WASHINGTON (AP) — Shouting “FBI, open the door,” authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to...
The Federal Aviation Administration is reporting delays in air travel because of a “slight increase in sick leave” at two East Coast air traffic control facilities. FAA spokesman Gregory Martin said Friday that it had augmented...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia is banning street begging by Syrian nationals who have startled people by showing up in growing numbers in recent months in major cities around hotels and mosques. “We are now coordinating our...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Backed by Venezuela’s military, President Nicolas Maduro went on the offensive against an opposition leader who declared himself interim president and his U.S. supporters, setting up a potentially explosive...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran arrested more than 7,000 people last year, including dozens of journalists, in what Amnesty International on Thursday called a “shameless campaign of repression” as the U.S. released an...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans headed into uncharted political waters Thursday, with the young leader of a newly united and combative opposition claiming to hold the presidency and socialist President Nicolas Maduro digging in for a...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP): Even before he announces whether he’s a 2020 presidential candidate, Senator Bernie Sanders is working to avoid the drubbing that South Carolina’s African-American voters handed him in 2016. A day after speaking at...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP): Thousands of Venezuelans filled the streets on Wednesday accusing embattled President Nicolás Maduro of usurping power and joining the nation’s reinvigorated opposition movement in demanding that he step down...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis said yesterday that fear of migration is "making us crazy" as he began a trip to Central America amid a standoff over President Donald Trump's promised wall at the US-Mexico border and a...
BERLIN (AP): More than a dozen state lawmakers from a German far-right party walked out of the Bavarian parliament during a tribute to Holocaust victims on Wednesday after a Jewish leader accused the Alternative for Germany of playing down the...
JOHANNESBURG (AP): The United States says it welcomes the certification by Congo’s Constitutional Court of Felix Tshisekedi as the country’s next president, joining others in the international community in accepting the results of the...
HELSINKI (AP): Latvia’s parliament on Wednesday approved the Baltic country’s new five-party, centre-right coalition government, nearly four months after a general election, breaking the deadlock on the formation of a Cabinet in the...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) —Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro is giving American diplomats 72 hours to abandon the country after breaking diplomatic relations with the U.S. over its decision to recognise an opposition leader as interim...
CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself interim president in a defiant speech before masses of anti-government demonstrators who took to the streets Wednesday to demand President Nicolas Maduro...
PHOENIX (AP) — A licensed practical nurse has been arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting an incapacitated woman who gave birth last month at a long-term health care facility, Phoenix police said Wednesday. Investigators arrested 36-year...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s re-invigorated opposition faces a crucial test Wednesday as it seeks to fill streets nationwide with protesters in an appeal to the military and the poor to shift loyalties that until recently...
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe faces a new wave of unrest as the group representing government workers announced on Wednesday that civil servants across the country will go on strike after salary negotiations failed. David Dzatsunga,...
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian police detained a drunken man who threatened the crew of a passenger plane flying Tuesday from a Siberian city to Moscow, forcing it to land shortly after take-off. The Russian Investigative Committee said that the...
BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday demanded the U.S. drop a request that Canada extradite a top executive of the tech giant Huawei, shifting blame to Washington in a case that has severely damaged Beijing’s relations with Ottawa. Foreign...
Zimbabwe's government intensified its crackdown on dissent yesterday by charging the leader of the country's largest labour organisation with subversion, as the courts ruled that the shutdown of the Internet was illegal. Zimbabwe police...
The mutiny triggered protests in a poor neighbourhood just a few miles from Venezuela’s presidential palace. It was dispersed with tear gas as residents set fire to a barricade of trash and chanted demands that President Nicolás Maduro...
