Category: World News

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Mining giant BHP Group <BHP.AX> said on Tuesday that poor air quality caused by smoke from Australia’s bushfires is hurting coal production, as authorities … Read More

By Alexander Cornwell and Babak Dehghanpisheh DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran said it had asked the U.S. and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed … Read More

By Tessa Vikander VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou returned to a Vancouver court on Tuesday, where her lawyers argued for a second straight day that Meng … Read More

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government is willing to discuss the country’s problems with leaders of demonstrations against the social and economic policies of President Ivan Duque, … Read More

By Dmitry Zhdannikov and Simon Robinson DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday planting trees was not enough to address climate change, in an apparent rebuke to … Read More

By Julie Steenhuysen and Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – A Washington state man who recently traveled to China has been diagnosed with the coronavirus, becoming the first confirmed U.S. case of … Read More

By Vivian Sequera CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition legislator Gilber Caro, whose whereabouts had been unknown since an elite police unit arrested him in December, is being held in state … Read More

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – State prosecutors in Brazil have charged 16 individuals with homicide and environmental crimes for their role in the Brumadinho disaster last January, when a dam … Read More

By Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian state prosecutors on Tuesday charged Fabio Schvartsman, the former chief executive of mining giant Vale SA, and 15 other people with … Read More

By Amanda Becker DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – In the wake of a flap with Democratic rival Bernie Sanders over gender and electability, Elizabeth Warren made no direct mention this … Read More