Category: World News

From Reuters Top News:   LONDON (Reuters) – Mining giant Glencore has bought 200,000 tons of aluminum on the London Metal Exchange and will take delivery of the metal from warehouses owned by ISTIM UK in Port Klang, Malaysia, five sources familiar with the matter said. FILE PHOTO: The logo

From The Guardian World:   Islamic State US woman who fled Isis after being vocal proponent ‘could be useful to protect others’ Play Video 0:32 Exclusive: US woman who ‘deeply regrets’ joining Isis wants to come home – audio The lawyer for Hoda Muthana, the US woman who fled Islamic

From Google World News:   The commander of U.S.-aligned Syrian forces wants as many as 1,500 U.S. service members to remain in the country to assist with operations against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Reuters reports that Mazloum Kobani, commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), told

From BBC World News:   Artist Ai Weiwei has accused the producers of a film he worked on of cutting his part because they didn’t want to upset the Chinese authorities. Ai directed a segment of Berlin I Love You – but his “episode” didn’t end up in the finished

From Reuters Top News:   RALEIGH, N.C. (Reuters) – An investigation of a disputed 2018 congressional contest in North Carolina has uncovered a “coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced absentee ballot scheme,” the state’s elections board executive director said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Mark Harris, Republican candidate from North Carolina’s 9th

From The Guardian World:   UK news Ieuan Harley stabbed Gaut over 150 times in Gaut’s neighbour’s flat in south Wales in August CCTV footage of Ieuan Harley, 23, on the day of the murder of convicted child killer David Gaut. Photograph: Gwent Police/PA Wire A man has been found

From Reuters Top News:   BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has promised European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that he will not impose additional import tariffs on European cars for the time being, Juncker was quoted in a published interview as saying on Monday. FILE PHOTO: European Commission President

From Google World News:   Five Americans in Haiti have been arrested and are being held on conspiracy charges, according to a report published Monday. It’s not clear when the five unnamed U.S. citizens were taken into custody. Two other foreign nationals and one Haitian were also arrested, Haitian foreign

From The Guardian World:   Minnesota Minnesota investigators used genealogy website in case of Jeanne Ann Childs’ 1993 death Jeanne Ann ‘Jeanie’ Childs was found dead in Minneapolis in 1993. Photograph: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images A Minnesota businessman has been charged in a 25-year-old murder case, after investigators ran crime scene

From Al Jazeera:   President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses supporters during an election rally on Saturday in Istanbul [Umit Bektas/Reuters] President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused NATO allies of supporting “terrorists” with thousands of truckloads of weapons, while ignoring Turkey’s request to purchase their arms. “What kind of NATO alliance is this?”

From Google World News:   China’s government accused the Trump administration of “fabricat[ing]” reasons to stifle the country’s economic growth on Monday after Vice President Pence called a top Chinese technology company a security threat to the U.S. ABC News reports that a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry took aim

From The Guardian World:   Australian trade unions CFMMEU district president Stephen Smyth says union will back candidates who support workers’ rights The CFMMEU’s stance highlights that a transition away from coal will most significantly affect blue-collar workers in regional areas. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP The mining arm of the Queensland

From BBC World News:   Two former air force pilots have gone on trial in France almost six years after 26 suitcases stashed with cocaine were found on board their plane in the Dominican Republic. The two Frenchmen, Pascal Fauret and Bruno Odos, were arrested and sentenced in the Caribbean

From Google World News:   Who are the ‘South Bank seven’? And what might they do next? In a boiling hot, cramped room in a swish venue on the south bank of the Thames this morning, a small group of MPs made a big statement. Luciana Berger, Chris Leslie, Chuka

From The Guardian World:   Movies Swiss actor best known for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler in the 2004 film Downfall Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler in Downfall. Photograph: Constantin Film/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock The Swiss actor Bruno Ganz, who has died aged 77 from cancer, was a wise and contemplative presence, as

From Al Bawaba:   Zinedine Zidane Zinedine Zidane is interested becoming manager of Chelsea, providing the club can give him certain assurances. Current manager Maurizio Sarri is under mounting pressure after what has been a difficult season and Zidane is keen to talk to the club about coming in to

From Al Jazeera:   Former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni warned ‘democracy is in danger’ [Ammar Awad/Reuters] One of Israel’s most prominent politicians, former foreign minister Tzipi Livni, said on Monday she was leaving politics after two decades and warned “democracy is in danger”. A former peace negotiator with the

From Reuters Top News:   CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago police have shifted the direction of their investigation into actor Jussie Smollett’s report of a hate-crime assault and are seeking to interview him again, after releasing two men detained for questioning in the probe, a police spokesman said on Saturday. Smollett,

From Google World News:   OSLO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not saying whether or not he nominated Donald Trump for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but the question may be moot: the U.S. president has been put forward by others for the prestigious award. FILE PHOTO

From Reuters Top News:   OSLO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not saying whether or not he nominated Donald Trump for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, but the question may be moot: the U.S. president has been put forward by others for the prestigious award. FILE PHOTO

From The Guardian World:   UK news Teenager accused of murder of six-year-old Googled ‘how do police find DNA’, court told Tributes to Alesha MacPhail, whose body was found in woodland on the Isle of Bute. Photograph: John Linton/PA A phone belonging to a teenager accused of the abduction, rape

From BBC World News:   A Swedish activist has been fined 3,000 krona ($324; £251) for trying to stop the deportation of an Afghan migrant. University student Elin Ersson booked what she thought was the same flight as the Afghan, refusing to sit down unless he was taken off the

From Al Jazeera:   An Israeli official said Netanyahu was interested in making a public visit to Morocco, similar to the one he made to Oman last year. [Sebastian Scheiner/Reuters] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held secret talks with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in September, US news website Axios

From BBC World News:   Cameroonian students and school staff who were kidnapped on Saturday have been freed, the Bishop of Kumbo has told the BBC. A total of 176 people, mostly students, were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen at Saint Augustin’s College in Kumbo, in the North West region of

From Al Jazeera:   Migingo island, Lake Victoria – A round rock crammed with corrugated metal shacks rises out of Lake Victoria right at the border between Kenya and Uganda. The deep waters that surround it are rich with fish. Migingo island covers less than half a football pitch but more

From Google World News:   A court in the Maldives has ordered the country’s former president be arrested on money laundering charges. The Associated Press reports that Yameen Abdul Gayoom was ordered detained by a court after prosecutors argued that he could potentially tamper with witnesses in the case if released.

From The Guardian World:   Japan Attempt to hustle Japan into a trade deal highlights the problems facing ‘global Britain’ Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt with Japan’s foreign minister Taro Kono. Photograph: Behrouz Mehri/AFP/Getty Images It takes a lot to anger the unfailingly polite, anglophile Japanese. But Liam Fox, the international