Games news

• Nigeria votes for a 2nd day in places as death toll rises

  24-02-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria faced a second day of voting in scattered areas Sunday in a presidential election seen as too close to call, while the death toll from vote-related violence mounted in Africa's largest democracy.
  
  Read more

• Trump delays tariff increase in China trade war after 'productive talks'

  24-02-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said the US will postpone an increase in its tariffs on goods from China as a result of “substantial progress” in trade talks.“I am pleased to report that the US has made substantial progress in our trade talks with China on important structural issues including intellectual property protection, technology transfer, agriculture, services, currency, and many other issues,” the US president tweeted.
  
  Read more

• UK PM May considers plan to delay Brexit by two months: The Telegraph

  24-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is considering a plan under which Britain's exit from the European Union would be delayed for up to two months, the Telegraph reported https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/02/24/exclusive-brexit-will-delayed-two-months-plans-considered-theresa on Sunday.UK government officials have drawn up a series of options, which were circulated at the weekend, in a bid to avoid resignations by ministers determined to support a backbench bid to take a "no deal" Brexit
  
  Read more

• 'Surviving R. Kelly' filmmaker on overdue sex abuse charges: Were girls of color ignored?

  24-02-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Rumors about R. Kelly have persisted for decades. All of us are guilty that we let his star power blind us to injustice against women and girls.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• British PM May signals she is ready to fight on

  24-02-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  May told her governing Conservatives in December last year she would not lead the party into the next election, part of a message to ease concerns among her lawmakers before they mounted, and then lost, a no confidence vote against her."I was very clear in December with the Conservative Party as far as I am concerned ... my job is not only about delivering Brexit, actually there's a domestic agenda that I am delivering on," she told reporters before arriving in Egypt for a summit.
  
  Read more

• Tornado tears through Columbus, Mississippi, leads to first tornado death of 2019

  24-02-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Stunned residents of Columbus, Mississippi, were picking up the pieces Sunday after a violent tornado ripped through town, leaving one person dead.
  
  Read more

• Dozens killed in Nigeria poll violence: observers

  24-02-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The Situation Room - which represents more than 70 civil society groups - gave the death toll the day after voting, citing data from Lagos-based consultancy SBM Intelligence.President Muhammadu Buhari, 76, a former military ruler who is seeking a second term on an anti-corruption platform, faces Atiku Abubakar, 72, a businessman and former vice president who has promised to expand the role of the private sector.The Nigeria Police Force said 128 people had been arrested nationwide for election-re
  
  Read more

• A top Democrat vows to subpoena Mueller report if necessary

  24-02-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A prominent Democratic lawmaker said Sunday that if the new US attorney general refuses to make public the upcoming special counsel report on Russia and the Trump election campaign, it will be subpoenaed and Robert Mueller will be called in to testify.Attorney General William Barr, who took office earlier this month, refused in his Senate confirmation hearings to explicitly promise to publicly release Mueller's findings once he receives them.Mueller is reportedly no more than weeks away from com
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• U.S. Democrats will subpoena Mueller's Russia report if needed: Schiff

  24-02-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Schiff, a Democrat who chairs the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said Democrats will also sue the government and call on Mueller to testify to Congress if necessary."We will obviously subpoena the report.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: UN rights chief condemns Venezuela violence

  24-02-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Security men and metal detectors: Vietnam prepares for Trump-Kim summit

  24-02-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, hoping to build on a commitment they made at their first meeting, in Singapore in June, to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear bombs.Vietnam has confirmed that Kim will arrive for an official goodwill visit as well as the summit with Trump, but has released no further details regarding the location of meetings.A Reuters witness saw Vietnamese soldiers in camouflaged fatigues sweeping the
  
  Read more

• Pompeo Says ‘More Sanctions to Be Had’ to Pressure Venezuela

  24-02-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The steps outlined by Pence may include forms of economic or diplomatic pressure by the U.S., a second official said.Secretary of State Michael Pompeo also said earlier on CNN’s “State of the Union” that more sanctions are possible on Venezuela without offering details on what measures the U.S. may be planning, as regional leaders prepare to meet in Colombia.Pence’s announcement will come more than a month after the U.S. recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s interim
  
  Read more

• 5 dead in Kashmir, shops stage boycott of crackdown by India

  24-02-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Three rebels, a counterinsurgency police officer and an army soldier were killed Sunday during a gunbattle in Kashmir, officials said, as shops and businesses shut down to protest a sweeping and ongoing crackdown against activists seeking the end of Indian rule in the disputed region.
  
  Read more

• U.S. to announce 'concrete steps' for Venezuela crisis on Monday: official

  24-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The official declined to comment on what the new measures would entail ahead of Pence's speech, to be delivered to a summit of the Lima Group around 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) after he meets with Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido.The meeting come after convoys of U.S. aid were blocked at the Venezuelan border by forces and gangs loyal to President Nicolas Maduro.The United States and most other Western nations no longer recognize Maduro as the country's leader.
  
  Read more

• Pope vows to end abuse cover-ups but victims disappointed

  24-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis closed out his extraordinary summit on preventing clergy sex abuse by vowing Sunday to confront abusers with "the wrath of God" felt by the faithful, end the cover-ups by their superiors and prioritize the victims of this "brazen, aggressive and destructive evil."
  
  Read more

• EU Considers 21-Month Delay If May Can't Get Brexit Done

  24-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union is considering telling Theresa May that if she can’t get her Brexit deal through Parliament and wants to delay the departure date, the country will have to stay in the bloc until 2021.Three European officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said senior EU figures and several governments back an extension of as much as 21 months beyond the scheduled March 29 exit day.
  
  Read more

• White House manages expectations for second Kim summit

  24-02-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is trying to manage expectations for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, predicting a "continuation of the progress" made last time.
  
  Read more

• Retirement: How do your financial habits compare with others?

  24-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Fact: Retirement saving is simple, like losing weight. Sadly, like with shedding pounds, most people just won’t do it.
  
  Read more

• Harry and Meghan meet Moroccan girls during official tour

  24-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The British royals' trip, their last official foreign tour before becoming parents, was set to focus on initiatives promoting girls' education, women's empowerment and the inclusion of people with disabilities.A heavily pregnant Meghan, with henna on one hand, accepted flowers from one of the girls in Asni while she and Harry chatted outside to a group from the programme Education For All Morocco.The organisation runs free boarding houses to give girls aged 12 to 18 from the High Atlas region ac
  
  Read more

• Venezuela aid boat reaches Curacao after reported standoff

  24-02-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Willemstad, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) (AFP) - A boat carrying aid from the United States docked at the island of Curacao on Sunday after officials said the Venezuelan military had stopped it reaching the crisis-hit country.The shipment was part of a broader drive to take food and medicine into Venezuela in defiance of its President Nicolas Maduro.The Midnight Stone supply ship, loaded with nine cargo containers, entered the harbor on the Caribbean island 40 miles (65 kilometers) from
  
  Read more

• Princess Rima bint Bandar: First Saudi woman ambassador

  24-02-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Princess Rima bint Bandar, Saudi Arabia's first woman ambassador, is a social campaigner on the front line of government efforts to boost the kingdom's battered international reputation despite never having worked as a diplomat.The 43-year-old princess was named envoy to Washington on Saturday as the kingdom faces pressure from US lawmakers over last year's murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents and its bombing campaign in neighbouring Yemen.A member of the Saudi royal family, the
  
  Read more

• Bangladesh commandos shoot purported hijacker of Biman Bangladesh plane

  24-02-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The passenger, who had said he had a personal issue with his wife and told the pilot he wanted to speak to Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, died later from the injuries suffered after the commandos stormed the plane at Chittagong's Shah Amanat International Airport, officials said."We tried to arrest him or get him to surrender but he refused and then we shot him," said Major General S M Motiur Rahman of the Bangladesh Army.The man's threat to blow up the plane, which was on its way to
  
  Read more

• Trump dangles 'major power' carrot as Kim begins trek to summit

  24-02-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said Kim Jong Un could soon put North Korea on the fast-track to becoming a major power Sunday as his former rival chugged across China in an armoured train, heading to their highly-anticipated summit in Vietnam.After North Korea's leader began his 4,000-kilometre epic from Pyongyang to Hanoi on Saturday, the US president flies out of Washington on Monday for their second meeting.Images from North Korean state media showed citizens cheering Kim as he waved from the train at the star
  
  Read more

• Exodus from last IS enclave overwhelms Syria force

  24-02-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  US-backed Syrian forces warned Sunday they were struggling to cope with an outpouring of foreigners from the Islamic State group's imploding "caliphate", urging governments to take responsibility for their citizens.The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have evacuated nearly 5,000 men, women and children from the jihadist redoubt since Wednesday, moving closer to retaking the last sliver of territory under IS control."The numbers of foreign fighters and their relatives that we are holding is i
  
  Read more

• Writer tenacious in R. Kelly coverage that has spanned years

  24-02-2019 19:46 via finance.yahoo.com
  The longtime chronicler of Kelly took issue with defense attorney Steve Greenberg's suggestion that one of Kelly's accusers told authorities that she lied about her age.Kelly is charged with sexually abusing four people, including three minors."Don't misquote a victim, Mr. Greenberg!" DeRogatis yelled during a testy exchange.
  
  Read more

• Venezuela: At least 100 soldiers 'flee to Colombia' as two killed and hundreds injured in humanitarian aid clashes

  24-02-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 100 Venezuelan soldiers have deserted the country, reports suggest, as Nicolas Maduro faces increasing public pressure to abandon his presidency.The defections came as Juan Guaido, the country’s opposition leader, called on security forces to abandon Mr Maduro and to allow humanitarian aid into the nation – amid violent clashes at the border that saw two people killed and one shipment burned.Some 104 soldiers have now fled across the border into Colombia, according to CNN en
  
  Read more

• Schiff vows lawsuit for Mueller report if it's not released

  24-02-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat threatened Sunday to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and take the Trump administration to court if necessary if the full report on the Russia investigation is not made public.
  
  Read more

• North Korea warns U.S. skeptics as Kim heads for summit with Trump

  24-02-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The two leaders will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, where they pledged to work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.The North's KCNA state news agency said such opposition was aimed at derailing the talks."If the present U.S. administration reads others' faces, lending an ear to others, it may face the shattered dream of the improvement of
  
  Read more

• Nigerian Rivals Claim Successes as They Await Vote Outcome

  24-02-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  As many as 73 million people were eligible to vote Saturday in a tight race between Buhari, 76, an ex-general who campaigned on an anti-graft platform, and Abubakar, a 72-year-old businessman and former vice president.The National Independent Electoral Commission will start announcing results Monday from 11 a.m., its chairman, Mahmood Yakubu, said at the opening of the national collation center in the capital, Abuja.
  
  Read more

• The Latest: Victims disappointed by lack of concrete action

  24-02-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on Pope Francis' summit at the Vatican on preventing clergy sex abuse (all times local):
  
  Read more

• Anger as UK's May asks for yet more time to amend Brexit deal

  24-02-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday called for still more time to renegotiate her Brexit deal, and drew outrage by suggesting parliament may not be able to vote on the text until just 17 days before Britain leaves the EU.Business leaders and MPs reacted with anger and dismay at the news, which also prompted fresh calls to delay Brexit to avoid a damaging "no deal" exit on March 29.Three of May's ministers had earlier warned that the House of Commons would seek a delay if there was no br
  
  Read more

• Pope declares war on sexual abuse but victims feel betrayed

  24-02-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  In his closing address to the almost 200 Church leaders he had summoned to Rome, Francis said national guidelines on preventing and punishing abuse would be strengthened and the Church's definition of minors in cases of possession by clergy of pornography would be raised from the current age of 14.At least two Vatican officials have been convicted in recent years of possessing child pornography.Shortly after the conference, the Vatican said it would enact a law to protect minors and vulnerable a
  
  Read more

• Amazon Prime cargo plane crash kills three people

  24-02-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Three people are thought to have died after a plane carrying Amazon cargo crashed into Trinity Bay in Texas on Saturday afternoon.The Boeing 767 cargo jetliner was travelling to Houston from Miami and was just 30 miles southeast of its destination, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, when air traffic controllers lost radar and radio contact with the craft.Controllers in Houston tried at least twice to contact the plane but received no response.
  
  Read more

• May Delays Brexit Vote to Buy Time as Ministers Threaten Revolt

  24-02-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Theresa May pushed back the deadline for Parliament to vote on her Brexit deal, in a gamble she hopes will buy more time for negotiations but which risks inflaming the revolt against her.The British prime minister confirmed she won’t bring a new divorce deal back to the House of Commons for a final vote this week.Instead, she’s asking already skeptical members of Parliament to give her more time to renegotiate, promising they will get a vote by March 12.
  
  Read more

• Top Democrat Vows to Sue If Necessary to Get Mueller Report

  24-02-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff vowed to subpoena Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation report, and sue President Donald Trump’s administration for the underlying evidence if necessary to make it public.
  
  Read more

• Suspected Bangladesh plane hijacker shot dead: army

  24-02-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Bangladesh commandos stormed a passenger jet in the country's southeast Sunday and shot dead an armed man who allegedly tried to hijack the Dubai-bound flight, an army official said.The suspect, described by officials as a Bangladeshi man in his mid 20s, was shot as special forces rushed the Boeing 737-800 plane after it landed safely in Chittagong.The 134 passengers and 14 crew aboard the Bangladesh Biman flight BG147 were all rescued unharmed, officials said.
  
  Read more

• Rep. Schiff 'Absolutely' Ready to Take Trump Administration to Court Over Mueller Report

  24-02-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  "We are going to get to the bottom of this."
  
  Read more

• Pompeo pledges continued pressure on Venezuela's Maduro

  24-02-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will continue to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro until he understands his days are "numbered," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday.
  
  Read more

• Japan's Okinawa votes against controversial US base move

  24-02-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Voters on the Japanese island of Okinawa have rejected the relocation of a controversial US military base, according to official results from a non-binding referendum Sunday.Some 72 percent voted against the move with 19 percent in favour from a 52 percent turnout, the local government said.Opponents of the relocation -- some 434,000 -- had turned out in sufficient numbers to meet the threshold required for Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki to "respect" the result of the symbolic referendum, it said
  
  Read more

• Fire, fury, love? The mythology behind the Trump-Kim summit

  24-02-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire, fury, love.
  
  Read more

• Venezuelan President Maduro salsa dances at a rally amid violent protests

  24-02-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says now is the time to act in support of democracy, and respond to the needs of the desperate Venezuelan people.
  
  Read more

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers impassioned response to critics: 'I'm the boss. How about that?'

  24-02-2019 16:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has accused critics of “not trying” to tackle climate change following opposition to her ambitious Green New Deal programme.Ms Ocasio-Cortez addressed criticism she has faced from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress at a New York Hall of Science event.“I just introduced the Green New Deal two weeks ago and it’s creating all of this conversation, why?
  
  Read more

• Trump Vents Frustration With Trade Czar as China Talks Continue

  24-02-2019 16:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The exasperation between the two erupted into the open during an unusual public exchange in front of China’s top negotiator, assembled U.S. officials and journalists on Friday, during which Trump took issue with Lighthizer’s explanation that any deal would take the form of a memorandum of understanding.“I don’t like MOUs because they don’t mean anything,’’ the president said, before shooting down Lighthizer when the career lawyer described such documents
  
  Read more

• Syrian state news: Mine left by Islamic State group kills 20

  24-02-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A land mine left by the Islamic State group struck a van packed with workers in eastern Syria, killing more than 20 of them, Syria's state news agency said on Sunday. The agency earlier reported that 24 people were killed.
  
  Read more

• Gaza protesters call on Palestinian leader to quit

  24-02-2019 16:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of protesters in the Gaza Strip Sunday called on Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to resign after attempts to pressure his rival Hamas with financial cuts in the impoverished enclave."Leave!" yelled crowds made up mainly of supporters of Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan, an Abbas rival expelled from the president's Fatah party and who now lives in exile.
  
  Read more

• Pompeo confident Maduro's 'days are numbered' in Venezuela 

  24-02-2019 16:15 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed confidence Sunday that embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's "days are numbered," amid a violent impasse over humanitarian aid.Pompeo's remarks came a day after a US-supported, opposition-led effort to bring humanitarian supplies into the country was repelled by Venezuelan border troops firing tear gas and rubber bullets.
  
  Read more

• Pope vows 'all-out battle' saying child sex abuse like 'human sacrifice'

  24-02-2019 16:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis on Sunday vowed to tackle every single case of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, comparing paedophilia to "human sacrifice" in a speech that left victims cold."If in the Church there should emerge even a single case of abuse – which already in itself represents an atrocity – that case will be faced with the utmost seriousness", Francis promised.
  
  Read more

• Barry Jenkins pledges to join Regina King's Time's Up challenge in Spirit Awards speech

  24-02-2019 16:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Director Barry Jenkins used his acceptance speech at the Spirit Awards to draw attention the Time's Up "4 Percent Challenge."
  
  Read more

• R. Kelly's bond set at $1 million by Chicago judge in sex abuse case

  24-02-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The judge, who also presided over Jussie Smollett’s bond hearing earlier this week, called the allegations against R. Kelly “disturbing.”
  
  Read more

• Guaido Hints at More Radical Steps to Topple Maduro as Aid Burns

  24-02-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Juan Guaido, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly, said that he’ll meet Monday with officials from countries in the region backing his push to topple Maduro and announce the next steps afterward.Shortly thereafter, Senator Marco Rubio, who’s helped spearhead the U.S. position on Venezuela, posted a tweet showing Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega under arrest in the U.S. in what was a not-so-subtle threat to take Maduro out militarily.
  
  Read more

Follow @GamesUKnews on Twitter!