Venezuela struggles with blackout as government claims sabotage
Venezuela’s government struggled to cope Friday with a massive electricity blackout that paralyzed much of the country as ...
Chelsea Manning jailed for refusal to testify in WikiLeaks case
Chelsea Manning, who spent more than three years in prison for leaking US military secrets to WikiLeaks, was jailed again Friday for ...
SpaceX capsule back on Earth, paving way for new manned US flights
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, completing a NASA demonstration mission that paves ...
Norway sovereign wealth fund, world’s biggest, to dump oil and gas
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest thanks to petrodollars, will sell off stakes in oil and gas ...
EU reprimands Saudi Arabia over human rights at UNHRC
Geneva [Switzerland], March 8 : As many as 36 countries, including all 28 members of the European Union (EU), signed a statement ...
Fukushima evacuees resist return as ‘Reconstruction Olympics’ near
With Japan keen to flaunt Tokyo 2020 as the “Reconstruction Olympics”, people who fled the Fukushima nuclear disaster ...
Trump ex-campaign chief Manafort sentenced to 47 months in prison
US President Donald Trump’s former campaign chief Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months in prison Thursday for tax crimes ...
Zuckerberg sees Facebook future in private, small-scale messaging
Facebook is moving away from being a “digital town square” to meet growing demands for secure, private messaging on a ...
Peru opens military base to protect Amazon from deforestation
Peru opened a military base in the Amazon on Tuesday in a bid to tackle illegal mining, the main culprit for deforestation in the ...
North Korea rebuilds part of missile site it promised Trump to dismantle
Washington: North Korea has restored part of a missile launch site it began to dismantle after pledging to do so in a first summit ...