CAPE TOWN/JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African leader Jacob Zuma attempted yesterday to brush aside market fears of a power struggle with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, declaring: “There is no war between the Presidency and the Treasury.”
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski said a transcontinental railway proposed by China to slash the costs of shipping Brazilian goods to Asia could be too expensive and environmentally harmful to build.
(Reuters) – New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said yesterday he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico has widened its investigation into the abduction and apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers in the southwestern city of Iguala in 2014 to examine the role of federal and state police, a federal prosecutor said.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – A nationwide ceasefire in Syria brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect last evening, the second attempt this year by Washington and Moscow to halt the five-year-old civil war.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s ex-president, Cristina Fernandez, has been subpoenaed to testify as part of an investigation into the awarding of public works contracts during her 2007-2015 administration, according to court papers filed on Monday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said yesterday she could resume campaigning in a “couple of days,” after a bout of pneumonia caused her to nearly collapse at an event on Sunday and cancel some of her trips.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Marxist FARC rebels apologized for the “great pain” they caused by kidnapping thousands of people to fund half a century of conflict as the insurgent group prepared to sign a peace accord with the government.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has taken out a home loan to repay state money spent on non-security upgrades to his private residence, his office said on Monday, after a scandal over lavish improvements including a swimming pool and amphitheatre.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s former prime minister David Cameron said yesterday he was resigning from his seat in parliament to avoid becoming a distraction for his successor, ending his political career just weeks after he lost a referendum to stay in the European Union.
PARIS, (Reuters) – International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde will stand trial for her role in a 400 million euros ($440 million) payout as French finance minister in 2008 to businessman Bernard Tapie from Dec.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said today that health is an issue in the election campaign after his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, revealed she had pneumonia, and he said he would soon release detailed health information.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada may make it easier for temporary foreign workers to get permanent residency and eventual citizenship, Immigration Minister John McCallum said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, diagnosed with pneumonia, became overheated and fell ill at a Sept.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Cooperation with Fateh al-Sham, formerly al Qaeda’s Nusra Front, could bring “dire consequences” for Syria’s mainstream rebel groups once a proposed U.S.-Russian
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The notes are handwritten on a legal pad and provide a verbatim account of the shock, pain and grim determination aboard Air Force One on Sept.
MADRID (Reuters) – Several thousand people rallied in Madrid yesterday to demand a ban on bullfighting, adding their voices to a growing animal rights movement that has prompted some local authorities to clamp down on the centuries-old tradition.
TORONTO (Reuters) – A new film about the true story of an African king and white British woman whose marriage triggered a political crisis is first and foremost a love story, its star and director said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Greta Friedman, the woman in white kissed by a sailor in New York’s Times Square in a photograph symbolizing the end of World War Two, has died at age 92, media reports said yesterday.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The United States and Russia hailed a breakthrough deal last night to put Syria’s peace process back on track, including a nationwide ceasefire effective from sundown on Monday, improved aid access and joint targeting of banned militant Islamist groups.
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