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Iran's resumption of uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant is the fourth step in a phased suspension of its commitments to a 2015 nuclear deal in response to US President Donald Trump's abandonment of the agreement last year
World
14.08.2024
Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran on Thursday in a new step back from its commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.
New Zealand has made it law that the country must produce no carbon emissions by 2050
World
14.08.2024
New Zealand's plan to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 became law on Thursday, when it cleared its final hurdle in parliament.
The New Zealand MP was speaking in support of a bill to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions
World
14.08.2024
With the quickfire putdown "OK, boomer", a 25-year-old New Zealand politician dismissed a heckler during a speech about climate change -- highlighting the generation gap between herself and other MPs in a clip that has gone viral.
Once it was frowned on to support the far right, but now it is more acceptable, Vox supporters say
World
14.08.2024
Waving Spanish flags, supporters of far-right party Vox packed a convention centre ahead of Sunday's general election in which it looks set to make big gains, fuelled by its tough opposition to Catalan independence.
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The radical Catalan separatist CUP party is running a campaign entitled "Ungovernable"
World 14.08.2024
After numerous protests in Girona, a Catalan separatist stronghold, Carla Costa is mulling other ways of attacking Spain, including the idea of voting radical pro-independence MPs into parliament to act as a Trojan Horse. 
Navin Ramgoolam (C) is one of the rivals running against the prime minister
World 14.08.2024
Mauritians on Thursday have their first chance to decide if Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth should continue to rule since he was hand-picked for the job when his father stepped down two years ago.
Romania has Europe's highest number of brown bears
World 14.08.2024
When Maria Lacatus' son opened the barn door, it was already too late. "The bear had one of the pigs in its claws," the sobbing 86-year-old says.
Ntaganda faces life in prison for a litany of crimes including directing massacres of civilians in Democratic Republic of Congo's volatile, mineral-rich Ituri region in 2002 and 2003
World 14.08.2024
International Criminal Court Judges will on Thursday sentence Congolese rebel chief Bosco "Terminator" Ntaganda after he was convicted earlier this year of war crimes and sexual slavery.
US President Donald Trump, pictured here on November 4, 2019, hosted representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan at the White House
World 14.08.2024
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he had hosted successful talks in the White House with representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on a controversial dam being built on the Nile.
Members of the LeBaron family mourn at the site of an attack in Sonora, Mexico where nine women and children were killed
World 14.08.2024
Mexican authorities said Wednesday they believe a drug cartel called "La Linea" was responsible for the murder of nine Mormon women and children, saying the massacre was committed with American-made ammunition.
The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday
World 14.08.2024
The French actress Catherine Deneuve is in a Paris hospital after suffering a small stroke, her family told AFP Wednesday.
Abandoned fishing nets kill and injure more than 100,000 whales, dolphins, seals and turtles annually, according to UK-based charity World Animal Protection
World 14.08.2024
Far out in the South Atlantic Ocean, invisible to the South African coastline, diver Pascal Van Erp surfaced with an abandoned lobster cage covered in algae and other marine organisms.
Macron says there has been a sharp increase in asylum claims since 2017
World 14.08.2024
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe vowed Wednesday to "take back control" of the country's migration flows by imposing quotas on certain categories of skilled migrants and cutting back benefits available to asylum seekers.
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