[ad_1] Natalie ShermanBusiness reporterGetty ImagesUS President Donald Trump and Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell A political leader demanding questionable policy from the central bank and testing the legal limits to get it - to Martin Redrado, sitting in Argentina, Donald Trump's stand-off with the Federal Reserve feels surprisingly familiar.Redrado was fired as head of Argentina's central bank in 2010, after he resisted orders by then-President Cristina Kirchner to hand over
[ad_1] South Korea's impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol has been found guilty of abuse of power and falsifying documents over his failed martial law bid in 2024.A Seoul court is now deliberating on whether he also obstructed the course of justice by evading arrest. Prosecutors have sought a 10-year jail term for this set of charges.This is the first of the verdicts in four trials linked to his shock martial
[ad_1] Will GrantBBC's Cuba correspondent in HavanaWatch: Public pay their respects to Cubans killed in Venezuela during US raidFrom sunrise, throngs of military personnel, government officials and civilians lined the route between Havana's airport and the Armed Forces Ministry to applaud home the remains of 32 Cuban troops killed in Venezuela as they passed by in a funeral cortege.The country's leadership – from Raul Castro to President Miguel Diaz Canel
[ad_1] Watch: Machado says she "presented" her Nobel Peace Prize medal to TrumpVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has told reporters that she presented the medal for her Nobel Peace Prize to President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting on Thursday, but did not say if he accepted it."I think today is a historic day for us Venezuelans," she said after meeting Trump, the first time the two
[ad_1] A group of aid workers who were put on trial in Greece for rescuing migrants on the island of Lesbos have been acquitted of all charges.The 24 former volunteers were arrested seven years ago - accused of human trafficking and other offences - and could have faced up to 20 years in jail.They had worked for an NGO that rescued asylum-seekers at risk of drowning between 2015 to 2018,
[ad_1] ReutersRights groups say more than 2,400 people were killed in the authorities' violent crackdown on protestsFamilies of people killed in the protests in Iran have told the BBC that the authorities are demanding large sums of money to return their bodies for burial. Multiple sources have told BBC Persian that bodies are being held in mortuaries and hospitals and that security forces will not release them unless their relatives
[ad_1] Ethiopian police say they have seized thousands of rounds of ammunition sent by Eritrea to a violent armed rebel group, stoking fears of renewed armed conflict.Eritrea has denied the allegation and accused Ethiopia of "floating false flags to justify the war that it has been itching to unleash for two long years".It comes at a volatile moment for the relationship between the Horn of Africa neighbours, which share a
[ad_1] The US has seized a sixth tanker in the Caribbean Sea in its ongoing efforts to control exports of Venezuelan oil, officials say.The vessel, Veronica, was boarded in a predawn operation "without incident" as it was defying President Donald Trump's "quarantine of sanctioned vessels", said the US military."The only oil leaving Venezuela will be oil that is coordinated properly and lawfully," the Southern Command said.Since the US military strikes
[ad_1] JEROEN JUMELET/EPA/ShutterstockThe exact cause of the fire is not yet knownA large fire has broken out following an explosion at a building in the Dutch city of Utrecht.At least four people were injured in the incident, which happened near Visscherssteeg, an alley in the city centre. The cause is not yet known. The local safety body said several buildings had collapsed and that there were reports of extensive damage,
[ad_1] Iran's judiciary has denied it scheduled the execution of a man arrested in connection with the country's recent protests.Norway-based Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw said earlier this week that the family of Erfan Soltani, 26, had been told he faced execution on Wednesday, only days after he was detained.On Wednesday, Hengaw cited them as saying Soltani's execution had been "postponed" but warned that "serious and ongoing concerns" regarding his
