Special Report: The three young women racing to defuse a climate-change bomb
Banking hard over the whitecaps off the west coast of Norway, the jetliner flying Dominika Pasternak and her fellow scientists descends so sharply that it seems for a moment as if the crew is about to ditch them all in the drink.
Striking students tell world leaders ‘do your jobs’ on climate
Hundreds of thousands of students, office workers and other protesters took to the streets across the globe on Friday to demand urgent action to avert an environmental catastrophe from world leaders gathering for a U.N. climate summit.
German coalition reaches deal on new climate package: source
Germany’s governing parties on Friday agreed a new climate protection package, including a domestic carbon price and the possibility of more stringent measures in future, a source close to the talks said.
Record 12.4 million people reached with food aid in Yemen: U.N.
A record 12.4 million people in Yemen received food aid in August, the first time the targeted population was reached fully, the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.
Iran’s Zarif says Saudi, UAE want to “fight Iran to the last American”
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Friday that U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates seem to wish to “fight Iran to the last American”.
Indonesia shelves vote on penal code criminalizing extramarital sex
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Friday ordered a delay in a parliamentary vote on a new penal code criminalizing sex outside marriage and same-sex relations, which has been criticized by rights groups as an assault on basic freedoms.
Former minister from India’s ruling party arrested over alleged rape
A former government minister and senior member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was arrested on Friday in connection with rape and sexual harassment allegations made by a law student, police and his lawyer said.
Kremlin says Venezuela’s Maduro due in Moscow soon for talks
The Kremlin said on Friday that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was due in Moscow soon for talks.
Russia frees jailed actor after public outcry over crackdown
A Moscow court on Friday ordered the release of Pavel Ustinov, an actor whose conviction for injuring a police officer at an opposition protest, sparked a public outcry in Russia.
Afghanistan hospital attack deaths rise to 39, with 140 wounded: Afghan official
A Taliban suicide bombing of a hospital in southern Afghanistan killed 39 people, almost doubling the previous death toll of 20, a provincial governor spokesman said on Friday.
