David Attenborough says climate change will cause social unrest
Naturalist David Attenborough told British lawmakers on Tuesday it would be essential to stick to a new target to decarbonize the economy, warning that failure...
Smart locker pharmacy seeks to cut South Africa hospital queues
A South African engineer recently won the Royal Academy of Engineering 2019 Africa Prize for his smart locker invention, a system through which patients can...
Zimbabwe lawmaker charged with subversion over Mnangagwa threat
A Zimbabwe opposition lawmaker was charged on Tuesday with subversion, his lawyer said, after a video surfaced where he purportedly said President Emmerson Mnangagwa would...
Argentina’s pre-default president de la Rua dies at 81
Fernando de la Rua, who led Argentina through a debilitating economic depression that eventually led to the country’s record sovereign debt default, died on Tuesday...
Putin opposes Russian parliament call for Georgia sanctions
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected on Tuesday a parliamentary call to impose sanctions against Georgia, saying patching up strained relations was more important than reacting...
U.S., Taliban talks end after rival Afghans agree on ‘roadmap for peace’
The U.S. special envoy for peace in Afghanistan wound up on Tuesday the seventh round of talks he has held with the Taliban in Qatar,...
Determined to reach Europe, migrants defy Morocco’s crackdown
Senegalese migrant Ismail, 26, is back in the forests around the northern Moroccan port of Tangier, not long after being stopped there by authorities and...
Netanyahu warns Iran it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing Iranian threats
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Iran on Tuesday that it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing what he described as Iranian threats to...
Twenty-three U.S. states urge Trump to drop vehicle fuel-efficiency freeze
Nearly two dozen U.S. state governors, including those of California and New York, urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to abandon a proposal to freeze...
Short-sighted policies stall Balkans’ integration into EU: Erdogan
Short-sighted anti-immigrant populism in some European Union member states has blocked the integration of Western Balkan countries into the EU, weakening the region’s stability, Turkish...