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Trump says sending troops to Venezuela ‘an option’

Trump says sending troops to Venezuela ‘an option’

-- 2019-02-04 10:41:41

US President Donald Trump said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down, while the troubled OPEC...

US sending 3,750 extra troops to border with Mexico

US sending 3,750 extra troops to border with Mexico

-- 2019-02-04 10:41:22

The Pentagon is sending 3,750 additional US forces to the southwest border with Mexico for three months to support border agents, the Department of Defense said on Sunday. The deployment will raise t...

Colombian military kills FARC dissident leader Rodrigo Cadete

Colombian military kills FARC dissident leader Rodrigo Cadete

-- 2019-02-03 11:54:07

The Colombian military says it has killed one of the leaders of a faction of FARC rebels who have refused to abide by the peace process. Rodrigo Cadete, 52, died in an operation in the southern Caque...

Amid mounting protests, Maduro seeks early parliament vote

Amid mounting protests, Maduro seeks early parliament vote

-- 2019-02-03 10:48:39

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed early parliamentary elections on Saturday, seeking to shore up his crumbling rule after a senior general defected to the opposition and tens of thousands t...

US governor apologises for racist yearbook photo

US governor apologises for racist yearbook photo

-- 2019-02-02 11:48:27

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has apologised after his 1984 medical yearbook page emerged, showing a photo featuring men in racist costumes. "I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear a...

US to announce suspension of compliance with Russia nuclear pact

US to announce suspension of compliance with Russia nuclear pact

-- 2019-02-01 20:46:58

The United States will announce plans to suspend compliance with a landmark nuclear pact with Russia, a move triggering a six-month clock that could lead to its withdrawal from the arms control accord...

Ghana faces US visa restrictions

Ghana faces US visa restrictions

Reuters 2019-02-01 10:53:58

The United States said on Thursday it was imposing visa restrictions on Ghana, accusing the African country of not cooperating in accepting its citizens ordered removed from the United States. US Sec...

Venezuela's Guaido courts Russia

Venezuela's Guaido courts Russia

-- 2019-02-01 10:44:21

Global jostling intensified on Thursday between countries that want Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in power and those trying to force him to resign, as opposition leader Juan Guaido made overture...

Who represents Venezuela?

Who represents Venezuela?

-- 2019-01-31 11:28:13

Three days after proclaiming himself Venezuela’s head of state, Juan Guaido wrote to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres asking for help in tackling the country’s urgent...

Polar vortex strikes US Midwest, causing multiple deaths

Polar vortex strikes US Midwest, causing multiple deaths

-- 2019-01-31 10:56:33

Cities are all but shutting down across the US Midwest as the region shivers in a deadly cold snap known as a polar vortex. At least seven people have been killed in several states as a result of the...

US lawmakers move to curb president's tariff power

US lawmakers move to curb president's tariff power

-- 2019-01-31 09:40:04

US lawmakers on Wednesday introduced legislation to limit the president’s power to levy import tariffs for national security reasons. The bills face an uncertain future but underscore bipartisa...

Afghanistan talks going well: Trump

Afghanistan talks going well: Trump

-- 2019-01-30 18:02:28

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that negotiations in Afghanistan are going well. Talks “are proceeding well,” Trump wrote on Twitter, reports Reuters. Earlier, US officials h...

Venezuela’s president Maduro rejects calls for snap election: RIA

Venezuela’s president Maduro rejects calls for snap election: RIA

-- 2019-01-30 14:20:24

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said calls to hold early presidential elections amounted to blackmail and that the countries calling for them must wait until 2025, Russia’s RIA news agency r...

Venezuela court slaps travel ban on Guaido, freezes assets

Venezuela court slaps travel ban on Guaido, freezes assets

Reuters 2019-01-30 10:13:27

Venezuela’s government struck back at self-declared interim president Juan Guaido on Tuesday, with the Supreme Court imposing a travel ban and freeze on his bank accounts despite a warning from...

Arctic air to turn two-thirds of US into ice box

Arctic air to turn two-thirds of US into ice box

-- 2019-01-29 18:49:52

Two-thirds of the continental United States will be a frozen ice box, as the so-called polar vortex of frigid arctic air spins across the US Midwest, clips the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and pushes...

Death toll mounts to 58 in Brazil dam collapse

Death toll mounts to 58 in Brazil dam collapse

-- 2019-01-28 13:49:53

Brazilian rescuers searched into the night on Sunday (local time) for hundreds of people missing after a burst mining dam triggered a deadly mudslide, as the death toll rose to 58 and was expected to...

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

Hotel wall collapses in Peru, killing 15

FE Report 2019-01-28 11:03:26

Fifteen people were killed at a wedding in Peru on Sunday after a wall at the hotel where the celebration was held collapsed under heavy rains, the head of Peru’s civil defence institute said....

Shootout in Mexico kills ten

Shootout in Mexico kills ten

Reuters 2019-01-28 10:53:57

Ten people were killed and two wounded in a shootout on Sunday between two armed groups in the southwestern Mexican state of Guerrero, the state government said. The gunfight occurred at around 3:00p...

US lifts sanctions on Putin ally's firms

US lifts sanctions on Putin ally's firms

Reuters 2019-01-28 09:59:49

US President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday lifted sanctions on aluminium giant Rusal and other Russian firms linked to oligarch Oleg Deripaska, defying a Democratic-led push in the US Congre...

US warns of response to Venezuela threats against diplomats

US warns of response to Venezuela threats against diplomats

-- 2019-01-28 09:35:02

The US has warned Venezuela that any threats against American diplomats or opposition leader Juan Guaidó will be met with "a significant response". National Security Adviser John Bolton said a...

Risk of new Brazil dam burst forces 24,000 to evacuate homes

Risk of new Brazil dam burst forces 24,000 to evacuate homes

-- 2019-01-27 18:58:41

Fire fighters called for the evacuation to higher ground of some 24,000 people from the Brazilian town hit by deadly mud flow from an earlier mining dam rupture, as a second dam threatened to collapse...

Maduro rejects international ultimatum to call election

Maduro rejects international ultimatum to call election

-- 2019-01-27 18:54:43

Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolas Maduro rejected an international ultimatum to call elections within eight days and said opposition leader Juan Guaido had violated the country’s con...

Death toll in Brazil dam burst climbs to 34

Death toll in Brazil dam burst climbs to 34

Reuters 2019-01-27 13:40:34

Brazilian rescue workers halted searches for the night on Saturday for hundreds of people missing and feared dead under a sea of mud after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, ki...

Canadian PM fires China envoy over Huawei remarks

Canadian PM fires China envoy over Huawei remarks

-- 2019-01-27 10:56:12

In an unprecedented move, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said he had fired his ambassador to China, who prompted a political furor with comments about Huawei’s high-profile e...

US asks world to 'pick a side' on Venezuela

US asks world to 'pick a side' on Venezuela

Reuters 2019-01-27 10:17:14

The United States has called on the world to “pick a side” on Venezuela and urged countries to financially disconnect from Nicolas Maduro’s government, while European powers signaled...

European leaders give Maduro ultimatum

European leaders give Maduro ultimatum

-- 2019-01-26 19:38:28

The leaders of Spain, Germany and France have warned Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro he must call elections within eight days - or they will recognise the opposition. Mr Maduro is under pr...

Brazil dam burst: nine bodies recovered, many still missing

Brazil dam burst: nine bodies recovered, many still missing

-- 2019-01-26 19:21:46

Brazilian rescue workers on Saturday searched for roughly 300 missing people after a tailings dam burst at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, amid faint hopes of finding many alive, three years after...

Trump ends shutdown, signs bill to reopen government

Trump ends shutdown, signs bill to reopen government

-- 2019-01-26 18:18:40

US President Donald Trump has yielded to political pressure to end the longest US government shutdown in history. After 35 days, he backed a deal to fund federal agencies for three weeks, but it incl...

Hundreds go missing after dam bursts at Brazil mine

Hundreds go missing after dam bursts at Brazil mine

-- 2019-01-26 10:39:45

Brazilian rescuers were searching for some 200 missing people after a tailings dam burst on Friday at an iron ore mine owned by Vale SA, the second major dam disaster involving the company in just ove...

Trump accepts deal to end US government shutdown

Trump accepts deal to end US government shutdown

-- 2019-01-26 10:02:25

President Donald Trump agreed under mounting pressure on Friday to end a 35-day-old partial US government shutdown without getting the $5.7 billion he had demanded from Congress for a border wall, han...