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US slaps new sanctions on Venezuelan officials

US slaps new sanctions on Venezuelan officials

-- 2018-01-06 11:55:19

The US has imposed sanctions on four serving or retired Venezuelan generals for rights abuses or corruption. The list includes Rodolfo Marco Torres, whom the US Treasury sanctioned for food smuggling...

US piles pressure on Pakistan

US piles pressure on Pakistan

-- 2018-01-06 11:33:12

The United States is examining ways to mitigate any Pakistani retaliation as it piles pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants, a senior US official said on Friday. Pakistan is a crucial gate...

Planes collide at Toronto airport, no casualties

Planes collide at Toronto airport, no casualties

-- 2018-01-06 10:21:16

Dozens of passengers were evacuated from an aircraft at Toronto’s Pearson Airport, after a plane under tow struck an arriving jet that was waiting to park, sparking a small fire, the airport aut...

Trump rejects accusations, calls him ‘stable genius’

Trump rejects accusations, calls him ‘stable genius’

-- 2018-01-06 07:45:06

US President Donald Trump described himself on Saturday as a "very stable genius", following the publication of a highly critical book that questioned his ability to do the job."Actually, throughout m...

'Fire and Fury' revelations will bring down Trump: Author

'Fire and Fury' revelations will bring down Trump: Author

-- 2018-01-06 06:35:46

The author of a book that is highly critical of Donald Trump’s first year as US president said his revelations were likely to bring an end to Trump’s time in the White House. Michael Wolf...

No reason to question Trump's mental fitness: Tillerson

No reason to question Trump's mental fitness: Tillerson

-- 2018-01-06 05:09:05

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has never questioned President Donald Trump's mental fitness and intends to remain at his post for the entire year. The top US diplomat made the remarks in an excl...

18 die in US cold spell

18 die in US cold spell

-- 2018-01-06 03:16:20

Street crews are digging out snow-clogged roads across the US east coast after a powerful “bomb cyclone” winter storm, with temperatures set to plunge further during the brutal cold spell...

N Korea accepts talks offer from S Korea

N Korea accepts talks offer from S Korea

-- 2018-01-05 11:32:02

North and South Korea will hold official talks next week for the first time in more than two years after Pyongyang accepted Seoul’s offer for dialogue, just hours after the United States and Sou...

'Bomb cyclone' grounds over 4,000 flights at NYC airports

'Bomb cyclone' grounds over 4,000 flights at NYC airports

FE Online Desk 2018-01-05 03:04:03

A powerful winter storm grounded more than 4,000 flights and halted operations at New York City airports Thursday. New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and LaGuardia Airport suspended fli...

Trump threatens ex-ally Bannon with legal action

Trump threatens ex-ally Bannon with legal action

Reuters 2018-01-05 02:21:57

President Donald Trump’s lawyer said on Thursday he would try to stop publication of a book that portrays an inept president in a fumbling White House and threatened legal action against former...

Trump berates ex-aide Bannon

Trump berates ex-aide Bannon

-- 2018-01-04 12:32:05

Former White House aide Steve Bannon "lost his mind" after he lost his job, US President Donald Trump has said. The president disavowed Bannon after he was quoted in a new book describing a meeting b...

Americans should worry about Kim's mental fitness : White House

Americans should worry about Kim's mental fitness : White House

-- 2018-01-04 12:00:00

The White House on Wednesday defended Donald Trump’s tweet about the size of his nuclear button, saying Americans should be concerned about the North Korean leader’s mental fitness, not th...

Ex-mayor, son shot dead in Mexico

Ex-mayor, son shot dead in Mexico

-- 2018-01-04 11:47:20

A former mayor and his son have been killed in central Mexico, adding to an uptick in murders of politicians ahead of national elections later this year. Miguel Angel Licona, 76, a former mayor of th...

‘Bomb cyclone’ slams US, bringing temps down

‘Bomb cyclone’ slams US, bringing temps down

-- 2018-01-04 03:39:18

A severe winter storm is hitting the eastern US, extending a cold snap that has already claimed 11 lives. Forecasters say a severe pressure drop will lead to an explosive winter storm along the easte...

Dozens die as bus plunges off Peru cliff

Dozens die as bus plunges off Peru cliff

-- 2018-01-03 12:00:00

At least 36 people were killed in Peru on Tuesday when a bus collided with a truck and careened off a cliff along a sharply curving highway north of the capital, Lima, the country’s health minis...

Trump threatens to cut off Palestine aid

Trump threatens to cut off Palestine aid

-- 2018-01-03 11:16:11

US President Donald Trump has said in tweets that the United States may withhold future aid payments to Palestinians, accusing them of being “no longer willing to talk peace” with Israel....

Trump plans awards for fake news!

Trump plans awards for fake news!

-- 2018-01-03 04:38:53

US President Donald Trump plans to present awards for dishonesty and poor reporting in the media. The ‘THE MOST DISHONEST & CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR’ will be presented at 5pm...

Pakistan summons US envoy over Trump tweet

Pakistan summons US envoy over Trump tweet

-- 2018-01-02 12:41:33

Pakistan summoned US ambassador in Islamabad late Monday and lodged protest over US President Donald Trump's tweet in which he doubted Pakistan's role against terrorism, according to local reports. U...

Venezuelan soldier held over killing pregnant woman

Venezuelan soldier held over killing pregnant woman

-- 2018-01-02 11:20:07

A Venezuelan soldier who shot dead a pregnant woman on Christmas Eve has been arrested. Alexandra Conopoi, 18, was killed as she waited for subsidised pork that the government had promised to million...

Brazil prison violence claims lives of nine

Brazil prison violence claims lives of nine

-- 2018-01-02 10:36:16

Nine inmates were ikilled, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil’s continuing difficulties maintaining con...

Bronx fire injures 16, four critical

Bronx fire injures 16, four critical

-- 2018-01-02 09:37:39

The Fire Department of New York says 16 people are hurt, four of them seriously, in a fire raging through a Bronx building. Officials say over 200 firefighters have responded to the blaze at a four-s...

Mexico car crash kills 10

Mexico car crash kills 10

-- 2018-01-01 12:00:00

Several US citizens were among 10 people who died in a car crash and subsequent fire on the southwestern coast of Mexico near tourist hot spot Acapulco, the US State Department said on Sunday. Two ot...

10 US tourists die in Costa Rica plane crash

10 US tourists die in Costa Rica plane crash

-- 2018-01-01 10:31:38

A Costa Rican plane crashed into woodland off a popular tourist beach on Sunday, killing 10 US citizens and two local pilots, the Costa Rican government said. The accident occurred in the mountainous...

Maduro jacks up minimum wage 40pc

Maduro jacks up minimum wage 40pc

-- 2018-01-01 02:50:11

Venezuela is set to raise its minimum wage by 40 per cent, in a move expected to worsen already high levels of inflation. The country is suffering from an economic crisis in which shortages of food a...

US police kill man responding to a prank call

US police kill man responding to a prank call

-- 2017-12-31 11:51:08

A man has been arrested after an alleged "swatting" prank call led to police shooting dead a 28-year-old man. Andrew Finch was shot at his front door on 28 December in Wichita, Kansas. Police surrou...

Ten die in Mexico as cars, bike collide

Ten die in Mexico as cars, bike collide

-- 2017-12-31 09:49:27

Ten people died and two were injured in a car crash and fire on the southwestern Mexican coast near the tourist hot spot of Acapulco, the nation’s civil protection agency said on Saturday. Two...

Child playing with stove causes fatal New York fire

Child playing with stove causes fatal New York fire

-- 2017-12-30 10:54:06

A 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building leaving 12 people dead, including four children on Friday. The toddler had a history...

New York City apartment fire kills 12

New York City apartment fire kills 12

-- 2017-12-29 12:00:00

Twelve people were killed, including an infant, and four were critically injured on Thursday in a fire in an apartment building in New York City’s borough of the Bronx, said Mayor Bill de Blasio...

US singer files charges against ex-Trump aide

US singer files charges against ex-Trump aide

-- 2017-12-28 11:03:05

US President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski has been accused by a singer of slapping her buttocks without her consent at a party in November. Joy Villa, a vocal Trump...

Peru’s minister quits amid Fujimori pardon controversy

Peru’s minister quits amid Fujimori pardon controversy

-- 2017-12-28 10:40:04

Peru's culture minister, Salvador del Solar, has resigned amid continuing controversy over the president's decision to pardon the country's former leader, Alberto Fujimori. Fujimori was jailed for co...