UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon gave his condolences to the Cuban people and the family of the nation’s former President Fidel Castro, who passed away late Friday night. Ban spoke on the last...
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The government refused a plea offer from accused white supremacist Dylann Roof on Friday. Roof, the man charged with killing nine black church members attending Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, offered to plead guilty in exchange...
A 66-year-old woman and six-year-old boy have died in a fire in the Greek migrant camp of Moria on Lesbos, causing some experts to question humanitarian conditions at several Grecian migrant camps. Two others...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan threatened to send a new wave of migrants to Europe following a vote to halt negotiations over European Union membership yesterday. The discussions were focused upon whether to continue negotiations with Turkey...
According to an John McKissick at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Thursday, members of the Rohingya Muslim community have been subjected to numerous atrocities by troops in Myanmar, including execution, rape, starvation...
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Thursday expressed hope that a new peace deal between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government would help bring an end to a...
The UK has one of the highest levels of premature deaths from nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution in the EU according to a 2015 report published Wednesday by the European Environment Agency (EEA) . According to the EEA...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday reported that police at the Standing Rock site in North Dakota have used life-threatening weapons to control protesters over the last two days. The ACLU reports that tear...
The European Parliament voted on Thursday to halt EU accession negotiations with Turkey due to the government's "disproportionate repressive measures" after a failed coup in July. This vote is non-binding, but represents a strong message...
In a 7.8% increase from 2014, 2.9 million patent applications were placed worldwide in 2015 according to a new report released Wednesday by the UN World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) . Over one million of those patents...
