WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump yesterday moved to show their medical fitness for the White House as Clinton released a letter from her doctor declaring her fit for the presidency and Trump taped a TV-segment about his well-being.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi called yesterday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country, and President Barack Obama, in their first White House meeting since she became leader, said the United States was ready to do so.
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday decried a decision that could see it suspended from the Mercosur trade bloc as the crisis-stricken leftist country grows increasingly isolated in South America.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain and Argentina have agreed to work together towards removing measures restricting the oil and gas, shipping and fishing industries around the disputed Falkland Islands, both countries said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The founding members of Mercosur will give Venezuela until Dec.
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.
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