Day: February 8, 2019

(BANGKOK) — A Thai political party on Friday named a princess as its nominee to be the next prime minister, upending tradition that the royal palace plays no public role in politics and upsetting all predictions about what may happen in next month’s election. The selection of 67-year-old Princess Ubolratana Mahidol by the Thai Raksa… Read More

During the Monday hearing, prosecutors made clear that they viewed Paul Manafort’s interactions with Konstantin Kilimnik, a Russian-Ukrainian national, as important to Robert Mueller’s mission to investigate evidence of Russian influence on the 2016 presidential campaign. | Keith Lane/Getty Images Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has accused Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, of… Read More

One of the containers authorities say contained close to two tons of methamphetamine and other drugs. (Australian Federal Police)A joint operation between American and Australian law enforcement led to the seizure of close to two tons of methamphetamine in California that was bound for the land down under, authorities announced late Thursday.As part of their investigation,… Read More

Semi-trailers carrying emergency food and medical supplies have arrived at the Colombia-Venezuela border. The border crossing has been blockaded by troops on order by the country’s embattled president Nicolás Maduro. Opposition activists and their supporters in the US admit that the aid shipments are part of an effort to peel away Venezuela’s military from the… Read More

Honduran Delia Romero, 24, sits with her children in their sleeping area at a sheltered in Piedras Negras, Mexico, Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2019. A caravan of about 1,600 Central American migrants camped Tuesday in the Mexican border city of Piedras Negras, just west of Eagle Pass, Texas. The governor of the northern state of Coahuila… Read More