SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – An oil spill has contaminated beaches and coastline across eight Brazilian states, the country’s environment agency said yesterday, although authorities are still stumped as to its origin.
SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Puerto Rico would reduce a major portion of its debt by more than 60% under a long-awaited restructuring proposal the bankrupt U.S.
KADUNA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – More than 300 captives, most of them children and many in chains, have been rescued from a building in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, a police spokesman said yesterday.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As top designers wrapped up London Fashion Week and made their way to Paris to grab the world’s attention with their lavish creations, a group of artists in London were making their own fashion statement, in a bid to become invisible.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela, including torture and thousands of summary executions.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A whistleblower report released yesterday said President Donald Trump not only abused his office in attempting to solicit Ukraine’s interference in the 2020 U.S.
(Reuters) – The Trump administration said yesterday it plans to allow only 18,000 refugees to resettle in the United States in the 2020 fiscal year, the lowest number in the history of the modern refugee program.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – United States officials yesterday called on all nations to stop using Cuba’s medical missions, which send doctors around the world, saying that Cuba refused to pay the medical staff and held them against their will.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former President Jacques Chirac, a political chameleon who dominated French politics for decades and strived to make France’s voice heard in Europe and beyond, died yesterday at the age of 86.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama said yesterday that an analysis of a vast oil spill along the country’s northeastern beaches showed the spilled crude did not originate in the country.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA’s planet-hunting telescope.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former President Jacques Chirac, a political chameleon who dominated French politics for decades in roles ranging from mayor of Paris to the second-longest serving leader of the nation, died today at the age of 86.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s leader to investigate Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson taunted his rivals on his return to parliament yesterday, goading them to either bring down the government or get out of the way to allow him to deliver Brexit.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise called for a unity government in a rare address to the nation yesterday as he faced a brewing political crisis and intensifying protests after a ruling-party senator fired a pistol to disperse a crowd.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday reinforced his support for Venezuelan opposition politician Juan Guaido, praising Latin American leaders who back him, boosting aid funding and barring members of President Nicolas Maduro’s government from entering the United States.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump pressed Ukraine’s president to investigate a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, in coordination with the U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Scientists behind a landmark study of the links between oceans, glaciers, ice caps and the climate delivered a stark warning to the world today: slash emissions or watch cities vanish under rising seas, rivers run dry and marine life collapse.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday launched a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, accusing him of seeking foreign help to smear Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of next year’s election.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down the British parliament for five weeks in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a humiliating rebuke to him.