TRUMP TELLS VENEZUELA MILITARY TO BACK GUAIDO OR ‘LOSE EVERYTHING’
MIAMI : US President Donald Trump has asked Venezuela’s military to accept opposition leader Juan Guaido’s amnesty offer or stand to “lose everything,” as a crisis deepened over President Nicolas Maduro’s refusal to let in desperately needed humanitarian aid. Addressing supporters and Venezuelan expatriates in Miami on Monday, Trump said the “eyes of the entire world are upon you” today and every day in the future. “You can choose to accept president Guaido’s generous offer of amnesty to live your life in peace. Or you can choose the second path: continuing to support Maduro. If you choose this path, you will find no safe harbour, no easy exit and no way out. You will lose everything.” AGENCIES
Pak out of financial crisis, says Central bank governor
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has come out of the financial crisis with the help of friendly countries and the economy has been set on the right path, the governor of the State Bank of Pakistan Tariq Bajwa has claimed. His remarks coincided with the announcement by Saudi Arabia that it would invest $20 billion in Pakistan under various projects. Bajwa said on Monday that uncertainty in the economy had ended, and that the government was capable of meeting all economic challenges.
‘Kissing sailor’ in iconic WW2 picture dies aged 95
WASHINGTON : The sailor pictured kissing a woman in Times Square as people celebrated the end of World War 2 has died at age 95, his daughter told The Providence Journal. George Mendonsa had a seizure on Sunday after falling at an assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, his daughter Sharon Molleur said. AP
Indian-origin couple found dead in ‘murder-suicide’
HOUSTON: An Indian-american couple was found dead in their home in an apparent murder-suicide in a Texas suburb, police said. The dead were identified as Sreenivas Nakirekanti and his wife Shanti. AGENCIES
US newspaper calls for resurgence of Ku Klux Klan
MONTGOMERY : A small Alabama newspaper is advocating for the resurgence of America’s most feared white supremacist terrorist organisation, the Ku Klux Klan. An editorial in The Democrat-reporter of Linden, Alabama, begins with the line: “Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again.” It says Democrats and “Democrats in the Republican Party” are plotting to raise taxes in Alabama, so the Klan should raid the “gated communities” where they live. AP
200 families trapped by Islamic State in Syria: UN
GENEVA : Some 200 families are trapped in a shrinking area of Syria controlled by Islamic State, which is stopping many from fleeing, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Tuesday, calling for the families’ safe passage. The Us-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are close to defeating IS in its last pocket in Syria, the village of Baghouz, where a few hundred IS fighters and about 2,000 civilians are under siege. REUTERS
Top advisor to Canadian PM Trudeau resigns
OTTAWA : Canadian PM Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary Gerry Butts quit amid allegations of political interference in the criminal prosecution of engineering giant Snc-lavalin.