JBS brothers test dealmaking skills in Brazil plea deal showdown
SAO PAULO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The brothers whose deft dealmaking helped build JBS SA into the world’s No. 1 meat processor are testing that talent like never before as they seek a leniency deal with prosecutors after admitting to paying millions of …
Death toll rises in southern Libya attack, defense minister suspended
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A spokesman for east Libyan armed forces said on Friday that as many as 141 people had been killed a day earlier in an attack on a southern air base, and the head of Libya’s United Nations-backed government suspended his def…
Maduro to Trump: ‘Get your dirty hands off Venezuela!’
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blasted Donald Trump on Friday after a fresh round of U.S. sanctions and strong condemnation of his socialist government from the U.S. leader.
New Russia probe leaks threaten to derail Trump’s foreign trip
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump was hit on Friday by embarrassing leaks that a senior adviser was a “person of interest” in a probe of possible collusion with Russia during last year’s election campaign and that Trump had boasted to …
Yemen’s Houthis say fired ballistic missile toward Saudi capital
DUBAI (Reuters) – Yemen’s armed Houthi movement said on Friday it had fired a ballistic missile toward the Saudi capital Riyadh, just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia, but the claim could not immediately be confirmed.
Italy opens corruption probe into Sicily chief, junior minister
ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors are investigating the president of the island of Sicily, a junior minister and other politicians for alleged corruption involving Sicilian ferry services, legal sources said on Friday.
U.N. sees ‘incremental progress’ after Syria talks
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura ended four days of Syria talks on Friday, saying there had been “incremental progress” and he planned to reconvene negotiations in June.
U.S.: Military solution to North Korea would be ‘tragic on an unbelievable scale’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that any military solution to the North Korea crisis would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale” and Washington was working internationally to find a diplomatic solution.
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces in West Bank, Gaza
GAZA (Reuters) – Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank and at the border of the Gaza Strip on Friday in their largest confrontation in months and just days before U.S. President Donald Trump is due to arrive in…
North Korea says U.S. has to roll back ‘hostile policy’ before talks
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – North Korea’s deputy U.N. envoy said on Friday the United States needed to roll back its “hostile policy” toward the country before there could be talks as Washington raised concern that Pyongyang could be producing a chemica…
