Category: World

A member of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards was killed and five wounded in an armed attack in the restive southeast on Saturday, the official IRNA news agency reported. The attack took place in Sistan-Baluchistan province, long a flashpoint, where separatists carry out cross-border raids. The assailants struck a base of the Basij militia in the town of […]

Sri Lanka is negotiating a $1 billion loan from China to construct a highway linking the capital Colombo to the hilly resort city of Kandy, even as the heavily-indebted South Asian island nation makes arrangements to pay down $5.9 billion in foreign loans this year. Finance Ministry spokesman M.R. Hasan on Saturday said that he’s […]

A powerful storm descending on California on Saturday threatened flooding in the entire San Francisco Bay Area and areas stripped bare by devastating wildfires. The storm that began moving in on Friday night was expected to bring up to four inches of rain in some areas, winds gusting to 80 mph in the mountains, 10-foot […]

Venezuelan authorities have detained five foreign journalists covering the standoff with opposition forces seeking the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. Two others, from Chile, were deported as the crisis spilled over to hit journalists covering the oil-rich but economically crippled nation’s latest taste of crisis. Two of the detained are from France, two from Colombia […]

Pakistan on Thursday rejected allegations in a United States threat assessment report that it provides safe haven to militant groups, warning that such “controversial statements will be counterproductive and have the potential to adversely affect the peace and stability of the region”. Earlier this week, US Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats presented a threat assessment report for 2019 to the […]

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn slammed his ongoing detention on Thursday, telling AFP and a French newspaper the decision to refuse him bail “would not be normal in any other democracy”. “Why am I being punished before being found guilty?” Ghosn asked, speaking to AFP and the Les Echos daily in his first interview with foreign media since his shock November 19 […]

A torrent of muddy mining waste unleashed by a dam breach, that killed at least 84 people in southeastern Brazil, is now heading down a small river with high concentrations of iron oxide, threatening to contaminate a much larger river that provides drinking water to communities in five of the country’s 26 states. The release of […]

Detained auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn believes his arrest and the charges against him are the result of a “plot and treason” at his former employer Nissan, he told the Nikkei newspaper on Wednesday. The Japanese business daily quoted Ghosn as saying he had “no doubt” that the charges against him were motivated by Nissan executives opposed to […]

Amnesty International on Wednesday urged online travel sites to ban listings from Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The London-based rights group’s report, titled “Destination: Occupation,” said rental sites Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor are driving tourism to settlements that most of the world considers illegal. Airbnb announced last November that it would remove […]