SYDNEY :Australia on Monday said a “sophisticated state actor” had hacked the country’s main political parties and parliament, just weeks before a closely fought election. Prime Minister Scott Morrison told lawmakers that investigators looking into a hack of parliament computer...
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CARACAS : Venezuela on Sunday expelled five visiting European lawmakers, an act which opposition leader Juan Guaido branded “irrational” as his showdown with President Nicolas Maduro over the arrival of international aid intensifies. The members of the European Parliament were being...
HANOI : A senior North Korean official arrived in Hanoi on Saturday to check the final details of the second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, a source familiar with the matter said. Kim Chang-son, chief secretary of the North Korean Secretariat of the...
BEIJING : US and Chinese officials wrapped up days of trade talks in Beijing on Friday with plans to resume negotiations in Washington this week as the world’s top two economies try to smooth out their thorny trade dispute.
US President Donald Trump said the talks were going “extremely...
MUNICH : German Chancellor Angela Merkel drew lengthy applause Saturday for her spirited defense of a multilateral approach to global affairs and support for Europe’s decision to stand by a nuclear deal with Iran. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was not among the impressed, however, and he...
CARACAS : Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza confirmed Saturday that he has participated in two meetings with U.S. Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams to address the two countries’ relationship.
“We have held two meetings of which I can not give details because I...
ISLAMABAD : Pakistan on late Friday rejected Indian allegations of its involvement in a suicide attack in the Indian-controlled Kashmir that left 40 soldiers killed, local media reported. In a move against the “baseless allegations,” the Pakistani Foreign Ministry summoned Indian...
ABUJA : Nigeria’s electoral watchdog on Saturday postponed presidential and parliamentary elections for one week, just hours before polls were due to open. Polling had been due to start at nearly 120,000 polling units in Africa’s most populous nation at 0700 GMT, with a record 73...
CARACAS : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump is put by his advisors into a dead end regarding the situation in Venezuela. Trump has been put into an “alley without exit” by his advisors on Venezuela, he said. Maduro made the remarks...
ABUJA : Nigerian authorities said on Friday that 66 people were killed by unidentified gunmen in Kajuru area of the northern state of Kaduna on the eve of the country’s presidential election. State government spokesman Samuel Aruwan said in a statement that eight settlements were attacked...
