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EU threatens Venezuela with more sanctions

The EU Tuesday threatened to expand sanctions against Venezuela unless talks between the government and opposition lead to "concrete results", and warned President Nicolas Maduro's regime to end human rights abuses. The European Union, which has sought to help resolve Venezuela's political...

Trump says he wants review of Google's ties to China

President Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants his administration to "take a look" into whether Google has been working with the Chinese government -- an allegation swiftly denied by the US internet giant. Trump echoed an unsubstantiated remark from tech billionaire Peter Thiel that Google...

Top EU civil servant Selmayr to quit post

The European Commission's top civil servant Martin Selmayr, whose sudden promotion to that post last year angered EU lawmakers and earned a rebuke from the European Ombudsman, will step down next week, a Commission spokeswoman said Tuesday. Secretary-General Selmayr, a frank-speaking German...

Rights group says civilians pay human cost of Yemen's war

A Yemeni human rights group says civilians are paying the human cost of the country's five-year war. In a report Tuesday released in Paris, Mwatana for Human Rights says humanitarian aid has been blocked at a time of impending famine and civilians can no longer move around the country...