Outgoing President Joe Biden said on December 12 he had commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others, in what the White…
A judge was shot dead December 11 in Mexico's once-thriving beach city of Acapulco, local media and the state prosecutor's office said. Local press identified…
A Chinese citizen has been charged with flying a drone over Vandenberg Space Force Base in California where he is alleged to have recorded images…
Canada's largest province would be prepared to cut off energy exports to the US if President-elect Donald Trump imposes his promised tariffs on Canadian goods,…
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will undergo another operation Thursday to "minimize the risk of future bleeding" in an area under his skull…
FBI Director Christopher Wray announced on December 11 that he will resign in January before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. "After weeks of careful thought,…
President-elect Donald Trump is planning a blizzard of more than 25 executive orders and directives on his first day in office on January 20 as…
Brazil's 79-year-old President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was in "stable" condition after emergency surgery December 10 for an intracranial hemorrhage and should leave the…
The United States unveiled trade restrictions December 10 on eight companies, including two Chinese firms and several from Russia, alleging human rights violations. The China-based…
The US slapped sanctions on a Chinese cybersecurity company and one of its employees December 10, accusing it of compromising more than 80,000 firewalls in…
A 26-year-old man was arrested and charged with murder December 9 in the targeted killing of a health insurance executive on the streets of New…
Four suspected members of Colombia's biggest drug cartel were killed last week in airstrikes on their bases, President Gustavo Petro announced December 9. The bombardments…
US President Joe Biden is facing growing calls to commute the death sentences of the more than three dozen federal inmates on Death Row before…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government on December 9 survived a third vote of no confidence in as many months, brought by his main Tory…
A 26-year-old man was arrested December 9 over the targeted killing of a health insurance executive on the streets of New York, with police crediting…
President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that aired on December 8 that he would act on his first day in office to pardon rioters…
At least 110 people were killed over the weekend in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Haiti’s capital, a leading human rights group has said,…
US President Joe Biden on December 8 said deposed Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad should be "held accountable" but called the nation's political upheaval a "historic…
China's retaliatory export controls could take a toll on the growing US clean energy sector and its defense industry, analysts say, as a trade tussle…
The White House is listening to demands for President Joe Biden to extend the same grace to thousands of people wronged by the US judicial…
A motorcycle loaded with explosives detonated at a police checkpoint in southwestern Colombia on December 7, killing the driver and injuring 14 others, authorities said.…
The US on December 4 unveiled sanctions on five people and four entities allegedly involved in a global network of "sanctions circumvention on behalf of…
Cash-strapped Cuba on December 4 was struggling to revive its power grid, after fixing a failure at the country's largest power plant, which had caused…
The chief executive of one of the US's largest health insurance companies, UnitedHealthcare, was shot and killed outside a New York Hilton hotel in an…
US President-elect Donald Trump's attorneys sought to dismiss his historic criminal fraud conviction in a new filing released on December 3 -- arguing President Joe…
