The Latest News and Information That Matters To You
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…
TOKYO -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday the government will continue to ask U.S. President Donald Trump to lower tariffs against Japan, but acknowledged results “won’t come overnight.” “As such, the government must take all available means” to…
LONDON -Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could lead to a rise in deaths, the United Nations has warned. Globally, there was a…
RAMALLAH – A Palestinian teenager with U.S. citizenship was killed after being shot by an Israeli settler in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, as tensions continue to escalate amid a surge in settler…
SYDNEY -Asian markets faced more turmoil on Monday as fears of a global trade war saw Wall Street futures plunge, while investors wagered the mounting risk of recession could see U.S. rates cut as early as May. S&P 500 futures…
BRUSSELS – European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, likely approving a first set of targeted countermeasures on up to $28 billion of U.S. imports from dental…
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…
JERUSALEM – The Israeli military has provided new details that changed its initial account of the killing of 15 emergency workers near the southern Gaza city of Rafah last month but said investigators were still examining the evidence. The 15…
WASHINGTON – Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear said on Sunday that two people died and over 500 roads were closed in the state due to deadly storms and floods, which have also killed over a dozen people in the past week…
Investors were nervously awaiting the open of U.S. trading after Wall Street’s selloff last week following the Trump administration’s tariffs announcement, anticipating another week of turbulence as other nations react. In the two days following Trump’s Wednesday tariff announcement, the…
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning a rushed trip to Texas late on Saturday after information from his department that a second child’s death in the state could have been due to measles, Axios reported on Sunday.
JAKARTA – Indonesia will not retaliate against U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariff on Southeast Asia’s largest economy, its senior economic minister said on Sunday in the government’s first response to the levy. Chief Economic Minister Airlangga Hartarto said in…
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…
Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, was down by around 5% at $78,892.92 at 1855 GMT on Sunday. Ether, the second largest cryptocurrency, was down by around 9.62% at $1617.65 at 1859 GMT on Sunday.
VERONA, Italy – The outlook for Prosecco, Brunello di Montalcino and other Italian wines in the United States is increasingly gloomy, producers and importers said, following President Donald Trump’s imposition of a 20% tariff on European imports. Italy exports more…
WASHINGTON – More than 50 countries have reached out to the White House to begin trade talks, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday as U.S. officials sought to defend sweeping new tariffs that have…
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he hopes U.S. President Donald Trump will ease tariffs imposed on Israel when the two meet in Washington this week. Under a sweeping new tariff policy announced by Trump, Israeli…
PASTO, Colombia – Colombian armed group Comuneros del Sur, which has broken away from the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN) rebel group, handed over war material and signed two agreements with President Gustavo Petro, the government and the group said…
The state of Texas on Saturday said it opened a probe into WK Kellogg, saying the breakfast cereal maker could be violating state laws by advertising its products as “healthy.” The office of state Attorney General Ken Paxton said in…
WASHINGTON -A U.S. Senate “vote-a-rama” marathon session headed into the early hours of Saturday, with the aim of eventually handing Republican President Donald Trump sweeping legislation to cut taxes and reduce spending over staunch Democratic opposition. Republicans and Democrats considered…
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has appointed a national security lawyer who entered the foreign service just four years ago as the top official overseeing the State Department’s global workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter and an…
Former U.S. Representative George Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief and scandal-plagued tenure, should be sentenced to more than seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said Friday. Santos pleaded guilty…
WASHINGTON -A U.S. Senate bill that would require congressional approval for new tariffs gained more Republican support on Friday, on the second day of a stock market rout sparked by President Donald Trump’s move to impose sweeping new taxes on…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. said on Saturday it would revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders over that country’s failure of to accept the return of repatriated citizens. South Sudan had failed to respect the principle that every…
PARIS – France could see a 0.5 percentage point reduction in gross domestic product growth as a result of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said in an interview on Saturday. “Trump’s policies could cost us…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday expressed disappointment in the U.S. embassy’s response to a Russian missile strike that killed 18 people, including nine children, in Zelenskiy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih. Zelenskiy, who has been cautious about openly criticizing Washington…
WASHINGTON/JUPITER, Florida -U.S. customs agents began collecting President Donald Trump’s unilateral 10% tariff on all imports from many countries on Saturday, with higher levies on goods from 57 larger trading partners due to start next week. The initial 10% “baseline”…
Some 1,200 demonstrations are planned across the U.S. on Saturday in what organizers expect to be the largest single day of protest against President Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk since they launched a rapid-fire effort to overhaul…
ROME – U.S. tech-billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday he hoped in future to see complete freedom of trade between the United States and Europe, speaking days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced tariffs on trading partners. Musk, a Trump…
U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau discussed on Friday with Panama’s Foreign Minister Javier Martinez-Acha the importance of an ongoing audit of Hutchison’s management of concessions of two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, the State Department…