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Oct 17, 2018
Heated U.S. congressional races on pace to break fundraising records
By Grant Smith and Ginger Gibson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This year's U.S. congressional campaign season is on pace to break fundraising records, driven in part by unprecedented hauls by at least five candidates from both major parties, according to a Reuters analysis of campaign finance disclosures. Candidates for the House of Representatives have collectively raised $1.2 billion from January 2017 through the end of September, more than the inflation-adjusted $1 billion record set at this point in the 2010 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission data -
Oct 17, 2018
Pompeo meets Saudi king over Khashoggi case, Turks to search consul's residence
By Leah Millis and Osman Orsal RIYADH/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday to discuss the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Turkish police prepared to search the Saudi consul's residence in Istanbul in a widening probe. -
Oct 17, 2018
Immigrant caravan organiser detained after Trump threatens Honduras
By Doina Chiacu and Jorge Cabrera WASHINGTON/ESQUIPULAS, Guatemala (Reuters) - The organizer of a migrant caravan from Honduras was detained on Tuesday in Guatemala after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to withdraw funding and aid from Honduras if the flow of migrants north to the United States was not stopped. Guatemalan police officers detained Bartolo Fuentes, a former member of the Honduran Congress, from the middle of a large crowd he and three other organizers had led from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, since Saturday, bound for Mexico -
Oct 17, 2018
Trump - Saudi crown prince says does not know what happened in consulate
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia's crown prince intends to expand an investigation into missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi and that the prince did not know what happened in the Turkish consulate where Khashoggi apparently disappeared. -
Oct 17, 2018
Nevada brothel owner, dubbed Trump from Pahrump,' dies - sheriff
By Tim Reid (Reuters) - The brothel-owning, evangelical Christian-backed Republican Nevada state legislature candidate who nicknamed himself the "Trump from Pahrump," died on Tuesday, a local sheriff's office said. -
Oct 17, 2018
Trump says it 'would be bad' if Saudi leaders knew about Khashoggi
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday it "would be bad" if Saudi King Salman or Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew about missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "It depends whether or not the king or the crown prince knew about it, in my opinion, number one, what happened, but whether or not they knew about it. -
Oct 17, 2018
Trump widens Fed critique, calls it 'my biggest threat'
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump heaped more criticism on the Federal Reserve in an interview with Fox Business Network on Tuesday, extending his discontent beyond its chairman, Jerome Powell, whom he has frequently critiqued in public. "My biggest threat is the Fed," he said, according to excerpts released before the interview with "Trish Regan Primetime" airs. -
Oct 17, 2018
Death toll rises as searches continue after Florida hurricane
By Brian Snyder PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Another 10 people in Florida have been confirmed dead in the wake of Hurricane Michael, bringing the number of storm-related deaths to at least 29 as rescue workers try to reach hundreds more people whose whereabouts are unknown. -
Oct 17, 2018
At U.N., Cuban diplomats shout down U.S. event on political prisoners
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Protesting Cuban diplomats shouted, chanted and banged their hands on desks at the United Nations on Tuesday to drown out the launch of a U.S. -
Oct 17, 2018
Trump says 'my biggest threat is the Fed'
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Oct 17, 2018
Migrant caravan organizer to be deported to Honduras from Guatemala
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The Honduran security ministry said on Tuesday that an organizer of a migrant caravan travelling north from Honduras was detained in neighbouring Guatemala and will be deported back home in the coming hours. "The problem is that he (Bartolo Fuentes) did not comply with Guatemalan immigration rules and will have to be returned to Honduras in the coming hours," said ministry spokesman Jair Meza. -
Oct 17, 2018
Trump tells Mattis he is 100 percent behind him after 'Democrat' jab
By Phil Stewart HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said President Donald Trump has reassured him of his full support after the Republican president described his Pentagon chief as "sort of a Democrat" who could leave the administration. -
Oct 17, 2018
Brazil right-winger would follow Trump's lead on foreign policy
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - The far-right front-runner in Brazil's presidential race plans to put foreign policy in the hands of a diplomat who has praised the nationalist agenda of U.S. President Donald Trump that has shaken the global order, an adviser to the candidate said. Policy experts said the pick fits conservative firebrand Jair Bolsonaro's plan to make Brazil's most dramatic foreign policy shift in decades -
Oct 16, 2018
Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance: Turkish official says journalist was killed in Saudi consulate; envoy leaves Istanbul
Security forces began setting up barricades in front of the residence just hours after Consul Mohammed al-Otaibi flew out of the country on a 2 pm flight, state media reported. -
Oct 16, 2018
US judge rejects Stormy Daniels' defamation suit against Donald Trump, says president's tweet was 'rhetorical hyperbole'
Separately, Donald Trump was sued for defamation in 2017 by Summer Zervos, who was a contestant on Trump's former reality TV show "The Apprentice." -
Oct 16, 2018
James Mattis says US concerned with Beijing's continued militarisation in South China Sea, 'predatory economic behaviour'
The US remains highly concerned with China's continued militarisation in the disputed South China Sea and its "predatory economic behaviour", Defense Secretary James Mattis has said. -
Oct 16, 2018
Mike Pompeo meets Saudi Arabian king in Riyadh over disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
US President Donald Trump had dispatched Mike Pompeo to speak to the monarch of the world's top oil exporter over Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance. -
Oct 16, 2018
Rupee spurts 35 paise to close at nearly two-week high of 73.48 per US dollar on easing crude prices
Forex dealers said bullish trend in the equity market as well as easing crude oil prices supported the rupee's upward movement. -
Oct 16, 2018
US sanctions against Iran: Govt says no issues with crude oil supplies, sentiment hurting price
Ahead of the US sanctions against Iran, India on Tuesday said availability of crude oil to replace lost volumes is not an issue but the "sentiment" around losing a big oil supplier is driving prices higher. -
Oct 16, 2018
Infrastructure finance war: Donald Trump rolls out foreign aid bill to counter China; Beijing contacts India for joint projects
US officials are worried that countries have been falling victim to what they call China's "debt trap" diplomacy, giving up control of major assets.
