LE BOURGET, France — It’s clear at this point that even if the international climate accord being negotiated in suburban Paris becomes legally binding, it won’t include punitive measures like trade sanctions or embargoes on straggler countries…
Prayers, chaos in California shooting San Bernardino, California — Huddled beneath a desk, a bookshelf shoved against a locked office door, Regina Kuruppu held her co-workers’ hands and began to pray aloud, unable to drown out the…
SAN BERNARDINO, California — As many as three gunmen believed to be wearing military-style gear opened fire yesterday at a Southern California social services center “as if they were on a mission,” killing at least 14 people…
San Francisco — Talk about birth announcements: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife say they’ll devote nearly all their wealth — roughly $45 billion — to solving the world’s problems in celebration of their new baby…
LE BOURGET, France —From deserts encroaching on African farmland to rising sea levels shrinking islands of the South Pacific, leaders of poor nations most affected by climate change are sharing their stories of global warming with leaders…
US Marine corporal gets 12 years for killing Laude OLONGAPO — A Philippine court yesterday convicted a US Marine of killing a Filipino last year after he discovered she was a transgender woman in a hotel while…
ENVIRONMENTAL and other activists are lining up shoes on Paris streets and holding a healing ceremony to urge world leaders to reach a deal to slow climate change. A big activists’ march Sunday was banned because of…
Paris — French President François Hollande met with environmental groups Saturday, pushing for an ambitious global deal to reduce man-made emissions blamed for global warming — with emphasis on helping developing countries adapt to a changing world.…
Manila — A Philippine official said the government will launch a website next month to crowd-source tips on the whereabouts of some 200 missing art works, including paintings by Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rembrandt that were owned…
TOKYO — An explosion yesterday damaged a public restroom at a controversial shrine in Tokyo that honors Japanese war dead, with police suspecting foul play. No one was injured. The Yasukuni shrine, which honors 2.5 million Japanese…
Kuala Lumpur — President Barack Obama promised that Islamic extremists would find no safe haven anywhere, while the leader of Muslim-majority Malaysia branded the Islamic State group as a “new evil” that has blasphemed the religion, and…
Washington – The House of Representatives voted Thursday to ban Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the United States until tougher screening measures are in place, a move some slammed as giving in to xenophobia after the…
