RIMBO, Sweden - Yemen's warring parties have agreed to a ceasefire on a vital port in a series of breakthroughs in United Nations-brokered peace talks that could mark a major turning point after four years of devastating conflict.
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders have rebuffed a plea by British Prime Minister Theresa May to help her sell her Brexit deal to the UK parliament, warning that she must set out exactly what she wants - and announcing they would step up contingency plans in case the deal collapses.
PARIS - A delegation of China's National People's Congress briefed French legislators and local officials on the great achievements in Tibet's socioeconomic development during a visit to France from Sunday to Thursday.
Leaders from Asian communities, representatives from the provincial government and opposition parties as well as young people gathered at Queen's Park in Toronto, Canada, to observe the 81st anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre on Thursday.
The man that the authorities believe killed three people during a rampage near a Christmas market in Strasbourg died on Thursday in a shootout with police at the end of a two-day manhunt, authorities said. The Paris prosecutor's office identified the man killed in the eastern French city as 29-year-old Cherif Chekatt, a Strasbourg-born man with a long history of convictions for various crimes, including robberies. Five people have been arrested in connection with the investigation.
WASHINGTON - US National Security Adviser John Bolton on Thursday rolled out the US government's new Africa strategy, which threatens to put an end to the nation's support for UN peacekeeping missions on the continent.
MOSCOW - In her workshop in a Moscow attic, Maria Andrianova is using a sewing technique she learned from elderly women in the forested Karelia region of northwestern Russia.
Theresa May is to continue as British prime minister after surviving a vote of no confidence in her leadership from members of her own Conservative Party.
ANKARA - A high-speed train hit a railway engine and crashed into a pedestrian overpass at a station in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday, killing nine people and injuring 47 others, officials said.
LOS ANGELES - Insurance claims from the recent spate of US California wildfires, including one ranked as the most deadly and destructive in state history, have topped $9 billion and are expected to grow, the state insurance commissioner reported on Wednesday.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for political compromises and sacrifices as the negotiations to finalize implementation guidelines for the Paris agreement near an end and "key political issues remain unresolved".
The countries that make up the BASIC bloc said they are confident of a positive result and vowed to exercise flexibility to help finalize the Paris climate change agreement.
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