December 8, 2018 Venezuelan baseball fans mourn death of ex-major leaguers Dozens of Venezuelans waited in lines outside a chapel in the state of Lara on Saturday, hoping to bid farewell to former major league baseball player Luis Valbuena, who was killed in a car accident along with teammate Jose Castillo.
December 8, 2018 China tells Canada to release Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou or face severe consequences China told Canada to release Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou who was arrested last week in Canada and faces extradition to the U.S.
December 8, 2018 Rouhani warns weakened Iran less able to fight trafficking President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday warned Western countries that they will face a massive influx of drugs if Iran becomes weakened by U.S. sanctions.
December 8, 2018 IS fights to hang on a year after defeat in Iraq A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Islamic State group is fighting to hang on to its last enclave in eastern Syria, engaging in deadly battles with U.S.-backed forces.
December 7, 2018 Diplomats: US postpones meeting on North Korea human rights The United States postponed a Security Council meeting scheduled for Monday to discuss human rights in North Korea because it couldn't get enough support to hold it, U.N. diplomats said Friday.
December 7, 2018 Working while they wait, migrants seek jobs at US border Before dawn each morning, migrants slip away from a Tijuana shelter within sight of the U.S. border to head to jobs across this sprawling city.
December 7, 2018 Ex-Colombian President Belisario Betancur dies at 95 Former Colombian President Belisario Betancur, whose bold efforts to reach a peace deal with leftist rebels in the 1980s were undone by drug-fueled bloodletting and an explosion of violence backed by state security forces, died on Friday.
December 7, 2018 US intensifies opposition to UN global compact on migration The Trump administration on Friday intensified its opposition to next week's U.N. meeting to adopt a landmark pact on migration, calling it a "pro-migration" document that undermines sovereignty and warning that supporters are trying to create new international law.
December 7, 2018 Spaniard convicted for 5 killings arrested in Brazil A Spanish man convicted for the 1977 killing of five leftist lawyers in a Madrid trade union office has been taken into custody in Brazil's biggest city, police said Friday.
December 7, 2018 Apathy high as Venezuela holds weekend local elections A handful of anti-government candidates in this weekend's elections for local council seats in Venezuela did their best to campaign on the street one evening under the flash of passing headlights in an eastern neighborhood of the capital.