Malaysia’s commercial crime chief set to give statement on 1MDB
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian police’s head of commercial crime was set to hold a press conference on Friday related to 1Malaysia Development Berhad, a day after former premier Najib Razak concluded a statement to anti-graft agents investigating t…
Honduras will keep fighting gangs despite Trump threat: minister
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras will keep fighting the scourge of gangs whether or not the United States decides to cut off aid, the security minister said on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened aid cuts.
At least seven killed by car bomb in Benghazi, Libya
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded on a busy street in the center of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a hospital medic said.
Cuba retrieves second black box from deadly plane crash
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban search teams have retrieved the flight data recorder from the passenger plane that crashed last Friday, killing all but two of the 113 people on board, Cuban state-run television announced on Thursday in the evening news broadc…
‘Trump-style solution’? North Korea says still open to talks after summit canceled
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea responded on Friday with measured tones to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to call off a historic summit with leader Kim Jong Un scheduled for next month, saying Pyongyang hoped for a “Trump-style solution” to resol…
Macron meets in Russia with head of rights group, Solzhenitsyn’s widow
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he met the head of Russia’s oldest rights group as well as the widow of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel literature laureate and prominent dissident of the Soviet era.
North Korea summit cancellation a setback to dealmaker Trump
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump drew gasps at the United Nations General Assembly last September when he threatened to “totally destroy” North Korea.
No illusions as Iran nuclear deal countries look to future without U.S.
VIENNA (Reuters) – Nations that remain in the Iran nuclear deal meet on Friday for the first time since U.S. President Donald Trump left the pact, but diplomats see limited scope to salvage it after Washington vowed to be tougher than ever on Tehran.
Car bomb explodes in Libyan city of Benghazi
BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Thursday night, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
Canceled summit could bring U.S., North Korea back into crisis mode
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s cancellation of a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un risks a return to crisis mode between Washington and Pyongyang but both sides may be wary of letting the situation escalate into fears of war …
