Workers wait for the launch of the first British built Honda Jazz family supermini to leave the production line at the Honda car plant in Swindon, western England. Max NASH / AFP Honda announced Tuesday it would shut a major plant in Britain, putting 3,500 jobs at risk as the auto manufacturer became the […]
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Back Guaido Or ‘Lose Everything’, Trump Tells Venezuela Military
President Donald Trump and Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guadio US President Donald Trump on Monday urged Venezuela’s military to accept opposition leader Juan Guaido’s amnesty offer, or stand to “lose everything,” as a crisis deepened over President Nicolas Maduro’s refusal to let in desperately needed humanitarian aid. Bringing in humanitarian aid is crucial to […]
Explosion Kills Policemen In Egypt
Egyptian riot police block access to the street where the body of a suicide bomber lay covered in a sheet behind al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo on February 19, 2019. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP An explosion in Cairo on Monday killed two policemen who were chasing a man believed to have targeted security staff near […]
Alleged murder: Danish is police’s prime suspect, says witness
A prosecution witness, Babashola Afolayan, yesterday told a Lagos High Court in Igbosere that its prime suspect in the murder of Nigerian singer Zainab Nielsen and her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Petra, is Peter Schau Nielsen, her Danish husband. Afolayan, a police inspector, testified before Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile in Nielsen’s trial following Zainab and Petra’s death on […]
British Teen Who Joined IS Gives Birth In Refugee Camp
(FILES) In this file handout photo taken on February 17, 2015 a video grab taken from CCTV, received from the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on February 23, 2015, shows Shamima Begum passing through security barriers at Gatwick Airport, south of London. Source: AFP A teenager who joined the Islamic State group in Syria but […]
Five Killed In US Mass Shooting
Police secure the area following a shooting at the Henry Pratt Company on February 15, 2019 in Aurora, Illinois. Five people were reported dead and 5 police officers wounded from the shooting. Scott Olson/Getty Images/AFP A US man being fired from his job shot dead five co-workers at a factory on the outskirts of […]
BREAKING: White House Confirms Trump Will Declare ‘National Emergency’ To Fund wall
White House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders arrives at a press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2018. NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP The White House confirmed on Thursday that President Donald Trump will declare a national emergency in an attempt to bypass Congress and get more funding for his Mexico […]
Trump To Declare ‘Emergency’ To Fund Border Wall – Top Republican
US President Donald Trump. MANDEL NGAN / AFP United States President Donald […]
Algeria’s President Bouteflika To Run For 5th Term
This file photo taken on November 23, 2017, shows Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika at a polling station in the capital Algiers during polls for local elections. Photo: RYAD KRAMDI / AFP Ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared he will seek a fifth term in April elections in a message published by state media Sunday after […]
US Seeks UN Draft Resolution Calling For Venezuela Elections
This combination of pictures created on February 09, 2019 shows the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido (L) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (R) delivering speeches in Caracas on February 8, 2018. Juan BARRETO, Federico PARRA / AFP The United States has presented a draft resolution at the United […]