Efforts to keep the Amazon rainforest standing and reduce Brazil's planet-warming emissions are being hampered by budget cuts for the country's environmental watchdog and its main climate change program, researchers have said. Brazil has seen a sharp spike in deforestation under the...

French arms sales dropped nearly 8.6 percent last year to 8.3 billion euros ($9.3 billion) from 2018, with the United Arab Emirates -- a key player in the Yemen conflict -- still a leading client, a government report said Tuesday. France is regularly criticised by rights groups for arms...

Joe Biden on Tuesday blistered President Donald Trump a day after police drove back peaceful protesters near the White House so Trump could pose with a Bible before a damaged church. Biden said Trump's “narcissism has become more important than the nation that he leads.” The presumptive...

Dubai will allow the full reopening of malls and private businesses starting Wednesday, its media office said, after the gleaming United Arab Emirates business hub began easing restrictions last month. Some retail and wholesale businesses reopened in May, subject to sterilization operations...