Category: World
Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents
The firm’s chief security officer said North Koreans tried to apply for remote working IT jobs using stolen or fake identities. [...]
Screams for help and panic as tourists rescued from fatal Laos ferry disaster
People scrambled to safety as the ferry sank on the Mekong River, with a local woman and two children feared dead. [...]
Trump says US will keep or sell oil seized from Venezuela
The US president also says the US intends to keep the tankers it has intercepted off the coast of Venezuela. [...]
Five dead after plane carrying child burns victim crashes in Texas
The Mexican Navy plane was transporting a child to the US on behalf of a charity which cares for burns victims. [...]
‘A miracle’: Officer shot in head during Bondi attack home from hospital
The Christmas homecoming of Jack Hibbert, who was shot in the head and shoulder, is a "miracle", his family say. [...]
Ecuador court sentences 11 air force troops over disappearance of four boys
Long sentences in case of Afro-Ecuadorian ‘Guayaquil Four’ focuses attention on president’s crackdown on crimeA court in Ecuador has sentenced 11 air [...]
Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison
Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’CBS News was dealing with internal [...]
Former BlackRock executive Mark Wiseman named as Canada’s next ambassador to US
Financier will assume the role on 15 February, ahead of US free trade negotiations, says prime minister Mark Carney Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carn [...]
Russia and China pledge support for Venezuela as Trump ratchets up pressure on Maduro
Trump again called for Venezuela’s president to leave power and said the US would keep or sell the oil it had seizedChina and Russia have expressed su [...]
Freed Nigerian schoolchildren to be reunited with families
Month-long ordeal ends but no details released on how they regained their freedom or who was behind abductionA final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian s [...]