WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was the ringleader of an effort to coerce Ukraine to dig up dirt on a domestic political rival, “worked hard” to cover it up and has shown no remorse, Democratic lawmakers said yesterday in his impeachment trial.
BELFAST, (Reuters) – Former Northern Ireland Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon, one of the architects of the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, died yesterday aged 83, drawing tributes from across a political divide he helped to bridge.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China said 41 people have now died from a new coronavirus that has infected more than 1,300 people globally, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A retired Salvadoran general yesterday acknowledged for the first time that the armed forces were responsible for a notorious 1981 massacre of more than 1,000 people during the country’s civil war.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The main organization representing Brazil’s 300 indigenous tribes said yesterday it would sue far-right President Jair Bolsonaro for racism after he said indigenous people were “evolving” and becoming more human.
LISBON, (Reuters) – Angola may ask Portuguese authorities to seize assets belonging to Isabel dos Santos, billionaire daughter of a former Angolan president, who is a suspect in a fraud investigation, Angola’s attorney general said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats serving as prosecutors in U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial argued today he improperly impeded a probe by Congress into suspicions he coerced Ukraine’s government to dig up dirt on Joe Biden, a political rival.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – A massive explosion at a machine shop ripped through a Houston neighborhood early this morning, killing at least two people and damaging homes while sending out blast waves for miles.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats worked methodically at U.S. President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial yesterday to dismantle his long-standing allegation that Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden acted improperly toward Ukraine while vice president.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – A new coronavirus has killed 25 people in China and infected more than 800, the government said yesterday, as the World Health Organisation declared it an emergency but stopped short of declaring the epidemic of international concern.
THE HAGUE/COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh, (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice yesterday ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from genocide, a ruling cheered by refugees as their first major legal victory since being forced from their homes.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China put on lockdown today two cities at the epicentre of a new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 people and infected nearly 600, as health authorities around the world scramble to prevent a global pandemic.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The International Court of Justice today ordered Myanmar to take urgent measures to protect its Rohingya population from atrocities, a ruling hailed as a “triumph of international justice” by the tiny African country that brought the case.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats accused President Donald Trump at his impeachment trial yesterday of a corrupt scheme to pressure Ukraine to help him get re-elected and warned that America’s global prestige would suffer if the U.S.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is putting on lockdown a city of 11 million people considered the epicenter of the new coronavirus outbreak that has killed 17 and infected nearly 600 people, as health authorities around the world work to prevent a global pandemic.
LISBON, (Reuters) – Angola’s billionaire former first daughter, Isabel dos Santos, has decided to sell her stake in Portuguese bank Eurobic, the small lender said yesterday.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a visit to Jamaica yesterday, cautioned nations against taking “easy money” from China, warning it could be counterproductive, in a second attack in as many days against China’s economic role in the region.
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian judge ruled that the government exclude an indigenous region of the Amazon near the border with Brazil from any oil exploration and exploitation, a legal group said yesterday, in a win for native communities that have long fought against oil and mining projects on their land.