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Trump open to shutdown plan: Republican Graham

Trump open to shutdown plan: Republican Graham

-- 2018-12-31 14:09:16

US Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday he was optimistic that Republicans, Democrats and President Donald Trump could reach a deal to end a government shutdown that includes border wall funding and...

Brazil looks to loosen gun laws

Brazil looks to loosen gun laws

-- 2018-12-30 15:00:50

Brazil's incoming far-right president has said he will seek to issue a decree loosening the country's gun laws. Jair Bolsonaro, who takes over on 1 January, had made the pledge a key part of his pres...

Argentina's energy chief quits

Argentina's energy chief quits

-- 2018-12-29 13:50:20

Argentina’s energy secretary resigned on Friday, the government said in a statement, after news leaked that the government plans to increase electricity prices by an average 35 per cent in 2019....

More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Poll

More Americans blame Trump for government shutdown: Poll

-- 2018-12-28 10:39:12

More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial US government shutdown, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday, as the closure stretched into i...

In a first, Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq

In a first, Trump makes surprise visit to US troops in Iraq

-- 2018-12-27 10:17:53

President Donald Trump made a surprise Christmas visit to US troops in Iraq on Wednesday, his first trip to a conflict zone nearly two years into his presidency and days after announcing a pullout of...

Eight-year-old migrant boy dies in US custody

Eight-year-old migrant boy dies in US custody

Reuters 2018-12-26 10:45:34

An eight-year-old Guatemalan migrant boy died shortly after midnight on Tuesday after being detained by US border agents, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said, making him the second migrant...

Democrats cross swords with Trump over shutdown

Democrats cross swords with Trump over shutdown

-- 2018-12-25 21:28:58

President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse...

Mexican governor, her senator husband die in chopper crash

Mexican governor, her senator husband die in chopper crash

-- 2018-12-25 10:53:57

A Mexican governor and her senator husband were killed on Monday in a helicopter crash near the city of Puebla in central Mexico, the government said, just days after she had taken office following a...

Trump, Democrats spar over shutdown with no deal in sight

Trump, Democrats spar over shutdown with no deal in sight

Reuters 2018-12-25 09:45:35

President Donald Trump and top Democrats in Congress sparred over the partial shutdown of the US government on Monday, with no sign of tangible efforts to reopen agencies closed by a political impasse...

Mattis signs order withdrawing US troops from Syria

Mattis signs order withdrawing US troops from Syria

-- 2018-12-24 19:50:03

Outgoing US Defence Secretary James Mattis has signed an order withdrawing US forces from Syria, a Defence Department spokesman said on Monday, following through on a decision by President Donald Trum...

Trump, annoyed by resignation letter, pushes out Mattis early

Trump, annoyed by resignation letter, pushes out Mattis early

-- 2018-12-24 12:13:27

US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he was replacing Defense Secretary Jim Mattis two months earlier than had been expected, a move officials said was driven by Trump’s anger at Mattis&rsqu...

Cuban lawmakers approve new constitution

Cuban lawmakers approve new constitution

-- 2018-12-23 15:51:36

Cuban lawmakers on Saturday unanimously approved a revised draft of a new constitution that retains the island’s one-party socialist system but reflects its socio-economic opening since the fall...

US govt shutdown likely to drag on past Christmas

US govt shutdown likely to drag on past Christmas

-- 2018-12-23 11:28:31

A partial US government shutdown was almost certain to drag through the Christmas holiday after the Senate adjourned on Saturday without breaking an impasse over President Donald Trump’s demand...

US envoy in fight against Islamic State quits after Syria pullout

US envoy in fight against Islamic State quits after Syria pullout

-- 2018-12-23 10:21:28

A top US envoy leading a global coalition fighting Islamic State has quit over President Donald Trump’s decision this week to pull US troops out of Syria, a source familiar with the matter said...

Colombia kills Marxist insurgent

Colombia kills Marxist insurgent

-- 2018-12-22 16:23:09

Colombian armed forces killed Marxist insurgent commander Walter Patricio Arizala in an operation aimed at ending his attacks on civilians after he kidnapped and shot dead three Ecuadorean media worke...

US govt partially shuts down over Trump's border wall

US govt partially shuts down over Trump's border wall

Reuters 2018-12-22 11:16:23

The US government was partially shut down early on Saturday in a fierce dispute over President Donald Trump’s demands that Congress assign $5 billion for a wall along the border with Mexico. Af...

US, Canada call on China to free two detained Canadians

US, Canada call on China to free two detained Canadians

-- 2018-12-22 10:35:49

The United States joined Canada on Friday in calling on Beijing to release two Canadians detained in what are widely believed to be tit-for-tat arrests related to the high-profile detention in Canada...

US to pull ‘7,000 troops’ from Afghanistan

US to pull ‘7,000 troops’ from Afghanistan

-- 2018-12-21 18:19:21

The Trump administration is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from Afghanistan, US media say. Reports, citing unnamed officials, say about 7,000 troops - roughly half the remaining US military...

NATO hails contribution of Jim Mattis

NATO hails contribution of Jim Mattis

-- 2018-12-21 17:09:05

The NATO has hailed the contribution of US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis to keeping the military alliance strong and said it was ready to work closely with his successor, underlining the importance of...

US House passes bill for Trump's border wall

US House passes bill for Trump's border wall

-- 2018-12-21 15:38:24

The US House of Representatives has passed a spending bill, including money for the president's border wall, to keep US agencies open until February. The measure now heads to the Senate, where it is...

US defence chief Mattis quits after clashing with Trump

US defence chief Mattis quits after clashing with Trump

Reuters 2018-12-21 10:12:53

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis abruptly said he was quitting on Thursday after falling out with President Donald Trump over his foreign policies, including surprise decisions to yank troops from Syri...

Trump's Syria withdrawal plan stuns allies

Trump's Syria withdrawal plan stuns allies

-- 2018-12-20 14:32:50

President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw all US troops from Syria has been met with strong criticism. Trump made the announcement on Wednesday, asserting that the Islamic State (IS) group had be...

Trump Foundation to shut down amid lawsuit

Trump Foundation to shut down amid lawsuit

-- 2018-12-19 18:01:37

US President Donald Trump’s namesake charitable foundation has agreed to dissolve under court supervision in the wake of a succession of scandals and a looming lawsuit which exposed a shocking p...

Brazil arrests 50 cops over ‘drug gang links’

Brazil arrests 50 cops over ‘drug gang links’

-- 2018-12-19 11:10:56

More than 50 police officers who patrolled the same area at Sao Paulo in Brazil were arrested on Tuesday, accused by state prosecutors of taking bribes from Brazil’s largest drug gang to allow i...

Mexico recovers bodies of two Honduran migrant youths

Mexico recovers bodies of two Honduran migrant youths

-- 2018-12-19 10:53:26

The bodies of two slain Honduran migrant youths were found in the Mexican border city of Tijuana over the weekend, officials said on Tuesday, in a sign of the dangers facing Central Americans in Mexic...

Court frees Salvadoran woman jailed under anti-abortion laws

Court frees Salvadoran woman jailed under anti-abortion laws

-- 2018-12-18 12:36:39

A Salvadoran woman accused of the attempted murder of her newborn baby under the country’s strict abortion laws after she was raped by her stepfather was freed by a court on Monday after more th...

Canada gets consular access to second man detained in China

Canada gets consular access to second man detained in China

-- 2018-12-17 14:55:33

Canadian diplomats gained consular access on Sunday to the second of two men detained by China over the past week, Canada’s foreign ministry said in a statement that gave few details, as China s...

Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway project

Mexico launches $7.4bn Tren Maya railway project

-- 2018-12-17 13:42:05

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has launched the Maya Train - an ambitious project to build a railway through five south-eastern states. At an indigenous ceremony near the...

Mulvaney called Trump ‘terrible human being’ in 2016, video shows

Mulvaney called Trump ‘terrible human being’ in 2016, video shows

-- 2018-12-16 20:11:32

President Donald Trump’s choice of new acting White House chief of staff once described him as “a terrible human being”, it has emerged, according to BBC. A video shows Mick Mulvane...

Obama care unconstitutional: US court

Obama care unconstitutional: US court

-- 2018-12-15 16:50:04

A federal judge in the US state of Texas has ruled that a key part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, is unconstitutional. Twenty states argued the whole law was invalidated...