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US, Britain and UN demand Yemen ceasefire within days

  London / AFP The United States, Britain and the UN peace envoy to Yemen on Sunday urged the warring parties in the country’s civil war to declare a ceasefire they said could start within days. The United Nations envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said: “We are here to call for an immediate cessation of hostilities, which will be declared ...

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Trump challenges Clinton to drug test, says vote ‘rigged’

  Portsmouth / AFP Donald Trump has challenged his rival Hillary Clinton to a drug test before their next debate, suggesting the Democrat was “pumped up” on performance-enhancing drugs in a stunning new twist to the brutal White House race. The unsubstantiated attack from the Republican nominee came as a new poll out Sunday shows Clinton with a four-point lead ...

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Campaign e-mails and the fine art of politics

  A Wall Street executive offered advice on how to deflect criticism for taking money from Wall Street. There was an invitation to spend a weekend at George Soros’s Southampton estate. These and many other tidbits are in the leaked e-mails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta. Guess what else? It turns out that politics influences the Democratic nominee’s ...

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