World

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A taxi drove into a crowd of pedestrians near Moscow’s Red Square on Saturday, injuring eight people including two Mexicans in the city for the soccer World Cup which Russia is hosting, officials and eyewitnesses said.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he was pushing ahead with hefty tariffs on $50 billion of Chinese imports yesterday, and the smoldering trade war between the world’s two largest economies showed signs of igniting as Beijing immediately vowed to respond in kind.

ADEN, (Reuters) – Forces from an alliance of Arab states seized two entrances to the airport in Yemen’s main port city yesterday, in an offensive against the Iran-aligned Houthi movement that the United Nations fears could trigger a famine imperilling millions of lives.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors investigating U.S. President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen have extracted more than 700 pages of messages sent using encrypted programs like WhatsApp and Signal on phones seized from Cohen, according to a court filing yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A judge yesterday sent longtime Republican political operator and businessman Paul Manafort to jail pending trial after a charge of witness tampering, the latest episode in a slow fall from grace of a man who was President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in 2016.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa plans to raise black ownership at permit-holding mining companies to 30 percent from 26 percent within five years, the latest draft of a hotly-contested new industry charter showed yesterday.

HONG KONG, (Reuters) – A team of AIDS researchers in Hong Kong says its new research, tested on mice, indicates a functional cure for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, eventually leading to a new antibody that could be used for both prevention and treatment.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The New York state attorney general sued U.S.

SEOUL/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearisation, the U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former FBI Director James Comey made a “serious error of judgment” when he announced shortly before the 2016 U.S.

BENGHAZI, Libya/LONDON  (Reuters) – The major Libyan oil ports of Ras Lanuf and Es Sider were closed and evacuated yesterday after armed brigades opposed to the powerful eastern commander Khalifa Haftar stormed them, causing a production loss of 240,000 barrels per day (bpd).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the No. 2 wireless carrier, on Thursday closed its $85 billion deal to acquire media company Time Warner Inc after it reached an agreement with U.S.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – Tough sanctions will remain on North Korea until its complete denuclearisation, the U.S.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean President Moon Jae-In said yesterday the world had escaped the threat of war after this week’s Singapore summit, echoing U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – More than a million people have left Venezuela to live in Colombia during the last 15 months, with arrivals expected to continue, the Colombian government said yesterday, as its socialist neighbour suffers a deep economic crisis.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched an attack on Yemen’s main port city yesterday in the largest battle of the Yemen war, aiming to bring the ruling Houthi movement to its knees at the risk of worsening the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government yesterday said it was withdrawing Oxfam Great Britain’s right to operate in the Caribbean country after allegations of sexual misconduct by some of the charity’s staff.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May defeated the final challenges to her Brexit blueprint in parliament yesterday, leaving plans for Britain’s departure from the European Union still largely on track but her authority weakened.

ADEN,  (Reuters) – A Saudi-led alliance of Arab states launched an attack on Yemen’s main port city today in the largest battle of the war, aiming to bring the ruling Houthi movement to its knees at the risk of worsening the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis.

SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump made a stunning concession to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Tuesday about halting military exercises, pulling a surprise at a summit that baffled allies, military officials and lawmakers from his own Republican Party.