Uganda Cuts Internet Access Before Election, Suspends Activities of Rights Groups
KAMPALA – Ugandan authorities cut internet access and limited mobile services across the country on Tuesday, two days before an election in which President Yoweri Museveni will stand for a contentious seventh term after four decades in power. The Uganda…
UN Warns Israel Could Face World Court Action Over Palestinian Refugee Agency
UNITED NATIONS – U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned Israel in a letter that he could refer the country to the International Court of Justice if it does not repeal laws targeting U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA and return seized…
Trump’s Detroit trip puts manufacturing back in focus amid US factory job slump
DEARBORN, Michigan – President Donald Trump traveled to Detroit on Tuesday, aiming to refocus attention on U.S. manufacturing and his efforts to tackle high consumer costs as the White House strives to show it is addressing the economic anxieties gripping…
Denmark’s Greenland dilemma: Defending a territory already on its way out
COPENHAGEN – When U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets his Danish and Greenlandic counterparts next week, Denmark will be defending a territory that has been moving steadily away from it and towards independence since 1979. President Donald Trump’s threats…
Winter pierces Kyiv homes after Russia knocks out heat
KYIV- Kyiv residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers struggled to restore power, water and heat knocked out in the latest salvo of Russian strikes. Russia has regularly conducted intense bombardments of Ukraine’s…
US Senate votes to curb military action in Venezuela, Trump says oversight could last years
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to advance a resolution that would bar President Donald Trump from taking further military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization, even as Trump said U.S. oversight of the troubled nation could last…
Fed to cut rates slightly this year, CBO forecasts
The Federal Reserve will likely cut rates a little more this year to “address downside risks to the labor market,” the Congressional Budget Office forecast on Thursday, with higher tariffs and increased demand from the Trump administration’s tax cuts expected…
German president says US is destroying world order
BERLIN – German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has strongly criticised U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump and urged the world not to let the world order disintegrate into a “den of robbers” where the unscrupulous take what they want. In…
UN chief regrets US decision to withdraw from UN entities
UNITED NATIONS- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres regrets a U.S. decision to withdraw from dozens of U.N. entities, his spokesperson said on Thursday, stressing that the U.S. funding for a “large number” of those bodies was mandatory. U.S. President Donald…
Brazil 2025 eggs exports soar on strong US demand
SAO PAULO – Brazilian egg exports, including fresh and processed, hit a record 40,894 metric tons in 2025 on strong U.S. demand, according to data compiled by the Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA) on Thursday. The figure represents a…
Hilton drops Minneapolis hotel over cancelled ICE bookings
NEW YORK – Hilton Worldwide Holdings has removed from its system a Minneapolis hotel that has refused to accept the bookings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the hotel operator said on Tuesday. A Hampton Inn hotel, a Hilton brand,…
Tensions in Minneapolis rise over ICE fatal shooting of woman
MINNEAPOLIS – Tensions between Minnesota and federal officials deepened on Thursday over a U.S. Immigration agent’s fatal shooting of a 37-year-old mother of three in Minneapolis, an incident that drew condemnation from local officials and sparked widespread protests in the…
Trump withdrawal from bedrock UN climate treaty raises legal questions
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration’s decision to withdraw the United States from the foundational U.N. climate treaty, which the U.S. Senate unanimously adopted more than 30 years ago, may be illegal, according to some legal experts who say that Congress…
US exit of key UN climate treaty criticized as self-sabotage
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON – The United States’ decision to withdraw from the United Nations’ key climate treaty is a “colossal own goal” that will harm the U.S. economy, jobs and living standards, United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell said…
Venezuela orders police to find, arrest anyone involved in supporting U.S. attack-decree
Jan 5 – The state of emergency put in place by the Venezuelan government since the U.S. attack that ousted President Nicolas Maduro orders police to “immediately begin the national search and capture of everyone involved in the promotion or…
Maduro opponent Machado vows to return to Venezuela
WASHINGTON- Venezuela’s main opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has vowed to return home quickly, praising U.S. President Donald Trump for toppling her enemy Nicolas Maduro and declaring her movement ready to win a free election. “I’m planning to go back…
Why is Somaliland strategically important?
NAIROBI- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar met the president of Somaliland on Tuesday, 10 days after Israel became the first country to formally recognise the breakaway region in the Horn of Africa as an independent and sovereign state. A Somaliland…
US House Democrats holding January 6 riot forum on Trump election ‘threats’
WASHINGTON – Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives will mark the fifth anniversary of a deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump with an unofficial hearing that will probe “ongoing threats” to elections and…
Tariffs may lower inflation, SF Fed research suggests
The sharp increase in tariffs imposed last year by the Trump administration may reduce inflation rather than increase it, according to research published Monday by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, suggesting that interest-rate cuts may be the proper policy…
Spain says US wants to grab Venezuela resources, sets dangerous precedent
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday the United States had set a “terrible and very dangerous precedent” in Venezuela with its raid to capture President Nicolas Maduro, adding that Washington’s sole objective appeared to be the change of…