MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied he wanted his former justice minister to lie to the public amid a dispute they had over a 2019 corporate legal case, an accusation included in a book being released just days before the election.
VENICE, (Reuters) – “Happening” (L’événement), a hard-hitting French drama about illegal abortion in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice festival yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late yesterday before heading for talks in Qatar today to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The British royals, who trace their history back more than 1,000 years, could be gone within two generations, writer Hilary Mantel said in an interview published on yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Steadying himself on a crutch, veteran French film star Alain Delon made a rare public appearance on Friday at the funeral of a fellow giant of French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died on Monday at the age of 88.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanese leaders agreed a new government led by Sunni Muslim tycoon Najib Mikati yesterday after a year of feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic collapse, opening the way to a resumption of talks with the IMF.
(Reuters) – A state appeals court ruled yesterday in favour of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, issuing a stay in a case that effectively reinstates his ban on mask mandates in the state’s public schools to the dismay of many parents and teachers.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tribes from the Amazon and thousands of environmentalists, scientists and diplomats voted today, at a major global conservation congress in France, in favour of a motion to protect 80% of the world’s largest rainforest by 2025.
WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for 90 minutes yesterday in their first talks in seven months, discussing the need to ensure that competition between the world’s two largest economies does not veer into conflict.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – United States President Joe Biden on Thursday took aim at vaccine resistance in America, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and pushing large employers to have their workers vaccinated or tested weekly.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met on Thursday with allied truckers leading pro-government protests on highways across the country, as police cleared blockades that threatened key grain and beef export routes.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The small right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC) expelled one of its local officials on Thursday over allegations he threw gravel at Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week, a party spokesman said
Trudeau was hit by a handful of gravel on Monday, television images showed, while campaigning in London, Ontario, ahead of the Sept.
ESTEPONA, Spain (Reuters) – A wildfire has forced the evacuation of more than 900 people from around the southern Spanish resort of Estepona, local authorities said on Thursday.
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s medicines agency AIFA said on Thursday it had approved the use of a third dose of COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable groups of the population.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – United States President Joe Biden on Thursday took aim at vaccine resistance in America, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and pushing large employers to have their workers vaccinated or tested weekly.
(Reuters) – Foreign countries greeted the makeup of the new government in Afghanistan with caution and dismay yesterday after the Taliban appointed hardline veteran figures to top positions, including several with a U.S.
TANGERANG, Indonesia, (Reuters) – A fire killed 41 inmates in an overcrowded prison block in Indonesia’s Banten province today, a government minister said, injuring scores more in a blaze that police said may have been caused by an electrical fault.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele stepped in yesterday to manage the fraught roll-out of a payments app that underpins the nation’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender, and called on users to report any problems on his Twitter feed.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – The continued spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has spawned a Greek alphabet of variants – a naming system used by the World Health Organization (WHO) to track concerning new mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19.