WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee said yesterday he had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump’s allegation he was wiretapped by then-President Barack Obama during the 2016 presidential campaign.
HOUSTON/CALGARY, (Reuters) – Doug Lucas stood outside a Houston energy conference early one morning last month handing out resumes and hoping to catch the eye of oil executives with a hand-written sign advertising “Petroleum Eng.
KUALA LUMPUR/ SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea barred Malaysians from leaving the country yesterday, sparking tit-for-tat action by Malaysia, as police investigating the murder of Kim Jong Nam in Kuala Lumpur sought to question three men hiding in the North Korean embassy.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised yesterday’s test launches of four missiles, the country’s official news agency reported today, stepping up threats against Washington as US troops conduct joint military exercises with South Korea.
CARACAS/LIMA (Reuters) – Venezuela’s leftist government yesterday called Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski a “coward” and a “dog” servile to the United States, leading Peru to respond by sending a protest note and calling in its ambassador for consultations.
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The new, more narrowly tailored temporary travel ban President Donald Trump signed yesterday will be more difficult to challenge successfully in court, legal experts said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The former top U.S. intelligence official rejected President Donald Trump’s accusation that his predecessor, Barack Obama, wiretapped him even as the White House yesterday urged Congress to investigate Trump’s allegation.
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhoea resulting from a drought, the prime minister said yesterday, as the area braces itself for widespread shortages of food.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House budget director confirmed yesterday that the Trump administration will propose “fairly dramatic reductions” in the US foreign aid budget later this month.
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada will not tighten its border to deter migrants crossing illegally from the United States in the wake of a US immigration crackdown because the numbers are not big enough to cause alarm, a government minister said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A spokesman for Barack Obama yesterday rejected claims by US President Donald Trump that the then-president had wiretapped Trump in October during the late stages of the presidential election campaign.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions will reply in writing to Senate Democrats’ questions about his meetings with Russia’s ambassador last year, the Justice Department said yesterday after a top Republican denied Democrats’ request for a public hearing.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Former Haitian President Rene Preval, 74, the first leader in Haiti’s history to win a democratic election, serve a full term and peacefully hand power to a successor, died on Friday after falling unconscious at his home.
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – Tanzanian President John Magufuli ordered the confiscation on Friday of passports belonging to foreign employees of an Indian infrastructure company managing a water project that is running late.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said yesterday he would stay out of any probe into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election but maintained he did nothing wrong by failing to disclose he met last year with Russia’s ambassador.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt’s top appeals court found former president Hosni Mubarak innocent yesterday of involvement in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that ended his 30-year rule, the final ruling in a landmark case.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign on Wednesday after the Washington Post reported he failed to disclose two meetings he had with Russia’s ambassador before Donald Trump was inaugurated as president.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives intelligence committee will investigate allegations of collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, the top Democrat on the panel said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The Dow yesterday blasted through the 21,000 mark for the first time after U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico
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