HAVANA, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed when a Boeing 737 crashed soon after taking off from Havana in what appeared to be Cuba’s worst air disaster in nearly 30 years, and there were only three survivors, officials and state media said yesterday.
SANTA FE, Texas, (Reuters) – A 17-year-old student armed with a shotgun and pistol opened fire at his Texas high school yesterday, killing nine students and a teacher, authorities said, in an attack with eerie echoes of the massacre at a Florida high school in February.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The head of a new commission formed to expose the truth behind human rights abuses committed during Colombia’s long civil war has said it will focus on society’s “most fragile” and look at why sexual violence against women was so prominent.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Ousted Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been summoned by the anti-graft agency amid a probe into troubled state fund 1MDB, sources said yesterday, after police launched pre-dawn raids on premises linked to Najib and confiscated jewellery, luxury handbags and cash.
(Reuters) – At least eight people were killed today in a shooting at a high school in Santa Fe, Texas, a local sheriff said, with one person in custody and a second detained.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s ousted former premier Najib Razak was “totally shattered” the night he lost the general election and called his jailed rival Anwar Ibrahim twice for advice on what he should do, Anwar said on Thursday.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police seized 284 boxes containing designer handbags and dozens of bags filled with cash and jewellery from a private residence linked to former prime minister Najib Razak last night.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China is offering U.S. President Donald Trump a package of trade concessions and increased purchases of American goods aimed at cutting the U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions yesterday barred immigration judges from a once-common practice of shelving deportation cases involving some immigrants with deep ties to the United States.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Thousands of people have signed an online petition calling for the disbarment of a New York lawyer accused of threatening to have cafe workers deported after he heard them speaking Spanish, an incident caught on video that went viral.
KINSHASA, (Reuters) – Congolese and U.N. officials were racing yesterday to prevent a runaway Ebola outbreak in Congo, working out the logistics of keeping newly arrived vaccines well below freezing in a steamy region on the equator with unreliable power.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An intermediary of a Russian oligarch and associates of then-U.S.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan students taunted President Daniel Ortega with shouts of “murderer” as he spoke at an event aimed at negotiating a solution to weeks of deadly demonstrations that flared up again yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Inmates at a crowded Caracas detention center revolted yesterday, with jailed opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a Mormon missionary from Utah begging for freedom and medical attention in postings on social media.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Oxfam Great Britain chief executive Mark Goldring, who was criticised for his handling of a scandal over the use of prostitutes in Haiti by Oxfam staff, will stand down at the end of the year, the organisation said on Wednesday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York investment manager was arrested on Wednesday and charged with fraudulently raising about $21.9 million that he told his investors would be used to build an international airport in Belize, the U.S.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – The United Stated has demanded North Korea ship some nuclear warheads, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and other nuclear material overseas within six months, the Asahi newspaper said on Thursday, citing several sources familiar with North Korean issues.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian police conducted searches through the night and into today at five places linked to ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak, including the family home where he stays, a senior police officer said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May’s government yesterday suffered its 15th defeat on legislation that will end Britain’s membership of the European Union when parliament’s upper chamber voted in favour of adding environmental safeguards to the bill.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea on Wednesday threw into question an unprecedented summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S.
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