Argentina’s government has unexpectedly asked for the early release of a $50bn (£37.2bn) loan from the IMF amid a growing economic crisis. President Mauricio Macri said the move was designed to restore confidence in the Argentine economy.   The Argentine peso has lost more than 40% of its value against the US dollar this year and inflation is rampant.   ...

US President Donald Trump has said White House lawyer Don McGahn will leave his post in the coming months. The president tweeted that Mr McGahn would depart after the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee in the autumn.   His exit follows reports of White House unease at the extent of Mr McGahn’s co-operation with an ongoing inquiry into alleged ...

Convicted classified document leaker Chelsea Manning will not be allowed to enter Australia for a speaking tour scheduled to start Sunday, her tour organizer said on Thursday. Think Inc. said received a notice of intention from the government to deny Manning entry. The group is calling on her supporters to lobby new Immigration Minister David Coleman to allow her into ...

  Cox’s Bazar, Aug 29 : British Minister of State for the Middle East at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Minister of State at the Department for International Development Alistair Burt on Wednesday said the UK kept pressure on Myanmar to take back its nationals from Bangladesh ensuring their rights. While talking to reporters after visiting Kutupalong Rohingya camp ...

Dhaka, Aug 29 : The United Kingdom (UK) has expressed hope that the next national elections in Bangladesh would be participatory, where all parties will join. UK FCO-DFID Joint Minister of State Alistair Burt and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam during a meeting at Foreign Ministry here discussed about the upcoming general elections in Bangladesh that will take place later ...

An Iraqi security official says a suicide bomber has targeted a security checkpoint in the western province of Anbar, killing six people.   Maj. Gen. Qasem al-Dulaimi tells The Associated Press the attacker drove a booby-trapped vehicle into a joint security checkpoint managed by the Iraqi army and the Popular Mobilization Forces at the southern entrance of the town of ...

More than 100 Britons who were forcibly sent abroad as children under a resettlement scheme are suing the UK government over the abuse they faced. In March this year, the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sex Abuse said survivors should receive financial compensation within 12 months. But the British government has failed to set up any scheme providing redress. Between 1945-70, ...

Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a “more assertive Russia”. The Vostok-2018, or East 18, exercises simulating large-scale warfare, which the Kremlin called “justified”, will be carried out from September ...

US President Donald Trump has warned that his policies will be “violently” overturned if the Democrats win November’s mid-term elections. He told Evangelical leaders that the vote was a “referendum” on freedom of speech and religion, and that these were threatened by “violent people”.   He appealed to conservative Christian groups for help, saying they were one vote away from ...

Thailand’s military junta announced Tuesday it will ease some restrictions on political parties to let them conduct basic functions and prepare for elections set for early next year, but campaigning will still be forbidden. Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said after a junta meeting that the new rules would allow political parties to hold meetings, make adjustments to regulations, appoint managers ...