By Kanishka Singh
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Army Private Travis King, who last year ran into North Korea and was taken into custody there, was sentenced on Friday to one year of confinement then freed based on time already served, his lawyer said in a statement.
He pleaded guilty to five charges, and the sentencing was held at Fort Bliss in Texas.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's government slightly reduced the expected primary deficit for the current fiscal year late on Friday, attributing the revision to improved revenues that more than offset the need for a new expenditure freeze to ensure compliance with a spending cap.
In their bi-monthly revenue and expenditure report, the Planning and Finance ministries revised the primary deficit forecast for 2024 down to 28.3 billion reais ($5.13... (continue reading...)
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday that he is confident the AUKUS defence pact will be supported by any future U.S. administration, after a meeting with President Joe Biden that covered bilateral defence cooperation in the Indo-Pacific.
Biden is set to hand over the presidency after a Nov. 5 election that will deliver the White House to his vice president, Kamala Harris, or Republican Donald Trump, who has... (continue reading...)
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has named a legal representative in Brazil, the firm's lawyers said on Friday, in a move that would address one of the demands imposed by Brazil's top court to allow the company to operate in the country.
Andre Zonaro and Sergio Rosenthal, who were recently appointed as X's lawyers in Brazil, told Reuters that colleague Rachel de Oliveira Conceicao was chosen as the firm's legal... (continue reading...)
By Lizbeth Diaz
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Some 53 people have been killed and 51 others are missing in Mexico's western Sinaloa state since rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began clashing on Sept 9, local authorities said on Friday, with gruesome violence showing no signs of abating.
The trigger for the conflict between the two most powerful factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, a drug gang, dates back to July, when legendary trafficker and... (continue reading...)
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