WASHINGTON, Feb 5 – U.S. President Donald Trump will have more power to hire and fire up to 50,000 career federal employees in an overhaul of the government’s civil service…
MUKALLA, Yemen/RIYADH – After pushing the United Arab Emirates out of Yemen late last year, Saudi Arabia is deploying political capital and billions of dollars in a bid to bring…
Feb 5 – An amnesty law being considered in Venezuela’s legislature would grant immediate clemency to people jailed for participating in political protests and critiquing public figures, return assets of…
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LONDON, Feb 5 – Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s appointment of Peter Mandelson as Britain’s ambassador to the United States was once hailed as an inspired move to deploy a master…
Feb 4 – President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed a conservative local prosecutor in a Georgia special election to replace Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned from the U.S. House of…
ABUJA, Feb 5 – Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has deployed an army battalion to Kaiama district in the central Kwara state after suspected jihadist fighters killed 170 people in an…
WASHINGTON, Feb 5 – Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado said she believed elections could be held in her country later this year, speaking to Politico in an interview released…
GENEVA/CAIRO, Feb 5 – Acute malnutrition has reached famine levels in two more areas of North Darfur, Sudan, a global hunger monitor said on Thursday, amid a civil war that…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Feb 5 – All 166 worshippers kidnapped during attacks on two churches in Kurmin Wali in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state last month have been released, the Christian Association…