Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential campaign, could spend more than 19 years in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, prosecutors said Friday. Read more »
Nigeria’s electoral commission delayed the presidential election until Feb. 23, making the announcement a mere five hours before polls were set to open Saturday. It cited unspecified “challenges” amid reports that voting materials had not been delivered to all parts of the country. Read more »
Battling with one branch of government and opening a new confrontation with another, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Friday he’s declaring a national emergency to fulfil his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Read more »
After eight days of street violence that left at least seven people dead, the president of Haiti addressed the nation, rejecting protesters’ demands that he resign. Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump first floated the idea of proclaiming a national emergency over border security last month. Among voters in his base who want his border wall, the idea is catching on. Read more »
Waves of heavy rain pounded California on Thursday, trapping people in floodwaters, washing away a mountain highway, triggering a mudslide that destroyed homes and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. Read more »
Both houses of the U.S. Congress passed a government funding bill Thursday that would avert another shutdown — but that does not contain the $5.7 billion US Trump wanted for a border wall. It now needs the president’s signature ahead of a deadline of midnight on Friday to become law. Read more »
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office on Thursday released a video of a closed meeting in which senior Gulf Arab officials play down the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, defend Israel’s right to defend itself and describe Iran as the greatest threat to regional peace. Read more »
Hundreds of relatives, community members and others on Thursday sat on piles of soil and rocks or wandered around at a site in Zimbabwe where dozens of artisanal miners are feared dead after rains flooded mines while they were underground. Read more »
U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, William Barr, received the votes needed Thursday from the Senate for confirmation. Barr, who served in the same role under George H.W. Bush, will oversee the special counsel probe. Read more »