US and Canada reach last-minute deal to replace Nafta with new trade agreement

New deal will be called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA

China’s Wanda group has signed a deal to build a sprawling complex for patriotic tourists to visit a site where the ruling Communist Party’s traces its revolutionary roots in northwestern Shaanxi province.

Two families were killed in the same house in Sicily when the torrential rains and high winds lashing Italy caused a river to burst its banks, drowning the nine people inside.

Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo used face-to-face meetings with Pakistani leaders on Wednesday to renew demands that they do more to stamp out Islamist militants and support a fledgling U.S. peace effort with the Taliban in Afghanistan. In a six-hour visit to Islamabad, Pompeo and Gen. Joseph…

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kenya’s notorious Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, during that time he witnessed the prison service reform from punishment to rehabilitation.

CNN’s Ian Lee explains what you need to know about the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

Vietnamese police arrested a former deputy chairman of Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s business hub, on Monday as the communist-ruled country steps up a crackdown on corruption.

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 05 (IPS) – Domestic violence in New Zealand is one of the highest rates in the developing world and recent legislation there that gives victims of domestic violence 10 days of paid leave, without having to present any documentation in support, has been praised across the globe.Read the full story, “Paid Leave In New Zealand For Victims…

The electric bike belonged to a children’s day care centre and was taking children to school, police say