Senate inquiry to probe Russian agent’s meetings with Treasury, FedThe US Senate Finance Committee has launched an inquiry into meetings in 2015 between top Obama administration officials, a Russian central banker and Maria Butina, who has pleaded guilty to conspirin...
Foreign ministry website hackedIndian hackers have attacked the website of Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Office Spokesman Dr Faisal told a private TV channel on Saturday. "Half of our website was down in several c...
Nigeria postpones presidential election for one weekNigeria’s electoral commission delayed the presidential election until Feb. 23, making the announcement a mere five hours before polls were set to open Saturday. It cited unspecified “challenges” amid...
Texas landowners file first lawsuit to block Trump’s national emergency declarationThree Texas landowners and an environmental group filed the first lawsuit on Friday challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration aimed at freeing up billions of dollars to build...
Shutdown saga offers lesson in divided governmentWhen you want results in a polarized Washington, sometimes it pays to simply leave the professionals alone to do their jobs. That seems to especially be the case now in an era in which liberal House D...
Mexican president visits ‘El Chapo’s’ home turf seeking reconciliationMexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visited the birthplace of the country's most infamous drug trafficker, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Friday, calling for peace and reconciliation days aft...
Maduro blasts US for ‘stealing’ billions and offering ‘crumbs’President Nicolas Maduro hit out at the United States on Friday for “stealing” billions of dollars and offering “crumbs” in return as humanitarian aid, as Washington sanctioned five officials close to...
North Koreans pay tribute to Kim’s father in freezing coldThe Day of the Shining Star dawned bitterly cold in Pyongyang. But thousands of North Koreans lined up in temperatures of minus 8 degrees Celsius on Saturday to pay their respects to late leader Kim J...
Amphibious assault craft take beach in US-Thai war drillsWith weapons drawn camouflaged troops leapt out of amphibious assault craft while explosions sounded and parachutists glided in from above as the annual Cobra Gold war games took over a placid Thai be...
Turkey’s S-400 missile systems purchase from Russia done deal: ErdoganTurkey will not turn back from its deal to buy S-400 missile systems from Russia, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Saturday, a day after an informal deadline Washington set for Ankara...
Franco great-grandson leads fight over Spanish dictator’s remainsThe great-grandson of Francisco Franco is leading opposition to Spain's bid to remove the dictator's remains from an opulent mausoleum where they have lain for more than four decades, calling it an at...
Illinois man being fired from job fatally shoots 5 workersThe frantic calls started pouring in at 1:24 p.m. A gunman was shooting people inside a sprawling manufacturing warehouse in Aurora, Illinois. Within four minutes, the first police officers rushed to...
Trump claims Japan’s PM nominated him for Nobel Peace PrizePresident Donald Trump claimed Friday that Japan's prime minister had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize for opening a dialogue with North Korea. Trump also complained about President Barack Obama'...
Former Trump campaign chief faces up to 24 years in jail after breaking plea dealPresident Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort faces up to 24 years in prison after being found to have violated his plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation,...
In Nigeria, election spectacle at odds with rampant povertyIt's hard to find a campaign poster in this threadbare settlement on the outskirts of the Nigerian capital, where thousands live in makeshift structures of tarpaulin and sticks of timber. From his lit...
Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick over sex abuseThe Vatican says Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing Confession. The punishment announced on...
US women detained for speaking Spanish sue border agencyTwo US women detained by a border patrol agent in the state of Montana after he heard them speaking Spanish in a grocery store have sued the country’s border protection agency. Video of the incident —...