Saudi-led forces accused Yemen’s Huthi rebels of violating a ceasefire on Thursday but said they will abide by a five-day humanitarian truce that has allowed aid agencies to deliver relief supplies. The humanitarian pause that began late Tuesday is the first break in the air war the Saudi-led coalition launched on March 26 in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and has strong backing from Washington. The coalition, in
The Bank of England’s inquiry into suspected rigging of foreign exchange markets is to face close scrutiny from the US Department of Justice, the Financial Times reported Thursday. The FT, which cited people familiar with the matter, reported that the DoJ was seeking to probe what the central bank knew about traders’ behaviour in the forex market. The economic daily added that the DoJ secretly requested an interview with the
Barack Obama was to whisk Gulf leaders away to his Camp David presidential retreat Thursday, hoping to salvage a fence-mending summit already bedeviled by disagreements and royal no-shows. The bucolic Catoctin Mountain getaway, synonymous with Middle East peacemaking during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, will again be a venue for an attempted reconciliation. President Obama faces the tough task of convincing assorted emirs, princes and sheikhs that
CAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) — President Barack Obama and leaders from six Gulf nations gathered at Camp David Thursday in an effort to work through tensions sparked by the U.S. bid for a nuclear deal with Iran, which has put regional partners on edge.
The 32-year-old engineer has “no explanation” for what happened, attorney says.
My colleagues in the media keep insisting that Hillary Clinton take a position on the proposed free-trade pact that has riven her party.
The Obama administration is likely to fall far short of the lofty goals it set for itself at Thursday’s summit with Gulf leaders, several experts on the region said. While the White House has framed the seven-nation meeting as an opportunity to deepen and strengthen Gulf nations’ security relationship with the United States in light of a possible nuclear deal with Iran, the six foreign leaders attending have set out
By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Federal investigators probing the deadly Amtrak derailment in Philadelphia were waiting to interview the train’s engineer, whose attorney said on Thursday he did not remember the crash that killed seven people and injured more than 200 others. The train bound for New York City from Washington was barreling into a curve at more than 100 miles per hour on Tuesday night, twice the speed
(Reuters) – A train derailed in Pittsburgh on Thursday morning and emergency crews were called, but the accident involved non-passenger cars and no injuries were reported, according to local media. ABC’s Pittsburgh affiliate WTAE said about 10 train cars derailed and that it appeared to be a freight train. Pittsburgh is on the opposite end of Pennsylvania from Philadelphia, where an Amtrak train derailed on Tuesday night, resulting in seven
By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) – The jury weighing whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be sentenced to death or to life in prison for the deadly 2013 attack began its first full day of deliberations Thursday on his fate. The same 12 people, who last month found the 21-year-old guilty of killing three people and wounding 264 others at the race’s crowded finish line, deliberated for about an