ronniechua/iStock(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration sanctioned three senior North Korean officials for human rights abuses and censorship in the country as discussions between the U.S. and North Korea over the regime’s nuclear weapons program have Read More
Chesnot/Getty Images(PARIS) — French president Emmanuel Macron addressed the nation in a recorded TV speech on Monday and announced new economic measures in response to weeks of violent protests across the country. Speaking calmly and slowly from the Elysee Palace, Read More
MarioGuti/iStock(LONDON) — British Prime Minister Theresa May says she is calling off a key Brexit vote in Parliament scheduled for Tuesday that has been building for weeks amid increased infighting among politicians within and across all major political Read More
TR/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Maria Butina, a 30-year-old Russian gun rights activist, appears poised to to plead guilty in a case that has focused on her alleged attempt to develop a covert influence operation in the United States. In a joint filing to the Read More
Courtesy Lucie Blackman Trust(LONDON) — The prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, issued a heartfelt apology Monday on behalf of her country for the death of a female British tourist who was killed while backpacking in the country. Ardern opened a weekly Read More
Patrick Reevell/ABC News(NEW YORK) — The landscape approaching Russia’s spaceport in Baikonur is otherworldly. The yellow steppe of southern Kazakhstan where it is located is effectively desert, unbroken flatlands for hundreds of miles covered by a layer of Read More
omersukrugoksu/iStock(ROME) — Six people are dead and at least 120 people are injured after being trampled by a panicked crowd running out of an Italian disco. The stampede occurred at the Lanterna Azzurra in Madonna del Piano di Corinaldo, near Ancona — a Read More
piola666/iStock(NEW YORK) — A British sailor was rescued by a cargo ship on Friday, two days after an incident left her stranded in the Pacific Ocean. Susie Goodall, 29, was competing in the Golden Globe competition — a solo round-the-world race when her ships Read More
ChiccoDodiFC/iStock(NEW YORK) — The second-largest, second-deadliest Ebola outbreak in history has spread to a major city. Butembo, a bustling city of almost a million people in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, is reporting an increasing number of cases of Read More
Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images(PARIS) — Protesters took to the streets of Paris for a third weekend of violence and looting despite French President Emmanuel Macron backing down on the fuel tax hike that sparked the movement in the first place. Seemingly hoping Read More
