U.S. and Australia to share cost of U.S. military’s Australian deployment
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia and the United States have agreed to share the cost of the U.S. military’s presence in Australia’s tropical north, a critical part of President Barack Obama’s “pivot” to Asia, Australian Defense Minister Marise Payne said o…
What are Haiti’s humanitarian needs after Hurricane Matthew?
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hurricane Matthew, which slammed into Haiti this week, has created the worst humanitarian crisis in the impoverished nation since a devastating earthquake hit six years ago, according to the United Nations.
U.S. government condemns new Israeli plan on settlements
WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United States sharply criticized Israel on Wednesday over plans to build a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank that it said would damage prospects for peace with the Palestinians and contradicted assurances made…
Accused global sex-trafficking ring busted with U.S., international arrests
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More than a dozen people have been arrested and accused of running an international sex-trafficking ring that held hundreds of Thai women trapped in debt bondage across the United States, authorities said on Wedn…
Both sides in Colombia talks committed to dialogue: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Both the Colombian government and Marxist rebels are committed to dialogue to reach agreement to end the country’s 52-year-long civil war despite voters’ rejection of a peace deal, a senior U.S. State Department official said on …
‘Nowhere to go,’ shellshock in devastated Haitian port
LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) – Huddled in shelters since Hurricane Matthew brought screaming winds through the Haitian port town of Les Cayes, dazed residents emerged on Wednesday to find streets under water and their homes destroyed or damaged.
Portugal’s Guterres poised to be next U.N. Secretary-General
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to be the ninth United Nations Secretary-General and is expected to be formally recommended to the 193-member General Assembly for election by the Security Council o…
Russia suspends nuclear agreement, ends uranium research pact with United States
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia further curtailed its cooperation with the United States in nuclear energy on Wednesday, suspending a research agreement and terminating one on uranium conversion, two days after the Kremlin shelved a plutonium pact with Washi…
Brazil leniency deals on hold for corruption probe: minister
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Negotiations on leniency deals between the Brazilian government and 12 companies blacklisted in the Petrobras corruption scandal have been put on hold until prosecutors conclude plea bargains with executives, Brazil’s anti-corrupti…
Michal Kovac, first president of independent Slovakia, dies at 86
BRATISLAVA (Reuters) – The first president of independent, post-communist Slovakia, Michal Kovac, died on Wednesday aged 86 after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, President Andrej Kiska said.
