WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A day after he ordered the United States to scale back military exercises with South Korea and called North Korea “unthreatening and respectful,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his outreach. Trump’s relationship with Kim has received less White…
The president made the announcement during a speech commemorating the 1979 Sandinista revolution Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega said the Central American country would no longer hold elections, further closing off any potential path for the opposition to challenge the government he leads with his wife, Rosario Murillo. Ortega, Nicaragua’s longest-serving leader, has remained in power…
For decades, Iran has relied on the Strait of Hormuz as its most effective geopolitical weapon — a crucial energy chokepoint through which up to a third of the world’s oil is transported and about a fifth of its liquefied natural gas (LNG). Tehran’s immediate blockade of the transit route at the onset of the…
Barranquilla, Colombia — A flamboyant U.S.-backed lawyer who has never held public office narrowly won Colombia’s polarizing presidential runoff Sunday, swinging the country hard right and sparking violent protests. With almost all the ballots counted, Abelardo de la Espriella held 49.66% of the vote versus left-wing Senator Ivan Cepeda’s 48.70%. The 47-year-old’s slender win triggered…
On Friday evening, President Donald Trump announced that US forces had killed the head of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, in an air strike. In doing so, one of the hemisphere’s more notorious crime bosses was eliminated, and the Trump administration’s offensive against drug cartels and criminal groups claimed a…
WARSAW, June 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. will give Poland a new $4 billion loan from the Foreign Military Financing programme, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Thomas DiNanno said on Friday during the inaugural flight of F-35 jets bought from the U.S. DiNanno told PAP news agency the U.S. would offer…
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration’s latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean island, which is already facing fuel shortages and an economy in free fall. The fresh sanctions are set to be imposed on five entities as well as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife…
The U.S. has imposed new sanctions on Cuba in the Trump administration’s latest move to ramp up pressure on the Communist-led Caribbean island, which is already facing fuel shortages and an economy in free fall. The fresh sanctions are set to be imposed on five entities as well as Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel, his wife…
JOHANNESBURG, June 4 (Reuters) – South Africa will send envoys to other African countries and around the world after a spate of xenophobic attacks targeting immigrants from other nations on the continent, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday. Ramaphosa made the comments at a press conference after talks with his Kenyan counterpart William Ruto at…
The suspected perpetrator, a 31-year-old Swiss national, was arrested. The three victims of the attack were receiving hospital care, according to local police. A knife attack at a Swiss train station that left three people injured was an act of terrorism, police said on Thursday, after arresting a suspect who had previously been reported for…