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...
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...
Mexico rejects Supreme Court ruling on migration, wants no tensions with U.S.
Mexico’s government on Thursday said it disagreed with a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which granted a request by the Trump administration to fully...
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...
‘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...
Sudan prime minister visits South Sudan to back new peace roadmap with rebels
Sudan’s new Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok flew to South Sudan on Thursday on a two-day visit to cement a new plan for peace talks with...
Brazil’s Bolsonaro hoping to resume presidential duties on Friday: spokesman
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro, currently in hospital following surgery this week, hopes to resume presidential duties on Friday, his spokesman Otavio Rego Barros said on...