The top U.N. expert on Palestinian rights said on Friday that the U.S. decision to place her under sanctions could have a ...

Embargoes often have serious, negative effects on a country's economy. An embargo is an official ban issued by a government ...

Cuba's Deputy Director of U.S. Affairs, Johana Tablada, criticizes current U.S. policy and calls on Americans to consider the impact of sanctions.

China is studying ways to soon lift its ban on imports of chicken meat from Brazil, in place since the South American nation ...

Luis Arce pointed out that his country supports "the call by most states demanding the immediate and unconditional lifting" of the trade embargo against Cuba, which the US ignores ...

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has killed millions, including thousands this year.

Around 20 percent of global oil and gas flows through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman, and the countries most dependent on those shipments are China, India, Japan and South Korea ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a bill banning cellphone use at school, the latest in a trend growing nationally and worldwide.

Tornado outbreak live updates: 40 dead in cross-country storm system A new tornado watch was issued Sunday for parts of West Virginia, Ohio and PA.

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

The country generated 1, 836 terawatt-hours of wind and solar last year. All of Europe, for comparison, generated 990 TWh over the same period. But despite that huge amount of renewable energy ...

BONN (Reuters) -Countries agreed on Thursday to increase the U.N. climate body's budget by 10% for the next two years, a move the body welcomed as a commitment by governments to work together to ...