Category: World News

From Google World News:   A photo released by the Turkish Presidential Palace shows Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, with President Trump during the G20 summit in Buenos Aires earlier this month. Photo: murat cetinmuhurdar/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images 3 Comments By Dion Nissenbaum in Washington and Dion Nissenbaum The Wall

From BBC World News:   US President Donald Trump has named Mick Mulvaney, the director of the office of management and budget, as acting White House chief of staff. Mr Mulvaney, 51, replaces General John Kelly, who is leaving by the end of the year. In a tweet, Mr Trump

From Google World News:   CLOSE A federal judge has rejected former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopoulos’ last-ditch effort to delay serving his two week prison sentence. Veuer’s Angeli Kakade has the story. Buzz60 George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, talks to reporters after

From The New York Times:   (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. The special counsel’s office rejected a suggestion from Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, that he had been tricked into lying to F.B.I. agents investigating Russia’s

From Reuters Top News:   WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday said his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, would take over as White House chief of staff on a temporary basis after former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie abruptly withdrew from consideration for the post. FILE PHOTO: White House

From BBC World News:   An investigation has been launched after a seven-year-old girl died while in the custody of the US Border Patrol. The Guatemalan child, named as Jakelin Caal Maquin, was detained last week after crossing the US-Mexico border with her father, officials say. It was earlier reported

From The New York Times:   A fourth victim of the attack on the Christmas market in Strasbourg, France, was named on Friday, the morning after the French police shot dead the man accused of the rampage in the heart of the historic city. The suspect, Chérif Chekatt, 29, was

From Reuters Top News:   FILE PHOTO: White House budget director Mick Mulvaney gestures as he holds a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he would name Mick Mulvaney, the director

From Al Jazeera:   The biggest achievement of the trio is the creation of de-escalation zones, which they claim to have reduced the level of violence in the country [Mary Altaffer/AP Photo] The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will hold talks with high-level officials from Iran,

From Reuters Top News:   WASHINGTON/TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog will investigate the death of a 7-year-old Guatemalan migrant which occurred after she was detained by U.S. border agents, officials said on Friday. The Trump administration defended the treatment of the child,

From Reuters Top News:   (Reuters) – Outgoing Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker on Friday signed legislation that will weaken the powers of his newly elected Democratic successor, dismissing critics who called the move a last-minute partisan power grab. Democrats said the legislation and a similar set of pending measures

From Al Jazeera:   The war in Yemen began in late 2014 when Houthi rebels from the north took control of much of the country. Years of conflict have led to what the UN calls the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. The US Senate has now voted to end

From Google World News:   Ohio Rep. Warren Davidson introduced a bill that would the government to raise funds for the border wall with cryptocurrency. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash and iridi/iStock/Getty Images Plus. The Weirdest Part of This New Meat Allergy Is That We

From Google World News:   Predictably, the European Union is refusing to help British Prime Minister Theresa May. May was in Brussels on Friday attempting to win EU clarifications that would help her win parliamentary passage for her EU withdrawal deal. May has delayed a scheduled parliamentary vote on that

From Google World News:   An agreement between 200 nations at a major international climate change conference in Katowice, Poland, is taking longer than expected, even as scientists and activists push for yet more ambitious commitments to reduce emissions in the final days of the negotiations. The goal of the

From Reuters Top News:   (Reuters) – U.S. law enforcement officials on Friday were investigating a wave of hoax emailed bomb threats demanding bitcoin payment that caused worry but no damage in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Passengers stand outside King subway station after a bomb threat

From Reuters Top News:   (Reuters) – Wall Street’s three major indexes tumbled on Friday and the Dow confirmed a correction as weak data from China and Europe stoked fears of a global economic slowdown, while Johnson & Johnson shares were the biggest drag after Reuters reported the company knew

From Google World News:   Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday called the detention of two Canadians in China “unlawful” and said “they ought to be returned.” China’s arrests of the two Canadians — a diplomat and a businessman — come after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, the CFO of

From Reuters Top News:   WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn knew better than to lie to the FBI and does not deserve sentencing leniency because he was not warned that lying to federal agents was a crime, U.S. prosecutors said on Friday. FILE

From Google World News:   Enlarge this image North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at a ceremony in September marking 70 years since the nation’s founding. A beauty company in South Korea is selling Kim facial masks, prompting criticism. Ng Han Guan/AP hide caption toggle caption Ng Han Guan/AP Facial

From Google World News:   Ukrainian authorities have begun “large-scale persecutions” of Russian Orthodox clerics in the country, according to the church body’s Moscow-based leader. “Recently, the interference of the leaders of the secular Ukrainian state in church affairs has grown into a blatant pressure on the episcopate and clerics

From Al Jazeera:   The UK is due to leave the EU on March 29 next year, almost three years after 52 percent of Britons voted to leave the 28-member bloc [File: Getty Images] London, United Kingdom – Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said a week is a long

From The New York Times:   MONTREAL — One was a self-fashioned fixer in North Korea who had met that country’s enigmatic leader, Kim Jong-un, and drank Long Island iced teas with him on his private yacht. The other was an experienced diplomat and Sinophile who had spent years investigating

From Google World News:   CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s last nationally circulated anti-government newspaper published its final print edition on Friday amid unrelenting government pressure and paper shortages. El Nacional’s front page delivered a defiant tone, telling readers that becoming an exclusively online publication wouldn’t change its core mission of

From Google World News:   The vandalism was discovered Tuesday at the Herrlisheim Jewish cemetery hours before a gunman opened fire in Strasbourg’s Christmas market, killing four people and wounding 13. Police killed the suspect Thursday evening, authorities said. It’s not known whether the vandalism and the attack were connected.

From Al Jazeera:   Houthi fighters patrol a street in Hodeidah during a pro-rebels protest against the Saudi-led coalition [Abduljabbar Zeyad/Reuters] Sporadic clashes broke out on the outskirts of Yemen‘s Hodeidah on Friday, the first violence to hit the lifeline port city since a United Nations-brokered ceasefire was reached by