WASHINGTON :President Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped a well-known World Bank critic to lead one of the world’s primary development lending institutions. David Malpass, a senior official in the Treasury Department, is a controversial choice but if Trump wins the support of a majority the...
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CARACAS : More than a decade ago, university students in Venezuela burst onto the political scene by rekindling opposition to then leader Hugo Chavez with street protests that led to the socialist firebrand’s only election defeat. Now, one of the more low-profile leaders of that drive, Juan...
MONTEVIDEO :An international meeting to negotiate a solution to the Venezuelan crisis was set to open Thursday in Montevideo as President Nicolas Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaido sparred over allowing humanitarian aid into the crisis-wracked country.
The European Union, eight other European...
LHASA : A total of 25 counties in Tibet Autonomous Region escaped poverty in 2018, the regional government said Wednesday. The counties are under the cities of Xigaze, Shannan, Nyingchi, Qamdo and Nagqu as well as Ngari Prefecture, according to the regional poverty alleviation headquarters.
The...
TOKYO : The Japanese government has ordered a veteran freelance journalist to surrender his passport to prevent him from going on a reporting trip to Yemen. 8The decision came amid debate in Japan about whether journalists should be prevented from going to war zones after the capture and release...
WASHINGTON :President Donald Trump urged Americans to come together Tuesday in a State of the Union speech seeking to turn the page on two years of divisive turmoil and transform him into a bipartisan national leader.
But opposition Democrats almost instantly rejected the overture, while...
CARACAS : Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has said he cannot rule out the possibility of civil war as pressure mounts on him to stand down. In a TV interview, he warned that US President Donald Trump would leave the White House “stained with blood” if he intervened in the...
ABU DHABI : Pope Francis, the first leader of the world’s 1.3 billion Catholics to visit the Arabian Peninsula, will attend an interfaith meeting in the UAE on Monday as part of his outreach to Muslims. The pope’s highly publicised 48-hour visit to the United Arab Emirates will also...
CARACAS : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday called on leaders of opposition parties to abandon “the road to U.S. intervention” and find a solution to the country’s political crisis. Speaking in front of thousands of supporters in the capital city of Caracas...
CARACAS : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Saturday proposed holding early elections for the National Assembly as a possible solution to the country’s political crisis. Maduro said before thousands of supporters who had gathered on Bolivar Avenue in Caracas that the government-controlled...
