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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The first direct commercial flight between the United States and Venezuela is scheduled to land on Thursday in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, seven years after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ordered an indefinite suspension, citing security concerns. The resumption of a commercial flight between the two countries comes in the wake of the U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro in a stunning nighttime raid on his […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Activists sailing on dozens of boats attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip to deliver humanitarian aid say Israeli forces intercepted them overnight Wednesday into Thursday, detaining the crews while the flotilla was sailing hundreds of miles (kilometers) from Gaza near the southern Greek island of Crete. The Global Sumud Flotilla set sail earlier this month from Barcelona. Organizers have said more than […]

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A Cambodian court Thursday upheld the treason conviction and 27-year prison sentence for opposition leader Kem Sokha, whose 2017 arrest opened a broad government crackdown on political opponents in the country. The Phnom Penh Appeals Court also barred Kem Sokha from leaving the country for five years after he finishes his sentence, which he is serving under house arrest. Cambodia’s government has long been accused […]

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, April 30 (Reuters) – Tariffs on digital displays used in TVs and smartphones could help prevent the U.S. military from becoming dependent on China for the critical parts, a policy group chaired by CrowdStrike co-founder and cybersecurity expert Dmitri Alperovitch said in a report released Thursday. National security experts have warned for several years that China’s rising market share in displays, a critical part of […]

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – Canada is set to host a proposed mulitlateral defence bank designed to help fund the rearmament of nations facing heightened geopolitical risks, the country’s finance ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday. The statement said Canada had been working in Montreal with allies to agree a founding charter for the planned Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB). The other countries were not identified. The DSRB […]

TAIPEI, April 30 (Reuters) – The CEO of MediaTek, Taiwan’s top chip design company, on Thursday said he has no doubts about the strength of the artificial intelligence wave, adding that demand for data centres is accelerating. Taiwanese tech companies like MediaTek and TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, have reported surging business thanks to the AI boom, despite recent worries among market participants that tech firms’ breakneck spending would […]

TEL AVIV, April 30 (Reuters) – A vessel carrying grain that Ukraine says was stolen by Russia will not unload in Israel, Israeli media reported on Thursday, after Kyiv requested Israel to seize the cargo. The Jerusalem Post and other outlets cited a statement from Israel’s Grain Importers Association saying that the company importing the grain had been forced to turn away the vessel. Zenziper, the company reportedly importing the […]

DHAKA, April 30 (Reuters) – Bangladesh is set to sign a deal on Thursday to buy 14 aircraft from U.S. planemaker Boeing, officials said, a move that marks a shift away from Europe’s Airbus amid trade pressure from Washington. Officials did not disclose the value of the deal, which will provide a mix of narrow-body and wide-body aircraft to Biman Bangladesh Airlines as the national carrier looks to modernise its […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A French teen is facing mischief and public nuisance charges in Singapore after posting a video on social media of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and then putting it back. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, was charged April 24 and hasn’t entered a plea, the city-state’s largest English-language newspaper, The Straits Times, said. He allegedly committed the offense at a […]