Turkey on Friday said it wanted 18 Saudis extradited over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Ankara still had more evidence to reveal in the case. The announcement came a day after the Saudi prosecutor said that based on evidence supplied by […]
The International Monetary Fund executive board on Friday approved an increased loan package for Argentina worth $56 billion to help stabilize the crisis-battered country’s economy and currency. The IMF said the approval released $5.7 billion to the government immediately, but it also includes tougher conditions. The country secured […]
The oldest woman in Bolivia, and perhaps the world, turned 118 on Friday, remaining lucid and in good health, authorities in the South American country said. Julia Flores was born in 1900 in a Quechua family in the mining region of Potosi in the country’s south. Known as […]
SRINAGAR, India — Eight rebels and two Indian soldiers were killed in gunbattles in disputed Kashmir that sparked violent anti-India protests by residents seeking an end to Indian rule in the region, officials said Friday. Indian troops laid siege to a village in northwestern Sopore area on Friday, […]
Oct. 26 (UPI) — Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena abruptly sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday and named Mahinda Rajapaksa in his place, potentially throwing the country into a constitutional crisis. Rajapaksa was sworn in after the move, but Wickremesinghe said he still considered himself prime minister of Sri Lanka. Some government […]
A barrage of rockets from Gaza hit Israel during the night, the army said Saturday, hours after five Palestinians were killed during clashes on the Israeli border, in a flareup that could jeopardise truce efforts. The largest projectile attacks in months and the border fatalities came despite talk […]
CHARLOTTE, N.C.— President Donald Trump lectured the media at length on Friday evening, accusing reporters of trying “to use the sinister actions of one individual to score political points” against him hours after police apprehended a staunch supporter of his in connection with the mail-bomb scare targeting Democrats […]
Thousands gathered for Taipei’s Gay Pride parade Saturday — the biggest in Asia — ahead of a landmark vote next month on LGBT rights on the island. Taiwan’s top court in May 2017 legalised gay marriage, the first place in Asia to do so, and ruled its decision […]
WASHINGTON — Cesar Sayoc is an amateur body builder and former stripper, a loner with a long arrest record who showed little interest in politics until Donald Trump came along. On Friday, he was identified by authorities as the Florida man who put pipe bombs in small manila […]
WASHINGTON— Federal authorities have captured a Florida man with a criminal history and a fervor for President Donald Trump and accused him of sending at least 13 mail bombs to prominent Democrats, capping a nationwide search in a case that spread fear of election-season violence with little precedent […]
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