Australia will have a drier and hotter December and January that will challenge records set last summer, the Bureau of Meteorology has predicted. Andrew Watkins, the bureau’s head of long-range forecasts made this known on Thursday. Spring’s long spell of hot dry weather was likely to continue into 2020, according to the bureau’s summer outlook. […]

Mexico on Wednesday rejected “interventionism” after U.S. President Donald Trump said he will designate the Latin American nation’s cartels as terrorist organizations, while a former U.S. official warned of unintended outcomes from such a move. Designating groups as foreign terrorist organizations is aimed at disrupting their finances through the imposition of U.S. sanctions, including asset […]

  China warned the United States on Thursday it would take “firm countermeasures” in response to U.S. legislation backing anti-government protesters in Hong Kong and said attempts to interfere in the Chinese-ruled city were doomed to fail. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law congressional legislation which supported the protesters despite angry objections […]

More than one million Malawians will need food aid till March 2020, the government of Malawi has recently said. Wilson Moleni, the Secretary to the Vice President and Commissioner for Disaster Management, said this during a news conference on Tuesday. According to a government report, up to 1,062,674 people may be at risk of food […]

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is on course to win a majority of 68 in parliament at the Dec. 12 election, according to a model from pollsters YouGov that accurately predicted the 2017 election. Johnson has pledged to deliver Brexit by Jan. 31 if he wins the election after nearly four years of political crisis […]