UPDATE: TRUMP ANNOUNCES 25% TARIFF ON COUNTRIES BUYING VENEZUELAN OIL
President Donald Trump said Monday he would levy a 25 percent tariff across the board on any country buying oil or gas from Venezuela, as...
WORLD NEWS: SOUTH KOREA AUTHORITIES DEPLOY CHOPPERS, TROOPS TO BATTLE WILDFIRE
South Korean authorities said Monday they would deploy dozens of helicopters and thousands of firefighters and soldiers as they struggle to control multiple wildfires in...
WORLD NEWS: IRAN SAYS OPEN TO INDIRECT NUCLEAR TALKS WITH US
Iran said on Monday it was open to indirect talks with the United States, after President Donald Trump had demanded negotiations for a new nuclear...
HEATHROW AIRPORT HAD ‘ENOUGH POWER’ TO STAY OPEN – UK GRID BOSS CONFIRMS
The head of the UK’s national grid has said there was “enough power” to keep Heathrow Airport running on Friday, after an electrical substation fire shuttered...
WORLD NEWS: LEBANON SAYS ONE DEAD AS ISRAEL RESUMES STRIKES ON SOUTH
Lebanon’s health ministry said one person was killed Sunday in an Israeli drone strike, a day after the most intense escalation since a November ceasefire...
TRUMP STRIPS BIDEN, HARRIS, TOP AIDES OF SECURITY CLEARANCE
US President Donald Trump made good Friday on a threat to revoke the security clearances of his predecessor Joe Biden, including Kamala Harris and several...
WORLD NEWS: GERMANY APPROVES €3 BILLION IN NEW UKRAINE MILITARY AID
Agency Report Germany on Friday approved three billion euros ($3.25 billion) in new military aid for Ukraine, just days before planned US-brokered talks with Moscow...
NEWS: ETHIOPIA SAYS MEGA-DAM WILL BE INAUGURATED WITHIN SIX MONTHS
Agency Report Ethiopia’s leader said Thursday that a contentious multi-billion-dollar mega-dam on the Blue Nile will be inaugurated “in the next six months”. The Grand...
US DIRECTOR ACCUSED OF SCAMMING NETFLIX OUT OF MILLIONS
Hollywood filmmaker Carl Rinsch was hired by Netflix to make a new science-fiction series. Instead, federal prosecutors say, he embezzled more than $11 million from...
WORLD NEWS: TRUMP CALLS FOR IMPEACHMENT OF US JUDGE OVER MIGRANT FLIGHTS
US President Donald Trump sharply escalated his conflict with the judiciary on Tuesday with a call for the impeachment of a federal judge who ordered...