Category World News and Events

Will Grant Mexico Correspondent, BBC News AFP When tariffs were avoided in February, President Sheinbaum agreed to deploy 10,000 troops to the US-Mexico border In announcing the decision to postpone some tariffs on Mexico for another month, US President Donald…

At least 16 security personnel were killed on Thursday by gunmen loyal to Syria’s ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad, a war monitor said, in one of the deadliest clashes for Syria’s new leaders since the collapse of the Assad government. The…

Five members of a German far-right group have been jailed for plotting to overthrow the government and kidnap its health minister. Four of the group were described as “ringleaders” of a “terrorist organisation” which planned to use violence to trigger…

Mr. Renn’s schema is straightforward. Modern American history, he argues, can be divided into three epochs when it comes to the status of Christianity. In “positive world,” between 1964 and 1994, being a Christian in America generally enhanced one’s social…

Passengers and crew members had to overpower a 17-year-old who got onto a plane with a shotgun and ammunition in Australia. It happened as the aircraft prepared to take off from Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, ahead of a flight bound…

President Trump is preparing to sign an order that would instruct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling her agency, setting the stage for a potential power struggle with Congress and another round of legal challenges from opponents. An administration…

More must be done to make Gabonese football safer, players’ union Fifpro has said after a former youth coach convicted of sexually abusing players was handed a life ban by world football’s governing body, Fifa. On Tuesday Fifa ruled that…

Juan Hamilton, an aspiring artist who enriched the last years of the painter Georgia O’Keeffe as her much younger caretaker, confidant and protégé, but who became the object of sensational accusations as virtually the sole beneficiary of her will, died…

The US is “destroying” the established world order, Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK has said. Criticising the new Trump administration’s way of handling foreign policy, Valerii Zaluzhnyi said the White House had “questioned the unity of the whole Western world”.…

Jennifer Griffin stood outside a movie theater on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, waving to a friend. “I’m here with all the other dorks!” she called out, using a prepositional phrase to get the attention of Lisa Kuklinski. Soon, they…