(Reuters) – Russia declared a regional state of emergency yesterday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month.
(Reuters) – Millions of Americans from the Plains to the East Coast faced the threat of blizzards, heavy snow, treacherous ice and freezing rain through Monday, the National Weather Service said yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Four Indigenous people, including a child, were shot during an attack in southern Brazil late on Friday, federal police and an Indigenous rights organization said on Saturday, as violence escalates in the region.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A second group of 75 Guatemalan soldiers arrived in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince yesterday to boost a United Nations-backed mission tasked with restoring order amid chaos wrought by gangs, the mission said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday criticised the British government’s energy policy with a demand the country “open up” the ageing North Sea oil and gas basin and get rid of wind farms.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job yesterday by a razor-thin margin that highlighted potential fissures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republi-cans on Capitol Hill.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol yesterday in a tense six-hour stand-off inside Yoon’s compound in the heart of Seoul.
(Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government will release 5,864 prisoners, including 180 foreigners, under an amnesty marking the Southeast Asian nation’s independence day, state media said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job today by a razor-thin margin that highlighted potential fissures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans on Capitol Hill.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s presidential guards and military troops prevented authorities from arresting impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol today in a tense six-hour stand-off inside Yoon’s compound in the heart of Seoul.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Israeli airstrikes killed at least 68 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip yesterday, including at a tent camp where the head of the enclave’s Hamas-controlled police force, his deputy and nine displaced people died, Gaza authorities said.
BEAUMONT, Texas, (Reuters) – Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the Texas man accused of crashing a truck into New Year’s Day revelers in New Orleans, killing 14 and injuring dozens, was an Army veteran struggling to get past a recent divorce but who showed no signs of anger just weeks prior to the attack, his half-brother said.
(Reuters) – Tullow Oil TLW.L said yesterday the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has ruled that the Branch Profit Remittance Tax (BPRT) does not apply to its operations in the Deepwater Tano and West Cape Three Points fields offshore Ghana.
(Reuters) – Officials yesterday positively identified the person found dead inside the Cybertruck that exploded outside the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas as a U.S.
(Reuters) – Tesla TSLA.O reported its first fall in yearly deliveries yesterday as lucrative year-end incentives for the Elon Musk-led electric vehicle maker’s aging lineup and the new Cybertruck pickup failed to lure customers wary of high borrowing costs.
CETINJE, Montenegro, (Reuters) – A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted wounds early today, authorities said, in one of the Balkan nation’s worst mass killings.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – A Tesla Cybertruck exploded in flames outside the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas yesterday, killing the driver and injuring seven others, and the FBI was investigating whether the blast was an act of terrorism, officials said.