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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Attorney General Todd Blanche’s fidelity to President Donald Trump nearly cost him his confirmation. Now comes Blanche’s real test. Trump’s former personal attorney has stepped into the commanding role facing a challenge that other leaders of the Republican president’s Department of Justice could not overcome: threading the needle between Trump’s boundary-busting demands and a prosecutor’s duty to uphold the rule of law. At the […]

As rescue teams continue searching for hundreds of people missing along the Nepal-China border following catastrophic floods, humanitarian organizations are mobilizing to aid survivors. Hundreds are dead or missing after a deadly torrent of water and mud several stories high swept through communities Wednesday following a glacier collapse. The Nepalese army has been using helicopters to rescue people because so many roads and bridges have been washed out. Dan Hovey, […]

By Emma Farge GENEVA, Aug 28 (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency has scaled back its budget by 16% and lowered its official headcount by around 3,500 as it adapts to new financial constraints at a time when global displacement is forecast to climb to an all-time high next year, according to diplomats and documents seen by Reuters. The total cuts, on paper, would amount to a near halving of […]

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history has spread to two new health zones in eastern Congo, with a total of 60 now affected, according to the latest government figures published on Friday. The two new zones affected are Biena and Manguredjipa in Congo’s North Kivu province, where the case fatality rate is much higher than the overall rate of 48%, due in part to delayed response […]

COPENHAGEN, Aug 28 (Reuters) – A narrow majority of Icelandic voters oppose reopening negotiations to join the EU, a new Gallup opinion poll showed on Friday, a shift from earlier polls, ahead of a referendum on Saturday on whether to resume accession talks. The August 29 ballot is not a vote on membership itself and any deal would require Iceland to hold a second referendum on whether to join the […]

AMSTERDAM, Aug 28 (Reuters) – A Dutch court on Friday sentenced a 67-year-old man to life in prison for war crimes and genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994, where it said he had been involved in the killing of around 3,000 Tutsis who had sought refuge from Hutu attacks at a stadium. The defendant, identified only as Eugene N., had fled to the Netherlands in 1998 and later obtained the […]

Aug 28 (Reuters) – Marvell Technology’s shares fell 8% to $223.1 in premarket trading on Friday as concerns about the potential upside from its AI chip deal with Google overshadowed better-than-expected results from the semiconductor designer. The company secured a custom-chip deal with Alphabet’s Google last week that could generate up to $120 billion in revenue through fiscal 2033 and make the search giant one of its largest shareholders.Investor focus […]

By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES, Aug 28 (Reuters) – Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Global expects to invest more than $200 million in Argentina this year to launch new services in smaller cities and develop safety technology, its country manager told Reuters. The company is seeking to expand its business in Latin America, where it has a strong presence in Brazil and Mexico, but sees significant growth potential in Argentina, the […]

GENEVA, Aug 28 (Reuters) – More than 90,000 people are estimated to be directly affected by the Himalayan landslide and in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, the Red Cross said on Friday, as aid officials voiced fears of further flooding. “We believe that at least 93,000 people have been affected and are in great need,” David Fisher, head of delegation for the International Federation ​of Red Cross and ​Red Crescent […]