Saudi Crown Prince meets Sudan’s military council deputy heed: SPA
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman met the deputy head of Sudan’s transitional military council who is visiting Saudi Arabia, Saudi Press Agency said early on Friday.
U.S. State Department misses deadline to explain Iran arms control report: aide
The U.S. State Department failed to meet a deadline on Thursday to provide information to three congressional committee chairmen looking into whether an annual arms control report slanted and politicized assessments about Iran, a congressional aide sai…
Maduro says U.S. seeks to destroy Venezuela state-backed food program
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Thursday accused the United States of seeking to destroy a food aid program that the government of the crisis-stricken OPEC nation says feeds some 6 million families.
The kids aren’t alright: Japan struggles to protect its most vulnerable children
Miwa Moriya was 6 when social workers told her she was going to a Christmas party, but instead moved her into a group home for about 60 children in a small city in western Japan.
Trump tried to stop ‘American Taliban’ Lindh’s early release from U.S. prison
John Walker Lindh, the American captured in Afghanistan in 2001 fighting for the Taliban, was freed early from federal prison on Thursday after serving 17 years amid concerns he might still harbor extremist views.
El Salvador wartime parties race clock to pass amnesty law
An amnesty bill that critics say aims to whitewash crimes committed during El Salvador’s bloody civil war faced an uncertain fate in Congress on Thursday following an outcry from victims’ families, the United Nations and global rights groups.
Exclusive: Canada’s Conservative leader to drop pledge to balance budget in two years
Canada’s Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer on Friday plans to drop a previous pledge to balance the budget within two years if elected, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has made it impossible to do so responsibly.
Exclusive: Canada’s opposition leader to drop pledge to balance budget in two years
Canada’s Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer on Friday plans to drop a previous pledge to balance the budget within two years if elected, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government has made it impossible to do so responsibly.
Libya’s NOC calls on eastern forces to free head of oil union
Libya’s national oil corporation NOC on Thursday called on Haftar’s Eastern Libyan forces to release the head of the oil workers’ labor union, Saad Dinar, who was abducted by an armed group near the eastern city of Benghazi last month.
In upset, Dutch Labour party trumps populists in European vote
The Labour party of European Commissioner Frans Timmermans on Thursday won a surprise victory in a Dutch election for European Parliament, an exit poll showed, easily beating a Eurosceptic challenger who had been topping the polls.
