-- 2018-12-31 14:09:16
US Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall funding and...
-- 2018-12-30 15:00:50
Brazil's incoming far-right president has said he will seek to issue a decree loosening the country's gun laws. Jair Bolsonaro, who takes over on 1 January, had made the pledge a key part of his pres...
-- 2018-12-29 13:50:20
Argentina’s energy secretary resigned on Friday, the government said in a statement, after news leaked that the government plans to increase electricity prices by an average 35 per cent in 2019....
-- 2018-12-28 10:39:12
More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial US government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, as the closure stretched into i...
-- 2018-12-27 10:17:53
President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of...
Reuters 2018-12-26 10:45:34
An eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died shortly after midnight on Tuesday after being detained by US border agents, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said, making him the second migrant...
-- 2018-12-25 21:28:58
President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse...
-- 2018-12-25 10:53:57
A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a...
Reuters 2018-12-25 09:45:35
President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse...
-- 2018-12-24 19:50:03
Outgoing US Defence Secretary James Mattis has signed an order withdrawing US forces from Syria, a Defence Department spokesman said on Monday, following through on a decision by President Donald Trum...
-- 2018-12-24 12:13:27
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was replacing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis two months earlier than had been expected, a move officials said was driven by Trump’s anger at Mattis&rsqu...
-- 2018-12-23 15:51:36
Cuban lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a revised draft of a new constitution that retains the island’s one-party socialist system but reflects its socio-economic opening since the fall...
-- 2018-12-23 11:28:31
A partial US government shutdown was almost certain to drag through the Christmas holiday after the Senate adjourned on Saturday without breaking an impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand...
-- 2018-12-23 10:21:28
A top US envoy leading a global coalition fighting Islamic State has quit over President Donald Trump’s decision this week to pull US troops out of Syria, a source familiar with the matter said...
-- 2018-12-22 16:23:09
Colombian armed forces killed Marxist insurgent commander Walter Patricio Arizala in an operation aimed at ending his attacks on civilians after he kidnapped and shot dead three Ecuadorean media worke...
Reuters 2018-12-22 11:16:23
The US government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. Af...
-- 2018-12-22 10:35:49
The United States joined Canada on Friday in calling on Beijing to release two Canadians detained in what are widely believed to be tit-for-tat arrests related to the high-profile detention in Canada...
-- 2018-12-21 18:19:21
The Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, US media say. Reports, citing unnamed officials, say about 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military...
-- 2018-12-21 17:09:05
The NATO has hailed the contribution of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strong and said it was ready to work closely with his successor, underlining the importance of...
-- 2018-12-21 15:38:24
The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill, including money for the president's border wall, to keep US agencies open until February. The measure now heads to the Senate, where it is...
Reuters 2018-12-21 10:12:53
US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, including surprise decisions to yank troops from Syri...
-- 2018-12-20 14:32:50
President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria has been met with strong criticism. Trump made the announcement on Wednesday, asserting that the Islamic State (IS) group had be...
-- 2018-12-19 18:01:37
US President Donald Trump’s namesake charitable foundation has agreed to dissolve under court supervision in the wake of a succession of scandals and a looming lawsuit which exposed a shocking p...
-- 2018-12-19 11:10:56
More than 50 police officers who patrolled the same area at Sao Paulo in Brazil were arrested on Tuesday, accused by state prosecutors of taking bribes from Brazil’s largest drug gang to allow i...
-- 2018-12-19 10:53:26
The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers facing Central Americans in Mexic...
-- 2018-12-18 12:36:39
A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court on Monday after more th...
-- 2018-12-17 14:55:33
Canadian diplomats gained consular access on Sunday to the second of two men detained by China over the past week, Canada’s foreign ministry said in a statement that gave few details, as China s...
-- 2018-12-17 13:42:05
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched the Maya Train - an ambitious project to build a railway through five south-eastern states. At an indigenous ceremony near the...
-- 2018-12-16 20:11:32
President Donald Trump’s choice of new acting White House chief of staff once described him as “a terrible human being”, it has emerged, according to BBC. A video shows Mick Mulvane...
-- 2018-12-15 16:50:04
A federal judge in the US state of Texas has ruled that a key part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional. Twenty states argued the whole law was invalidated...
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