BERLIN, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Germany’s ruling coalition has agreed a new law to fast-track infrastructure projects and to scrap clean-heating legislation in favour of a broader law on modernising […]

PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – France still has time to pass a budget before the end of the year and can pass special stopgap legislation to avoid a shutdown in

NAIROBI, Dec 11 – The United States threatened on Thursday to reduce its foreign assistance to South Sudan unless Juba lifts what it said were illicit fees on humanitarian shipments. Read

ISLAMABAD, Dec 11 (Reuters) – A military court in Pakistan jailed former spy chief Faiz Hamid for 14 years on four charges including interference in politics, the army said on

SEOUL, Dec 11 (Reuters) – One worker died and two were missing and feared buried at a library construction site in the South Korean city of Gwangju on Thursday, after

MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that all “misunderstandings” with the United States over Ukraine had been resolved following a meeting earlier this

OSLO, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Corina Machado said she planned to take her award back to Venezuela, but declined to say on Thursday when she

PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Law enforcement agencies from 134 countries seized a record number of illegally traded live animals between September and October, underlining a growing demand for exotic

GENEVA, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) committed serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity over more than a decade in targeting political opponents, often with

HANOI, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Industrial plants in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi have come under renewed pressure to scale back their operations as authorities respond to a week of