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UNITED NATIONS – China will next week convene an informal United Nations Security Council meeting to accuse the United States of bullying and “casting a shadow over the global efforts for peace and development” by weaponizing tariffs. The move comes…
BEIJING – China’s foreign ministry on Wednesday urged the United States to stop exerting maximum pressure if it really wants to solve issues through dialogue, after the White House said the “ball is in China’s court” on trade talks.
DUBAI – Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday he was neither “overly optimistic nor pessimistic” about talks with the U.S. on Iran’s nuclear programme, in an apparent move by Tehran to play down growing public expectations of a…
Arkansas on Tuesday became the first state to ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to allow it to ban soda and candy from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, with the support…
Rates of autism spectrum disorder among U.S. children reached a record level in 2022, continuing a recent trend of increasing prevalence, according to data released on Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At 16 monitoring sites…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump spoke on Tuesday with the sultan of Oman about the next round of Iran talks scheduled for Saturday in Oman, the White House said. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Trump’s bottom line…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned leaders of Mexican cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana on Tuesday while the State Department announced reward offers of up to $8 million for information that could lead to their arrests. The Treasury Department’s…
UNITED NATIONS – UNICEF has projected that its 2026 budget will shrink by at least 20% compared to 2024, a spokesperson for the U.N. children’s agency said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed global humanitarian aid. In 2024,…
NEW YORK – A group of U.S. universities sued the Department of Energy in Massachusetts federal court on Monday over steep cuts to federal research funding in areas like advanced nuclear technology, cybersecurity, novel radioactive drugs, and upgrades to rural…
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said on Monday he believes Iran is intentionally delaying a nuclear deal with the United States and that it must abandon any drive for a nuclear weapon or face a possible military strike on Tehran’s…
BEIJING – The Chinese embassy in Argentina has called out U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for “maliciously slandering and smearing” China for carrying out normal cooperation with other countries, expressing firm opposition to his remarks. “We advise the U.S. to…
MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister said in an interview that it was not easy to agree with the United States on the key parts of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. “It is not easy to…
Pete Marocco, the Trump administration official who oversaw the closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development, has left the State Department after less than three months on the job, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing U.S. officials.
The helicopter that crashed into New York City’s Hudson River on Thursday, killing all six on board including three children, lacked flight recorders, the National Transportation Safety Board said. No video or camera recorders have been recovered from the Bell…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday a Maryland resident deported to El Salvador is “alive and secure” in a terrorism confinement center there, after a U.S. Judge demanded updates on the Trump administration’s efforts to secure his…
WASHINGTON – U.S. officials gained the release on Sunday of an American detained in Tunisia, Robert Vieira, U.S. special envoy Adam Boehler said. Vieira was detained 13 months ago while doing missionary work in Tunisia and was suspected by Tunisian…
MOSCOW – The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump’s team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump’s…
RIYADH – The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom’s ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday. Wright,…
WASHINGTON -U.S. President Donald Trump remains in excellent health, White House physician Captain Sean Barbella said in a report released on Sunday, two days after he underwent a routine physical on Friday. The report is the most detailed information on…
WASHINGTON -Prospective jurors in Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial next month will be asked about their opinions on a range of issues including kidnapping, drug distribution and sex trafficking, according to draft questionnaires filed by the hip-hop mogul’s lawyers. Combs, 55,…
DUBAI – Iran and the United States will hold high-level talks in Oman on Saturday aimed at jump-starting negotiations over Tehran’s fast-advancing nuclear programme, with U.S. President Donald Trump threatening military action if there is no deal. Iran is approaching…
The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to enable the stockpiling of deep-sea metals to counter China’s dominance in battery minerals and rare earth supply chains, the Financial Times reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Under…
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday for what he said was a better understanding of the Ukraine conflict than any other Western leader. “When we speak about eliminating root causes of any…
WASHINGTON – U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday on a U.S. proposal to gain access to Ukraine’s mineral wealth, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding that prospects for a breakthrough were scant given the meeting’s “antagonistic”…
Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of utility Edison International, said on Friday it had submitted an initial plan to rebuild the areas within its service territory that were devastated by the Los Angeles wildfires in January. The preliminary plan…
WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would love to get a deal with China to end an escalating trade war. Trump made the comments during a Cabinet meeting opened to press. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott…
DUBAI – Iran is giving talks with its arch foe the United States this weekend “a genuine chance”, the Iranian foreign ministry’s spokesperson posted on X on Friday. U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprise announcement on Monday that Washington…
TAIPEI -Taiwan is to be included in the first batch of trading partners to hold talks with Washington, President Lai Ching-te said on Friday, as his economy minister said the island could import over $200 billion worth of U.S. goods,…
GENEVA -Sweeping tariffs under U.S. President Donald Trump and countermeasures could have a “catastrophic” impact on developing countries, hitting even harder than foreign aid cuts, the director of the United Nation’s trade agency said on Friday. Global trade could shrink…
GENEVA – David Die Dejean is passionate about studying tuna. Last year, he landed a dream job at Natthe ional Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Miami to pursue his research. By January, he was settled in, had received a good…