Thousands of Peruvians say goodbye to ex-President Garcia following suicide
Thousand of Peruvians said goodbye on Thursday in Lima to ex-president Alan Garcia — who killed himself this week — in the second of three days of national mourning declared ...
Down in the polls, Ukraine leader Poroshenko begs for second chance ahead of elections
Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko begged for forgiveness and a second chance Thursday as polls showed him facing all-but-certain defeat three days ahead of a presidential vote. In a dramatic televised address, ...
Huge protest crowds seen massing again outside Sudan army HQ
Huge crowds of protesters massed again Thursday outside Sudan's army headquarters, determined to seek civilian rule one week after the military ousted veteran leader Omar al-Bashir, an AFP photographer said. Every ...
Odebrecht: The scandal shaking Latin America from Brazil to Peru and beyond
The corruption scandal involving Latin America's biggest construction company, Odebrecht, took a dramatic turn Wednesday with the suicide of former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who was embroiled in the affair. According to the U.S. Justice Department, Odebrecht paid $788 million in bribes across 12 countries, ...
Alan Garcia was the charismatic chameleon of Peruvian politics, once popular enough to be elected president twice. But his terms were filled with ups and downs and he eventually became caught up in the Odebrecht bribery scandal that rocked Latin America. Garcia, 69, fatally shot ...
U.S. national security adviser John Bolton announced a series of new sanctions against Cuba and Venezuela on Wednesday as the Trump administration sought to boost pressure on Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and the countries that support him. Bolton, in a speech to an association of ...
Ousted President al-Bashir moved to Khartoum prison and faces trial in Sudan, say officials
Sudan's military rulers transferred ousted President Omar al-Bashir to a prison in the country's capital as hundreds of people marched Wednesday to a sit-in outside the army headquarters in Khartoum, calling for a quick handover of power to a civilian leadership. The significance of the ...
Army action feared as Sudan protesters toughen demand for civilian rule
Sudanese protesters Tuesday hardened their demand that the military men in power quickly step down and make way for civilian rule, refusing to budge from their sit-in outside army headquarters. The country's new military ruler, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in another apparent concession to the ...
U.K. police arrest more than 200 in traffic-stopping climate change protests
Police say they have arrested more than 200 people after climate change protesters blocked major bridges and intersections in central London, bringing traffic to a standstill. The group Extinction Rebellion is organizing several weeks of civil disobedience against what it says is the failure to ...
Iran's parliament labels U.S. troops in Mideast as terrorist
Iran's lawmakers on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill labeling U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorist, a day after the U.S. terrorism designation for Iran's Revolutionary Guard formally took effect, state TV reported. Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami introduced the bill authorizing the government ...
Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido has met obstacles at nearly every turn since he declared presidential powers in a bid to end socialist President Nicolas Maduro's rule, and his visit to this once-thriving oil center was no different. He was forced to take a boat ...
Trump suggests he's moving forward with plan to ship detained migrants to 'sanctuary cities'
President Donald Trump suggested Monday that his threat to ship migrants to so-called sanctuary cities is taking effect, even though it remains unclear whether such a plan is feasible. "Those Illegal Immigrants who can no longer be legally held (Congress must fix the laws and ...
