Category: 2. World

BEIRUT — Two decades ago, Ahmad al-Sharaa was held in a U.S.-run detention center in Iraq after joining al-Qaida militants fighting against American forces there.

Few would have predicted that he would go on to become the first Syrian president…

The world has changed dramatically in the decade since leaders celebrated a historic climate agreement in Paris a decade ago, but not quite in ways they expected or wanted.

Earth’s warming climate has…

“We lost everything we were restoring 24 hours a day! Every time the enemy strikes even more brutally, even more cynically,” the operator said in a post on Facebook.

The company scheduled power cuts that can last up to 16 hours in some…

A decade ago, the world got together and decided to fix the climate crisis by adopting the Paris Agreement.

I remember it like yesterday. This was December 2015 at the UN climate talks in…

China suspended a ban on exporting some dual-use materials to the U.S., the Chinese Ministry of Commerce announced on Sunday, following the easing of trade tensions between the two sides.

The move covers

Dozens of people are missing and one person has died after a boat carrying migrants sank near the border between Thailand and Malaysia.

The vessel is believed to have capsized near the southern Thai island of Ko Tarutao on Thursday, the Malaysian…

The United States government has announced that it will no longer issue visas to foreign nationals suffering from obesity or diabetes under a new policy decision.

According to a memorandum issued by the US…