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U.S. President Donald Trump reprised his ridicule of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg on Thursday after the Swedish climate activist was named Time’s Person of the Year for 2019. Thunberg won the magazine’s annual honorific on Wednesday for her work inspiring millions of young people to take action against climate change. “So …

Final results of the British general elections showed that the Conservative Party won 364 seats and the opposition Labor Party won 203 seats. In detail, the Conservative Party won 364 seats, or 43.6% of the seats, while the Labor Party won 203 seats, 32.2%. The Scottish National Party won 48 …

The House Judiciary Committee will pursue two articles of impeachment against President Trump, a narrower approach than some Democrats had hoped, as the Republican-led Senate outlined plans for a trial early in the new year. The first of the two articles accuse Mr. Trump of abuse of power by soliciting …

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco has just pulled off the biggest initial public offering (IPO) in history, raising $25.6 billion. The IPO, however, fell short of the Saudi Crown Prince’s $2 trillion valuations. The company sold 3 billion shares priced at 32 riyals ($8.53) each. The mega-float exceeds …

Israeli forces have arrested four staff members of a Palestinian TV channel in Jerusalem al-Quds in a move condemned by the Palestinian Presidency. Israeli forces stormed the place from where a Palestine TV morning show was being broadcast on Friday, arresting the anchor, Dana Abu Shamsiyeh and the cameraman, Amir …

For the second time in two days, a deadly shooting has occurred at a US Navy base leaving at least Four people dead and several others injured. Four people including the suspected shooter were killed and seven others were injured on Friday at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida, said …

Hundreds of thousands of strikers paralyzed the transport system on the first day of industrial action which prompted the closure of schools across the nation. According to union leaders, more than 1.5 million people turned out across the country, with police using tear gas to disperse them. Just in Paris …

At least 23 people died and more than 130 were injured in Sudan after a fire triggered an explosion at a factory in northern Khartoum on Tuesday, according to state news agency SUNA. The incident happened while a tanker truck was offloading gas at a ceramics manufacturing company in an …

U.S. President Donald Trump called Justin Trudeau “two-faced” on Wednesday after the Canadian Prime Minister appeared to be caught on camera joking about his press appearances during a chat with other leaders at a NATO summit in Britain. Trudeau was filmed at a Buckingham Palace reception for NATO leaders on …

NATO leaders gathered at a golf resort near London on Wednesday for a summit acrimonious even by the standards of the Trump era, aiming to tackle sharp disagreements over spending, future threats including China and Turkey’s role in the alliance. With U.S. President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron …

Hundreds of migrants and refugees stuck in a makeshift camp in a Bosnian forest are struggling to survive in subzero temperatures as snow weighs down on their tents, spurring fears that some may die unless they are resettled soon. A senior human rights envoy who visited the camp on Tuesday …

In efforts to defend his policy on Turkey and Syria, US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Washington has been successful in keeping the oil in Syria. Speaking at the start of a NATO meeting on Tuesday, Trump repeated the assertion that he “kept the oil” inside Syria, although …

French President Emmanuel Macron accused Turkey of working with Islamic State proxies and said Ankara needed to clarify those ambiguities during meetings this week. “The common enemy today is the terrorist groups. I’m sorry to say, we don’t have the same definition of terrorism around the table,” Macron told reporters …

U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at European allies before a NATO anniversary summit in London on Tuesday, singling out France’s Emmanuel Macron for “very nasty” comments on the alliance and Germany for spending too little on defense. Underlining the breadth of strife in a transatlantic bloc hailed by its …

The Ministry of Justice signed a Memorandum of Understanding with its Jordanian counterpart in the field of transferring those convicted of custodial sentences, except those convicted of terrorism cases. The spokesman of the Ministry of Justice, Thaer al-Jubouri said in a statement on Tuesday that the Minister of Justice, Farouq …

11 people have been shot in New Orleans’ French Quarter in the early hours of Sunday, police say. Two of those are in a critical condition, and a ‘person of interest’ has been detained according to police superintendent Shaun Ferguson. Of the critically injured, one was shot in the chest, …

A packed bus ruptured a tire and skidded off a bridge, landing upside down in a frozen river in Russia, killing at least 19 passengers. Rescuers are fighting to free survivors as the vehicle remains at risk of becoming submerged. The bus fell six meters (about 20 feet) from a …

Brazil’s President blamed an unusual candidate this week as a cause of the Amazon forest fires: actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio. President Jair Bolsonaro made the claim Thursday on a webcast, arguing that nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) contributed to the forest fires that ravaged the Amazon rainforest earlier this year. “The …

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he would strengthen prison sentences, vowing to boost security after an attack in the British capital by a man convicted of terrorism who was released early from prison. With less than two weeks before Britain heads to the polls, law and order has …

A flock of birds may have been the cause of panic in Washington, sending the White House and Capitol into lockdown, according to officials. The alarm bells were sounded on Tuesday, with reports of an aircraft violating the tightly controlled airspace around the president’s official residence. As a precautionary measure, …