Venezuela’s Guaido returns home after diplomatic world tour
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido returned home on Tuesday after a three-week whirlwind tour that spanned the World Economic Forum in Davos and the White House as he seeks to rebuild momentum to oust President Nicolas Maduro.
Duterte terminates Philippines troop pact, U.S. calls move ‘unfortunate’
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday announced the termination of a two-decade-old Visiting Forces Agreement with the United States (VFA), delivering on threats to downgrade an alliance important to U.S. interests.
Trump’s national security adviser says coronavirus could impact U.S.-China trade deal: CNN
U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, Robert O’Brien, acknowledged that the coronavirus outbreak could impact the Phase One trade deal between the United States and China, a CNN reporter said on Twitter http://bit.ly/31Lafhb on Tuesd…
New coronavirus cases lowest since Jan. 31 in China province at outbreak’s epicenter
The coronavirus outbreak in China may be over by April, the country’s senior medical adviser said on Tuesday, and the latest numbers of new cases may further feed that optimism.
Under pressure from Trump, U.S. seeks shorter sentence for his adviser Stone
Under pressure from President Donald Trump, the U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday abruptly moved to seek a shorter prison sentence for veteran Republican operative and long-time Trump adviser and friend Roger Stone, with all four prosecutors quitting …
U.S. charges five with conspiring to violate oil sanctions on Iran
The U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday it had charged five people in Texas and New York with conspiring to violate a law on international commerce by arranging to purchase sanctioned Iranian oil and sell it to a refinery in China.
China’s Hubei province, epicenter of coronavirus outbreak, reports 94 new deaths on Feb. 11
The number of deaths in China’s central Hubei province from the coronavirus outbreak rose by 94 to 1,068 as of Tuesday, the province’s health commission said in a statement on its website on Wednesday.
Factbox: Latest on coronavirus spreading in China and beyond
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Cyprus ‘golden passports’ scheme a laundering risk, says watchdog
A European money laundering watchdog has cautioned that a secretive investment-for-passports program run by Cyprus was vulnerable to money laundering and fraught with risk.
New Zealand police deploy search teams for missing British hiker
Search operations were underway on Wednesday for a British backpacker who went missing in the South Island of New Zealand after an intense flood in the area.
