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OECD holds out hope U.S. may return to Paris climate pact

Alongside the state actions, the mayors of 68 cities across the nation who had previously joined the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda also pledged Thur...

General Election poll predicts shock defeat for Theresa May

British Prime Minister Theresa May's lead over the opposition Labour Party has nearly halved to eight points in the space of a week, an opinion poll from Pa...

Trump Says He Hasn't Ruled out Visiting Western Wall With Netanyahu

The Arab states have a crucial role to play, both in incentivizing the Israelis to make sacrifices for peace, and in supporting the Palestinians in concluding a...

Faster, higher, rustier: Medals from Rio Olympics damaged

Though last summer's Rio Olympics were not quite the disaster some predicted they would be, but there were plenty of problems, from athlete housing that lacks ...

Truck bomb kills 90 in attack near Kabul diplomatic quarter

Indiscriminate attacks against civilians are a serious violation of human rights and can never be justified, Guterres warned. "We don't yet have a complete pi...

Sri Lanka appeals for flood aid

Gen. Sudantha Ranasinghe, who leads the search and rescue mission, said rescue workers didn't expect to find more survivors. People waded knee-deep in floodwate...

Embattled Brazilian president orders troops to restore order

All government ministries in Brasilia were emptied amid huge protests on Wednesday, which apparently included setting on fire a pair of ministry buildings. "...

Investors bet Trump climate withdrawal to boost United States oil drilling

Anticipating a possible USA pullout, officials from China and the European Union - two of the world's major polluters - had prepared a declaration reaffirming t...

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off once more

He was referring to Clinton's assertions during her talk that false news about her was widely spread on Facebook, and that she was hamstrung because the Democra...

9 local guards dead, 11 Americans wounded in Kabul

ISIL has claimed responsibility for several recent bombings in the Afghan capital, including a powerful blast targeting an armored North Atlantic Treaty Organis...

Anthony Weiner Says His Sexual Deviancy Is A 'Sickness'

Weiner pleaded guilty to a charge of transferring obscene material to a minor. As part of a plea bargain arranged between the judge and his lawyer, Weiner wi...

Senate to hear from Comey; Dems raise new Sessions questions

The next day, former FBI Director James Comey , who was sacked by President Donald Trump last month, is scheduled to testify before the same committee. "I ...

Philippine military: City siege was start of extremist plan

A week-long assault by Islamist rebels in a southern Philippine city is being fueled with stolen weapons and ammunition and fighters broken out of jails, the mi...

Ariana Grande to perform another concert in Manchester

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in London Friday that the U.S. accepts responsibility for the leaks. Manchester police have stopped sharing inves...

Three suspects released in Manchester terror probe

Flowers and balloons laid at a memorial at Manchester's Victoria Station on a walkway which links the station to the adjacent Manchester Arena, which has reopen...

Paris climate deal: Trump's decision leaves him isolated

Scott said Friday that Vermont also is joining the U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold the Paris climate agreement , which was started by the Democratic go...

TPP trade deal moving forward without U.S.

New Zealand Trade Minister Todd McClay has spent much of this year on the road, selling the plan to keep the agreement alive to partners who anxious the absence...

Man arrested over Manchester attack released

Britain's top counterterrorism police officer, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, said in a statement Friday that police have made "significant arrests and fin...

Australian passenger tells plane hijacker: 'Mate, get back to your f****** seat'

However, Police's Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton is defending the delay saying, "There were some initial reports we have received from within the plane of the...

Triangle cities join revolt against USA withdrawal from climate pact

While non-binding under global law, it represented concerted effort on behalf of almost all the world's leaders to tackle climate change. Almost 4,000 mil...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin backs British World Cup bid

However, China is in the same Asian Football Confederation as Qatar, and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says the decision to deny Europe the 2026 tournam...

U.S. evangelical green groups pan Trump's climate accord exit

The United States joins Syria, Nicaragua & Russia in deciding not to participate with world's Paris Agreement . Comey is expected to say that Trump t...

Under Armour's Kevin Plank disagrees with Trump's withdrawal from Paris climate agreement

More plausible, more worthy of support from individual Americans, defensible under the rules of the World Trade Organization, and already talked about among fo...

Long-standing Trump lawyer set to aid president amid Russian Federation probe

The probes are also looking into whether Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow. Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein last week ...

Draft UN Resolution Would Add 15 North Koreans to Blacklist

Defense Secretary James Mattis said this morning. "We oppose countries militarizing artificial islands and enforcing excessive maritime claims unsupported by ...

Leonardo DiCaprio upset over Trump's withdrawal from Paris agreement

Almost 4,000 miles away, Parisian Raphael Angeli said Trump's decision puts him at odds with many of his fellow citizens and much of the world. "The agr...

Merkel vows 'more decisive action than ever' on climate

But, I am also hopeful. According to an article in the MIT Technology Review , Donald Trump and his team quoted figures from an earlier MIT study whi...

Macedonia's Zaev wins confidence vote to form new government

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has congratulated Zoran Zaev for his election as the Prime Minister of Macedonia , the government's press office said. Moghe...

Dakota Access Pipeline begins service

There may be an ebb in the oil flow, however, as the pipeline company faces scrutiny over how it cleared its construction path. This comes just a week after...

Extra patrols out in Bucks to catch drink and drug drivers

The operation will see officers from the force's Roads Policing Unit carrying out additional checks on roads across the county in a bid to reduce the number of ...