Lander is space agency’s first attempt to land on Martian surface in six years Nasa’s InSight lander is hurtling closer to Mars as it prepares to touchdown on the Red Planet after a six-month voyage through space. Having travelled 301 million miles from Earth, the spacecraft was due to reach ... Read More »
European Union leaders finally sealed a Brexit deal on Sunday, saying the package agreed with Prime Minister Theresa May was the best Britain will get in a warning to the British parliament not to reject it. “Those who think that, by rejecting the deal, they would get a better deal, ... Read More »
The Polish foreign ministry has urged Russia to respect international law and condemned Moscow’s “aggressive actions” in the Sea of Azov. Amid escalated tensions between Russia and Ukraine, the foreign ministry in Warsaw called in a statement for restraint on both sides. The statement was issued after the Ukrainian navy ... Read More »
Turkey said on Monday it was worried by reports that Ukrainian ships had been fired on off the coast of Russia-annexed Crimea and said that shipping in the area should not be obstructed. Russia seized three Ukrainian naval ships in the Black Sea on Sunday after opening fire on them ... Read More »
“We will have a politically chaotic situation” without a deal, finance minister Philip Hammond said. Brexit could leave the U.K. worse off than if voters had chosen to remain in the European Union, the country’s finance minister admitted Wednesday amid deepening political chaos over the process. Splitting from the trading ... Read More »
He’s been accused by prosecutors of under-reporting $44.6 million of personal income. Nissan Motor Co. fired Carlos Ghosn as chairman Thursday in a dramatic end to the powerful executive’s nearly two decade long reign at the Japanese automaker after his arrest for alleged financial improprieties. In an hours-long meeting, the ... Read More »
Oil bounced by around $1 a barrel on Wednesday to claw back some of the previous day’s 6 percent plunge, lifted by a report of an unexpected decline in U.S. commercial crude inventories and record Indian crude imports. But investors remained on edge, with the International Energy Agency (IEA) warning ... Read More »
Australia will not sign up to a United Nations migration agreement because it would compromise its hardline immigration policy and endanger national security, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday. Australia joins the United States, Israel and several Eastern European countries in rejecting the U.N. Global Compact for Migration, which ... Read More »
Relations sour despite Donald Trump and Xi Jinping expressing optimism about resolving trade war The unprecedented failure to agree on a communique at a major Asia-Pacific summit resulted from certain countries “excusing” protectionism, a major Chinese diplomat has said, in an apparently veiled criticism of the United States. After months ... Read More »
A group of 15 Western ambassadors in Beijing, spearheaded by Canada, are seeking a meeting with the top official in China’s restive, heavily Muslim Xinjiang region for an explanation of alleged rights abuses against ethnic Uighurs. The envoys are making their request in a letter to Chen Quanguo, Xinjiang’s Communist ... Read More »
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