Environmental organizations and researchers say the wildfires blazing in the Brazilian rainforest were set by cattle ranchers and loggers who want to clear and ...
The surge in Amazon rainforest fires is largely caused by the policies of Brazil's far-right government — part of a global right-wing populist attack on climate ...
Boris Johnson has met Emmanuel Macron in Paris for Brexit talks, with the French president saying the UK's vote to quit the EU must be respected. But he added ...
This uptick comes as Boris Johnson meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris. GBP investors seized on comments made in a joint Q&A held in ...
Throughout the Brexit negotiations, the U.K. government and its European interlocutors have spoken in different languages to one another. But the closer the ...
Boris Johnson's career only makes sense once you've worked out it is a kind of bull****-themed escape room. Find the lie that opens the door and takes you to ...
KABUL — Two American *service* members were killed in combat in Afghanistan Wednesday, U.S. military officials said, as U.S. negotiators returned to Qatar in ...
While Afghans are supposed to be celebrating this week's blood-soaked hundredth anniversary of their “independence” from Britain, signed off in the sweltering ...
Iran is prepared to work on French proposals to salvage the international nuclear deal that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015 but it will not tolerate U.S. ...
TEHRAN — Iran may face increasing economic isolation due to U.S. sanctions, but millions of Iranians stay connected to the world through social media, despite ...
IRAN will revert to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal immediately should Europe begin to observe its provisions, Tehran has ...
Iran is prepared to work on French proposals to salvage the international nuclear deal that Tehran signed with world powers in 2015, Foreign Minister ...
The World Health Organization says there's not enough evidence to conclude that microplastics — which exist nearly everywhere in the environment and show ...
It may be in our oceans, rivers and ice but there's little evidence to suggest that microplastics in the water we drink pose a risk to our health, the World Health ...
Just when you thought it was safe to drink bottled water, a new U.N. report raises concerns about what you may be consuming: tiny particles of microplastics.
Microplastics are increasingly found in drinking water, but there is no evidence so far that this poses a risk to humans, according to a new assessment by the ...
The Pentagon reacted with dismay on Thursday over South Korea's announcement that is axing an intelligence sharing agreement with Japan, urging the two ...
South Korea said on Thursday that it would abandon a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan, a move that dramatically escalates tensions between the ...
South Korea scrapped a military intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, dramatically escalating the stakes in the U.S. allies' dispute over trade and ...
A South Korean security official says the pact "does not serve our national interest." Japan's foreign minister says Seoul's decision "completely misreads the ...
South Korea said Thursday it will end an intelligence-sharing agreement with Japan, a move that prompted immediate concern from U.S. military officials in the ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - China's embassy in Canada said on Thursday that bilateral ties were suffering “gross difficulties,” and demanded Ottawa free Huawei ...
China's embassy in Canada said on Thursday that bilateral ties were suffering "gross difficulties," and demanded Ottawa free Huawei Technologies Co Ltd Chief ...
Never-before-seen footage has been released showing Chinese tech giant Huawei's executive Meng Wanzhou detained at the Vancouver International Airport ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - China's embassy in Canada said on Thursday that bilateral ties were suffering “gross difficulties,” and demanded Ottawa free Huawei ...
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it's wrong that China is detaining two Canadians and the Trump administration is focused on helping the two be ...
Two days after Italy's populist government collapsed, the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader has told the president he will try to reach a deal with the ...
Italy's center-left Democratic Party on Thursday set tough new conditions for forming a coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, making a deal ...
Italy's center-left Democratic party will continue discussions to form a coalition with the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, after President Sergio Mattarella ...
I ask Italians to give me full powers”, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right League party and Italy's deputy prime minister, declared last week after calling for ...
Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's hard-right League party, said on Thursday he would be willing to patch up his coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star ...
President Trump jokingly told a group of veterans Wednesday that he wanted to award himself a Medal of Honor, but said his aides convinced him otherwise.
President Donald Trump joked that he wanted to award himself the Medal of Honor while praising a WWII veteran and Medal of Honor recipient at a gathering of ...
I want to buy Greenland, said President Trump. No way, said the Danes and Greenlanders, who share control over the giant frozen island and its rich mineral ...
President Trump cares so deeply about Israel that he couldn't possibly be anti-Semitic, say his supporters. His grandchildren are Jewish, as are his daughter ...
For a second straight day, Trump insisted that American Jews who vote Democratic are "disloyal to Israel," maintaining a position many have called antisemitic ...
President Trump on Wednesday doubled down on his claim that Jewish Americans who vote for Democrats were “disloyal” — and clarified that he was referring ...
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, hosts of "The Young Turks," react to the president retweeting NewsMax host Wayne Allyn Root's comparison of Donald Trump ...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) spoke with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday as the relationship between Washington and Jerusalem was thrust ...
On Tuesday, when Donald Trump accused American Jews who vote for Democrats of “great disloyalty,” he invoked an anti-Semitic trope that is not just offensive ...
Donald Trump has again mused about serving more than the legal limit of two terms as US president, during an extraordinary exchange with reporters outside ...
Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room," Democratic Rep. John Garamendi said that if Donald Trump were not the president, he would be involuntarily ...
To the editor: I am a Jew. My vote has always gone to a person who has a strong moral compass. In the world of politics, sometimes it is the lesser of two ...
Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump reached for the praise of a conservative conspiracy theorist on Wednesday to defend him amid criticism over his ...
Because two members of the opposing party in the U.S. House of Representatives are vocal critics of Israel whose foreign policy views are out of step with the ...
In the midst of answering a question about the ongoing trade war with China on Wednesday, President Donald Trump turned from reporters, looked to heavens ...
Since President Trump's election, many in the evangelical community have lauded him, grateful for his work to protect and propel some of the Christian values ...
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff predicts Jewish Americans will reject President Trump in "record numbers" because of his embrace of an ...
President Donald Trump has been joking recently about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland. But now it's Puerto Ricans who are the ones laughing — and many ...
When you follow Donald Trump's every tweet, speech and campaign promise like I have been doing since I moved to The Independent's New York bureau in ...
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) on Wednesday defended President Trump's push to buy Greenland, revealing that he discussed the idea in a conversation with the ...
The RMS Titanic was visited by divers for the first time in 14 years, and the ship that was once a picture of luxury was found in the process of being swallowed up ...
The first Titanic dive in 14 years found that the ship is being “consumed” by the ocean. According to a release from Triton Submarines, an exploration crew with a ...
Remarkable new images from the Titanic wreck site show the ill-fated liner's deterioration on the North Atlantic seabed. The first 4K images of the wreck were ...
Sexual violence committed by Myanmar troops against Rohingya women and girls in 2017 was an indication of the military's genocidal intent to destroy the ...
Is it a bird? Or is it a bunny? That's the question sparked by a video that's gone viral. The clip shows a bird, with its beak in the air, and a human stroking its head.
A researcher posted a video showing an animal being rubbed on the head. Now people are comparing the internet debate to "The Dress" and "Yanny or Laurel" ...
On Sunday, Daniel Quintana, a senior researcher in biological psychiatry at the University of Oslo in Norway, shared a video that has gone massively viral on ...
The British prime minister was labeled “rude” and “embarrassing” after a photo showed him with his foot on top of a table in France's Elysee Palace while ...
President Donald Trump spent most of last week at his Bedminster golf club, where he sometimes retreats from the public eye. When he left Washington for New ...
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is warning that the Chinese government is harnessing social media platforms to carry out disinformation campaigns about the ...
Protesters filled Hong Kong International airport last week. Many wore black, the unofficial uniform of these demonstrations. They carried signs and decorated ...
A Hong Kong citizen working for the British consulate, who has not been heard from for two weeks, was detained in China for "solicitation of prostitution," China's ...
A LESSON learned from Russia's use of disinformation and weaponized social media in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is how it can be both invidious and ...
Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been facing backlash from British press about flying a private plane. Now, people are calling them out for "damage ...
Meghan Markle gave birth to her first baby in May and while Archie Harrison is only three months old royal fans can't wait for her and Prince Harry to add to their ...
There's no doubt that Meghan Markle has not had an easy transition into the royal family. From the very beginning, when she was revealed to be dating Prince ...
AccuWeather forecasters are keeping a watchful eye on the skies over the Atlantic hundreds of miles off the southeastern coast of the United States as peak ...
Donald Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday morning to thank conspiracy theorist extraordinaire Wayne Allyn Root for likening his rise to power to the “second ...
The humanoid robot is known as Skybot F-850 and as FEDOR; the test flight was needed to clear an upgraded Soyuz booster to launch human crews to the ...
Fear of what awaits them has kept the Rohingya from going home to a place where they had faced an ethnic cleansing campaign. But both Bangladesh and ...
Bangladesh and Myanmar were set to start repatriating Rohingya refugees Thursday, a move that has been widely resisted by many living in the sprawling ...
An attempt to begin repatriating thousands of Rohingya Muslims living in camps in Bangladesh stalled on Thursday after nearly 300 refugee families refused to ...
Good morning. We're covering the uncertain fate of the Rohingya Muslim refugees in Bangladesh, an electric rickshaw revolution in India and the musical legacy ...
A second attempt by the Myanmar government to repatriate thousands of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh has failed to attract a single volunteer, almost ...
Bill Maher has lobbed the latest volley in his Twitter scuffle with Rep. Rashida Tlaib, mocking the Michigan Democrat's call for a boycott of his HBO show by ...
Thousands of Hong Kong residents held a sometimes scrappy anti-government protest on Wednesday at a suburban subway station that was attacked by a mob ...
Iran unveiled a new long-range surface-to-air missile system Thursday in its latest demonstration of military power, just two months after its forces shot a U.S. ...
Iran displayed a domestically-built long-range, surface-to-air missile air defense system on Thursday, at a time of rising tension with the United States.
IRAN flexed their military might once again as they revealed a potent new missile system while President Hassan Rouhani slammed negotiations with the US as ...
CHINA has accused the US of starting a new arms race after launching a missile test that would have been banned under a nuclear treaty that collapsed this ...
MOSCOW — Two of the Russian specialists killed by the explosion at a White Sea missile testing range died not of traumatic injuries from the blast itself but of ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Tuesday that there was nothing to worry about after a series of Russian radiation monitoring stations were reported to ...
IN RUSSIA earlier this month, an explosion occurred at a missile testing facility - and now four nuclear monitoring stations have gone mysteriously quiet.
London (CNN Business) Greenland insists it's not for sale, despite President Donald Trump musing about buying it. But just how much could the world's largest ...
DONALD Trump has cancelled his trip to Denmark after the Danish PM branded the president's proposal to buy Greenland 'absurd'. But why does he want it, ...
President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani confirmed Thursday that the State Department assisted his efforts to press the Ukrainian government ...
Greece vowed Wednesday to refuse help to an Iranian ship that was recently detained in Gibraltar on suspicion of carrying oil bound for Syria days after the U.S. ...
IRAN risked infuriating the US after claiming the supertanker released by Gibraltar has been leased to the country's Revolutionary Guard after being seized by ...
The Adrian Darya 1's plan to unload its oil cargo and collect *fresh* supplies in Greece is hitting a snag, people familiar with the tanker's operations said, as the ...
There's an upside to the ongoing political crisis in Italy: the upcoming government cannot be worse than the current M5S-Lega coalition, a former official at the ...
Italy's head of state wants political parties to reach a deal to form a new coalition government in the next few days if they want to avoid snap elections, a source ...
In the wake of Salvini's theatrical performance, the scrabble for power — or at least political relevance — has grown increasingly frenetic among his rivals and ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan complained bitterly about what he described as repeated rebuffs from India over Kashmir. And he raised the threat of military ...
On Aug. 5, 2019, Indian President Ram Nath Kovind formally revoked Article 370 of the Indian constitution which protected Kashmir's special status and ...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to his British counterpart, Boris Johnson, about violent demonstrations over Kashmir outside the Indian ...
Israel has begun using the technology at its West Bank checkpoints to verify Palestinians' identities as they cross into Israel. The new system means shorter wait ...
Most international musicians would baulk at the notion of a two-day journey to final rehearsals past military checkpoints on alert for weapons smugglers - but for ...
A mysterious and deadly explosion earlier this month at a naval weapons testing range in northwestern Russia resulted in the deaths of two workers due to ...
THE UNITED STATES will have hypersonic weapons in the next two years and could be ready for war as tensions between Washington and Moscow continue to ...
Russia and the U.S. are blaming each other for abandoning an arms control agreement on missiles, with Moscow warning of a new arms race and the Trump ...
VLADIMIR Putin says America's latest cruise missile test has raised new threats and he vowed to respond — raising fears of a Cold War style nuclear arms race.
China is threatening sanctions on U.S. firms selling arms to Taiwan, after the U.S. government said it supported an $8 billion sale of fighter jets and other ...
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