BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday fired one of his most senior aides and cabinet members, Gustavo Bebianno, amid a scandal involving campaign financing for some of his party’s congressional candidates.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A farm leader who helped lead protests last year against President Daniel Ortega was sentenced yesterday to 216 years in prison, days after business leaders asked the government to release inmates considered political prisoners.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A coalition of 16 U.S. states led by California sued President Donald Trump’s administration yesterday over his decision to declare a national emergency to obtain funds for building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico
(Reuters) – A top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned unexpectedly yesterday amid allegations Trudeau’s office had pressured the former justice minister to help construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group Inc avoid criminal prosecution.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Seven Labour lawmakers quit today over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Britain’s main opposition party had been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left”.
CUCUTA, Colombia, (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, visiting the Colombia-Venezuela border yesterday, warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of severe consequences if he takes action against the country’s opposition leader and self-declared president or U.S.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government said it has initiated talks with the country’s private sector in what observers see as a bid to repair the relationship between embattled President Daniel Ortega and business leaders and ease a political crisis that has engulfed the country since last spring.
MAPUTO, (Reuters) – Five people including the ex-head of Mozambique’s intelligence services and the chairman of three firms linked to the country’s $2 billion debt scandal have been arrested in Mozambique, a police source said on Friday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela denied a group of European Parliament deputies entry into the country yesterday, arguing they had “conspiratorial motives” for flying to Caracas in the throes of a political crisis.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian lender Gazprombank has decided to freeze the accounts of Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and halted transactions with the firm to reduce the risk of the bank falling under U.S.
DAURA/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities postponed yesterday’s national election by a week, just hours before polls had been due to open, prompting the opposition candidate to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of seeking to “disenfranchise” voters.
CUCUTA, Colombia, (Reuters) – A U.S. military transport plane carrying humanitarian aid meant for Venezuelans landed yesterday in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, where food and medicine is being stored amid uncertainty over how and where aid will be distributed.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – A cyber attack on Australian lawmakers that breached the networks of major political parties was probably carried out by a foreign government, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said yesterday, but did not name any suspects.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT, (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said yesterday he had not yet determined whether a border wall with Mexico was a military necessity or how much Pentagon money would be used.
DAURA/YOLA, Nigeria (Reuters) – Nigerian authorities postponed today’s national election by a week, just hours before polls had been due to open, prompting the opposition candidate to accuse President Muhammadu Buhari of seeking to “disenfranchise” voters.
BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States and China will resume trade talks next week in Washington with time running short to ease their bruising trade war, but U.S.
(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed for the first time yesterday that his office has evidence of communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic Party emails.
WASHINGTON/MUNICH, (Reuters) – The United States ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday by sanctioning some of his top security officials and the head of the state oil company, and unveiling plans to airlift over 200 tons of aid to the Colombian border.