Russian president says it is ‘too early’ in investigation to consider a prisoner swap and accuses Ukraine government of provocation

A British zoo has defended its decision to kill a rare snow leopard that got out of its enclosure when a door was left open.

Chinese and U.S. presidents meet as trade tiff looms over summit

NEW YORK – French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pressed Russian Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian sailors who were seized along with their ships by Russia last month, Putin’s spokesman said.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has been sworn in as Mexico’s first leftist president in seven decades, marking a turning point in one of the world’s most extreme experiments in market opening and privatization.

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Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.8 rocked buildings and shattered roads Friday morning in Anchorage, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a warning to residents in Kodiak to flee to higher ground for fear of a tsunami.

George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, has died. He was 94.

After fleeing a wildfire that came dangerously close to his Northern California home earlier this month, Dale Word evacuated again when flash floods inundated roads and trapped motorists and residents.

Fifty-one pilot whales died Friday in a mass stranding in New Zealand, less than a week after 145 pilot whales and nine pygmy killer whales perished in two other unrelated strandings.

For the first time in more than a decade, a train has travelled from South Korea across the heavily guarded border into North Korea.