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The injury to one of the yellow vest leaders could see protests lurch towards calamity and tragedy. The latest violence at the “yellow vest” demo in Paris where one of the leaders of the Gilets Jaunes was gravely wounded must act as a warning to both protesters, police and politicians, writes John Lichfield. Otherwise the […]

“I personally think it’s less than 50-50, but you have a lot of very good people on that board,” said President Donald Trump. | Alex Wong/Getty Images President Donald Trump said Sunday that there is a “less than 50-50” percent chance that congressional negotiators charged with solving the partisan impasse over his demand for a […]

© AP Photo/Fernando Llano MOSCOW, January 28. /TASS/. Moscow warns against interfering in the Venezuelan settlement, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, stressing that this position is Russia’s key assistance that it can provide now to Caracas. “It is most important now that Venezuelans themselves should settle all differences that can be between them in […]

Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Monday met in Ankara with Agnes Callamard, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial and arbitrary executions, to discuss the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Çavuşoğlu, Callamard and accompanying experts met at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Official Residence in the Turkish capital. The U.N. delegation is also expected to meet […]

 M The first bomb went off in or near the cathedral of Jolo, followed by a second blast outside the compound as government forces responded to the attack [Philippine army/AFP] President Rodrigo Duterte visited the southern Philippines where twin bomb blasts at a Roman Catholic cathedral killed at least 20 people and wounded more than 100. Duterte met top defence, military […]

In this Tuesday, June 7, 2016 file photo, a photographer reflected in a golf cart at the the Trump National Golf Club Westchester in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y. (AP Photo) A dozen immigrant workers at one of President Donald Trump’s golf clubs in New York who are in the U.S. illegally were fired this month even […]

‘MANILA, Philippines (Update 5, 3:51 p.m.) — At least 27 people were killed when two bombs hit a cathedral in Jolo, Sulu, a stronghold of Islamist militants, the military said Sunday, days after voters backed the creation of a new Muslim autonomous region. The first explosion occurred inside the Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at around 8:15 […]

Canadian Ambassador to China John McCallum said it “would be great for Canada” if the U.S. dropped it’s extradition request from Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.  (PAUL CHIASSON / THE CANADIAN PRESS FILE PHOTO) VANCOUVER—After his earlier comments on Meng Wanzhou drew calls for his firing, Canada’s ambassador to China is now arguing it would be “great” if the […]

Pompeo called for free and fair elections as soon as possible in a speech at the UNSC [Johannes Eisele/AFP] The US secretary of state has called on countries to “pick a side” on Venezuela, urging them to back opposition leader Juan Guaido and calling for free and fair elections as soon as possible in a speech at the […]

An aerial photo taken on Saturday by the Italian National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps shows the wreckages of a private plane (L) and of a helicopter in the northwestern Italian Alps. Photo: Mountain rescuer workers on Saturday recovered the bodies of two people, raising the death toll from a deadly collision between a helicopter […]