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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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A Taliban representative says the U.S. has promised to withdraw half of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of April.
U.S. President Donald Trump has appealed for unity among Americans in his second State of the Union address on Tuesday evening at Capitol Hill, urging the two parties to work together and unite the nation.
San Diego plans to hire its first manager to lead an ambitious effort to welcome immigrants and refugees and integrate them into the community through education and job assistance, the city's Republican mayor said Monday, in sharp contrast to President Donald Trump's rhetoric.
One-third of Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century due to climate change, threatening water sources for 1.9 billion people, even if current efforts to reduce climate change succeed, an assessment warns.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent his warm New Year wishes to the Chinese people in Chinese on Monday, the day before the Spring Festival, calling on joint efforts to build a peaceful and prosperous world.
SpaceX has successfully finished the static fire test of Raptor engine designed to power rockets including Starship.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday sent out a message to the Chinese people around the world celebrating the Lunar New Year.
The Pentagon said Sunday it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection.
The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders.
The latest round of China-U.S. economic and trade talks that just concluded on Thursday looks promising, U.S. experts have said
A suspected meteor exploded over western Cuba on Friday and rained debris on houses in and around the tourist town of Vinales, some 180 km west of Havana, local media reported.
A pint-sized puppy dumped at a nature reserve in England has found a new home thanks to an animal charity that came up with a clever name for the rescued pup.
A winter storm that delivered heavy snow and biting cold was blamed Thursday for at least three deaths and possibly a fourth, that of a homeless man whose frozen body was found in a suburban Buffalo bus shelter.
The death toll in the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais has risen to 110, with 238 still missing, the state civil defense authorities said on Thursday.
Cold snap leads to heavy snow falls across Europe
European Union leaders offered a united chorus of "No" on Wednesday to Britain's belated bid to negotiate changes to the Brexit divorce deal, with one official calling on British lawmakers to stop bickering and work out a cross-party approach.
A Japanese state-run nuclear fuel laboratory near Tokyo said Wednesday it detected a radiation leak in its plutonium handling facility, but no workers were exposed.
Record-breaking cold follows snow in U.S. Midwest
A torrent of muddy mining waste unleashed by a dam breach that killed at least 84 people in southeastern Brazil is now heading down a small river with high concentrations of iron oxide, threatening to contaminate a much larger river that provides drinking water to communities in five of the country's 26 states.
European leaders moved quickly Tuesday to reject an attempt by Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May to re-open talks on the Brexit divorce deal, as British lawmakers voted to demand changes.
