SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Puerto Ricans still living largely in darkness 12 days after Hurricane Maria levelled their island revelled in small victories on Sunday in what promises to be a months-long slog back to some semblance of normal life.
BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s regional leader opened the door to a unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on Sunday after voters defied a violent police crackdown and, according to regional officials, voted 90 percent in favour of breaki…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – The euro took a brief knock in Asia on Monday as investors kept an anxious eye on an independence vote in Spain’s Catalonia, although surprisingly strong economic news out of China and Japan offered support to equities and commoditie…
EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) – Canadian police charged a Somali refugee with five counts of attempted murder on Sunday after they said he stabbed a police officer and ran down several pedestrians with a car in Edmonton, Alberta, in what officials called…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed the prospect of talks with North Korea as a waste of time a day after his own secretary of state said the United States was maintaining open lines of communication with North Korean…
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain, caught in the crossfire of a damaging trade dispute between planemakers Boeing and Bombardier , said on Sunday it would fight its corner to protect thousands of jobs put at risk in Northern Ireland.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Chancellor Philip Hammond will defend his Conservative Party’s management of the economy on Monday, seeking to stave off rising support for the opposition Labour Party’s vision of a more centrally-controlled state.
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain expects to have draft free trade agreements on the table long before it reaches the end of a Brexit transitional period which is expected to run for around two years after 2019, trade minister Liam Fox said on Su…
MARSEILLE, France/PARIS (Reuters) – Two women were stabbed to death and their assailant shot dead by a soldier in the southern French port city of Marseille on Sunday in what officials described as a “likely terrorist act”.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States is probing North Korea to see whether it is interested in dialogue and has multiple direct channels of communication with Pyongyang, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Saturday.