STOCKHOLM (AP):The world is nowhere near on track to achieve the ambitious temperature goals adopted in the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change, the United Nations (UN) said yesterday...
ISTANBUL (AP):Turkey's president harshly criticised Germany yesterday, accusing the country of supporting terrorism and slamming comments by the German justice minister suggesting Berlin may not...
WASHINGTON (AP): United States President Barack Obama is getting down into the nitty-gritty as he campaigns in Florida for Hillary Clinton. Obama is urging Clinton supporters at a get-out-the-vote rally in Miami to take advantage of the opportunity...
Obama seeks pipeline fix to appease Native AmericansBISMARCK, North Dakota (AP):President Barack Obama has said the US Army Corps of Engineers is examining whether the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline can be rerouted in southern North Dakota to...
Hacked email showscoordination between Clinton camp and State DepartmentA newly released hacked email from the Clinton campaign shows that a State Department aide appeared to coordinate with campaign advisers hours before Hillary Clinton's use of...
Despite PM's plea, liberal Jews protest at holy siteJERUSALEM (AP):Leaders of US and Israeli liberal Jewish movements rallied for equal prayer rights at a Jerusalem holy site yesterday, marching past ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters who clashed with...
ISLAMABAD (AP):Pakistan yesterday withdrew six diplomats from its embassy in New Delhi, officials said, amid rising tension between the two countries over the disputed region of Kashmir.In another mark of the increasing animosity and suspicion...
WASHINGTON (AP):The republican nominee for the presidency of the Unites States, Donald Trump has said that if he becomes president, he would immediately convene a special session of Congress to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, known...
ASHLAND, NH (AP):A week before election day, a New Hampshire farm stand owner has decided to tally customers' votes for president from an outhouse-turned-fake-voting booth. The winner: Hillary Clinton.Chris...
UNITED NATIONS (AP):An independent investigation of attacks in South Sudan in July on a UN compound housing 27,000 displaced people is sharply critical of the UN peacekeeping mission's leadership...
GOGJALI, Iraq (AP):Iraq's special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul yetserday, taking the state television building and advancing despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who...
BEIJING (AP):A gas explosion ripped through a coal mine in western China yesterday, leaving 33 miners trapped, a local government official said. Two other miners were rescued, he said.The condition of...
BEIRUT (AP):Lebanon's parliament yesterday elected Michel Aoun, an 81-year-old former army commander and strong ally of the militant group Hezbollah, as the country's president, ending a more than two-...
SAN SALVADOR (AP):Former Salvadoran President Tony Saca was arrested Saturday for alleged illicit enrichment, unlawful association and money laundering, prosecutors said.Saca, a former radio sports announcer, held office...
NORCIA (AP):Italy's premier pledged yesterday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation's strongest temblor...
WASHINGTON (AP):The FBI will have to comb through thousands of newly discovered emails for classified material in its renewed examination of the email practises of Hillary Clinton and her aides, a US official said yesterday. Whether that review...
BEIRUT (AP):Syrian insurgents on Sunday kept up their shelling of government-controlled areas of Aleppo, killing at least seven people, including three children, state TV reported, and pushing their way...
DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (AP):Hillary Clinton is lashing out at the FBI's handling of a new email review, leading a chorus of Democratic leaders who declared the bureau's actions just days...
ROME (AP):A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 has rocked the same area of central and southern Italy hit by quake in August and a pair of aftershocks last week, sending...
CANBERRA (AP):Australia on Sunday announced plans to ratchet up its tough policy against refugees by banning any asylum seeker who attempts to reach its shores by boat from ever visiting the country.A previous government introduced a policy on July...
WILTON MANORS, Fla. (AP) -- Hillary Clinton vowed Sunday that she would not be "knocked off course" in the election's final days, as she sought to push past a new FBI email enquiry in a sexting probe that delivered a late jolt to her...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department discouraged the FBI from alerting Congress to the unexpected discovery of emails potentially related to its investigation of Hillary Clinton's private email server, given the proximity to the...
NORCIA, Italy (AP) -- Another powerful earthquake shook Central Italy on Sunday, sending panicked residents running into piazzas, raining boulders onto highways and toppling a Benedictine cathedral and other historic edifices that had withstood...
MOSCOW (AP):President Vladimir Putin yesterday dismissed claims that Russia is interfering in the United States presidential election, saying the allegations are designed to distract the public from...
CARACAS (AP):Anti-government protesters filled the streets of Venezuela's capital and other major cities in a show of force against Presidential Nicolas Maduro, whose allies enraged the opposition by blocking...
