New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that all military-style semi-automatic weapons, assault rifles and high-capacity magazines will be banned in ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern returned to Christchurch for the second time since a gunman killed 50 people in an attack on two mosques last ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern on Thursday announced the country was immediately banning "military-style semi-automatic weapons" after last ...
New Zealand's prime minister is emerging as the progressive antithesis to right-wing strongmen like Trump, Orban and Modi, whose careers thrive on illiberal, ...
In response to what has been described as New Zealand's biggest "terrorist" attack, in which 50 people were shot and killed in two mosques in the city of ...
The European Council President said a delay of three months is possible. But U.K. lawmakers would have to approve terms of separation that May has already ...
Brexit just got serious. If parliament can somehow take control, EU leaders must take pity and offer a long delay, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash.
The day before a brand new Lion Air jet crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Indonesia's capital city last fall, an off-duty pilot reportedly helped save ...
An off-duty pilot in the cockpit of a Boeing 737 Max 8 jet jumped in to help crew disable a malfunctioning flight-control system as it experienced difficulties in ...
As more information comes out about two Boeing crashes, it's clear that a big system malfunction was at work. Not the famed “MCAS” system, designed to help a ...
JAKARTA, Indonesia — As the seconds ticked by on the doomed Indonesian flight, the pilot handed the controls to his co-pilot and flipped through the pages of a ...
Iran will expand its ties with nations equally tired of "bullying" by the United States, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday, as Iranians ...
Four men were arrested in South Korea for allegedly installing illegal cameras in hotel rooms, then profiting from streaming the feeds to strangers online, police ...
Seoul (CNN) About 1,600 people have been secretly filmed in hotel rooms in South Korea, with the footage live-streamed online for paying customers to watch, ...
A pair of creeps were arrested Wednesday in a "spy camera" scheme that recorded 1600 hotel guests across South Korea -- and live-streamed the footage to ...
Two South Korean men have been arrested after allegedly installing spy cameras in dozens of hotel rooms, secretly recording more than 1,600 guests and ...
Mozambique's port city of Beira is reeling from the damage inflicted by Cyclone Idai. So far 200 people have been confirmed dead in the southern African ...
Southern Africa was scrambling on Wednesday to respond to a humanitarian disaster in the wake of Cyclone Idai, as the death toll rose and infrastructure ...
Rescue workers say they are scrambling to save around 10000 survivors of Tropical Cyclone Idai who are clinging onto rooftops in Mozambique, amid the threat ...
Christchurch, New Zealand — The first two people to be buried after last week's mosque attacks that killed 50 people are a father and his son who fled the for ...
The World Happiness Report, released today, ranked 156 countries by happiness levels, based on factors such as life expectancy, social support and corruption ...
On Wednesday — the International Day of Happiness, according to the United Nations — the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network released its ...
Zaid Mustafa should have been at school on Wednesday. Instead, he was being pushed in a wheelchair to the graves of his father and brother, surrounded by ...
(Reuters) - New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Wednesday Foreign Minister Winston Peters will travel to Turkey to “confront” comments made ...
CARACAS (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc plans to sell several tons of gold placed as collateral by Venezuela's central bank on a $1.6 billion loan after the deadline for ...
Citigroup Inc. has settled a Venezuela gold swap transaction and plans to sell the metal it received as collateral while also depositing about $260 million into a ...
CARACAS, Venezuela – The United Nation's high commissioner for human rights says recent U.S. sanctions that are aimed to topple Venezuelan President ...
Venezuela's socialist regime used the nation's state-run oil industry as a protection racket in a yearslong, systematic scheme to buy political loyalty across the ...
A Senegalese native angry about Italy's migrant policy hijacked a bus with 51 children and their chaperones aboard Wednesday and took them on an hour-long ...
MILAN (AP) — A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their school chaperones Wednesday, threatening the hostages' lives for 40 minutes and ...
A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their chaperones Wednesday, threatening them over a 40-minute ordeal before setting the vehicle on fire ...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said ISIS will be “gone by tonight” and held up a pair of maps to reporters that he claimed shows the dramatic reduction ...
President Trump on Wednesday brandished a striking map showing how the Islamic State's presence in Syria has diminished since he took office, while vowing ...
US President Donald Trump has used a visual aid to highlight how much territory he says the Islamic State group has lost in the Middle East since his election ...
WASHINGTON — President Trump said on Wednesday that the last territory in Syria held by the Islamic State would be “gone by tonight,” despite reports of ...
President Trump on Wednesday used visual aids to argue that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) would lose its remaining territory in Syria "by tonight."
It was gorgeous first day of spring on Long Island Wednesday, but the nice weather isn't sticking around. There's a coastal storm on the way Thursday that will ...
Not much to say about the forecast today, other than it looks amazing! The first day of Spring will be met with blue skies, light winds, and warm afternoon t...
Spring is officially here. To usher in the new season, Mother Nature is bringing a coastal storm Thursday that could cause coastal flooding issues, forecasters ...
This afternoon is the big moment: spring officially beings at 5:58 p.m., which is the moment that the sun passes directly over the equator on its march from over ...
Watching twin populists Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday was to see how nationalism today is, at its ugly root, ethnic and racial nationalism, ...
Jair Bolsonaro's visit to the US was much-heralded, certainly here in Brazil. The fact that it's the Brazilian president's first foreign trip is a sign of just how ...
Global approval of U.S. leadership has been tanking under President Trump, according to Gallup surveys. Don't worry, however: Trump appears *content* with his ...
The strong bond between President Donald Trump and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro can be credited for the values they share, Washington Free Beacon ...
The remains of a World War II pilot shot down in Germany have arrived back in his home state of Utah, where they are expected to be buried. Army Air Forces ...
When historians look back on the Trump years, they will wonder why the president cozied up to some of the most authoritarian and brutal leaders in the world.
Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro won glowing praise and conditional promises from U.S. President Donald Trump on his visit to the White House this ...
'We use the word "collusion" very loosely all the time,' Trump said during a joint press conference with Brazilian leader Jair Bolsonaro, 'and I will tell you there is ...
President Trump hosted Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president dubbed the “Trump of the Tropics,” at the White House on Tuesday, and most of Washington ...
BRASILIA (Reuters) - The government of Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro has seen its popularity plummet since he took office in January, with just a ...
Beto O'Rourke is taking aim at embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, claiming the steadfast ally of Republican President Donald Trump “has ...
Jared Kushner, a White House adviser and President Trump's son-in-law, drafted a proposal in his Middle East peace plan that would require Jordan to ...
Israel's army says troops have killed a Palestinian suspected of carrying out a weekend stabbing and shooting attack that left two Israelis dead near a West Bank ...
Charles Kushner, the founder of Kushner Cos. and father of White House senior adviser Jared Kushner · Jared Corey KushnerIvanka Trump, Jared Kushner ...
Over the past two years, the news media have told a story about my family and our business with little regard for nuance, logic or even facts. A familiar story line ...
Aid agencies are scrambling to reach survivors of Cyclone Idai in Mozambique as the full scale of the disaster becomes clear. Charities say thousands of people ...
Nearly a week after southern Africa was hit by one the worst natural disasters in decades, it was all rescue workers could do to try to reach the victims.
Cyclone Idai battered Zimbabwe leaving thousands of people isolated. More than 200 residents are missing. While the search continues for them, family ...
Entire villages have been washed away. Infrastructures have collapsed. Schools have been destroyed and people are sheltering on rooftops and trees, waiting ...
An Indian diamond tycoon well known amongst Bollywood stars has been arrested in London over his alleged involvement in a $2 billion banking fraud scandal.
Nirav Modi, India's onetime jeweler to the stars, was arrested in London and faces extradition to face allegations that he defrauded Indian bank lenders of nearly ...
When Nirav Modi opened his first jewellery boutique on New York's Madison Avenue in 2015, the launch night was attended by the likes of actress Naomi Watts, ...
Fugitive billionaire jeweler Nirav Modi, wanted by Indian authorities over a $2 billion loan fraud at state-run Punjab National Bank (PNB) was remanded in ...
In contrast to the traditionally somber nature of many Jewish holidays, Purim is a time to let loose and the custom of donning outrageous costumes has left some ...
PURIM is a Jewish holiday, which may appear sad or solemn at first glance but is actually a celebration of courage and salvation. But when is Purim, what time ...
Judges in The Hague upheld the Bosnian Serb leader's conviction in connection with the 1995 Srebrenica massacre that claimed the lives of 8000 Muslim men ...
PARIS — A United Nations court on Wednesday increased the sentence of Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serb leader, from 40 years to life in prison for ...
A U.N. court's decision Wednesday to uphold the genocide and war crimes convictions of ex-Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic and sentence him to life ...
In 1993, when I arrived in America as 16-year-old Bosnian Muslim refugee, I quickly realized that most Americans had little understanding of what kind of ...
Radovan Karadžić has been sentenced to life in prison at an appeal court in The Hague for his role in mass killings of civilians in the conflict that tore Bosnia ...
The operation to take Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria looked close to an end on Wednesday, with no sign of clashes as U.S.-backed fighters said ...
U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by Islamic State in eastern Syria, after hundreds of militants surrendered overnight, ...
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) conducted clearing operations on Wednesday after taking most of the last Islamic State pocket in east Syria, an official with ...
U.S. Rep. Max Rose, a Jewish New York Democrat in his first term in Congress, apologized to visibly frustrated constituents at a town hall in Staten Island on ...
The liberal group MoveOn is calling on Democratic presidential candidates to skip this year's AIPAC policy conference, citing its links to the right-wing ...
The executive director of the Jewish Democratic Council of America, Halie Soifer, told Hill.TV's "What America's Thinking" on Wednesday that recent remarks ...
New Zealand's prime minister on Tuesday called for social media companies to take responsibility for what is published on them — after the slaughter of 50 ...
Late Saturday night, Facebook shared some dizzying statistics that begin to illustrate the scale of the online impact of the New Zealand massacre as the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu alleged on Wednesday that Iran could blackmail his main election rival, Benny Gantz, after hacking the former armed ...
President Trump just did Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu a huge favor. In turn, Trump should now tell Netanyahu that if he now refuses to support an upcoming U.S. ...
He's the only leader Kazakhstan has ever known since its independence, and its first President. Now 78-year-old Nursultan Nazarbayev has stepped down in a ...
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan's president since 1989, unexpectedly resigned Tuesday — the last Soviet-era president of a former Soviet republic to ...
A day after Kazakhstan's authoritarian leader Nursultan Nazarbayev resigned after 30 years in power, the country's parliament voted to rename the capital, ...
Kazakhstan's president has abruptly announced his resignation after 29 years on the job. Nursultan Nazarbayev has led the Central Asian country since its ind...
Two American members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were detained in Russia for nearly three weeks have been released and are on ...
Kole Brodowski, 20, and David Gagg, 19, have returned to the U.S. after they were detained in Russia for alleged visa term violations. The pair are missionaries ...
Two Mormon Church volunteers were deported from Russia and flew back to the United States after spending almost three weeks in jail on unclear charges, ...
Washington • Two missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been detained for nearly three weeks in Russia have been released ...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Saturday morning that "our gun laws will change" following the mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques ...
Fifty people have been killed and another 50 wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the deadliest attack in the country's history.
A SICKENING attack on two mosques has left 50 dead and another 50 injured in Christchurch, New Zealand. Police have so far charged one man, Brenton ...
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested another person on suspicion of involvement in a tram shooting which left three people dead and others injured.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte left a bouquet of flowers at a makeshift memorial on Tuesday in Utrecht to the victims of Monday's deadly tram shooting. Auth...
Dutch police said Tuesday that they have arrested another man on suspicion of involvement in the deadly tram shooting in Utrecht that left three people dead ...
UTRECHT, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch police say they have arrested another man on suspicion of involvement in the deadly tram shooting in Utrecht. Police said ...
Dutch voters are casting ballots in regional elections that are seen as passing a midterm judgment on the ruling national coalition of Prime Minister Mark Rutte ...
President Donald Trump has been pushing to wind down military operations in Syria and Afghanistan. Congress has belatedly been scrutinizing the American ...
US air strikes have been killing civilians in Somalia, in a possible violation of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International says. The rights group said it ...
The Pentagon has denied the findings of a new Amnesty International report that alleges that the U.S. military air campaign in Somalia has killed numerous ...
The US government could be guilty of war crimes in Somalia after evidence of civilian casualties was uncovered in an investigation led by Amnesty International.
Amnesty International accused the US military on Tuesday of causing civilian casualties in a series of airstrikes in Somalia in 2017 and 2018, claims the US ...
London's mysterious "Jack the Ripper" serial killer, who was active over 100 years ago, might finally be identified through mitochondrial DNA left behind at the ...
Forensic analysis by scientists in the U.K. may have unmasked Jack the Ripper more than a century after the murderer's brutal killing spree sent shockwaves ...
The Sackler family's $1.3 million donation to the U.K.'s National Portrait Gallery will not go ahead as planned, as both sides say they're concerned that ...
A £1m donation to the National Portrait Gallery has been withdrawn because the potential donors are alleged to have fuelled the US opioid crisis. The Sackler ...
London's National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday it will not proceed with a $1.3 million grant from the Sackler family, whose company Purdue Pharma ...
The National Portrait Gallery in London and the Sackler family, owners of the pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma LP, have said in a statement that the ...
LONDON — Britain's National Portrait Gallery says it won't move ahead with a 1 million pound ($1.3 million) donation from the charitable arm of a family ...
For millions of people across the globe, Nowruz is no small celebration. Think Christmas, New Year's and Fourth of July combined -- and add to that fire ...
As spring arrives in the Northern Hemisphere, so does Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Observed by millions of people across the globe, the Iranian celebration ...
It has almost been one year since the start of the Gaza-Israel border uprisings that left 189 Palestinians dead in a monthslong rash of violent demonstrations ...
NEW DELHI — A special court in India Wednesday acquitted four Hindu activists, including a monk, accused of carrying out deadly blasts in 2007 on the ...
An Indian court has acquitted four Hindus charged with triggering explosions on a train heading to India's border with Pakistan 12 years ago, killing 68 people, ...
An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted four Hindu men accused of bombing a train between India and Pakistan in 2007 that killed 68 people, mostly Pakistanis ...
Washington (CNN) Robert Mueller's prosecutors dropped yet another head-scratching signal in their latest court filing Tuesday that the special counsel ...
Special counsel Robert Mueller's office asked a court for an 11-day extension on a filing deadline Tuesday — claiming that, for the time being, key attorneys on ...
Prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller's team on Tuesday asked a judge to extend a deadline for them to respond in court to a request brought by The ...
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team says it won't be able to meet a court deadline this week in part because of the “press of other work.”.
We are about to learn something important about this country. Donald Trump is running for re-election as a flat-out racist and bigot, and we are going to discover ...
ISIS is on the run. It has lost its territory, and until this week, its spokesman, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, had been silent for months. But on Monday, the group ...
It's becoming a pattern with President Donald Trump: downplaying the seriousness of violence associated with white nationalism. A reporter asked Trump if he ...
During Chinese president Xi Jinping's visit to Italy starting tomorrow (March 21), the euro zone's third-largest economy is expected to officially back the Belt and ...
Misunderstandings over China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) are "hard to avoid", a senior Chinese diplomat said on Wednesday ahead of a trip to Europe by ...
China is ready to strengthen "a global strategic partnership" with Italy, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote in an Italian daily on the eve of his visit to the euro ...
Italy will lay out the red carpet on Thursday for Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, as it signs up to China's multi-billion pound Belt and Road Initiative, ...
President Donald Trump got something right. His administration's recent rule barring the use of federal funds to buy products made by the Chinese telecom firm ...
A French cardinal convicted of not reporting sex abuse allegations against a priest in his Lyon diocese will remain at his post but will take time away, the Vatican ...
Subscribe to France 24 now: http://f24.my/youtubeEN FRANCE 24 live news stream: all the latest news 24/7 http://f24.my/YTliveEN A look at the Pope's decision.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of...
