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-- 2017-12-27 12:00:00
The United Nations’ budget is set to shrink by over $285 million next year — a 5 per cent cut that the US government says it negotiated. The UN General Assembly voted Sunday to approve th...
-- 2017-12-27 09:50:28
Brazil has declared Venezuela's most senior diplomat in Brazil, Gerardo Delgado, as persona non grata. Tuesday's move came days after Venezuela's decision to expel Brazil's own ambassador to Caracas,...
-- 2017-12-27 01:13:56
The United States announced sanctions on two of North Korea’s most prominent officials behind its ballistic missile programme on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated an offer to mediate to ease tens...
-- 2017-12-26 09:49:45
A fireworks explosion injured 39 people, including six children between the ages of 11 and 15, during a popular Cuban carnival on Christmas Eve, state-run media reported on Monday. The centuries-old...
-- 2017-12-26 09:40:19
Canada will expel a Venezuelan diplomat and also bar the country’s ambassador from returning, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Monday, two days after Venezuela booted out Canada’...
-- 2017-12-26 07:58:12
A Christmas day earthquake has shaken southern Mexico. There are, however, no immediate reports of damage. Monday's temblor was cantered near the Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, where the shak...
-- 2017-12-25 02:08:22
Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski pardoned former authoritarian leader Alberto Fujimori late on Sunday, triggering Christmas Eve street clashes as protesters denounced the decision as part of a...
-- 2017-12-25 01:39:08
A federal judge ruled that the US military must provide legal counsel to an American citizen who was picked up months ago on the Syrian battlefield and accused of fighting with Islamic State militants...
-- 2017-12-24 12:00:00
A federal judge in Seattle partially blocked US President Donald Trump’s newest restrictions on refugee admissions on Saturday, the latest legal defeat for his efforts to curtail immigration and...
-- 2017-12-24 10:57:20
Venezuela has expelled the Brazilian ambassador to Caracas, Ruy Pereira, and Canadian charge d'affaires Craib Kowalik. The move was announced by the head of Venezuela's powerful Constituent Assembly...
FE Online Desk 2017-12-24 07:03:08
More than 700 employees including 200 scientists have left the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) since President Donald Trump took office. Besides, Trump appointed Scott Pruitt as Administra...
-- 2017-12-24 02:04:25
Canada's special envoy on the Rohingya crisis Bob Rae has said it would be 'unconscionable' for the member states of the UN to sanction a repatriation that was forced, or that did not include basic pr...
-- 2017-12-23 12:26:52
A sprawling Southern California wildfire that has been burning through rugged, drought-parched coastal terrain since Dec. 4 has become the largest on record in the state, state fire officials said. T...
-- 2017-12-23 10:10:00
A former US marine has been arrested by the FBI on suspicion of planning a terror attack in the popular tourist attraction San Francisco on Christmas day. Everitt Aaron Jameson, 25, was held after al...
-- 2017-12-23 02:20:49
There’s no mistaking President Donald Trump’s “Merry Christmas” message — he wields it as a weapon against political correctness. For weeks, he’s been liberally sp...
-- 2017-12-22 12:20:18
A federal appeals court in Virginia on Thursday rejected a bid by President Donald Trump’s administration to prevent the US military from accepting transgender recruits starting Jan 1. The admi...
-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00
The two Reuters journalists detained in Myanmar on Dec. 12 have been remanded in custody, a police spokesman said on Thursday. “Yes, they were sent to the court,” said police colonel Myo...
-- 2017-12-22 09:54:42
The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on 13 “serious human rights abusers and corrupt actors” including Myanmar general Maung Maung Soe, who oversaw this year’s brutal crac...
-- 2017-12-22 09:00:33
On Thursday, Cuban officials said the island was still dealing with the aftermath of the killer storm Irma and needed to postpone long-held plans for Castro, 86, to retire on February 24, 2018, when h...
-- 2017-12-21 11:14:12
A former high-ranking official from Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto’s party was arrested as part of a corruption investigation in the northern state of Chihuahua, the state’s governor...
-- 2017-12-21 10:53:36
US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off financial aid to countries that vote in favour of a draft United Nations resolution calling for the United States to withdraw its decision to recognise...
-- 2017-12-21 10:13:53
Venezuela’s pro-government legislative superbody ruled that parties who boycotted this month’s local elections had lost legitimacy, potentially eliminating the main opposition groups from...
-- 2017-12-20 12:29:51
As Congress considers recovery and relief packages for hurricane-hit Puerto Rico, the island's Archbishop and national religious groups are holding a vigil in a Congressional office building on Wednes...
-- 2017-12-20 12:20:12
Federal prosecutors in Brazil charged a Spanish-Swiss banker with laundering $21.7 million in graft money for clients involved in the country’s largest corruption scandal, including jailed forme...
Reuters 2017-12-20 12:00:00
A journalist was shot dead on Tuesday in the Mexican state of Veracruz as he attended a Christmas celebration at his son’s school, the latest murder in the country’s deadliest year on reco...
-- 2017-12-20 12:00:00
The US government has lifted a three-year ban on making lethal viruses in the lab, saying the potential benefits of disease preparedness outweigh the risks. Labs will now be able to manufacture strai...
-- 2017-12-20 10:48:20
At least 12 tourists have been killed after a bus carrying them from a cruise ship overturned in south-eastern Mexico, officials say. Another 18 people were injured in the crash on Tuesday between Ma...
-- 2017-12-20 02:52:45
US President Donald Trump reminded Pakistan that it’s obliged to help America because it receives “massive payments” from Washington every year. Trump said while unveiling his new n...
-- 2017-12-19 12:00:00
Argentina's Congress has been debating pension reforms for the second time in a week amid more violent protests in the capital, Buenos Aires. The lower house was due to vote on the bill last Thursday...
-- 2017-12-19 10:51:38
The US has vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution rejecting President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The text put forward by Egypt affirmed that any d...
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