ALGIERS (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Algerians packed central Algiers to capacity on Friday to challenge President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s 20-year-old rule in the biggest protests in the capital in 28 years. While the demonstrations were mostly peaceful, police used tear gas to block the road to the presidential palace and also used it in […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will not use force to deliver humanitarian aid to Venezuela, President Donald Trump’s special representative for Venezuela said on Friday, after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s forces blocked aid convoys at the border last month. “The United States government has said that we will not use force to deliver that […]

So, we heard from Gerald Butts and it was pretty much what I had expected. He did his job and accepted responsibility for any miscommunication. He says during the later SNC-Lavalin discussions they did not know the final decision had been made and still thought it reasonable to offer what he calls “advice.” Related SNC-Lavalin […]

(Reuters) – The congressional testimony of Felix Sater, a former business associate of U.S. President Donald Trump who worked on a plan to build a Trump-branded skyscraper in Moscow, has been pushed back by two weeks to March 27, a congressional aide said on Friday. “Due to scheduling issues, the Committee has moved Mr. Sater’s […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would be disappointed if North Korea were to resume weapons testing and reiterated his belief in his good relationship with its leader, Kim Jong Un, despite the collapse of a summit with him last week. “I would be surprised in a negative way if […]

Follow our live blog at the bottom of this story.  Dennis Oland will be back on the stand today in what is expected to be his final day testifying about the death of his multimillionaire father. Crown prosecutors will question Oland about his last visit to Richard Oland on July 6, 2011, the day the […]

Much of Venezuela remained engulfed by darkness into early Friday amid one of the largest power outages in years, raising tensions in a country already on edge from ongoing political turmoil. The blackout hit 22 of 23 states by some accounts. It struck the capital Caracas, which until now has been spared the worst of […]

OXFORD, England (Reuters) – Eight years after the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in Japan, radioactive particles collected from the site are undergoing new forensic investigation in Britain in an effort to understand the exact sequence of events. A 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck on March 11, 2011, off the Japanese coast, triggering a tsunami that killed some […]

GRIMSBY, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May urged the European Union to make “just one more push” to break an impasse on Brexit before she tries to get parliament to back her deal next week. Lawmakers are due to vote on May’s Brexit plan for a second time on Tuesday, two months after […]

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police on Friday identified the suspected killer of a young rights campaigner, who fought for seven years for justice for five possible victims of so-called honor killings, as his nephew. Mohammed Afzal, 31, also known as Afzal Kohistani, was shot dead on Wednesday in the northwestern district of Abbotabad, area […]