North Korea said Thursday that it carried out a series of weapons tests this week, including a tactical ballistic missile with a cluster-bomb warhead.

Protesters marched to the Argentine Congress in Buenos Aires on Wednesday (April 8) to demand the preservation of current glacier protections as lawmakers began debating a new law. Nina Liu has more.

W HEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP announced a two-week ceasefire in the Gulf and “the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz”, energy traders breathed a sigh of relief. For almost six weeks 15% of the world’s oil production and a fifth of its liquefied natural gas ( LNG) output have been trapped by Iran’s blockade.

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday effectively criminalized the activities of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning rights group Memorial, the latest step in an unrelenting crackdown on dissent and civil society organizations in the country amid its war in Ukraine.

Migrants were carried away by dangerous currents while trying to embark on a boat used by traffickers, French authorities said, the latest in a series of deaths in the English Channel.

With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo. “We are now at about minus 430 meters (1,411 feet),” muttered geologist Tuomas Pere as he steered a car through a labyrinth of man-made tunnels.

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change​ pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction, the global authority on threatened wildlife says.

A 21-year-old Pakistani citizen has pleaded guilty to plotting an Islamic State-inspired mass shooting at a prominent Brooklyn, N.Y., Jewish center.