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Mexico minister says can't yet see common ground to finish NAFTA talks
Wages have been a contentious issue in NAFTA renegotiation talks because salaries are much lower in Mexico compared to its two northern neighbors, and the US especially has argued that it places its automotive and other manufacturing industries at a distinct disadvantage.
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Chinese nationals indicted on illegal drug manufacturing
They said Yan operated at least two chemical plants in China able to produce fentanyl by the tonne. Robert W. Patterson, acting administrator of the U.S. "The defendants allegedly shipped massive quantities of deadly fentanyl and other synthetic opioids to communities throughout the United States, mostly purchased on the Internet and sent through the mail", Rosenstein said.
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Militias to clear Raqqa of IS within hours
He says that with the fall of Raqqa, the militants will be denied their "wellspring" that provided planning and support for terror operations in Syria and Iraq and around the world. Fatima Hussein, a 58-year-old woman-sitting on a pavement smoking a cigarette-said she had emerged from her house after being trapped for months by the fighting.
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State of emergency: Raging wildfires kill at least 20 people in Portugal
Officials initially put the death toll at six and no one was immediately available to confirm the rising death toll, Reuters said. A one-month-old baby was among the dead, the Civil Protection Agency said Monday. "The whole city looked like a ball of fire, surrounded by flames on all sides", he said. Even before the latest blazes, almost 216,000 hectares (530,000 acres) had been consumed by wildfires across the country between January and September, according to estimates from the ...
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Trump dubs sexual harassment claims 'totally fake news'
However, it was only recently entered into court filings as part of evidence, disputing allegations from Trump's legal team that the subpoena is both "far reaching" and "seeks wholly irrelevant information intended exclusively to harass the president".
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Bomb kills reporter who covered Malta's 'Panama Papers' link
Galizia's blog posts about Malta's "cronyism" sometimes got 400,000 readers a day, which is more than all of Malta's newspapers combined, Politico reported. Malta Television reported that Ms Caruana Galizia had filed a complaint to the police two weeks ago to say she had received threats. "I issue a €20k reward for information leading to the conviction of her killers".