In the weeks before US President Donald Trump’s declaration last month that he would forge ahead with designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organisations, Cabinet members and top aides from across the government recommended against it, five people knowledgeable about the matter told Reuters.

After Cabinet opposed Mexican cartel policy, Trump forged ahead

President Donald Trump offered Tuesday to help Mexico hunt the killers of nine Mormon women and children shot dead in a lawless border area and said the United States stood ready to back its southern neighbor in a "war" on the drug cartels.

Trump calls for 'war' on cartels as Mormons murdered in Mexico

A Turkish court ruled on Wednesday to keep a US consulate employee in jail as his trial on espionage charges continues, a lawyer said, meaning he will remain in detention until the next hearing in December.

Turkish court rules to keep United States consulate worker in jail: lawyer