Venezuela: More than 8 million grant government more power

Venezuelan electoral authorities said more than 8 million people voted Sunday to create a constitutional assembly endowing President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling socialist party with virtually unlimited powers — a report more than double the estimates of...

Al-Qaeda’s Yemen arm said to be flush with cash and positioned to launch new attacks

The Yemen-based arm of al-Qaeda — flush with millions in ill-gotten gains — is gaining strength from the fractured nation’s civil conflict and is sufficiently funded to carry out new terror attacks, according to a new report. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian...