Los Angeles Times: World
- Relations with Venezuela worsen as U.S. orders diplomatic staff to exit
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 05:20 PMRelations between the United States and Venezuela appeared all but collapsed Tuesday after the leftist government in Caracas set a 72-hour deadline for American diplomats to leave the country and the State Department said it was removing all U.S.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- An oil boom is transforming the eastern Mediterranean — and changing relationships, especially with Israel
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 06:00 AMIn 2007, Mathios Rigas spent $1.13 million to buy a near-dormant oil well in Greece with a license that was about to expire. The engineer-turned-banker hired a Venezuelan petroleum chemist, the only person he had met in Greece who knew about oil and gas.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Brexit negotiations reach a deadlock on eve of Parliament’s vote
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 03:20 PMNegotiations between the European Union and Britain deadlocked Monday, on the eve of a crucial parliamentary vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s heavily contested Brexit withdrawal agreement. Weeks of talks aimed at refining the deal to make it palatable to British lawmakers appear to have failed...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The people of Mosul, Iraq, find there’s life after Islamic State, but it isn’t easy
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 08:00 AMIn the biblical book of Jonah, God wants to destroy the city of Nineveh because of its wickedness, but Jonah begs him to have mercy, and he relents. Today, what was once Nineveh is the eastern half of the Iraqi city of Mosul, where a version of the biblical story has played out again.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- North Korea, mixing pleas and provocation, asks for food aid while hinting at rocket launch
Sunday - 03/10/2019 - 07:00 AMKim Jong Un went into his summit with President Trump with one objective: relief from international sanctions crippling North Korea’s economy. Having come away from the Hanoi summit empty-handed, North Korea is now inching toward provocation and simultaneously tugging at heartstrings.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- A Honduran man finds love in Mexico on his journey north to the United States
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 04:05 PMFleeing a gang, Pedro Cordova joined thousands traveling north last fall from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. He endured tear gas, days without food and trekked thousands of miles to Tijuana in November.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Spain was seen as welcoming refugees, but in North Africa it is cracking down
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 10:05 AMLate last August, 300 sub-Saharan migrants ran from the hills above this small Spanish enclave on the northern coast of Africa and stormed the 20-foot-high barbed-wire fence separating Spain from Morocco.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Thailand bans political party that nominated ex-princess for prime minister
Thursday - 03/07/2019 - 10:40 AMThailand’s Constitutional Court on Thursday banned the political party that nominated a former princess to run for prime minister, dealing a blow to opposition forces vying to defeat allies of the military-led government in the first election since a 2014 coup.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- He was deported for a crime he committed as a teen. Now a 30-year-old Cambodian refugee is back home in California
Wednesday - 03/06/2019 - 03:25 PMThe hip-hop hit “A Lot,” by the rapper 21 Savage, boomed through the speakers at Phnom Penh’s Cool Lounge, the rapid-fire verses spilling from the bar onto the Cambodian capital’s hectic streets.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Were the brides of Islamic State cloistered housewives or participants in atrocities?
Tuesday - 03/05/2019 - 02:45 PMThousands of foreign-born women left their homes and lives to join Islamic State and marry its fighters. But now that the militant group’s so-called caliphate is reduced to crumbled masonry and scorched rebar, many of them want to return home.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- British Parliament rejects plan for nation’s expected exit from the European Union
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 03:25 PMBritain was thrown into deeper political turmoil Tuesday after lawmakers rejected Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit divorce deal. The country now faces the prospect of crashing out of its decades-long partnership with the European Union with no plan for managing the break.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- United Nations mourns 21 employees killed in Ethiopian Airlines plane crash
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 08:00 PMPeople who work for the United Nations and its many agencies know what they are getting into, especially in the field. From all over the world, they distribute food and water, teach farming techniques, supply medicines and healthcare, and advocate for the human rights of the marginalized.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Taiwan president and U.S. envoy call for more religious freedom in Asia
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 01:50 PMTaiwan President Tsai Ing-wen joined a U.S. envoy Monday in advocating more religious freedom in Asia, a joint jab at China, where the government restricts worship and resents American officials for political dealings with the island.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Allegations of anti-Semitism rock Britain’s Labor Party
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 06:00 AMIt was once considered the British party that stood up to racism and inequality. But today, the Labor Party is at risk of splitting over an anti-Semitism crisis with which it seems unable to come to grips.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Infant of Islamic State bride who asked to return to U.K. dies in Syrian refugee camp
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 06:30 PMThe newborn son of U.K.-born teenager Shamima Begum, who left her London home to join the Islamic State group in Syria, died Friday in a refugee camp, an official said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Massive Venezuela blackout raises tensions amid political and economic crises
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 07:10 PMA 20-hour blackout in Venezuela shuttered schools and public services across the country, ratcheting up tensions for a populace already struggling amid economic and political crises. Electricity was finally being restored to parts of the country Friday afternoon after a breakdown in the national...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - A Chinese tech giant sues the U.S. in Texas in pushback against security risk claims
Thursday - 03/07/2019 - 03:25 PMA suit filed by Huawei in Texas this week — over a law it claims violates the U.S. Constitution — is the latest maneuver in the Chinese telecommunications giant’s global offensive against American pressure and persistent criticisms that it poses a national security risk.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Trump's secretary of State tries a little diplomacy on Iowa farmers
Thursday - 03/07/2019 - 06:00 AMIt was just a couple of days after he’d left the nuclear summit between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un after it collapsed in Hanoi, and where was America’s top diplomat?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Were the brides of Islamic State cloistered housewives or participants in atrocities?
Tuesday - 03/05/2019 - 04:15 PMThousands of foreign-born women left their homes and lives to join Islamic State and marry its fighters. But now that the militant group’s so-called caliphate is reduced to crumbled masonry and scorched rebar, many of them want to return home.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- China’s surprisingly frank admission at National People’s Congress: Its people are dissatisfied
Tuesday - 03/05/2019 - 02:20 PMThe warnings from Chinese Premier Le Keqiang were unusually stark: China faces difficulties “of a kind rarely seen in many years.” The economy is slowing and faces further downward pressure.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- North Korea trading in arms, oil and luxury goods despite sanctions, U.N. panel finds
Tuesday - 03/12/2019 - 04:15 PMSelling arms to rebels in Yemen, Libya and Sudan. Smuggling coal and oil from ship to ship in the middle of the ocean. Diplomats and ship captains carrying bulks of cash.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Netanyahu downplays Arab citizens, saying Israel is the state ‘of the Jewish people ... alone’
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 06:05 PMNo one was more surprised than Rotem Sela when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to a short Instagram story she posted on Sunday. Sela, 35, an Israeli television host, had responded with pique to an interview in which firebrand Culture Minister Miri Regev darkly warned of the...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Families of Lion Air crash victims sued Boeing days before Ethiopian Airlines disaster
Monday - 03/11/2019 - 02:30 PMThe crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max jetliner Sunday comes days after surviving family members of last year’s Indonesian Lion Air disaster filed another lawsuit against Boeing, accusing the company of installing a faulty flight control system in the popular aircraft and failing to...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ailing Algerian president returns home to large-scale demonstrations
Sunday - 03/10/2019 - 07:40 PMPresident Abdelaziz Bouteflika returned to Algeria on Sunday after two weeks in a Swiss hospital amid massive demonstrations demanding he withdraw his candidacy for a fifth term. The 82-year-old Bouteflika suffered a stroke in 2013 and has rarely been seen in public since.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Ebola treatment center in Congo attacked; one police officer killed
Saturday - 03/09/2019 - 08:50 PMHeavily armed assailants attacked an Ebola treatment center in the heart of eastern Congo's deadly outbreak Saturday, with one police officer killed and health workers injured, authorities said, while frightened patients waited in isolation rooms for the gunfire to end.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- International Women’s Day | Images from around the world
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 11:50 AMPHOTOS: Women around the world shouted their demands for equality, respect and empowerment Friday to mark International Women's Day. Here's a look at events from around the globe.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iraq’s new war against Islamic State? Halting the group’s budding rural resurgence
Friday - 03/08/2019 - 06:00 AMIt was after dark Wednesday when three buses pulled out of Mosul and headed southeast on a desolate desert road. The passengers were government-backed paramilitary fighters. The city lights were well behind them when the convoy came under attack.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Would you risk your life for a truffle? In Iraq’s desert, the dangerous search is worth the prize
Thursday - 03/07/2019 - 06:00 AMTo reach Ekeyran, a place so desolate no one has bothered to put it on a map, you must abandon the bustle of Baghdad for a 173-mile jaunt to the city of Samawah, dodge camel caravans while driving over to Al Salman district — onetime home to Saddam Hussein’s harshest prison — then find a Bedouin...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - For one father, the battle to destroy Islamic State could end up killing his own children
Tuesday - 03/05/2019 - 10:05 PMBashirul Shikder paced in his cream-colored hotel room here, his face tightening to hold back tears. He had traveled thousands of miles from his home near Miami and spent a frustrating week in Irbil trying to score meetings with diplomats, military commanders, militiamen, activists, aid workers,...
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - U.S. to allow first lawsuits against Cuba over seized property
Monday - 03/04/2019 - 08:15 PMTo turn up pressure on Cuba’s communist government, the Trump administration is reversing longstanding practice and allowing U.S. citizens to sue certain Cuban companies over property expropriated decades ago, officials said Monday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share