OSLO (Reuters) – The sequel to Walt Disney Co’s 2013 hit animated musical “Frozen” is generating excitement among indigenous Sámi people in northern Europe, whose culture the movie has taken inspiration from.
VALETTA, (Reuters) – One of Malta’s wealthiest men, Yorgen Fenech, was charged in a Valletta court today with complicity to murder in the car bomb killing of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s human rights prosecutor on Friday indicted another former top military official for genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the bloodiest phase of the Central American country’s 36-year civil war.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – A court in Suriname yesterday convicted President Desi Bouterse of murder for the execution of 15 opponents in 1982 following a coup to seize power, sentencing the man who has dominated the former Dutch colony’s recent history to 20 years in prison.
VALLETTA, (Reuters) – Malta’s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has told associates he plans to resign over the political and legal crisis stemming from the murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Times of Malta reported yesterday.
BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi announced his resignation yesterday after the country’s senior Shi’ite Muslim cleric urged lawmakers to reconsider their support for a government rocked by weeks of deadly anti-establishment unrest.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British police yesterday shot dead a man wearing a fake suicide vest who stabbed two people to death in London and wounded three more before being wrestled to the ground by bystanders, in what the authorities called a terrorist attack.
VALLETTA, (Reuters) – One day in the summer of 2017, Vince Muscat dropped his friend Alfred Degiorgio at the Busy Bee, a harbour-front café near Malta’s capital renowned for its pastries stuffed with ricotta cheese.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – Breaking a month-long lull in missile tests, North Korea fired two short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast yesterday in what appeared to be the latest try out of its new multiple rocket launchers, South Korea’s military said.
MALE, (Reuters) – Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for money laundering today – as dozens of his supporters gathered outside the courtroom saying his was innocent.
PORT NECHES, Texas, (Reuters) – Three workers were injured and residents of four towns were told to evacuate after explosions yesterday at a Texas petrochemical plant, the latest in a series of chemical plant accidents in the region.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera warned yesterday of the potential “irreparable harm” of a resurgence in violence that saw arson and looting attacks spike nationwide and the peso plunge to a new historic low.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian unions and student groups held their second national strike in less than week yesterday to honour a dead demonstrator and to protest rumored government economic plans, corruption and police violence.
(Jamaica Observer) Red Stripe is sounding the warning bell regarding its Project Grow initiative for the cultivation of cassava to use as a substitute for imported high-maltose syrup in the production of its various brewed products.
WINDHOEK, (Reuters) – Namibia has arrested its former justice minister on suspicion of receiving kickbacks from Iceland’s biggest fishing firm in a scandal that has cast a shadow over the ruling party as it faces its toughest challenge to date in an election on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee yesterday invited President Donald Trump to its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Dec.
VALLETTA, (Reuters) – A top aide to Malta’s prime minister resigned yesterday and was questioned by police investigating the murder of a prominent journalist, while two government ministers also stood aside in a widening scandal rocking the European Union’s smallest state.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terrorist groups for their role in trafficking narcotics and people, prompting a speedy request for talks by Mexico.