Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar was attacked with an unknown substance at a town hall she was hosting on Tuesday, when an audience member used a syringe to spray liquid at her, Minneapolis police said. Omar was uninjured and continued to speak. The man was immediately arrested and forensics were being conducted at the scene, police…
Canadian-American rock star Neil Young is offering Greenlanders a year’s free access to his archives in what he hopes will “ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats” they are receiving from the Trump administration. President Donald Trump has threatened to annex the Danish territory for what he says are national security reasons, though recently…
The scramble for tickets to K-pop band BTS’ comeback tour, which comes after a four-year hiatus, has seen Mexico’s president appealing to her South Korean counterpart to add more shows in her country. “I wrote a letter to the [president] of Korea… I still haven’t received the answer, but let’s hope it’s positive,” Mexico’s president…
President Donald Trump said his administration was “going to de-escalate a little bit” in Minnesota, after the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by federal immigration officers there. “Bottom line, it was terrible. Both of them were terrible,” he said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday. In early January Renee Good was fatally…
Vino Studio / Nineteen57 Events Taking to the catwalk in Ghana at the end of last year, Abena made a statement about the visibility of people with disabilities It was hard to miss 33-year-old model and writer Abena Christine Jon’el’s appearance at a recent major fashion show in Ghana. Walking the runway with her prosthetic…
After a year that began with action in Venezuela and a trip to Davos, President Donald Trump is turning his attention back to the domestic economy. On Tuesday, Trump made a planned trip to Iowa to speak about affordability, which could be followed up by monthly speeches in more US cities and states. It comes…
Getty Images A former French senator has been found guilty of spiking an MP’s drink with ecstasy in order to sexually assault her. Joel Guerriau received a four-year prison sentence – 18 months of which are to be served behind bars – and, according to local media, was ordered to pay Sandrine Josso €5,000 (£4,348)…
The Spanish government has announced a plan to legalise the status of undocumented migrants, a measure expected to benefit at least half a million people. Regularisation will be available to foreign nationals who do not have a criminal record and can prove they lived in Spain for at least five months prior to 31 December…
The families of two Trinidadian men killed in a US strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat have filed a lawsuit against the American government. Lawyers filed the claim in Boston’s federal court on behalf of relatives of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo, among six men killed off the coast of Venezuela on 14 October. One…
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has told reporters he stands behind his speech in Davos calling out unconstrained super powers, after a Trump official said he had “aggressively” walked it back in a call with US President Donald Trump. “To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said…