Colombia to host meeting with Ecuador, Peru on Venezuelan migrant issue
Officials from Colombia, Ecuador and Peru will meet in Bogota next week to seek a solution to a growing exodus of migrants overwhelming South American countries as they flee a devastating economic crisis in Venezuela.
U.S. State Department softens travel advisory on Cuba
The United States on Thursday revised its travel advisory on Cuba to “exercise increased caution,” from “reconsider travel,” a move that some in the tourism sector hope could help reverse a decline in American visitors to the Caribbean island.
Pompeo to travel to North Korea with new special envoy
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit North Korea again next week to try to persuade it to abandon its nuclear weapons, and will take a new U.S. special representative, Stephen Biegun, with him in an attempt to break the deadlock.
South Africa accuses Trump of stoking racial divisions after land policy tweet
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Seizing land without payment would take South Africa on wrong path: U.S. State Department
The United States believes that land confiscation without compensation in South Africa would take that country down the wrong path, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday after President Donald Trump raised the issue in a tweet.
Pompeo has no plans to meet North Korean leader Kim: State Department
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has no plans to meet with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un during his visit to North Korea next week, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said on Thursday.
Hunt says parliament will only approve Brexit deal consistent with vote
Britain’s foreign minister, Jeremy Hunt, said on Thursday he believed the British parliament would only approve a Brexit deal that was consistent with the “letter and spirit” of the 2016 referendum result in favor of leaving the European Union.
UK Foreign Secretary Hunt welcomes Iran’s temporary release of aid worker
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday he welcomed news that Iran had temporarily released Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian aid worker, from prison, but said she should not have been behind bars in the first place.
Bosnia denies entry to Russian writer Prilepin on security grounds
Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin was barred from entering Bosnia on Thursday on security grounds, in a move that angered Bosnian Serbs and the Russian Embassy.
Canada’s Conservatives face split ahead of 2019 election
Canada’s opposition Conservatives face a potential split a year ahead of national elections after a prominent former cabinet minister quit the party on Thursday to form his own right-leaning faction, focused on limited immigration and promoting free tr…
