BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court indicted the president of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, yesterday for embezzlement, a ruling that is expected to fan growing tensions between the judiciary and Congress over corruption cases.
WILMINGTON, Del., (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has several options for disentangling himself from his business empire when he takes office next year, but legal experts say the only way fully to avoid conflicts of interest would be to sell his global holdings.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – OPEC agreed yesterday its first oil output cuts since 2008 after Saudi Arabia accepted “a big hit” on its production and dropped its demand on arch-rival Iran to slash output.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Philip Morris International , the world’s largest international tobacco company, could eventually stop selling cigarettes, its chief executive told the BBC on Wednesday, as it launched its alternative product IQOS in the UK market.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, heading for the biggest game in their history, were on board a plane carrying 81 people that crashed in Colombia killing 76 people, police said on Tuesday.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Cubans, some wrapped in red, white and blue national flags, paid final respects in Havana yesterday to Fidel Castro, who led a leftist revolution, ruled for half a century and resisted the United States throughout the Cold War.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a US military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two US defence officials told Reuters yesterday, an action they described as “unsafe and unprofessional.”
SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China has approved a 247-billion-yuan (US$36-billion) railway plan to improve transport links between the capital Beijing, the port city of Tianjin, and the neighbouring province of Hebei, part of plans to integrate the three areas into a mega-city.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Hardline reformist Francois Fillon scored a resounding win in France’s conservative primaries yesterday, making him favourite to win a presidential election five months from now against the popular far-right and a deeply divided left.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutor said yesterday it would charge 11 members of the military for responsibility in the death of 12 civilians following a security raid last month in the violent country’s coastal state of Miranda.
(Reuters) – Reuters first established a presence in Havana before the Second World War and covered every major story of the Fidel Castro era since his 1959 Cuban revolution, from the Bay of Pigs invasion to his sickness in old age.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Several thousand residents of rebel-held eastern Aleppo fled shifting frontlines, residents and a monitor said yesterday, after a rapid advance by the Syrian army and allied forces that rebels fear could split their most important urban stronghold in two.
BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Anticipating a more protectionist U.S. technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied US efforts to topple him, died on Friday.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma will be questioned next week by the African National Congress’ (ANC) integrity commission following persistent allegations of corruption and poor election results, the party said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that the United States convicted his wife’s nephews on drug charges last week to weaken his leftist government.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Wisconsin’s election commission said yesterday it had received petitions for a recount of votes in the presidential election from the Green Party campaign and another candidate and was planning to start the process.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos and Marxist FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono signed a revised peace accord yesterday in a far more sober ceremony than a first deal rejected last month by millions at a plebiscite.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday tore into his successor Narendra Modi’s clampdown on the cash economy, calling it an “organised loot and legalised plunder” of the country.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – The dollar rose to an 8-month high against the yen yesterday, lifted by U.S.
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