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'IS-inspired' trucker kills eight in New York

'IS-inspired' trucker kills eight in New York

Agencies 2017-11-01 12:00:00

A man driving a rented pickup truck mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike path alongside the Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring about a dozen others in...

Argentine airline workers’ strike disrupts grounding, take-off   

Argentine airline workers’ strike disrupts grounding, take-off  

-- 2017-10-31 10:51:32

A strike by airlines workers in Argentina caused the cancellation of dozens of flights and the grounding of tens of thousands of passengers on Tuesday. Unions representing state-run carrier Aerolinea...

Storm-hit Puerto Rico scraps $300m energy deal

Storm-hit Puerto Rico scraps $300m energy deal

-- 2017-10-30 12:00:00

Puerto Rico's governor has called for the cancellation of a contract given to a tiny Montana firm to help rebuild the island's power grid. The head of the US-controlled island's power authority on Su...

Trump's former campaign manager surrenders to FBI

Trump's former campaign manager surrenders to FBI

-- 2017-10-30 07:27:41

US President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort has surrendered before federal authorities over a case about possible Russian meddling. Manafort arrived at the Federal Bureau of Inv...

Brazil federal buildings set afire, troops deployed

Brazil federal buildings set afire, troops deployed

BBC 2017-10-29 12:54:37

Extra troops and federal police have been deployed in the north Brazilian town of Humaita after hundreds of armed men set alight several offices belonging to environmental agencies. The attack took p...

Facebook, Google, Twitter to testify Russia meddling

Facebook, Google, Twitter to testify Russia meddling

-- 2017-10-28 12:00:00

Executives from Facebook, Google and Twitter have been asked to testify to the US Congress in coming weeks as lawmakers probe Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 US election, committee sou...

First charges filed in Trump-Russia probe

First charges filed in Trump-Russia probe

BBC 2017-10-28 03:50:14

The first charges have been filed in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russia interference in the 2016 US election, media reports say. It was not clear what the cha...

Threat of N Korea nuclear attack accelerating

Threat of N Korea nuclear attack accelerating

AP 2017-10-28 02:52:22

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating. In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, M...

No future for Assad in Syria, US says

No future for Assad in Syria, US says

Reuters 2017-10-27 12:00:00

President Bashar al-Assad and his family have no role in the future of Syria, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday ahead of peace talks aiming at a political transition scheduled to re...

Trump lifts veil on JFK-assassination records

Trump lifts veil on JFK-assassination records

Reuters 2017-10-27 03:10:34

US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the unveiling of 2,800 documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but yielded to pressure from the FBI and CIA to block the...

Trump applauds Xi's 'extraordinary' rise

Trump applauds Xi's 'extraordinary' rise

Agencies 2017-10-26 10:36:46

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping to congratulate him on a new leadership line-up unveiled at the Communist Party Congress in Beijing. The two also...

US reviewing to confirm Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing'

US reviewing to confirm Rohingya 'ethnic cleansing'

Reuters 2017-10-25 09:47:21

The State Department is considering formally declaring the crackdown on Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims to be ethnic cleansing, US officials said on Tuesday, as lawmakers called for sanctions against...

Republican senators slam Trump, feud boils

Republican senators slam Trump, feud boils

Reuters 2017-10-25 02:11:04

Tensions among Republicans about President Donald Trump boiled over on Tuesday as two senators accused Trump of debasing U.S. politics and the country’s standing abroad, a rebellion that could p...

US plans Myanmar sanctions

US plans Myanmar sanctions

Reuters 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The United States is taking steps and considering a range of further actions over Myanmar’s treatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority, including targeted sanctions under its Global Magnitsky law...

California shooting spree suspect held

California shooting spree suspect held

Xinhua 2017-10-24 12:00:00

Two people were killed and several others sustained injuries in a shooting rampage on Monday in Lake County, about 140 km north of San Francisco, western California, the United States, local media rep...

New York bans vaping in public places

New York bans vaping in public places

BBC 2017-10-24 04:12:45

Vaping is being outlawed in public indoor spaces in the US state of New York. A new rule, which will come into law in 30 days, will mean that the practice will be treated the same as smoking normal c...

Nicaragua joins Paris climate accord

Nicaragua joins Paris climate accord

-- 2017-10-24 03:55:42

Nicaragua has signed the Paris climate agreement, meaning that the US and Syria are the only two countries not to be giving the accord their support. The deal unites the world's nations in tackling c...

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Child's body found near missing Texas girl's home

Reuters 2017-10-24 01:48:05

The body of a toddler found in a culvert beneath a Texas road was likely that of a 3-year-old girl reported missing after her father said he punished her for not drinking her milk by making her stand...

Former US presidents gather for hurricanes fundraiser

Former US presidents gather for hurricanes fundraiser

BBC 2017-10-22 12:06:30

America's five living former presidents gathered together for a concert in aid of victims of the hurricanes which ravaged the US this year. Barack Obama, George W Bush, Bill Clinton, George HW Bush a...

Brazil police detain 108 in anti-paedophilia raid

Brazil police detain 108 in anti-paedophilia raid

BBC 2017-10-21 09:49:29

Police in Brazil say they have arrested 108 people in the biggest operation ever against paedophiles in Latin America. Suspects were arrested in 24 states and the capital, Brasilia. Justice Minister...

Trump intends to release classified JFK documents

Trump intends to release classified JFK documents

-- 2017-10-21 07:43:22

US President Donald Trump intends to allow the release of classified government documents about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy "subject to the receipt of further information." Trump's...

Obama, Bush both blast Trump

Obama, Bush both blast Trump

-- 2017-10-20 12:00:00

Former US Presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush expressed concern about the current political climate in the country, in comments seen as a veiled rebuke of Donald Trump's leadership. Obama urged...

Trump signals tax cuts 

Trump signals tax cuts 

-- 2017-10-20 06:26:03

US President Donald Trump on Friday signalled optimism for the passage of Republicans’ sweeping tax cut plan, saying a key senator who rejected the party’s budget blueprint a day earlier w...

California hepatitis death toll hits 19

California hepatitis death toll hits 19

BBC 2017-10-19 10:52:29

The death toll from California's hepatitis A outbreak has reached 19, one week after the state's governor issued a health state of emergency. More than 500 people in California have contracted the vi...

Trump’s Path to IP Wars                                                 

Trump’s Path to IP Wars                                                

Dan Steinbock    2017-10-19 08:31:28

In mid-August, President Trump asked US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a veteran Reagan administration trade hawk, to open an investigation into China's intellectual property (IP) practice...

Trump denies making 'insensitive’ remarks to soldier's widow

Trump denies making 'insensitive’ remarks to soldier's widow

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

US President Donald Trump has said a lawmaker's claim he made a soldier's widow cry is "totally fabricated". Congresswoman Frederica Wilson said she was shocked by the president's comments to the ber...

US remains concerned over Rohingya crisis: US

US remains concerned over Rohingya crisis: US

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

The United States remains “extraordinarily concerned” by what was happening to Myanmar’s Rohingya minority. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made the remarks on Wednesday. He als...

Hillary Clinton slams Trump's fight with Kim

Hillary Clinton slams Trump's fight with Kim

-- 2017-10-18 09:40:34

Former US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday the war of words between Pyongyang and Washington have benefited North Korea, but not the United States. “There is no need for...

Hawaii judge blocks Trump’s third travel ban

Hawaii judge blocks Trump’s third travel ban

BBC 2017-10-18 02:30:01

US President Donald Trump's latest bid to impose travel restrictions on citizens from eight countries entering the US has suffered a court defeat. A federal judge slapped a temporary restraining orde...

11 die in Mexico border gunbattles

11 die in Mexico border gunbattles

-- 2017-10-17 11:41:16

At least 11 people were killed in a series of gunbattles in the northern Mexico border state of Tamauilpas, authorities said. Officials said the shootouts in the border city of Reynosa and the nearby...