Houthis offer for redeployment is inaccurate and misleading: Yemeni minister
The Yemeni information minister, Moammar al-Eryani, said on Twitter that the Houthi offer for redeployment from the ports of Hodeidah, Salif and Ras Isa is inaccurate and misleading.
As Maduro cracks down, Venezuela legislators see intimidation
A Venezuelan opposition legislator on Friday fled to Colombia while others said threatening messages had been spray-painted on their homes or intelligence agents had been following them, amid a broad crackdown by President Nicolas Maduro against congre…
Venezuela’s Maduro says ex-intelligence chief helped plan ‘coup’
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday called his former intelligence chief Manuel Cristopher a “traitor” and said he had helped plan a military uprising called for by the opposition on April 30, which Maduro described as a “coup.”
Republicans, Democrats concerned about Hungary’s Orban ahead of U.S. visit
Senior Republican and Democratic members of the U.S. Congress told President Donald Trump on Friday they were concerned about Hungary’s “downward democratic trajectory,” ahead of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Washington next week.
U.S. warns merchant ships of possible Iranian attacks; cleric threatens U.S. fleet
Iran could target U.S. commercial ships including oil tankers, the U.S. Maritime Administration said on Friday, as a senior Iranian cleric said a U.S. Navy fleet could be “destroyed with one missile.”
Exclusive: Eyeing Iran, U.S. sending more Patriot missiles to Middle East
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved a new deployment of Patriot missiles to the Middle East, a U.S. official told Reuters on Friday, in the latest U.S. response to what Washington sees as a growing threat from Iran.
Brazil’s Bolsonaro fires ‘militant’ head of climate change action group
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro fired the head of a government-backed climate forum, after the group organized states to work around the right-wing federal government’s ambiguous positions on climate change.
Yemen’s Houthis to start Hodeidah withdrawal on Saturday: U.N.
Yemen’s Houthi group intends to withdraw forces from three key ports in Yemen over four days, starting on Saturday, said a senior United Nations official in charge of monitoring the move.
U.N. says Houthis to redeploy from Yemen ports
Yemen’s Houthi group agreed on Friday to unilaterally redeploy forces out of three key ports between May 11 and May 14, a U.N. statement said, a move needed to pave the way for political negotiations to end Yemen’s four-year war.
Greek PM Tsipras wins confidence vote weeks before EU election
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won a confidence vote on Friday, weeks before European Parliament elections that will be a first test of his government’s re-election chances in national polls this autumn.
