European leaders have moved to head off British Prime Minister Theresa May’s bid to rewrite the Brexit divorce deal, warning they will not shift. Having thrown out the exit deal May negotiated with the EU, divided British lawmakers voted on Tuesday to send her back to get an Irish border backstop clause removed. May seized...
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US urges its citizens to avoid travelling to Venezuela
The United States has urged its citizens to avoid all travel to crisis-torn Venezuela, citing risks of crime and arrest and the US embassy’s limited ability to assist. The State Department had earlier listed Venezuela as Level 3, meaning that Americans should reconsider visits.While the new travel advisory concerns the security of US citizens as...
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British Prime Minister Theresa May survives parliament’s no-confidence vote
British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a no-confidence vote sparked by the crushing defeat of her Brexit deal, weeks before the UK reportedly leaves the European Union. May emerged victorious in parliament’s first no-confidence vote in a British government in 26 years, by a 325 to 306 margin, a majority of 19. The British...
Members of parliament rejects British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal
British Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal has been rejected by 230 votes – the largest defeat for a sitting government in history. Members of Parliaments voted by 432 votes to 202 to reject the deal, which sets out the terms of Britain’s exit from the EU on 29 March. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has...
Members of Parliament set to vote on Brexit deal
Members of Parliament are preparing to vote on whether to back Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal for leaving the European Union. May has called for politicians to back her deal or risk “letting the British people down”. But with many of her own parliamentarians expected to join opposition parties to vote against the deal, it...
Senegal’s Court bars two opposition leaders from presidential election
Senegal’s Constitutional Court has authorised five candidates, including outgoing head of state Macky Sall, to contest presidential elections next month but blocked two prominent opposition figures. The seven-member court barred former Dakar mayor, Khalifa Sall and ex-minister Karim Wade because of convictions for misuse of funds.
U.S President threatens economic sanction on Turkey over attacks on Kurdish forces
U.S President Donald Trump has threatened to “devastate Turkey economically” if it attacks Kurdish forces in Syria following a planned pullout of U.S troops. In a series of tweets, Trump said he did not want the Kurds to provoke Turkey either. Reports say US forces have fought alongside a Kurdish militia in northern Syria against...
US Secretary of State to press Saudi prince to hold journalist killers ‘accountable’
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has arrived in Riyadh, where he is set to ask Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to ensure the killers of journalist Jamal Khashoggi are held accountable. The top US diplomat, on an extensive Middle East tour, embarked on his second politically sensitive visit to Saudi Arabia since Khashoggi’s...
President Trump renews threat to declare national emergency to fund construction of Mexican border
US President Donald Trump has renewed a threat to declare a national emergency to fund the construction of a wall on the Mexican border. A row with Democrats over funding the wall has left the government partially shut down for 20 days, leaving some 800,000 federal employees unpaid. Trump says the wall, a key campaign...
Slovak presidential vote set for March 16
Slovaks will elect a new president in March, firing the starting gun on a leadership race that remains wide open. This is according to a statement by NATO and eurozone member’s speaker of parliament Andrej Danko. Incumbent president Andrej Kiska, who is a vocal critic of the governing three-party coalition, announced in May that he...
Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi wins DR Congo’s presidential election
Opposition candidate Felix Tshisekedi has won the Democratic Republic of Congo’s tightly contested presidential vote. The provisional result puts him ahead of rival opposition candidate Martin Fayulu who has denounced it as a fraud. If confirmed, Tshisekedi will be the first opposition challenger to win since the DR Congo gained independence.
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro rejects global migration pact
Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro reaffirmed his rejection of a global migration pact, saying decisions about who was able to come into his country need to be “sovereign.” His comments, posted in a series of messages on his Twitter account, reinforced Bolsonaro’s declaration before he took office last week that he was going to pull...
British Members of Parliament to hold vote on Brexit agreement on January 15
British Members of Parliament are set to hold a critical vote on January 15 on the Brexit agreement negotiated by Prime Minister Theresa May with the European Union. The House of Commons will today resume a debate on the deal that was halted in December when May postponed the vote in the face of widespread...
DR Congo opposition candidate warns against ‘disguising truth’ of election
Opposition presidential candidate Martin Fayulu has warned electoral authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo on not to “disguise the truth of the polls”, as tensions mounted over delayed election results. In one of his first statements since the December 30 vote, Fayulu urged the authorities to publish who had won. The elections, postponed three times...
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un arrives China at invitation of Chinese President
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Beijing for an unannounced visit, at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping. According to reports Kim will be in China until January 10 with his wife Ri Sol-ju. The visit comes amid reports that negotiations are under way for a second summit between Kim and US...
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announces resignation
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has announced he would step down next month, more than three years before his current term was due to expire. The decision ends Kim’s six-year tenure and may give US President Donald decisive influence over the future leadership of the global development lender. According to Kim in a statement,...
Military takes over Gabon in coup plot
Gabon soldiers say they have seized power in oil-rich Country, where the ailing leader’s family President Ali Bongo has ruled for 50 years. Soldiers in the West African country say they launched a coup to restore democracy, taking control of the national radio to read a short statement announcing a “National Restoration Council”.
Malaysia’s King Muhammad The Fifth resigns
Malaysia’s King Muhammad The Fifth has resigned, the first time a monarch has stepped down from the throne in the country before completing their five-year tenure. The National Palace said in a statement that Muhammad’s resignation took effect immediately, but did not give a reason for the 49-year-old royal’s abrupt move. IN ANOTHER NEWS –...
Democrats challenge President Trump on partial government shutdown
The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives has voted to end a partial government shutdown – but the move looks certain to be vetoed by President Donald Trump. Trump has said he will reject any measure that does not provide funding for his proposed US-Mexico border wall, but New House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said no funding...
Senegal’s Supreme Court rules against appeal by jailed presidential hopeful
Senegal’s Supreme Court has ruled that jailed presidential hopeful Khalifa Sall could not appeal a prison sentence for embezzlement, likely ending his chance of running as a free man in February polls. The popular former mayor of Dakar was arrested in March 2017 on suspicion of embezzling 3 million dollars in public funds and was...
US and Colombia vow to reduce coca production by 50 per cent
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says he is “deeply concerned” about the increased production of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine, in Colombia. At a meeting with Colombian President Ivan Duque, Pompeo said the two countries would try to reduce coca production by 50% in 2023. Colombia has already vowed to step up...
Zimbabwe president cuts short holiday over doctors’ strike
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa cut short his annual vacation to try to resolve an impasse with doctors who have been on strike for a month. According to a government spokesman, hundreds of junior doctors in public hospitals across Zimbabwe withdrew their services in November demanding salaries in US dollars, an increase in on-call allowances and...
Chinese President Xi Jinping urges Taiwan people to unite with China
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the people of Taiwan to accept it “must and will be” reunited with China. In a speech marking 40 years since the start of improving ties, he reiterated Beijing’s call for peaceful unification on a one-country-two-systems basis but also warned that China reserved the right to use force. While...
US and Israel formally quit UNESCO
The United States and Israel have officially quit the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO. The withdrawal is mainly procedural yet serves a new blow to UNESCO, co-founded by the US after World War II to foster peace. The Trump administration filed its notice to withdraw in October 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister...
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