World

(NBC News) Kristoff St. John, an Emmy-winning star on the long-running soap opera ‘The Young and the Restless,’ was found dead at his Los Angeles home over the weekend, authorities said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The British government has signed an order to extradite Indian liquor and aviation tycoon Vijay Mallya, the UK’s Home Office said in a statement yesterday.

MADRID/PARIS, (Reuters) – Nine European nations joined the United States in recognising opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president today, heightening a global showdown over Nicolas Maduro’s socialist rule.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said military intervention in Venezuela was “an option” as Western nations boost pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to step down, while the troubled OPEC nation’s ally Russia warned against “destructive meddling.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Pentagon is sending 3,750 additional U.S. forces to the southwest border with Mexico for three months to support border agents, the Department of Defense said yesterday.

PARIS (Reuters) – A French court has rejected an urgent request by environmental groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth to deny oil and gas major Total permission to proceed with plans to drill off the coast of French Guiana.

(Reuters) – Grammy-nominated Atlanta-based rapper 21 Savage was arrested by U.S.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Major British businesses’ appetite to take on financial risk has fallen to its lowest level in nearly a decade due to fears of “the hardest of Brexits” and rising U.S.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa expressed disappointment yesterday after the United States and other Western powers wrote to President Cyril Ramaphosa urging him to tackle corruption, and said those countries had breached diplomatic protocol.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – After Venezuelan police officers clad in black military uniforms and masks stopped 27-year-old Yohendry Fernandez at gunpoint in the Caracas slum of Jose Felix Ribas, they asked him if he had a criminal record.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday proposed early parliamentary elections, seeking to shore up his crumbling rule after a senior general defected to the opposition and tens of thousands thronged the streets in protest at his government.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia has suspended the Cold War-era Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, President Vladimir Putin said yesterday, after the United States announced it would withdraw from the arms control pact, accusing Moscow of violations.

BRUMADINHO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale needs to change its behaviour, cooperate more with authorities and be more transparent after a deadly dam collapse at one of its mines that likely killed more than 300 people, Brazil’s solicitor general said yesterday.

KAKTOVIK, Alaska, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Inupiaq hunters wrestle a 100-ton bowhead whale back to land from the high seas, the next challenge is where to store all that meat.

PARIS/CAPE TOWN,  (Reuters) – Total is launching its biggest exploration campaign for years in 2019 as part of a turnaround plan that is ditching the company’s focus on risky long-shots in favour of areas known to contain commercial levels of oil or gas.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States announced yesterday it will withdraw from the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia in six months unless Moscow ends its alleged violations of the landmark 1987 arms control pact.

BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil, (Reuters) – The collapse of a Brazilian dam controlled by miner Vale a week ago likely happened because parts of the sand and dried-mud structure dissolved into liquid, a state regulator said in an interview, similar to what caused another deadly mining disaster less than four years ago.

DORAL, Fla., (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence yesterday listened to harrowing stories of deprivation, torture and escape from Venezuelans who fled their homeland, and pledged to ramp up pressure to help the opposition trying to oust Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s dictatorship only has a short time left, Colombian President Ivan Duque said yesterday, calling for more diplomatic pressure on that nation’s leader, Nicolas Maduro, to facilitate the return of democracy to the oil-producing nation.

THE HAGUE,  (Reuters) – Former Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo was freed from detention by the International Criminal Court yesterday, under the condition that he will stay in the country that accepts to take him in and that he will return to the court when asked to do so.