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by Alexander Martinez The United States imposed new sanctions on crisis-hit Venezuela, targeting members of a controversial, all-powerful, loyalist assembly installed last week to bolster what Washington calls the “dictatorship” of President Nicolas Maduro. The measures were aimed at six members of the so-called Constituent Assembly — among them the brother of late president Hugo Chavez — as well as a military officer in charge of security for the body, and a board member of […]
by Maria Isabel Sanchez CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Venezuela braced for new protests Monday after a controversial election for an assembly to rewrite the constitution unleashed a wave of unrest that left 10 people dead. Opponents of embattled President Nicolas Maduro vowed another day of nationwide marches, defying an intensifying crackdown on protests that have left more than 120 people dead in four months. Flouting international condemnation — including the threat of new sanctions by United States President […]
NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — A top Indian diplomat said China is being unusually aggressive in a month-old border dispute with India that shows no sign of easing, media reports said Wednesday. Beijing has made virtually daily warnings to its neighbor over the deadlock on a remote Himalayan plateau, where Indian and Chinese troops have been locked in a tense face off. Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar told lawmakers in a closed briefing on the dispute that India wanted […]
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to end peace talks with communist rebels on Wednesday, hours after suspected guerrillas wounded five members of the two-vehicle Presidential Security Group (PSG) convoy in an ambush along a national highway in North Cotabato. Aides said Duterte, 72, was not in the convoy when gunmen opened fire on two Presidential Security Group vehicles along a highway on the main southern island of Mindanao, where martial law is in effect. […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – Amnesty International on Tuesday called for a commission to investigate crimes against civilians in Mosul by all sides in the battle to liberate the Iraqi city from jihadists. “The horrors that the people of Mosul have witnessed and the disregard for human life by all parties to this conflict must not go unpunished,” said Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East research at Amnesty International. “An independent commission must immediately be […]
by Omar Hasan Agence France-Presse KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AFP) – United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived Monday in Kuwait, the key mediator between Qatar and its Arab neighbors, for talks aimed at defusing the Gulf’s worst crisis in years. Tillerson will shuttle between Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia until Thursday in what is the first serious intervention by Washington in the Gulf crisis. He immediately held talks with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad […]
BENGHAZI, Libya (AFP) – Jihadists are still battling Libyan forces in Benghazi days after strongman Khalifa Haftar and his self-styled army declared victory in the eastern city, his forces said Sunday. Colonel Miloud Zwei, the spokesman for Haftar’s Libyan National Army, said the fighting persisted in the district of Soug al-Jarid, located between the central neighborhoods of Soug al-Hout and Al-Sabri, the jihadists’ last strongholds. Zwei said 20 LNA soldiers have been killed by […]
by Layal Abou Rahal Agence France-Presse BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – A ceasefire brokered by the United States, Russia and Jordan brought quiet Sunday to frontlines in southern Syria ahead of fresh UN-sponsored peace talks on the country’s six-year conflict. A monitor said clashes and shelling had halted in the three southern provinces covered by the truce, Daraa, Quneitra, and Sweida, as it went into effect at noon local time. The ceasefire deal was […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Dramatic images from Caracas on Thursday (July 06) as protesters and riot police faced off on the streets during heated protests against President Nicolas Maduro. Thursday’s protest saw officers of the National Guard trade tear gas with rocks from protesters. Young demonstrators wearing bandanas over their faces fled through the streets of the Venezuelan capital after police on motorcycles advanced on a blockade laid by demonstrators. The violent scenes come nearly […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – A day after an alleged coup attempt in Venezuela, tensions boiled over anew on the streets of Caracas on Thursday (June 29) as youth angry at President Maduro’s upcoming constituent assembly faced off with riot police. Thursday’s heated protest comes just one day after Maduro said the nation that is a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was the victim of a coup, feeding claims from the government that […]
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro said on Tuesday (June 27) a police helicopter had attacked the Supreme Court in a ratcheting up of Venezuela’s political crisis, but a grenade tossed at the building did not explode. Speaking on state TV, the 54-year-old president, who has faced three months of opposition protests and some dissent from within government ranks, said that special forces were after the “terrorists” behind the attack. The helicopter had also […]
SYRIA (Reuters) – The White House said on Monday (June 26) it appears the Syrian government is preparing for another chemical weapons attack. It warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad he and his military would “pay a heavy price” if it conducts such an attack. The White House statement said preparations by Syria were similar to those undertaken before an April 4 chemical attack that killed dozens of civilians and prompted President Donald Trump to order […]
