Slovakia set to elect anti-graft lawyer as first female president
Riding a wave of public fury over corruption, liberal lawyer Zuzana Caputova looked set to win Slovakia’s presidential election on Saturday, bucking a trend that has seen populist, anti-European Union politicians make gains across the continent.
Peru frees indigenous leader from jail as copper mine protests mount
Peruvian police released an indigenous leader from jail on Friday after hundreds of protesters in a remote Andean region demanded his freedom by cutting off access to a huge Chinese copper mine.
UK’s May should quit as prime minister soon: Telegraph
British Prime Minister Theresa May should step down immediately after negotiating a temporary extension to Britain’s European Union membership, the Daily Telegraph newspaper said in its Saturday edition.
Mueller report on Trump and Russia to be made public by mid-April: Barr
U.S. Attorney General William Barr plans to make public a redacted copy of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly 400-page investigative report into Russian interference in the 2016 election by mid-April, “if not sooner,” he said in a letter to lawmak…
Exclusive: With a piece of paper, Trump called on Kim to hand over nuclear weapons
On the day that their talks in Hanoi collapsed last month, U.S. President Donald Trump handed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un a piece of paper that included a blunt call for the transfer of Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons and bomb fuel to the United States…
Honduras rejects Mexican comments on ‘Mother of all Caravans’
The government of Honduras said on Friday it rejected comments by a Mexican minister that the “mother of all caravans,” with more than 20,000 people, was being organized in the Central American nation.
Guatemalan migrant girl in U.S. custody died of sepsis: autopsy report
The death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl in U.S. federal custody in December was caused by strep-induced sepsis, a Texas medical examiner’s autopsy report released on Friday showed.
Fresh documents keep up pressure on Canada’s Trudeau over scandal
A former cabinet member at the heart of a crisis that could cost Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau his job on Friday released documents to back up her case that she had been pressured to help a large corporation avoid a corruption trial.
Trump threatens closure of U.S.-Mexico border next week to stem asylum surge
President Donald Trump threatened on Friday to close the U.S. border with Mexico next week, potentially disrupting millions of legal border crossings and billions of dollars in trade, if Mexico does not stop immigrants from reaching the United States.
Tunisia says it will coordinate Arab response to U.S. move on Golan
Tunisia will coordinate with fellow Arab countries to contain any fallout from the U.S. decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui said on Friday.
