U.S. drug agency to ask Congress to classify illicit fentanyl like heroin
Illicit chemical knock-offs of the extremely potent opioid fentanyl would be put permanently in the same legal class as heroin to boost prosecutions of traffickers...
Germany’s Merkel says to decide on CO2-cutting laggards by September
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday her cabinet would decide by September how to handle areas where carbon-cutting efforts are lagging and threatening compliance with...
Tiananmen 30 years on: protesters’ goals further than ever
Three decades after China’s bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, increased government suppression of rights activism has pushed the demonstrators’...
China wants domestically made baby formula to supply 60% of market
China aims to increase local production of baby formula so that more than 60% of the market can be supplied domestically, according to a document...
Nipah virus resurfaces in India’s Kerala after killing 17 last year
The deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said on...
Ex-Michigan governor’s electronic devices seized in Flint water probe
Michigan authorities investigating contamination of the city of Flint’s water supply obtained a search warrant to seize former Governor Rick Snyder’s cell phone and hard...
Brazil halts beef exports to China after atypical mad cow case
Brazil has temporarily halted beef exports to China following an atypical case of mad cow disease in leading farm state Mato Grosso, the agriculture ministry...
Sudanese forces storm protest camp, more than 35 people killed: medics
Security forces stormed a protest camp in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Monday and opposition-linked medics said more than 35 people were killed in the...
‘Trump baby’ balloon to fly outside British parliament as big protests expected
A giant inflatable blimp depicting Donald Trump as a pouting baby in a diaper will fly outside the British parliament in London on Tuesday ahead...
Trump’s UK visit turns to Brexit and Huawei as protests planned in London
Donald Trump will plunge into Britain’s Brexit crisis on Tuesday and is likely to demand that Prime Minister Theresa May’s successor ban China’s Huawei from...