CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities on Saturday denied Guatemala’s president-elect Alejandro Giammattei entry into Venezuela, where he was scheduled to meet with opposition leader Juan Guaido. Giammattei, a conservative who won the Central American country’s presidency in August, landed at … Read More
* US senators say danger of a ‘miscalculation’ is always there if tensions between Pakistan and India escalate * Call upon India to afford similar transparency as Pakistan offered them in Azad Jammu and Kashmir Prime Minister Imran Khan on … Read More
“Shmuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers; and the spirit of Hashem gripped David from that day on. Shmuel then set out for Rama.” I Samuel 16:13 (The Israel Bible™) Brazilian president Jair … Read More
Firefighters in the Brazilian Amazon basin state of Mato Grosso battle a forest blaze in the municipality of Sorriso The fires that burned through the Amazon rainforest last month sparked international outcry and offers of help, but as world leaders … Read More
The theme for this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) at Davos is ‘Globalization 4.0 – Shaping a global architecture in the age of the fourth industrial revolution’. That may sound like a daunting challenge for business and world leaders, but … Read More
Venezuelan soldiers took part in military exercises on the Colombian border on Sept. 10. (Johnny Parra/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) BOGOTA, Colombia — Thinking up ways our all-encompassing crisis could get even worse has become a grimly popular parlor game for Venezuelans. For years, … Read More
A pump jack stands at a Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) Petropiar facility in El Tigre, Venezuela, on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2018. State-owned PDVSA doesn’t publish statistics, but environmentalists and analysts keep seemingly endless lists of examples of wayward crude … Read More
Dorian lashes the Carolinas with driving rain and fierce winds after devastating the Bahamas and killing at least 30 people. An Isle of Palms resident clears the drain during Hurricane Dorian in South Carolina, USA on September 5, 2019. (AP) … Read More
KEY POINTS One “critically important” thing to a trade deal is unity from allies — and it is in the “self-interest” of Europe, Japan and others to work with the U.S. on those trade issues, he added, said former top White … Read More