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Trump names Mulvaney as acting chief of staff

Trump names Mulvaney as acting chief of staff

-- 2018-12-15 10:54:31

US President Donald Trump moved to end speculation that he was having a hard time finding a new chief of staff, naming his budget chief Mick Mulvaney to the top post on a temporary basis. Mulvaney, a...

Cohen says Trump instructed him to make hush payments

Cohen says Trump instructed him to make hush payments

-- 2018-12-14 18:59:29

US President Donald Trump's former lawyer insists he was directed by his boss to make hush money payments during the 2016 presidential campaign, as per a BBC report. Speaking after he was sentenced t...

US Senate hands Trump historic rebuke on Saudi Arabia

US Senate hands Trump historic rebuke on Saudi Arabia

Reuters 2018-12-14 12:47:30

The US Senate delivered a rare double rebuke to President Donald Trump on Saudi Arabia on Thursday, voting to end US military support for the war in Yemen and blame the Saudi crown prince for the murd...

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets three years in jail

Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets three years in jail

-- 2018-12-13 11:14:28

US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison on Wednesday for crimes including orchestrating hush payments to women in violation of cam...

Canada warns US not to politicise extradition cases

Canada warns US not to politicise extradition cases

Reuters 2018-12-13 09:59:07

Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday warned the United States not to politicize extradition cases, a day after President Donald Trump said he could intervene in the affair of a Chi...

Bomb threat at Facebook headquarters

Bomb threat at Facebook headquarters

-- 2018-12-12 10:12:28

Facebook has evacuated a few buildings at its headquarters campus in Menlo Park following a bomb threat, a company spokesman said late on Tuesday (local time). Everyone is safe and the company is loo...

Khashoggi, persecuted journalists named Time Person of the Year

Khashoggi, persecuted journalists named Time Person of the Year

-- 2018-12-11 20:07:04

Time magazine has collectively named Jamal Khashoggi and other killed and imprisoned journalists as its 'person of the year' for 2018. The accolade – given to ‘The Guardians and the War o...

Strong 7.1 quake strikes near Antarctica

Strong 7.1 quake strikes near Antarctica

-- 2018-12-11 13:14:05

A magnitude 7.1 quake struck on Monday in the southern Atlantic Ocean, close to the South Sandwich Islands north of Antarctica, the US Geological Survey said. The quake, initially reported as a magni...

US sanctions three N Korean officials for ‘rights abuses’

US sanctions three N Korean officials for ‘rights abuses’

-- 2018-12-11 11:29:46

The United States said it had sanctioned three North Korean officials, including a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, for serious human rights abuses and censorship. The US Treasury on Mond...

Brazil makes official intervention in state bordering Venezuela

Brazil makes official intervention in state bordering Venezuela

-- 2018-12-10 17:42:27

Brazilian President Michel Temer has signed a decree making official a federal “intervention” in the state of Roraima which borders Venezuela, the government’s official newspaper sai...

Key Trump aide John Kelly to leave chief of staff job

Key Trump aide John Kelly to leave chief of staff job

-- 2018-12-09 13:49:35

White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of the year, US President Donald Trump said on Saturday, his latest staff shakeup since midterm elections a month ago cost Republica...

We're not your hired gun, Imran tells US

We're not your hired gun, Imran tells US

-- 2018-12-08 22:09:58

ISLAMABAD, Dec 08 (Reuters): Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has accused the US of "pushing Pakistan away" and said he would never want to have a relation with Washington where his country is tre...

Bank robbery shootout in Brazil kills 14

Bank robbery shootout in Brazil kills 14

Reuters 2018-12-08 10:45:06

Fourteen people, including six hostages, were killed early on Friday in a shootout between police and bank robbers attempting to blow up ATMs at two banks in a small town in northeastern Brazil, autho...

Police evacuate CNN NY office over bomb threat

Police evacuate CNN NY office over bomb threat

-- 2018-12-07 15:38:38

CNN's broadcast offices in New York City had been evacuated by police on Thursday night for more than an hour after a caller said there were five bombs hidden in the Time Warner Center. The “...

Five US Marines go missing after warplanes crash off Japan’s coast

Five US Marines go missing after warplanes crash off Japan’s coast

-- 2018-12-06 11:31:55

Five US Marines were missing after two Marine Corps aircraft collided in mid-air and crashed into the sea off the coast of Japan on Thursday, in what US officials said may have been a refueling exerci...

Mourners pay tribute to Bush

Mourners pay tribute to Bush

-- 2018-12-05 21:19:04

One by one they came. Parents hoisting toddlers on their hips. Two women from St. Louis, in town for a neonatology conference, reports New York Times. A doctor from Washington whose grandmother had w...

Thomson Reuters to reduce 12pc workforce in two years

Thomson Reuters to reduce 12pc workforce in two years

-- 2018-12-05 20:30:16

Thomson Reuters Corporation will cut its workforce by 12 per cent in the next two years, axing 3,200 jobs, as part of a plan to streamline the business and reduce costs. The news and information prov...

Einstein's 'God letter' fetches $2.9m

Einstein's 'God letter' fetches $2.9m

-- 2018-12-05 19:36:14

A handwritten letter by Albert Einstein in which he grapples with the concept of religion has smashed predictions and sold for nearly $2.9m. The so-called "God letter" was written in 1954 and was exp...

Khashoggi murder: US senators rip crown prince after CIA briefing

Khashoggi murder: US senators rip crown prince after CIA briefing

-- 2018-12-05 11:05:00

US senators say they are more certain than ever after a private CIA briefing that the Saudi crown prince had a role in the murder of a journalist. In a blistering attack, Senator Lindsey Graham said...

Mexico gang violence kills six policemen

Mexico gang violence kills six policemen

-- 2018-12-04 11:55:15

Six Mexican police were shot dead on Monday in the western state of Jalisco, authorities said, in one of the bloodiest attacks on security forces in recent months on the first weekday of President And...

Trump urges 'full sentence' for his ex-lawyer in Russia probe

Trump urges 'full sentence' for his ex-lawyer in Russia probe

Reuters 2018-12-04 11:29:18

President Donald Trump on Monday called for a “full and complete” sentence for his former lawyer Michael Cohen, accusing him of lying about Trump’s business dealings with Russia duri...

CIA chief ‘to brief Congress’ on Khashoggi murder

CIA chief ‘to brief Congress’ on Khashoggi murder

-- 2018-12-04 10:59:06

The head of the CIA will now brief Congress on Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder, US media say. Gina Haspel is reportedly set talk to Senate leaders on Tuesday. She was absent from last week...

Mexico's new president signs pact on migrants

Mexico's new president signs pact on migrants

-- 2018-12-02 21:06:12

In one of his first acts in office, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has signed an agreement with his counterparts from three Central American countries to establish a development plan to...

Pompeo sees no intelligence directly linked Saudi prince to Khashoggi killing

Pompeo sees no intelligence directly linked Saudi prince to Khashoggi killing

Reuters 2018-12-02 14:53:17

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday he has seen all the intelligence possessed by the United States on the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and repeated that no direct eviden...

Trump likely to meet Kim in early 2019

Trump likely to meet Kim in early 2019

-- 2018-12-02 10:59:24

US President Donald Trump has said he is likely to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in January or February and that three sites for their second meeting are under consideration. “We’r...

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

Former US president George H W Bush dies at 94

-- 2018-12-01 11:19:55

Former US president George H W Bush, who presided over the end of the Cold War and routed Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army but lost a chance for a second term after breaking a no-new-taxes pledge, di...

Powerful quake, aftershocks rattle Alaska

Powerful quake, aftershocks rattle Alaska

-- 2018-12-01 10:24:55

A major 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck Alaska, causing people to run from buildings and briefly prompting a tsunami alert for coastal areas. The quake was centred about seven miles (11km) north...

US, Canada, Mexico sign new trade deal

US, Canada, Mexico sign new trade deal

-- 2018-11-30 19:23:46

United States President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto signed a new trade agreement on Friday. The deal, known as the United States-Mexi...

Trump cancels planned meeting with Putin

Trump cancels planned meeting with Putin

-- 2018-11-30 19:04:52

US President Donald Trump has cancelled a planned meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin over a naval clash between Ukraine and Russia. On Sunday Russian border guards fired on three Ukr...

Hate crimes in Canada jump 47pc in 2017

Hate crimes in Canada jump 47pc in 2017

-- 2018-11-30 13:31:41

Hate crimes in Canada increased 47 per cent in 2017, primarily targeting Muslims, Jews and black people, according to figures released by the country’s statistical agency. According to Thursday...