FILE PHOTO: A Venezuelan flag hangs from a building in Caracas March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo/File Photo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The United States was bringing “maximum pressure” on the Venezuelan government of President Nicolas Maduro, a top U.S. sanctions official said on Friday. Sigal Mandelker, under-secretary of the Treasury for […]
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(Reuters) – Chinese giant-killer Li Haotong felt “amazing” after beating Brooks Koepka 1-up to knock the American out of the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play on Thursday. Mar 27, 2019; Austin, TX, USA; HaoTong Li plays his shot from the sixth tee during the first round of the WGC – Dell […]
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Maria Ressa was detained on arrival at Manila’s main international airport Prominent Philippine journalist Maria Ressa has been arrested at a Manila airport, allegedly for violating laws barring foreign ownership of media. Ms Ressa, the founder of news site Rappler, was also arrested last month […]
Musicians Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading died along their tour manager Trevor Englebrektson, a statement by Heist or Hit said. They had been traveling to a show in Santa Ana, Californian on Wednesday when they were involved in the accident. The statement said: “We are all heartbroken. Their energy, vibrancy […]
Mrs Foster reiterated her opposition of the deal, blaming its controversial “backstop” provisions designed to prevent a hard border. The unionist party fears the measures will place a trade barrier in the Irish Sea, potentially seeing divergence between the rules in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK. As […]
TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian shares rose on Friday, led by a surge in Chinese equities, on hopes that Washington and Beijing are making progress in trade talks, while global bond yields moved higher after a prolonged slide on worries about the economic outlook. FILE PHOTO: A man stands in front […]
Disney is betting big on its 2019 streaming service called Disney Plus. Bob Iger, Disney’s CEO, has called the streaming service the company’s “biggest priority” for 2019 — and that’s in the same year Disney closed its $71.3 billion takeover of 21st Century Fox. We’re already seeing Disney reshape Fox the […]
ESO/L. Calçada One of the central puzzles in particle physics is discovering what particle (or particles!) makes up dark matter — the form of matter that is responsible for 85 percent of the mass in the known universe. Some physicists believe searching for a hypothetical particle known as an “axion” […]