Brazil agents raid illegal miners in Amazon as environmental enforcement ratchets up
Federal agents in Brazil exchanged gunfire with illegal miners in the Amazon state of Para on Friday, according to Reuters witnesses, in a dramatic example...
12 dead, 50 injured in chemical factory blast in western India
At least 12 people were killed and around 50 injured after a series of explosions at a chemical factory in the western Indian state of...
Britain’s finance minister Javid says he has fantastic relationship with PM Johnson
Britain’s finance minister Sajid Javid on Saturday he had a “fantastic” relationship with Boris Johnson after reports that he had a furious argument with the...
Taliban attack northern Afghan city amid peace talks with U.S.
Taliban forces attacked the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, Afghan and Taliban officials said, even as the United States and the hardline Islamist...
India leaves nearly two million people off citizens’ list, fate uncertain
Nearly 2 million people have been left off a list of citizens released on Saturday in India’s northeastern state of Assam, after a mammoth years-long...
Convicted RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan stabbed in California prison: reports
Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian refugee found guilty of shooting U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy to death in 1968, was wounded in a stabbing at...
North Korea says Pompeo’s remarks make talks with U.S. more difficult
A recent remark by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about “North Korea’s rogue behavior” will make talks with the United States more difficult, the...
North Korea says Pompeo remark would make talks with U.S. more difficult
A recent remark by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about “North Korea’s rogue behavior” would make talks with the United States more difficult, the...
Hong Kong protesters expected to regroup despite police ban
Protesters were expected to gather in downtown Hong Kong on Saturday in the latest of a series of anti-government demonstrations that have plunged the Chinese-ruled...
Charges dropped against second baseball player in Dominican drug trafficking case
The attorney general’s office of the Dominican Republic said on Friday that it had dropped charges against former Major League Baseball player Luis Castillo after...