
Addressing the House of Commons on Monday, British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed a vote on her Brexit withdrawal or transition agreement with the ...
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey is in talks with the UN about a investigation into the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal ...
The New York Times reports: Senior American officials were worried. Since the early months of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner, the president's ...
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) said on Monday evening that he is planning to introduce a resolution that would name Saudi ...
ISTANBUL, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Journalist Jamal Khashoggi repeatedly told his killers “I can't breathe” during his final moments in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, ...
A man was arrested by British armed police on Tuesday for entering the grounds of the British Houses of Parliament. Interested in United Kingdom? Add United ...
A man has been arrested by armed police officers after it is believed he broke into the grounds of Parliament. An eyewitness told the BBC the man jumped over ...
Armed British police used a Taser stun gun to restrain a man inside the grounds of parliament in Westminster on Tuesday, a Reuters photographer who ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior Iranian military commander confirmed that Tehran recently carried out a ballistic missile test to the anger of the United States, the ...
The United States imposed new sanctions on three top North Korean officials – including Kim Jong Un's right-hand man – over the country's continuing human ...
A former Canadian diplomat now working for the International Crisis Group in China is missing in China, according to his employer, news that could further ...
A Scottish mountaineer who spent weeks searching for two friends who disappeared in the Himalayas more than 30 years ago has spoken of his relief after their ...
The bodies of Icelandic climbers Kristinn Runarsson and Thorsteinn Gudjonsson were finally found last month on the Nepal-Tibet border after they went missing ...
New York (CNN Business) For months, American law enforcement officials wanted to arrest Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of Chinese tech giant Huawei, but she ...
The chief financial officer (CFO) of Chinese telecom giant Huawei, Meng Wanzhou, will have to spend at least one more night in jail in Canada. A judge declin...
I am concerned by Canada's recent arrest and possible extradition of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. Meng was traveling in Canada, switching ...
A Canadian judge said Monday he wasn't satisfied with a bail proposal from the lawyers for jailed Huawei Technologies Co. Chief Financial Officer Meng ...
A woman at the forefront of the "yellow-vest" protest movement in France has called for a "truce" in response to a series of concessions from President ...
France's president has boosted spending to quell the riots. It might just work in the short term but it's hard to feel confident about his future reforms.
For the fourth straight weekend in a row, protesters donning their "gilets jaunes" in Paris continued their rioting, expanding the scope of their demands to the ...
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Maria Butina has reached a plea agreement with prosecutors after she was charged with being an unregistered foreign agent. Her onetime mentor, Alexander Torshin (right), is reportedly retiring.Pavel Ptitsin/AP
Maria Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist accused of working as an agent for the Kremlin in the U.S., has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors, ...
Butina has inked an agreement with prosecutors and becomes the first Russian since the 2016 election to confess to a crime connected to efforts to influence ...
Washington (CNN) Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy who nuzzled up to the National Rifle Association before the 2016 election, appears to have reached a ...
The Russian government has been mum on how long two nuclear-capable strategic bombers will stay in Venezuela as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decried ...
RUSSIAN bombers capable of carrying nuclear weapons have landed in Venezuela in a show of force against the US, as fears of all-out World War 3 heighten.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping's comfort with Venezuela's dystopia encapsulates their utter disinterest in basic human interests. But that speaks to something ...
In the United States, President Trump has turned climate skepticism into U.S. policy. Now that skepticism appears to be setting the tone for other world leaders to ...
The nations of the world are meeting to hash out a "rulebook" to help ensure the viability of humanity. Yet the United States held a discussion that was meant, ...
The United Nations climate change conference underway here in Poland could play a critical role in the fight to stem greenhouse gas emissions and keep ...
Poland's Solidarity labor union has joined forces with climate skeptics from America to call for “a restoration of the Scientific Method and the dismissal of ...
While the world's leaders fiddle at the UN climate summit, the world outside is giving reason for hope, says former Guardian environment editor John Vidal.
The transcript also describes "sawing" and "cutting" that can be heard on the tape along with the screaming during the October 2 murder of the journalist.
(CNN) — “I can't breathe.” These were the final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country's consulate in ...
We should all be so lucky to have one friend in our lives as loyal as Jared Kushner is to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It's no secret that the pair ...
India's currency slumped one day after the abrupt resignation of the country's central bank governor. The Indian rupee fell 1.2% against the US dollar and stocks ...
India's government is conducting a dangerous experiment in economic management. This week, following renewed pressure to conform to the government's ...
MUMBAI (Reuters) - The Indian government is likely to appoint the new Reserve Bank of India Governor later on Tuesday, ET Now television channel said citing ...
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Five Marines Declared Dead After Aviation Disaster - The New York Times
TOKYO — Five United States Marines were declared dead on Tuesday, six days after they went missing when two aircraft crashed off the coast of Japan during ...
The five Marines missing off the coast of Japan for nearly a week following an aviation mishap have been declared dead by the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marines ...
The Marine Corps called off the search for five Marines missing after last week's collision of two planes off Japan and said Tuesday that their families had been ...
TOKYO — The U.S. military has ended search operations for five missing Marine airmen involved in an accident off the coast of Japan five days ago, declaring ...
China is moving toward cutting its trade-war tariffs on imported U.S.-made cars, a step already claimed by President Donald Trump as a concession won during ...
It's one of the core contradictions of Trump administration economic policy: President Trump places as much importance on the Dow, yet he insists on pursuing ...
THE TICKER. Shoppers check out the iPhone X at an Apple store in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan). A Chinese court's decision to ban the sale of older ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Huawei believes the Canadian and U.S. legal systems will deliver a fair conclusion, the company said in a statement carried by Chinese ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia—Huawei Technologies Co.'s finance chief won't be a flight risk while awaiting a decision on her extradition to the U.S., her ...
Meng Wanzhou suffers from hypertension and struggles to eat solid food. She has a sleep disorder. She's willing to put up a couple of multi-million-dollar homes ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted at "important announcements" regarding his administration's high-stakes trade talks with China. "Very productive ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and the United States discussed the road map for the next stage of their trade talks on Tuesday, during a telephone call between Vice ...
The Border Patrol said Monday that a mother linked to the migrant caravans in Mexico abandoned her young child late last month, leaving the 2-year-old girl ...
U.S. authorities Monday arrested 32 faith leaders marching in California toward the Mexican border during a protest organized by a Quaker group. One activist ...
Kneeling in front of riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists were arrested at the U.S. border fence in San Diego on Monday during a protest to support the ...
A bleak irony is emerging in Tijuana's border zone. For all the raging conservative rhetoric about how Central American migrants are lawbreakers who refuse to ...
Over 200 religious leaders and advocates gathered at the U.S.-Mexico border on Human Rights Day, saying that migrants stalled in Mexico have a right under ...
White House adviser Jared Kushner told Sean Hannity on Monday night that U.S. intelligence agencies “are making their assessments” in Jamal Khashoggi's ...
A dramatic day in Parliament has produced dramatic headlines, with a warning of "disaster" for the union and "national humiliation" over Brexit. Theresa May ...
Three war-trophy church bells seized by U.S. troops more than a century ago were returned to the Philippines Tuesday morning. Two of the Bells of Balangiga, ...
MANILA — Three church bells taken from the central Philippines as war booty by American troops more than a century ago were flown to their original home ...
MANILA (Reuters) - Church bells taken as war trophies by U.S. forces more than a century ago arrived in the Philippines on Tuesday, ending Manila's ...
The United States is to return three church bells seized by U.S. troops as war trophies from the Philippines more than a century ago in a move long demanded by ...
Leaders from 164 countries have agreed to a global pact that sets in action a plan "to prevent suffering and chaos" for global migration despite opposition a...
Leaders and representatives of more than 150 countries gathered at a United Nations conference in Marrakesh, Morocco, on Monday to adopt a global pact ...
MARRAKECH, Morocco – Defying fierce opposition from the United States and a few other nations, nearly 85 percent of the countries at the U.N. agreed Monday ...
Washington (CNN) Shortly before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, having just received a classified briefing from the director of the CIA in the basement of the Capitol, two ...
TOKYO—Japan is nearing development of its first aircraft carrier since World War II. A draft of a new national defense plan, released Tuesday, says Japan ...
The winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize - Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege and Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad - have called for justice f.
A special occasion calls for some serious sparkle! The Swedish royal family united in Stockholm on Monday for an annual outing, the 2018 Nobel Prize awards ...
On Dec. 10, Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad received the Nobel Prize for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.
Members of the Swedish royal family attended the Nobel Prize ceremony in Stockholm on Monday, including Princess Victoria and her sister-in-law Sofia, who ...
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Vijay Mallya, India’s ‘King of Good Times,’ Should be Extradited, British Court Rules - The New York Times
LONDON — Vijay Mallya built a reputation as India's “King of Good Times.” He invested in alcohol brands, air travel and auto racing. His parties featured an ...
A London court ordered the extradition of Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya, who is being pursued by India's authorities over unpaid loans tied to his defunct Kingfisher ...
Indian business tycoon Vijay Mallya can be extradited from the UK to India where he faces fraud charges, a London court has ruled. The extradition ruling will be ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya should be extradited from Britain to India to face fraud charges resulting from the collapse of his defunct ...
The U.K. government's pratfalls over Brexit show one thing still unites London with the continent: the growing difficulty of governing Western European nations in ...
Now he's in trouble. A former Siberian police officer convicted of murdering 22 women in a 2015 trail was found guilty of 56 more killings Monday. Mikhail ...
A former Russian cop nicknamed the “werewolf” -- believed to be the country's most prolific killer -- was convicted Monday of murdering 56 more women, ...
IRKUTSK, Russia -- A Siberian policeman who raped and killed women after offering them late-night rides was found guilty of dozens more murders on Monday, ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern fought back tears as she apologized on Monday to the family of a 22-year-old British woman who was killed while ...
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was on the verge of tears when she apologised for the death of a British backpacker in Auckland. Social media ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has offered a tearful apology to the family of 22-year-old British tourist Grace Millane, who was murdered during a ...
December 10 marks the 70th anniversary of the UN's universal declaration of human rights. The document outlines 30 fundamental rights that should form the ba ...
Given the rivalries and violence that divide the global community today, it is hard to imagine that on December 10, 1948, the nations of the world approved, ...
Monday marks the 70th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations universal declaration of human rights by countries around the world. The document out ...
The Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of immigrants from Central America with family ...
A U.S. judge in San Francisco says the Trump administration provided adequate justification for its decision to end a program that reunited hundreds of ...
A teenage boy was being held in connection with the stampede at a disco in Italy that killed six people, including five children, prosecutors for the regional and ...
Polls closed in Armenia's early parliamentary election on Sunday, as acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks a stronger mandate, having been elected by ...
YEREVAN (Reuters) - Parliamentary elections held in Armenia this weekend respected fundamental freedoms and were characterized by genuine competition, ...
Allies of Armenia's new leader have won an overwhelming majority of seats in the country's early parliamentary election, according to preliminary results ...
Armenia's acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has promised an economic revolution. This, after My Step Alliance, which includes Pashinyan's Civil Contract ...
Armenia's acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, bolstered his authority as his political bloc won early parliamentary elections in the former Soviet country on ...
Washington (CNN) At least 16 associates of Donald Trump had contacts with Russians during the 2016 campaign or transition, according to public statements, ...
The latest court filings have added names to the growing list of contacts between Russian nationals and Trump campaign members and associates during ...
The European Court of Justice just handed the UK a fire extinguisher. The EU's top court ruled that the UK could end Brexit without the agreement of the other 27 ...
DOWNING Street has warned Brussels that Britain will still leave the EU next March after Euro judges paved the way for an easy reversal of Brexit yesterday.
A boy sprays celebratory aerosol snow from a car as it passes through a checkpoint at the Green Zone.Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
BAGHDAD — The blast walls and barbed wire came down. The checkpoints went away. Fifteen years after it was sealed off, the heavily fortified neighborhood in ...
(CNN) Russia's arms industry has become the second-largest in the world, knocking the UK into third place, according to a new report by the Stockholm ...
Russia was the world's second-largest arms producer in 2017, behind only the United States, international researchers said Monday. In its annual list of top 100 ...
While the U.S. remains the world's clear leader, Russia is making major strides in arms sales and last year passed the U.K. to become the world's second-largest ...
The west still dominates global arms sales and according to new data, U.S. companies hold more than half the global market share for military equipment and ...
This photo taken on December 24, 2014 shows a man holding a certificate of baptism after he was baptized during a Christmas Eve service held by members of an underground church, at an apartment in Beijing. CREDIT: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images.
In addition to the ongoing massive round up and detention of Muslim minority Uighurs in government-built internment camps, China has also detained a ...
Chinese authorities detained at least 80 Christians in a raid on a prominent church that operates outside the umbrella of the Beijing government's official ...
China is tightening a clampdown on unregistered Christian churches, with members of a prominent evangelical congregation saying police have detained its ...
Dozens of Christians have been detained in a raid on a prominent Chinese church that operates outside the government's official Protestant organization, ...
NICOSIA, Cyprus – On the final leg of his journey from Iraq to Europe, Hawye Rasool Saleh paid 400 euros ($457) borrowed from his best friend to a smuggler ...
Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation after a video emerged showing two tourists scaling the world-famous Great Pyramid and posing for nude ...
Egyptian authorities are reportedly investigating after a Danish photographer posted a photograph of himself and a woman in a sexual pose apparently on top of ...
A Danish photographer who caused outrage in Egypt after apparently having sex on top of the Great Pyramid has been accused of faking a photo of the act.
This is the web version of the WSJ's newsletter on the economy. You can sign up for daily delivery here. The Trump administration's point man on China trade ...
“I am a Tariff Man,” Trump tweeted last week. “When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of ...
U.S. markets shot up and then sank just as quickly last week, responding in part to U.S.-China trade uncertainties. On Dec. 1, President Trump announced a ...
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major has said there has been "breathtaking ignorance" from unionists who oppose the Northern Ireland backstop in the Brexit ...
Prime Minister May has delayed a vote on the Brexit agreement she secured with the EU, citing concern about its means of avoiding a physical border emerging ...
Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Monday preparations for a no-deal Brexit should intensify after Britain's Theresa May pulled a parliamentary vote on ...
There has been "breathtaking ignorance" from "those who believe themselves to be unionists" who oppose the Northern Ireland backstop in the Brexit deal, Sir ...
The aim of the vipassana meditation practice, according to Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey, is to “know thyself.” There's no telling whether he succeeded ...
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