Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday said officials needed to do more work before she could hold fresh talks with the United States on renewing NAFTA as time runs out to reach a deal. A well-placed source had earlier told Reuters that Freeland planned to return to Washington forContinue Reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that he wanted to sign a formal peace treaty with Japan ending hostilities from World War II by the end of the year without conditions. Seventy-three years after the war concluded, the two countries remain technically at war because of a territorial dispute overContinue Reading
A Renoir masterpiece stolen by the Nazis in World War II is back in the hands of the Jewish family who owned it. Sylvie Sulitzer, granddaughter of the original owner, received the painting, “Two Women in a Garden,” at a ceremony Wednesday at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NewContinue Reading
British, French and German fighter jets simulated flight interceptions over Western Europe on Wednesday as part of NATO drills to deter Russian planes from entering allied airspace and to showcase European efforts to integrate their air defenses.. Fighter pilots carrying air-to-air missiles from 10 NATO nations took turns to simulateContinue Reading
Planned Parenthood has picked a first-generation Chinese immigrant and, for the first time in some 50 years, a physician to lead the beleaguered organization. Leana Wen was an emergency room doctor before she left to become health commissioner for the city of Baltimore. In a video released Wednesday by PlannedContinue Reading
The last time Britain accused two Russians of an assassination, one of them ended up in the Russian parliament. The case of Andrei Lugovoi, a key suspect in the 2006 killing of ex-KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko, shows how the two alleged Russian military intelligence operatives accused by Britain of poisoningContinue Reading
The Border Patrol arrested dramatically more immigrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border in August compared with previous months in a spike that a Trump administration official said Wednesday was the result of legal loopholes allowing parents and children to avoid immediate deportation to their homelands in Central America. The numberContinue Reading
Tests showed that E.coli bacteria were behind the deaths of two British tourists in a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Hurghada, the country’s chief prosecutor said Wednesday. The statement by prosecutor Nabil Sadek came a week after travel company Thomas Cook said that there was a “high levelContinue Reading
Nataša Kandić, the formidable Serbian human rights campaigner and Nobel Peace prize nominee, shrugs. “Nobody likes the truth,” she says. For almost three decades Kandić has been a thorn in the side of those who butchered, raped and tortured during the Balkans wars of the 1990s. She documented abuses andContinue Reading
European Union legislators took the unprecedented step Wednesday to begin process of imposing sanctions on Hungary for presenting a “systematic threat” to the bloc’s Democratic values. The European Parliament voted 448-197 to launch an Article Seven process, which could result in the suspension of Hungary’s EU voting rights. The voteContinue Reading