HOUSTON/CANNON BALL, N.D., (Reuters) – The leader of a Native American tribe attempting to block the Dakota Access oil pipeline said on Wednesday the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe may have exhausted legal options to stop the project after the company building it won federal permission to tunnel under the Missouri River.
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration asked a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two Republican senators proposed steps to slash the number of legal immigrants admitted into the United States by half yesterday, but the legislation, developed with the Trump administration, faces an uphill climb to get through Congress.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Army will grant the final permit for the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline after an order from President Donald Trump to expedite the project, despite opposition from Native American tribes and climate activists.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Businessman Jovenel Moise became Haiti’s new president yesterday, ending a political stalemate that lasted more than a year with his promise to deliver thousands of new jobs.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Haitian police have arrested nine people in connection with sex trafficking, involving girls as young as 13, highlighting the dangers facing children in the Caribbean nation where human trafficking is rife and the crime often goes unpunished.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s choice of billionaire Betsy DeVos to be education secretary was confirmed by the U.S.
SACRAMENTO, Calif (Reuters) – California leaders pushed back yesterday against President Donald Trump’s claim that the state is “out of control,” pointing to its balanced budget and high jobs numbers in the latest dustup between the populist Republican and the progressive state.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said yesterday it wanted an apology from Fox News over what it said were “unacceptable” comments one of the channel’s presenters made about Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with US counterpart Donald Trump.
SAN FRANCISCO/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A US federal appeals court will hear arguments today over whether to restore President Donald Trump’s temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, the most controversial policy of his two-week old administration.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday ramped up his criticism of a federal judge who blocked a travel ban on seven mainly Muslim nations and said courts were making U.S.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said on Sunday that ex-president Alejandro Toledo, accused of receiving millions in bribes from embattled construction firm Odebrecht S.A.,
BUCHAREST, (Reuters) – Romania’s Social Democrat government yesterday anulled a decree that would decriminalise some graft offences, an embarrassing u-turn for the country’s new prime minister in the face of week-long mass protests and international rebuke.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Scientists tracking a crop-destroying caterpillar known as armyworm say it is now spreading rapidly across mainland Africa and could reach tropical Asia and the Mediterranean in the next few years, threatening agricultural trade.
ABUJA, (Reuters) – President Muhammadu Buhari asked parliament yesterday to extend his medical leave, his office said in a statement, deepening suspicions among many Nigerians that his health is worse than officials are admitting publicly.
WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, (Reuters) – A U.S. appeal court late on Saturday denied a request from the U.S.
LYON, France (Reuters) – French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron yesterday called on US scientists, academics and entrepreneurs at odds with Donald Trump’s administration to move to France.
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that peace negotiations with Maoist-led rebels would be scrapped, five months after both sides resumed talks to end nearly five decades of conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
LONDON (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated outside the US embassy in London yesterday against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries banned from the United States by President Donald Trump can resume boarding U.S.-bound
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