U.N. rights boss urges Brazil to preserve Amazon from mining
U.N. human rights chief Michele Bachelet called on Monday for an investigation into the murder of an indigenous leader in Brazil last week and urged...
U.S. EPA says to make decisions on 2018 small refinery waivers in next few weeks
The Environmental Protection Agency hopes to rule in the next few weeks on 2018 petitions to obtain a small refinery waiver from the nation’s biofuel...
U.N. calls for Eid truce in Libya, warns foreign support fueling conflict
A United Nations envoy called on Monday for a truce to be declared in Libya around Aug. 10, and warned that an influx of weapons...
Air raids kill more than 10 in Yemen: medical source, Houthi media
Air strikes killed more than 10 civilians including children in a market in Yemen’s Saada province on Monday, a medical source and Houthi-run media reported....
Trump signs 9/11 victim bill into law
President Trump on Monday, signed legislation to permanently compensate first responders to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center who have been...
“Thin-skinned” Trump, “like a child”: Sharpton
Civil rights activist, the Reverend Al Sharpton hit back at President Trump on Monday, after Trump called him a “con man” who “hates whites and...
Canadian greenhouse labor shortages worsened by growing cannabis producers
Canada’s labor-strapped greenhouse vegetable and flower growers are ramping up efforts to keep and recruit more workers in the face of pressure from the country’s...
U.S. records 16 new measles cases as outbreak shows signs of slowing
The United States recorded 16 new measles cases between July 18 and July 25, federal health officials said on Monday, as the spread of the...
Man pushes boy in front of train in Germany, killing him
A 40-year-old Eritrean man killed an eight-year-old boy on Monday by pushing him in front of an oncoming train at Frankfurt’s main train station in...
Libya’s Mitiga airport halts air traffic following air strike
Libya’s Mitiga airport halted air traffic on Monday after it was hit by air strikes, the airport authority said on its Facebook page....