Congo violence leaves mass fatalities, as hundreds of thousands flee
At least 161 people have been killed in a north-eastern province of Democratic Republic of Congo in the past week, as part of ongoing violence...
Strong quake strikes northwest Japan, triggers small tsunami, power cuts
A strong and shallow earthquake struck Japan’s northwest coast around Niigata prefecture on Tuesday, triggering a small tsunami, shaking buildings and cutting power to around...
Striking miners and police clash at Chile’s Chuquicamata mine
Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas in clashes on Tuesday with miners striking at Chile’s giant Chuquicamata copper mine, as the workers tried to...
Tunisia approves law excluding prominent presidential election candidate
Tunisia’s parliament on Tuesday passed an amendment to the electoral law that will exclude leading presidential candidate Nabil Karoui from an election expected to take...
Thousands of Brotherhood supporters in Turkey mourn Egypt’s Mursi
Thousands of supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood in Turkey took to the streets of capital Ankara and Istanbul on Tuesday to mourn former Egyptian president...
Egyptian ex-president Mursi buried in Cairo as Islamists mourn
Modern Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, Mohamed Mursi, was buried in a small family ceremony on Tuesday, a day after suffering a fatal heart attack...
No provisions in USMCA to change U.S. pharmaceutical patent laws: Lighthizer
The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement has no provisions that would force changes to U.S. laws with respect to pharmaceutical companies, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said...
Germany needs to ease rules to hit 2030 renewables target
Germany needs to ease restrictions on the location and size of solar power plants and wind turbines and increase incentives if the country is to...
Exhausted polar bear wanders into Siberian city
A starving polar bear has strayed hundreds of kilometers from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into the major Russian industrial city of Norilsk...
Summer heat could challenge power grids in Texas and California: NERC
Texas and California could face electric reliability issues this summer because they may not have enough generation resources available to meet peak air conditioning demand,...