24 Feb 2019 | 7:04 AMCARACAS:Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Saturday that his government had broken relations with Colombia and would expel some Colombian diplomatic staff after Colombia assisted the opposition's efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country.
24 Feb 2019 | 9:39 AMWASHINGTON: US Vice-President Mike Pence plans to have his first meeting with Venezuela’s Juan Guaido in Colombia on Monday, Pence aides said, in a signal of support for the opposition leader after a weekend of violence.
24 Feb 2019 | 9:49 AMNEW YORK: A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner with three people on board crashed into a bay near Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport on Saturday, police and officials said.
24 Feb 2019 | 7:04 AMYANGON:Myanmar’s military on Saturday said they would thwart attempts by leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to alter the “essence” of the country’s controversial Constitution, putting the army and civilian administration on a collision course over the politically-charged issue.
globe trot24 Feb 2019 | 7:04 AMNew York: A US federal judge has received permission to climb the Statue of Liberty before sentencing the protester who illegally scrambled up the iconic monument last year.
24 Feb 2019 | 7:05 AMVenezuela: Venezuelan troops fired tear gas at protesters unable to cross into Colombia on Saturday after President Nicolas Maduro closed the border to stop the opposition bringing US humanitarian aid into the nation.
23 Feb 2019 | 10:03 PMVATICAN CITY: A top Catholic cardinal admitted on Saturday that Church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even drawn up, a move that allowed paedophiles to prey on others.
23 Feb 2019 | 7:58 PMNEW YORK: A US federal judge has received permission to climb the Statue of Liberty before sentencing the protester who illegally scrambled up the iconic monument last year.
23 Feb 2019 | 7:56 PMNEW YORK: A US federal judge has received permission to climb the Statue of Liberty before sentencing the protestor who illegally scrambled up the iconic monument last year.
23 Feb 2019 | 3:13 PMMULTAN: Pakistani counterterrorism police say they have arrested two insurgents attempting to blow up the main gas pipeline in the central city of Bahawalpur.
23 Feb 2019 | 2:21 PMDAURA: Gunfire opened Nigeria’s delayed election day on Saturday as President Muhammadu Buhari seeks a second term in Africa’s most populous nation.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:41 PMSINGAPORE: Authorities in the United States have charged a man accused of leaking information on thousands of HIV victims in Singapore with possession and unlawful transfer of stolen documents.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:22 PMWASHINGTON: The US government could announce new sanctions to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as early as next week unless his military defies orders to block convoys of humanitarian aid planned for this weekend, a senior administration official said on Friday.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:20 PMSAN SALVADOR: A Salvadoran transgender woman who sought asylum in the United States was killed weeks after she was deported, a rights group said on Friday, underscoring the dangers of the Trump administration’s hardening policy on asylum seekers.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:17 PMNEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan and provided information about potential irregularities in the Trump family business, the New York Times reported on Friday.
23 Feb 2019 | 1:48 PMRIVERSIDE: A California couple who shackled some of their 13 children to beds and starved them have pleaded guilty to torture and other abuse.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:27 PMHANOI: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will make an official visit to Vietnam in "coming days", its foreign ministry said on Saturday, as the southeast Asian nation prepares for his summit with US President Donald Trump next week in the capital, Hanoi.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:01 PMHANOI: Cars stopped and tourists gawked on Friday at what appeared to be North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wandering the streets of Hanoi.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:51 AMCAPE CANAVERAL: NASA gave its final go-ahead on Friday to billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX company to conduct its first unmanned test flight of a newly designed crew capsule to the International Space Station on March 2.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:48 AMBAMAKO:
French armed forces have killed a top jihadist leader in an air and ground ambush in Mali, the government said on Friday, ending a years-long hunt for a man accused of masterminding the kidnapping of Westerners in the Sahel region.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:46 AMWASHINGTON: US Democrats on Friday rolled out their measure aimed at blocking President Donald Trump from circumventing Congress to seize federal dollars for construction of his controversial southern border wall.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:43 AMKHARTOUM: Sudan President Omar al-Bashir, facing the country’s biggest popular protests since he came to power 30 years ago, declared a one-year state of emergency on Friday and called on Parliament to postpone constitutional amendments that would allow him to seek another term in a 2020 presidential election.
23 Feb 2019 | 12:23 PMWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday there was “a very good chance” the United States would strike a deal with China to end their trade war and that he was inclined to extend his March 1 tariff deadline and meet soon with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:35 AMWASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said on Friday he is nominating Kelly Craft, his envoy to Canada, to be the next US ambassador to the United Nations.
23 Feb 2019 | 11:04 AMSAN FRANCISCO: Twitter co-founder and one-time chief executive Evan Williams is stepping down from the board, leaving the one-to-many messaging service to focus on "other projects." Williams will depart the Twitter board at the end of this month, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday.
23 Feb 2019 | 10:49 AMWASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has ruled out the possibility of withdrawing American troops from South Korea as part of any deal with North Korea.
23 Feb 2019 | 10:27 AMNEW YORK: The chief executive of Time's Up, the movement, which rose in response to the Harvey Weinstein scandal, resigned from her position on Friday following allegations of misconduct against her son.
23 Feb 2019 | 3:09 PMFALL RIVER: Police in Massachusetts have charged teenage girls ages 14 and 15 with robbing a bank. Fall River police say the 14-year-old girl walked into a BayCoast Bank branch in the city on Wednesday afternoon and told a teller she would “blow everything up and kill everybody” if the teller did not hand over cash.
Globe trot23 Feb 2019 | 7:38 AMCape canaveral: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel’s first lunar lander on a mission that if successful will make the Jewish state only the fourth nation to achieve a controlled touchdown on the moon’s surface.
23 Feb 2019 | 7:38 AMISLAMABAD:The Pakistani army on Friday held spy agency ISI’s former chief Lt Gen Asad Durrani (retd) guilty of violating the military code of conduct by co-authoring a controversial book with India’s former intelligence head and punished him by stopping his pension and other benefits.
23 Feb 2019 | 7:38 AMNEW YORK:A 70-year-old man of Indian-descent, who pretended to be a US government official, has admitted to running a multi-million-dollar immigration fraud that duped over 100 people, according to federal prosecutors.
23 Feb 2019 | 7:38 AMWASHINGTON:The White House has formally received the proposed changes in the existing regulations to end the work authorisation for spouses of the holders of H-1B visas, the most sought-after among Indian IT professionals.
Aid Standoff23 Feb 2019 | 7:38 AMCARACAS:Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has ordered the closure of Venezuela’s border with Brazil in an increasingly fraught power struggle with Juan Guaido, the opposition leader spearheading efforts to bring humanitarian aid into the country despite a military blockade.
22 Feb 2019 | 10:16 PMLONDON: Meghan Markle drew fresh scorn from British media this week after celebrating the imminent arrival of her first baby with what they described as an "extravagant" trip to New York in a private jet.
22 Feb 2019 | 8:15 PMLONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday warned of a new revolt brewing within her otherwise loyal group of party parliamentarians over fears that a chaotic no-deal Brexit is not being ruled out in time for the March 29 deadline for Britain’s exit from the European Union.
22 Feb 2019 | 8:13 PMISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Army on Friday held spy agency ISI’s former chief Lt Gen (retd) Asad Durrani guilty of violating military code of conduct by co-authoring a controversial book with India’s former intelligence head and punished him by stopping his pension and other benefits.
22 Feb 2019 | 7:06 PMBEIJING: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman cemented a $10 billion deal for a refining and petrochemical complex in China on Friday, meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping who urged joint efforts to counter extremism and terror.
22 Feb 2019 | 3:07 PMKARACHI: Five children of a family died from suspected food poisoning on Friday after dining at a restaurant here, police said.
22 Feb 2019 | 11:47 AMNEW DELHI: Google on Friday dedicated a doodle celebrating wildlife conservationist and television personality Steve Irwin's life and legacy, whom many grew up watching wrestling giant crocodiles in the Australian wilderness.
22 Feb 2019 | 11:20 AMSAN FRANCISCO: After facing intense protests over sexual misconduct and discrimination at workplace, Google has decided to end the forced arbitration policy for its employees.
22 Feb 2019 | 11:09 AMTOKYO: A Japanese spacecraft successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, which is some 340 million km from Earth, to take samples that could provide clues on the origins of the solar system.
22 Feb 2019 | 11:05 AMHANOI: At least 2,600 foreign journalists have registered to cover the second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un slated to be held here on February 27-28, a Vietnamese Minister has confirmed.
globe trot22 Feb 2019 | 7:41 AMWASHINGTON: An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria will not be allowed to return to the United States with her toddler son because she is not an American citizen, the US said on Wednesday.
22 Feb 2019 | 7:41 AMDHAKA:A fire ravished adjoining apartment buildings and chemical warehouses in a historic part of the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, killing at least 70 persons and injuring several others.