MILAN, (Reuters) – An Italian judge said yesterday oil majors Eni and Royal Dutch Shell were fully aware their 2011 purchase of a Nigerian oilfield would result in corrupt payments to Nigerian politicians and officials.
(Reuters) – CBS Corp said yesterday it has fired Leslie Moonves for cause and has denied a $120 million severance package as it girds for a likely legal battle with its former chief executive who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault that allegedly took place before and after he joined the company.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday she would bring her Brexit deal back to parliament for a mid-January vote, pledging to get assurances from the European Union before then to break a deadlock over Britain’s fraught efforts to quit the bloc.
NEW YORK/KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia yesterday filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs Group Inc related to its dealings with the sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, and Goldman Sachs fired back that the previous Malaysian government had lied to the investment bank.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia said today it has filed criminal charges against Goldman Sachs and two of the U.S.
KATOWICE, Poland, (Reuters) – Fractious climate change talks in Poland showed the limits of international action to limit global warming in a polarised world, putting the onus on individual governments, cities and communities to stop temperatures rising.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia yesterday rejected “the position expressed recently by the United States Senate”, saying that the Jamal Khashoggi murder is a crime that does not reflect the policy of the kingdom, a statement by Saudi’s foreign ministry said.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s prime minister today, making a remarkable comeback weeks after being ousted by President Maithripala Sirisena under controversial circumstances.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, speaking in an interview that aired yesterday, said for the first time that his Liberal government was looking for a way out of a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s new government aims by mid-February to put out tenders for the first four sections of a planned railway connecting the southeast of the country to Caribbean resorts, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday.
BUDAPEST, (Reuters) – Thousands of Hungarians thronged the streets of Budapest yesterday in the fourth and largest protest in a week against what they see as the increasingly authoritarian rule of right-wing nationalist Viktor Orban.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, (Reuters) – Bermuda’s government on Thursday filed an appeal to a high court in London seeking to uphold a law challenged in local courts that would ban gay marriage in the British overseas island.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Rocket Lab, a rocket propulsion company backed by investors in Silicon Valley, has launched a batch of 13 tiny probes from New Zealand to study space.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s economy will grow next year at about the same sluggish 1 percent pace it did in 2018 and an austerity program begun in 2016 will continue, the country’s economy minister said yesterday, according to state-run media.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police on Saturday beat at least seven journalists with batons, including one of the country’s best known editors, in an escalating crackdown on independent media in the aftermath of protests against President Daniel Ortega.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s prime minister today, making a remarkable comeback weeks after being ousted by President Maithripala Sirisena under controversial circumstances.
KATOWICE, Poland, (Reuters) – Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late yesterday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerous effects of global warming.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s exit from the European Union was heading for an impasse, one senior minister said yesterday, after a week in which Prime Minister Theresa May failed to win EU assurances on her deal and pulled a vote because UK lawmakers would defeat it.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who has aggressively sought to roll back Obama-era environmental protections, will be leaving his post at the end of the year, President Donald Trump tweeted yesterday, the latest high-profile departure from his administration.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday hailed a court decision against Obamacare as “a great ruling for our country,” while a U.S.
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