RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A 72-hour strike by Brazilian oil workers halted refineries and rigs yestreday, union leaders said, a new blow to President Michel Temer on the heels of a trucker protest that has strangled Latin America’s largest economy for over a week.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Movie producer Harvey Weinstein was indicted yesterday on charges of rape and a criminal sexual act, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said, the first case to emerge from a slew of sexual misconduct allegations against him.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s main business lobby yesterday urged President Daniel Ortega to hold early elections to steer the country out of weeks of deadly protests that have seriously undermined the former Marxist guerrilla leader’s long hold on power.
KIEV/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A dissident Russian journalist who was reported murdered in Kiev dramatically reappeared alive today in the middle of a televised briefing about his own killing by the Ukrainian state security service.
KABUL, (Reuters) – More than 50 senior Taliban commanders were killed in an artillery strike on a meeting in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, a U.S.
(Reuters Health) – Hurricane Maria claimed the lives of 4,645 people in Puerto Rico last year and not the 64 long pegged by the island’s government as the official death toll, according to a survey of thousands of residents by a research team led by Harvard University.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican business leaders called out the government yesterday over a recent wave of criminal activity that has terrorized large swaths of Latin America’s second-largest economy and led some prominent firms to cut back operations.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A thuggish response to weeks of protests has eroded carefully constructed pillars of support in the Church, military and business world for Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, emboldening calls for the ouster of the former Marxist guerrilla who has dominated politics for decades.
ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – Pakistan yesterday appointed former chief justice Nasir-Ul-Mulk as caretaker prime minister until a general election on July 25 which is expected to usher in the second-ever democratic transition in the nuclear armed nation of 208 million people.
THOOTHUKUDI, India, (Reuters) – An Indian state yesterday ordered the permanent closure of a copper smelter controlled by London-listed Vedanta Resources after 13 people protesting to demand its shutdown on environmental concerns were killed last week.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France yesterday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.
PARIS, (Reuters) – France yesterday offered citizenship to an illegal immigrant from Mali who scaled the facade of a Paris apartment block to save a boy who was about to fall from a fourth-floor balcony, President Emmanuel Macron said.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italy’s president set the country on a path to fresh elections yesterday, appointing a former International Monetary Fund official as interim prime minister with the task of planning for snap polls and passing the next budget.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Right-winger Ivan Duque, who wants to overhaul a peace deal with Marxist rebels, won Colombia’s first-round presidential election yesterday, setting up a runoff next month with leftist Gustavo Petro, who has pledged to confront privileged elites.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – Anti-corruption group Transparency International said yesterday Nigeria’s government has in the run-up to elections expanded the use of opaque $670 million-a-year funds that fuel graft.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Michel Temer announced late yesterday new measures to reduce operating costs for truckers in a bid to end a week-long protest that has severely hampered the flow of food, fuel and key exports in Latin America’s largest economy.
(Reuters) – Thousands of Florida residents evacuated homes yesterday as Subtropical Storm Alberto picked up strength as it headed north through the Gulf of Mexico, with forecasters saying it could bring life-threatening inundation to Southern coastal states.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said on Sunday it had arrested the wife of top drug lord Nemesio Oseguera on charges of laundering funds for his powerful cartel that is blamed for driving heroin shipments to the United States.