Trump approves sanctions on Venezuelan oil company

  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and national security adviser John Bolton announced the sanctions against Petroleos de Venezuela, S.A. — the parent company of the US-based Citgo oil company — on Monday afternoon from the White House briefing room. The measure blocks about $7 billion […]

34 dead and hundreds missing in Brazil dam collapse

  The number of missing more than doubled since authorities’ last report on Friday, hours after the rupture. Aerial footage showed the city of Brumadinho covered in mud. Helicopters hovered near the ground as firefighters pulled people from the muck and airlifted them out of […]

Turkish troops shoot 3 civilians in Iraq

  Civilians near the city of Duhuk in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region protested in front of a Turkish military base to condemn Turkish airstrikes against civilians in the north, the source said. About 300 protesters stormed the Turkish military base in the town of al-Amadiya […]

Suspect in Louisiana shooting deaths captured in Virginia

In addition to his girlfriend and her relatives, Dakota Theriot, 21, allegedly killed his parents in a separate but related shooting Saturday in Gonzalez, police said. Elizabeth and Keith Theriot, both 50, were at their home near Baton Rouge when the suspect killed them, Ascension […]