Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Friday defended his country’s foreign policy and its stance in Yemen and Syria, insisting that the kingdom has no ambitions beyond its borders. Since taking Continue Reading
Saudi Arabia’s permanent representative in Geneva says his country sent letters to the U.N. humanitarian agency chief calling on aid groups to “be careful” to avoid damage from air strikes Continue Reading
Of all the mysteries surrounding Boko Haram, the marauding militant jihadist group that has terrorized Nigeria and its neighbors, the use of women and girls as suicide bombers is among Continue Reading
The federal government on Thursday in Abuja accused oil majors operating in the country of not being sincere in their plans to downsize their workforce, stating that profit motive is Continue Reading
With the end of the 54-year U.S. trade embargo on Cuba, and Cuban government moves to encourage foreign investors, Cuba is a suddenly attractive venue that is sitting on an Continue Reading
The new opposition-controlled National Assembly in Venezuela plans to speed up moves to oust the government of Nicolas Maduro as economic woes deepen. Parliament speaker Henry Ramos Allup said proposals Continue Reading
In a hospital in the far west of this beleaguered country, the economic crisis took a grim toll in the past week: Six infants died because there wasn’t enough medicine Continue Reading
Venezuela’s highest court has cleared the path for Nicolás Maduro, the president, to enact emergency economic measures after it overruled the country’s new opposition-controlled legislature. The controversial move by the Continue Reading
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro moved to increase the military’s involvement in the country’s oil and mining industries with the creation of a new state company that will report to the Continue Reading
Mexican state oil company Pemex expects its top-selling Maya heavy crude oil to fall as low as $19 per barrel by the end of March, an internal document seen by Continue Reading
