Will climate summit deliver?

"Copenhagen". The mere mention of the Danish capital's name can send a chill down the spine of even the toughest climate negotiator.
29 November 2015, 18:00 PM

RALLIES FOR CLIMATE DEAL

Protesters take part in global climate rallies in New Delhi, Sydney, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Athens, and Seoul demanding a deal at the Paris World Climate Change Conference, known as the COP21 summit, to save the world, yesterday. Tens of thousands of people from Sydney to London
29 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Moscow cuts coal to Kiev

Russia has begun to restrict coal supplies to Ukraine, Energy Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn told parliament yesterday, days after the Kremlin threatened to punish Kiev for a power blackout of Russian-annexed Crimea.
27 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Climate disasters may double without emissions cut: ADB

Climate disasters may double in the next two decades unless the world cuts its carbon dioxide emissions, the Asian Development Bank
27 November 2015, 18:00 PM

EU risks falling like Roman Empire

Europe risks collapsing like the Roman Empire over the refugee crisis, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has warned according to the Financial Times, as his country gears up to be the next EU president.
27 November 2015, 18:00 PM

'We won't give in to fear or hate'

President Francois Hollande yesterday vowed that France would respond to the "army of fanatics" which carried out the Paris attacks with more songs, concerts and shows, as the nation paused to pay homage to the victims.
27 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Russia pounds IS in Syria

Russia has bombed the Islamic State group in the heaviest strikes in eastern Syria since the war began, as Moscow's military manoeuvres in the Mediterranean forced Lebanon to reroute flights.
21 November 2015, 18:00 PM

She 'did not blow herself up'

Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman believed to have blown herself up during the police raid that killed the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, swapped her party-girl persona for that of an Islamist radical just months before her death.
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Tapped phone led 'ring leader' to his death

The top suspect behind last week's Paris attacks was watched by police being led into a building by a woman suicide bomber the evening before they both died there during a raid by special forces, a police source said yesterday.
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Ebola-free Liberia sees new case: WHO

The World Health Organization yesterday confirmed that a new case of the deadly Ebola virus has surfaced in Liberia, which was declared
20 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Friend standing next to American killed in Paris attacks speaks out

The American who was killed in the assault on Paris celebrated her 23rd birthday there last month. Nohemi Gonzalez was a student at Cal State-Long Beach on a semester abroad.
17 November 2015, 06:35 AM

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes averted massacre at Paris stadium

Quick thinking, solid security, attackers' mistakes may have averted massacre at Paris stadium.
17 November 2015, 05:04 AM

Pianist plays 'Imagine' cover at Paris memorial scene (video)

A pianist plays John Lennon's ‘Imagine’ on a portable piano at a memorial close to the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where at 89 people were killed.
16 November 2015, 08:00 AM

Don't give in to base reactions

European Union countries should not give in to base reactions of rejecting refugees after the Paris attacks because the shooters were criminals, not asylum seekers, European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker said yesterday.
15 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Car used in attacks found in Paris suburb: Police

A black Seat car used by gunmen who fired at people in restaurants during the attacks in Paris on Friday found in the eastern suburb of Montreuil, police say.
15 November 2015, 08:32 AM

Eiffel Tower goes dark as France mourns deaths

The Eiffel Tower stood dark in a symbol of mourning Saturday night as France struggled to absorb the deadliest violence on its soil since World War II: coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks across Paris that left at least 129 people dead and 352 injured.
15 November 2015, 03:02 AM

'Paris concert gunman was French, known to have Islamist ties'

One of the gunmen who died after attacking a Paris concert hall has French nationality and is known to have ties with Islamist militants, a source close to the inquiry into a series of deadly attacks in Paris says.
14 November 2015, 16:08 PM

Islamic State video threatens France a day after Paris attacks

Islamic State releases an undated video threatening to attack France if bombings of its fighters continue, a day after gunmen and bombers killed at least 140 people in Paris.
14 November 2015, 09:47 AM

Spain challenges Catalan secession bid

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said yesterday his government had launched a Constitutional Court challenge to a resolution passed by Catalonia's
11 November 2015, 18:00 PM

Five dead in PKK attacks in Turkey

Three Turkish policemen, a civilian and a soldier have been killed in new attacks in the restive southeast blamed on fighters from the rebel Kurdistan Workers'
11 November 2015, 18:00 PM