Two opposition politicians punished for participating in violent protests last year against President Daniel Ortega that left 325 people dead, their lawyer says.
EU countries are trying to figure out the issue of repatriating their Daesh citizens from Syria after US President Donald Trump threatened to release the captured fighters in the face of European inaction.
Senator Lindsey Graham was reacting to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe's comments that US President Trump might have committed a crime in handling the Russia probe and top officials discussed invoking the 25th Amendment.
US President Trump warns EU allies that inaction on their part will force Washington to release some 800 Daesh members. Meanwhile, Germany says it can take back its citizens captured in Syria only if Daesh suspects have "consular access."
US President Donald Trump declared the emergency on Friday in an effort to go around Congress to fund his border wall.
The US Department of State spokesperson said she took the decision "in the best interests" of her family.
Vice President Pence says US-backed militias liberating last pocket of territory in Syria controlled by Daesh terror group.
David Satterfield has been the acting assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs since 2017 and has also previously served as the deputy US chief of mission in Iraq, ambassador to Lebanon.
Gunman shoots in industrial area on outskirts of Chicago, killing and wounding multiple people before he's slain, officials say.
US President Donald Trump demanded Congress include money for the wall, one of his biggest 2016 campaign promises, in a funding bill he was expected to sign either later on Friday or Saturday.
The Trump administration had declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico, and it could also mean that Trump finally gets his wall.
Top officials from the world's two biggest economies held two days of talks, hoping to at least create sufficient goodwill to stave off an escalation of their tariff war. The talks ended without any signs of specific progress.
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