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President Joe Biden on Thursday said he would talk to his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in the wake of the US Air Force shooting down what Washington says was a high-tech Chinese spy balloon earlier this month."I expect to be speaking with President Xi and... we're going to get to the bott...
Entertainment & Glomour
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joined Hollywood actor Sean Penn by video link on Thursday at the opening of the Berlinale, Europe's first major film festival of the year, calling for the entertainment world to maintain its "solidarity" with his besieged country.The 73rd annual ...
World
World Bank chief David Malpass announced Wednesday he would step down nearly a year early, ending a tenure at the head of the development lender that was clouded by questions over his climate stance.The veteran of Republican administrations in the United States was appointed to the role in 2019 when...
Joe Biden will complete a routine medical checkup on Thursday, a crucial step for the oldest-ever US president ahead of his expected fight for reelection in 2024.The White House has promised to release the report by the 80-year-old president's doctor, as it also did during his previous checkup i...
US President Joe Biden has called on Congress to act against America's epidemic of gun violence, one day after a new massacre on a Michigan university campus killed three people and injured five.As the leader of a nation plagued by daily shootings, Biden on Tuesday said he had promised the state...
The White House responded Monday to growing and at times fevered speculation over the shooting down of unidentified aerial objects by saying the targets could be anything from commercial craft to espionage devices, while denying that US balloons spy on China.After mounting pressure on President Joe ...
Sports,Football
A depleted New Zealand under new captain Tim Southee face the daunting prospect of trying to halt in-form England when a Two-Test series begins with a day-night encounter in Mount Maunganui on Thursday.England have won nine of 10 Tests since New Zealander Brendon McCullum took charge as head coach, ...
Long-term exposure to air pollution raises the risk of depression, according to a pair of new studies published in the JAMA network of scientific journals.A study published on Friday in JAMA Network Open found that long-term exposure to elevated levels of air pollution increases the risk of lat...
A US fighter jet shot down an unidentified object drifting high over Alaska on Friday, the White House said, just six days after the downing of an alleged Chinese spy balloon sparked a fresh diplomatic rift with Beijing.White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said it was uncl...
The US economy's humming and President Joe Biden is optimistic, but brutal polls and the nation's collective freak-out over a mysterious Chinese balloon will overshadow his State of the Union speech Tuesday.The Democrat's speechwriters certainly had their work cut out on the weekend as t...
Attorney General Merrick Garland said Friday that he had authorized the United States to begin using seized Russian money to aid Ukraine, according to US media.The announcement came during a meeting between Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin in Washington, nearly one ye...
Business & Commerce
The Group of Seven industrialized countries and Australia have reached agreement on price caps for Russian petroleum products, the group said in a statement Friday, after a similar announcement by the EU.There are two price levels, $100 per barrel for more expensive fuel like diesel and $45 on lower...
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced new visa restrictions against the Taliban Wednesday in response to bans on employment and education for women in Afghanistan."I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of n...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he was considering military aid to Ukraine and was willing to serve as a mediator, following US calls for more active involvement.Netanyahu made no firm commitments to Ukraine and Israel has preserved a relationship with Russia, which controls...
A New Jersey man was sentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison for shooting bear spray in the face of a police officer during the 2021 Capitol riot.The 42-year-old officer, Brian Sicknick, died the next day in the hospital of what initially were said to be natural causes, but the spraying was...
President Joe Biden on Friday spoke with the mother and stepfather of Tyre Nichols, the Black man whose beating to death by police officers has set the United States on edge.Biden told reporters that he was "very concerned" about the potential for violent protests, but that Nichols' mo...
Tesla head Elon Musk met with senior White House officials Friday to discuss the Biden administration's push to grow the electric vehicle market, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said."That meeting did happen today," she told reporters.Musk, who has had sometimes openly prickly relat...
World,Back Page
Sea spiders can regrow body parts after amputation and not just limbs, according to a study released on Monday that may pave the way for further scientific research into regeneration."Nobody had expected this," said Gerhard Scholtz of Humboldt University in Berlin, senior author of the stu...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Monday approved emergency aid of $105 million for Haiti, which has long been mired in a humanitarian crisis that has been exacerbated by recent global inflation.The funds should enable the Caribbean country to "support those most affected by food price r...
US interest rates will need to remain high for some time even as inflation eases, Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said Thursday, vowing the central bank plans to "stay the course" in fighting price increases.Inflation has come down from a 40-year high as the Fed hiked rates steepl...
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