Obama Praises Colombia’s Peace Efforts With Rebels and Seeks Big Aid Increase
WASHINGTON — President Obama welcomed President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia to the White House on Thursday for a buoyant celebration of the $10 billion, 15-year American effort to help Colombia vanquish its violent drug cartels and end its festering guerrilla war. It was also a chance for tw...
Bafta: Queen director Singer suspended from nomination
Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been removed from his film's Bafta Awards nomi...
Kremlin warns US plan to quit nuclear pact is ‘dangerous’
Independent The Kremlin said yesterday that a landmark nuclear arms treaty that Washin...
Officials could negotiate with terrorists to free kidnapped Nigerian s...
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria's government still is open to negotiating with Boko Haram extrem...
The Latest: UN-sponsored Yemen talks wrap up in Sweden
The Latest on the U.N.-sponsored Yemen peace talks that are wrapping up in Sweden. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres are th...
Brumadinho dam collapse: ‘Little hope’ of finding missing in Brazil
About 300 people are missing after a dam collapsed at an iron ore mine in south-eastern Brazil, officials say. The break caused a...
Weather warning remains in place – with ‘risk of spot flooding and thunder’ in some areas
Temperatures will remain cool for the weekend ahead - but there is a return to slightly milder weather on the horizon. It's expec...
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un visits China’s Xi Jinping
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping...
US partial government shutdown becomes longest on record
The partial shutdown of the US government has become the longest on record, with still no end in sight to the political standoff. ...
‘Alone in the world’: Canada squeezed by superpowers in Huawei dispute
When Wenran Jiang heard the news that Canada had detained Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, he knew it spelled trouble. In an op-ed...
Super Bowl I star Willie Wood doesn’t remember his NFL career
Syria conflict: Trump ‘committed to defeating IS’, says Lindsey Graham
