LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday that Brexit talks with the European Union had hit an impasse, defiantly challenging the bloc to come up with its own plans a day after EU leaders savaged her proposals.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is preparing a “series of actions” in the coming days to increase pressure on the Venezuelan government, U.S.
MONROVIA, (Reuters) – The U.S. government is considering helping Liberia track down more than $100 million in missing cash, an embassy spokesman said, in a case that has triggered a political crisis in the impoverished country.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – China’s most senior envoy inaugurated a new embassy in the Dominican Republic yesterday after the Caribbean country cut ties with Taiwan in a move that prompted U.S.
(Reuters) – More than 3 million people died in 2016 due to drinking too much alcohol, meaning one in 20 deaths worldwide was linked to harmful drinking, the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday.
(Reuters) – A woman armed with a handgun opened fire yesterday on co-workers at a Maryland distribution center for the Rite Aid drugstore chain, killing three people and wounding three others before taking her own life, the Harford County sheriff said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Sometime in the next few weeks, global oil consumption will reach 100 million barrels per day (bpd) – more than twice what it was 50 years ago – and it shows no immediate sign of falling.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil, Chevron and Occidental Petroleum are joining a group of major international oil and gas companies in an initiative aimed at curbing carbon emissions in the sector, they said in a statement yesterday.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Rap mogul Marion “Suge” Knight pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles court yesterday to a charge of manslaughter for a 2015 hit-and-run killing, accepting a 28-year prison sentence under a deal with prosecutors days before his murder trial was to begin.
MILAN, (Reuters) – An Italian judge sentenced two defendants in a Nigerian corruption case to jail yesterday in the first ruling on one of the oil industry’s biggest graft scandals.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday called on the Myanmar government to pardon and release two imprisoned Reuters journalists as soon as possible.
LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Britain, Finland, Ireland and Sweden are withholding nearly $34 million in budget support to Zambia’s social welfare and education sectors due to concerns over financial mismanagement, Finance Minister Margaret Mwanakatwe said yesterday.
YENAGOA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria recovered $470.5 million in bank accounts related to the state oil company as part of an exercise to recover stolen funds, and the money will be sent to government coffers, the country’s police force said yesterday.
WASHINGTON/SEOUL, (Reuters) – The United States said it was ready to resume talks with North Korea after Pyongyang pledged on Wednesday to dismantle its key missile facilities and suggested it would close its main Yongbyon nuclear complex if Washington took unspecified actions.
GUATEMALA CITY/UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations said yesterday that it would send an assistant director to lead its anti-graft mission in Guatemala as the group’s chief remains banned from entering the country.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – A total of 21 money laundering charges will be laid against former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak over a $681 million dollar transfer into his bank account, police said on Thursday, money that allegedly came from scandal-linked state fund 1MDB.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s opposition-run Congress renewed its confidence in the cabinet of President Martin Vizcarra yesterday, averting a political crisis that could have forced new legislative elections.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court today ordered the release of jailed ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter, suspending the sentences they received from a lower court in July and prompting celebrations among supporters waiting outside.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – A victory for President Abdulla Yameen in a Sunday election in the Maldives could ramp up pressure on its finances, as the government stays the course on a Chinese-backed infrastructure boom that is in danger of swamping the economy.