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Russia has vetoed a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that warns about the security implications of climate change, with its envoy calling it “unacceptable” forчитати

An imprisoned Azerbaijani activist says he is now refusing to drink water as he enters his 38th day of a hunger strike to protest whatчитати

Britain has recorded its first death from the omicron variant of the coronavirus. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the death Monday, the day after heчитати

As Europe starts vaccinating younger children, countries are pursuing very different strategies in what will be a major test of parents’ willingness to get their kids inoculated.  Oneчитати

Rescuers were pulling out bodies on Monday from the rubble of houses destroyed by a suspected gas explosion on Saturday in the Sicilian town of Ravanusa, with the nationalчитати

Four people were due to go on trial in Britain on Monday in connection with the toppling of a statue of a 17th-century slave traderчитати

Greece’s third-largest group in parliament on Sunday elected a European Parliament lawmaker as its new leader. Nikos Androulakis defeated former Prime Minister George Papandreou toчитати

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Sunday that Britain faces a “tidal wave” of infections from the omicron coronavirus variant and announced a huge increase inчитати

A volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands shows no sign of ending after 85 days, becoming the island of La Palma’s longest eruption on recordчитати

The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights is condemning the forced expulsion of asylum seekers and migrants by Libyan authorities, warningчитати

When the nuns of Maredret Abbey in Belgium were struggling to scrape together the funds for badly needed renovation works, they turned to an occupationчитати

Six years ago today, nearly 200 nations signed the Paris Climate Accord, where they agreed to keep the rise in global temperatures at 1.5 degreesчитати

First, a steady crawl. Then a short clumsy slide across the slick stone floor at their home at the Beauval Zoo near Paris. Then finallyчитати

U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday said he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that Russia would pay “a terrible price” and face devastating economic consequencesчитати

The United States will send its top diplomat for Europe to Russia and Ukraine to discuss Russia’s troop buildup and reiterate U.S. commitment to Ukraine’sчитати

British police say a man was shot dead during a confrontation with firearms officers on Saturday near the Kensington Palace royal residence in London.  Theчитати

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is attending talks that began Saturday among Group of Seven foreign ministers in Liverpool, with a call from Britishчитати

In Oslo, Norway, on Friday, dignitaries from around the world gathered to celebrate the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Filipina journalist Mariaчитати

A month after the U.N. climate change conference in Glasgow, Scotland, known as COP26, politicians, analysts and climate action advocates are taking stock of whatчитати

President Joe Biden is seeking to reassure Ukraine that his strategy to prevent a Russian military invasion will work, amid continued tensions over a massiveчитати