Grisly Mexican gang battle near U.S. border leaves at least 20 dead
Mexican authorities are investigating a battle between two suspected gangs that left at least 20 bodies, 17 of them burned, in a border town near where U.S President Donald Trump will visit on Thursday to win support for his plan to build a wall.
Paraguay cuts diplomatic ties with Venezuela after Maduro sworn in
Paraguayan President Mario Abdo said on Thursday he was cutting diplomatic ties with Venezuela and was immediately withdrawing his country’s diplomats from Caracas.
Japan’s Abe says he hopes a no-deal Brexit will be avoided
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Thursday he hoped Britain and the European Union would avoid a no-deal Brexit.
Saudi woman’s flight rallies opposition to male guardianship
An 18-year-old Saudi woman’s flight from what she said was an abusive family has rallied opposition to the kingdom’s male guardianship system, still a major constraint on women despite the conservative Muslim country’s efforts to open up.
Canadian officials allowed second visit to man detained in China
Canadian diplomats in China on Thursday held their second meeting with one of two citizens who were detained last month after the arrest of a senior Chinese executive in Vancouver, the Canadian foreign ministry said.
U.S. condemns Venezuela’s Maduro for ‘usurpation of power’
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro for usurpation of power on Thursday, as the South American leader was sworn in to second term in office that governments around the world described as illegitimate.
In Cairo, Pompeo blasts Obama’s Middle East policies
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused Barack Obama of sowing chaos by abandoning the Middle East to Islamist militants and Iranian influence in a blistering critique of the former president’s policies even as Pompeo’s boss, President …
Senior Canadian cabinet minister quitting ahead of Oct election
Canadian Treasury Board President Scott Brison, a senior member of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, said on Thursday he would quit, a move that will deprive the ruling Liberals of a political veteran as they gird for a tightly contested federal…
Iran’s Zarif on Pompeo: U.S. brings chaos where it interferes
Iran’s foreign minister mocked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech on Thursday in which he said “when America retreats, chaos follows,” by asserting the opposite was true.
Pompeo delivers blistering critique of Obama’s Middle East policies
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Barack Obama on Thursday of sowing chaos in the Middle East by failing to adequately confront Islamist militants in a blistering critique of the policies of President Donald Trump’s predecessor.
