CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said yesterday he has asked his envoy to the United States to meet with Pentagon officials to “cooperate” on a solution to the South American country’s political crisis.
QUETTA, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Three gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Pakistan’s southwestern port city of Gwadar yesterday, killing at least one guard and battling security forces inside, officials and the army said.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – The Nigerian government has accused former President Goodluck Jonathan and his then oil minister of accepting bribes and breaking the country’s laws to broker a $1.3 billion oil deal eight years ago, a London court filing shows.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday ordered his trade chief to begin the process of imposing tariffs on all remaining imports from China, underscoring a lack of progress by U.S.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea’s second missile test on Thursday signals it is serious about developing new, short-range weapons that could be used early and effectively in any war with South Korea and the United States, analysts studying images of the latest launches say.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday expanded the scope of its Venezuela sanctions to the defense and security services sectors to try to crank up economic pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
(Reuters) – Cigarette maker Philip Morris International Inc has suspended a global social media marketing campaign in response to Reuters inquiries into the company’s use of young online personalities to sell its new “heated tobacco” device, including a 21-year-old woman in Russia.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba said yetserday it would control more the sales of certain foodstuff and hygiene products, including adding some back to the ration card, due to shortages that it blamed partly on the tightening of the U.S.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba said today it would control more the sales of certain foodstuff and hygiene products, including adding some back to the ration card, due to shortages that it blamed partly on the tightening of the U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators concluded the first of two days of talks yesterday to rescue a trade deal that is close to collapsing as Wash-ington prepares to go ahead with plans to hike tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars of goods imported from China.
PRETORIA, (Reuters) – The African National Congress (ANC) was headed toward victory in South Africa’s election yesterday, partial results showed, though the party was on course for its worst performance in a national poll in its 25 years in government.
SEOUL/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – North Korea fired what appeared to be two short-range missiles yesterday in its second such test in less than a week, and the United States said it had seized a North Korean cargo ship as tensions again mounted between the two countries.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian lawmakers dealt a blow to the country’s graft-busting Justice Minister Sergio Moro yesterday, when a congressional committee voted to transfer a key tool for monitoring financial transactions to the recently formed Economy Ministry.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos unveiled yesterday a mockup of a lunar lander being built by his Blue Origin rocket company and touted his moon goals in a strategy aimed at capitalizing on the Trump administration’s renewed push to establish a lunar outpost in just five years.
BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Belizeans have voted to ask the United Nations world court to decide Guatemala’s claim that it is the rightful owner of half of Belize’s territory, setting the scene for a resolution to a dispute that has rumbled on for centuries.
BELIZE CITY, (Reuters) – Belizeans have voted to ask the United Nations world court to decide Guatemala’s claim that it is the rightful owner of half of Belize’s territory, setting the scene for a resolution to a dispute that has rumbled on for centuries.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The BBC has fired a British radio presenter who tweeted an image of a chimpanzee dressed in clothes below the caption “Royal Baby leaves hospital”.