Storm disrupts U.S. Gulf Coast energy operations from refineries to terminals
Energy infrastructure on the U.S. Gulf Coast was hit hard by Tropical Storm Imelda on Thursday, as flooding forced a major refinery, a key oil...
Canadian PM Trudeau vows to continue campaign amid blackface scandal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to continue his re-election campaign and asked for forgiveness on Thursday after pictures of him in blackface emerged less...
Sierra Leone toughens penalties for sexual violence
Sierra Leone’s parliament voted on Thursday to significantly increase prison sentences for rape, a move that follows the president’s declaration earlier this year that sexual...
Torrential Imelda rains flood homes, snarl travel around Houston
Rescuers in boats pulled people from flooded Houston-area homes, the city’s airport temporarily halted flights and tens of thousands of people lost power on Thursday...
Medicinal cannabis could bring in $6 billion a year for Colombia, government says
Colombia could export $6 billion a year in medicinal cannabis products, making marijuana its third-largest source of foreign exchange, the government said on Thursday, as...
Guatemala finds coca plantations and labs, admits now a producing nation
Guatemalan security forces found and destroyed large coca plantations and two cocaine processing laboratories, police said on Thursday, a development that shows cocaine production is...
At least 28 displaced people killed in northern Congo
At least 28 people have been killed in a northeastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo in the past two days, the UN stabilizing mission...
Neurotoxin may have caused diplomats’ illness in Cuba: study
Fumigation against mosquitoes in Cuba and not “sonic attacks” may have caused some 40 U.S. and Canadian diplomats and family members in Havana to fall...
Islamic State claims attack in Burkina that killed 24 soldiers
Islamic State claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest attacks against the Burkina Faso military in recent months, the SITE website that tracks militant attacks...
Exxon shuts Beaumont, Texas refinery, others cut back due to storm: sources
Exxon Mobil Corp shut its 369,024 barrel per day (bpd) Beaumont, Texas, crude oil refinery on Thursday because of flooding from Tropical Storm Imelda, sources...