Brazil’s Rousseff says ‘will never resign’ in deepening crisis
BRASILIA – President Dilma Rousseff says she will not resign in Brazil’s worst political crisis in two decades, calling an opposition move to impeach her a “coup d’etat” against democratic…
Turnbull announces $1 billion clean energy fund, another blow to Tony Abbott
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said Australia would establish a $1 billion clean-energy innovation fund, in a major departure from his predecessor’s much maligned approach to combating climate change. Conservative…
Wrecked vessel washed ashore in Oregon may be from Japan tsunami
PORTLAND – Algae and an oyster are among the clues Oregon biologists believe may link the vestiges of a sea-ravaged boat that washed up on a state beach on Tuesday…
Syrian refugees denied critical healthcare in Jordan: Amnesty
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Syrian refugees in Jordan are finding it very difficult to get medical care because of Jordanian fees and bureaucracy, and shrinking humanitarian financial support, rights…
Texas executes man who killed city inspector in 2005
AUSTIN – Texas on Tuesday executed a convicted killer who repeatedly shot a city code officer inspecting piles of garbage at the death row inmate’s former home, a department of…
Canada’s stimulus budget aims to revive oil-hit economy
OTTAWA – Canada’s new Liberal government has unveiled a stimulus budget to revive growth with infrastructure spending and said it would run a deficit nearly three times larger than promised…
Malaysia to inspect debris in South Africa for possible MH370 link
KUALA LUMPUR – Malaysia says it will send a team to retrieve a piece of debris found along the southern coast of South Africa to check whether it could belong…
Modi under fire as rising costs put squeeze on “middle India”
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI – Sharp rises in education and healthcare costs in the last two years have hit India’s burgeoning middle class hard, denting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity among the…
Police hunt suspect after Islamic State kills 30 in Brussels suicide attacks
BRUSSELS – The self-declared Islamic State militant group have claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which…
Australian airports have sufficient security: Prime Minister
Australia’s airports have sufficient security in the wake of the deadly attack in Brussels, despite a planned strike by immigration workers ahead of the busy Easter holiday weekend, Prime Minister…
