VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria’s presidential election runoff must be held again, the Constitutional Court ruled yesterday, handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.
(Reuters) – A federal judge has blocked a Mississippi law intended to allow people who object on religious grounds to refuse wedding and other services to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Crouching on a rooftop, Libyan truck driver Riyad Swaid takes aim through breeze blocks at positions held by Islamic State fighters a few hundred metres away in the city of Sirte.
FLORENCE, Italy, (Reuters) – Violent clashes broke out this week between police and the local Chinese community in Prato near Florence in central Italy, home to one of the largest concentrations of Chinese-run industry in Europe.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Murders in El Salvador plunged 51 percent in June compared with the same month last year, police said on Friday, attributing the drop to new government security measures even as gangs pointed to a recent truce to explain the decline.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s air force flew tons of grain to the southern state of Oaxaca yesterday as protests by teachers opposed to education reform spread across the country and road blocks led to dwindling food supplies in some remote regions.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria’s presidential runoff election must be held again, the Constitutional Court ruled today, handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former London mayor Boris Johnson abruptly pulled out of the race to become Britain’s prime minister that he was once favoured to win, upending the contest less than a week after he led a campaign to take the country out of the EU.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – The U.N. Human Rights Council agreed yesterday to appoint an independent investigator to help protect homosexuals and transgender people worldwide from violence and discrimination.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in as the Philippines’ 16th president yesterday, capping the unlikely journey of a provincial city mayor whose brash man-of-the-people style and pledges to crush crime swamped establishment rivals in last month’s election.
SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – Puerto Rico authorized suspension of payments on its general obligation debt yesterday just minutes after U.S.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A Goldman Sachs executive’s alleged arranging of prostitutes for himself and the brother of a decision-maker at Libya’s sovereign wealth fund was completely unacceptable behaviour for an employee of the bank, the first witness called by Goldman told a court yesterday.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former London mayor Boris Johnson abruptly pulled out of the race to become Britain’s next prime minister today, in a shock move that upturned a political order shaken by last week’s vote to leave the European Union.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada, the United States and Mexico yesterday mounted a fierce defence of free trade, vowing to deepen economic ties despite an increasingly acrimonious debate about the value of globalization.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday urged the Venezuelan government to respect the democratic process and the rule of law, including allowing the release of political prisoners.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Six members of the Honduran National Police were indicted yesterday on U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An international ruling next month is expected to deprive China of any legal basis for its claim to most of the South China Sea, and Beijing risks being seen as an “outlaw state” unless it respects the outcome, the Philippines’ chief lawyer in the case said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The release of police dispatch records offering new details from witnesses of the Orlando nightclub massacre provided fresh grist yesterday for the debate about whether law enforcement waited too long to take out the gunman.
NEW DELHI, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – India’s Supreme Court said it will examine how far it could interfere in Muslim laws governing family-related issues as it heard a plea to end a practice allowing Muslim men to divorce their wives by saying “talaq” three times.
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit.
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