Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Sunday that Beijing will continue to invest across the world, adding that it “warmly” welcomes foreign investment. He made his remarks at the opening of a meeting of business representatives of the BRICS nations. The BRICS nations are Brazil, Russia, India,
After annulling his electoral victory last month, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta warned on Saturday that the country had a problem to “fix” with the judiciary. Kenyatta, speaking a day after the Supreme Court canceled his victory and ordered new polls within 60 days, repeated a message from Friday
North Korea announced on Sunday that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb, in a new step towards its goal to achieve nuclear power and signifying an escalation in its standoff with world powers over its ambitions. North Korea said in an announcement on state television that a hydrogen bomb test or
Germany has rejected a formal request from Turkey to freeze assets of members of the network of US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, Germany’s Spiegel magazine reported on Saturday. Without naming its sources, the magazine said the Turkish government had asked the Foreign Ministry in Berlin at the
At least 2,600 homes have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar’s northwest just in the last week, the government announced on Saturday. About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighboring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to
Russia’s foreign ministry has summoned a US diplomat in Moscow to hand him a note of protest over plans to conduct searches in Russia’s trade mission complex in Washington, which should soon be closed, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday. Washington on Thursday ordered the Russi
US President Donald Trump travels to Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana on Saturday to meet victims of catastrophic storm Harvey, as residents of Houston and other cities were returning home to face the grim, possibly years-long task of rebuilding. While Trump visits, attention will also be focused
Retail US gasoline prices rose 2.8 percent from Friday to Saturday as refineries warned customers about fuel-supply shortages caused by Hurricane Harvey. They were at $2.59 a gallon, according to motorists advocacy group AAA. It represents a 16.7 percent rise in the average price from a year ago. Pr
Suicide bombers killed seven people and wounded 12 in an attack on a power plant north of Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi security official told Agence France Presse. Armed with grenades and wearing explosives belts, three attackers entered the facility in Samarra, about 100 kilometers north of the ca
Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, the first child for the former world number one tennis player, her coach Patrick Mouratoglou said on Twitter on Friday, prompting an outpouring of delight from fellow professionals, celebrities and fans of the sporting icon. The 35-year-old American, w
Frankfurt city officials said on Sunday that the city will evacuate some 60,000 people in the nation’s biggest such manoeuvre since the war while officials disarm the British bomb discovered on a building site this week in Frankfurt’s leafy Westend, where many wealthy bankers live. Offic
Kenya’s Supreme Court on Friday nullified President Uhuru Kenyatta’s election win, citing irregularities, and ordered a new poll within 60 days, an unprecedented move in Africa where governments often hold sway over judges. According to what Reuters reported, the ruling, broadcast to a stunned natio
A convoy of ISIS fighters and their families being evacuated into another ISIS-held territory in east Syria remained in government-held areas of Syria on Friday, US-led forces said. According to Reuters, there are about 300 fighters and about 300 civilians in the convoy, which the Syrian army and Le
The Trump administration’s ban on American citizens travelling to North Korea came into force on Friday, with the two countries at loggerheads over Pyongyang’s weapons ambitions. The measure was imposed following the death of student Otto Warmbier in June, a few days after the 22-year-old was
A federal judge in Miami agreed Thursday to extradite former Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli to face corruption and other charges in his country. US District Court Judge Edwin Torres said Panama had demonstrated probable cause against Martinelli. In his 93-page ruling, Torres wrote “we
British Trade Minister Liam Fox said on Friday that the UK would not be blackmailed into agreeing on the cost of leaving the European Union, urging Brussels to move negotiations on to discuss Britain’s future relationship with the bloc. “We can’t be blackmailed into paying a price
Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos on Thursday said security forces had killed the second-in-command of the Gulf Clan, the country’s foremost drug gang. Writing on Twitter, Santos added authorities would elaborate on the circumstances of the killing of Roberto Vargas Gutierrez, alia
Elusive ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is probably still alive and likely hiding in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, stretching approximately from the city of Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria to the town of Rawa in western Iraq, US Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend said Thursday. “We’
United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday Iran had shown its “true colors” by restoring ties with Palestinian militant group Hamas and must be held to account by the international community. According to Reuters, the new leader of Hamas in Gaza said on M
Monster hurricane Irma has formed in the eastern Atlantic as a Category Two storm, just days after the first major hurricane of the season, Harvey, unleashed massive rain and floods over Texas, US officials said Thursday. If Irma reaches Category Three as expected, she will become the second major s
