Rules for the emerging deep-sea mining sector should take a "precautionary approach" that protects the environment, the head ...

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse.

The World Food Programme (WFP) will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid ...

He was born near the Arctic, led the central banks of two major economies and has become Canada's prime minister despite ...

Hamas said on Friday it was ready to free an Israeli-American hostage and the remains of four others, after the Palestinian ...

Jean-Pierre Maldera died after he was shot in his car in the middle of a busy highway near the French city of Grenoble, ...

US President Donald Trump's threat of 200-percent tariffs on wine, champagne and other alcoholic drinks from EU countries is ...

Judge Dabney Friedrich rejected the DOJ's view that the pardon broadly covers crimes discovered in Capitol riot investigations.

Minutes after former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte was bundled onto a plane bound for The Hague to face a charge of ...

The US government, already shaken by Donald Trump's radical reforms, could begin shutting down entirely this weekend as ...

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