World

OSLO,  (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize today for his peacemaking efforts which ended two decades of hostility with longtime enemy Eritrea.

ISTANBUL/ANKARA,  (Reuters) – Turkey pounded Kurdish militia in northeast Syria for a second day yesterday, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee and killing at least dozens of people in a cross-border assault on U.S.

JOHANNESBURG,  (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday sanctioned the three Gupta brothers at the centre of the South African corruption scandal that contributed to the downfall of former President Jacob Zuma, saying they had misappropriated state assets.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who have helped President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani investigate political rival Joe Biden were arrested in a scheme to illegally funnel money to a pro-Trump election committee and other U.S.

KIEV,  (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said yesterday  he would be ready to open a probe into any Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S.

STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Austrian writer Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature yesterday  and Polish author Olga Tokarczuk was named as the 2018 winner after a sexual assault scandal led to last year’s award being postponed.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two-thirds of bird species in North America, already disappearing at an alarming rate, face extinction unless immediate action is taken to slow the rate of climate change, the National Audubon Society said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Two foreign-born Florida businessmen who have been helping President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer investigate political rival Joe Biden have been arrested on charges of funneling foreign money to U.S.

STOCKHOLM,  (Reuters) – Austria’s Peter Handke won the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the postponed 2018 award went to Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, the Swedish Academy said on today.

AKCAKALE, Turkey,  (Reuters) – Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies attacked Kurdish militia in northeast Syria yesterday, pounding them with air strikes and artillery before starting a cross-border ground operation that could transform an eight-year-old war.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Masked youths battled Ecuadorean security forces during indigenous-led protests and a national strike yesterday as President Lenin Moreno stuck by austerity measures that have triggered the worst unrest in a decade.

(Reuters) – The United States and China made no progress in deputy-level trade talks held on Monday and Tuesday in Washington, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) said, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the meetings.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – During a high-level meeting at Ethiopia’s foreign ministry in July, officials were shocked by social media reports that their prime minister was visiting Eritrea.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno yesterday ordered a curfew around government buildings after six days of violent anti-austerity protests that have pushed his administration out of the capital Quito and brought hundreds of arrests.

ROME,  (Reuters) – Italy’s parliament voted yesterday to cut the number of elected lawmakers by more than a third, approving a reform championed by the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement that could profoundly impact the political landscape.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it would refuse to cooperate with a “baseless, unconstitutional” congressional impeachment inquiry, setting Republican President Donald Trump on a collision course with the Democratic-led U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Johnson & Johnson must pay $8 billion in punitive damages to a man who previously won $680,000 over his claims that it failed to warn that young men using its antipsychotic drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a Philadelphia jury said yesterday.

(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a new rebellion from his cabinet over concerns of a no-deal Brexit, with a group of cabinet ministers poised to resign, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

NUR-SULTAN,  (Reuters) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev today ordered an investigation into former senior officials who initiated a struggling $1.5 billion Chinese-led project to build a light rail network in the capital.

WASHINGTON/ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday launched a harsh attack on NATO ally Turkey, threatening to destroy its economy if Ankara takes a planned military strike in Syria too far, even though the U.S.