A vote on impeachment charges against Donald Trump could take place this week, according to the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Jerrold Nadler said draft articles were already being prepared based on the evidence heard during the inquiry over the last months. However, a decision on the final charges will ... Read More »
A strike that crippled public transport and closed schools across France entered a second day on Friday, with trade unions saying they planned to keep going until President Emmanuel Macron backs down from a planned reform of pensions. Rail workers voted to extend their strike through Friday, while labor unions ... Read More »
Cases doubled between between 2017 and 2018, reports say A global measles crisis caused more than 140,000 deaths last year, with most of them children under the age of five, figures suggest. A new report from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ... Read More »
President Michel Aoun called for formal consultations on Monday with lawmakers to designate a new prime minister, a statement from the presidency said on Wednesday. Aoun is required to designate the candidate with the greatest support among Lebanon’s 128 lawmakers. The prime minister must be a Sunni Muslim according to ... Read More »
International Rescue Committee report says Yemen war will cost international community as much as $29 billion if it continues Even if the five-year war in Yemen were to end today, it would take two decades for the impoverished country’s children to reach the lesser level of malnutrition they suffered ... Read More »
NATO leaders set aside public insults ranging from “delinquent” to “brain dead” and “two-faced” on Wednesday, declaring at a 70th anniversary summit they would stand together against a common threat from Russia and prepare for China’s rise. Officials insisted the summit was a success: most notably, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan ... Read More »
The United States has completed its military pullback in northeastern Syria, settling into a more stable posture of about 600 troops in the rest of the country after repositioning and reducing forces, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said. Esper’s remarks in an interview with Reuters could signal the end of a ... Read More »
Surprising new results include strange flipping of star’s magnetic field Nasa has revealed the first findings from a pioneering spacecraft sent to “touch the Sun”. The Parker Solar Probe has flown closer than ever before to our Sun and has now sent back its first data from the mission. ... Read More »
Continued inaction would be ‘betrayal of our entire human family and all generations to come’, says Antonio Guterres The UN secretary general has warned that the planet is close to “the point of no return” and branded global efforts to combat climate change “utterly inadequate”, as world leaders gather for ... Read More »
China calls bill a ‘vicious attack’, coming days after Congress passed similar laws over Hong Kong The US House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for “targeted sanctions” against Chinese officials involved in the repression of Uighur Muslims. The bill, which also calls on Donald Trump to speak ... Read More »
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