Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said that the United States is preparing to topple the Venezuelan government. “An attempt to undermine Venezuela‘s democratic life and to carry out a coup d’etat against the constitutional, democratic regime in our country has been launched under the coordination from the White House,” Maduro was quoted as saying by […]

A source indicated during briefing on the investigation into the killing of Jamal Khashoggi that “I can’t breathe” were the final words uttered by the Washington Post columnist after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country’s consulate in Istanbul. The source, who has read a translated transcript of an audio […]

Rail services in Germany were severely disrupted Monday due to a strike by rail workers over pay, operator Deutsche Bahn said. Inter-regional services were cancelled throughout the country due to the four-hour strike which began at 5:00 am (0400 GMT), the railway company said in a statement. A spokesman told AFP it affected high-speed trains […]

Iraq on Monday celebrated the anniversary of its costly victory over the Daesh terror group, which has lost virtually all the territory it once held. The government declared victory last December after a grueling three-year war in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Entire towns and neighborhoods were […]

The European Union’s top court ruled on Monday that the British government may unilaterally reverse its decision to leave the bloc, without consulting the other member states. In an emergency judgment delivered just a day before the British parliament is due to vote on a Brexit deal agreed with the EU by Prime Minister Theresa […]

About 300,000 people in the US southeast were without power on Monday and hundreds of flights were canceled after a storm dumped 20 inches of snow and left one motorist dead. The storm headed out to sea but the region will stay cold this week, the National Weather Service’s (NWS) Weather Prediction Center said, Reuters […]

The United Nations said it began delivering aid to hundreds of thousands of Syrians through the Jaber-Nassib border crossing with Jordan, which reopened two months ago. In total, “369 trucks carrying 11,200 metric tons of … assistance for over 650,000 people” will be involved in the four-week operation, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said, AFP […]

Another round of talks on the Saudi-led war on Yemen will likely take place in the coming months, sources said, as warring parties met for UN-sponsored talks in Sweden. The Sweden initiative marks the first meeting between the two sides since the 2016 breakdown of talks to end the Saudi war, which has claimed more […]

A Persian Gulf Arab summit called for regional unity as Bahrain and Qatar traded barbs over the Qatari emir’s decision not to attend the gathering in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in a sign that a row between Doha and its neighbors is still festering. Qatar sent its state minister for foreign affairs to the annual […]

Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister ruled out the extradition of suspects in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after Istanbul’s chief prosecutor filed warrants for the arrest of two former senior Saudi officials. Turkish officials said last week that the prosecutor’s office had concluded there was “strong suspicion” that Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Crown […]