Reuters 2018-09-13 09:56:47
Hurricane Florence weakened into a Category 2 hurricane as it moved towards east coast of the United States, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Wednesday, but a life-threatening storm su...
-- 2018-09-12 18:07:53
In fact, humanity just had its gloomiest year in more than a decade, according to a new survey of the emotional lives of more than 154,000 people around the world. More people reported negative exper...
-- 2018-09-12 14:15:37
The US State Department expressed deep concern over China’s “worsening crackdown” on minority Muslims in the Xinjiang region, as the Trump administration considered sanctions against...
-- 2018-09-12 10:49:03
Jailed former Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has pulled out of next month's presidential election, allowing his running mate Fernando Haddad to stand in his place. Workers Party presid...
-- 2018-09-11 21:26:02
California has set a goal of phasing out electricity produced by fossil fuels by 2045 under legislation signed Monday by Governor Jerry Brown, who said the policy should serve as a model for other sta...
-- 2018-09-11 11:47:48
The Trump administration on Monday threatened tough action against the International Criminal Court should it try to prosecute Americans for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan and said the PLO’s...
-- 2018-09-11 11:23:48
With congressional elections looming, Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Monday proposed more deficit-expanding tax cuts, an effort seen by some tax experts as unlikely to become law an...
-- 2018-09-11 11:02:31
Evacuations have been ordered as the US East Coast braces for Hurricane Florence - in what may be the strongest storm to hit the region in decades. South Carolina's governor on Monday ordered the eva...
-- 2018-09-10 11:11:45
The United States on Monday will adopt an aggressive posture against the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, threatening sanctions against its judges if they proceed with an investigation...
-- 2018-09-09 21:05:22
Former President Barack Obama said on Saturday that November midterm elections would give Americans “a chance to restore some sanity in our politics,” taking another swipe at his successor...
-- 2018-09-09 11:35:13
US President Donald Trump has ordered that $25 million earmarked for the care of Palestinians in East Jerusalem hospitals be directed elsewhere as part of a review of aid, a State Department official...
-- 2018-09-08 12:24:39
Former US President Barack Obama assailed President Donald Trump and Republicans on Friday, urging Democrats to deliver a check on the administration’s “abuses of power” and restore...
-- 2018-09-08 11:23:56
The former Trump adviser whose remarks in a London pub sparked the US inquiry into possible collusion with Russia has been sentenced to 14 days in jail. George Papadopoulos, 31, told the court in Was...
-- 2018-09-07 14:44:41
The bodies of at least 166 people have been found in the Mexican state of Veracruz, prosecutors said on Thursday, the latest in a string of grim discoveries made in the eastern region in recent years....
-- 2018-09-07 11:47:46
US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh stressed on Thursday that he believes the judiciary has broad authority to check the power of the White House, but refused to criticise the man who selected hi...
-- 2018-09-07 11:28:23
A front-runner in Brazil's presidential election, Jair Bolsonaro, has been stabbed during a campaign rally. The far-right politician was attacked in the midst of a crowd in the south-eastern state of...
-- 2018-09-06 18:16:01
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice on Thursday rejected the latest appeal by jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that he be allowed to run in next month’s election, reports Reuters....
-- 2018-09-06 11:53:01
Many senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration have been working from within to frustrate parts of his agenda to protect the country from his worst impulses, an anonymous Trump offic...
Reuters 2018-09-05 10:42:22
US Vice President Mike Pence has called on Myanmar’s government to reverse a court ruling that imprisoned two Reuters journalists for seven years and to release them immediately. The journali...
-- 2018-09-05 10:39:06
A state of emergency has been declared in Louisiana and Mississippi as Tropical Storm Gordon batters the US Gulf Coast. Gordon made landfall just west of the Alabama-Mississippi border, the National...
Agencies 2018-09-03 10:07:47
A huge fire has broken out at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, the oldest scientific institution in the country. Firefighters are tackling the blaze at the building, which contains...
-- 2018-09-02 13:58:49
A judge has dismissed a high-profile corruption case against a former official in Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) centring on alleged misuse of public funds, authorities said on...
-- 2018-09-01 20:40:49
Former US presidents Barack Obama and George W Bush are to lead mourners at Washington's National Cathedral to honour the late John McCain, the long-time senator from Arizona. McCain’s body arr...
-- 2018-09-01 17:06:09
The United States’ top spy catcher said Chinese espionage agencies are using fake LinkedIn accounts to try to recruit Americans with access to government and commercial secrets, and the company...
-- 2018-09-01 12:49:45
Brazil’s top electoral court has barred jailed former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva from running in this year’s presidential because of his corruption conviction. The widely expecte...
-- 2018-08-31 13:06:09
President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO), claiming the body treats America unfairly. "If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO," M...
-- 2018-08-30 20:58:55
US President Donald Trump is waging a war of words with legendary Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein over a story about his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen. On Wednesday, the president called Mr Bernstein a "...
-- 2018-08-29 17:45:05
Julia Flores Colque still sings with joy in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of a tiny Andean guitar known as the charango, despite a recorded age of almost 118 years, reports...
-- 2018-08-29 17:14:12
Texas authorities were searching on Tuesday for a partially dressed woman who briefly appeared in security camera footage with broken restraints dangling from her wrists before she vanished in a subur...
-- 2018-08-29 16:42:06
US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be ‘violently’ overturned if the Democrats win November's mid-term elections, reports BBC. He told Evangelical leaders that the...
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