JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Former South African President Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry yesterday that enemies had plotted to bring him down, and he had never broken the law with the business family at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday unveiled a new rule to bar almost all immigrants from applying for asylum at the southern border, requiring them to first pursue safe haven in a third country through which they had traveled on the way to the United States.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Constitutional Court has blocked President Jimmy Morales from immediately declaring the poor Central American nation a safe third country for asylum-seekers, amid growing pushback to U.S.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha formally resigned as the head of the military government yesterday, saying the country would function as a normal democracy after five years of military rule.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Protesters blocked a portion of Peru’s main coastal highway yesterday in the start of a new challenge to a billion-dollar copper mining project that has been a lightning rod for conflict.
RIO de Janeiro, (Reuters) – Brazilian mining company Vale SA said yesterday it would pay 400 million reais ($106.52 million) to compensate workers affected by the deadly rupture of a tailings dam in January that killed at least 240 people.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Former South African President Jacob Zuma told a corruption inquiry today that he had never broken the law with the Gupta family, describing the businessmen at the centre of an influence-peddling scandal as friends.
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities launched small-scale operations to arrest undocumented families over the weekend in a start to President Donald Trump’s plan to deport thousands of immigrants.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala said yesterday it would postpone President Jimmy Morales’ visit to Washington to discuss Guatemala’s potential designation as a ‘safe third country’ for asylum seekers, stressing it had no plans to sign such an agreement.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands rallied in a large Hong Kong suburb yesterday, driven by abiding anger at the government’s handling of an extradition bill that has revived fears of China tightening its grip over the former British colony and eroding its freedoms.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia has seized more than 1 billion ringgit ($243.25 million) from a bank account of state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Ltd (CPP), the Straits Times newspaper said on Saturday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen visited Haiti on Saturday in an attempt to bolster support in the region after the neighboring Dominican Republic broke diplomatic ties with Taiwan last year.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s first new train passenger cars in more than four decades set off on their maiden journey across the island on Saturday in what the government hopes will prove a total revamp of its decrepit railway system with help from allies Russia and China.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s exports fell in June as the United States ramped up trade pressure, while imports shrank more than expected, pointing to further weakness in the world’s second-largest economy and slackening global growth.
NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – Storm Barry trudged through northwestern Louisiana yesterday, weakening to a tropical depression but dropping up to 15 inches (38 cm) of rain in some places to create life-threatening flood conditions along the Mississippi River.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Sony’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home” claimed victory again during its second weekend in theaters, dominating over new releases, Paramount’s gator thriller “Crawl” and Disney’s R-rated comedy “Stuber.”
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia has seized more than 1 billion ringgit ($243.25 million) from a bank account of state-owned China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Ltd (CPP), the Straits Times newspaper said on Saturday.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands demonstrated in cities across Sudan yesterday, witnesses said, to mark 40 days since security forces killed dozens when they stormed a protest camp in the capital Khartoum.
MOGADISHU/GAROWE, Somalia, (Reuters) – Kenyans, Americans, a Briton and Tanzanians were among 26 people killed when Islamist gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali port city of Kismayo, officials said yesterday, the deadliest attack in the city since insurgents were driven out in 2012.
NEW ORLEANS, (Reuters) – Hurricane Barry weakened to a tropical storm as it made landfall in Louisiana yesterday, after a westward shift that appeared to spare low-lying New Orleans from the massive flooding feared earlier this week.