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Trump Administration to Ease Obama-Era Methane Rules

Some oil and gas operators - especially smaller, independent companies - said the rules cost too to follow. Exxon Mobil and some other oil giants - wary of ...

Lankan asylum seeker family deported to remote island despite court block

The Department of Home Affairs would not comment on the "whereabouts" of the family, reported the ABC. "This is a family that was allowed to stay here for a p...

Gove’s claim fresh food unaffected in no-deal scenario ‘categorically untrue’

But Mr Connolly said Mr Gove's reassurance "bears no relations to what our members are telling us nor to what our suppliers further down the supply chain are te...

Brazil's Bolsonaro to stop using France's Bic pens amid spat

Almost 85,000 fires have been detected in Brazil this year, more than double the number last year, as populist leader Jair Bolsonaro put farming and mining at ...

Germany's far-right AfD party celebrates surge in east German vote

The states of Saxony and Brandenburg -once part of former Eastern Germany or DDR- have always been considered bastions of support for Merkel's Christian Democra...

Pope rescued by firefighters after getting stuck in Vatican lift

Peter's square during the weekly Angelus prayer on September 1, 2019 at the Vatican. They had waited patiently for him to appear at the study window that over...

Yemen's Separatists Vow Revenge for Government Assault on Aden

On Wednesday afternoon, they retook Aden's airport before pushing into the city, according to Mr Eryani and local media. Many predicted the city would soon fall...

Justice Ginsburg reports she’s on way to ‘well’ after cancer

The US Supreme Court announced on August 23 that physicians had discovered a malignancy on Ginsburg's pancreas and that she subsequently had three weeks of ra...

More than 100 believed killed in Yemen air strike

The coalition denied it had struck a lockup, saying it had targeted a military site. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said numerous wounded, over 60, and dead w...

Italian PM Conte handed mandate to form new government

He stressed that a new government would not be "against someone" - a clear reference to Mr. Salvini - but said the government needed to act quickly to name Ital...

Trump says U.S. not involved in Iran satellite explosion

Trump on Friday tweeted a highly-detailed aerial image that appeared to show the charred rocket launch pad and damaged vehicles at the Imam Khomeini Space Cen...

Pope gets stuck in Vatican elevator, firefighters rescue him

But he lost part of a lung in his youth, and the occasional grimace bears witness to the sciatic pain that is a near-constant companion. "We have caused a cli...

Woman sues after giving birth alone in Denver jail

Nearly five hours later, her water broke. Sanchez's lawyer, Mari Newman, called her client's experience "profoundly disturbing". At one point in the video, D...

96-year-old Second World War veteran ‘breaks Scuba diving record’

Woolley, who was joined by 47 other divers, said he's hopeful that he'll be in good health next year for another record bid. Zenobia, a ro-ro ship laden wit...

Hurricane Dorian menaces Bahamas en route to Florida

On Florida's east coast, where Dorian's winds are expected to quickly gather speed on Monday morning, residents snapped up bottled water, plywood and other supp...

UAE air raids raise tensions with Yemen government

The agency reported that women and children were among the dead. Earlier on Wednesday, government troops wrested back control of Zinjibar, the capital of neig...

3.7 million refugee children out of school

Last year, nearly four in every five refugees lived in protracted conflict, up sharply on the previous year, meaning that refugee children are very likely to go...

Jim Leavelle, lawman at Lee Harvey Oswald's side, dies at 99

President John F. Kennedy, reacting as Dallas night club owner Jack Ruby, foreground, shoots at him from point blank range in a corridor of Dallas Police Headq...

Thousands protest PM Johnson’s move to suspend parliament

A small group of counter-protesters, marching in support of the prime minister, also arrived in Westminster. "I'm afraid that the more our friends and partner...

Straight Pride Parade: Dueling protests break out in Boston today

Boston police beefed up security along that route in anticipation of any potential clashes with opposing groups of straight pride demonstrators and those who a...

Northern lights may be visible in B.C., thanks to geomagnetic storm

The organization's Space Weather Prediction Center says storm levels will be light to start, but heading into Sunday, the storm may be upgraded to moderate. L...

Arkansas Woman Drowns in Flood After 911 Dispatcher Scolds Her

The dispatcher , at times, reassured Stevens that she would be fine and sought to calm her down. In a statement , Fort Smith Police Department stated the ...

Dorian’s latest track still showing curve along Southeast coastline

Weather experts say Hurricane Dorian will hit somewhere between Florida and southern Georgia late on Sunday this weekend. Dorian is still a small storm bu...

Trump cancels trip, Florida extends state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian looms

Space Command. The aide, Krzysztof Szczerski, told private broadcaster TVN24 that the two presidents spoke on the phone and discussed Trump visiting in "the c...

Dozens shot in Texas, police say

The shooting comes four weeks after a gunman killed 22 people in El Paso, about 490 km west of Midland. The mail truck was last seen in Odessa, Texas, near 38th...

Alabama man goes free after resentencing for $50 robbery

Carla Crowder, his attorney and executive director of the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, argued "if her client had been sentenced today, he would...

One dead, six wounded in France after suspected knife attack

A suspect has been taken into custody, according to BFM TV. Police are believed to have arrested one man and are hunting another who managed to flee from the ...

PM arrives in Dili in time for 20th anniversary celebrations

The visit coincides with today's 20th anniversary of the referendum that led to Timor's independence - and big celebrations are planned. The construction of t...

US Doesn't Have a 'Tariff Problem', It Has 'a Fed Problem'

Beginning Sunday, the US government will begin collecting 15% tariffs on $112 billion in Chinese imports - items ranging from smartwatches and TVs to shoes, dia...

Alabama man served 36 years in jail for stealing $50

He hopes to return to his old job as a carpenter. Kenard had been 22-year-old when he entered prison after being convicted of first-degree robbery in 1983. Hi...