World

BRATISLAVA, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters thronged a central square in the Slovak capital yesterday, waving banners opposing Prime Minister Robert Fico’s policy shift closer to Russia, after tensions between the government and the opposition rose.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s data protection authority ruled that tech firm Tools for Humanity, co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, must stop offering compensation for iris scans in the country, it said in a statement yesterday.

FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique, (Reuters) – Rodrigue Petitot, who led protests in French-ruled Martinique, left prison yesterday after a court handed him a one-year suspended sentence for trespassing on state property during cost-of-living demonstrations.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cash-starved Cuba this month opened the first grocery store to accept hard U.S.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said yesteday, in what would be a major victory in the capital after nearly two years of war.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. military C-17 aircraft began flying detained migrants out of the country today, following orders from President Donald Trump, as the Pentagon prepared to send more troops to the southern border, including from the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne division.

SEATTLE,  (Reuters) – A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration yesteday from implementing the Republican president’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has revoked U.S. security protection for Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State in his first administration and had been a loyal Trump ally before considering a challenge to his presidential campaign.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A British teenager who murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event was jailed for at least 52 years yesterday, for an atrocity prosecutors said was so violent it appeared he had tried to decapitate one of the victims.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. immigration agents rounded up undocumented migrants as well as U.S.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday said he will demand Saudi Arabia and OPEC bring down the cost of oil and will ask Riyadh to increase a planned U.S.

(Reuters) – New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed China’s “dangerous and destabilizing actions in the South China Sea” with his Philippine counterpart on Wednesday and underscored the “ironclad” U.S.

SEATTLE,  (Reuters) – A federal judge blocked Donald Trump’s administration today from implementing the Republican president’s executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional.”

U.S. President Donald Trump today  announced he would be asking Saudi Arabia and OPEC to bring down the cost of oil and said he would be asking Riyadh to increase a planned U.S. investment package to $1 trillion from an initial $600 billion.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s philanthropy arm said today  it will provide funding to help cover the U.S.

(Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday urged government employees to inform on each other and their departments in order to root out any attempts to hide diversity programs.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – South Korea’s anti-corruption agency requested yesterday that prosecutors indict President Yoon Suk Yeol for committing insurrection and abuse of power over his short-lived declaration of martial law after transferring his case to the prosecutors’ office.

CASTAIC, California,  (Reuters) – A new wildfire that broke out north of Los Angeles yesterday rapidly spread to more than 9,400 acres (38 square km), fueled by strong winds and dry brush, forcing mandatory evacuation orders for more than 31,000 people.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – A Dutch court ordered the government yesterday to drastically cut nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands by 2030, in a ruling that could hurt construction and will pressure farmers to reduce livestock.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Prince Harry claimed a “monumental” victory over Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group yesterday after the publisher settled his lawsuit, admitting unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time and paying substantial damages.