After months of simmering tensions amid political uncertainty, abrupt change may be about to come to Venezuela. Opposition leader and self-declared interim President Juan Guaido today announced he was in the “final phase” of ending President Nicolas Maduro’s rule in a short video posted online. Speaking in front of a group of what looked like […]

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has testified before US Congress in response to the privacy scandal engulfing his social network. Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has admitted making mistakes, as he gave nearly five hours of testimony before US Congress on Tuesday, in the first of a two-day congressional hearing into the data […]

MADRID (Reuters) – The leader of the Ciudadanos party, Spain’s third-biggest after Sunday’s national election, said on Tuesday he would not block major international or terrorism-related legislation in parliament. Albert Rivera, whose party won 57 seats in the 350-seat parliament, a substantial jump from the 32 it had in the previous legislature, is jockeying with […]

The French President’s latest attempt to quash the Yellow Vest movement, which has been gripping the Government for months, will likely infuriate the eurosceptic Lega-Five Star Movement’s coalition in Rome, an economist said. Mr Macron has announced a series of economic manoeuvres to decrease social tensions within the country, including income tax cuts totalling (€5bn) […]

Following deaths of kidnapped journalists, rebels by splinter FARC group also abduct Ecuadorian couple, government says. Ecuador’s government says it has received a video showing a couple taken hostage by a dissident rebel group operating on the country’s border with Colombia. The announcement on Tuesday came five days after Ecuadorian authorities said that two kidnapped […]

At least 21 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since they started Land Day protests last Friday. An Israeli air raid killed another Palestinian protester near the Gaza Strip’s border on Thursday, Palestinian health officials said. Earlier, a Palestinian wounded during last Friday’s Land Day protests died of an injury sustained after being shot […]

PINGLAN, India/SRINAGAR (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indian soldiers descended on the picturesque village of Pinglan, which is surrounded by south Kashmir’s apple and apricot orchards, just before midnight on February 17. By the time they left 18 hours later, one civilian, three armed militants, and five members of the security forces were dead, a row […]

Zimbabwe’s government says it’s broke and needs direct foreign investment to improve infrastructure. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa is in China seeking investments that his administration believes could help the country’s struggling economy. Mnangagwa has met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing where the two sides have signed a range of business deals. Economists say that […]

More than 500,000 people have died and millions more have fled their homes since an uprising against Assad began. The leaders of the US, France, and UK have all but made clear that the air strikes launched on Saturday against Syrian government positions were limited to destroying the country’s chemical weapons capacity. That means for […]

The agreement reached between Jaish al-Islam and Russia is expected to see fighters evacuate to northern Syria. Jaish al-Islam, the last remaining rebel group in Eastern Ghouta, has agreed to leave its holdout in Douma for an opposition-held area in northern Syria, according to opposition negotiators and the Russian foreign ministry. The deal came a […]