The United States has imposed financial sanctions on Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who is Iran's key negotiation official for Washington.
A light aircraft crashed on Wednesday evening at the Tampere-Pirkkala airport in central southern Finland. A pilot trainee, who was alone on the aircraft, was killed, transport officials reported.
North Korea's state-run media says the country's leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the testing of a new type of "large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system."
Working in an arid Italian field of crumbly soil, agronomists are battling a rampant bacterium that has already infected millions of olive trees and could threaten the entire Mediterranean basin.
At least 164 land and environmental activists were murderedlast year for defending their homes, lands and natural resources from exploitation by mining, food and logging firms, Global Witness said Tuesday.
