JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African lawmakers on Tuesday approved an anti-money-laundering bill that will increase scrutiny of the bank accounts of “politically exposed people”, three months after President Jacob Zuma sent it back to parliament over concerns of its constitutionality.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump showed a different side in his first address to Congress.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian and U.S. officials are working on a plan to tackle asylum seekers crossing into Canada illegally, with American officials keen to discover how they entered the United States in the first place, said a source familiar with the matter.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged 19 people with taking part in a complex international fraud and money laundering ring that tricked companies and consumers out of millions of dollars.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he was open to a broad overhaul of the U.S.
KANSAS CITY, Kan., (Reuters) – The deadly shooting of an Indian engineer and wounding of his co-worker last Wednesday at a bar in Kansas is being investigated as a hate crime, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A defiant Mexico said yesterday it would only stay in NAFTA if it suited it and rejected the imposition of any tariffs or quotas when renegotiating the trade deal U.S
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A federal appeals court yesterday rejected a US Department of Justice request to place on hold an appeal over President Donald Trump’s travel ban on people from seven majority-Muslim countries.
SOUTH OF MOSUL, IRAQ (Reuters) – Iraqi forces seized a damaged Mosul bridge yesterday which could link up their units on either side of the Tigris river, as thousands of civilians fled the fighting for Islamic State’s remaining stronghold in the west of the city.
(Jamaica Observer) – Declaring that she is without fear of reprisal when it comes to women’s and children’s rights, former Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna on Sunday lashed her critics, some of whom had sent death threats, for attacking her comments on convicted murderer Vybz Kartel producing music from behind prison bars.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump, who has attacked China on issues from trade to the South China Sea, held his first face-to-face talks with a member of the Chinese leadership yesterday, and the White House said it was a chance to discuss shared security interests and a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean intelligence believes suspects wanted for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader included several officials who worked for the reclusive state’s foreign and security ministries, according to lawmakers in Seoul.
Reuters) – Joseph Wapner, the former real-life judge who presided over “The People’s Court” on reality television with a Solomonic presence that made him one of the best-known legal figures in the United States, died yesterday at the age of 97, news reports said.
(Reuters) – American actor Bill Paxton, who rose to stardom with roles in Hollywood blockbusters such as “Aliens” and “Titanic,” has died at age 61 after complications from surgery, his family said in a statement yesterday.
(Reuters) – It is in Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighbourhood, behind an unmarked door on the second floor of a rundown building, where a military equipment company called Glocom says it has its office.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s first budget proposal will spare big social welfare programmes such as Social Security and Medicare from any cuts, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in an interview broadcast yesterday.
ATLANTA (Reuters) – US Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez as chairman yesterday, choosing a veteran of the Obama administration to lead the daunting task of rebuilding the party and heading the opposition to Republican President Donald Trump.
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Francois Hollande fired back at Donald Trump yesterday after the US president remarked in a speech that a friend thought “Paris is no longer Paris” after attacks by Islamist militants.
(Reuters) – North Korea is evading international sanctions with a sophisticated network of overseas companies, enabled partly by its continued access to the international banking system, says a forthcoming United Nations report seen by Reuters.
GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government and opposition delegates to peace talks in Geneva on Saturday warned of the impact on negotiations after a day of violence in Syria that included jihadist suicide bombings and missile strikes by the air force.
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