Venezuela to receive 2,000 Cuban doctors pulled from Brazil: Maduro
Venezuela will receive 2,000 Cuban doctors who left Brazil following a dispute between the Communist-run island and the government of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who ordered an end to their stay after taking office this year.
North Korea’s top envoy arrives in Washington: South Korea’s Yonhap
North Korea’s top envoy, Kim Yong Chol, arrived at Washington D.C.’s Dulles International Airport to discuss a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, the South Korean news agency Yonhap reported on Friday…
Ex-mistress of ‘El Chapo’ says she was ‘traumatized’ by tunnel escape
A former mistress of accused Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman told jurors in his U.S. trial on Thursday she was “traumatized” after a harrowing 2014 escape from one of his safehouses with Mexican marines in hot pursuit.
Yemen’s warring parties hopeful on prisoner swap as Hodeidah stalls
Yemen’s warring parties hope to deliver final lists of prisoners to the United Nations after talks in Amman on Thursday under an exchange agreement, a government delegate said.
African Union cites ‘serious doubts’, urges delay to final Congo election result
The African Union on Thursday called on Democratic Republic of Congo to suspend the release of the final results of its disputed presidential election due to its doubts over the provisional results.
At Bolsonaro son’s request, Brazil top court suspends probe of his ex-driver
Brazil’s supreme court on Thursday ordered Rio de Janeiro state prosecutors to temporarily suspend a probe into suspicious payments made by the former driver of President Jair Bolsonaro’s son, whose lawyers requested the injunction.
China’s envoy to Canada says Huawei 5G ban would have repercussions
China’s envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa there would be repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute.
Car bomber kills 10 in Colombia police academy attack
A car bomb exploded at a police academy in Colombia’s capital Bogota on Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding over 50 in an attack that prompted fears of a return to the country’s violent past.
Death toll in militia clashes in Libya’s capital rises to 10
The death toll from clashes between rival militias in the Libyan capital Tripoli has risen to 10 killed and 41 wounded, the health ministry said on Thursday.
Norway’s PM Solberg forms majority center-right government
Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg struck a deal on Thursday to form a center-right majority government by adding the small Christian Democratic Party to her minority three-party coalition.
