Colombia vowed "war" against left-wing guerrillas Monday, as security forces rushed to contain a wave of violence that has killed more than 100 people and threatens to derail the country's troubled peace process. In just five days, violence has been reported in three different Colombian departments -- from the remote Amazon jungle to the rugged border with Venezuela, where
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday said her country "does not have to bow its head" to the United States, and urged the public "to remain calm" as Donald Trump took over the White House for a second term. "We are a great country, a cultural
US President Donald Trump's return to power Monday has drawn mixed responses from Latin American leaders ranging from approval to caution. Argentina’s President Javier Milei, El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa have cozied up to Trump, even being among the few selected regional heads of state to be personally invited to his
Newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump reinstated Cuba’s designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, reversing an executive order issued
Donald Trump is an unusual United States president in that he may be the first to strike greater anxiety in allies than in adversaries. Take the responses to his pre-inauguration comments about buying Greenland, for instance, which placed US ally Denmark at the center of the global foreign policy radar screen and caused the Danish government – which retains control of the
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says his administration will move to suspend the security clearances of the more than four dozen former intelligence officials who signed a 2020 letter saying that the Hunter Biden laptop saga bore the hallmarks of a “Russian information operation.” The action is an early indication of Trump's determination to exact retribution on
ROME, - Italian authorities have arrested a senior member of Libya's judicial police, acting on a warrant from the International Criminal Court over war crimes accusations, a source with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. Italy arrests senior Libyan police officer on
Syria’s new authorities have denied imposing a ban on all goods produced in Russia, Iran and Israel from entering
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament passed three divisive laws Tuesday, including amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalize child marriage. The amendments give Islamic courts increased authority over family matters, including marriage, divorce and inheritance. Activists argue that this undermines Iraq’s 1959 Personal Status Law, which
A rebel alliance in Mali said Tuesday it has freed a Spanish man who was kidnapped in southern Algeria last week. The Azawad Liberation Front (FLA), a coalition of separatist armed groups in Mali's predominately Tuareg north, said on the social media platform X that it freed Spanish citizen Gilbert Navarro. "The former Spanish hostage, Mr. Navarro Giane Gilbert, has been
Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial authorities, a source said on Tuesday. Assad, who was ousted late last year in a lightning offensive by Islamist forces, is held
By Shih Hsiao-kuang and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer President William Lai’s (賴清德) administration should not hold any fantasies that the administration of US President Donald Trump would unconditionally support Taiwan’s bid to expand its role in the global high-technology supply chain, the National Policy Foundation said yesterday. The Chinese Nationalist
Turkey has emerged as one of the most influential power brokers in Syria after rebels toppled Bashar al-Assad last month, ending his family’s brutal five-decade rule. NATO member Turkey is now in a position to influence its neighbor’s future diplomatically, economically and militarily. Here are details of Turkey’s connections with Syria and how it hopes to use its influence
After 15 months of collective grief and anxiety, three Israeli hostages left Hamas captivity and returned to Israel, and dozens of Palestinian prisoners walked free from Israeli jail, leaving both Israelis and Palestinians torn between celebration and trepidation as the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took hold Sunday. The skies above Gaza and Israel were silent for the
South African police are hunting an alleged “kingpin” of illegal mining after he escaped from custody following a rescue operation last week in which 78 bodies were brought out of an illicit goldmine. James Neo Tshoaeli, a Lesotho national known as Tiger, has been accused by other illegal miners of being a ringleader who was allegedly responsible for assaults, tortures and
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — Soldiers killed at least seven people at a gold mine in southern Ghana, the West African country’s military said. Ghana’s armed forces said Sunday in a statement on X that around 60 “illegal miners” carrying locally manufactured rifles and other weapons breached the security fences of the Obuasi gold mining
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned his siblings and their spouses, saying his family had been “subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics.” “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end,” he said. The pardons, announced just minutes before Biden left
NEW DELHI (AP) — An Indian court on Monday sentenced a police volunteer to life in prison after finding him guilty in the rape and killing of a trainee doctor last year, a crime that sparked nationwide protests over inadequate safety for women and led to a speedy trial in the country’s slow-moving justice system. Sanjay Roy, 33, who has consistently maintained his innocence,