WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump defended his administration’s deal with Mexico against criticism that there were no major new commitments to stem a flow of Central American migrants crossing into the United States, and said yesterday more details would soon be released.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Congress approved a sweeping amnesty law during a Saturday session that will offer protection to police and others who took part in a violent clampdown on anti-government protesters over the past year.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – A campaign of civil disobedience to demand civilian rule left the streets of Sudan’s capital Khartoum largely deserted as the working week began yesterday, while a 20-year-old man was shot dead in Omdurman, witnesses and opposition medics said.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Several hundred thousand people jammed Hong Kong’s streets today in the biggest rally for years to thwart a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday predicted Mexico would strongly enforce a new deal under which it agreed to expand a controversial asylum program and boost security on its southern border to stem Central American migrants trying to reach the United States.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian investigative journalist Ivan Golunov was placed under two months’ house arrest in Moscow yesterday while he is investigated for drug peddling, as a court rejected a request from investigators to hold him in custody.
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The Australian government has confiscated three properties from a Chinese national after a joint money-laundering investigation with China, police said yesterday.
SANTIAGO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Chile’s new climate change plan, unveiled by President Sebastian Pinera last week, puts the host of this year’s U.N.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The United States and Mexico struck a deal yesterday to avert a tariff war, with Mexico agreeing to rapidly expand a controversial asylum programme and deploy security forces to stem the flow of illegal Central American migrants.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said yesterday he would contribute $500 million toward closing coal-fired power plants across the United States, in a clash with White House effort to revive a fossil fuel blamed for climate change.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday there was a “good chance” that the United States would be able to reach a deal with Mexico over his demands that it curb the number of mostly Central American migrants crossing the southern U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday that the opposition does not currently plan to join a new round of talks in Norway with representatives of President Nicolas Maduro, after mediation efforts collapsed last month without a deal.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s prime minister yesterday urged Sudan’s military rulers and civilian opposition to exercise “bravery” in trying to agree on a transition to democracy after the worst bloodshed since the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York man who prosecutors say plotted an attack on Times Square, spoke about killing police officers and praised Islamic militants appeared in court on firearms charges today and was denied bail.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Four million Venezuelan refugees and migrants have fled economic and humanitarian crisis in their homeland, all but 700,000 of them since the end of 2015, U.N.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The New York Police Department yesterday apologized for the first time for the raid on the Stonewall Inn gay bar 50 years ago and anti-gay laws of the time that gave rise to the modern LGBT rights movement, describing them as discriminatory and oppressive.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled yesterday that state-run firms do not need congressional approval to sell their subsidiaries, a major victory for the government of President Jair Bolsonaro and state-run oil firm Petrobras.
(Reuters) – Beyond Meat Inc, a maker of plant-based burgers and sausages, said it expects to more than double its revenue and report breakeven EBITDA this year, sending the its shares up over 21 percent.