Fridays for Future: German youth lead climate change charge
Protests in the west German city of Aachen were exuberant with young people demanding action over words, as bleak warnings from U.N. scientists have helped...
Italy should name new EU affairs minister next week
The Italian government will probably name a new European Affairs minister by the end of next week, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday....
Brazil’s Bolsonaro changes view, says could run for re-election
Less than six months since he took office, right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro says he could run for a second term even though he promised during...
Hundreds of Jordanian Islamists protest against Trump peace plan
Hundreds of Jordanian Islamists marched in the capital on Friday to denounce Washington’s peace plan to end the Arab-Israeli conflict and demand their government boycott...
U.N. rights boss Bachelet to meet Maduro, Guaido in Venezuela: U.N.
U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet will visit Venezuela from June 19-21 and hold separate talks with both President Nicolas Maduro and his arch foe,...
Trump says he aborted retaliatory strike to spare Iranian lives
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he had aborted a military strike on Iran because such a response to Tehran’s downing of an unmanned...
U.S. asks U.N. Security Council to meet on Iran on Monday
The United States has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet on Iran behind closed-doors on Monday, diplomats said....
WFP hopeful Yemen’s ‘good’ Houthis will prevail to allow food aid suspension to end
United Nations food chief David Beasley said on Friday he was hopeful that “good Houthis” would prevail to allow the agency to lift its partial...
Spain’s Supreme Court sentences ‘Wolf Pack’ to 15 years in prison for rape
Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday sentenced five men accused of attacking a woman in Pamplona in 2016 to 15 years in prison each for rape,...
Spain’s top court finds ‘Wolf Pack’ guilty of rape
Spain’s Supreme Court on Friday found five men who attacked a teenager at a bull-running festival guilty of rape, overturning a previous sentence for the...