MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Developers have lost a court appeal to build a coal mine in Australia’s Hunter Valley over its potentially “dire” environmental impact in the country’s first legal review of a coal mine project to hear evidence from a climate scientist.
CUCUTA, Colombia/TIENDITAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta yesterday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an escalating political crisis.
OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied a newspaper report that his office had tried to pressure the former justice minister to intervene in the prosecution of engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said yesterday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors said yesterday they had closed a money-laundering inquiry into a son of the President of Equatorial Guinea with an arrangement to sell 25 confiscated luxury cars to fund social programmes in the former Spanish colony.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The spiraling political crisis in Virginia, which threatens to take out three top state Democrats with racial scandals or sexual assault accusations, poses a stiff test for a party thriving on its growing strength with women and minorities.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has agreed to testify today before the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said yesterday, after he threatened to not show up following the panel’s warning that it could subpoena him.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – More allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, with five women saying he harassed or assaulted them, in a high-profile example of the #MeToo movement in Latin America.
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos posted a blog yetserday saying the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media Inc (AMI) tried to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos.”
FREETOWN, (Reuters) – The brutal rape of a young girl by her uncle in Sierra Leone became the rallying point for a campaign that yesterday pushed President Julius Maada Bio to declare the prevalence of sexual violence a national emergency.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition yesterday said it would use a U.S.-based
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian iron ore miner Vale SA was made aware of problems with sensors designed to monitor the structure of a dam that ended up bursting, killing an estimated 300 people, two days before the disaster, Globo TV reported yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Even as he appealed for unity, President Donald Trump made it clear in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that his idea of common ground is having Democrats back his policy agenda and stop investigating his administration.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan’s top court yesterday warned the military and intelligence agencies they must not exceed their mandate and meddle in politics, an apparent rebuke over their handling of Islamist protests in 2017.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Even as he appealed for unity, President Donald Trump made it clear in his State of the Union address on Tuesday that his idea of common ground is having Democrats back his policy agenda and stop investigating his administration.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – A doctor has filed a criminal complaint of sexual assault against Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias, the New York Times reported yesterday, an allegation that Arias categorically denied.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadorans voiced hope for a changed country yesterday after political outsider Nayib Bukele won a sweeping victory in the presidential election with a pledge to tackle the corruption and violence plaguing the Central American nation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Senator Lindsey Graham said yesterday if President Donald Trump declares an emergency to fund a wall on the U.S.-Mexico
TORONTO, (Reuters) – About C$180 million ($137.21 million) in cryptocurrencies have been frozen in the user accounts of Canadian digital platform Quadriga after the founder, the only person with the password to gain access, died suddenly in December.
KATHMANDU, (Reuters) – At least a third of the ice in the Himalayas and the Hindu Kush will thaw this century as temperatures rise, disrupting river flows vital for growing crops from China to India, scientists said yesterday.
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