WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama warned yesterday that occupying the Oval Office “is not a reality show,” in a swipe at outspoken Republican candidate Donald Trump who is vying to replace him in the White House.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Sadiq Khan, the son of a bus driver, became London’s first Muslim mayor yesterday, seeing off a Conservative challenger who attempted to link him to extremism and securing a much-needed victory for his opposition Labour Party.
WANDERING RIVER, Alberta, (Reuters) – Convoys of evacuees stranded by a wildfire raging unchecked in and around the Canadian oil town of Fort McMurray made their way yesterday through the heart of the devastation on the only highway out of the region, passing through the city’s charred ruins.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Senate committee recommended yesterday that Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff be put on trial by the full chamber for breaking budget laws, moving a step closer to the likely suspension of the leftist leader from office next week.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.
CONKLIN/LAC LA BICHE, Alberta, (Reuters) – A catastrophic wildfire that has forced all 88,000 residents to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada exploded tenfold in size yesterday, cutting off evacuees in camps north of the city and putting communities to the south in extreme danger.
ANZAC, Alberta, (Reuters) – A massive wildfire that has forced the evacuation of all 88,000 people from the western Canadian oil city of Fort McMurray and burned down 1,600 structures has the potential to destroy much of the town, authorities said yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court told tobacco companies today they must adhere to a new federal rule requiring much larger health warnings on cigarette packs, in a major setback for the $11 billion industry that opposes the new policy.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., (Reuters) – Republican front-runner Donald Trump went from long-shot contender to become the party’s presumptive nominee yesterday with a commanding win in Indiana, and the party began to coalesce around him as top rival Ted Cruz bowed out of the race.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor has asked the Supreme Court to open an investigation of President Dilma Rousseff for trying to obstruct a massive corruption probe involving state-run oil firm Petrobras, Globo News reported yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said it delivered 1.85 million signatures to the country’s elections authority yesterday as part of the process of seeking a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro.
PARIS (Reuters) – “Je ne t’aime plus, mon amour” — “I don’t love you any more, my love” — was the wistful song of a love gone cold which greeted devotees of President Francois Hollande as they arrived at a rally for him last week.
AMMAN/GENEVA (Reuters) – Washington and Moscow said yesterday they were working hard to extend a truce in Syria to Aleppo, the divided northern city where a sharp escalation of violence in recent weeks has left a ceasefire in tatters and torpedoed peace talks.
OSLO (Reuters) – Norway will send some 60 troops, including special forces soldiers, to train, advise and give operational support to Syrian fighters battling Islamic State militants, the country’s prime minister said yesterday.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syrian government troops surrounded Hama prison in the west of the country yesterday and fired tear gas after inmates revolted, seizing several guards, a monitoring group reported.
BAIMAJING, China, (Reuters) – The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into the disputed South China Sea.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Nearly a decade after a spike in global food prices sent shockwaves around the world, Asia’s top rice producers are suffering from a blistering drought that threatens to cut output and boost prices of a staple for half the world’s population.
DHAKA, (Reuters) – Three assailants sped up to a Bangladeshi tailor’s shop by motorcycle on Saturday, dragged out the Hindu owner and hacked him to death, police said, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Almost half of the world’s top 500 investors are doing nothing to address climate change through their investments, a study showed yesterday.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Hundreds of supporters of Shi’ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed parliament inside Baghdad’s Green Zone yesterday and camped out nearby after Sadr denounced politicians’ failure to reform a political quota system blamed for rampant corruption.