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Argentina leaves Lima Group, blaming bloc's Venezuela policies

Argentina leaves Lima Group, blaming bloc's Venezuela policies

-- 2021-03-25 13:22:42

Argentina has said it would withdraw from the ‘Lima Group’ of Latin American nations, blasting the regional bloc’s policy of isolating Venezuela under President Nicolas Maduro and no...

Republicans fail to label migrant surge at US-Mexico border a crisis

Republicans fail to label migrant surge at US-Mexico border a crisis

Reuters 2021-03-25 10:21:15

US Senate Republicans put their opposition to President Joe Biden’s border policy on full display on Wednesday, with a symbolic show of their own legislation aimed at pressuring the White House...

Eruption of Guatemala's Pacaya volcano grounds planes

Eruption of Guatemala's Pacaya volcano grounds planes

Reuters 2021-03-24 11:33:21

Guatemalan authorities closed the capital’s international airport on Tuesday as ash and rocks sprayed from the Pacaya volcano, grounding nine planes and diverting an incoming flight to neighbour...

Blinken offers boost for NATO, cooperation on Afghanistan

Blinken offers boost for NATO, cooperation on Afghanistan

REUTERS 2021-03-24 08:17:29

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday pledged to rebuild and revitalise the transatlantic military alliance after a bruising four years when Washington portrayed NATO as outdated, divided an...

‘AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine likely good, but company statement caused concern’

‘AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine likely good, but company statement caused concern’

Reuters 2021-03-23 18:25:58

AstraZeneca Plc's COVID-19 vaccine is likely very good, but an independent review board was concerned about how the drugmaker presented data in a press release this week, top US health official Dr Ant...

AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in US vaccine trial

AstraZeneca may have used outdated info in US vaccine trial

-- 2021-03-23 16:55:54

Results from a US trial of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may have included “outdated information” and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, Ameri...

Police officer among 10 dead in US supermarket shooting

Police officer among 10 dead in US supermarket shooting

-- 2021-03-23 11:09:37

A gunman opened fire at a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, on Monday, killing 10 people, including a police officer, before being arrested, marking the second deadly US mass shooting in less than a w...

US to place some migrant families in hotels

US to place some migrant families in hotels

-- 2021-03-21 08:54:45

Some migrant families arriving in the United States will be housed in hotels under a new programme managed by nonprofit organisations, according to two people familiar with the plans, a move away from...

US urges India not to purchase Russian equipment

US urges India not to purchase Russian equipment

-- 2021-03-20 21:37:33

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin discussed India's planned purchase of Russia's S400 air defence system at a meeting with his Indian counterpart on Saturday, reiterating US allies should steer clear...

US charges Proud Boys with conspiracy in Capitol assault

US charges Proud Boys with conspiracy in Capitol assault

Reuters 2021-03-20 10:44:59

A federal grand jury charged four leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to block Congress from certifying US President Joe Biden’s election on the day of a deadly assault on the Ca...

13 cops killed in drug gang ambush in Mexico

13 cops killed in drug gang ambush in Mexico

-- 2021-03-19 10:26:43

Gunmen have killed at least 13 Mexican police in an ambush a short distance outside the capital, local authorities said, in one of the worst mass slayings of security forces to rock the country in rec...

Top American, Chinese diplomats clash in first talks of Biden presidency

Top American, Chinese diplomats clash in first talks of Biden presidency

Reuters 2021-03-19 08:52:28

The United States and China levelled sharp rebukes of each others’ policies in the first high-level, in-person talks of the Biden administration on Thursday, with deeply strained relations of th...

Trump assures supporters that Covid vaccination is safe

Trump assures supporters that Covid vaccination is safe

AP 2021-03-17 12:46:57

Former US President Donald Trump again urged people to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus, saying he would recommend vaccination to “a lot of people that don’t want to get it, and...

US massage parlour shootings leave eight dead; suspect arrested

US massage parlour shootings leave eight dead; suspect arrested

-- 2021-03-17 10:45:41

Eight people, six of them women of Asian descent, were shot dead at a massage parlour and two day spas in the Atlanta area on Tuesday, and a man suspected of carrying out all of the attacks was arrest...

US says it is facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years

US says it is facing biggest migrant surge in 20 years

Reuters 2021-03-17 08:25:37

The United States is facing the biggest surge of migrants at its southwestern border in 20 years, the homeland security secretary said on Tuesday as the Biden administration races to handle an influx...

Bill in Senate to recognise Feb 21 as Canadian holiday

Bill in Senate to recognise Feb 21 as Canadian holiday

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-03-16 19:12:48

Canadian Senator Mobina Zaffer has introduced a bill in the Senate to recognise International Mother language Day on February 21 as a holiday in Canada. She said the bill was introduced as a private...

Trump's ex-adviser Bannon loses bid to start right-wing political academy in Italy

Trump's ex-adviser Bannon loses bid to start right-wing political academy in Italy

-- 2021-03-16 10:30:58

Steve Bannon, the former adviser to ex-US President Donald Trump, has lost a legal battle to set up a right-wing Catholic political academy in an abbey in Italy. The Council of State on Monday ruled...

America's emergency agency asked to help with surge of children at US-Mexico border

America's emergency agency asked to help with surge of children at US-Mexico border

-- 2021-03-15 10:54:34

The US Department of Homeland Security on Saturday ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children a...

Biden’s administration fails to get response from North Korea

Biden’s administration fails to get response from North Korea

-- 2021-03-14 20:14:59

North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden's administration, including Pyongyang's mission to the United Nations, a senior Biden a...

George Floyd's family agrees to $27 million settlement over his death

George Floyd's family agrees to $27 million settlement over his death

REUTERS 2021-03-13 12:07:02

The city of Minneapolis on Friday agreed to pay $27 million to settle a lawsuit by the family of George Floyd over his death in police custody, a case that stirred national protests over racial injust...

Organised crime siphons billions from Brazil gas stations

Organised crime siphons billions from Brazil gas stations

Reuters 2021-03-13 11:10:29

Travel across Brazil and you’ll spot signs almost everywhere for BR Distribuidora, the owner of South America’s largest gas station chain. The familiar green-and-yellow logo of the company...

Biden draws more broadcast viewers than Trump's first TV address

Biden draws more broadcast viewers than Trump's first TV address

-- 2021-03-13 10:31:32

US President Joe Biden’s prime-time address on the fight against COVID-19 attracted more broadcast television viewers on Thursday than former President Donald Trump’s first speech to the n...

US lawmakers discuss antitrust exemption for media

US lawmakers discuss antitrust exemption for media

REUTERS 2021-03-13 10:00:52

Lawmakers heard testimony on Friday over whether a bill aimed at helping news outlets negotiate with tech platforms was an appropriate way to help the struggling industry, including discussion of whet...

Biden to meet with leaders of Australia, India, Japan in efforts to counter China

Biden to meet with leaders of Australia, India, Japan in efforts to counter China

Reuters 2021-03-12 15:13:33

US President Joe Biden will meet on Friday with the leaders of Australia, India and Japan, a group central to his efforts to counter China’s growing military and economic power. The White House...

US must slash emissions by almost 60pc to meet Paris climate target

US must slash emissions by almost 60pc to meet Paris climate target

REUTERS 2021-03-12 09:54:17

The United States needs to set a target to slash its greenhouse gas emissions between 57 per cent and 63 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 in order to achieve the Biden administration’s longer-...

Fox News host accused of demeaning US military with anti-woman segment

Fox News host accused of demeaning US military with anti-woman segment

REUTERS 2021-03-12 09:46:40

The Pentagon said Fox News host Tucker Carlson “essentially demeaned the entire US military” with a segment that decried increasing numbers of female service members and suggested they wer...

US border facilities see surge in migrant children

US border facilities see surge in migrant children

-- 2021-03-12 08:48:51

More than 3,600 migrant children were being held in US border facilities as of Thursday morning, a US official told Reuters, more than four times the number in late February, a sign of a growing human...

Jared Kushner plans book on Trump White House

Jared Kushner plans book on Trump White House

-- 2021-03-11 12:01:47

Jared Kushner, who was a senior adviser to then-President Donald Trump, plans to write a book about his White House experiences, including his role in negotiating normalisation deals between Israel an...

Argentines to march seeking answers over Maradona's death

Argentines to march seeking answers over Maradona's death

-- 2021-03-11 11:54:45

Argentines took to the streets on Wednesday to demand what they say is justice for Diego Maradona after the soccer icon’s death in November sparked investigations into how he died and whether th...

Biden has no good choices to manage influx of migrant children

Biden has no good choices to manage influx of migrant children

-- 2021-03-11 10:44:24

US President Joe Biden’s administration is racing to deal with an increasing number of migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border, but it has limited options and “none are great,&...