SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – The handpicked successor to disgraced Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rossello was sworn in yesterday after Rossello stepped down, but lawyer Pedro Pierluisi said his term as governor might be short as the island’s Senate still had to ratify his position.
BEIJING/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China yesterday vowed to fight back against U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A majority of Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives now favour launching impeachment proceedings against Republican Presi-dent Donald Trump, after a California lawmaker yesterday became the 118th Democrat to call for the process to begin.
OSLO/CARACAS (Reuters) – The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and the opposition are continuing to hold talks in Barbados in an effort to find ways to resolve the Latin American country’s political crisis, the Foreign Ministry of mediator Norway said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty in New York yesterday to charges that he ran a criminal scheme that recruited women and underage girls to have sex with him, isolating them and often controlling what they ate and when they went to the bathroom.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court will hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve a decades-old dispute over what should be built on the ruins of a 16th-century mosque, Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said on Friday.
(Reuters) – German authorities on Friday said they had seized 4.5 tonnes of cocaine worth 1 billion euros ($1.11 billion) in the northern port city of Hamburg – the nation’s biggest drugs haul to date.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to impose a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from Sept.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yetserday that if a senior government scientist had betrayed his confidence regarding deforestation data, he would be fired, underlining how growing international pressure to protect the Amazon is weighing on his government.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The planet endured what may have been the hottest July in history, the World Meteorological Organization said on Thursday, just a week after a European heat wave shattered all-time records and also coming on the heels of the world’s warmest-ever June.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court yesterday moved the rape trial of a powerful regional politician to the capital, New Delhi, to allay fears he could influence the outcome, a further embarrassment for the Hindu nationalist ruling party.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he was considering a quarantine or blockade of Venezuela, as the United States steps up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to relinquish power.
ASUNCION/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Paraguayan lawmakers backed down on their threat to impeach President Mario Abdo yesterday after Brazil and Paraguay canceled an energy deal that sparked controversy and threatened to destabilize his government.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said today he was considering a quarantine or blockade of Venezuela, as the United States steps up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro to relinquish power.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – The apparent suicide of India’s coffee baron V.G.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden and rival Kamala Harris battled over healthcare and came under attack from other candidates on their criminal justice records in a contentious and sometimes angry debate yesterday.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Mario Abdo said yesterday he “accepts the fight” after some lawmakers announced they will push to impeach him following the scandal over the signing of an energy policy with Brazil, which they said went against the country’s sovereignty.
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Chinese billionaire has been indicted by a grand jury on charges he schemed with the aluminum company he founded to evade $1.8 billion of tariffs by smuggling huge amounts of the metal into the United States, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. and Chinese negotiators ended a brief round of trade talks yesterday with little sign of progress and agreed to meet again in September, prolonging an uneasy truce in a year-long trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
MANGALURU/BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Authorities in Southern India recovered the body of coffee baron V.G.
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