(Reuters) – U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller disclosed for the first time yesterday that his office has evidence of communications between Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, and WikiLeaks related to the release of hacked Democratic Party emails.
WASHINGTON/MUNICH, (Reuters) – The United States ratcheted up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday by sanctioning some of his top security officials and the head of the state oil company, and unveiling plans to airlift over 200 tons of aid to the Colombian border.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise struck a combative note on Thursday in his first address since violent protests flared in the capital, defying calls for his ouster but urging dialogue to address soaring inflation and alleged misuse of funds.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – A gunman opened fire at a manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Illinois, yesterday, killing five people and wounding five police officers before he was slain, law enforcement officials said.
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested eight employees of mining firm Vale SA yesterday, accused by state prosecutors of covering up weaknesses at a dam that collapsed and likely killed more than 300 people.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United States scoffed on Friday at Venezuela’s accusation that it was poisoning humanitarian aid, and urged allies to stop the “decrepit, dictatorial regime” of President Nicolas Maduro from chairing U.N.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s President Jovenel Moise struck a combative note yesterday in his first address since violent protests flared in the capital, defying calls for his ouster but urging dialogue to address soaring inflation and alleged misuse of funds.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump vowed yesterday to declare a national emergency in an attempt to fund his U.S.-Mexico
CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government stepped up a legal battle against efforts to oust him yesterday, while the opposition said the international community had pledged more than $100 million in humanitarian aid for the country.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is confronting the most serious cabinet controversy of his young government as he met with ministers yesterday to make final changes to a proposed social security overhaul seen as essential to shoring up the economy.
MANILA, (Reuters) – The head of a Philippine news website that has locked horns with President Rodrigo Duterte was freed on bail yesterday, a day after her widely condemned arrest on libel charges that critics say is a government effort to bully journalists.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May suffered a defeat on her Brexit strategy yesterday that undermined her pledge to European Union leaders to get her divorce deal approved if they grant her concessions.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba charged today that the United States was secretly moving special forces closer to Venezuela as part of a plan to intervene in the South American country using the pretext of a humanitarian crisis.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday edged toward backing a deal in Congress on government funding that would not meet his demand for $5.7 billion for a wall on the Mexican border but would avert a partial government shutdown.
STRASBOURG, (Reuters) – The European Commission added Saudi Arabia, Panama, Nigeria and other jurisdictions to a blacklist of nations seen as posing a threat because of lax controls on terrorism financing and money laundering, the EU executive said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Rights groups have sued the Trump Administration for violating constitutional rights of immigrants by refusing them in-person deportation hearings in New York immigration court, and instead forcing them to make their case by videoconference from detention.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York investment manager pleaded guilty yesterday to running a $21.9 million fraud in which he falsely told dozens of investors their money was being used to build an international airport in Belize, the U.S.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – A tribunal today issued an arrest warrant for Nigeria’s suspended chief judge for failing to appear for trial over alleged breaches of asset declaration rules, days before Saturday’s presidential election.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The world’s most infamous cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, who rose from poverty in rural Mexico to amass billions of dollars, was found guilty in a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he was unhappy with a deal struck by congressional negotiators on border security that denied him funds for his promised U.S.-Mexican
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