Russian President Vladimir Putin will address on October 5 the newly-elected State Duma, as the legislative body hold its first plenary meeting since last month’s elections. …
continue readingA defining vote in the race to replace Ban Ki-moon as the United Nations’ chief will take place on October 5 in the Security Council. …
continue readingThe two U.S. vice presidential contenders, Democrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence, met in their only debate Tuesday in Farmville, Virginia. Both men spent most of the time attacking…
continue readingWhen Republican Mike Pence and Democrat Tim Kaine sat across from each other Tuesday night, voters in the U.S. got their first actual debate about the policies Donald Trump or…
continue readingHurricane Matthew, the biggest Atlantic hurricane in a decade, is expected to hit Florida’s east coast on Friday, and residents in states along the Atlantic are being warned to get…
continue readingSince the end of the Vietnam war in 1975, the Vietnamese community in Houston has grown from a few hundred people to well over 100,000, fed partly by new immigrants,…
continue readingTens of thousands of women in the United States afflicted with an aggressive form of breast cancer have joined together to help cure the disease. They are part of a…
continue readingThe race for the next U.N. Secretary-General enters a decisive phase on Wednesday, as the U.N. Security Council moves to the next level of voting. The 15-member council is tasked…
continue readingTim Kaine and Mike Pence met in Farmville, Virginia for the first and only vice presidential debate of the 2016 campaign. …
continue readingA short-handed U.S. Supreme Court opened the second day of its new judicial term Tuesday, hearing oral arguments in an appeal of a corruption case against a senator in Puerto…
continue readingDemocrat Tim Kaine and Republican Mike Pence faced off Tuesday night in the only vice presidential debate of the 2016 campaign season. CBS News journalist Elaine Quijano moderated the debate…
continue readingMurders in Honduras are on track to decline in 2016 even as the government’s military drive against organized crime is running out of steam, the Observatory of Violence at the…
continue readingColombia’s rejection of a deal to end 52 years of civil war will not end U.S. plans to send significant aid next year, although it might prompt lawmakers to keep…
continue readingKurdish officials say Islamic State militants are planning to meet a liberation offensive in Mosul with mass killings and widespread destruction of the historic Iraqi city. IS fighters have been…
continue readingParticipation by non-OPEC countries in a deal to stabilize oil prices would remove a total of 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd) from an oversupplied market, Venezuela’s Oil Minister Eulogio…
continue readingSouth Sudanese refugees who fled to neighboring Uganda from Morobo County in the Yei River State of South Sudan last week say people are dying in the refugee camps. They…
continue readingNigeria’s former national security adviser, held since December 2015 on fraud charges, should be released, a judge at the court of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ruled…
continue readingU.S. investigators have recovered a data recorder, video recorder and the engineer’s cellphone from the front car of the New Jersey train that crashed last week in Hoboken, N.J., killing…
continue readingThe Pentagon is questioning Russia’s decision to add more air defense missiles to its military operation in Syria. Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook called on Russia to “explain” why it…
continue readingUp to 34,000 transgender people in the United States could face problems voting in next month’s election because their ID cards do not match their gender, advocacy groups said, urging…
continue readingProtesters at South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand overturned a police vehicle and threw stones Tuesday as violence at nationwide demonstrations over high tuition fees escalated. Police fired stun grenades,…
continue readingRussia’s Foreign Ministry rejected U.S. reports that two officials traveling with diplomatic passports were drugged while attending a conference in St. Petersburg last year, suggesting instead that they might have…
continue readingThe landmark Paris climate change treaty moved ahead Tuesday after backing from the European Parliament, which paved the way for the 28-member European Union to ratify it this week. The…
continue readingNestle’s Nespresso brand said it had halted coffee operations for now in South Sudan, where opposition leader Riek Machar has called for a return to war against the government. “We…
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