Obama Praises Colombia’s Peace Efforts With Rebels and Seeks Big Aid Increase
WASHINGTON — President Obama welcomed President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House on Thursday for a buoyant celebration of the $10 billion, 15-year American effort to help Colombia vanquish its violent drug cartels and end its festering guerrilla war. It was also a chance for tw...
Scottish independence: UK government ‘will not grant indyref2 co...
Theresa May's deputy has said the Scottish Parliament will not be given the power to hold a...
Racism row over Trieste half-marathon
Organisers of the Trieste half-marathon have reversed a ban on professional African athlet...
US jury awards $2bn damages in Roundup weedkiller cancer claim
A jury in California has awarded more than $2bn (£1.5bn) to a couple who said the wee...
Jamal Khashoggi: Pressure grows on Saudis as US envoy meets king
BBC News Mr Khashoggi was last seen at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. Turkish officials believe Mr Khashoggi wa...
North Korea defector hack: Personal data of almost 1,000 leaked
Almost 1,000 North Korean defectors have had their personal data leaked after a computer at a South Korean resettlement centre was...
Riots over rising fuel costs plunge Paris into chaos as police struggle to maintain order
More than 3000 police have flooded onto the streets of Paris as protests in the French capital turned violent. Police and gendarme...
‘About 170 migrants dead’ in Mediterranean shipwrecks
About 170 people are feared to have died in two separate Mediterranean shipwrecks, the UNHCR says. The Italian navy reports a sh...
Man walks 25 miles to get help after pregnant woman becomes trapped in floodwaters
A man walked 25 miles to get help after his car, with a heavily pregnant woman inside, got stranded by floods in a remote part of Aus...
Christchurch shootings: Jacinda Ardern calls for global anti-racism fight
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for a global fight to root out racist right-wing ideology following last week...
Syria conflict: Trump ‘committed to defeating IS’, says Lindsey Graham
Russia laughs off ‘challenge’ by US warship in Sea of Japan
NHS fines for 1.7 million people overturned, watchdog finds
US issues treatment guidelines for infants exposed to Zika
Unicef Report Finds Female Genital Cutting to Be Common in Indonesia
