MADRID/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Spanish police yesterday arrested Hugo Carvajal, a former head of Venezuelan military intelligence, who Washington believes has a “treasure trove” of details he is willing to share about Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
(Reuters) – Chevron Corp doubled down on its bet on surging U.S.
(Trinidad Express) men, including two Venezuelan nationals, were killed following a police involved shooting incident early yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) Police were last evening at the scene of a massacre in Toco where a Chaguanas man is suspected to have killed his two children, his wife and then himself.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday defended sanctions on Venezuela and said the United States would not “quit the fight” in the socialist-run Latin American nation which is spiraling into deepening economic and political crisis.
(Reuters) – Chevron Corp today said it will buy Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock to bolster its position in shale oil and the liquid natural gas (LNG) market with the biggest industry merger since Royal Dutch Shell bought BG Group in 2016.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was overthrown in a military coup yesterday, but protesters’ jubilation was short-lived as they took to the streets demanding military leaders hand over power to civilians.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British police dragged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange out of Ecuador’s embassy yesterday after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis, in a dramatic gesture after an unprecedented retreat at the Vatican, knelt to kiss the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring leaders yesterday as he urged them to not return to a civil war.
KHARTOUM, (Reuters) – President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled Sudan in autocratic style for 30 years, was today overthrown and arrested in a coup by the armed forces.
LONDON, (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested by British police and carried out of the Ecuadorean embassy today after his South American hosts abruptly revoked his seven-year asylum in a move his supporters said was illegal.
JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured a clear path to re-election yesterday, with religious-rightist parties set to hand him a parliamentary majority and his main challenger conceding defeat.
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian judge ordered the arrest of former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski yesterday while also authorizing a search of several properties as part of a probe into a bribery scheme linked to scandal-plagued Brazilian builder Odebrecht.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s oil output sank to a new long-term low last month due to U.S.
TRIPOLI, (Reuters) – Eastern-based forces battled troops loyal to the Tripoli government in the outskirts of Libya’s capital yesterday as thousands of residents fled the fighting.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – A Roman Catholic bishop in Nicaragua who has been a sharp critic of the government of President Daniel Ortega said he had been the target of an assassination plot last year and that Pope Francis had invited him to relocate to Rome.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw the crushing of Tamil Tiger rebels under his brother Mahinda Rajapaksa’s rule a decade ago, is being sued in two cases in the United States for his alleged role in torture and murder, according to a lawyer and court documents.
MUMBAI/BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Early this year, a dozen of Bollywood’s biggest names took a private jet from India’s film capital of Mumbai to New Delhi for a private audience with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(Trinidad Express) Two brothers yesterday appear-ed before a Sangre Grande magistrate charged with the shooting death of 17-year-old Isaiah Deshawn Hitlal earlier this year.
(Trinidad Guardian) A self-confessed panty thief was sent to prison for four years yesterday after eluding officers for almost a year.
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