Whakatane, New Zealand (CNN) Geoff Hopkins says he will never forget the cries as the survivors of the White Island volcano eruption were pulled aboard the ...
New Zealand has ordered 1290 square feet of skin from the U.S. to treat the dozens of victims suffering severe burns after Monday's volcanic eruption on White ...
Greta Thunberg, the activist who has quickly become a leading voice on climate change, is Time's Person of the Year for 2019. At 16, she is the youngest person ...
It speaks volumes of the store our society sets by a woman's consent that, despite repeatedly saying she does not want awards over her climate activism, we ...
MADRID (Reuters) - Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg accused political and business leaders of looking for loopholes to polish their image in the fight ...
Washington (CNN) The Justice Department inspector general continues to investigate potential leaks by FBI officials in New York to President Donald Trump's ...
There are many things to be said about the 476-page FISA abuse report filed by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz – too many to say in a ...
As British voters prepare to head to the polls for a defining general election - the third in four years - they face a difficult choice, involving two unpopular leaders.
Voters in the United Kingdom head to the polls Thursday for a crucial election that could determine the country's future, and how and when it will break off from ...
The bond market has lagged the recent optimism for a Conservative majority seen in the sharp move higher in the pound. Still, if Prime Minister Boris Johnson ...
The biggest story in politics this week is not which articles President Donald Trump could face in a Senate impeachment trial or the fate of the updated NAFTA ...
As the post-Cold War foreign policy consensus around liberal multilateralism frays in the UK, the differences between the Conservatives and Labour are clearer ...
India's Parliament has approved a controversial citizenship bill that grants citizenship to minorities facing persecution from three neighbouring countries - but ...
India's parliament has approved a bill that grants citizenship to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The bill passed the ...
India's ruling Hindu nationalist government has won parliamentary approval for a controversial law that would make it easier for refugees of certain faiths from ...
THE HAGUE — In an extraordinary appearance at the International Court of Justice on Wednesday, Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's civilian leader, categorically ...
Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto prime minister of Myanmar who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her human-rights fight, addressed the International Court of ...
Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her government from accusations of genocide against the Rohingya community at the United Nation's top ...
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi has defended her country against allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ). The Nobel Peace ...
The plan calls for a shift from 42 distinct pension plans into one universal scheme. The new system will be based on the principle of giving each pensioner the ...
A week into a crippling nationwide strike, French President Emmanuel Macron's government unveiled details of its plan to overhaul the pension system, ...
At least three patients died on Wednesday after hundreds of lawyers besieged a cardiac hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, for hours — attacking doctors, guards and ...
Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers, angered over alleged misbehavior by some doctors toward one of their colleagues last month, have stormed a cardiology ...
More than 100 lawyers stormed and ransacked a hospital in Pakistan on Wednesday to avenge what they said was an assault by doctors there on a fellow ...
Hundreds of Pakistani lawyers, angered over alleged misbehavior by some doctors toward one of their colleagues last month, have stormed a cardiology ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday insisted that President Trump and a Russian diplomat discussed election interference at a recent White House ...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov clashed during a news conference at the State Department before a White House ...
Sergei Lavrov dismissed concerns about election interference and waged a bizarre personal attack on an American prisoner being held in Moscow after ...
Rep. Adam Schiff claimed President Trump's closed-door White House meeting with Russia's Foreign Minister on Tuesday is further evidence he has been ...
A powerful suicide bombing targeted an under-construction medical facility on Wednesday near Bagram Air Base, the main American base north of the Afghan ...
Washington (CNN) Donald Trump is looking to survive impeachment the same way he built his powerful presidency -- by assaulting facts and seeking to expand ...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was essentially forced into impeachment. Now, after a little less than two months of investigation, she hopes to bring the process to ...
President Trump and his defenders claim the decision by House Democratic leaders Tuesday to propose two articles of impeachment against him is all about ...
Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday decried what he called “failure” by the entire “chain of command” involved in the FBI's ...
Senators and the inspector general painted a withering portrait of the F.B.I., with Republicans accusing agents of exploiting rules and joining Democrats in ...
Former Whitewater Independent Counsel Robert Ray said the most stunning revelation from the Justice Department Inspector General's review of origins of the ...
To the editor: With still another lie discredited, the Justice Department inspector general's report that found no partisan bias in the FBI's Russia investigation ...
When the New York Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Trump was about to issue an executive order designed to crack down on anti-Semitic hate speech ...
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to interpret Judaism as a nationality and not just a religion, a move that the Trump ...
Being offline, even for an afternoon, is a trip in today's nonstop political maelstrom. My exposure to the news that Democratic House leadership had struck a deal ...
Nancy Pelosi sat Mexico's top trade negotiator and foreign minister down in her office and gave the two men an ultimatum. It was late September, and Democrats ...
Here's one thing you can say for President Trump's biggest trade pact so far: The new version of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement is better than the one ...
House Democrats made it official this week — they will vote on two impeachment articles. But as history-making events go, the announcement was extra weird.
MIAMI — The Pentagon has suspended operational training for all Saudi military students in the United States, indefinitely halting flight instruction, firing range ...
The Pentagon on Tuesday suspended more than 850 Saudi students from flight training in response to the deadly shooting by a Saudi student last Friday at ...
The US has grounded hundreds of Saudi military aviation students at bases across the country in the wake of Friday's deadly shooting in Florida. All flying will be ...
The 41-member judiciary panel is holding a crucial hearing at which counsel for Democrats and Republicans will present evidence about the president's ...
House Judiciary Committee chief Jerry Nadler so wants to make the rush to impeach President Trump look respectable — but his hearings keep doing the ...
Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz told Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) that he was not aware of any evidence that former President ...
The Justice Department watchdog rejected former FBI Director James Comey's assertion that his report on the bureau's conduct during the Trump-Russia ...
Retired four-star Navy Admiral James Stavridis warned that President Donald Trump's administration is transforming the country into Lord of the Flies and ...
If you remain a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, or if you turn only to the likes of Fox News or Rush Limbaugh for information, stop reading.
The intelligence briefing the FBI gave to Donald Trump's team during the 2016 campaign was a “pretext” to gather evidence on the candidate and his foreign ...
A 9-year-old Belgian prodigy has dropped out of college after school officials refused to let him graduate before the age of 10 — which his family claims he was ...
Laurent Simons gained widespread media attention last month as he was on track to complete an electrical engineering degree at Eindhoven University of ...
Australia's plan to use an accounting loophole to meet its commitment under the Paris climate agreement has no legal basis and suggests it has reneged on a ...
Thousands of scientists around the world joined together last month to label climate change the “emergency” that it is. But one of the main points they make ...
Climate change is the test of our generation. To pass this test, the U.S. must find a path forward that is both economically effective and politically durable.
THE HAGUE — A day after Daw Aung San Suu Kyi listened at the world's highest court in The Hague to testimony of the horrors inflicted upon the Rohingya ...
Sanctions were levied today by the U.S. against human rights abusers in six countries in a move corresponding with the United Nations celebration of ...
On Monday, The Washington Post published an extensive analysis based on documents containing interviews with more than 400 people involved in the U.S. ...
What emerges from a tranche of documents, obtained by The Washington Post, outlining the abject failure of the war in Afghanistan and the decades of lies told ...
BRUSSELS — The European Commission introduced on Wednesday its centerpiece climate strategy that, if approved, would pivot the world's third-biggest ...
New European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen revealed on Wednesday the upcoming plan for making the bloc the first climate-neutral continent ...
Our goal is to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. This new growth strategy allows every European to help, says Ursula von der Leyen, president ...
Temperatures in the Arctic region remained near record highs this year, according to a report issued on Tuesday, leading to low summer sea ice, cascading ...
The Arctic is increasingly at risk as temperatures warm and sea ice melts away, NOAA warns in its annual report card on the state of this crucial ecosystem.
"Unprecedented" warming and "exceptionally low levels" of sea ice are bringing rapid, dramatic and disruptive changes to the Arctic, according to a new report ...
Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov used the White House as a stage to deny that his country meddled in the 2016 election, and suggest Ukraine's supposed ...
PARIS — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took a firm line against Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday at a much-anticipated peace meeting ...
Empire is the necessary and inevitable corollary of Putin's autocracy. But Ukraine's resistance and Belarus' demonstrations tell a different story and force us to ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. will impose a *fresh* round of sanctions on Iran's largest shipping company and biggest airline, the nation's top diplomat announced ...
The US announced a *fresh* round of sanctions against Iran on Wednesday, targeting an Iranian shipping network they say is smuggling "lethal aid" to Yemen, ...
The U.S. on Wednesday blacklisted a series of companies it accused of helping Iran transport weaponry to regional militia groups, including missile parts to ...
The people of Bougainville, an island group in Papua New Guinea, have voted overwhelmingly for independence. Voters had two options - more autonomy, ...
SYDNEY, Australia — The region of Bougainville, a collection of islands in the South Pacific, has voted overwhelmingly to become independent from Papua ...
The South Pacific region of Bougainville has voted overwhelmingly for independence in a historic poll which will trigger separation negotiations with Papua New ...
Rudy Giuliani said he will transmit a "report" based on his recent visit to Ukraine to Attorney General William Barr and Republicans in Congress by the end of this ...
Attorney General Bill Barr has advised President Donald Trump to cut personal attorney Rudy Giuliani loose amid the impeachment inquiry which Giuliani's ...
This week has been pretty big for news, and it is only Tuesday. On Monday, my colleagues at The Washington Post reported one heck of a story about the ...
Director General of the World Trade Organisation Roberto Azevedo says it will take "a few months" to fix its main body for settling trade disputes. It has ground to ...
Germany aims to find a permanent solution for the composition of the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Appellate Body by June, a spokeswoman for Berlin's ...
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen said on Tuesday that she was not “using” the anti-government protests in Hong Kong for electoral purposes, ...
Taiwan's top diplomat says his government stands with Hong Kong citizens pushing for “freedom and democracy,” and would help those displaced from the ...
A cloudless mid-September afternoon in Hong Kong. At City Hall, two flags—one of the People's Republic of China, the other of Hong Kong—flap halfheartedly ...
For the first time since January, orders for Boeing's troubled 737 Max airplanes incrementally rose last month — with two firm orders for 30 Max jets in November, ...
Nobody knows for sure when Boeing will be able to secure approval to return the 737 Max to the skies. What's certain is no passengers will fly in a 737 Max for ...
The Boeing factory that produced the 737 Max jetliner has such deep safety and quality concerns that it should have been shut down until they were rectified, ...
The Federal Aviation Administration is moving to create a new safety branch to address “gaps” in its oversight following recent deadly crashes and a ...
Ryanair may not receive any 737 MAX aircraft from Boeing in time for its summer season due to European delays in testing the grounded jets, Chief Executive ...
As U.S.-North Korea relations turn increasingly tense amid rising rhetoric, analysts warn that it could signal an end to diplomacy between the two countries.
Former Trump national security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday appeared to criticize the administration's refusal to support a United Nations (UN) meeting on ...
The administration's scuttling of a U.N. meeting on North Korea's human rights violations was widely viewed as an effort to placate Pyongyang, which has ...
The latest phase in the North Korean nuclear crisis is a race against time inside North Korea itself. Which will come first: nuclear breakout or economic ...
The United States is holding back a UN Security Council meeting to discuss North Korea's human rights abuses, after Pyongyang warned it would be a “serious ...
HONG KONG — A group of foreign experts hired to give more credibility to Hong Kong's police watchdog while it investigated accusations of brutality has quit ...
Seoul, South Korea (CNN) A senior North Korean official has called US President Donald Trump a "heedless and erratic old man," the latest insult in an ...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a new mountain spa and ski resort that's intended for people to enjoy “high civilization under ...
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finland's new prime minister said on Wednesday the center-left coalition government had given its “silent blessing” to the Foreign Minister ...
At 34 years old, she's the world's youngest serving Prime Minister. Meet Finland's Sanna Marin @MarinSanna. More @business: https://bloom.bg/35b5Ftp ...
Finns have elected the world's youngest prime minister, 34-year-old Sanna Marin. But she enters a culture war that runs deep, says YLE correspondent ...
London (CNN Business) At least 250 journalists were in jail in relation to their work as of December 1, nonprofit group the Committee to Protect Journalists said ...
