April 18 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the United States is imposing visa sanctions on Nicaragua’s vice-minister of the interior, Luis Roberto Cañas Novoa, for alleged involvement in human rights violations. The sanctions render Cañas Novoa ineligible for entry into the United States. (Reporting by Ryan Patrick Jones …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday signed a bill extending a controversial surveillance program until April 30, a short-term renewal that sets up another showdown in Congress. The bill was approved by the Senate on Friday in a last-minute scramble to prevent the authority from expiring within a matter of days. Trump and …
LONDON (AP) — A life jacket worn by a passenger on RMS Titanic as she escaped the sinking steamship on a lifeboat sold at auction on Saturday for 670,00 pounds ($906,000). The flotation device was worn by Laura Mabel Francatelli, a first-class passenger on the doomed ocean liner, and is signed by her and other …
BUDAPEST, April 18 (Reuters) – Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar’s Tisza party has increased its parliamentary supermajority to 141 seats out of 199 after the processing of postal, foreign mission, and transferred votes, the election office said on Saturday. Centre-right Tisza (Respect and Freedom) won a landslide victory in Sunday’s election, ending the 16-year rule …
NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro was ejected before Royals starter Noah Cameron threw a pitch in the first inning on Saturday afternoon against the New York Yankees. After Maikel Garcia was stranded at second base and nearly picked off by New York’s Will Warren, Quatraro raced out to start arguing with …
MADRID (AP) — Venezuela’s exiled opposition leader María Corina Machado drew several thousand supporters Saturday to a rally in Madrid, where the Nobel laureate declined a meeting with Spain’s progressive Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on a multicountry European tour. Earlier this year, she presented Trump with her Nobel Peace Prize. “What happened in the last …
Two soldiers from Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, were injured in a brown bear attack on Friday during a training session. “The incident involved two soldiers participating in a land navigation training exercise,” a news statement from the 11th Airborne Division, of which both soldiers are a part, said. “Both individuals sustained injuries and …
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Newcastle has plunged into its most challenging period since the club was bought by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. A 2-1 home loss to Bournemouth on Saturday was a third straight defeat in the Premier League for Newcastle, which is languishing in 14th place in the 20-team top flight with five …
LONDON (AP) — British counterterrorism police are investigating an attempted arson attack in London, one of a string of recent incidents targeting Jewish and Iranian premises in the city. The Metropolitan Police force said that detectives weren’t treating the incidents as acts of terror, but Counter Terrorism Policing London is leading the investigation “due to …
KYIV, April 18 (Reuters) – Ukrainian police killed a man alleged to have opened fire on Saturday at passersby in a Kyiv district before barricading himself into a supermarket with hostages and refusing to negotiate in an incident that killed six people. Ukraine’s Security Service said the shooting was being investigated as a terrorist act. …