Residents can now possess and share up to 30 grams of the drug in public Canada has embarked on one of its most ambitious public and economic experiments in decades, with adults now able to buy marijuana legally. Canadians in Newfoundland in the east were the first to have legal ...

City of Chengdu unveils plans to replace streetlights with a satellite that boosts glow of real moon China is planning to launch its own “artificial moon” by the year 2020, it has been reported. The city of Chengdu has unveiled plans to replace the city’s streetlights with a satellite that ...

South Korea’s president spoke of “heart-warming” moves toward peace on the Korean peninsula on Wednesday, a day before he is expected to relay an invitation to Pope Francis to visit North Korea. Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, the number two in the Vatican, said a Mass in St. Peter’s ...

AIN ATA, Lebanon: Nestled in the mountains of the Rashaya district, covered by greenery and carrying the scent of fresh air, residents of the small village of Ain Ata are proud of “their son” Fernando Haddad, who is running in Brazil’s presidential elections. A former mayor of Sao Paulo, Haddad ...

UNITED NATIONS — The 193-member United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday allowed the Palestinians to act more like a full UN member state during meetings in 2019 when they will chair the group of 77 developing nations. The United States, Israel, and Australia voted against the move, which won 146 ...

The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained in Guatemala on Tuesday as the U.S. government threatened to withdraw aid from both countries and El Salvador if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped. Up to 3,000 migrants, according to organizers’ estimates, crossed ...

With tension mounting in Idlib, people trying to flee across the border are being given the choice of detention or waiving their right to asylum Tareq* can recall in detail each of the 22 times he climbed over the concrete border wall, dodged a flurry of bullets, and sprinted as ...

The two Koreas agreed on Monday to begin reconnecting rail and road links, another step in an improving relationship in spite of U.S. concerns that the rapid North-South thaw could undermine efforts to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons. The agreement on transport links came during talks ...

Exit polls show CSU losing majority it has long enjoyed as far-right AfD makes gains Angela Merkel’s conservative partners in Bavaria have had their worst election performance for more than six decades, in a humiliating state poll result that is likely to further weaken Germany’s embattled coalition government. The Christian ...

Thousands of Palestinians laid the body of 47-year-old Aisha al-Rabi to rest, in her hometown of Bidya, in the northern occupied West Bank district of Salfit, on Saturday afternoon. The funeral procession set off from the hospital, where her she was pronounced dead, towards al-Rabi’s home before burial took place ...