Kremlin dismisses U.S. criticism for sending bombers to Venezuela
A move by Russia to send two nuclear-capable bombers to Venezuela has prompted a war of words between the Trump administration and the Kremlin. Moscow said it sent two TU-160…
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Shooting near Strasbourg Christmas market leaves 1 dead, 6 injured
A shooting close to a Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, on Tuesday left at least one person dead, six others injured and the suspected shooter at large, local police said.…
Balangiga Bells return to Philippines after 117 years as U.S. war trophies
The Balangiga Bells — a memento from United States’ military victory more than a century ago — were returned to the Philippines Tuesday. The bells were taken by U.S. troops…
Questions over report that shows Putin on old East German police ID
An old East Germany secret police identification bearing the name and image of Russian President Vladimir Putin turned up in a recent search of cold war-era documents, press reports said…
Coffee could fight Parkinson’s disease, study says
Two compounds found in coffee could fight Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia, a study says. The findings, published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,…
Yemen peace talks encouraging, U.N. envoy says
Both sides fighting Yemen’s civil war have been at the peace table for four days, but there hasn’t yet been any significant breakthrough. Officials and the U.N. envoy to Syria…
Egypt investigates authenticity of nude pyramid video
Prosecutors plan to investigate the authenticity of a video that appears to show two nude people atop the Great Pyramid of Giza, said Egypt’s antiquities minister, who called it a…
UNICEF concerned 150K Iraqi children unprepared for cold
More than 150,000 Iraqi children are unprepared for freezing temperatures that are on the way, the United Nations children’s agency said Monday. Efforts are underway to find hard-to-reach families and…
Macron offers tax cuts to quell ‘yellow vest’ protests
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday promised to scrap a planned tax hike for pensioners and speed up plans to raise the minimum wage in hopes of quelling the monthlong…
OPEC and non-OPEC nations agree on 1.2M barrel per day production cut
OPEC and non-OPEC members agreed Friday in Vienna to work to jointly reduce crude oil production by 1.2 million barrels per day for the next six months to try to…
