Category Archives: World News

• Mueller seeks over 19 years in prison for ex-Trump campaign chair Manafort

  admin February 16, 2019

  

  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 »

• Nigerian presidential election delayed over unspecified ‘challenges’

  admin February 16, 2019

  

  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 »

• Trump declares national emergency over funds to build U.S.-Mexico border wall

  admin February 15, 2019

  

  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 »

• Haiti to unveil economic measures to quell violent protests

  admin February 15, 2019

  

  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 »

• If Trump isn’t ‘happy’ about the border-wall deal, imagine how his voters feel

  admin February 15, 2019

  

  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 »

• Storm creates chaos in California with flooding, mudslides

  admin February 15, 2019

  

  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 »

• U.S. government funding bill passes Congress, ready for Trump’s signature

  admin February 15, 2019

  

  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 »

• Arab leaders downplay Israeli-Palestinian conflict in face of Iran concerns: leaked video

  admin February 14, 2019

  

  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 »

• Dozens of Zimbabwean miners feared dead after shafts flood

  admin February 14, 2019

  

  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 »

• William Barr confirmed as next U.S. attorney general, will oversee Mueller probe

  admin February 14, 2019

  

  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 »