Washington Launches Earthquake Warning System
The earthquake early warning system, called ShakeAlert, now spans the West Coast.
The earthquake early warning system, called ShakeAlert, now spans the West Coast.
Scientists say recent pledges by the United States and others could help cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
The company providing internet services for Belgium’s parliament, government agencies, universities and scientific institutions says its network has been hit by a large cyberattack.
Britain has agreed to increase cooperation with India in areas including trade, science and health as Indian authorities battle a surge in coronavirus infections that threatens to overwhelm the nation’s health care system.
The exiled Belarusian opposition leader has called for sustained international focus on the struggle for democracy in her country against long-ruling authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko.
An Albania lawmaker says the governing left-wing Socialist Party legislators have started the impeachment process against the country’s president who they accuse of violating the constitution during the last election.
The U.S. and the U.K. are dimissing reports coming out of Iran that they are thrashing out a prisoner exchange deal with Tehran that could see the imminent release of a British-Iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and four Americans, among others.
Mexico’s president has apologised to the indigenous Mayan people for abuses committed against them over the five centuries since the Spanish conquest.
A narrow footbridge suspended across a river canyon that claims to be the world’s longest pedestrian bridge has been officially inaugurated in northern Portugal.
The United States and Iran are in active talks over the release of prisoners, but Washington is denying a report by Iranian state-run television that deals had been struck.