Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon fell in July to its lowest level for the month since 2017, preliminary government figures showed on Thursday, boosting President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s stature on environmental policy ahead of a summit of rainforest nations.

Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to criminal charges that he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election and defraud the American people.

The world’s oceans set a temperature record in the past week, with their surface hitting 20.96 degrees Celsius (69.7 Fahrenheit), European Union climate observatory data showed yesterday.

Britain's King Charles will mark the first anniversary of the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II privately, British media reported Friday

The United Nations and Amnesty International today called on Bangladeshi authorities to refrain from excessive use of force amid recurring violence and mass arrests ahead of general elections

Two US Navy sailors have been arrested on charges of handing over sensitive national security material to China, US officials said Thursday.

Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Thursday to charges he orchestrated a plot to try to overturn his 2020 election loss in what US prosecutors call an unprecedented effort by the then-president to undermine the pillars of American democracy

Donald Trump was expected to appear in court yesterday to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a case that will cast a dark and volatile cloud over the 2024 White House race for which he remains the presumptive Republican nominee.

Thailand’s parliament yesterday postponed a vote to choose a new prime minister after a Constitutional Court ruling, prolonging the kingdom’s political deadlock nearly three months after an election.

Fighters from Russia’s private Wagner mercenary force are being moved close to Nato’s eastern flank to destabilise the military alliance, Poland’s prime minister said yesterday.

A newly discovered whale that lived nearly 40 million years ago could be the heaviest animal to have ever lived, based on a partial skeleton found in Peru, scientists said on Wednesday.

German police have arrested a Syrian national on crimes against humanity and war crimes including enslavement for allegedly taking part in a brutal crackdown on government opponents, prosecutors said yesterday.

At least 15 people were killed yesterday when a bus carrying locals and migrants plummeted into a ravine in northeastern Mexico, a fire department official said.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken took aim at Russia at the UN Security Council yesterday, accusing Moscow of “blackmail” over its recent withdrawal from a key grain initiative.

Massive wildfires in Canada have already spewed out twice the smoke emissions than the previous whole-year record, the EU’s climate monitor said yesterday, with the blazes expected to continue to scorch their way through forests for weeks or even months.

Thousands of people rallied in Niger’s capital yesterday in support of the coup that toppled the democratically elected government, as security concerns mounted among Western nations.

The UN sounded the alarm Wednesday of impending famine in Sudan, where months of war have hit food supplies and pushed nearly four million people to flee the fighting.

Users aged 16 to 18 would be allowed two hours a day, children aged eight to 16 would get one hour while children under eight would be allowed just eight minutes

Donald Trump is expected to appear in court on Thursday to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, a case that will cast a dark and volatile cloud over the 2024 White House race for which he remains the presumptive Republican nominee

The West African bloc ECOWAS believes that intervening militarily in Niger to restore the country’s elected president following a coup is a “last resort”, a senior ECOWAS official said yesterday.