TEHRAN: The deputy chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards has warned Europe against forcing the Islamic Republic into boosting the range of its missiles by trying to halt their development. “If the Europeans, or anyone else, want to conspire to disarm Iran of missiles, we will be...
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RIO DE JANEIRO : The death toll from the collapse of a tailings dam in Brazil’s southeastern state of Minas Gerais climbed to 121, with 226 still missing, the state’s fire department said Saturday. A total of 192 people were rescued, while another 395 whose whereabouts had been...
CARACAS : Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro visited the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB) here on Friday, where he called for strengthening intelligence and preventive work. “We must improve and strengthen intelligence systems, the intelligence of the Bolivarian...
CARACAS : Venezuela’s US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido prepared Friday to crank up the pressure on embattled President Nicolas Maduro with a massive weekend protest to push for early elections as Washington warned the socialist leader had run out of time for negotiations.
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WASHINGTON : President Donald Trump is the latest chief executive to deliver a State of the Union address at a time of turmoil. But others may have had it even worse. Abraham Lincoln delivered a written report during the Civil War, Richard Nixon spoke while embroiled in the Watergate scandal and...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka is negotiating a $1 billion loan from China to construct a highway linking the capital Colombo to the hilly resort city of Kandy, even as the heavily-indebted South Asian island nation makes arrangements to pay down $5.9 billion in foreign loans this year.
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GUATEMALA CITY : A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook Mexico and Guatemala on Friday, leaving three people injured and causing infrastructure damage, authorities said.
The quake struck near the Mexico-Guatemala border, 37 kilometers (23 miles) southwest of Ciudad Hidalgo, in the Mexican state of...
MEXICO CITY : Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador declared the country’s war on drugs over Wednesday, saying his government would no longer prioritize using the army to capture cartel kingpins.
However, critics questioned the announcement, pointing out that the leftist president...
CHICAGO : A brutal cold wave hit the American Midwest on Wednesday, bringing temperatures lower than those in Antarctica, grounding flights, closing schools and businesses — and raising fears of hypothermia. Mail deliveries were suspended and people encouraged to stay home in nearly a dozen...
GUIYANG : Altogether 670,000 people living in remote and poverty-stricken areas in southwest China’s Guizhou Province will be relocated to more developed communities in 2019, the provincial authorities said at the ongoing annual session of the provincial People’s Congress Wednesday.
The...
