California and China, building on their successful partnership on climate and clean energy, have pledged to raise their ambitions to lead the global fight against climate change.
ACCRA, Ghana - World leaders past and present, traditional rulers and global royalty on Thursday joined the family of Kofi Annan, as the former UN secretary-general's state funeral took place in his native Ghana.
BRUSSELS - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a rare political setback on Wednesday as European Union lawmakers voted to pursue unprecedented action against his government for allegedly undermining the bloc's democratic values and rule of law.
LOS ANGELES - An unidentified gunman shot and killed his wife and four other people in a series of shootings on Wednesday in Southern California before taking his own life, police said.
WASHINGTON - Terrorism is still a threat to the United States, even 17 years after terrorists killed nearly 3,000 civilians in the Sept 11, 2001 attack on New York and Washington, US experts said.
CURITIBA, Brazil - Brazil's most popular politician, imprisoned former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on Tuesday ended his legal battle to run for the top office in next month's election.
WILMINGTON, North Carolina - Coastal residents fleeing a potentially devastating blow from Hurricane Florence encountered empty gasoline pumps and depleted store shelves as the monster storm neared the Carolina coast with 225 km/h winds and drenching rain that could last for days.
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said that it is "absolutely essential" to avoid a full-scale attack on Syria's Idlib, the last major rebel stronghold in the country.
The European Union will send an extra 10,000 border guards to its external boundaries in an attempt to stem the tide of illegal immigration, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in his annual state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday.
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Russian President Vladimir Putin turned to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a conference stage on Wednesday and offered to sign a peace deal to end a decades-old territorial dispute by the end of the year.
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