U.S. leaders, including President Joe Biden and former president Barack Obama, have accused China of not pulling its weight at the UN climate summit. Long-time China watchers say such finger-pointing ...

The British hosts of the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow have proposed that countries raise their ambitions to slash greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2022 in a draft political decision that natio...

Ethiopian authorities have detained more than 70 drivers working with the United Nations, an internal U.N. email seen by Reuters on Wednesday said.

The first man killed by Kyle Rittenhouse on the streets of Kenosha, Wis., was shot at a range of just a few feet and had soot injuries that could indicate he had his hand over the barrel of Rittenhous...

The conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region has spread through the north of the country at the cost of thousands of lives amid widespread reports of atrocities committed by all factions.

Hundreds of migrants shivered in freezing temperatures and huddled around campfires on the Belarusian border with Poland on Tuesday in front of razor-wire fences and lines of Polish border guards bloc...

The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $465-million US opioid ruling against drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, finding that a lower court wrongly interpreted the state's public nuisance law in...

The latest national pledges submitted to the UN climate conference in Glasgow to tackle climate change this decade would lead to around 2.4 degrees Celsius of global warming this century, far above s...

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday urged House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to launch investigations into an anime video tweeted by Republican congressman Paul Gosar that depicted violen...

It's time for the "high level" negotiations at the UN climate talks, when government ministers or other senior diplomats swoop in to make the political decisions that are supposed to break the technic...

Multiple lawsuits have been filed and a criminal investigation opened after eight people died and hundreds were injured in an apparent crowd surge at Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival in Houst...

A distress signal co-developed by the Canadian Women's Foundation and a Toronto ad agency is being credited with helping a missing teenage girl from North Carolina who was rescued by police after usin...

Coronavirus deaths in Russia hit a new record on Tuesday, and new confirmed cases remained high two days after a nine-day work stoppage ended in most of the country's regions.

A man who was shot in the arm by Kyle Rittenhouse during a night of turbulent protests against racial injustice in Kenosha, Wis., has testified that he was unintentionally pointing his own gun when h...

November 15 will see a banned Civic March for Change launch across Cuba — a protest Communist authorities have threatened to repress with force. It's happening on the same day the island reopens to ...

Eight years after he shot and killed his girlfriend, double amputee Olympic runner Oscar Pistorius is up for parole, but first must meet with her parents.

Former U.S. president Barack Obama called on the UN climate conference in Glasgow on Monday to address the risks that island nations face from rising sea levels.

Clearer pictures began to emerge Sunday of some of the eight people who died after fans at the Astroworld music festival in Houston suddenly surged toward the stage during a performance by rapper Trav...

Canada is withdrawing the families of embassy staff and non-essential personnel from Ethiopia as fighting in the country's northern region of Tigray intensifies.