The main global group for certifying sustainable wood has suspended plans to give its influential endorsement to Indonesian paper giant Sinarmas after revelations it cut down tropical forests and used an opaque corporate structure to hide its activities.
Read moreThe Turkish lira continued to rebound from record losses on Thursday a day after Qatar pledged $15 billion in investments to help Turkey’s economy.
Read moreA special United Nations panel is urging Bahrain to immediately release imprisoned activist Nabeel Rajab, describing him as the victim of government-sponsored “persecution” for his political views in the island kingdom.
Read moreMalaysia’s new government on Thursday repealed a widely criticized law prohibiting “fake news,” in a move hailed as a landmark moment for human rights by a group of Southeast Asian lawmakers.
Read moreThe Polish president has vetoed a law on elections to the European Union Parliament that would have benefited large political parties and made it harder for small parties to reach a threshold to get seats.
Read moreTwo Southeast Asian women on trial for the brazen assassination of the North Korean leader’s half brother were told to begin their defense Thursday, extending the trial for several more months.
Read moreChina says it is challenging a U.S. tariff hike on solar panels before the World Trade Organization, adding to its sprawling conflicts with President Donald Trump over trade and technology.
Read moreDenmark is to erect a 43.4-mile fence along the German border to keep out wild boars, in the hope of preventing the spread of African swine fever, which can jeopardize the country’s valuable pork industry.
Read moreJapan raised alert levels on a small southern volcanic island on Wednesday, urging its 105 residents to prepare for an evacuation amid growing risks of an eruption.
Read moreIndia will send a manned flight into space by 2022, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced Wednesday as part of India’s independence day celebrations.
Read morePolice in London have returned a 12th century statue of Buddha to India after recovering it 57 years after it was stolen.
Read moreFollowing a bridge collapse in Genoa that killed at least 39 people, the leader of the Italy’s anti-business party took aim Wednesday at the private company in charge of highway maintenance.
Read moreA court in Istanbul has ordered the release of the former Turkey chairman of Amnesty International, the rights group reported Wednesday.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday struck down a lawsuit claiming Chevron funded deadly acts of terrorism through its illegal oil payments to former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Read more(CN) – The U.S. Department of Justice reached a record settlement of $4.9 billion with the Royal Bank of Scotland for “financial-crisis era mismanagement.”
Read moreAttorneys pushed a federal judge Tuesday to order relief for six foreign-born children who say their parents are being coerced by the government into waiving their asylum claims.
Read moreSpurred to investigate reports that juvenile immigrants face systemic abuses at a jail in southwestern Virginia, state officials largely cleared the federally run detention center of wrongdoing.
Read moreChina appealed to Washington on Tuesday not to misuse security concerns to hamper business activity after President Donald Trump signed a law that expands the jurisdiction of an investment review panel.
Read moreA bridge on a main highway linking Italy with France collapsed Tuesday in the Italian port city of Genoa during a sudden, violent storm, sending vehicles plunging nearly 150 feet into a heap of rubble below. A transport official said at least 22 people were killed and eight injured in the tragedy.
Read moreThe Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers while Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city’s outskirts, officials said.
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