President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday the firing of his National Security Advisor John Bolton. The move is widely seen as boosting the president's push to negotiate with US foes in Afghanistan, North Korea and other trouble spots.

Brazil rejected aid from G7 countries to fight wildfires in the Amazon, with a top official telling French President Emmanuel Macron to take care of "his home and his colonies."

NASA astronaut Anne McClain is at the center of what may be the first-ever crime committed in space. On Friday, The New York Times reported that McClain’s estranged wife, Summer Worden, discovered that someone had improperly accessed her bank account while McClain was on a sixth-month mission aboard the International Space Station - and the computer network that person used was registered to NASA.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Friday authorized the deployment of troops to help fight the wildfires in the country's Amazon region as EU leaders warned that the fires posed a danger to the entire planet and should be on the G7 summit agenda. The army was also ordered to prevent "environmental crimes," the daily O Globo reported, cited by dpa.

Brazil's Amazon rainforest is burning at an unprecedented rate, with scientists warning that it could strike a devastating blow to the fight against climate change. According to country's space research center, the National Institute for Space Research (INPE), satellite data show a record number of fires raging in the Amazon rainforest in 2019. Most specifically, there have been 72,843 fires in Brazil this year, with more than half in the Amazon region, INPE said.

Russia and China have asked the United Nations' Security Council to meet on Thursday over "statements by US officials on their plans to develop and deploy medium-range missiles". Moscow and Beijing want to convene the 15-member council under the agenda item "threats to international peace and security", a request obtained by Reuters news agency shows.

Brazil’s backsliding on Amazon conservation under right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro and a likely Peronist return to power in Argentina could delay or even derail ratification of an EU-Mercosur trade agreement that took two decades to negotiate.

President Donald Trump met with his top national security advisers on Friday to review a US-Taliban peace plan that could end America's longest running war - but also trigger a surrender for the US and a betrayal of the Afghan government, critics say.

The top Democrat in the US Congress Nancy Pelosi warned Wednesday that lawmakers would block any trade pact with Britain if its exit from the EU undermines Northern Ireland's peace accord, which has brought the 30-year conflict in the region to an end.

Canada's ethics commissioner on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of improperly pressuring the country's former attorney general to halt the criminal prosecution of a major engineering firm that has been accused of bribery to secure contracts.