RIGA, (Reuters) – Latvia’s central bank governor will face prosecution over alleged bribery after a four-month-long investigation that turned up the spotlight on the financial system of the euro zone member state.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – South Sudan’s president signed a peace agreement with rebels yesterday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan’s foreign minister said, but rebels rejected other parts of the deal.
JOS, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 200 people were killed over the weekend in violence in central Nigeria’s Plateau state, the state governor said, making it one of the bloodiest clashes in the months leading up to an election.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said yesterday he plans to retire after three decades as a pivotal vote on the highest U.S.
(Reuters) – Pennsylvania prosecutors yesterday charged an East Pittsburgh police officer with homicide in the shooting death last week of an unarmed black teenager, the latest in a string of U.S.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – A drawing of an Australasian cockatoo by a Roman Emperor has revealed trade routes between Southeast Asia and Europe were flourishing around 250 years earlier than previously thought, according to a paper published by the University of Melbourne.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday dealt a big blow to organized labor, ruling that non-members cannot be forced in certain states to pay fees to unions representing public employees such as teachers and police, shutting off a key union revenue source.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police said last night the total value of items seized during raids at premises linked to former Prime Minister Najib Razak was 900 million ringgit to 1.1 billion ringgit.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination.
(Reuters) – A federal court in California dismissed climate change lawsuits by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland against five oil companies, saying the complaints required foreign and domestic policy decisions that were outside its purview.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Long-time foes Eritrea and Ethiopia “opened the door of peace” yesterday after the first high-level visit from Asmara to Addis Ababa in nearly two decades, raising hopes for an end to one of Africa’s most intractable military stand-offs.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Australia is expected to pass new legislation today aimed at preventing interference by foreign governments, a move likely to further stoke tensions with major trading partner China.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort was dealt a setback yesterday when a judge who had expressed some sympathy for Manafort’s argument that a special counsel lacked the authority to prosecute him, refused to dismiss the case.
(Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday ruled that U.S. immigration agents could no longer separate immigrant parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally, and must work to reunite those families that had been split up in custody.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Donald Trump one of the biggest victories of his presidency, upholding his travel ban targeting several Muslim-majority countries and rejecting the argument that it represented unconstitutional religious discrimination.
(Reuters) – The U.S. health regulator approved GW Pharmaceuticals Plc’s epilepsy treatment yesterday, making it the first cannabis-based drug to win approval in the country and opening floodgates for more research into the medicinal properties of cannabis.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Parents who cross illegally from Mexico to the United States with their children will not face prosecution for the time being because the government is running short of space to house them, officials said yesterday.
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd is the biggest corporate sponsor of overseas travel for Australian politicians, according to an analysis of travel disclosure registers by an Australian think-tank.
(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday slammed Harley-Davidson Inc after the motorcycle maker said it would move production for European customers overseas to avoid retaliatory tariffs that could cost it up to $100 million per year.