BRUSSELS - British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday hoped to persuade European Union leaders to delay the United Kingdom's divorce from the bloc by up to three months, with her plans in chaos just eight days before Britain's scheduled departure.
India is presenting a special "gift" to the world.
Following a phoned-in bomb alert, dozens of people were evacuated from a street near European Union headquarters on Tuesday morning, just two days before the EU summit. The street was reopened by noon after Brussels police had inspected the area and declared it safe.
A father and son who fled the civil war in Syria for "the safest country in the world" were buried before hundreds of mourners on Wednesday. They were the first funerals for victims of shootings at two New Zealand mosques, The Associated Press reported.
NAIROBI, Kenya - Luggard, a lively three-year-old, limps behind the rest of his ragtag troupe of orphan elephants, halting to graze or rub against a tree.
JAKARTA/SINGAPORE/PARIS - The pilots of a doomed Lion Air Boeing 737 Max scoured a handbook as they struggled to understand why the jet was lurching downward, but ran out of time before it hit the water, three people with knowledge of the cockpit voice recorder contents said.
Japan will participate in its first military mission since WWII that isn't affiliated with a mission of the United Nations. Tokyo confirmed on Tuesday that members of its Self-Defense Force will be sent for peacekeeping duties in Egypt in April, a move that observers view as a solid step to loosening the shackles of the country's postwar pacifist constitution.
DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria - US-backed Syrian forces said they were close to defeating the Islamic State group in its final scrap of territory at Baghouz in eastern Syria after seizing an encampment from the jihadists on Tuesday, though the battle was not over yet.
The US federal transportation and justice departments are reportedly reviewing how the Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft was certified for commercial flight prior to fatal crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.
Singapore and Malaysia's move to suspend overlapping port claims is the first crucial step toward a peaceful resolution of their maritime dispute and other diplomatic sticking points between the two countries, analysts said.
Personal data that digital advertising technology companies are harvesting from visitors to European Union government sites is in apparent violation of EU data protection law, a study has found.
The fourth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly concluded last week in Nairobi, with a strong commitment to speed up actions toward protecting the planet's degraded resources.
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