December 12, 2018 Turkey vows to take on US-backed Kurdish militia in Syria Turkey will launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria "within a few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move likely to further strain ties between NATO allies Turkey and the United States.
December 12, 2018 US urges UN to ban Iran nuclear missiles, keep arms embargo U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to again ban Iranian ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons and to maintain an arms embargo that is scheduled to be lifted in 2020 under the landmark Iran nuclear deal.
December 12, 2018 Venezuela's Maduro: US leads assassination plot against him Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro said Wednesday that he's uncovered an assassination plot that leads directly to the White House.
December 12, 2018 Memorial for cathedral victims, death toll rises to 5 Close to 1,000 people attended a memorial service Wednesday for the people gunned down inside a cathedral in southeastern Brazil, and authorities said the toll of dead had risen to five.
December 12, 2018 The Latest: Ex-VP Gore thinks Trump may help climate cause The Latest on the climate talks taking place in Poland (all times local): 9:00 p.m. Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore says he thinks President Donald Trump's stance on global warming may actually advance the cause of tackling climate change.
December 12, 2018 US diplomats in Havana had inner-ear damage, neurological injuries: doctors American diplomats affected by mysterious health incidents in Cuba showed damage in the inner ear shortly after they complained of weird noises and sensations.
December 12, 2018 Gunman who opened fire inside Catholic cathedral ‘mentally ill,’ Brazil authorities say The gunman who killed four people before turning the weapon on himself inside a Catholic cathedral in southeastern Brazil on Monday was suffering from depression and “mentally ill,” authorities said.
December 11, 2018 El Chapo’s beauty queen wife disses media’s ‘unfair’ caricature of her drug-lord husband in rare interview Emma Coronel Aispuro, the 29-year-old wife of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán and the mother of their twin 7-year-old daughters, claims the media is giving her husband a bad rap: she said in a new interview that he’s normal and ordinary, and not an infamous horror media fabrication.
December 11, 2018 Meng Wanzhou, Chinese telecom exec facing possible extradition to US, granted bail by Canadian judge A Canadian judge has granted bail to a top Chinese executive facing possible extradition to the U.S. in a case that has led to the apparent detention of a former Canadian diplomat in Beijing and complicated high-stakes U.S.-China trade talks.
December 11, 2018 Gunman kills 4, then himself, after Mass at Brazil cathedral A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four and leaving four others injured before taking a bullet in the ribs in a firefight with police and then shooting himself in the head, authorities said.