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Trump indicates approval of CIA action against Venezuela

Trump's comments triggered outrage from leftist Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, who decried "coups d'etat orchestrated by the CIA" and ordered military exercises following a fresh US strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean.

1 hour ago
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Brazil hopes COP30 in Amazon can unite world for climate action

Some 50,000 attendees are expected at the two-week COP30 conference starting November 10 in Belem, a city in one of Brazil's poorer states best known as a gateway to the Amazon rainforest. ...

2 days ago
Americas

Brazil 'frustrated' with delays in climate commitments

Brazil, which will host the United Nations climate summit in the Amazonian city of Belem in November, was among the first to update its NDCs a year ago. But many others have missed even the latest September deadline, amid geopolitical and trade tensions that have distracted from climate action. ...

4 days ago

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New York Times hits 10 million-subscription mark amid growth spurt

The paper has been trying to diversify its offerings and has successfully launched subscriptions to cooking recipes or to a games platform structured around crossword puzzles.

3 years ago
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Trump sets stage for 2024, saying the quiet part louder and louder

Surrounded by "Trump Won" flags at a rally Saturday in Texas, the loser of the 2020 election teased another run for president and dangled impunity for those who waged last year's attack on the Capitol in a failed bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump says he would pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he runs and wins

Trump, who has not said whether he will run for president again after his defeat by Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, was speaking at a rally in Conroe, Texas.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden vows to name Black woman to US Supreme Court

"This is a bittersweet day for me," Biden said during an appearance with the justice at the White House, noting that he has known Breyer since the 1970s.

3 years ago
Americas

Harris speaks with with Taiwan Vice President in Central America

Speaking after a meeting with Honduras' new president, Xiomara Castro, Harris told reporters they did not discuss China.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden caught insulting Fox News journalist

As journalists were leaving the room after the event, a reporter from Fox News, the favorite channel of conservatives, asked whether inflation is a political liability.

3 years ago
Americas

Lab monkeys found, killed after fleeing road crash

The vehicle turned in front of an oncoming dump truck near Danville, Pennsylvania, on Friday en route to a lab in Florida.

3 years ago
Americas

US Capitol assault probe asks Ivanka Trump to cooperate

The House January 6 select committee told the 40-year-old businesswoman -- then a senior advisor to her father -- it had evidence that she had pleaded with him to call off the violence as his supporters stormed Congress.

3 years ago
Americas

CIA says 'Havana Syndrome' is not attack by foreign power: reports

NBC News, The New York Times and Politico cited multiple officials briefed on a CIA intelligence assessment on the incidents that first surfaced among diplomats in 2016 in the Cuban capital, in which US and Canadian officials complained of severe headaches, nausea and possible brain damage after hearing high-pitched sounds.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden confirms Kamala Harris would be running mate in 2024

"She's going to be my running mate," Biden said of Harris during a press conference held to mark the first year of his presidency. 

3 years ago
Americas

Peru says oil spill caused by Tonga waves is an 'ecological disaster'

The foreign ministry said that the oil spill had harmed animal and plant life in protected zones over a combined area of some 18,000 square kilometers (6,950 square miles) around islands and fishing regions.

3 years ago
Americas

Natural immunity more potent than vaccines during US Delta wave: study

The finding is the latest to weigh in on a debate on the relative strengths of natural versus vaccine-acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2, but comes this time with the imprimatur of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

3 years ago
Americas

Bolsonaro to visit Suriname and Guayana for talks on oil cooperation

Bolsonaro and the presidents of Suriname, Chandrikapersad Santokhi, and Guayana, Irfaan Ali, will hold a working lunch in the Surinamese capital Paramaribo on Thursday to discuss "projects of common interest," a ministry statement said.

3 years ago
Americas

Texas hostage-taker named as British citizen as UK police arrest 2

The captor, who died in the 10-hour siege in the small town of Colleyville on Saturday, was named by the FBI as 44-year-old Malik Faisal Akram.

3 years ago
Americas

Trump rallies faithful in Arizona

Some of the faithful had arrived in the area days in advance from as far away as Florida or Texas, waiting to hear him trot out a familiar list of grievances.

3 years ago
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Human Rights Watch criticises Biden, others for weak defense of democracy

In contrast to what Human Rights Executive Director Kenneth Roth described as former US President Donald Trump's "embrace of friendly autocrats", Biden took office in January 2021 with a pledge to put human rights at the center of his foreign policy.

3 years ago
Americas

58% of Americans believe US democracy in danger of collapse: poll

Seventy-six percent of those surveyed in the poll by Quinnipiac University said they think political instability in the United States is a bigger danger than foreign threats.

3 years ago
Americas

About 70 South Korean attendees of CES test positive for COVID-19

These included some executives and staff of major South Korean companies, according to industry sources and one company.

3 years ago
Americas

Argentina roasts in record-setting heat wave

With temperatures up around 45°C (113°F) in parts of the South American nation, hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity when power grids failed in and around populous capital city Buenos Aires.

3 years ago
Americas

US reports at least 1.1 million COVID cases in a day, shattering global record

The previous record was 1.03 million cases on Jan. 3. A large number of cases are reported each Monday due to many states not reporting over the weekend. The seven-day average for new cases has tripled in two weeks to over 700,000 new infections a day.

3 years ago
Americas

New York man charged with threatening to kill Donald Trump

Prosecutors in Brooklyn say Thomas Welnicki "knowingly and willfully threatened to kill, kidnap, and inflict bodily harm upon" the former US president.

3 years ago
Americas

VP Harris was in building when pipe bomb was discovered last January 6

Harris, then the vice-president elect and senator from California, evacuated the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters on Capitol Hill after law enforcement officers discovered the device, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden to take aim at Trump for Jan. 6 attack in anniversary speech

Biden and his top aides have been reluctant to talk directly about Trump since he took office last January, even as the Republican former president continued to spread lies about his election loss.

3 years ago
Americas

US reports nearly 1 million COVID-19 cases in a day, setting global record

The number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients has risen nearly 50 percent in the last week and now exceeds 100,000, according to data collected by Reuters, marking the first time that threshold has been reached in a year.

3 years ago
Americas

Biden to speak 'truth' on Jan 6 anniversary; Trump cancels event

The White House said Biden would push back against Trump's false claims, adopted by many of his followers, that his election defeat was the result of widespread fraud, as well as attempts to downplay the violence of the worst assault on the Capitol since the War of 1812.

3 years ago
Americas

New York prosecutors subpoenas Trump, children in fraud probe

State Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, issued the subpoenas seeking their testimony in her years-long civil probe last month, according to the document.

3 years ago
Americas

A year after Capitol riot, Americans fear for their democracy: polls

The January 6 attack on the seat of Congress, led by supporters of Donald Trump, was "a harbinger of increasing political violence," and American democracy "is threatened," according to two-thirds of those surveyed for a CBS News poll.

3 years ago
Americas

Twitter blocks US firebrand lawmaker account over COVID claims

The lawmaker from Georgia is a loud and fervent supporter of Donald Trump and his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, and is also known for making outlandish anti-vaccine claims and other false statements about the coronavirus pandemic.

3 years ago
Americas

'I don't consider him president,' Trump backer says of Biden

"I don't consider him the president of the United States," the retired US Air Force veteran told AFP at his New Hampshire home surrounded by oak and birch trees and houses displaying "TRUMP" signs.

3 years ago
Americas

US Defense Secretary Austin tests positive for COVID-19

News of Austin's positive test comes after the Pentagon last week tightened restrictions at its headquarters over concern about the highly transmissible Omicron variant that has led to a sharp increase in COVID-19 infections throughout the world.

3 years ago
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