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Brazil sends army to Venezuela border

Brazil sends army to Venezuela border

-- 2018-08-29 12:06:14

Brazil said it was sending armed forces to keep order near the Venezuelan border area, while Peru declared a health emergency, as a regional crisis sparked by thousands of Venezuelans fleeing economic...

White House probing Google after Trump accuses it of bias

White House probing Google after Trump accuses it of bias

Reuters 2018-08-29 10:49:32

US President Donald Trump has accused Google’s search engine of promoting negative news articles and hiding “fair media” coverage of him, vowing to address the situation without prov...

White House wobbles on US flag after McCain death

White House wobbles on US flag after McCain death

-- 2018-08-28 10:59:11

The White House lowered its US flag to half-staff, raised it back up and on Monday lowered it again after the death of Senator John McCain, in an unusual and confusing break with protocol on the passi...

Colombian anti-corruption referendum fails to meet quorum

Colombian anti-corruption referendum fails to meet quorum

-- 2018-08-27 09:58:37

A referendum vote on seven anti-corruption measures failed to meet quorum in Colombia on Sunday, nullifying the results even though each of the measures, including a reduction in lawmakers’ sala...

Gunman kills two at video game tournament in Florida

Gunman kills two at video game tournament in Florida

-- 2018-08-27 09:56:10

A video gamer killed two people and wounded several others on Sunday when he opened fire with a handgun at a tournament that was being streamed online from a restaurant in Jacksonville, Florida, pol...

Brazil arrests nearly 3,000 for homicide, violence

Brazil arrests nearly 3,000 for homicide, violence

-- 2018-08-26 12:35:28

Brazil detained nearly 3000 people in "Cronos" operation carried out against homicide and social violence in various states, police said on Saturday. During the operation, nearly 450 people were deta...

US Senator John McCain dead at 81

US Senator John McCain dead at 81

-- 2018-08-26 10:19:17

US Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for president as a self-styled maverick Republican in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald Trump,...

EU aid for Iran sends wrong message: US official

EU aid for Iran sends wrong message: US official

-- 2018-08-25 13:47:59

The top US envoy on Iran criticized a European Union decision to give $20.7 million (£16.12 million) in aid to Tehran on Friday, saying it sent “the wrong message at the wrong time.&rdqu...

Trump calls off Pompeo's trip to North Korea

Trump calls off Pompeo's trip to North Korea

-- 2018-08-25 13:04:44

US President Donald Trump abruptly cancelled his top diplomat’s planned trip to North Korea on Friday, publicly acknowledging for the first time that his effort to get Pyongyang to denuclearise...

Trump cuts $200m in US aid to Palestinians

Trump cuts $200m in US aid to Palestinians

-- 2018-08-25 00:00:00

The United States is cutting more than $200 million (£155.7 million) in aid to the Palestinians, the State Department has said, amid a deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian leadershi...

Eight people gets killed in Mexican resort town

Eight people gets killed in Mexican resort town

-- 2018-08-24 17:58:45

Eight dead bodies have been discovered throughout Cancun, Mexico -- a popular resort destination -- each killed in grisly fashion, local prosecutors told The Associated Press. While none of the bodie...

Hurricane Lane batters Hawaii

Hurricane Lane batters Hawaii

Reuters 2018-08-24 15:24:28

Hurricane Lane, a powerful Category 3 storm, lashed Hawaii on Thursday with high winds and torrential rain, causing flash floods, landslides and raging surf as residents hunkered down to ride out the...

Argentina cops raid ex-president's houses in corruption probe

Argentina cops raid ex-president's houses in corruption probe

-- 2018-08-24 11:48:11

Police in Argentina have begun searching properties belonging to the former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, as part of a major corruption investigation. Forensic scientists, dogs, a...

Trump, White House deny wrongdoing after Cohen plea deal

Trump, White House deny wrongdoing after Cohen plea deal

-- 2018-08-23 16:19:32

The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime, according to...

Iran says Israel, US will be targeted if Washington attacks

Iran says Israel, US will be targeted if Washington attacks

-- 2018-08-22 19:11:35

A senior Iranian cleric warned Washington on Wednesday that if it attacked Iran, the United States and allied Israel would be targeted, as a war of words escalated after the United States reimposed sa...

Jolted by ex-allies’ criminal cases, Trump faces election and legal risks

Jolted by ex-allies’ criminal cases, Trump faces election and legal risks

-- 2018-08-22 17:38:09

President Donald Trump suffered twin setbacks on Tuesday with two ex-advisers facing prison sentences - and one of them saying Trump told him to commit a crime - possibly hurting his Republican Party&...

Trump administration proposes rolling back Obama’s Clean Power Plan

Trump administration proposes rolling back Obama’s Clean Power Plan

-- 2018-08-21 20:30:16

The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed replacing the Clean Power Plan, the centerpiece of former President Barack Obama’s regulatory efforts to combat climate change, according to Reuters....

Shootouts in Rio leave 13 dead

Shootouts in Rio leave 13 dead

-- 2018-08-21 14:58:27

At least 11 suspects and two soldiers died during shootouts with military personnel and police in greater Rio de Janeiro on Monday as violence erupted in several areas of the city that hosted the Summ...

Trump accuses China of 'manipulating' its currency

Trump accuses China of 'manipulating' its currency

-- 2018-08-21 12:19:35

US President Donald Trump has again accused China of manipulating its currency to combat US tariffs. The accusation, made in an interview with Reuters, resembles claims Mr Trump made during his 2016...

Angry Brazilians drive out Venezuelan immigrants

Angry Brazilians drive out Venezuelan immigrants

-- 2018-08-19 11:36:02

Angry residents of the Brazilian border town of Pacaraima ran riot and drove out Venezuelan immigrants on Saturday after a local restaurant owner was stabbed and beaten, residents and government offic...

Mueller recommends up to six months’ jail for ex-Trump aide

Mueller recommends up to six months’ jail for ex-Trump aide

-- 2018-08-18 12:31:53

US special counsel Robert Mueller has recommended a prison sentence of up to six months for former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos. Mueller, head of an investigation into alleged Russian medd...

China training for strikes on US targets: Pentagon

China training for strikes on US targets: Pentagon

-- 2018-08-17 16:08:09

China's military "is likely training for strikes" against US and allied targets in the Pacific, a Pentagon report warns. The annual report to Congress says China is increasing its ability to send bom...

Nine planes make emergency landing in S America

Nine planes make emergency landing in S America

-- 2018-08-17 11:50:32

Nine planes were forced to make emergency changes to their routes within Chilean, Argentine, and Peruvian airspace on Thursday because of bomb threats issued to Chile’s civil aviation authority,...

US, Mexico team up to fight drug cartels

US, Mexico team up to fight drug cartels

-- 2018-08-16 13:59:53

US and Mexican law enforcement authorities will set up a joint team based in Chicago targeting the leaders and finances of drug cartels that ship opioids into the United States, aiming to stanch a spi...

Newspaper editorials across US rebuke  Trump for attacks on media

Newspaper editorials across US rebuke Trump for attacks on media

-- 2018-08-16 09:54:10

More than 300 US newspapers have pledged to run editorials on Thursday defending freedom of the press in response to President Donald Trump calling some media organizations enemies of the American peo...

Transgender person wins nomination for Vermont governor

Transgender person wins nomination for Vermont governor

-- 2018-08-15 16:39:49

Vermont Democrats made Christine Hallquist the first openly transgender person to win a major party nomination for statewide office in US history as she clinched Tuesday's primary election for governo...

New Mexico judge gets death threats

New Mexico judge gets death threats

-- 2018-08-15 16:26:13

A New Mexico judge received death threats and Islamophobic abuse on Tuesday a day after she granted bail to five Muslims charged with child abuse and accused of training children at their compound to...

Report reveals decades of sexual abuse by priests

Report reveals decades of sexual abuse by priests

-- 2018-08-15 16:23:11

Roman Catholic priests in Pennsylvania sexually abused thousands of children over a 70-year period and silenced victims through the ‘weaponisation of faith’ and a systematic cover-up campa...

24 people, mostly Colombians, die in Ecuador bus crash

24 people, mostly Colombians, die in Ecuador bus crash

-- 2018-08-15 11:16:30

At least 24 people were killed and another 19 injured when a bus from Colombia overturned on a stretch of road into Ecuador’s capital Quito known as the “curve of death”, the emergen...

Trump signs defence policy bill

Trump signs defence policy bill

-- 2018-08-14 11:23:00

US President Donald Trump signed a $716 billion defence policy bill on Monday that authorizes military spending and includes watered-down controls on US government contracts with China’s ZTE Cor...