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Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

Caravan of 1,200 migrants in Mexico begins moving towards US

-- 2019-03-25 11:03:19

A caravan of some 1,200 migrants from Central America and Cuba began moving towards the US border from southern Mexico this weekend, migration authorities said on Sunday. The National Migration Insti...

Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy

Mueller finds no Trump-Russia conspiracy

-- 2019-03-25 10:02:36

US Special Counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s election team and Russia in the 2016 election but left unresolved the question of whether Trump...

Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Colombia

Magnitude 6.1 quake hits Colombia

-- 2019-03-24 14:40:37

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck western Colombia in the Andes on Saturday (local time) but it was deep, the US Geological Survey has said. The quake struck 32 miles (51.5 km) northwest of the city...

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

Mexico detains over 100 Central American migrants

-- 2019-03-24 11:39:52

Mexican police and federal officials on Saturday detained 107 Central American migrants seeking to enter the United States in the border city of Reynosa, the government of the northeastern state of Ta...

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

Special counsel Mueller delivers Trump-Russia report

-- 2019-03-23 10:25:17

Special Counsel Robert Mueller has submitted his long-awaited report on alleged collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. The Attorney General William Barr will now summari...

Brazil police arrest ex-president Michel Temer

Brazil police arrest ex-president Michel Temer

-- 2019-03-22 12:47:24

Former Brazilian President Michel Temer has been arrested in São Paulo as part of a massive corruption investigation. Mr Temer, a 78-year-old lawyer who was in office from 2016 to 2018, is bei...

Trump backs Israeli sovereignty over disputed Golan

Trump backs Israeli sovereignty over disputed Golan

-- 2019-03-22 11:59:19

US President Donald Trump says it is time to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights that Israel seized from Syria in 1967, marking a dramatic shift in US policy and giving a boost to Isr...

Nicaragua govt agrees to release all opposition prisoners

Nicaragua govt agrees to release all opposition prisoners

-- 2019-03-21 11:55:21

The Nicaraguan government has agreed to release all opposition prisoners within 90 days in a bid to restart stalled peace talks. Mediators said the government would free more than 700 people detained...

Brazil police arrest teen involved in school shooting

Brazil police arrest teen involved in school shooting

-- 2019-03-20 15:23:08

Police arrested a teen identified as for allegedly helping plan the school attack in Sao Paulo on March 13 that left 10 dead, the local police has said. The 17-year-old man was arrested at his home i...

Alan Krueger, economic adviser to Obama and Clinton, takes own life

Alan Krueger, economic adviser to Obama and Clinton, takes own life

-- 2019-03-19 17:32:02

Alan Krueger, a prominent Princeton University economics professor who advised US Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, took his own life over the weekend, his family said in a statement on Monday...

Democrats target massage parlour proprietor linked to Trump

Democrats target massage parlour proprietor linked to Trump

-- 2019-03-19 10:19:42

Democratic congressional leaders have asked the FBI to investigate the founder of a Florida massage parlour chain who is an alleged acquaintance of President Donald Trump, according to a letter releas...

Trump not a white supremacist: White House

Trump not a white supremacist: White House

-- 2019-03-18 10:01:02

The White House pushed back on Sunday against any attempt to link President Donald Trump to the accused shooter who killed 50 people in two New Zealand mosques, saying the act of a disturbed individua...

US Navy veteran detained in Iran gets 10 years jail: Lawyer

US Navy veteran detained in Iran gets 10 years jail: Lawyer

-- 2019-03-17 11:22:59

A US Navy veteran has been sentenced to 10 years in an Iranian prison, his family’s lawyer said, after he was arrested last July while visiting an Iranian woman in the city of Mashhad. Michael...

Trump vetoes measure to end border wall emergency

Trump vetoes measure to end border wall emergency

-- 2019-03-16 10:49:58

US President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday to block a measure passed by Democrats and Republicans in Congress that would terminate his emergency declaration for a wall...

US hopes to continue denuclearisation talks with North Korea

US hopes to continue denuclearisation talks with North Korea

-- 2019-03-15 19:40:11

The United States is hopeful that it can continue to hold denuclearisation talks with North Korea, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday following reports that a top Pyongyang official had...

Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes Bolivia

Magnitude 6.5 quake strikes Bolivia

-- 2019-03-15 12:36:51

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck near the city of Cochabamba in southeastern Bolivia early on Friday, the US Geological Survey said. It was not immediately clear whether anyone was injure...

US Senate votes to end support for Yemen war

US Senate votes to end support for Yemen war

-- 2019-03-14 13:24:47

The US Republican-led Senate has approved a bill to end US support for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition war in Yemen. The bipartisan vote was 54 to 46, and is a rebuke to US President Donald Trump's s...

Several dead in Brazil school shooting

Several dead in Brazil school shooting

-- 2019-03-13 20:14:35

Two teenagers have opened fire at a school in south-eastern Brazil, killing at least seven students and one employee, police say. The shooting happened at about 09:30 local time (12:30 GMT) when the...

CNN faces $275m defamation lawsuit

CNN faces $275m defamation lawsuit

-- 2019-03-13 13:49:56

A US teenager has sued CNN for defamation, saying the cable network falsely conveyed to viewers that he was the "face of an unruly hate mob" confronting a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memor...

US Defense Dept sets limits on transgender soldiers

US Defense Dept sets limits on transgender soldiers

-- 2019-03-13 11:55:57

The US Defense Department signed a memo on Tuesday that would enforce limitations on transgender people serving in the military, a policy that has been the subject of court challenges. The policy wil...

Trump proposes a record $4.75 trillion budget

Trump proposes a record $4.75 trillion budget

-- 2019-03-12 16:38:46

President Donald Trump sent Congress on Monday a record $4.75 trillion budget plan that calls for increased military spending and sharp cuts to domestic programmes like education and environmental pro...

12 die as heavy rains cause flooding in Brazil’s biggest city

12 die as heavy rains cause flooding in Brazil’s biggest city

-- 2019-03-12 11:57:34

Heavy rains deluged Brazil's biggest city, causing flooding and other damage that resulted in the deaths of at least 12 people, authorities said Monday. Six people were reported injured. Sao Paulo's...

Mexico nightclub shooting leaves 15 dead

Mexico nightclub shooting leaves 15 dead

Reuters 2019-03-10 14:17:15

At least 15 people were killed and another seven wounded in a shooting at a nightclub early on Saturday (local time) in Mexico’s violence-wracked Guanajuato state, according to the local prosecu...

Nicaragua pledges to free anti-government protesters

Nicaragua pledges to free anti-government protesters

-- 2019-03-10 11:24:57

Nicaragua’s government said on Saturday it would release prisoners rounded up in months of protests and implement electoral reforms, as talks continue with the opposition to end the country&rsqu...

Fourteen die in Colombia plane crash

Fourteen die in Colombia plane crash

-- 2019-03-10 10:31:01

Fourteen people were killed in a plane crash in the Colombian plains province of Meta on Saturday, the country’s civil aviation agency has said. The Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronau...

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

Colombia to allow entry of Venezuelans with expired passports

-- 2019-03-09 11:54:36

Colombia will allow Venezuelans to cross the border using expired passports in view of the difficulty of renewing travel documents in the neighbouring country in the midst of its economic crisis, the...

At least 25 migrants die in Mexico road accident

At least 25 migrants die in Mexico road accident

Xinhua 2019-03-08 11:31:40

At least 25 Central American migrants were killed and 29 others injured after a truck overturned on a highway in southern state of Chiapas in Mexico, said the state attorney general on Thursday (local...

Trump ex-aide gets lenient jail term for fraud

Trump ex-aide gets lenient jail term for fraud

-- 2019-03-08 10:51:40

President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Thursday by a US judge to less than four years in prison - far shy of federal sentencing guidelines - for financial cri...

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

US senators slam Saudi crown prince for going ‘full gangster’

-- 2019-03-07 12:41:46

Retired General John Abizaid, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Saudi Arabia, defended the US-Saudi relationship on Wednesday as lawmakers accused the kingdom of a litany of m...

US senators vow to push Trump on Khashoggi’s murder

US senators vow to push Trump on Khashoggi’s murder

-- 2019-03-05 11:13:46

Republican and Democratic US senators said on Monday they were frustrated with the Trump administration’s failure to provide more information about the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal K...