Hailing a first, Clinton declares herself the Democratic nominee
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party nominee for U.S.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton declared herself the Democratic Party nominee for U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Bowing to pressure from fellow Republicans, Donald Trump said yesterday he would no longer talk about a Mexican-American judge after U.S.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a wafer-thin lead yesterday over rival Keiko Fujimori in the latest tally from Peru’s presidential race, with tens of thousands of votes from abroad and in remote jungle villages still to be counted.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor families in the Philippines are pushing their children into performing live sex online for paedophiles around the globe in what one senior UNICEF official called a form of “child slavery”.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton called for party unity yesterday, suggesting it was time for Bernie Sanders to abandon his hard-fought challenge, as six states hold nominating contests today when she expects to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination.
LIMA (Reuters) – The future of Peru’s presidency hung in the balance as former investment banker Pedro Pablo Kuczynski held a razor-thin lead in Sunday’s election over Keiko Fujimori, daughter of an imprisoned authoritarian leader.
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s veteran leader Yoweri Museveni named a new cabinet yesterday that retained his prime minister and ministers in the key energy and finance jobs while giving the education portfolio to his wife.
XALAPA, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexico’s ruling party lost several bastions in Sunday’s regional elections to the centre-right opposition, dealing a heavy blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto for failing to crack down on corruption and gang violence.
LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether people with depression will respond to common antidepressants, a discovery that could bring in a new era of personalised treatment for people with the debilitating mental illness.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Center-right economist Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a slight lead over Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of an imprisoned former president as early results came in from Peru’s presidential election yesterday.
RIYADH, (Reuters) – Under King Salman, Saudi Arabia is expanding its confrontation with Iran well beyond the Middle East, no longer relying heavily on Western allies to smother Tehran’s ambitions outside the Arab world.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s excess industrial capacity will have a “corrosive” impact on its future growth and efficiency unless it is reduced, U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary yesterday, moving her a step closer to prevailing over her rival, Bernie Sanders, in the fight for her party’s presidential nomination.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Former prime minister John Major yesterday accused the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union of fatuous and squalid claims on immigration and the cost of membership to dupe the public into voting out at this month’s referendum.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Venezuelan Presi-dent Nicolas Maduro called upon Latin America yesterday not to give in to “brutal pressure” from the United States to isolate his government, which is battling intensifying opposition at home and abroad.
KINSHASA (Reuters) – A top ally of Congolese President Joseph Kabila yesterday raised the possibility of a constitutional referendum to alter the number of terms he can serve, defying opponents and western powers who insist Kabila should leave office this year.
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Thirty soldiers from Niger and two from Nigeria were killed in a Boko Haram attack by “hundreds of assailants” on Friday on the southeastern town of Bosso close to the border with Nigeria, the Niger defence ministry said yesterday.
AMMAN (Reuters) – The Syrian army pushed into Raqqa province, home to the de facto capital of Islamic State, after a major Russian-backed offensive against the militants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s legal team lodged a formal complaint in Venezuela’s Supreme Court yesterday against the National Assembly’s opposition leaders for allegedly “usurping” his role in international affairs.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Now a court in Senegal has convicted Chad’s former dictator of crimes against humanity to the applause of global justice advocates, could a pan-African court try a sitting African leader who violates human rights?
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