ALGIERS (Reuters) – Thousands protested across Algeria on Tuesday, demanding immediate political changes a day after ailing President Abelaziz Bouteflika abandoned his bid for a fifth term in power but stopped short of stepping down. Huge crowds gathered in several cities and Ennahar TV reported workers began a strike that paralyzed operations at the Mediterranean […]

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Legally binding assurances on Brexit that Britain won from the European Union do not undermine the backstop or its application in avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Tuesday. British Prime Minister May signed up to three documents after last-ditch talks on Monday […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday. Hakeem Al Araibi, 25, left Bahrain in 2014 after he was accused of crimes committed during the Arab Spring protests […]

Boeing says it will deploy a software upgrade for the 737 MAX following the Ethiopian Airlines crash in which 157 people died. The company said it had been developing a flight control software enhancement for several months in the aftermath of the Lion Air Flight 610 disaster last year, when the airliner crashed into the […]

Venezuelans yesterday converged on a polluted river in Caracas to fill water bottles and held scattered protests in several cities as a growing sense of chaos took hold in a country where people have had little power, water and communications for days. A three-year-old girl with a brain tumour languished in a Caracas hospital, awaiting […]

Maria Wannop had a real case of the Mondays on the morning of March 11. She was sitting in her car in a downtown parking lot near 8 Street South and 3 Avenue around 8:30 a.m. when she heard something strange after a large vehicle passed by. “He was unloading some construction stuff and I […]

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Scientists have begun work cataloguing the marine life of the remote atolls of the Seychelles. Marine biologists on the Nekton mission are taking samples from the surface down to a depth of 500m. Sky News is filming the team and next week will broadcast a pioneering series of programmes – Deep Ocean Live – from […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday that Russia’s Rosneft was defying U.S. sanctions by buying oil from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and helping President Nicolas Maduro’s government. Speaking to reporters, Pompeo said Russia and Cuba had helped create the crisis in Venezuela. “Russia’s state-owned oil company, Rosneft, continues to […]