Venezuela crisis: US vows to 'disconnect' Maduro's funding
The Trump administration is trying to cut Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro's revenue streams, US National Security Adviser John Bolton says.
The comments come one day after Mr Maduro cut diplomatic ties with the US.
He was angry after they recognised an opposition figure, Juan Guaidó, as interim president on Wednesday.
Mr Bolton told reporters outside the White House the issue was "complicated" but they were working on a plan to funnel funds to Mr Guaidó instead.
Canada: mother and uncle accused of 'honor killing' extradited to India
Uncle and mother, both Canadian citizens of Indian origin, accused by Indian authorities of killing daughter in 2000
AFP in Ottawa
Canada has extradited the mother and uncle of a woman killed 19 years ago to face justice in India for their alleged roles in her honor killing.
The body of Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu was found with her throat slit in June 2000 in Punjab state. She was 25 at the time of her death.
Her uncle Surjit Singh Badesha and mother Malkit Kaur Sidhu, both Canadian citizens of Indian origin, have been accused by Indian authorities of planning her murder.
Indian prosecutors have said the pair furiously opposed the young woman’s marriage to a poor rickshaw driver, which the victim had kept secret for a year.
UK pays £1m damages to Cyprus 'victims of rape and torture by British colonial forces'
Foreign minister says claim 'does not constitute any admission of liability'
A group of 33 Cypriots who claimed they were raped and tortured by British forces during an uprising to end colonial rule, will be paid a £1m settlement by the British government.
After being arrested on suspicion of being members of the paramilitary group Eoka more than 60 years ago, the group alleged they were beaten and raped while in custody.
Foreign minister Alan Duncan said the settlement “does not constitute any admission of liability” and does not set a “precedent” for any future claims gainst the British government.
The Doomsday Clock says it's almost the end of the world as we know it. (And that's not fine.)
Updated 0054 GMT (0854 HKT) January 25, 2019
If you have anything left on your bucket list, do it now, because the world is close to annihilation.
That's according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which gave its annual presentation of the Doomsday Clock on Thursday.
A group of scientists and scholars, including 15 Nobel laureates, set the clock at 11:58 p.m. -- two minutes before the symbolic apocalyptic midnight.
The minute hand didn't move since last year. But 11:58 p.m. is the closest the clock has ever been to symbolizing doom.
Climate change threatens 1,000-year-old monastery in remote Nepal
The trans-Himalayan village of Halji is a small collection of about 80 closely packed mud-and-stone houses at the base of a moraine hill.
Steep cliffs rise on either side of the village that is flanked by a glacial stream on its left.
By contemporary standards, Halji is extremely remote. It is snowed in and cut off for six months of the year during winter and does not have mobile network connectivity.
Osaka downplays dispute over skin color in anime
Tennis player Naomi Osaka downplayed a dispute Thursday over the skin color of an anime character depicting her but called for a consultation in a possible similar case in the future.
"For me, it's obvious, I'm tan...I don't think they did it on purpose to be, like, whitewashing or anything," Osaka said at a press conference at the Australian Open, referring to a pair of controversial anime advertisements which were created by one of her sponsors, Nissin Foods Holdings Inc. in Tokyo.
"But I definitely think that the next time they try to portray me or something, I feel like they should talk to me about it," said the U.S.-based player whose father is Haitian and mother is Japanese.
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