Category: World News

UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is inflicting on poor countries, but they finished marathon climate talks on Sunday without further addressing the root cause of those disasters — the burning […]

Google sets rules for HQ guest speakers after row over Indian historian -emails

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov 18 – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google this week introduced rules for inviting guest speakers to its offices, days after it canceled a talk by an Indian historian who has disparaged marginalized groups and their concerns, according to company emails seen by Reuters. The policy released Thursday is […]

‘We survived’: Kherson comes alive after Russian withdrawal

KHERSON, Ukraine — A week since the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson was liberated, residents can’t escape reminders of the terrifying eight months they spent under Russian occupation. People are missing. There are mines everywhere, closed shops and restaurants, a scarcity of electricity and water, and explosions day and […]

North Korea unveils Kim’s daughter at missile launch site

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has unveiled the little-known daughter of its leader Kim Jong Un at a missile launch site, attracting keen attention on a fourth-generation member of the dynastic family that has ruled North Korea for more than seven decades. The North’s state media said […]

North Korea test-fires ICBM with range to strike entire US

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. mainland. While it’s unclear whether North Korea possesses functioning […]

Judges say Russian-made missile brought down flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014

AMSTERDAM, Nov 17 – A Dutch court said on Thursday that Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down in 2014 by a Russian-made missile fired from a field in eastern Ukraine and that Russia had overall control of separatist forces at the time. The court is reading its […]

North Korea fires missile after threatening ‘fiercer’ step

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile toward its eastern waters Thursday, hours after the North threatened to launch “fiercer” military responses to the U.S. bolstering its security commitment to its allies South Korea and Japan. The missile fired from the North’s eastern coastal […]

Analysis: Have China and India shifted stance on Russia war?

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — China and India, after months of refusing to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine, did not stand in the way of the release this week of a statement by the world’s leading economies that strongly criticizes Moscow. Could this, at last, signal a bold new […]

Escalation fears ease after NATO, Warsaw say missile that hit Poland was Ukrainian stray

WARSAW/BRUSSELS/NUSA DUA, Indonesia, Nov 16 – A missile that hit Poland was probably a stray fired by Ukraine’s air defences and not a Russian strike, Poland and NATO said on Wednesday, easing global concern that the war in Ukraine could spill across the border. Nevertheless, NATO’s chief said […]

NASA’s mightiest moon rocket lifts off 50 years after Apollo

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s new moon rocket blasted off on its debut flight with three test dummies aboard Wednesday, bringing the U.S. a big step closer to putting astronauts back on the lunar surface for the first time since the end of the Apollo program 50 years […]

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