[ad_1] (Reuters) – A British cyber security researcher arrested in the United States on hacking charges has gained the support of his MP in England. Marcus Hutchins, 23, widely credited with helping neutralize the global…

[ad_1] NAIROBI (Reuters) – Police raided the offices of Kenya’s opposition alliance on Friday evening, an opposition spokesman said, four days before a national election. Dennis Onyango, a spokesman for veteran opposition leader Raila Odinga,…

[ad_1] BELFAST (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar called on Friday for the European Union and Britain to find “unique solutions” to their Brexit logjam, including a bespoke customs union. That would solve the…

[ad_1] WOLFSBURG, Germany (Reuters) – The new sanctions against Russia that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday are “more than problematic”, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. Speaking in the northern German…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese court on Friday sentenced three employees working for fugitive billionaire Guo Wengui, who has been locked in a high-stakes political feud with the ruling Communist Party, sending two of…

[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Pope Francis “loves China” and the Vatican hopes China has a great future, a Chinese state-run newspaper on Friday cited a visiting Vatican official as saying, in an expression of goodwill…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A NATO soldier was killed and six other personnel were wounded in Afghanistan on Thursday after a suicide bomber attacked their convoy in Kabul province, a coalition statement said. The wounded…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump chafed on Thursday over the new dive in U.S. relations with Russia, widening a rift with his own Republican Party as he blamed Congress for causing the tensions…

[ad_1] SINJAR, Iraq (Reuters) – Iraq’s Yazidis marked three years since Islamic State launched what the United Nations said was a genocidal campaign against them on Thursday, but their ordeal is far from over despite…

[ad_1] TORONTO (Reuters) – Nearly 270 people have died in Canadian provincial jails over the past five years. Two-thirds of them were legally innocent. The high number of deaths among prisoners awaiting trial, compiled by…

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, beset by scandals and falling support, opted almost entirely for safe hands over fresh faces in a Cabinet reshuffle on Thursday, but the changes may not…

[ad_1] BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress voted on Wednesday to reject a corruption charge against President Michel Temer for allegedly taking bribes, saving him from facing a possible Supreme Court trial that…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will press China and other Asian countries to take tougher action against North Korea when he attends regional meetings in Manila starting this week, a…

[ad_1] CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition on Wednesday readied itself for massive protests against a freshly elected legislative superbody that is expected to hand President Nicolas Maduro vast new powers. Opposition leader Freddy Guevara urged…

[ad_1] JERUSALEM/AMMAN (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped an Israeli lawmaker from taking on a Jordanian counterpart in a fist-fight on Wednesday over a diplomatic crisis between the two neighbors. The July 23 shooting…

[ad_1] TOKYO (Reuters) – An accident at a Japanese nuclear research facility in June that exposed five workers to radiation has been initially deemed a Level 2 ‘incident’ on an international scale for radiological releases,…

[ad_1] KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities seized trafficked ivory tusks and pangolin scales worth nearly $1 million over the weekend, airport customs officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of seizures in…

[ad_1] CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela jailed two leading critics of President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday in a fresh blow to the opposition after the election of a new political body with sweeping powers to strengthen…

[ad_1] BEIRUT (Reuters) – The transfer of thousands of Syrian militants and refugees from a Lebanese border region into rebel territory in Syria stalled for a second day on Tuesday because Beirut rejected demands made…

[ad_1] CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan security officials seized opposition leaders Leopoldo Lopez and Antonio Ledezma from their homes during nighttime raids on Tuesday, in what critics of President Nicolas Maduro said was a growing crackdown…

[ad_1] NAIROBI (Reuters) – At last count, unemployment in Kenya was running at around 11 percent of the workforce; for the young, those aged 15-24, it was twice that. Kenya’s years of strong economic growth…

[ad_1] ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Former petroleum minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi is poised to become Pakistan’s new prime minister in a parliamentary vote on Tuesday, just days after the ouster of veteran leader Nawaz Sharif, as…

[ad_1] HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba praised on Monday the election in Venezuela of a new legislative superbody and denounced what it called an international plot to suppress the will of the Venezuelan people in the…

[ad_1] MONTREAL (Reuters) – Qatar Airways is expected to have access to three contingency routes over international waters in early August, after a UN-led meeting on Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift…

[ad_1] KIEV (Reuters) – Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk denied on Monday an accusation of tax evasion from a lawmaker that has led to an investigation by prosecutors. Danylyuk, a former investment manager who has…

[ad_1] HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s ruling Communist party said on Monday that a former executive of electricity firm Dien Quang Lamp should be sacked from her current position as a vice-trade minister as it continues…

[ad_1] KABUL (Reuters) – Militant group Islamic State on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul that began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at the main gate, allowing…

[ad_1] BANGKOK (Reuters) – Up to 80 percent of Thailand’s tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was…

[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities said on Sunday they rescued 147 Central Americans abandoned in the wilderness of Veracruz state after suspected human smugglers forced them out of the cramped tractor trailer they…

[ad_1] MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said the United States would have to cut its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 people and that Russia could consider imposing additional measures against the United States…