The attack heightened uncertainty in a market that had become relatively subdued in recent months & now faces the loss of crude from Saudi Arabia, traditionally the world’s supplier of last resort
Iran said it would take another step away from a 2015 nuclear deal by starting to develop centrifuges to speed up its uranium enrichment but it also gave European powers 2 more months to save the multilateral pact
Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam announced the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill that has plunged the city into its worst political crisis in decades
A peace accord signed by FARC and the Colombian government has come under pressure on various fronts, including the murder of former rebels & human rights activists, delays in funding, & political polarization
Since Thursday, INPE said satellite images spotted 9,507 new forest fires in the country, mostly in the Amazon basin, home to the world’s largest tropical forest seen as vital to countering global warming
Italy has not held an election in the autumn since WWII because the final months of the year are traditionally dedicated to drawing up the budget—a key moment for a country with one of the world’s largest debt
The hemorrhagic fever, first discovered in Congo in 1976, spreads through direct contact with body fluids and typically kills roughly half of those it infects
Myanmar and Bangladesh will start a fresh attempt next week to repatriate thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, nearly a year after a major attempt failed
Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in ice cores drilled in the Arctic, underscoring the threat the growing form of pollution now poses to marine life in even the remotest waters on the planet
Demonstrators say they are fighting the erosion of the “one country, two systems” arrangement that enshrined some autonomy for Hong Kong since China took it back from Britain in 1997