Trump’s Cuba hawks try to squeeze Havana over Venezuela role
MIAMI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up U.S.
MIAMI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday imposed new sanctions and other punitive measures on Cuba and Venezuela, seeking to ratchet up U.S.
ABUJA/LONDON, (Reuters) – A Nigerian judge issued arrest warrants for two former ministers and an Eni manager over the sale of offshore oilfield OPL 245 by Malabu Oil and Gas in 2011, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Twitter yesterday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan presidential candidate was arrested in Miami yesterday and charged with an elaborate plot to use drug cartel money to win the election and assassinate rivals, according to U.S.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Nicaraguans opposed to President Daniel Ortega took to the streets of the capital Managua yesterday in protests deemed illegal by the government and several dozen were arrested, according to an opposition group.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Deposed ex-Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been moved to Khartoum’s grim high-security Kobar prison from the presidential residence, family sources said yesterday, as military rulers announced steps to crack down on corruption.
ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition candidate took office as Istanbul mayor yesterday after a stunning victory over President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party, but the new head of the country’s largest city still faces an appeal for the vote to be re-run.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s former president Alan Garcia died in a hospital in Lima today, hours after shooting himself in the head to avoid arrest in connection with a bribery probe, authorities said on Wednesday.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – Deposed former Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir has been moved to Kobar prison in Khartoum from the presidential residence, family sources said on Wednesday, and a prison source said he was being held under tight security in solitary confinement.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Trump administration will allow lawsuits in U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The first shipment of humanitarian aid from the Red Cross intended to alleviate a dire economic crisis in Venezuela arrived in the once-prosperous, oil-rich country yesterday, a representative of the organization and a lawmaker said.
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The U.S. Attorney General yesterday struck down a decision that had allowed some asylum seekers to ask for bond in front of an immigration judge, in a ruling that expands indefinite detention for some migrants who must wait months or years for their cases to be heard.
NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia, (Reuters) – Germany’s Daimler and some others have stopped dealing with sanctions-hit van maker GAZ, controlled by Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska, he told reporters, adding he was ready to give up control of the company.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered Canada’s lobbying commissioner to reconsider a probe into whether the Aga Khan broke the rules by inviting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s family to vacation on his private island at a time when his foundation was registered to lobby Trudeau’s office.
PARIS, (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron pledged on Tuesday that France would rebuild the fire-devastated Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, saying he hoped the work would be done in five years and the French people would pull together to repair their national symbol.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The fire that tore through Notre-Dame cathedral was probably caused by accident, French prosecutors said on Tuesday after firefighters doused the last flames in the ruins overnight.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A massive fire consumed Notre-Dame Cathedral yesterday, gutting the roof of the Paris landmark and stunning France and the world, but firefighters managed to save the shell of the stone structure and its two main bell towers from collapse.
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – When Arturo Balbino, a Texas construction worker, walked into his visa interview at the American consulate in the northern Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez in March, he wasn’t nervous.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s election commission yesterday banned a Hindu state chief minister from campaigning for three days after anti-Muslim comments in an election that will end next month.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada expanded sanctions against the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro yesterday, according to a statement from Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, targeting an additional 43 people close to the disputed leader.
PACARAIMA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Ten destitute Venezuelan migrants who fled their country’s crisis did not get far when they crossed into Brazil: they have been living for three months on an abandoned bus just across the border.
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