July 14, 2016 Boris Johnson's long record of insults, gaffes Britain's new foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, has a long history of making provocative and sometimes insulting comments that are distinctly undiplomatic in their tone.
July 14, 2016 Germany's Bayer increases offer for seed company Monsanto German drug and chemicals firm Bayer says it has increased its offer for U.S. seed company Monsanto Co. to $125 per share from its initial bid of $122 per share.
July 14, 2016 Support sought for kids left behind by UN troops in Haiti The first time Rosa Mina Joseph met Julio Cesar Posse he was hanging out in civilian clothes on the beach in her hometown in southern Haiti, where he was stationed as a member of a U.N.
July 14, 2016 Syria's Assad says he doesn't know who killed Marie Colvin Syria's President Bashar Assad has denied that his forces targeted U.S.-born journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria in 2012 and says that he does not know how she died.
July 14, 2016 Afghan official: No plans to peace effort with the Taliban An Afghan official says there are no plans to revive a peace process aimed at bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table.
July 14, 2016 China blames Philippines for stirring up trouble in dispute China blamed the Philippines for stirring up trouble and issued a policy paper Wednesday calling the islands in the South China Sea its "inherent territory," a day after an international tribunal said China had no legal basis for its expansive claims.
July 14, 2016 Mexico agrees to revise teacher evaluation Mexico's education secretary says the government will undertake a revision of the evaluation exam given to all teachers, which has been a focal point of protests.
July 14, 2016 High court strikes down El Salvador's civil war amnesty law El Salvador's Supreme Court has declared as unconstitutional a 1993 amnesty law that helped bring an end to the country's civil war but also prevented authorities from seeking justice for human rights violations committed during the brutal conflict.
July 14, 2016 Cuba shuffles economic leadership amid fiscal struggles Cuba is reassigning its economics minister to a different post where he will continue to supervise the direction of the country's struggling economy.
July 14, 2016 Terrifying Argentine carnivorous dinosaur had tiny arms Unearthed fossils from a carnivorous dinosaur that lived in Argentina about 90 million years ago show that it had tiny arms compared to its body, scientists said on Wednesday.
