Who is Alejandro Betancourt, ex-Chavez ally now Trump’s Venezuela oil man?
The controversial tycoon will lead the joint oil venture as the Trump administration seeks to reshape energy markets.
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The controversial tycoon will lead the joint oil venture as the Trump administration seeks to reshape energy markets.
Norway's new King takes the first major step of his reign as his father, the late King Harald V, lies in state at the Royal Palace.
Scotland international Scott McTominay, who joined Napoli from Manchester United, to undergo heart surgery.
Ghanaian cocoa farmers are ramping up their pushback against a new law preventing them from using their land for anything else without permission. President Mahama says supporting local processing is the key to economic growth. Cocoa…
Europe's largest wine exporter is already battling a cocktail of crisis from heatwaves to lower sales.
Head of tree collections at Kew ‘very worried about this autumn’ as hot, dry summer has caused brittleness High winds associated with El Niño could cause widespread mortality among tree species already weakened by a prolonged period of…
Most migrants have returned to neighbouring Morocco, but as many as 5,000 remain in the Spanish exclave.
Boy’s mother says she hopes case will help others, as judge says exclusion should be ‘a tool of last resort’ The mother of a 10-year-old autistic boy who had his permanent exclusion from a primary school quashed by the high court has said…
The SCO started in 1996 and accounts for 43 percent of the world’s population and 23 percent of the global economy.
Navigating app surpasses Google and Apple Maps on top-downloaded US chart after posting ‘we’re not changing it’ A pioneering online mapping app that defied Donald Trump by refusing to rename Lake Ontario has become the most in-demand…
In DR Congo, managing the spread of Ebola is made all the more difficult as the country is juggling simultaneous security crises including untangling a peace deal with M23 rebels. President Felix Tshisekedi offered to convene a national…
Billy Allison, 36, pleads not guilty over Matthew O’Gara’s death following alleged assault in Lichfield A man accused of murdering a businessman after an alleged assault outside a bar in Staffordshire has pleaded not guilty. Billy Allison,…
Ireland’s defence minister has called on EU member states to take more action to ban trade with Israeli settlements.
Police say the double stabbing, which injured another person, was random and the suspect had a mental health history with police.
Leaders are meeting in Kyrgyzstan for the annual Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit.
Campaigners say some care boards in England flouting their legal duty, resulting in ‘cruel’ postcode lottery Seriously ill children are being denied the chance to die at home because the NHS in many parts of England is flouting its legal…
The UN has raised fresh alarm over the climate crisis at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau, amid China-Taiwan tensions.
Claims that Trump and Rubio are trying to influence result have parallels with CIA intervention 64 years ago The year was 1962 and the Kennedy administration was desperate to swing Brazil’s congressional elections against its leftwing…
A by-the-numbers look at Messi’s international career with Argentina, including his individual and team honours.
Meteorologists say average mean temperature of 16.5C was made 130 times more likely by climate crisis This year’s summer was the UK’s hottest on record, according to provisional data, and the Met Office said the season’s mean temperature…
Beijing will not comply with US measures because it can and because it’s in its interest not to.
The world must move faster to contain an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that is growing exponentially, the UN’s Emergency Relief Coordinator warned on Tuesday.
The Qatar Grand Prix and MotoGP races scheduled for November are expected to go ahead, local organisers say.
Tehran calls for Washington to respect terms of MoU after attacks send tensions soaring in the Strait of Hormuz.
The UK says Falkland islanders "are British with a right to determine their own future".
Competitive House races and a Senate showdown will put US Democrats’ progressive-moderate divide to the test.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration says the treaty remains binding. But India has rejected the findings.
The brutal killing of Pakistani media professional Hina Javed has caused uproar over violence against women.
Pitso Mosimane is reappointed head coach of South Africa's men's national team, more than 14 years after his first spell in charge of Bafana Bafana ended.
Parents fear school could fuel Ebola spread as authorities shift high-risk pupils to home learning.