Hundreds of men, women and children trudged out of the Islamic State group’s last sliver of territory Thursday as US-backed Syrian fighters once again slowed their advance to crush the “caliphate”. All that remains of a once sprawling proto-state the jihadists declared in 2014 is a battered riverside […]
From a quiet farmland at the base of rolling hills outside Ethiopia’s capital, the sound of wailing rang through the air. Devastated mourners flung themselves onto a ground littered with business cards, seat covers and shards of aluminium. They cried the names of loved ones who had been […]
Facebook blamed a “server configuration change” Thursday for a massive outage affecting its applications around the world and brought fresh attention to the embattled social networking leader. The outage affected users for at least 12 hours in most areas of the world, with the biggest impact in North […]
President Donald Trump said Thursday that trade war negotiations with China should wrap up within four weeks and expressed optimism about striking a deal, as top negotiators held new phone talks. “We are doing very well with China talks,” he told reporters. “We are getting what we have […]
Brazil’s far right President Jair Bolsonaro will meet US counterpart Donald Trump next week to strengthen ties in the nascent regional conservative alliance aiming to ramp up the pressure on Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. After decades of fractious relations between Brasilia and Washington, things have improved with the assumption […]
A Russian cosmonaut and two US astronauts arrived Friday at the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, five months after the failed launch of a rocket carrying two of the passengers. NASA astronaut Nick Hague and his Russian colleague Alexey Ovchinin, who both survived a dramatically […]
Thousands of young people marched through cities in Asia Friday, kicking off a global day of student protests that aims to spark world leaders into action on climate change. Classrooms in capitals from Lagos to London are expected to be empty, as the ambitious organisers of the global […]
British MPs have voted to ask the European Union to delay Brexit, with just two weeks to go until the UK is scheduled to leave the bloc. The UK is barrelling towards the March 29 Brexit deadline with no approved EU withdrawal agreement and a prime minister who […]
China’s rubber-stamp parliament approved Friday a foreign investment law that may serve as an olive branch in trade talks with the United States, but it received a lukewarm welcome from business groups. The legislation aims to address long-running grievances from foreign firms including stronger protections for intellectual property, […]
Brazil’s far right President Jair Bolsonaro will meet US counterpart Donald Trump next week to strengthen ties in the nascent regional conservative alliance aiming to ramp up the pressure on Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro. After decades of fractious relations between Brasilia and Washington, things have improved with the assumption […]
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