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Now displaying: March, 2019
Mar 29, 2019

British lawmakers reject Theresa May's Brexit deal for a third time, and the Red Cross announces a major humanitarian aid operation to help Venezuela.

Mar 28, 2019

'Climate change is moving faster than our efforts to address it,' UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday.

Mar 27, 2019

British Prime Minister Theresa May has offered to resign if parliament can get her Brexit deal across the finish line in the coming days.

Mar 27, 2019

Some national security experts worry post-Mueller report fatigue has created a ripe opportunity to broaden its interference in American politics.

Mar 25, 2019

10 days after being hammered by Cyclone Idai, Mozambique continues to contend with a sprawling flood plain and acute aid constraints.

Mar 23, 2019

President Trump cast aside decades of American foreign policy precedent by announcing U.S. recognition of Israel’s claim to Golan Heights land captured from Syria in a 1967 war.

Mar 21, 2019

New Zealand's prime minister responds to last week's mass shooting in Christchurch by unveiling sweeping gun control legislation.

Mar 20, 2019

European Council President Donald Tusk said he'd back a short Brexit delay on the condition British lawmakers quickly agree on a Brexit deal – something they've thus far failed to do.

Mar 19, 2019

Relief workers are struggling to assess the damage from a tropical cyclone in Mozambique that U.N. meteorologists say is among the worst weather events to ever hit the southern hemisphere.

Mar 18, 2019

Vladimir Putin celebrated the occasion with a concert, even as many legal experts cite the anniversary as a low point of the modern international order.

Mar 15, 2019

China offered the U.S. a goodwill gesture in trade talks on Friday, telling Communist Party officials they shouldn't pressure foreign firms into handing over intellectual property.

Mar 14, 2019

New E.U. data shows a drop in first-time asylum claims, but the 2015 refugee crisis has still left its scars.

Mar 13, 2019

British lawmakers handed Prime Minister Theresa May her second major defeat this week, complicating her pathways to delivering Brexit later this month.

Mar 12, 2019

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's defense of withdrawing U.S. diplomats from Venezuela has led some to think U.S. military action there could be in the works.

Mar 11, 2019

Italy's new right-wing government appears poised to ignore E.U. and American concerns by joining China's massive "Belt Road Initiative" infrastructure project.

Mar 8, 2019

The U.S. is reportedly asking countries that host American military bases to pay "cost plus 50" percent of the bill.

Mar 7, 2019

36 countries spoke out against Saudi Arabia's rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council for the first time on Thursday.

Mar 6, 2019

Economists think President Trump is overly focused on the trade deficit as a measure of good trade policy, though the U.S. does want to continue growing exports.

Mar 5, 2019

President Trump's decision to end preferential trade treatment for Turkey and India could have unintended consequences, especially if India responds by retaliating over U.S. steel tariffs.

Mar 4, 2019

Venezuela's Supreme Court threatened opposition leader Juan Guaidó with 30 years in jail for leaving the country, but police failed to arrest him Monday.

Mar 1, 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to face indictments on bribery and fraud charges, endangering his reelection hopes next month.

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