World

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The rapid pace of global climate change is almost certainly driven by human activity, like burning fossil fuels, according to a U.S.

LUSAKA, (Reuters) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu has warned constitutional court judges not to stop him running for another term in office, state media reported, drawing a rebuke from a top legal body.

FORT BRAGG, N.C., (Reuters) – U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl yesterday was spared prison for endangering his comrades in arms when he deserted in Afghanistan in 2009, a sentence swiftly condemned by President Donald Trump, who while seeking election had called for his execution.

VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Thousands of mourners at a funeral yesterday for slain Maltese anti-corruption blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia heard a plea for the protection of journalistic freedoms and a warning to her unknown killers that they face “the justice of God.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Major U.S. internet firms day said they would support legislation to make it easier to penalize operators of websites that facilitate online sex trafficking, marking a sharp reversal for Silicon Valley on an issue long considered a top policy priority.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada imposed sanctions yesterday against 30 Russian officials whom it said were complicit in the 2009 prison death of Sergei Magnitsky, an anti-corruption lawyer who was jailed after alleging a massive tax fraud.

(Reuters) – When the lawyer for the former campaign manager of President Donald Trump attacked the money laundering charge brought against his client as flimsy, some legal experts say he may have pinpointed a potential weakness in the indictment by U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday announced plans to restructure its burgeoning foreign debt, a move that may lead to a default by the cash-strapped OPEC nation whose collapsing socialist economy has left its population struggling to find food and medicine.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives unveiled a tax bill yesterday that would cost $1.51 trillion and deliver deep tax cuts as promised by President Donald Trump, setting off a race in Congress to give him his first major legislative win.

MUMBAI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian court on Thursday sentenced to life in prison two Indian men who were convicted of raping their 10-year-old niece in a case that caused a global furore when the girl was denied an abortion and had to give birth earlier this year.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry suggested on Thursday that the expansion of fossil fuel use in Africa would help protect people there from sexual assault, a comment that drew a swift rebuke from environmental activists.

SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Apple Inc on Thursday reported better-than-expected earnings and offered a rosy forecast for the holiday shopping season, allaying investor concerns about production delays on the new iPhone X and demonstrating remarkable strength across its growing line of products and services.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – A Spanish judge ordered nine Catalan secessionist leaders to be held in custody yesterday pending a potential trial over the region’s independence push.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Senate Democrats yesterday demanded that Attorney General Jeff Sessions be recalled to testify on the Trump campaign’s Russia contacts after the disclosure of an effort to set up a meeting between then-Republican candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday seized on the deadly New York City truck attack to step up demands for stricter U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British defence minister Michael Fallon quit yesterday saying his conduct had fallen below the high standards demanded of his position, the first resignation in a sexual harassment scandal in parliament.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday raised minimum wage by 30 percent to the equivalent of $4.30 at the black market exchange rate.

ROSARIO, Argentina,  (Reuters) – Argentines yesterday mourned the loss of five high school buddies from the city of Rosario who were mowed down the day before while enjoying a bike ride in New York during a trip to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Six women have accused “Rush Hour” filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times yesterday, in a widening scandal over alleged sexual misdeeds in Hollywood’s entertainment industry.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Twenty months after the killing of Honduran land rights defender Berta Caceres, the masterminds behind the crime have yet to be punished, while other female rights campaigners face growing threats across Central America, Nobel peace laureates said.