Court ruling sends Guyana to new elections, as first oil output looms
A regional court on Tuesday upheld the Guyanese Parliament’s December no-confidence vote in the government, meaning the South American country will face new elections just...
Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson advances on Britain’s top job
Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson advanced on the prize of Britain’s top political job on Tuesday, winning 40 percent of votes in the second round of...
UK PM candidate Johnson: Britain must leave EU by Oct. 31 or pay the price
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner to be Britain’s prime minister, repeated his pledge on Tuesday that he would take the United Kingdom out of the European...
Exclusive: Overruling his experts, Pompeo keeps Saudis off U.S. child soldiers list
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has blocked the inclusion of Saudi Arabia on a U.S. list of countries that recruit child soldiers, dismissing his experts’...
Merkel says recovered from shaking bout after drinking water
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was seen shaking when she met visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier on Tuesday, said she had since drunk water...
French carbon emissions fell 4.2% year-on-year in 2018
Carbon dioxide emissions in France fell by 4.2% in 2018 compared with the previous year due to a drop in emissions from the transport sector,...
Gunmen kill 41 people in central Mali: mayor
Unidentified gunmen on motorbikes attacked two villages in central Mali, killing at least 41 people in a part of the country where ethnic reprisal attacks...
EU delays decision on membership talks with Albania, North Macedonia
European Union governments failed on Tuesday to make good on a promise to open membership talks with North Macedonia and Albania, which face further delays...
Tunisia approves law excluding presidential candidate leading in polls
Tunisia’s parliament passed an amendment to its electoral law on Tuesday that would bar businessman Nabil Karoui, owner of a private TV station critical of...
IRGC chief says Iran’s ballistic missiles capable of hitting ‘carriers in the sea’
The commander of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Tuesday that Iran’s ballistic missiles were capable of hitting “carriers in the sea” with great...