(Reuters) – The Dallas-area mother of the young man arrested in the mass shooting that killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, had called police weeks earlier expressing concern about his fitness to own an assault-style rifle, CNN said on Wednesday.
EL PASO, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump met victims and first responders from last weekend’s deadly shootings in Texas and Ohio yesterday, as chanting protesters accused him of inflaming tensions with anti-immigrant and racially charged rhetoric.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – NATO needs to understand the implications of China’s rise as Beijing expands its power around the world, including areas that may challenge members of the North Atlantic security body, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo, (Reuters) – Three Congolese doctors have been arrested for allegedly planning an attack on a hospital that killed a senior World Health Organization (WHO) epidemiologist involved in the Ebola response, a prosecutor said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government will skip a round of Norway-brokered talks today and tomorrow to protest a new set of U.S.
ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Pakistan said today it would expel India’s ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its arch-rival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.
(Reuters) – U.S. immigration authorities arrested nearly 700 people at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi today in what federal officials said could be the largest worksite enforcement operation in a single state.
ISLAMABAD/SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – Pakistan said today it would expel India’s ambassador and suspend bilateral trade with its arch-rival after New Delhi stripped its portion of the contested Kashmir region of special status.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Problems with British Airways’ IT systems left thousands of passengers facing flight cancellations, delays and long queues at airports in the airline’s third major computer failure in a little more than two years.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Veteran Indian politician Sushma Swaraj, who most recently served as minister of external affairs, passed away yesterday, following a cardiac arrest.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters took to the streets of the capital yesterday to urge Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to step down, just days after he was forced to deny taking money from drug gangs to secure his election in 2013.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A Brazilian inmate, whose masked attempt to break out of jail dressed as his daughter reverberated around the world, was found dead in his cell, after apparently having hanged himself, Rio de Janeiro state authorities said yesterday.
WASHINGTON/BEIJING/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed fears of a protracted trade war with China yesterday despite a warning from Beijing that labeling it a currency manipulator would have severe consequences for the global financial order.
(Reuters) – The gunman who killed his sister and eight other people in Dayton, Ohio, before he was slain by police had a history of violent obsessions and previously mused about committing mass murder, an FBI official said yesterday.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Protesters in Hong Kong must not “play with fire” and mistake Beijing’s restraint for weakness, China said today in its sharpest rebuke yet of the “criminals” behind demonstrations in the city whom it vowed to bring to justice.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday proposed tighter monitoring of the internet, mental health reform and wider use of the death penalty in response to two mass shootings over the weekend that left 32 people dead in Texas and Ohio.
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR, (Reuters) – India yesterday revoked the special status of Kashmir, the Himalayan region that has long been a flashpoint in ties with neighbouring Pakistan, moving to grasp its only Muslim-majority region more tightly.
WASHINGTON/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – A yearlong U.S.-China trade war boiled over yesterday as Washington accused Beijing of manipulating its currency after China let the yuan drop to its lowest point in more than a decade.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – North Korea has generated an estimated $2 billion for its weapons of mass destruction programmes using “widespread and increasingly sophisticated” cyberattacks to steal from banks and cryptocurrency exchanges, according to a confidential U.N.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Police fired tear gas at protesters in multiple parts of Hong Kong yesterday after a general strike hit transport and the city’s Beijing-backed leader warned its prosperity was at risk.
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