A powerful blast ripped through a restaurant in northern Japan late Sunday, injuring 42 people, starting fires that took hours to bring under control and leading several neighbouring buildings to collapse, officials and reports said.
Nations on Sunday struck a deal to breathe life into the landmark 2015 Paris climate treaty after marathon UN talks that failed to match the ambition the world’s most vulnerable countries need to avert dangerous global warming.
Dozens of nations threatened with catastrophe from unchecked climate change warned on Thursday they "face extinction" without immediate action to rein in mankind's emissions, as UN climate talks limped towards their conclusion.
Moscow is convinced that the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) is still binding on Russia and the United States, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday.
North Korean propaganda outlets blasted South Korea on Friday for increasing its defence budget for next year, calling it an outright violation of an inter-Korean military deal to reduce cross-border tensions.
EU leaders rebuffed a plea by Theresa May on Thursday to help her sell her Brexit deal to parliament, warning she must set out exactly what she wants - and announcing they would step up contingency plans in case the deal collapses.
The gunman who killed three people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg was shot dead by French police on Thursday as the Islamic State jihadist group claimed him as one of its "soldiers".
Insurance claims from the recent devastating California wildfires that killed at least 89 people and destroyed 19,000 homes and businesses have reached at least $9 billion, the state’s insurance commissioner said on Wednesday.
Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday a second Canadian was being questioned by China, after Beijing earlier this week notified Ottawa it had detained a former Canadian diplomat.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sought to rescue deeply troubled climate talks in Poland on Wednesday, warning the battle against global warming is a "matter of life and death today."
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent a bill to Congress Wednesday to revoke a controversial education reform launched by his predecessor that sparked violent protests by teachers.
South and North Korea held working-level talks on Thursday to set up a groundbreaking ceremony for their project to modernise North Korean railways and roads and connect them to the South.
British Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday survived a confidence vote by her own MPs but lost the support of one third of her colleagues, signalling the battle she still faces to get her Brexit deal through parliament.
United Nations chief Antonio Guterres is expected to attend peace talks between Yemen’s warring sides in Sweden on Thursday.
A massive fireworks explosion during a procession at a Mexican church killed eight people today and left some 50 wounded, authorities said.
An angry Donald Trump told Democratic leaders at the White House today that he will shut down the US government because they refuse to approve billions of dollars in funding for his controversial Mexico border wall.
A gunman killed at least three people and wounded a dozen others at the famed Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday before fleeing the scene, authorities said.
Embattled British Prime Minister Theresa May met sympathy but a firm rebuff on a lightning tour of European capitals on Tuesday, with EU leaders ruling out any renegotiation of the Brexit deal.
A Canadian judge granted bail Tuesday to a top Huawei executive after her arrest on a US warrant, in a case that has frayed relations between the North American allies and China.
Morocco and the UN organise, on 10-11 December, an intergovernmental Conference on migration which adopted the Global Compact for Migration after having been negotiated in New-York.
 and Diana Guzman, Chair of Prudence Foundation and Chief Sustainability Officer, Prudential plc (second from left) at the launch of Talk It Out in Vietnam)
