OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking in an interview that aired yesterday, said for the first time that his Liberal government was looking for a way out of a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s new government aims by mid-February to put out tenders for the first four sections of a planned railway connecting the southeast of the country to Caribbean resorts, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday.
BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Thousands of Hungarians thronged the streets of Budapest yesterday in the fourth and largest protest in a week against what they see as the increasingly authoritarian rule of right-wing nationalist Viktor Orban.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, (Reuters) – Bermuda’s government on Thursday filed an appeal to a high court in London seeking to uphold a law challenged in local courts that would ban gay marriage in the British overseas island.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s economy will grow next year at about the same sluggish 1 percent pace it did in 2018 and an austerity program begun in 2016 will continue, the country’s economy minister said yesterday, according to state-run media.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police on Saturday beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country’s best known editors, in an escalating crackdown on independent media in the aftermath of protests against President Daniel Ortega.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s prime minister today, making a remarkable comeback weeks after being ousted by President Maithripala Sirisena under controversial circumstances.
KATOWICE, Poland, (Reuters) – Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late yesterday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s exit from the European Union was heading for an impasse, one senior minister said yesterday, after a week in which Prime Minister Theresa May failed to win EU assurances on her deal and pulled a vote because UK lawmakers would defeat it.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has aggressively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections, will be leaving his post at the end of the year, President Donald Trump tweeted yesterday, the latest high-profile departure from his administration.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday hailed a court decision against Obamacare as “a great ruling for our country,” while a U.S.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – An estimated two million Venezuelans could join the ranks of migrants and refugees next year, swelling the total to 5.3 million as the country’s meltdown continues, the United Nations said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday moved to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to counter the rapidly expanding Chinese and Russian economic and political influence in Africa, U.S.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court rejected petitions yesterday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal worth about $8.7 billion with France’s Dassault Aviation , handing a political victory to the ruling party months before a general election.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa will resign from his post, his son said yesterday, in a move that will force President Maithripala Sirisena to appoint a replacement to avert a possible government shutdown on Jan 1.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested more immigrants who were in the United States illegally in the fiscal year through Sept.
ITAGUAI, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday launched the first of five attack submarines built with French technology in a 35 billion-real ($8.9 billion) program planned to end in 2029 with delivery of a nuclear-powered submarine.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia yesterday, voting to end U.S.
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