U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a member of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet who has played a pivotal role in the Ukraine controversy, will refuse to testify as requested next week in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against Trump, an Energy Department spokeswoman said on Friday. Perry’s refusal represented the latest instance of Trump’s administration refusing to […]

Vietnam said on Saturday that human traffickers must be strictly dealt with as the Southeast Asian country was informed that several of its citizens were among the 39 people who died in a truck container in Britain last week. “The Vietnamese embassy in Britain was informed by Essex police that there are Vietnamese citizens, unidentified, […]

The German rescue ship Alan Kurdi made an unauthorised entrance into Italian territorial waters on  Friday. The ship has been sailing in the Mediterranean for almost a week with 88 migrants on board and has not yet been assigned a safe harbour. The non-profit organisation behind the Alan Kurdi, Sea Eye, said Friday’s manoeuvre was in response […]

Speaking in Belfast, Essex Police Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Stoten urged the brothers to “hand yourselves in to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.’’ The police earlier arrested the 25-year-old Northern Irish driver of the lorry that collected the container from the British freight port of Purleet, near London, after it was shipped from Zeebrugge […]

Apple Inc asked the Trump administration to waive tariffs on Chinese-made Apple Watches, iPhone components and other consumer products, according to company filings with the U.S. Trade Representative’s Office. The company on Thursday sought tariff exclusions from 11 products, including HomePod speakers, iMac computers, parts for use in repairing iPhones, iPhone smart battery cases, AirPods […]