OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway’s centre-left opposition parties are on course to win a majority in parliament after yesterday’s election and will now negotiate how to form a coalition, with climate change and a widening wealth gap expected to be central to discussions.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s main opposition party landed a blow against the ruling Peronists yesterday, winning key races in a congressional primary vote that is a strong leading indicator of how voters will cast ballots in the midterm election in November.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – The U.N. atomic watchdog reached an agreement with Iran yesterday to solve “the most urgent issue” between them, the overdue servicing of monitoring equipment to keep it running, raising hopes of fresh talks on a wider deal with the West.
(Reuters) – The FBI on Saturday released a newly declassified document related to its investigation of the Sept.
(Reuters) – Women in Afghanistan will be allowed to study in universities as the country seeks to rebuild after decades of war but gender-segregation and Islamic dress code will be mandatory, the Taliban’s new Higher Education minister said yesterday.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – A Nicaraguan political activist who opposes the government of President Daniel Ortega is in critical condition in a Costa Rica hospital after being shot, police and activists said yesterday.
SHANKSVILLE, Pa./ ARLINGTON, Va., (Reuters) – President Joe Biden commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Sept.
MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied he wanted his former justice minister to lie to the public amid a dispute they had over a 2019 corporate legal case, an accusation included in a book being released just days before the election.
VENICE, (Reuters) – “Happening” (L’événement), a hard-hitting French drama about illegal abortion in the 1960s, won the Golden Lion award for best film at the Venice festival yesterday.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late yesterday before heading for talks in Qatar today to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The British royals, who trace their history back more than 1,000 years, could be gone within two generations, writer Hilary Mantel said in an interview published on yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and his aides have concluded something in recent weeks: The Mr.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Steadying himself on a crutch, veteran French film star Alain Delon made a rare public appearance on Friday at the funeral of a fellow giant of French cinema, Jean-Paul Belmondo, who died on Monday at the age of 88.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanese leaders agreed a new government led by Sunni Muslim tycoon Najib Mikati yesterday after a year of feuding over cabinet seats that has exacerbated a devastating economic collapse, opening the way to a resumption of talks with the IMF.
(Reuters) – A state appeals court ruled yesterday in favour of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, issuing a stay in a case that effectively reinstates his ban on mask mandates in the state’s public schools to the dismay of many parents and teachers.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tribes from the Amazon and thousands of environmentalists, scientists and diplomats voted today, at a major global conservation congress in France, in favour of a motion to protect 80% of the world’s largest rainforest by 2025.
WASHINGTON/BEIJING, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke for 90 minutes yesterday in their first talks in seven months, discussing the need to ensure that competition between the world’s two largest economies does not veer into conflict.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – United States President Joe Biden on Thursday took aim at vaccine resistance in America, announcing policies requiring most federal employees to get COVID-19 vaccines and pushing large employers to have their workers vaccinated or tested weekly.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro met on Thursday with allied truckers leading pro-government protests on highways across the country, as police cleared blockades that threatened key grain and beef export routes.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – The small right-wing People’s Party of Canada (PPC) expelled one of its local officials on Thursday over allegations he threw gravel at Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier this week, a party spokesman said Trudeau was hit by a handful of gravel on Monday, television images showed, while campaigning in London, Ontario, ahead of the Sept.
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