LAGOS/LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A ruling this month by Uganda’s Constitutional Court to water down a tough anti-LGBTQ+ law may have stemmed from concern…
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WASHINGTON – Brazil’s proposal to tax the super-rich globally gained momentum among Group of Twenty members on Wednesday, with France’s finance minister and the head of the International Monetary…
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BRUSSELS – European Union leaders decided on Wednesday to step up sanctions against Iran after Tehran’s missile and drone attack on Israel left world powers scrambling to prevent a…
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NEW YORK — The first seven jurors were selected on Tuesday to serve on Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal trial, as the selection process…
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WASHINGTON — US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday warned that the US intends to hit Iran with new sanctions in the coming…
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WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on an upcoming visit to China is expected to raise US concerns Beijing is helping…
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TAIPEI — Taiwan’s homegrown submarine program will remain on track, its Defense minister said on Wednesday, after the head of the program resigned…
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WASHINGTON – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with China’s defense minister on Tuesday, the first engagement the two have had in more than a year as the…
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Vietnam mounts ‘unprecedented’ $24 billion rescue for bank engulfed in giant fraud, documents show
HANOI – Vietnam has mounted an “unprecedented” rescue of Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), a lender engulfed in the nation’s biggest financial fraud, according…
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UNITED NATIONS – A United Nations Security Council committee considering an application by the Palestinian Authority to become a full U.N. member “was unable to make a…