BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner said yesterday, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanese security forces fired water cannons, rubber bullets and tear gas yesterday to try to break up stone-throwing protesters in Beirut, which has been rocked by some of the worst violence since unrest erupted in October.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry spoke yesterday of his sadness at being forced to give up his royal duties in a deal with Queen Elizabeth and senior Windsors that will see him and his wife Meghan exit official roles to seek an independent future.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is stepping up restrictions on the production, sale and use of single-use plastic products, the state planner said today, as it seeks to tackle one of the country’s biggest environmental problems.
WASHINGTON/PALM BEACH, Fla., (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. lawmakers leading the impeachment case against Republican President Donald Trump said yesterday the president must be removed from office to protect national security and preserve the country’s system of government.
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, (Reuters) – Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide and ecocide” planned by the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Iran-aligned Houthis attacked a military training camp in the Yemeni city of Marib yesterday, killing 60 military personnel and wounding dozens others, Saudi state television said last evening.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will no longer be working members of Britain’s monarchy and they will pay their own way in life as they embark on an independent future, Buckingham Palace said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Virginia’s House Republican leader said yesterday that white supremacists and any other groups trying to spread “hate, violence, or civil unrest” were not welcome at a pro-gun rally in the state’s capital on Monday, which is expected to draw thousands.
XINGU INDIGENOUS PARK, Brazil, (Reuters) – Leaders of native tribes in Brazil issued a rallying call to protect the Amazon rainforest and its indigenous people from what they called the “genocide, ethnocide and ecocide” planned by the country’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
NAYPYITAW, (Reuters) – China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals today to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the West.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran’s supreme leader threw his support behind the elite Revolutionary Guards in a rare sermon yesterday after their belated admission that they had accidentally downed an airliner triggered days of street protests.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition today of former independent counsel Ken Starr, who paved the way for former President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment, and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras yesterday effectively ended the mandate of an anti-graft body backed by the Organization of American States (OAS), dealing another setback to the fight against corruption in the region.
(Reuters) – The United States will begin screening efforts at three U.S.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil has decided to suspend its participation in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, a leftist regional body established by Venezuela, due to its failure to protect democracy, Brazil’s foreign minister said on Thursday.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to their lowest number in more than 40 years, police said yesterday, marking the 10th straight year of declines.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump turned to some legal heavyweights to help defend him in his Senate impeachment trial with the addition today of former independent counsel Ken Starr, who paved the way for former President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment, and prominent lawyer Alan Dershowitz.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – Suicides in Japan in 2019 fell to their lowest number in more than 40 years, police said today, marking the 10th straight year of declines.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Senate impeachment trial on whether to remove U.S.
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