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Tension was high in Haiti on Tuesday (January 19) as protesters took to the streets of Haiti’s capital to demand the suspension of a Jan. 24 presidential election over alleged irregularities. Haiti is due to hold a run-off vote backed by international donors on Sunday, but tensions have risen since opposition candidate Jude Celestin said last week he would withdraw, on grounds that electoral authorities favoured the ruling party. Swiss-trained engineer Celestin, 53, came second […]
U.S. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Republican front-runner Donald Trump will “get wiped out in the general election” at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York on Tuesday (January 19). “There’s the lack of seriousness, at least by the front-running candidate that, I wouldn’t know what his policies are, but when he doesn’t know what the nuclear triad is, that’s cause for pause,” Bush said. “Someone who proposes a 45 percent tariff […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Saudi Arabia on Monday (January 18) ahead of a trip to Iran. Sharif met Saudi King Salman and other Saudi officials in a bid to bridge the growing divide between Saudi Arabia Iran after the Sunni kingdom’s execution of a Shi’ite cleric sparked a bitter row. The Pakistani government has sought to avoid taking sides the escalating dispute between Saudi Arabia and its main rival Iran as it wrestles […]
The depreciation of the Chinese currency yuan will have little impact on the country’s economy, said Wang Bao’an, director of the National Bureau of Statistics, on Tuesday. “The depreciation of renminbi is triggered by two factors, both domestic and foreign ones. One of them is the appreciation of the U.S. dollar. That’s a practical reflection in China. The appreciation of the U.S. dollar brings about the depreciation of renminbi. I think the depreciation of renminbi […]
Four people were killed and several others injured on Sunday (January 17) when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the home of the director of security for the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, eyewitnesses and medics said. The four men killed were guards for Brigadier General Shalal Ali Shayyeh, who survived a car bomb attack on his convoy on January 4 amid an escalating wave of assassinations against security forces in the city. People […]
A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday (January 19), killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 20, officials said. The bomber rammed his motorcycle into the roadside checkpoint local government officials said. “During duty hours, a man arrived here either on a motorcycle or bicycle, he stopped the vehicle and blew himself up,” an unidentified policeman told Reuters Television. Among the dead were at […]
(Courtesy China Central Television) — At least 26 people have been killed and 20 others injured after fighter jets of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition attacked a police facility in Yemen‘s capital Sanaa on Monday morning. Rescuers at the airstrike site said the victims were mostly police officers working in the building. The death toll will probably rise as there are still people buried under the debris, according to rescuers. The Saudi-led coalition has been […]
A small group of Cuban migrants crossed into the United States on Sunday (January 17) after a month’s long journey through Central America and Mexico finally came to an end. The migrants arrived to the border city of Reynosa in northeastern Mexico near the border with Hidalgo, Texas. One of the migrants, Byron Rojas Arevalo, who arrived to Reynosa by plane, said a long and harrowing journey, which started in Ecuador, was finally coming to […]
Snow began falling across eastern and western Japan, including Tokyo, early on Monday (January 18) morning. Many commuters arrived at work late as trains were delayed and taxis in high demand. Train stations were also overcrowded. “Everyone got into work an hour late today so we had to start work late. This was slightly troublesome,” said Takeshi Nakamura, a company worker. Japanese media reported that the highest accumulation of snow in central Tokyo was at […]
Taiwan stocks rose 0.75 percent to 7720.13 points as of 0507GMT on Monday (January 18), after the Democratic Progressive Party’s Tsai Ing-wen won the presidential election over the weekend on the island. Tsai Ing-wen and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which is less friendly to China, won a convincing victory in both presidential and parliamentary elections on Saturday (January 16), in what could usher in a new round of instability with China, which claims self-ruled […]
Since the European Union and the United States on Saturday announced the lifting of their nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, members of the international community have been voicing their opinions about the historic event. The White House hailed the historic deal, saying it is the best solution available to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon without taking military action. “Now that Iran’s actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear […]
Three Iranian-Americans arrived in Germany after leaving Tehran on Sunday in a prisoner swap that followed the lifting of most international sanctions on Iran under a deal U.S. President Barack Obama said cut off Tehran’s path to a nuclear bomb. In a sign of sustained readiness to track Iranian compliance with remaining United Nations curbs, the United States imposed fresh sanctions on 11 companies and individuals for supplying Iran’s ballistic missile program. The Obama administration […]
