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Trump to pull US out of UN arms treaty

Trump to pull US out of UN arms treaty

-- 2019-04-27 11:42:18

President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by t...

Gunmen kill mayor, two others in Mexico

Gunmen kill mayor, two others in Mexico

-- 2019-04-26 13:40:10

The mayor of Mixtla de Altamirano municipality, her husband and her driver were shot to death by gunmen in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz, officials said. They were travelling in a municipal vehi...

Biden launches presidential bid for 2020

Biden launches presidential bid for 2020

-- 2019-04-25 19:00:03

Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has declared a presidential bid, putting an end to months of speculation. In a video announcement, Mr Biden argued that the "core values of the nation... our very d...

Trump ‘set to make state visit to UK in June’

Trump ‘set to make state visit to UK in June’

-- 2019-04-23 13:34:13

Buckingham Palace is expected to announce on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump will make a state visit to the UK in early June. The president was promised the visit by Prime Minister Theresa May...

US State Dept warns ‘terrorists’ continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

US State Dept warns ‘terrorists’ continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

-- 2019-04-22 11:31:22

The US State Department said in a revised travel advisory ‘terrorist groups’ were continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded in bla...

Landslide kills 17 in Colombia

Landslide kills 17 in Colombia

-- 2019-04-22 10:00:29

Seventeen people have been killed and five injured in a landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the country’s disaster relief agency said on Sunday. The landslide, which was...

Trump tweets wrong figure for number of dead in Sri Lanka

Trump tweets wrong figure for number of dead in Sri Lanka

-- 2019-04-21 19:01:55

US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered 'heartfelt condolences' to the people of Sri Lanka after a series of deadly explosions at churches and hotels in the island nation killed at least 207 peopl...

California couple sentenced to life for torturing children

California couple sentenced to life for torturing children

-- 2019-04-20 19:50:32

A Southern California couple was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday after the pair pleaded guilty to charges stemming from grim, headline-making accusations they beat, starved and shack...

Gunmen shoot dead 13 at Mexican bar

Gunmen shoot dead 13 at Mexican bar

-- 2019-04-20 12:16:55

Gunmen shot dead 13 people at a bar in the city of Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities said on Friday, in one of the worst slayings to hit Mexico since President Andres...

Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report

Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report

-- 2019-04-20 10:16:46

The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3.0 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report detailing Russian inter...

Mueller report details Trump actions to impede inquiry

Mueller report details Trump actions to impede inquiry

-- 2019-04-19 10:49:17

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 US election described in extensive and sometimes unflattering detail how President Donald Trump tried...

Ex-Peruvian president shoots himself before arrest

Ex-Peruvian president shoots himself before arrest

-- 2019-04-18 11:13:16

Former Peruvian President Alan García has died after shooting himself as police arrived at his home to arrest him over bribery allegations. Mr García was rushed to hospital in the capit...

Brazil building collapse: Death toll rises to 16

Brazil building collapse: Death toll rises to 16

-- 2019-04-17 15:15:55

The death toll has risen to 16 following the collapse of two buildings in a favela in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, broadcaster Globo reported. Rescuers have found four bodies in the rubble of the two co...

Trump vetoes bill to end US support in Yemen war

Trump vetoes bill to end US support in Yemen war

-- 2019-04-17 11:28:10

US President Donald Trump has vetoed a bill passed by Congress to end the country's support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Mr Trump described the resolution as an "unnecessary" and "dangerous" attem...

Four die in Canada shooting

Four die in Canada shooting

-- 2019-04-16 13:08:17

Four people were killed in a string of shootings at three locations within a five-kilometer radius in Penticton of western Canada on Monday, according to Penticton police. Police, who have arrested a...

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters win Pulitzer Prize

Jailed Myanmar Reuters reporters win Pulitzer Prize

-- 2019-04-16 10:27:51

Reuters won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, one for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces, and another for photographs of Central American m...

Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism, arts to be announced soon

Pulitzer Prize winners in journalism, arts to be announced soon

-- 2019-04-15 19:50:45

The newest winners of the Pulitzer Prizes in journalism and the arts are set to be revealed. This year’s honourees will be announced Monday (local time) at Columbia University in New York, repo...

Tornadoes kill five in US South

Tornadoes kill five in US South

-- 2019-04-15 12:32:19

Five people, including three children, were killed in US South on Saturday as severe weather lashed parts of the South, as tornadoes tore through homes and hail and flash floods battered the region....

Ecuador president says Assange used embassy for ‘spying’

Ecuador president says Assange used embassy for ‘spying’

-- 2019-04-15 11:28:49

Julian Assange used the Ecuadorean embassy in London as a "centre for spying", the country's leader has said. Lenin Moreno also said no other nation had influenced the decision to revoke the WikiLeak...

Maduro to recruit more militia to defend him

Maduro to recruit more militia to defend him

-- 2019-04-14 16:35:57

Venezuela's President Nicolás Maduro has said he wants a million more people to join his civilian militia by the end of the year, reports BBC. The call to expand the militia - which answers di...

Texas tornado kills two children

Texas tornado kills two children

-- 2019-04-14 15:21:52

Two children were killed in Texas on Saturday as severe weather lashed parts of the South, with tornadoes tearing through homes and warnings of hail and flash floods. The children, who were 3 and 8,...

Democrats set April 23 deadline over Trump's tax returns

Democrats set April 23 deadline over Trump's tax returns

-- 2019-04-14 14:55:38

US congressional Democrats on Saturday headed for a showdown with the Internal Revenue Service over US President Donald Trump’s tax returns, setting a new hard deadline of April 23 for the feder...

World's largest plane makes first flight

World's largest plane makes first flight

-- 2019-04-14 12:05:35

The world’s largest aircraft took off over the Mojave Desert in California on Saturday, the first flight for the carbon-composite plane built by Stratolaunch Systems Corp, started by late Micros...

Seven die in Mexico highway car crash

Seven die in Mexico highway car crash

-- 2019-04-13 15:02:57

Seven people were killed after a van collided with a semi-truck on a highway in the central State of Mexico, authorities said on Friday. According to the Federal Police, the accident occurred at arou...

Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela's industrial survivors

Blackouts threaten death blow to Venezuela's industrial survivors

-- 2019-04-12 17:49:43

The latest power outage started another tough week for factory owner Antonello Lorusso in the city of Valencia, once Venezuela’s industrial powerhouse. For the past month, unprecedented nationw...

Assange arrest followed drawn-out dispute with Ecuador

Assange arrest followed drawn-out dispute with Ecuador

-- 2019-04-12 16:00:20

Ecuador’s decision to abruptly end Julian Assange’s seven-year asylum in its London embassy on Thursday followed a long deterioration in relations, driven in part by suspicions he was secr...

US puts 37 China companies, schools on ‘unverified’ list

US puts 37 China companies, schools on ‘unverified’ list

-- 2019-04-11 15:53:08

The US Commerce Department said on Wednesday that is adding 37 Chinese companies and schools to a red-flag list of ‘unverified’ entities that US companies should treat with caution, accord...

Twitter removes Trump video for use of ‘Dark Knight’ score

Twitter removes Trump video for use of ‘Dark Knight’ score

-- 2019-04-10 19:57:21

Twitter removed a campaign video posted by US President Donald Trump after Warner’s Bros. Pictures complained about the use of the score from its 2012 movie “The Dark Knight Rises.”...

'Julian Assange is being spied on in Ecuadorean embassy'

'Julian Assange is being spied on in Ecuadorean embassy'

-- 2019-04-10 19:44:19

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been the subject of a sophisticated spying operation in the Ecuadorean embassy where he has been holed up since 2012, the group said on Wednesday. The group also...

US bans 16 Saudis for their role in Khashoggi murder

US bans 16 Saudis for their role in Khashoggi murder

-- 2019-04-09 17:16:58

The US State Department on Monday publicly barred 16 individuals from entering the US for their roles in the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. “In cases where the Secretary...