The United States successfully tested hypersonic missile technology, a new weapons system which is already being deployed by China and Russia, the US Navy said Thursday. 

The carbon-intensive production of plastics is on pace to emit more greenhouse gases than coal-fired power plants within this decade, undercutting global efforts to tackle climate change, a report released on Thursday said. 

The United Arab Emirates said yesterday it had detained a journalist after comments they made off the air ahead of a televised international football match were hacked and posted online.

The carbon pollution of a handful of countries has brought humanity to its knees and they bear the greatest responsibility. I hope we are still on time to avoid a failure in Glasgow, but time is running short, and things are getting more difficult and that is why I’m very very worried. I’m afraid things might get wrong.

Italy should urgently launch a public inquiry into its handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Amnesty International rights group said yesterday, as lawmakers in Rome dithered over the issue.

European leaders heaped praise on German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday as she attended what is likely her last EU summit after a 16-year reign heavily influencing the bloc through major ups and downs. 

Mali’s government has denied that it plans to negotiate with jihadists, walking back an earlier statement from its religion ministry saying that it would do so.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, 95, was resting yesterday and undertaking light duties after she spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what Buckingham Palace termed “preliminary investigations”.

Ethiopia yesterday launched fresh air strikes on the capital of its war-hit Tigray region, the fourth day this week the city has been targeted, a government spokeswoman told AFP.

At least 10 dissidents from the former FARC guerrilla group were killed in clashes with the army in southwest Colombia, a military source said on Thursday.

Forty-three countries have called on China to “ensure full respect for the rule of law” for the Muslim Uyghur community in Xinjiang, in a statement read at the United Nations on Thursday that sparked outrage from Beijing.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that the United States will soon launch an Amazon-wide regional pact to reduce deforestation, a bid to fight a key factor in climate change.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen yesterday said it had killed at least 92 Huthi rebels in air strikes on two districts in the past 24 hours near the strategic city of Marib. 

US intelligence services said Thursday for the first time that climate change poses wide-ranging threats to the United States’ national security and stability around the world. 

US envoy for Iran Robert Malley was scheduled to meet diplomats from three European powers over the Iranian nuclear crisis as Vienna-based

Fifteen people died and one person was missing after a fire broke out at a Russian explosives factory southeast of Moscow yesterday,

The Kremlin said on Friday that NATO's adoption of a new Russia-focused strategy confirmed that Moscow's decision to sever ties with the bloc had been correct.

Sixteen people were killed in an explosion and fire at a gunpowder and chemicals plant in Russia's western Ryazan province, TASS news agency reported on Friday, citing a source.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 95, will spend Friday resting and undertaking light duties after she spent a night in hospital for the first time in years for what Buckingham Palace termed "preliminary investigations".

Barbados has elected its first-ever president to replace Britain's Queen Elizabeth as head of state in a decisive step toward shedding the Caribbean island's colonial past.