Guwahati, India – At least eight people were killed and scores injured yesterday when a strong 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck northeast India, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets even hundreds of kilometers away in Bangladesh. Five were…
Montreal, Canada — Snow blanketed eastern Canada Tuesday, sparking airport delays and trouble on the roads as the season’s first major winter storm hit the region following an unusually mild start to December. The weather is linked…
Berlin – Germany has recruited 8,500 people to teach child refugees German, as the country expects the number of new arrivals to soar past the million mark in 2015, Die Welt daily reported Sunday. With some 196,000…
Gareno, Ecuador – The indigenous peoples of the Amazon are far removed from the Paris conference rooms where politicians and technocrats in dark suits hashed out a historic deal on curbing climate change to close out the…
London – Migrants around the world are invited to share their life stories in a new social media campaign launched in London on Wednesday by the International Organization for Migration and a British charity. The site iamamigrant.org…
Paris, France — Global warming has triggered an array of apocalyptic scenarios for future generations, from worsening drought, storms and floods to melted ice sheets and rising seas. Now a new study, published Tuesday and coinciding with…
Beijing – China’s President Xi Jinping will bring no new concessions to the negotiating table when he attends key UN climate change talks in Paris next week, a senior Chinese diplomat said yesterday. China pledged last year…
Washington – The United States issued a worldwide travel alert on Monday warning American citizens of “increased terrorist threats” in the wake of the Paris attacks. Belgium’s prime minister announced on the same day that Brussels will…
Paris – French warplanes pounded Islamic State’s Syrian stronghold Sunday in retaliation for a wave of coordinated attacks claimed by the jihadists which left 129 people dead in Paris. As the nation prepared to mourn the victims…
French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by the Islamic State group, as international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris’ worst ever…
