LONDON (AP) — British police on Thursday hauled a bearded and shouting Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy where he was holed up for nearly seven years, and the U.S. charged the WikiLeaks founder with conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to get their hands on government secrets. Police arrested Assange after the […]Read More
The closure would disrupt border crossings, threatening trade worth billions of dollars. Mr Trump’s threat follows a surge in migrants travelling through Mexico to seek asylum in the US. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he would not be drawn into confrontation on the issue. US-Mexico border ‘at breaking point’ Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard […]Read More
The United States and Nigeria have stepped up efforts to curb illicit maritime activities including piracy in the Gulf of Guinea with the ongoing 2019 Obangame Express in Lagos. The International Maritime Bureau, in its global piracy report released in January, said it recorded a “marked rise in attacks against ships and crews around West […]Read More
Bangladesh has told the United Nations Security Council it cannot take any more refugees from Myanmar, some 18 months after more than 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border amid a brutal military crackdown. Attacks on security posts by Rohingya fighters in Myanmar’s Rakhine state triggered the violence that the UN, the United States, Britain and […]Read More
The US government is offering $1m (£755,000) for help tracing the son of the late al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The state department said the reward would be paid for help locating Hamza bin Laden in any country as part its “rewards for justice” programme. The statement said bin Laden’s son, who was named a […]Read More
US President Donald Trump’s account of why the summit with Kim Jong Un collapsed, insisting Pyongyang demanded only partial sanctions relief in exchange for shutting down its main nuclear complex. The North’s state media said on Friday the second Trump-Kim summit helped deepen “mutual respect and trust” between the countries as they work towards resolving […]Read More
The US House of Representatives has approved a bill expanding background checks for all gun sales, including those at gun shows and on the internet. The legislation is the most significant gun control measure to make progress in Congress in more than two decades. The Democratic-controlled House passed it by 240 votes to 190. The […]Read More
The State Department refused more than 37,000 visa applications in 2018 due to the Trump administration’s travel ban, up from less than 1,000 the previous year when the ban had not fully taken effect, according to agency data released on Tuesday. The United States denies nearly four million visa applications a year for a variety […]Read More
President Donald Trump has departed Vietnam hours earlier than scheduled after failing to reach an agreement during his second nuclear summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. The US leader said he “walked away” from talks with Kim after it was clear the two sides remained at odds in talks over ending the North’s nuclear […]Read More
The nuclear summit between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to reach a deal due to a standoff over U.S. sanctions on the reclusive nation, a stunning end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global threat. Trump, in a news conference after the abrupt […]Read More
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