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Magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes near Baculin, Philippines, USGS says
MANILA, Jan 7 (Reuters) – A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippines’ southern islands on Wednesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, and there were no immediate reports of […]
Yemen’s STC leader al-Zubaidi flees, Saudi-backed coalition says
Jan 7 (Reuters) – The leader of Yemen’s Southern Transitional Council (STC), Aidarous al-Zubaidi, failed to board a plane set to take him to Riyadh, and fled instead to an […]
US adds more nations, including Venezuela, to costly visa bond policy
WASHINGTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration has put 25 more countries on a list of nations whose citizens could be required to post bonds of up to […]
Brigitte Bardot to be buried on the French Riviera
SAINT-TROPEZ, France, Jan 7 (Reuters) – Brigitte Bardot, an icon of French cinema who died last month aged 91, will be buried on Wednesday by the sea in the French […]
Video recordings by Brown University shooting suspect deemed a confession
BOSTON, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday released transcripts of video recordings in which they say the gunman who carried out last month’s fatal mass shooting at Brown […]
Exclusive-In post-Maduro Venezuela, US eyes security chief as potential target, sources say
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The Trump administration has put Venezuela’s hardline interior minister on notice that he could be at the top of its target list unless he […]
Trump says Venezuela to turn over 30 to 50 million barrels of oil to US
Jan 6 (Reuters) – Venezuela will be “turning over” 30 to 50 million barrels of sanctioned oil to the United States, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday in the aftermath […]
US backs security guarantees for Ukraine at summit of Kyiv’s allies in Paris
PARIS, Jan 6 (Reuters) – The United States for the first time on Tuesday backed a broad coalition of Ukraine’s allies in vowing to provide security guarantees that leaders said […]
Analysis-Maduro’s immunity claim tests US power to prosecute foreign leaders
Jan 6 (Reuters) – Nicolás Maduro’s first appearance in a U.S. courtroom offered a glimpse of the legal battle ahead over rarely tested questions — chief among them whether he […]
5.2-magnitude quake hits NW China’s Xinjiang: CENC
BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) — A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Tajik Autonomous County of Taxkorgan in Kashgar region in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 3:17 a.m. Wednesday, according […]