France detects mild bird flu virus on duck farm: OIE
France has detected a low-pathogenic H5 bird flu virus on a duck farm in the centre of the country, the Paris-based World Organization for Animal...
Yours for $1 billion only: the glamor of the London Ritz
The owners of London’s Ritz hotel, a haven for royals, statesmen and movie stars, have hinted that they would be open to selling the luxury...
International donors pledge $14 billion to tackle AIDS: Macron
International donors pledged around $14 billion to fight AIDS on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron told a donors’ conference in city of Lyon....
Venezuela says it is not responsible for oil spills on Brazil beaches
Venezuela’s government on Thursday said the OPEC-member country was not responsible for oil spills that have contaminated beaches in Brazil, after a Brazilian official on...
Ample flowering seen in Brazil’s top coffee state, rains on the way
Coffee trees all over Brazil’s top producing state Minas Gerais have bloomed this week, marking the first major flowering for the new Brazilian coffee crop...
U.S. forecaster sees 85% chance of neutral weather conditions in fall
There is about an 85% chance that a weather pattern marked by average long-term ocean temperatures, tropical rainfall and atmospheric winds will prevail in the...
Kremlin to Ukraine: pull back troops before we discuss summit
Ukraine must pull back its troops in the country’s restive east before there can be any talk of a fresh meeting between the leaders of...
Turkey presses offensive in Syria, Erdogan hits out at critics
Turkey pressed its military offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Thursday, shelling towns and bombing targets from the air in an operation...
Twelve wounded after shells hit Turkish border towns: Anadolu
Twelve people were wounded after rockets and mortar shells fired from Syria hit places in towns on the Turkish side of the border, state-owned Anadolu...
Climate protester lies on plane in disruption at London City airport
A protester lay on top of a plane while another forced a jet to turn around on the runway as climate change activists descended on...