World

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (Reuters) – Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives yesterday, telling them: “We are losing the battle”.

(Reuters) – Ottawa plans early next year to create an independent office to oversee Canadian mining, oil and gas companies’ activities abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, a move that environmental and human rights groups have long demanded.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The World Bank will no longer finance upstream oil and gas projects after 2019, apart from certain gas projects in the poorest countries in exceptional circumstances, it said on Tuesday, drawing praise from environmental groups.

CHICAGO/LONDON,  (Reuters) – When French drugmaker Sanofi published the results of clinical trials of children given its dengue vaccine two years ago, the overall findings were that it protected against the world’s biggest and fastest growing mosquito-borne disease.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are “a step away from famine” in Yemen, a senior U.N.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi man set off a homemade pipe bomb strapped to his body in a crowded New York City commuter hub during the morning rush hour yesterday, officials said, immediately calling it an attempted terrorist attack.

(Reuters) – The U.S. government yesterday urged a federal appeals court to issue an order blocking a lawsuit over climate change brought by a group of Oregon teenagers, warning that allowing it to go forward could lead to a constitutional crisis.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday condemned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s threat to ban opposition parties from participating in next year’s presidential elections.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., (Reuters) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore touted his ties to President Donald Trump yesterday in the final stretch of an election campaign in Alabama in which Moore has battled accusations of sexual misconduct toward teenagers.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Three women who have accused U.S. President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct called on Monday for a congressional investigation into his behaviour amid a wave of similar accusations against prominent men in Hollywood, the media and politics.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A Bangladeshi man with a homemade bomb strapped to his body set off an explosion at a New York commuter hub during rush hour today, wounding himself and three others in what New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called an attempted terrorist attack.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. job growth increased at a strong clip in November, painting a portrait of a healthy economy that analysts say does not require the kind of fiscal stimulus that President Donald Trump is proposing, even though wage gains remain moderate.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli security guard at Jerusalem’s main bus station yesterday, police said, and violence flared near the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party won at least 90 percent of the 335 mayorships contested in yesterday’s local elections, President Nicolas Maduro said.

DHAKA,  (Reuters) – Bangladesh’s finance minister said late on Saturday he wanted to “wipe out” a Philippines bank that was used to channel $81 million stolen from the Bangladeshi central bank’s account with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last year.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., (Reuters) – A massive California wildfire that has already destroyed nearly 800 structures scorched another 56,000 acres yesterday, making it the fifth largest such blaze in recorded state history, as it ran toward picturesque coastal cities.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Some trains were cancelled, flights were grounded and a rugby match was called off today after Britain experienced heavy snow fall in some areas.

CAIRO/GAZA (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will not meet US Vice President Mike Pence during Pence’s visit to the region this month in a snub over the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the Palestinian Foreign Minister said on Saturday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump on Saturday juxtaposed a high-profile murder case involving an illegal immigrant from Mexico with efforts in Congress to protect undocumented immigrants brought into the United States when they were children.