Seven skiers, two climbers and a guide have died in five separate incidents after bad weather swept through the Alps region on Sunday.Five skiing victims, from France, Italy and Germany, were among a group of 14 who failed to reach a mountain cabin. Police confirmed two French skiers had died in separate incidents in the French Alps. An alarm had …

The Arab Spring uprisings of 2011 seemed at the time to be a major shift in how governments in North Africa were going to be ran, changing from autocratic regimes to democratic ones. Nevertheless, after ten years this has not been the case, as most of these countries are either suffering a raging civil war or a new dictatorship has …

President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to meet Kim Jong Un sets up the prospect of the most mind-boggling diplomatic summit in modern history. Trump, a reality star turned convention busting President, has dubbed Kim “Little Rocket Man” and threatened to rain fire and fury over North Korea, raising fears of a devastating war across the world’s last Cold War frontier. …

Russia is in favor of an open and rules-based trade order to boost global growth, and sanctions imposed against Moscow are a “covert form” of protectionism, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Thursday ahead of a G20 summit in Germany. “I’m convinced that only open trade relations based on uniform norms and standards can stimulate growth of the …

The companies Nexter, ex-Giat Industries, in France, and KMW (Krauss MaffeiWegmann), in Germany, have started to merge on July 1. This will require a privatisation law in France,while KMW is a family-owned business. They will form a joint-venture owned at 50% by each side, with a « golden share » for the French state to protect specific activities such as weapons systems …

U.S. President Donald Trump once more urged NATO allies in Europe on Thursday to spend more on defense, on a visit to Poland that had been billed as an opportunity for him to patch up relations after a tense alliance summit in May. He also said Washington was thinking about “severe things” in response to North Korea’s test-launch this week …

U.S. President Donald Trump meets eastern NATO allies in Warsaw on Thursday amid expectations he will reaffirm Washington’s commitment to counter threats from Russia after unnerving them in May by failing to endorse the principle of collective defense. En route to a potentially fractious G20 summit in Germany, Trump will take part in a gathering of leaders from central Europe, …

In a revolt in a Brazilian prison, two prisoners have been beheaded and another killed by being thrown off a roof. The revolt started over the conditions of life in the jails, as prisoners were demanding better food and medical care in the prison , according to Jairo Ferreira, lawyer for the prison guards’ union. The conviction of two inmates …

A month after Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic, trade and transport ties with Qatar, accusing it of backing terrorism, it is suffering from isolation but is nowhere near an economic crisis.

Nearly 350 victims of human trafficking have been rescued by police in 13 Caribbean and Latin American countries. The Interpol-coordinated Operation Libertad saved men, women and children trafficked abroad and forced into work. Victims were found working in night clubs, factories, markets, farms and mines. Some worked in spaces “no bigger than coffins,” said Cem Kolcu of Interpol’s human trafficking …