Google to pay $1 billion in France to settle fiscal fraud probe
Google agreed to pay close to 1 billion euros ($1.10 billion) to French authorities to settle a fiscal fraud probe that began four years ago...
Years after nun’s murder, church activists face threats in lawless Amazon
Fourteen years ago, on a dirt road near a remote settlement in northern Brazil, a gunman paid by local cattle ranchers executed a U.S. nun...
Warplanes strike Syria’s Idlib despite ceasefire: monitor, rebel
Air strikes pounded the south of Syria’s Idlib region on Thursday, a rebel official and residents said, despite a ceasefire that had halted a fierce...
Ukraine drawing up roadmap to implement peace deal for Donbass: Zelenskiy
Ukraine is preparing a roadmap with clear deadlines in order to implement a peace deal for eastern Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told reporters on Thursday,...
Trump EPA to roll back Obama-era water protections
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday is expected to announce the repeal of a 2015 Obama administration regulation that expanded protections of waterways such...
Factbox: Will sparks fly? Five things to watch at the third Democratic debate
Leading Democratic White House contenders Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren will share the stage for the first time on Thursday when the top 10 candidates...
Coast Guard shuts upper Houston Ship Channel near Baytown, Texas amid protests
The U.S. Coast Guard closed the upper Houston Ship Channel on Thursday morning as 11 Greenpeace USA protesters blocked a portion of the country’s largest...
House panel votes to intensify Trump impeachment probe
The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to intensify its investigation of Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday, as lawmakers edged closer to...
‘Climate killer’ protester rushes Merkel’s stage at Frankfurt car show
A climate change protester was bundled away by security staff on Thursday after he tried to rush across a stage where German Chancellor Angela Merkel...
Climate activists ready to risk arrest but not passengers’ lives in Heathrow protest
Climate activists planning to disrupt London’s Heathrow airport with toy drones said as they practised on Thursday that they would not fly them when planes...
