Tehran (CNN) Iran's Ministry of Intelligence said on Tuesday that the country has managed to "deal a heavy blow against America's international spy network.".
The Trump administration announced Monday it is sending an additional 1,000 American troops to the Middle East after it accused Iran of orchestrating attacks ...
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn, one of Congress' most vocal critics of President Trump, placed the blame squarely on the White House after Iran announced it could ...
The Post reports on escalating tensions between the United States and Iran after apparent Iranian attacks on tanker ships and a threat to exceed the enrichment ...
The huge, ongoing demonstrations in Hong Kong are directed not just against chief executive Carrie Lam's refusal to withdraw her proposed extradition law.
Since the delightful snafu that led to the research vessel's goofy moniker, the autonomous submarine has been off gathering deep-sea data on the effects of ...
The British research submarine Boaty McBoatface has made an impressive debut in the scientific arena, discovering a significant link between Antarctic winds ...
Boaty McBoatface has made more of a name for itself. In its maiden mission, the yellow submarine aboard the research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough ...
Intrepid submarine Boaty McBoatface has made its first significant discovery, say UK scientists. The autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) has built a 3D map of ...
London's Heathrow Airport has released a new "masterplan" for its much-anticipated expansion, which will see a third runway open by 2026, making it one of the ...
A New Jersey man has become at least the ninth US tourist to die in the Dominican Republic in a string of deaths the FBI is investigating. Relatives of Joseph ...
The recent Deer Creek High School graduates flew on June 8 to the embattled Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Punta Cana, where at least two Americans have ...
A graduation trip to the Dominican Republic for a group of Oklahoma teens took a turn earlier this month when part of the group became mysteriously ill during ...
A Russian airliner's secretive deliveries to a refinery in Uganda expose one link in a global underground economy many suspect is helping Nicolás Maduro cling ...
A U.S. wildlife support group working with the Mozambican government has become arguably the first in Africa to successfully clamp down on elephant ...
One of Africa's largest protected areas, the Niassa Reserve in northern Mozambique, has marked an entire year without finding a single elephant killed by ...
One of Africa's largest wildlife reserves is marking a year without a single elephant being lost to poachers. In recent years, thousands of animals had been killed ...
There is a special poignancy to the fact that Egypt's only democratically elected ruler should have died as a prisoner and been buried without ceremony.
Mohamed Morsi was not supposed to be Egypt's first civilian president. During a term in office that lasted just one year, Egyptians would jokingly refer to him as ...
Topline: Boeing doesn't have any immediate plans to rename its embattled 737 MAX aircraft despite CFO Greg Smith saying he was open to the idea earlier ...
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's split from the Royal Foundation — the charitable initiative they ran with Prince William and Kate Middleton — will come ...
Two British teenagers who posted an image of Prince Harry and accused him of being a “race traitor” last year were convicted Tuesday of promoting terrorism ...
A far-right university student who called Prince Harry a race traitor and created an image of him with a pistol to his head was on Tuesday jailed in Britain for more ...
Another day, another reason to adore Meghan Markle. The Duchess of Sussex recently shared her love of animals as a "proud rescue dog owner" in a sweet ...
Dominic Raab has been knocked out of the Tory leadership race in the latest ballot of MPs, leaving five candidates in the battle to be the next PM. Boris Johnson ...
Winning the support of 37 members of Parliament in the most recent Conservative Party leadership ballot on Tuesday, Rory Stewart has shown he's the ...
Rory Stewart's campaign leaves Boris Johnson weakened as he heads towards his only guiding principle: his ambition to be prime minister, says Tom Kibasi, ...
Angela Merkel has said that she is doing "very well" after she was seen shaking during a welcome ceremony on Tuesday, suggesting that dehydration was to ...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel appeared unsteady and began to visibly shake during an event in the hot sun in Berlin on Tuesday with the new Ukrainian ...
Japan's meteorological agency has issued a tsunami warning after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 10:22 p.m. local time Tuesday (9:22 a.m. ET) off ...
Steffen Olsen, a scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute, was on a routine mission in northwest Greenland to retrieve oceanographic and weather ...
The news coming out of the Arctic over the last few days is further evidence of our rapidly evolving climate emergency, which has ramifications for all of us.
Ice is melting at record rates in the Arctic, sparking fears among climate scientists that global warming is accelerating. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File). 0.
Danish meteorologist Steffen Olsen and his band of sled dogs are walking on thin ice -- across a frozen sea that has become flooded with melted glacial waters.
China's harvesting of detainees' organs serves a booming transplant trade that is worth some $1 billion a year, according to an international tribunal.
China has long been credibly accused of allowing a black market in organ sales, the kidneys, livers, etc. coming from murdered political prisoners such as the ...
The independent China Tribunal into forced prisoner organ harvesting In China released its final judgment on 17 June. The London-based tribunal concluded ...
China continues to kill prisoners of conscience for organ transplants, a panel of lawyers and experts claimed on Monday. The China Tribunal, an independent ...
Stocks in the US soared Tuesday, extending earlier gains after President Donald Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet later this ...
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he and Chinese President Xi Jinping “will be having an extended meeting next week at the G-20 in Japan.” In a tweet ...
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had spoken with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and that trade negotiations would resume before the end of the ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping needs a trade deal to strengthen his weakening economy. President Trump needs a deal prior to the 2020 elections. That's the ...
President Trump said he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had a “very good” telephone conversation and will have an “extended meeting” later this month at the ...
A hymn sung by Christian groups participating in the anti-extradition Hong Kong protests has caught on and become an unlikely anthem for the movement of ...
If you need an example of man's desire to be free, and his willingness to resist tyranny, look to the streets of Hong Kong. Some 2 million residents of the city ...
HONG KONG — The Christian hymn “Sing Hallelujah to the Lord” has emerged as the unlikely anthem of Hong Kong's protests against an extradition bill that ...
Russia has been a bulwark of support for Venezuela. But as that country's economy crumbles, Russian state-owned businesses are pulling back to protect their ...
In the El Cuadrado cemetery in Maracaibo, Venezuela thieves are stealing items from corpses as well as ornaments the country sinks to new depths of ...
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro freed opposition official Gilber Caro after the lawmaker spent two months in prison – just two days before the UN ...
Daily pressure should be exerted on Venezuela's military regime to defect from the Maduro regime rather than international military intervention, Colombia's ...
Venezuela's opposition is coming under scrutiny for a case in which two activists allegedly misappropriated funds designated to help Venezuelan security forces ...
(Want to get this briefing by email? Here's the sign-up.) Good morning,. We're covering the growing tensions with Iran, a new cryptocurrency from Facebook, and ...
A bipartisan group of senators called on President Trump to explain his decision to deploy troops to the Middle East and warning that Congress hasn't ...
The lead prosecutor of a decorated Navy SEAL charged with killing a wounded teenage ISIS prisoner under his care in Iraq and other war crimes described the ...
On 14 June 2019, a set of terrifying photographs purportedly showing a “possum-eating” spider in Australia was posted to the “Tasmanian Insects and Spiders” ...
A lucky photographer caught a large spider sinking its fangs into an unusual meal in Tasmania, Australia. Justine Latton shared pictures on social media of a ...
It's a 'fairly rare' event, arachnology expert says, as it's more common to see huntsman eat small birds or frogs. Prepare for Tasmania's spider possum.
An American MQ-9 Reaper drone was fired upon while conducting aerial surveillance during a pair of attacks last week against international oil tankers in the ...
Iran's military denied on Monday being behind attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, and said if it decided to block Strait of Hormuz, a vital ...
Trump administration security officials will reportedly discuss a decision to potentially send additional military to the Middle East following last week's attack on ...
The United Kingdom is deploying a contingent of Royal Marines to protect their warships in the Persian Gulf as tensions rise between the United States and Iran.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on Tuesday approved a pipeline project that has set Canadian provinces against each other, opened ...
Canada has approved the Trans Mountain expansion project after a federal court sent it back for review last summer. The decision could pose a challenge for ...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government decided Tuesday to proceed with the construction of a major crude oil pipeline, saying the project has met strict ...
The prime minister says fighting climate change, defending Canada's oil industry and mending strained relations with its indigenous groups “go hand in hand.”
At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a strong earthquake which shook the south-western Chinese province of Sichuan. The 6.0 ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — This gritty, industrial city on the banks of the murky Rio Grande is bracing for the Trump administration to dump thousands of ...
President Trump's effort to reduce illegal immigration is showing results far south of the border, with Mexico and Guatemala stepping up efforts to deter and ...
Mexico could win a trade war with the United States but it is a war Mexico doesn't want because it would take too heavy a toll, Mexican President Andres Manuel ...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was a spoiled quick-tempered child with limited academic abilities who lashed out at his Swiss school classmates for ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping travels to North Korea to meet leader Kim Jong Un this week looking to strengthen their sometimes shaky bond at a time when both ...
David Andelman writes that there may be a delay in negotiations, but as long as Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are talking, it is unlikely that missiles will be ...
(CNN) Indian police have recovered the body of a stuntman who went missing in the Hooghly River Sunday while attempting a daredevil trick, authorities ...
The body of an Indian magician was found in the Hooghly River on Monday, one day after he attempted to recreate one of Harry Houdini's most famous stunts.
Austria won a fight against Germany over a planned motorway toll on cars as the European Union's Court of Justice said the fee discriminates against foreign ...
Scores of parents and locals gathered outside a hospital in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Tuesday to protest the death of more than 100 children over the ...
An encephalitis outbreak has killed over 100 children in eastern India since June, officials say, with more than 430 others requiring hospitalization. The outbreak ...
Lychee fruit could be behind an illness that killed 100 children in one of the poorest regions in India, scientists say. The deaths have occurred in and around the ...
A live-streaming press conference in Pakistan turned into a near cat-astrophe when a feline filter on Facebook plastered adorable cat ears and whiskers onto a ...
Topline: Pakistani regional minister Shaukat Yousafzai's weekly press conference went off the rails on Friday when a staffer accidentally left a cat filter on during ...
To fully grasp President Donald Trump's China strategy, the first step is understanding Robert Lighthizer. No one besides Trump himself has more ownership of ...
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer on Tuesday defended President Trump's use of tariffs to squeeze concessions from adversaries and trading ...
From the start, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has argued he can get Democrats to support President Donald Trump's replacement for the North ...
President Donald Trump's top trade envoy will be in the congressional hot seat for two days this week, giving lawmakers the chance to grill him about the ...
John Stoltzfus, Oppenheimer Asset Management's chief investment strategist, recently visited areas in mainland China and Taiwan, including Beijing, Taipei, ...
Cities, states, businesses and electric utilities are setting ambitious goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions. But it's not clear exactly how they'll do that or ...
A British government climate action plan is “unclear” and lacks key details about how the UK will reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next 12 years, the ...
The European Union urged its member states on Tuesday to accelerate efforts to meet their 2030 climate goals after a review showed them falling short in some ...
By all accounts the U.S. is undergoing an economic transformation — one that leapt into a green energy evolution. The question now is how to bring everyone ...
The number of EU countries on board with a pledge to go carbon neutral by 2050 has grown rapidly in recent months – with 18 out of 28 now supporting the ...
Maria Giuseppa Robucci, who lived in Foggia, Italy, died today at her home in Poggio Imperiale at the age of 116 years and 90 days. She was Europe's oldest ...
LONDON — The chief executive of the Serpentine Galleries, Yana Peel, resigned on Tuesday after a newspaper investigation revealed she had connections to ...
The head of the Serpentine Galleries has resigned after the Guardian revealed she is the co-owner of an Israeli cyberweapons company whose software has ...
Yana Peel, the CEO of the Serpentine Galleries in London, has resigned from her role after three years in the job. Peel said her decision came "in light of a ...
The boss of London's Serpentine Galleries has quit claiming she was forced out due to 'misjudged personal attacks' over her husband's involvement with a ...
A New Zealand businessman previously fined for shipping a box of pigs' heads to a mosque in Christchurch was sentenced Tuesday to nearly two years behind ...
The Vatican has formally opened debate on letting married men be ordained as priests in remote parts of the Amazon where priests are so few that Catholics ...
A document released by the Vatican on Monday said the Catholic Church should consider ordaining older married men as priests in areas of the remote ...
A historic shift in policy could pave the way for married men to preach in areas where clergy are scarce. The requirement for priests to have never been married ...
The Vatican has called for Church officials to study the possibility of ordaining married men living in remote areas of the Amazon in order to provide indigenous ...
Russian lawmakers on Tuesday voted to back President Vladimir Putin's exit from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, The Associated Press ...
Six mountaineers who were trapped by an avalanche on a mountain in northern Pakistan have been rescued. Helicopters reached the four Italian and two ...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistani military helicopter teams rescued six mountain climbers on Tuesday after an avalanche trapped them on a treacherous ...
History will best remember Bernie Sanders for his role in helping elect Donald Trump. Happily for many (if not most) Democrats, Sanders is now fading big time.
Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are largely competing for the same pool of liberal voters who want big changes in ...
After watching Bernie Sanders try, for at least the second time, to defend himself as a “democratic socialist” by defining “democratic socialism” as something that ...
In early June, an unnamed adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders used the anonymity afforded to him by a reporter to berate one of ...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's ex-president Omar al-Bashir was charged with corruption-related offences on Sunday, as he appeared in public for the first time ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – Sudan's former President Omar al-Bashir appeared in public on Sunday for the first time since his ouster, as he was led away to a ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has inaugurated a small settlement named after President Donald Trump in the occupied Golan Heights territory.
