BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A man killed himself with a bomb outside Brazil’s Supreme Court after trying to enter the building on Wednesday, officials said, stirring security concerns before the country hosts global leaders from the Group of 20 major economies.
WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s pick of U.S. Senator Marco Rubio for secretary of state could signal stricter enforcement of oil sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, but concerns about retaliation by China could temper any efforts, analysts said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, met yesterday for the first time since Trump won back the White House last week and both promised a smooth transfer of power in January.
BAKU, (Reuters) – COP29 negotiators welcomed a pledge by major development banks to lift funding to poor and middle-income countries struggling with global warming as an early boost to the two-week summit.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, longtime political rivals, met today for the first time since Trump won back the White House last week and both promised a smooth transfer of power in January.
MUMBAI, (Reuters) – India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly criticised states which were demolishing properties of suspected criminals, a practise critics say targets mostly minority Muslims, and issued guidelines to authorities.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, resigned “in sorrow” yesterday, saying he had failed to ensure a proper investigation into allegations of abuse by a volunteer at Christian summer camps decades ago.
ZHUHAI, China, (Reuters) – China’s top leaders have urged “all-out efforts” to treat those injured in a car attack in southern China, one of the deadliest incidents in the country’s recent history, as online posts asking what the attack says about Chinese society were censored.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the newly created Department of Government Efficiency.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – Oil and gas major Shell SHEL.L today won an appeal against a landmark ruling that required it to accelerate carbon reduction efforts, dealing a blow to campaigners who have turned to legal channels to pursue climate action.
(Reuters) – Donald Trump selected U.S. Senator Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state, sources said yesterday, putting the Florida-born politician on track to be the first Latino to serve as America’s top diplomat once the Republican president-elect takes office in January.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump’s Republican Party will control both houses of Congress when he takes office in January, Decision Desk HQ projected yesterday, enabling him to push an agenda of slashing taxes and shrinking the federal government.
RIYADH, (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler condemned what he called the “genocide” committed by Israel against Palestinians when he spoke at a summit of Muslim and Arab leaders yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Economy Minister Marcelo Ebrard suggested yesterday that the Mexican government could retaliate with its own tariffs on U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative Mike Waltz to be his national security adviser, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters yesterday, tapping a retired Army Green Beret who has been a leading critic of China.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesteday its hard-pressed military was battling 50,000 troops in Russia’s Kursk region to its north, while also scrambling to reinforce two besieged fronts in the east and bracing to meet an infantry assault in the south.
BAKU, (Reuters) – The annual U.N. climate summit began today with some prominent leaders planning to skip the event ahead of tough talks on finance and trade, after a year of weather disasters that have emboldened developing countries’ demands for cash.