Although conventional wisdom suggests that poor countries are more likely to bear a disproportionate burden of a worldwide carbon tax on fossil fuels used for electricity and transportation, the...
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Kurdish-led authorities in north Syria said on Monday they would not free foreign Islamic State detainees but countries must repatriate them, after U.S.
“Due to the velocity at which they strike the Earth’s atmosphere, fragments larger than 1 millimetre have the capability to produce a bright flash as they streak through the heavens above.
National Forest Inventories (NFIs) provide statistically sound data, for example, to support evidence-based policy making. DIABOLO, a European Union Horizon 2020 project, has now provided new...
A Republican-Democrat spending bill being offered to President Trump spends nearly 40 times as much on foreign aid as it does on a wall to secure the United States-Mexico border.
Aiming to ramp up its premium international content, Amazon Prime Video has greenlit the production of 17 new original series from Britain, Germany, Italy, Spain, India, Japan and Mexico.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is set to rewrite its two decades-old copyright rules to ensure a level playing field between its creative industries and tech giants such as Google and...
Forty countries led by Japan and the European Union—but not the U.S. or China—have agreed to require new cars and light commercial vehicles to be equipped with automated braking systems starting as...
Published in the journal Trials and led by Dr Marco J Haenssgen, Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development, the study demonstrates that contextual factors, such as local health policies,...
President Emmanuel Macron’s government has recalled its ambassador from Rome as tensions between France and the Italian populist coalition continue to grow. The French removed the diplomat from Rome...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s effort to rewrite two-decade old copyright rules to take into account online platforms such as Alphabet Inc’s Google moved a step forward on Friday when EU...
In what can only be described as another diplomatic victory for President Donald Trump’s administration, European countries have stopped importing Iranian oil. The Iranian regime has admitted that...
BY: Andrew Kugle Elliott Abrams, who leads the Trump administration's special envoy to Venezuela, said on Thursday that several countries have offered to take in Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
BY: Andrew Kugle Elliott Abrams, who leads the Trump administration's special envoy to Venezuela, said on Thursday that several countries have offered to take in Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro.
Our colleague David North has reported the good news that three countries have been booted from the annual list of countries whose citizens are eligible to participate in the H-2 guestworker visa...
A White House map that showed Taiwan as a separate country from China is likely to draw as sharp a rebuke from mainland social media hawks even as it excited pro-independence supporters in Taipei.
by Filmmaker Staff DP Nicholas de Pencier has long collaborated with his wife, director Jennifer Baichwal, on her projects. One of their most acclaimed films, Manufactured Landscapes, was a profile...
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Tuesday some countries had come forward with offers to help end the stand-off over a rescue boat moored off Sicily with 47 migrants on...
The world is missing out on breakthrough science because exceptionally talented young people from low- and middle-income countries do not receive appropriate levels of support to help nurture their...
During the World Watch List 2019 reporting period, in the top 50 countries, a total of 1,266 churches or Christian buildings were attacked; 2,635 Christians were detained without trial, arrested,...
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Earlier this week, Mary wrote about the chaos in Venezuela as Juan Guaido Proclaims Himself Interim President, [and the] Military Backs Maduro. At that point, the U.S.
The United States on Saturday called on the world to 'pick a side' on Venezuela and urged countries to financially disconnect from Nicolas Maduro's government, while European powers signaled they...
More than 95,000 complaints have been filed with EU countries since the bloc's flagship data protection laws took effect eight months ago, the executive European Commission said Friday.
The Bank of China had increased its gold reserves from 1842.6 tons to 1,852 tons in December 2018. This increase represents the first major purchase of gold by the Bank of China since 2016.
A total of 80 percent of American voters support imposing “tough new restrictions” on legal immigration to the United States from some of the most dangerous areas of the world.
(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo disputed Tuesday that the U.S. is “isolated on the global stage,” but said others are perhaps not ready to confront problems in the way President Trump...
While funding for President Trump’s proposed wall along the United States-Mexico border makes up less than two percent of the budget he and the Senate Republican leadership have put forward,...
Divisions between EU countries could delay or derail plans to overhaul copyright law, an ambition that has set up a battle pitting media firms against internet giants like Facebook and Google.
One in every nine Christians in the world lives in an area, or in a culture, in which Christianity is illegal, forbidden, or punished, according to the latest report on global persecution by Open...
Among the world’s 50 most dangerous countries for Christians listed in a new report are China and India, the two most populous countries. Now in its 27th year, Christian advocacy organization Open...
India’s army is expected to participate in military training exercises in March with a few African countries including Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania, various news outlets reported...
In India, Hindu nationalists fueled a crackdown on Christians and churches, promoting the widespread oppression of religious minorities. The situation has deteriorated rapidly in the last several...
For decades, North Korea has clearly been the world’s worst persecutor of Christians. But now, another nation nearly matches it. READ THIS ISSUEBuilding on the Black Church’s Bible LegacyCan Anger...
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair pilot unions in several countries have suspended talks with management in protest at what they see as the airline using the threat of base closures as a bargaining tool in...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc told Reuters on Tuesday that it would extend some of its political advertising rules and tools for curbing election interference to India, Nigeria, Ukraine and...
Effective antiretroviral therapy has substantially decreased HIV morbidity and mortality over the past two decades. Several randomized trials have demonstrated benefits from starting antiretroviral...
VANCOUVER—Canada’s innovation performance has declined in recent years and is falling further behind the U.S. and other developed countries, despite decades of costly innovation programs by...
A Canadian man originally given 15 years in prison for drug smuggling was sentenced to death in China on Monday after a one-day retrial, the surprising verdict coming amid growing tensions between...
BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Monday urged countries to end “fabrications” about Huawei, after an official in Poland said his country could limit the use of the company’s products by public entities...
When listening to the open border left discuss the much-needed border wall, they often whine that the wall will not work. They cite no facts or figures that walls do not work, nor can they, since...
The more women in government, the healthier a population. As a result, female lawmakers substantively advance women's rights in areas such as pay equity, violence against women, health care, and...
BEIJING (Reuters) – Nissan Motor Co Ltd has broadened its investigation into ousted chairman Carlos Ghosn to include dealings that took place in the United States, India and Latin America, three...
(CNSNews.com) -- On June 1, 2018, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released a statement acknowledging Pride Month and expressing support for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex...
According to an eye-popping new report from Power the Future, provided exclusively to PJ Media, the "Green New Deal" proposed by democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.
Monday on MSNBC’s “Deadline,” senior advisor and national spokeswoman for MoveOn.org Karine Jean-Pierre said President Donald Trump wanted to end the “legal immigration” of people from “brown and...
The paper will appear in the January issue of Health Affairs. The researchers determined that the higher overall health care spending in the U.S. was due mainly to higher prices -- including higher...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Monday launched a drive to push U.S. firms to better protect their trade secrets from foreign hackers, following a slew of cases accusing...
As CES 2019 was getting underway, Google touted some impressive growth for its Google Assistant in 2018. The search giant released Google Assistant in 2016 to compete with Amazon's Alexa...
RIYADH (Reuters) – Syria’s chief opposition negotiator said on Sunday he was surprised by countries rebuilding ties with the Syrian government and urged them to revisit their decision.