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US authorities indicted five Russians Wednesday who allegedly shipped American electronic components to Russia arms makers, some of which have been found on the battlefield in Ukraine.Separately, three Latvians and a Ukrainian were charged for attempting to send a US-made high-precision industrial g...
US President Joe Biden will campaign Thursday alongside Senate candidate John Fetterman in Pennsylvania, ground zero in the Democrats' struggle to avoid a wipeout in the midterms -- and two years of political trench warfare for the White House.Biden will visit both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, t...
The United States warned Monday it would take action against companies and nations working with Iran's drone program after Russia used the imports for deadly kamikaze strikes in Kyiv."Anyone doing business with Iran that could have any link to UAVs or ballistic missile developments or the f...
Business & Commerce
Pakistan's finance minister has promised international lenders to stay true to economic reforms despite a new estimate that his country quickly needs more than $16 billion to recover from devastating floods.Finance Minister Ishaq Dar also said that a flood donors' conference promised by Fren...
The European Union is looking for trade pacts with "reliable partners" to combat supply shocks, said the bloc's trade commissioner on Thursday, pointing to its energy problems after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Europe is facing an energy crunch, with the price of electricity genera...
France's economy minister urged the United States on Wednesday to offer cheaper prices for liquefied natural gas as Europe faces an energy crisis following Russia's war in Ukraine.Bruno Le Maire made the plea at a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 7 wealthy d...
The G20 closed talks in Washington on Thursday without issuing a joint communique, as a growing US-Saudi feud created new tensions in a group already divided over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 major economies met during the IMF and World ...
World,Front Page
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed in...
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday called on American allies to accelerate financial disbursements to Ukraine."We are calling on our partners and allies to join us by swiftly disbursing their existing commitments to Ukraine and by stepping up in doing more," Yellen said as she r...
The world is facing a "fifth wave of debt crisis," World Bank President David Malpass warned Friday, calling for more support for countries in distress.The pandemic forced many countries to take on more borrowing, and the World Bank and International Monetary Fund have warned that man...
The United States announced new export controls Friday aimed at restricting China's ability to buy and manufacture high-end chips with military applications, stepping up tensions between the countries.The moves complicate Beijing's push to further its own semiconductor industry and develop a...
President Joe Biden on Thursday did not rule out meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit next month in Asia."That remains to be seen," the US leader told reporters when asked if he'd use the G20 gathering in Bali, Indonesia, as an opportunity to talk directly w...
A US appeals court on Wednesday declared unlawful a program that protects undocumented migrants brought to the country as children, but allowed it to remain in place for current recipients.The ruling affirms a July 2021 decision by a federal judge to curb the program. Wednesday's decision allows...
Entertainment & Glomour
Seems like even Rihanna gets pre-show jitters, as the nine-time Grammy Award winner has been feeling nervous after being named to headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show.According to Page Six, the singer-songwriter when asked by TMZ about how she’s feeling ahead of her hotly-antici...
Covid-19 has dealt the "biggest setback" to global poverty reduction efforts in decades, and the World Bank warned Wednesday that the goal to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 likely remains out-of-reach.Poverty rose sharply during the pandemic, and the development lender estimates ab...
IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Tuesday the Bank of England correctly moved swiftly in reaction to Britain's budget proposal late last month -- a plan which included a now-scrapped tax cut for the wealthy and send the pound dramatically lower.She said it is important to avoid a contradiction...
Former US president Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in the legal tussle over classified documents seized in the FBI raid of his Florida home.Trump urged the conservative-dominated court to stay a ruling by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals that restored access to the cla...
Former US president Donald Trump sued CNN on Monday, accusing the cable television news network of defamation and seeking $475 million in punitive damages.Trump, in the lawsuit filed in a US District Court in Florida, accused CNN of waging a campaign of "libel and slander" against him beca...
New vehicle deliveries by Tesla increased in the third quarter, beating the previous three months during which its Chinese factory was shuttered for multiple weeks, the US electric automaker announced Sunday.Between July and September, Tesla delivered a total of 343,380 vehicles around the world, th...
President Joe Biden said Friday the United States and NATO will not be intimidated by Russia's President Vladimir Putin and warned that the Western alliance would defend "every inch" of its territory if attacked."America and its allies are not going to be intimidated," he sai...
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