ULAANBAATAR, (Reuters) – Mongolian protesters gathered in the capital in temperatures well below freezing today to denounce perceived government corruption for a fifth day, even after the arrests of eight officials suspected of so-called coal theft.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iran hanged a man today convicted of injuring a security guard with a knife and blocking a street in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said, the first such execution over recent anti-government unrest.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil runs the risk of losing control over its vast Amazon rainforest region to organized crime and traffickers who use the lawless region to smuggle drugs, a Supreme Court judge warned yesterday.
RIYADH, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping began a visit to Saudi Arabia yesterday that Beijing said marked its biggest diplomatic initiative in the Arab world, as Riyadh expands global alliances beyond a long-standing partnership with the West.
LONDON/KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that his army could be fighting in Ukraine for a long time, but for now there will be no second call-up of soldiers.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – A sister of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has condemned his crackdown on nationwide protests and called on the widely-feared Revolutionary Guards to lay down their weapons, according to a letter published by her France-based son.
MAPUTO, (Reuters) – A Mozambican court today found a former president’s son and 10 other people guilty on charges related to a $2 billion “hidden debt” scandal that crashed the southern African nation’s economy, sentencing them each to more than 10 years in prison.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S.
(Reuters) – A third Russian airfield was set ablaze by a drone strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres into Russia with attacks on two air bases.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted yesterday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. senators scaled back a proposal that placed new curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Chinese hackers have stolen tens of millions of dollars worth of U.S.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted today of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U.S.
(Reuters) – China’s capital Beijing dropped the need for people to show negative COVID tests to enter supermarkets and offices yesterday, the latest in an easing of curbs across the country following last month’s historic protests.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukraine said Russia destroyed homes in the southeast and knocked out power in many areas with a new volley of missiles yesterday, while Moscow said Ukrainian drones had attacked two air bases deep inside Russia hundreds of miles from front lines.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling party said it would tell its lawmakers to reject a report that President Cyril Ramaphosa may have committed misconduct over a stash of cash in his farm, giving him a lifeline as he faced the biggest scandal of his career.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Canada’s government said it would freeze any local assets of three high-profile Haitian businessmen accused of supporting the country’s armed gangs, the latest measure targeting those linked to the Caribbean nation’s criminal groups.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Drivers in Austria guilty of extreme speeding will have their cars seized and auctioned off, the government said yesterday, seeking to deter “boy racers” by threatening to take away their prize possession.
(Reuters) – Michael Avenatti, the already imprisoned lawyer who represented porn actress Stormy Daniels in litigation against Donald Trump, was sentenced yesterday to another 14 years in prison after he admitted to cheating four other clients, including a paraplegic, out of millions of dollars.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government expects oil exports to finance 63% of its national budget in 2023, a document seen by Reuters showed, a slightly higher proportion than this year, as U.S
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