Six months of exemptions from US sanctions for countries still buying oil from Iran are ending on Thursday. President Donald Trump reinstated the sanctions last year after abandoning a landmark nuclear accord, which he wants to renegotiate. Iran’s leaders have remained defiant in the […]
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó has called for an escalating series of strikes to force President Nicolás Maduro to relinquish power. Mr Guaidó urged public employees to act on Thursday, saying the stoppages would lead to a general strike. A woman was killed in […]
MPs have approved a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency. This proposal, which demonstrates the will of the House on the issue but does not legally compel the government to act, was approved without a vote. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who tabled […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law new measures that would enable the creation of a national network, able to operate separately from the rest of the world, according to documents posted on a government portal on Wednesday. For now, the network remains […]
And with the apparent re-emergence, via video, of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday encouraging what remains of ISIS to continue, radical detainees represent an even greater risk. (The United States is working to confirm the authenticity of the video.) Six students […]
The rocket, which won’t have a crew on board, will take off from a test site in rural Texas on Thursday around 9:30 am ET. It will be the 11th uncrewed test of Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, and it could be one of […]
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