(Reuters) – Brazil does not underestimate the threat posed by organized crime and is prepared to combat criminal groups operating in the country and across borders, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva told the UN General Assembly today.Lula
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s state institutions have together carried out enforced disappearances, torture and arbitrary detention of political opponents, conduct that amounts to crimes against humanity, according to a report published today by UN experts.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump’s move to ban several news outlets from the White House over his dislike of their coverage likely runs afoul of US legal prohibitions against viewpoint discrimination by the government, four legal experts told Reuters.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank is drawing up a two-year engagement plan for Venezuela focused partly on electricity and social protection, IDB President Ilan Goldfajn said today.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Víctor Rodríguez, a 72-year-old retiree, rose before dawn to nab his spot in line at a bank in Havana several kilometers from his home.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Chancellor Friedrich Merz was clinging to power today after his conservative party tumbled to its worst regional election defeat in postwar Germany and members of his coalition clashed over his unpopular reform agenda.
(Trinidad Guardian) One hundred and forty-two years after scores of people were killed during the 1884 Muharram massacre, a permanent monument commemorating their sacrifice has been unveiled near the Mon Repos roundabout in San Fernando.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A military plane whisked 18 suspects in the 2021 killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moises out of Haiti and flew them to the United States today, according to Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump will have a meeting with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez in New York on Tuesday, a senior US official said on Friday, in what will be the first in-person meeting between the two leaders since Washington ousted former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.
(Reuters) – The White House today denied access to journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico, following through with US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he would ban them from the building’s grounds.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States, Denmark and Greenland have entered into an agreement for the US to develop a significant military presence on Greenland, while prohibiting US adversaries from building their own bases on the island, Donald Trump said on Friday.
(CNN) President Donald Trump claimed Friday afternoon that he is “banning” CNN, MS NOW and Politico “from the White House.”
CARICOM Secretary-General Dr Carla Barnett has said that the region’s reparations campaign must go beyond recognition of the atrocities committed against African and Indigenous peoples and deliver meaningful improvements in health, education and economic conditions.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A UN fact-finding mission on Iran said yesterday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.
The Ethio-Africa Diaspora Union Millennium Council (EADUMC) is proposing a Jamaica–Ethiopia pilot programme for the voluntary repatriation and resettlement of Rastafari and other members of the African diaspora.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Climate change is highly likely to have contributed to the catastrophic glacier collapse that flooded parts of Nepal and Tibet in late August, killing around 1,400 people and leaving thousands still missing, scientists said today.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries which have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in more than 20 years, U.S.
(Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado faces a growing dilemma over when to return home from abroad to rally support amid reticence from the Trump administration about her homecoming, four opposition sources and two political analysts said.
THE HAGUE/PRISTINA, (Reuters) – Former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci was found guilty of war crimes including murder, torture and illegal detention by the Kosovo war crimes tribunal in The Hague today.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A U.N.-mandated probe said today that Venezuela’s apparatus of repression remains largely intact despite a reduction in some abuses following President Nicolas Maduro’s removal from power earlier this year.
