VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Investigators have identified a group of at least three Maltese nationals who they believe masterminded the killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia 13 months ago, The Sunday Times of Malta reported yesterday.
PORT MORESBY, (Reuters) – Tonga has signed up to China’s Belt and Road initiative and has received a reprieve from Beijing on the timing of debt payments shortly before an onerous schedule to repay loans was due to start.
PORT MORESBY, (Reuters) – The United States and China swapped barbs over trade, investment and regional security at an Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation (APEC) summit yesterday, as growing fault lines among members suggested little prospect of consensus at the weekend meeting.
PORT MORESBY, (Reuters) – The United States, Australia, New Zealand and Japan yesterday said they would work together to ensure most of Papua New Guinea had access to electricity by 2030 as Western allies respond to China’s growing presence in the Pacific.
TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – Democrat Andrew Gillum, who had sought to become Florida’s first black governor, conceded yesterday, after a recount showed he had no way of catching his Republican rival Ron DeSantis, an ally of President Donald Trump.
MALE, (Reuters) – The new president of the Maldives took office yesterday, declaring the state coffers to have been looted and warned that the country was in financial difficulty after racking up debt with Chinese lenders in an infrastructure boom.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The Argentine Navy submarine that went missing a year ago off the country’s Atlantic Coast was found by a private company involved in what had been a massive search for the vessel and its 44-member crew, the defense ministry said in a news conference yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May won the backing of the most prominent Brexiteer in her government yesterday as she fought to save a draft European Union divorce deal that has stirred up a plot to force her out of her job.
PARADISE, Calif., (Reuters) – Recovery teams with cadaver dogs pressed on with their search for more victims in a flame-ravaged northern California town yesterday as authorities sought clues to the fate of more than 1,000 people reported missing in the deadliest wildfire in state history.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The CIA believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, sources familiar with the matter said on Friday, complicating President Donald Trump’s efforts to preserve ties with a key U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday said he had “very easily” completed his written answers for Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s role in the 2016 U.S.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Same-sex couples in Costa Rica will have the right to get married by mid-2020, the nation’s constitutional court has ruled, a first for socially conservative Central America.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ordered the White House to temporarily restore CNN correspondent Jim Acosta’s press pass, which was revoked after a contentious news conference last week with President Donald Trump.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament descended into chaos for a second day yesterday as lawmakers supporting newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste and water bottles at the speaker to try to disrupt a second no-confidence motion.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s parliament descended into chaos for a second day today as lawmakers supporting newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa threw books, chili paste and water bottles at the Speaker to try to disrupt a second no-confidence motion.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to fight for her draft divorce deal with the European Union yesterday after the resignation of her Brexit secretary and other ministers put her strategy and her job in peril.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka appeared to be politically rudderless yesterday as the speaker of parliament declared there was no functioning prime minister or cabinet after a no-confidence vote the previous day.
WASHINGTON/RIYADH, (Reuters) – The United States imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials yesterday for their role in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor sought the death penalty for five suspects in the murder.
NAIROBI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Foreign donors should freeze funding to Tanzania to press the government to scrap policies violating the rights of girls and sexual minorities, campaigners said yesterday, a day after the World Bank and Denmark said they were withholding aid.