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Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader announced Wednesday that he has authorized the U.S. government to operate inside restricted areas in the Caribbean country to help in its fight against drug trafficking.

Officers say they are closing borders and suspending poll as president and main rival both claim victory Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced they are taking “total control” of the west African country, three days after elections that both the two main presidential contenders claim to have won.Military officers said they were suspending Guinea-Bissau’s electoral process and closing its borders, in a statement read out at the army’s headquarters in the capital Bissau and broadcast on state TV. They said they had formed “the high military command for the restoration of order”, which would rule the country until further notice. Continue reading...

Thousands took to the streets of Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, on Wednesday to denounce steep tax hikes in next year's draft budget before its final vote in parliament.

Justice department maintains that Trump administration didn’t violate judge’s order to return flights to USThe Department of Justice said in a statement that Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, was the one who made the decision to continue with the deportation flights of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador in March, despite a federal judge’s directive that the flights must be returned to the United States.In a court filing on Tuesday, the justice department said that “Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove provided DHS with legal advice regarding the court’s order as to flights that had left the United States before the order issued, through DHS Acting General Counsel Joseph Mazzara” and that “after receiving that legal advice, Secretary Noem directed that the AEA detainees who had been removed from the United States before the Court’s order could be transferred to the custody of El Salvador”. Continue reading...

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Wednesday sanctioned a bill that exempts people earning up to 5,000 reais ($940) a month from income taxes, more than doubling the current exemption and meeting a key priority of his 2022 election campaign.

Tunisia’s presidency says President Kais Saied has summoned the European Union’s ambassador to protest a perceived breach of diplomatic protocol

Washington Times columnist Miles Yu, one of the nation's leading China experts, incurred the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party recently, highlighting the global reach of his reports.

A Colombian man will spend five years in prison and forfeit $1.2 million for a scheme that saw Mexican drug proceeds funneled into U.S. bank accounts before being sent to Colombia.