The United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address its annual meeting of world leaders by video after the United States revoked his visa last month. The...
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation raising the fee that companies pay to sponsor H-1B applicants to 100,000 dollars, saying the move is intended to ensure that the United States brings in...
The Giant Vegetables exhibition opened in the "Aptekarsky Ogorod", a botanical garden in Moscow on Saturday, with farmers from all over the country travelling to the capital to compete with their...
A destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy is making a port call at Yokosuka, south of Tokyo, to receive maintenance in Japan for the first time. HMAS Brisbane called at the Yokosuka Naval Base of Japan's...
The United Nations Security Council has voted down a proposal to continue sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal. The voting took place at a meeting on Friday. The draft resolution failed to...
UK and Irish government officials announced a new framework on Friday, which will replace controversial legislation intended to draw a line under issues stemming from three decades of violence in Northern Ireland...
US President Trump said Friday he will welcome Turkish President Erdogan to the White House next week and expects a resolution to a long-running rift on fighter-jets. It will be the first visit to the White House...
French President Emmanuel Macron reopened the two great medieval towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris to visitors, marking one of the final steps in its extensive reconstruction following the 2019 fire. ...
The Nasa Earth Observatory shared pictures of what it calls "a brand new island in Alaska": the small mountain Prow Knob was once encircled by the Alsek Glacier but this summer, they lost contact and...
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said Thursday that he has resigned for personal reasons. The 69-year-old envoy said he will be departing in the near future, but added that he will remain fully engaged in...