U.N. climate talks end with new doubts about global unity
Delegates from nearly 200 nations wrestled for more than 40 hours past their planned deadline, even as workers broke down parts of the conference hall.
Latest search for last two New Zealand volcano victims fails
The death toll from Monday’s eruption on White Island has risen to 15 with the death Saturday night of a severely burned victim, police said.
Customers wait at a CoCo bubble tea shop in Beijing. The brand has faced a boycott in Hong Kong and Taiwan. (Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images)
Taiwan’s tea party aims to burst Beijing’s one-China bubble
The island’s famous tapioca-ball drink has taken on political significance as consumers boycott chains seen as supporting Beijing’s agenda.
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The right-wing prime minister scored a thumping electoral win. But his critics say his mandate is thinner than it looks.
The hitch emerges just days after the United States, Mexico and Canada celebrated the accord.
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What pronouns do you use? There are, in fact, many non-binary ways to answer in historically gendered-languages.
The verdict was a step toward addressing alleged crimes during Bashir’s rule. But the two-year sentence is unlikely to appease opponents.
The Conservatives won big, Brexit seems unstoppable and Johnson promises Britain will get its mojo back.
Japanese artist uses the power of manga to bring the repression of the Uighurs in China to a wider audience.
The explicit linkage of the test to North Korea’s nuclear weapons marks another escalation in rhetoric.
Leaders gathered in Brussels embraced Johnson’s sweeping mandate to get Brexit done.
Protests against the measure continued in India’s northeast and spread across the country.
The country’s auto industry faces new restrictions. But at least there’s a trade deal.
Ex-prime minister Abdelmadjid Tebboune won with 40 percent voter turnout, but his links to the Bouteflika regime have marred his candidacy and political stability.
Labour had its worst showing since World War II.
Even the president gets involved as debate rages over a national hero.
The skin from cadavers temporarily covers the burns to allow patients to heal.
He is one of six men charged in the brutal rape of a 23-year-old woman in 2012. She died from her injuries two weeks after the assault.
A mob killed and hanged Haitham Ali Ismail from a traffic light after he attempted to disperse demonstrators camped out near his home.
A female tattoo artist in ultra-conservative Afghanistan is taking a big risk with every customer she takes on
Senior officials from Japan and South Korea are holding talks on high-tech exports for the first time since Tokyo tightened controls on South Korean semiconductor parts earlier this year
The U.S. special representative for North Korea says Washington won’t accept a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang to make concessions in stalled nuclear talks
New Zealanders have observed a minute’s silence at the moment that a volcano erupted a week earlier, killing 18 people
The longest ever U.N. climate summit has ended with major polluters resisting calls to ramp up efforts to keep global warming at bay and postponing the regulation of global carbon markets for next year
