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Europe rights watchdog says Turkey's emergency laws go too far | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A leading European rights watchdog called on Turkey on Friday to ease post-coup state of emergency laws that have seen thousands arrested and restore power to regional authorities. President Tayyip Erdogan has overseen a mass purge in the armed forces and the judiciary, as well as a crackdown on cr... | worldnews | October 6, 2017 |
Exclusive: Trump targets illegal immigrants who were given reprieves from deportation by Obama | (Reuters) - In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The U.S. government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him. The move was part of a policy change initiated by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 to pull back from deporting i... | politicsNews | June 9, 2017 |
At G20 summit, Trump pledges $639 million in aid to four countries | HAMBURG (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday promised $639 million in aid to feed people left starving because of drought and conflict in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen. Trump’s pledge came during a working session of the G20 summit of world leaders in Hamburg, providing a “godsend” to the Unite... | politicsNews | July 8, 2017 |
Ex-Christie associates lose bid for new trial in 'Bridgegate' case | NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge rejected a request for a new trial by two former associates of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie who were convicted for their roles in the “Bridgegate” lane closure scandal. The decision late Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton clears the way for the two defendants to b... | politicsNews | March 2, 2017 |
Young blacks more open to Bernie Sanders' White House bid | ORANGEBURG, S.C. (Reuters) - If Democratic hopeful Bernie Sanders has a chance of drawing African-American voters away from rival Hillary Clinton in South Carolina’s presidential nominating contest on Feb. 27, his best opportunity will be among the young. African Americans support former Secretary of State Clinton by m... | politicsNews | February 12, 2016 |
New York attorney general says will sue over Obamacare repeal | (Reuters) - New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman intends to sue the federal government if Republican lawmakers pass proposed legislation to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, his office said on Monday. Schneiderman’s office said it has identified “multiple constitutional defects” with the Republican heal... | politicsNews | July 17, 2017 |
Indonesian parliament speaker quits amid graft investigation | JAKARTA (Reuters) - The speaker of Indonesia s parliament, who is being investigated for his suspected involvement in a $170 million graft scandal, has tendered his resignation, two members of the assembly said on Monday. Setya Novanto was arrested last month over his suspected role in the scandal linked to a national ... | worldnews | December 11, 2017 |
Spanish lender Sabadell to transfer legal base to Alicante - spokeswoman | MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish lender Sabadell decided on Thursday to transfer its legal base from Catalonia to Alicante, a bank spokeswoman said. The decision by Banco Sabadell, Spain s fifth biggest lender, comes as businesses in the wealthy northeastern region are growing increasingly worried about political upheaval th... | worldnews | October 5, 2017 |
House speaker tells Trump healthcare bill lacks votes: CNN | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told President Donald Trump on Friday that there are not enough votes to pass Republicans’ healthcare bill, CNN reported, citing a Republican source. Ryan, at a meeting with Trump at the White House, is seeking guidance from Trump about possible next steps, according ... | politicsNews | March 24, 2017 |
Britain says expects most EU citizens can stay after Brexit | LONDON (Reuters) - The British government said on Tuesday that most European Union citizens currently living in Britain will be allowed to remain in the country after Brexit in 2019. Outlining plans for a mass registration program, the Department for Exiting the European Union and the interior ministry said EU national... | worldnews | November 7, 2017 |
Trump pressures Lockheed, says told Boeing to price out fighter aircraft | HONOLULU/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump heaped pressure on Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday, saying he viewed costs for the aerospace company’s F-35 fighter as too high and had asked Boeing Co to offer a price for an older aircraft that lacks the same stealth capabilities. Trump posted his T... | politicsNews | December 22, 2016 |
Mexico says president Pena Nieto to meet Trump on Wednesday | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will meet U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for a private meeting on Wednesday, Pena Nieto’s office said via Twitter on Tuesday. The Mexican presidency said the government had sent an invitation to both Trump and Democratic hopeful Hillary C... | politicsNews | August 31, 2016 |
Trump handling of security information at Mar-a-Lago queried by House panel | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s handling of U.S. security information at his Florida resort came under congressional scrutiny on Tuesday as a watchdog panel asked the White House to explain reports that Trump dealt with a sensitive foreign policy issue in view of club guests. Representative Jason Chaffe... | politicsNews | February 14, 2017 |
Transport minister doesn't think Britain will leave EU without a deal | LONDON (Reuters) - British transport minister Chris Grayling said on Sunday he didn t think Britain would leave the European Union without a negotiated deal with the bloc. Negotiations are deadlocked between Prime Minister Theresa May s government and the EU on securing a divorce settlement and agreement on future rela... | worldnews | October 15, 2017 |
Factbox: Short list of potential picks for Trump administration | (Reuters) - New candidates to serve in U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet emerged on Wednesday, including U.S. Senator Ted Cruz as a potential attorney general and North Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as secretary of state, as he works to fill administration positions ahead of his inauguration on Jan. 20. Trump... | politicsNews | November 17, 2016 |
EU's Tusk appealed to Rajoy to avoid escalation in Catalonia | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk appealed to Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on Monday to seek ways to avoid escalation in Catalonia and the use of force following Sunday s independence referendum in the region. After speaking to Rajoy, Tusk tweeted: Sharing his constitutional arguments... | worldnews | October 2, 2017 |
Britain to limit acid sales after steep rise in assaults | MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Britain will limit sales of sulphuric acid and outlaw the sale of such corrosive substances to children after a spate of assaults and its possible use to make bombs, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Tuesday. Much to public alarm, the number of incidents where assailants have used aci... | worldnews | October 3, 2017 |
Hawaii issues first challenge to Trump's new travel ban | (Reuters) - The state of Hawaii requested emergency court intervention on Wednesday to halt a revised executive order from President Donald Trump placing U.S. entry restrictions on refugees and travelers from six Muslim-majority countries. Arguing that the new travel ban violates the U.S. Constitution, the state asked ... | politicsNews | March 8, 2017 |
Graft probe into Mexico president's ally poses tricky challenge ahead of elections | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - With a tight general election looming next year, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto faces a tough choice on whether to pursue a graft probe involving a prominent ally and Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht. Mexico s top prosecutor, acting Attorney General, Alberto Elias Beltran, on Friday f... | worldnews | October 21, 2017 |
Co-leader of Germany's far-right AfD to quit in major blow | BERLIN (Reuters) - Frauke Petry, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany, said on Tuesday she was leaving the party in a major blow to its credibility just two days after it surged to third place in a national election. The anti-immigrant AfD won 12.6 percent of the vote in Germany s election on Sunday, beco... | worldnews | September 26, 2017 |
German admits selling gun to Munich attack shooter | BERLIN (Reuters) - A 32-year-old German man admitted in court on Monday that he sold the weapon used by a teenage gunman who killed nine people in Munich last year, a court spokesman said, adding that the defendant told relatives he felt sorry for his actions. David Ali Sonboly, 18, killed nine people before shooting h... | worldnews | August 28, 2017 |
In schools and hospitals, Turkey carves north Syria role | AL-BAB, Syria/BEIRUT/ANKARA (Reuters) - Children returning to school in the northern Syrian city of al-Bab were handed a new textbook this term: T rk e reniyorum - I am learning Turkish . Turkish lessons, Turkish signposts, Turkish-trained police and most recently a Turkish post office all point to Turkey s deepeni... | worldnews | October 12, 2017 |
Pennsylvania $2 bln budget gap is 'time bomb': governor | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pennsylvania’s $2 billion budget deficit is a “time bomb” that could cause “fiscal catastrophe the likes of which we have never seen” if it is not resolved, Governor Tom Wolf said in his budget address on Tuesday. Wolf proposed a $32.7 billion fiscal 2017 budget that would add $200 million of fundi... | politicsNews | February 9, 2016 |
Highlights: The Trump presidency on April 21 at 6:12 p.m. EDT/2212 GMT | (Reuters) - Highlights for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday: Trump promises a big announcement about tax reform next week and orders an administration review of Obama-era tax rules written to discourage U.S. companies from relocating overseas to cut their tax bills. Trump tells the Treasury Depart... | politicsNews | April 21, 2017 |
Michigan governor expects no charges over Flint crisis: newspaper | (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said he had “no reason to be concerned” he would be charged in connection with the Flint drinking water crisis that exposed city residents to high levels of lead, the Detroit Free Press reported on Thursday. Snyder made the comments to the newspaper on Wednesday, the day afte... | politicsNews | December 22, 2016 |
France sees U.S. strike on Syria as tool to push for peace talks: Hollande | PARIS (Reuters) - France and the rest of Europe must use last week’s U.S. missile strike on Syria as a tool to revive peace negotiations between warring parties, French President Francois Hollande said in a newspaper interview published on Wednesday. In the interview with Le Monde, Hollande said intelligence suggested ... | politicsNews | April 12, 2017 |
Clinton expands lead over Trump to 13 points: Reuters/Ipsos poll | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton widened her lead over likely Republican nominee Donald Trump to 13 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. The July 1-5 poll included responses gathered mostly over the holiday weekend, before the Federal Bureau of Inv... | politicsNews | July 5, 2016 |
Ryan opposes Trump working with Democrats on healthcare | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, the top Republican in Congress, said he does not want President Donald Trump to work with Democrats on new legislation for revamping the country’s health insurance system, commonly called Obamacare. In an interview with “CBS This Morning” that will... | politicsNews | March 30, 2017 |
South Africa's Ramaphosa steps up criticism ahead of ANC leadership vote | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, a leading contender to become head of the ruling ANC in December, stepped up his criticism of the government on Sunday, saying state-owned companies had been captured and funds looted from them. Ramaphosa s remarks during a speech to an African ... | worldnews | September 10, 2017 |
Border without doctors? South Koreans urge more funding for trauma care after defector drama | SEOUL (Reuters) - A defector s treatment for critical injuries suffered during a dramatic dash from North Korea has highlighted a shortage of South Korean trauma doctors and again underscored Seoul s lack of preparedness in the event of hostilities with Pyongyang. The defector, identified only by his family name of Oh,... | worldnews | November 24, 2017 |
Bus drives into pedestrian underpass in Moscow, kills four: agencies | MOSCOW (Reuters) - A passenger bus swerved off course and drove into a busy pedestrian underpass in Moscow on Monday, killing at least four people, Russian news agencies reported. Video from the scene posted on social media showed a bus veering off the road and plunging down the steps of a pedestrian underpass, crushin... | worldnews | December 25, 2017 |
Trump and Putin see eye to eye on many foreign policy aims: Foreign Minister | MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin see eye to eye when it comes to many foreign policy goals, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday. Lavrov was speaking at a news conference with his Hungarian counterpart Peter Szijjarto. | politicsNews | January 23, 2017 |
Trump wants ex-Goldman partner Mnuchin to run U.S. Treasury: Fox Business | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump wants his campaign finance chairman, Steven Mnuchin, to be his Treasury secretary if he wins next week’s U.S. presidential election, Fox Business Network reported on Thursday, citing sources. Mnuchin, a former partner at Goldman Sachs Group Inc who also founded and runs th... | politicsNews | November 3, 2016 |
Obama defends record on terrorism in national security speech | TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday warned that the United States would not be able to wipe out terrorism with military might as he offered a sweeping defense of his administration’s national security record. In his final major speech on counterterrorism as president, Obama argued that his adminis... | politicsNews | December 6, 2016 |
California poised to shut out Republicans from U.S. Senate race | SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California voters on Tuesday were poised to choose two Democrats to face off against each other in the race to succeed Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate, shutting out Republicans in a sign of diminished support in America’s most populous state. State Attorney General Kamala Harris and U.S.... | politicsNews | June 7, 2016 |
Stung by reputation, Taiwan looks to turn corner on money laundering | TAIPEI (Reuters) - After Taiwan s state-run Mega Financial Holding Co was fined $180 million by U.S. authorities for lax enforcement of anti-money-laundering rules at its New York branch, the bank started a rigorous training program for its staff. Now, like Mega Financial, companies across Taiwan are working to get sta... | worldnews | August 30, 2017 |
Al Qaeda warns Myanmar of 'punishment' over Rohingya | YANGON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants have called for support for Myanmar s Rohingya Muslims, who are facing a security crackdown that has sent about 400,000 of them fleeing to Bangladesh, warning that Myanmar would face punishment for its crimes . The exodus of Muslim refugees from Buddhist-majority Myanmar was spa... | worldnews | September 13, 2017 |
One dead after light aircraft collides on Caernarfon runway | (Reuters) - British Police said that one person died after a light aircraft collision at Caernarfon Airport in Wales on Thursday. The police said in a Facebook post that the pilot of the aircraft had died after it collided on the runway and caught fire. A cordon is in place around the site and we are urging the publi... | worldnews | September 6, 2017 |
Russian military: Syria government troops control 85 percent of Syria - agencies | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian government forces have to date cleared 85 percent of the country s area from militants, Russian news agencies cited Alexander Lapin, the head of the Russian troops headquarters in Syria, as saying on Tuesday. Islamic State fighters are still in control of around 27,000 square km of Syria s te... | worldnews | September 12, 2017 |
Charlottesville schools, parents address children's fears after violence | CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (Reuters) - When white supremacists began rallying in downtown Charlottesville this weekend, Liz Licht kept the TV off, trying to shield her three kids from the hate spewed on the streets of this normally quiet college town. But after learning that a 32-year-old woman who joined a counter-protest ... | politicsNews | August 15, 2017 |
Trump slams federal court ruling on funding for 'sanctuary cities' | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked a federal judge’s ruling that blocked his executive order seeking to withhold funds from “sanctuary cities” for illegal immigrants, vowing to appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court. Tuesday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco w... | politicsNews | April 26, 2017 |
PM May's deputy to keep job after pornography claims, ITV says | LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May s senior minister will not have to resign over claims that police found pornography on a work computer and that he made an inappropriate sexual advance against a young woman, ITV political editor Robert Peston said on Monday. First Secretary of State Damian Green will be to... | worldnews | December 11, 2017 |
New Hampshire governor asks Trump to stop Indonesian deportation effort | BOSTON (Reuters) - New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu on Monday publicly called on U.S. President Donald Trump, a fellow Republican, to halt an effort to deport 69 Indonesian Christians who fled violence in that country two decades ago and are living illegally in the state. The group had been living near the state’s c... | politicsNews | October 23, 2017 |
China complains to Australia over Turnbull comments on interference | BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Friday it had lodged a complaint with Australia after its prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, said he took reports very seriously that China s Communist Party had sought to interfere in his country. Turnbull said this week that foreign powers were making unprecedented and increasingly s... | worldnews | December 8, 2017 |
U.S. says it will take steps after Cambodia's dissolves opposition party | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States expressed grave concern on Thursday about the Cambodian government s decision to dissolve the main opposition party and said Washington will take concrete steps in response, according to a White House statement. As a first step, the White House said, the United States will e... | worldnews | November 17, 2017 |
Campaign chief to oversee Trump U.S. vice presidential search | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, will oversee the presumptive Republican U.S. presidential nominee’s search for a running mate, a campaign aide said on Tuesday. Lewandowski last week took over the vice presidential selection process and is drawing up a list of potential candida... | politicsNews | May 10, 2016 |
U.S. lawmakers propose making it easier to meet auto fuel rules | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bipartisan pair of Michigan lawmakers introduced a bill to make it easier for automakers to comply with federal fuel efficiency requirements, as the Trump administration considers softening standards that require nearly doubling the fuel economy of the U.S. new vehicle fleet by 2025. The propos... | politicsNews | October 12, 2017 |
Most Americans want Obama to nominate Scalia's replacement: Reuters/Ipsos | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A majority of Americans believe it should be up to President Barack Obama to nominate the next U.S. Supreme Court justice, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Thursday, with opinion divided along ideological party lines. The death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia last week sparked an intense deba... | politicsNews | February 19, 2016 |
Oklahoma Supreme Court strikes down restrictive abortion law | (Reuters) - Oklahoma’s highest court on Tuesday struck down a law imposing restrictions on abortion providers, including a requirement that they take samples of fetal tissue from patients younger than 14 and preserve them for state investigators. The law also set new criminal penalties for providers who violate abortio... | politicsNews | October 4, 2016 |
Trump Interior nominee would consider more drilling on federal land | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Representative Ryan Zinke of Montana, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Interior, on Tuesday said he would consider an expansion of energy drilling and mining on federal lands but would ensure sensitive areas remain protected. The former Navy SEAL sought to outline a measure... | politicsNews | January 17, 2017 |
Washington braces for anti-Trump protests, New Yorkers march | WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Washington turned into a virtual fortress on Thursday ahead of Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, while thousands of people took to the streets of New York and Washington to express their displeasure with his coming administration. Some 900,000 people, both Trump backers and oppon... | politicsNews | January 19, 2017 |
Turkish foreign minister says Assad administration must be removed | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey’s foreign minister called for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s immediate removal on Friday, saying a transitional government must be established and voicing support for a U.S. missile strike overnight on one of his air bases. “It is necessary to oust this regime as soon as possible from th... | politicsNews | April 7, 2017 |
Highlights: The Trump presidency on March 20 at 9:20 P.M. EDT | (Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday: FBI Director James Comey confirms for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election. Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s U... | politicsNews | March 20, 2017 |
Trump picks former U.N. spokesman Grenell for ambassador to Germany | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has picked former U.N. spokesman Richard Grenell as U.S. ambassador to Germany, a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity said on Thursday. Grenell served as U.S. spokesman at the United Nations from 2001 to 2008, during the administration of Republican Pre... | politicsNews | July 21, 2017 |
Libyan coast guard rescues more than 250 migrants trying to reach Italy | TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libya s coastal guard has rescued more than 250 illegal migrants trying to leave the North African country in small boats bound for Italy, officials said on Saturday. Libya s western shores are the main departure point for migrants mainly from sub-Saharan countries fleeing poverty and conflict tryin... | worldnews | December 16, 2017 |
Democratic senator tussles with U.S. Treasury secretary over communication | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate Banking Committee’s top Democrat tussled with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a hearing on Thursday over the flow of information from his agency, and later asked if President Donald Trump, a Republican, had ordered him to restrain communications with Democrats. “Are you a... | politicsNews | May 18, 2017 |
Bulgarians use 'speed dating' to get know migrants | SOFIA (Reuters) - Couples lining up to face each other are given 30 seconds to chat before moving on - in a version of speed dating that, rather than sparking romance, aims to promote understanding and integration for new immigrants. At a social center in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, the locals stand on one side, the i... | worldnews | October 12, 2017 |
Trump team wants more NAFTA access for U.S. goods, services: lawmakers | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Trump administration trade officials want a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement to improve access for U.S. farm products, manufactured goods and services in Canada and Mexico, said lawmakers who met with them on Tuesday. Members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee me... | politicsNews | March 28, 2017 |
Trump meets insurers, promises catastrophic year for Obamacare | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump told several chief executives of large insurance companies on Monday that 2017 will be a “catastrophic” year for the Affordable Care Act as he seeks to make good on a campaign promise to repeal the measure. The Republican president told the insurers they must all work toget... | politicsNews | February 27, 2017 |
White House says Trump tweet meets Comey tapes records request | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said in a letter on Friday that a tweet by President Donald Trump on Thursday was the formal answer to a request by the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee for information about records of conversations with fired FBI Director James Comey. The letter to Republican Repr... | politicsNews | June 23, 2017 |
Iran vows to stand with Baghdad, Ankara against Iraqi Kurds' independence push | LONDON (Reuters) - Tehran vowed on Tuesday to stand alongside Baghdad and Ankara against the outcome of an independence referendum staged by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq, a day after thousands of Iranian Kurds marched in support of the vote. State media also quoted an army commander as saying that new missile ... | worldnews | September 26, 2017 |
Democrat Gillibrand opposes Trump's Supreme Court nominee | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said on Wednesday she opposed President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and called for Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to require a 60-vote threshold. Trump, a Republican, announced his nomination of U.S. Appeals Court Jud... | politicsNews | February 1, 2017 |
Juncker wants EU finance minister, no separate euro budget or parliament | STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - The European Union should have a minister of economy and finance but no separate euro zone budget or parliament, the head of the European Commission said on Wednesday. Jean-Claude Juncker said such a minister should also be the chairman of all euro zone finance ministers and be accountabl... | worldnews | September 13, 2017 |
Leading Democrat: Critics can't conclude Trump is impaired | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said on Sunday that it was premature to try to remove U.S. President Donald Trump by claiming he is physically or mentally impaired. Schiff told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” program that it did not make sense for Trum... | politicsNews | August 20, 2017 |
Michigan governor denies misleading U.S. House on Flint water | (Reuters) - Michigan Governor Rick Snyder denied Thursday that he had misled a U.S. House of Representatives committee last year over testimony on Flint’s water crisis after lawmakers asked if his testimony had been contradicted by a witness in a court hearing. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wrote ... | politicsNews | October 12, 2017 |
Turkey, Iran, Iraq may meet to discuss Kurdish Iraqi referendum: Turkey PM | ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey, Iran and Iraq may hold a trilateral meeting to discuss the Iraqi Kurdish independence referendum, Turkey s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Thursday. Yildirim also said he agreed with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi to coordinate economic and trade relations with the central gover... | worldnews | September 28, 2017 |
Obama unveils wage insurance plan to spur job seekers | WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out a plan to help support the income of workers who lose their jobs and end up in lower paying positions, as part of a push to get unemployed Americans back to work. The proposal would offer experienced workers who now make less than $50,000 a form of wage insu... | politicsNews | January 16, 2016 |
Biden, Ukraine's Poroshenko to meet Thursday: White House | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, who is visiting Washington to take part in a nuclear summit, will meet on Thursday, the White House said. Biden and Poroshenko will hold a working lunch, the White House said in a statement on Wednesday. President Barack Obam... | politicsNews | March 30, 2016 |
Argentina judge says death of prosecutor Nisman was murder | BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Alberto Nisman, the Argentine prosecutor who was found dead days after accusing former President Cristina Fernandez of covering up Iran s role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center, was murdered, a federal judge said on Tuesday. In a 656-page ruling, judge Julian Ercolini said there ... | worldnews | December 26, 2017 |
Chinese state tabloid warns Trump, end one China policy and China will take revenge | SHANGHAI/TAIPEI (Reuters) - State-run Chinese tabloid Global Times warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump that China would “take revenge” if he reneged on the one-China policy, only hours after Taiwan’s president made a controversial stopover in Houston. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen met senior U.S. Republican lawmak... | politicsNews | January 9, 2017 |
Pakistan debates how to fill education gaps | ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two young boys kneel over small white tables, intently studying the Koran at a madrassa in Pakistan. The Al-Nadwa Madrassa in the hill station of Murree, 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the capital, Islamabad, is part of an established alternative system of education in the South Asian nation. Priva... | worldnews | November 7, 2017 |
Unlikely allies eye vote to legalize cannabis in New Zealand | WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand could become the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to legalize cannabis for personal use after an unlikely alliance of populist, centrist and leftist parties put drug policy immediately on the agenda of the incoming government. Recreational marijuana use is legal in several U.S... | worldnews | October 24, 2017 |
House Democratic leader Pelosi backs Clinton for president | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi endorsed Hillary Clinton for the presidency on Tuesday as voters in California, the nation’s most populous state, head to the polls. In a statement, the California Democrat praised the former U.S. secretary of state and called on supporters of rival Berni... | politicsNews | June 7, 2016 |
Trump says may tie infrastructure with healthcare or tax reform: NY Times | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was considering packaging a $1 trillion infrastructure plan with either healthcare or tax reform legislation as an incentive to get support from lawmakers, especially Democrats. Trump also said in an interview with the New York Times he may move up... | politicsNews | April 6, 2017 |
Pakistan official details car chase that freed kidnapped U.S.-Canadian family | (This version of the story corrects spelling of Caitlan Coleman throughout) By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani troops shot out the tyres of a vehicle carrying a kidnapped U.S.-Canadian couple and their children in a raid that led to the family s release after five years of being held hostage, a Pakistani ... | worldnews | October 13, 2017 |
U.S. House panel to begin hearings on tax reform next week | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The tax-writing committee of the U.S. House of Representatives will begin holding hearings on a Republican tax reform proposal next week, the panel’s chairman said on Tuesday, even as the timeline for overhauling the tax code slips toward late 2017. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin B... | politicsNews | April 18, 2017 |
China complains about Taiwan content in U.S. defense act | BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it had complained to the United States about the signing into law of an act which authorizes the possibility of mutual visits by navy vessels between self-ruled Taiwan and the United States. Chinese Foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing that China was f... | worldnews | December 14, 2017 |
U.N. chief says no communication with North Korea is dangerous | UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council on Friday that he is alarmed by the risk of military escalation on the Korean Peninsula. “The absence of communication channels with the DPRK (North Korea) is dangerous,” he told the 15-member council. “We need ... | politicsNews | April 28, 2017 |
Europe could soon be within range of North Korean missiles: France | TOULON, France (Reuters) - France s defense minister warned on Tuesday that North Korea could develop ballistic missiles that reach Europe sooner than expected. The scenario of an escalation towards a major conflict can not be discarded, Florence Parly said in a speech to the French military. Europe risks being with... | worldnews | September 5, 2017 |
Clinton names Obama veterans to White House transition team | WEST HARRISON, N.Y. (Reuters) - Looking to lay the groundwork for her presidency if she wins the White House in November, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton named several veterans of President Barack Obama’s administration for her transition team on Tuesday. Ken Salazar, a former interior secretary and U.S. Senator f... | politicsNews | August 16, 2016 |
White House: Congress would have most impact on fighting tax avoidance | ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The White House said on Thursday that the best way for the government to fight tax avoidance would be for Congress to take action after the U.S. Treasury Department issued major new rules on tax inversions on Monday. “I know that if they are working on any future actions the most impact... | politicsNews | April 7, 2016 |
Mexico foreign minister heads to U.S. to meet with Dreamers | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray will travel to the United States this week to meet with local leaders and beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, the ministry said on Monday. Videgaray will travel to Sacramento and Los Angeles on Sept. 11-12 and then to Was... | politicsNews | September 11, 2017 |
U.S. military says conducted air strike against ISIS in Somalia | BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it had carried out an air strike against Islamic State militants in northeast Somalia, killing one person. Islamic State has been gathering recruits in the region, although experts say the scale of its force is unclear and it remains a small player compared t... | worldnews | November 27, 2017 |
Warren, Kaine, Castro on Clinton running-mate short list: AP | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Tim Kaine of Virginia, and Julian Castro, the U.S. housing secretary, are on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s short list of vice presidential picks, the Associated Press reported on Tuesday, citing Democratic sources. U.S. Sen... | politicsNews | June 21, 2016 |
Illinois governor reports $188.1 million in 2015 personal income | CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner reported personal income of more than $188.1 million in 2015, and 90 percent of the former private equity investor’s earnings came from capital gains, according to income tax returns he released on Friday. Rauner, a Republican, and his wife, Diana, paid federal taxes o... | politicsNews | November 11, 2016 |
Factbox: Five facts about ex-Trump security aide Michael Flynn | (Reuters) - Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first U.S. national security adviser, pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation about his contacts with Russia’s U.S. ambassador. Here are five facts about Flynn: Flynn was national security adviser for just 24 days, from Jan. 20, wh... | politicsNews | December 1, 2017 |
House tax panel chair: corporate tax cut may take 'several steps' | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the House of Representatives tax committee said on Wednesday that achieving a permanent cut in the U.S. corporate tax rate could take “several steps.” Republican Representative Kevin Brady, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which is working to write a tax reform bill,... | politicsNews | November 1, 2017 |
U.S. Democrat Bernie Sanders wins Alaska, Washington, Hawaii caucuses | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on Saturday, chipping away at front-runner Hillary Clinton’s commanding lead in the race to pick the party’s candidate for the White House. Sanders still faces a steep climb to overtak... | politicsNews | March 26, 2016 |
Knifeman attacks soldier in Paris subway, terrorism probe opened | PARIS (Reuters) - France opened a counter-terrorism inquiry after a man wielding a knife attacked a soldier in a Paris subway station on Friday, the latest incident targeting troops protecting the capital s transport hubs and tourist sites. Paris and other European capitals are on high alert after a wave of attacks in ... | worldnews | September 15, 2017 |
Undocumented immigrants given roles at Democratic convention | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Democratic Party has selected a handful of undocumented immigrants for official roles at next week’s Democratic National Convention, in a bid to highlight the gaping policy divide on immigration between White House hopeful Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump. Clinton is hoping to ... | politicsNews | July 22, 2016 |
In Beijing, Trump presses China on North Korea and trade | BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump pressed China to do more to rein in North Korea on Thursday and said bilateral trade had been unfair to the United States, but praised President Xi Jinping s pledge that China would be more open to foreign firms. On North Korea s nuclear and missile programs, Trump said ... | worldnews | November 9, 2017 |
U.S. judge finds Texas voter ID law was intended to discriminate | (Reuters) - A Texas law that requires voters to show identification before casting ballots was enacted with the intent to discriminate against black and Hispanic voters, a U.S. federal judge ruled on Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos came after an appeals court last year said the 2011 law... | politicsNews | April 11, 2017 |
While wealthy Mexicans swamped by quake aid, poor feel abandoned | MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Relief supplies and volunteers are piling up at rescue sites in upscale districts of Mexico City following Tuesday s deadly earthquake in a show of solidarity that has contrasted with the government s struggle to get aid to people most in need. In the wealthy neighborhoods of Roma and Condesa in... | worldnews | September 24, 2017 |
Republicans seek special counsel's removal from Russia probe | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Republican U.S. lawmakers called on Friday for Robert Mueller to resign as special counsel investigating Russia and the 2016 U.S. election, the latest in a series of conservatives’ criticisms of the FBI and Justice Department during the probe of how Moscow may have influenced the campaign. ... | politicsNews | November 3, 2017 |
Ex-U.S. Attorney Yang being considered for SEC chair: source | NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Attorney Debra Wong Yang is being considered to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission in the Trump administration, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. Yang is a partner at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in Los Angeles where she represents corporate defendants... | politicsNews | December 6, 2016 |
South Africa's Ramaphosa gets most nominations ahead of ANC leadership vote | JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa has received the most nominations for leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) ahead of a party vote this month, voting data from the country s nine provinces show. Ramaphosa is one of two frontrunners in a closely watched contest to ta... | worldnews | December 4, 2017 |
Highlights: The Trump presidency on March 13 at 9:05 p.m. EDT | (Reuters) - Highlights of the day for U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday: Fourteen million Americans would lose medical insurance by next year under a Republican plan to dismantle Obamacare, the nonpartisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office says in a report that dealt a potential setback to Trump’s f... | politicsNews | March 13, 2017 |
Russian warships dock in Philippines as Manila cultivates new ties | MANILA (Reuters) - Three Russian warships, including two anti-submarine vessels, docked in Manila on Friday to unload what navy officials said was weaponry and military vehicles donated to the Philippines as part of a new defense relationship. It was the third port visit this year by Russian warships as part of Philipp... | worldnews | October 20, 2017 |
China hopes all sides' words and actions reduce tension on Korean peninsula | BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Monday that it hopes all sides’ words and actions can help reduce tensions on the Korean peninsula, after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Japan would shoot down North Korean missiles if necessary. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying made the comment at a regular news brie... | politicsNews | November 6, 2017 |
Trump could pull out of global climate accord in a year: lawyers | MARRAKESH, Morocco (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump could use legal short-cuts to pull out of a global agreement for fighting climate change within a year, keeping a campaign promise and by-passing a theoretical four-year wait, lawyers say. Trump, who has called global warming a hoax and said it was invent... | politicsNews | November 10, 2016 |
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