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As we speak, Harvard scientists are working on pulling carbon out of the air, that is, removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to be stored in the ground or recycled into fuel — cheaply

Automotive stocks fell on the news with Ford Motor and General Motors shares off 0.5% and 0.3%, respectively

The tariffs, which took effect at 10pm GMT on Thursday, are on Harley-Davidsons, bourbon, Levi’s jeans, cranberries, and peanut butter, among other products

The group was lured to the country for lucrative English-teaching jobs, but were given the wrong visas then had their passports taken

The talks turned out to be tougher than expected, but ended in a debt-relief deal and declarations that the crisis is finally over — though the IMF’s Christine Lagarde has doubts

Despite figures showing a cooling trend — especially in manufacturing, largely due to Trump’s tariffs — some forecast 0.5% growth in its second quarter

Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus was a deputy governor at the bank, whose quiet departure in 2016 led to talk that her investigation had annoyed then-prime minister Najib Razak

The government has purportedly refused to probe security officers over alleged extra-judicial killings of more than 500 people in the crisis-stricken country

Millions were separated during the inter-Korean conflict nearly 70 years ago, with most dying before seeing or hearing from relatives again

Saudi Arabia and Russia want to raise supply, but Iran is reported to oppose an output increase — which may be side-stepped by other members anyway

The listeriosis crisis has set back its rest-of-Africa planning, but it is definitely looking beyond sub-Saharan Africa, says CEO Lawrence MacDougall

A third of the global population lives in countries where democracy has suffered setback — including in the US, a new study says

Twenty-three hundred children have been forcibly taken from their parents since the implementation of this zero tolerance policy two months ago

The spectacular about-face comes after more than 2 300 children were stripped from their parents and adult relatives

Recording details family separations under Trump’s new “zero-tolerance” policy

Since the referendum, according to official data, economic growth has slowed to a snail's pace

The WHO has recategorised transgenderism from being a ‘mental disorder’ to being a condition relating to ‘sexual health’

Prime minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals made the legalisation of marijuana a key part of their successful election bid in 2015

US homeland security chief Kirstjen Nielsen has become the frontline defender of the Trump administration's practice of separating migrant families

The picture showed migrants in a dinghy wearing red life vests with the logo 'United Colours of Benetton' at the bottom

Ambassador Nikki Haley’s announcement comes a month after the UNHRC voted to probe the killing of Palestinians in Gaza by Israeli security forces

A defiant Trump sounded unfazed by the mounting pressure to alleviate the situation before it ruptures into a public relations disaster for his party

France's Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday jumped to the aid of his core European partner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel

The Amsterdam appeals court agreed with the lower court that the position of Britons living in the EU after Brexit was a matter of EU law

Saudi authorities have in the past two months detained at least 16 people, including several identified as women's rights activists, on accusations of treason.

A young French woman who was visiting her mother in western Canada spent two weeks in a US detention center after inadvertently crossing the border while jogging along the beach, a report has said.

A bikini-clad black teenager who was shoved to the ground by a white Texas police officer has settled a federal lawsuit against him and the city of McKinney for almost $150 000.

US President Donald Trump is highlighting the plight of Americans whose loved ones were killed by people who entered the country illegally.

A couple were finally engaged after an airline lost one of their bags that had the ring inside.

A transcript shows a Minnesota man urged his girlfriend to shoot him for a videotaped stunt that ended in his death.

The US military is asked to get ready to house up to 20 000 immigrant children, as US President Donald Trump's efforts to roll back a widely condemned policy of separating children from their parents is beset by confusion.

A New Jersey township high school enacted a surprise plan this week to award a 92-year-old World War II veteran the high school diploma he would have earned if he hadn't dropped out to join the army.

The father of the girl who is pictured crying on the cover of Time magazine says the Honduran foreign ministry told him that his daughter is detained with her mother in McAllen, Texas, and the two have not been separated

A magistrate ruled that Aaron Sutcliffe, who’s HIV-positive, must tell police the name of anyone he plans to have intercourse with after he’d deliberately infected women with HIV.

Last week, the rescue ship Aquarius was making world news headlines - now it's back on mission.

CCTV footage captured from the long-distance coach shows the moment the driver suffered a stroke and started dangling sideways by his seatbelt while on a motorway.

Carlo Alberto Capella will serve time in the small jail inside the Vatican police force headquarters, the Vatican said.

The airline said it would work with authorities in the United States, Mexico and Central America to offer free flights on its pre-existing routes to reunite children with their parents.

Russia and other non-OPEC oil producers will now meet OPEC in a bid to secure their participation in the pact.

The operation, which began on Tuesday, targeted 124 people accused of being followers of US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, CNN Turk said.

Five people, including a Chinese manager, were arrested following raids at two apartments in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, police said.

He was 92 years old and is believed to have died of natural causes in Seoul.

France has close ties with Gulf Arab states, in particular Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and rarely publicly criticises internal political issues.

Ten fire engines and 72 firefighters and officers were called in to battle the flames, and at one point half of the roof and part of the first floor were alight, the London Fire Brigade said in a statement.

This comes after government forces this week ramped up their assault on opposition areas.

Last year, 17,500 American troops and more than 50,000 South Korean troops joined the Freedom Guardian drills, although the exercise is mostly focused on computerised simulations rather than field exercises.

The German chancellor is under pressure to get EU leaders at the main 28-29 June summit to agree to share out migrants more evenly.

Donald Trump bowed to intense pressure and signed an order ending the separation of children from their families while parents are prosecuted for crossing the border illegally.

The fate of 2,300 children wrested from their parents at the US border with Mexico remained unclear Friday two days after Donald Trump ordered an end to migrant family separations, as the president accused Democrats of spinning "phony" tales of suffering for electoral gain. The post Split families in limbo amid Trump immigration chaos appeared […]

Department of International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Lindiwe Sisulu says her department will embark on an awareness campaign to help South Africans who want to travel abroad. She was reacting over the arrest of 51 students who went to teach in China. The group used a travel agency to get their visas, but they were […]

U.S. President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers on Friday to drop their efforts to pass comprehensive immigration legislation until after the November elections. The post Trump urges Republican lawmakers to drop immigration effort appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news […]

The United Nations human rights chief called Friday for an international investigation of atrocities in Venezuela, blasting the government's chronic refusal to probe security officers over the alleged killings of civilians. The post UN rights chief calls for probe of abuses by Venezuela forces appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, […]

Melania Trump made a surprise trip to the US-Mexican border on Thursday as her husband's administration seeks to quell a firestorm over migrant family separations... The post Melania Trump visits border, Congress flails on family separations appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current […]

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday backed down and abandoned his policy of separating immigrant children from their parents on the US-Mexico border, after images of youngsters in cages sparked outrage at home and abroad. The post Trump backs down on separating immigrant children, legal problems remain appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, […]

As many as 192 passengers could be missing after a ferry sank into the depths of a volcanic lake in Indonesia, the search and rescue agency said on Wednesday, tripling initial government estimates. The post Number missing in Indonesia ferry disaster jumps again to 192: official appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special […]

Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday in a new flare-up of hostilities that saw dozens of rockets and mortar shells fired from the Palestinian enclave, the army said. The post Israel says could get tougher on Gaza after warplanes hit Hamas appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special […]

The arrival of massive numbers of migrants in Europe over the past few years has stirred fierce debate in many EU member states... The post Immigration: a deeply divisive topic in Europe appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..

The United States has announced its withdrawal from the UN's Human Rights' Council in Geneva. The post US quits UN human rights body citing bias towards Israel appeared first on SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader..