Brazil Senate leader offers to resign leadership post after police raid
The leader of the Brazilian government in the Senate offered to resign his leadership position on Thursday after being targeted in a police raid into...
Storm halts flights into Houston, city braces for torrential Imelda rains
All flights into Houston’s international airport, one of the busiest in the United States, were halted on Tuesday as Tropical Depression Imelda inundated southeastern Texas...
Algeria detains chief of former ruling party and opposition activist
Algeria on Thursday announced the detention of the leader of its former ruling party, as authorities strove to quell months of mass protests ahead of...
Kendall Jenner, Kaia Gerber, Bella and Gigi Hadid walk for Fendi in Milan
Italian luxury label Fendi sees earthy tones, quilts and florals for women next spring. Rough cut (no reporter narration)....
France persuades Germany to consider EU carbon border tax
France has convinced Germany to look into a European carbon border tax to protect companies investing in green technology from emission-intensive competition from abroad, a...
U.S. biofuel credits slump ahead of Trump meeting with senators: traders
U.S. biofuel blending credits fell sharply on Thursday ahead of a meeting between President Donald Trump and senators from oil states, who are opposed to...
Bercow: no-deal Brexit out of question without parliament support
A no-deal Brexit before October 31 is out of the question without parliamentary support, Britain’s House of Commons Speaker John Bercow said in Zurich on...
U.S. cases of vaping-related illness rise to 530 as outbreak widens
U.S. health officials said on Thursday there are now 530 confirmed and probable cases and seven deaths from severe lung-related illnesses tied to vaping, and...
Nigeria becomes Africa’s staging ground for the illegal pangolin trade with Asia
In a rubble-strewn storage lot in the sprawling Nigerian port city of Lagos, customs agents crack open a shipping container crammed with scales from pangolins,...
Nigeria becomes Africa’s staging ground for illegal pangolin trade with Asia
Porous borders, lax law enforcement, corruption and one of Africa’s biggest ports has helped criminal networks in Nigeria corner most of the African trade in...