Arconic knowingly supplied flammable panels for use in tower: emails
LONDON (Reuters) – Six emails sent by and to an Arconic Inc sales manager raise questions about why the company supplied combustible cladding to a distributor for use at Grenfell Tower, despite publicly warning such panels were a fire risk for tall bu…
Australia welcomes charges against alleged Bali bombing mastermind
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Saturday welcomed charges against a Guantanamo Bay prisoner accused of masterminding the 2002 Bali bombings in which 202 people were killed, including 88 Australians.
15 dead, scores missing hours after landslide buries Chinese village
BEIJING (Reuters) – Fifteen people were killed in a landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Saturday and about 100 were believed to be still buried in the debris and feared dead, state media said.
Corruption charges against Brazil’s Temer expected to come in waves: source
(Reuters) – Brazil’s top federal prosecutor will level corruption charges against President Michel Temer one at a time instead of making all the accusations at once, a strategy aimed at weakening his defense, a source with direct knowledge of the proce…
Trump, Putin and Erdogan behave like autocratic rulers: Germany’s Schulz
BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Union must become stronger in response to a weakening of democracy in the United States, Russia and Turkey, the leader of Germany’s centre-left Social Democrats said in remarks published on Saturday.
U.S. military says crisis communications link with Russia ‘in use’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military said on Friday that a crisis communications link with Russia meant to avoid an accidental clash over Syria was “in use,” even after Moscow threatened to abandon it over the U.S. downing of a Syrian military jet …
Venezuela: death of a protester
CARACAS (Reuters) – Over months of protests Carlos Garcia Rawlins has been on Venezuela’s streets daily, documenting increasingly violent clashes with security forces, experience that helped put him within eyeshot of a soldier who fatally wounded a you…
Exclusive: Overruling diplomats, U.S. to drop Iraq, Myanmar from child soldiers’ list
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In a highly unusual intervention, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson plans to remove Iraq and Myanmar from a U.S. list of the world’s worst offenders in the use of child soldiers, disregarding the recommendations of State Departmen…
Slain Venezuelan protester’s father appeals to ‘friend’ Maduro
CARACAS (Reuters) – A man describing himself as a former boss and friend of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday urged an investigation into the killing of his son in anti-government unrest convulsing the OPEC nation for nearly three months.
Egypt’s Sisi pardons 502 prisoners including well-known tycoon
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 502 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday including prominent businessman Hesham Talaat Moustafa, according to a presidential decree issued on Friday.
