SOFIA, (Reuters) – The head of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption commission has resigned following a scandal over purchases of luxury properties at favourable prices that has already forced some senior ruling party’s politicians to quit.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders offered an unabashed defense of their progressive policies during a Democratic presidential debate yesterday, as their more moderate rivals took aim at their proposals as unrealistic and politically untenable.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles early yesterday, the South Korean military said, only days after it launched two other missiles intended to pressure South Korea and the United States to stop upcoming military drills.
(Reuters) – The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday asked a federal judge to stop the Trump administration’s ongoing separation of families at the U.S.-Mexico
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Sold as a teenager into the sex trade which she endured for nearly four decades, Uruguayan Sandra Ferrini will see her onetime dream of exposing the hell she suffered become reality on Tuesday at the country’s first anti-human trafficking march.
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzanian police said yesterday they had arrested a prominent investigative journalist and were looking into his citizenship in another case triggering concern over press freedom under President John Magufuli’s rule.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dozens of young adults visiting the United States in recent years under a cultural exchange visa programme have become victims of human trafficking, according to research released on Tuesday that said the program was riddled with abuses and exploitation.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s parliament approved a bill yesterday outlawing the centuries-old right of a Muslim man to instantly divorce his wife, drawing accusations of government interference in a community matter.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dozens of young adults visiting the United States in recent years under a cultural exchange visa programme have become victims of human trafficking, according to research released on Tuesday that said the program was riddled with abuses and exploitation.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s capital city has banned the world’s largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch InBev, from selling its products in the key New Delhi market for 3 years for allegedly evading local taxes, government orders seen by Reuters showed.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of U.S. President Donald Trump, pursued a plan to buy Westinghouse Electric Corp even as he lobbied Trump to become a special envoy to promote the building by the firm of nuclear power plants in Saudi Arabia, said a congressional report released yesterday.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s foreign minister and three other officials resigned yesteday amid a growing scandal over the signing of an energy deal with Brazil, a blow to President Mario Abdo who has forged close ties with Brazil, South America’s No.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is the “last hope” for Africa’s most advanced economy, but his government must turn incentive policies into laws to secure more Chinese investment, a senior Chinese diplomat told Reuters.
Calif., (Reuters) – A 19-year-old California man was identified by police yesterday as the gunman who opened fire with an assault rifle at a garlic festival in Gilroy, California, killing three people and wounding a dozen others.
VALLE DE LAS PALMAS, Mexico, (Reuters) – At school in Tecate in the 1950s, a city sitting on Mexico’s border with the United States, Josefina Meza was welcomed by a chorus of children’s chants in a language she did not understand.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – A Chinese court yesterday jailed for 12 years a veteran human rights activist known for running a website tracking abuse accusations and helping victims of a 2008 earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan.
GILROY, Calif., (Reuters) – Police were searching today for a suspected accomplice of the gunman who killed three people, including a 6-year-old boy, in a mass shooting at a food festival in California.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was hospitalised yesterday after suffering an acute allergic reaction which one doctor said may have been the result of him being poisoned with an unknown chemical substance.