WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Tuesday that aim to boost coal production in his latest action that runs counter to global efforts to curb carbon emissions. Coal-burning plants generate less than 20% of U.S. electricity, a…

Senior U.S. Defense Department officials are considering a proposal to withdraw as many as 10,000 troops from Eastern Europe, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing six U.S. and European officials briefed on the matter.

ATHENS – The EU border agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations migrants were pushed back across the frontier, a practice for which Athens has already been chastised…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is considering drone strikes on drug cartels in Mexico to combat trafficking across the southern border, NBC News reported on Tuesday. It cited six current and former U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence officials with…

WASHINGTON – U.S. tariff negotiations are the result of calls from other countries not sliding financial markets and China’s escalation is a big mistake, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday. “I think it was a big mistake, this…

BEIJING/WASHINGTON -China vowed not to bow to “blackmail” from the United States as a global trade war ignited by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs showed little sign of abating on Tuesday even as battered stock markets steadied. The rebuke…

TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call that his tariff policies are extremely disappointing and urged him to rethink. “I’ve told the President that Japan has been the…

WASHINGTON -A bipartisan bill in the U.S. Senate to require congressional approval for new tariffs has no future, the chamber’s top Republican John Thune told reporters on Monday. The measure was introduced last week by Democrat Maria Cantwell of Washington…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Monday that the U.S. and Iran are participating in direct talks over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program. “We’re having direct talks with Iran, and they’ve started. It’ll go on Saturday. We have…

ATHENS -Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday it had identified the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, which has been criticized by rights groups for dangerous living conditions….

The state of Maine on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to freeze federal funding for education programs in the state over its refusal to ban transgender women from sports. The lawsuit came a week…

WASHINGTON -White House economic adviser Stephen Miran on Monday encouraged countries hoping to escape high reciprocal U.S. tariff rates to make offers to President Donald Trump, saying the president would welcome moves to lower barriers to U.S. exports. Miran told…

WASHINGTON – A host of U.S. federal agencies have unveiled fresh buyout offers to slash the federal workforce, renewing the voluntary program that preceded the first wave of mass firings led by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. The Treasury…

Paramount and U.S. President Donald Trump are set to begin mediation in his $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News after the two sides agreed on a mediator, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing two people familiar with the…

WASHINGTON -U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy said he plans to tell Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to stop recommending fluoride in drinking water, the Associated Press reported on Monday.

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Justice Department on Monday repealed a Biden-era “zero tolerance” policy which called for revoking the licenses of gun dealers who willfully committed serious violations such as failing to conduct background checks, an FBI spokesperson said. The reversal…

A federal appeals court blocked U.S. President Donald Trump from removing Democratic members from two federal labor boards on Monday, setting aside its earlier ruling. The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit further…

WASHINGTON -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to use a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but…

BOSTON – A U.S. appeals court on Monday declined to lift an order blocking the Trump administration from sending people with final deportation orders to countries not cited in earlier proceedings without first letting them make a case for humanitarian…

WASHINGTON  -Harvard University plans to borrow $750 million from Wall Street as part of contingency preparations, it said on Monday, days after President Donald Trump’s administration said it was reviewing $9 billion in federal grants and contracts in a crackdown…

WASHINGTON/LUXEMBOURG -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to further increase tariffs on China on Monday, raising the possibility of further escalation in a trade war that has already wiped trillions of dollars from global markets. Trump said he would impose an…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – More than 500 law firms have signed a court brief denouncing Donald Trump’s targeting of Perkins Coie and other firms, expressing alarm over the Republican president’s intensifying crackdown on the legal profession. Law firms signed the brief…

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away on Monday a challenge to New York firearms restrictions adopted shortly after the justices in 2022 struck down the Democratic state’s previous limits on carrying concealed handguns in a landmark ruling that expanded gun…

A divided federal appeals court set aside a court order that had blocked the government downsizing team created by U.S. President Donald Trump and led by Elon Musk from seizing sensitive data from the Treasury Department, Education Department and Office…

WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to limit the sting of tariffs imposed on his country when he meets U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday, a visit likely to be closely watched by world leaders as global…

GAZA/CAIRO – A Palestinian journalist was killed on Monday and nine others were wounded, some critically, when an Israeli air strike hit a tent used by local media in southern Gaza, medics and the local journalists’ union said. Footage showed…

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin still supports the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but Russia has not yet been given answers to key questions it has about a truce proposed by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, the…

Iran is pushing back against U.S. demands that it directly negotiate over its nuclear programme or be bombed, warning neighbours that host U.S. bases that they could be in the firing line if involved, a senior Iranian official said. Although…

WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice on Sunday said it had placed one of its attorneys on leave after he failed to vigorously defend the department’s handling of a man erroneously deported to El Salvador in what a U.S. judge…

JERUSALEM – Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about ten projectiles were fired, but most successfully…