Category: 4. World

On July 14, US President Donald Trump gave his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin another 50 days to reach a peace deal with Ukraine. He also threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia’s trading partners if the ceasefire failed to…

The Metropolitan Police plans to close half the front desks at its stations to save money, the BBC has learned.

The move would reduce the number of counters across London from 37 to 19, reducing places where people can walk in and speak to an…

Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner, who jumped down to earth from the stratosphere in a 2012 stunt, died in a paragliding accident in the eastern Italian town of Porto Sant’Elpidio on Thursday.

According to local media, the 56-year-old…

Brazilian lawmakers have passed a bill that drastically weakens the country’s environmental safeguards and is seen by many activists as the most significant setback for the country’s environmental legislation in the past 40 years.

The new law…

The identities of more than 100 British officials, including members of the special forces and MI6, were compromised in a data breach that also put thousands of Afghans at risk of reprisal, it can be reported.

The latest fallout from the breach…

Rumors of a government reshuffle had been circulating in Ukraine for the past three years and now they have become reality. On Thursday, the Ukrainian parliament approved the nomination of Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister. Svyrydenko is a…

NATO forces could capture Russia’s heavily fortified Kaliningrad Oblast “in a timeframe that is unheard of” if necessary, U.S. Army Europe and Africa commander General Chris Donahue said, Defense News reported on July 17.

Kaliningrad Oblast,…