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China rifts put pressure on Canada’s foreign minister 2019-12-12 06:00:27Parliament wants Trudeau government to be more assertive over Beijing but new appointments hint at softer approach

Setbacks pile in on Venezuela opposition leader Guaidó 2019-12-12 06:00:27Self-declared interim president blamed for loss of momentum as Maduro digs in

High-flyer Mexico under pressure 2019-12-12 01:00:44An inverted yield curve suggests country’s recession is not over yet

Argentina’s new government to avoid confrontation with creditors 2019-12-11 18:15:28Finance minister Martín Guzmán pledges to avoid ‘brutal adjustment’ of predecessors

Brazil cuts interest rates for fourth consecutive meeting 2019-12-11 16:28:47Brighter economic outlook helps policymakers shrug off drop in Brazil’s currency

Brazilian brokerage XP jumps almost 30% in US 2019-12-11 12:31:54Near-$2bn IPO is the fourth-biggest of the year in the US

Latin American producers boosted by weaker currencies 2019-12-11 12:11:26Price in local currencies of commodities such as copper and coffee has surged

Ex-Mexican security official accused of taking cartel bribes 2019-12-10 17:02:51US alleges former minister was paid millions to allow Sinaloa cartel of ‘El Chapo’ to operate

Deal reached on revised USMCA trade pact 2019-12-10 15:54:38Mexico City ceremony follows agreement between Trump and Democrats

Peronism returns to Argentina as Fernández is sworn 2019-12-10 13:14:37New president faces daunting task of resolving deep sovereign debt crisis

Brazil to overtake US as world’s largest soyabean 2019-12-10 08:30:05American farmers hit by US-China trade conflict and extreme weather

Offering haven for Evo Morales polarises host nation 2019-12-10 08:18:48Mexico’s tradition of taking in exiled leftists is starting to meet opposition among voters

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Turkey's Erdogan Threatens to Close 2 US Military 2019-12-15 17:23:38Threat comes after Washington warns of sanctions over Ankara buying Russian arms

Fighting Stalls After 'Final Assault' on Tripoli Fails 2019-12-15 16:54:14Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar has announced plans to overrun the western capital several times, but a stalemate continues in the suburbs

Protests in New Delhi Against New India Citizenship 2019-12-15 15:34:08Police enter a university campus, use tear gas against students demonstrating; the new law makes tens of thousands of migrants, except Muslims, eligib

China Pulls Football Game After Player's Pro-Muslim Comments 2019-12-15 13:58:44Arsenal footballer Mesut Ozil posted on Twitter Friday comments condemning China's crackdown on Muslim minorities in the Western region, while also c

US Democrats Squabble Over Lessons of UK Election 2019-12-15 13:41:11Moderate US Democrats say Britain’s Labour Party lost UK election because it strayed too far left

Afghan Officials Confirm US Troop Drawdown Plans 2019-12-15 12:38:53On Saturday, US media reported that President Donald Trump’s administration intends to announce as early as later this week plans to reduce the

Rancor Fills the Airwaves Ahead of Trump Impeachment 2019-12-15 12:24:48'Crime against the Constitution,' a Democrat says, while Trump supporter says there is 'zero evidence' against US leader

Global Refugee Forum Seeks Greater International Support for 2019-12-15 11:32:32Three-day event, which opens Monday, aims to generate new approaches and long-term commitments to help refugees and communities that host them

24 Killed in DR Congo Gold Mine Collapse 2019-12-15 11:32:03The gold panners were working at Ndiyo mine around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Watsa, the main town in the Watsa territory of Upper-Uele province

Report Says US Secretly Expelled 2 Chinese Diplomats 2019-12-15 10:39:13The United States secretly expelled two Chinese embassy officials in September after they drove onto a sensitive military base in Virginia, The New Yo

UK Opposition Chief Corbyn 'Sorry' for Election Wipeout 2019-12-15 09:11:41But the veteran socialist defended his far-left platform and blamed the media for helping relegate his century-old party to its worst performance sinc

Sources: Boko Haram Kill 19 Nigeria Herders in 2019-12-15 09:00:40Boko Haram has increasingly targeted farmers, herders and loggers, accusing them of spying and passing information to the military and the local milit

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Racism leads to high rate of US black 2019-12-14 12:17:50Black mothers in the United States are three times more likely to die from childbirth than white mothers, according to statistics from the Centers for

Trump on brink of impeachment as US House 2019-12-13 16:39:14A badly divided House Judiciary Committee voted 23-17 along party lines to approve articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with b

US Senate passes resolution recognising Armenian genocide, infuriating 2019-12-12 16:22:07The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously passed a resolution that recognizes as a genocide the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, a move that in

Bolivia’s former president Morales arrives in Argentina to 2019-12-12 13:11:08Bolivia's exiled ex-president Evo Morales arrived in Buenos Aires on Thursday where he is to seek political asylum, Argentina's Foreign Minister Fel

US sees higher maternal mortality among African American 2019-12-12 12:00:21The rate of mothers dying in childbirth is dropping around the world - almost everywhere, it seems, except the United States. The maternal m

Trump becoming 'dictator', warn US Democrats on fiery 2019-12-11 23:31:12Democrats warned that US President Donald Trump was on the verge of dictatorship while Republicans fiercely defended his record at the opening of a st

Weinstein agrees to $25 million out-of-court settlement with 2019-12-11 18:10:51Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has reached a $25 million settlement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, one of the women

'Sensitivity readers', a new must in the US 2019-12-11 10:15:18For today's authors, getting the sensitivity of a book right on issues like race, religion, gender, sexuality, chronic illness and physical disabilit

Jersey City mayor says kosher store targeted in 2019-12-11 05:33:56Police in the New York metropolitan area were put on high alert to protect Jewish neighborhoods after an hours-long gunbattle with two men around a Je

US grounds Saudi pilot trainees after deadly Pensacola 2019-12-10 22:20:37The Pentagon announced on Tuesday it was halting operational training of all Saudi Arabian military personnel in the United States until further notic

Six dead, including a policeman, in New Jersey 2019-12-10 19:38:23Six people, including a police officer and two suspected gunmen, were killed in an hours-long shootout that unfolded on Tuesday afternoon near a cemet

Impeachment by Christmas: Democrats limit charges to ensure 2019-12-10 14:10:01Too much or too little? Democrats in the US House of Representatives are drafting two articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Less is more, they