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The United States and Qatar officials have agreed to prevent Iran from using a $6 billion humanitarian assistance fund, following militant group Hamas's surprise attack on Israel, a news report said Thursday.The money had been transferred to Iranian accounts in Qatar, in a US-Iran prisoner swap ...
An auto workers strike in the United States expanded Wednesday with 8,700 more employees walking off their jobs, said the United Automobile Workers (UAW) union, as a deal with major automakers remained elusive.The staff at Ford's Kentucky Truck Plant in Louisville join some 25,000 other UAW memb...
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US President Joe Biden has been questioned as part of an investigation into the handling of classified documents found at his home and former private office, the White House said Monday.A furor over the secret papers dating from Biden's time as vice president prompted the US attorney general to ...
President Joe Biden ordered US ships and warplanes to move closer to Israel in a show of support on Sunday, while sending fresh military aid after attacks by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.The Pentagon said it was sending the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford and its accompanying warships to...
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Former US president Donald Trump has offered to temporarily take up the role of speaker of the House of Representatives, US media reported Thursday.Republican Kevin McCarthy was axed this week as speaker in a brutal, historic rebellion by far-right members of his own party who accused him of a strin...
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The World Bank and International Monetary Fund will tackle the thorny issue of institutional reform at their upcoming annual meetings in Morocco next week.The two international financial institutions are looking to scale up and retool to pursue ambitious global climate goals, while continuing to sup...
Another 7,000 members of the biggest US automobile workers' union on Friday joined its already major strike against the country's "Big Three" Detroit car manufacturers.The latest walkouts leave a total of some 25,000 workers on strike in 21 states -- or around 17 percent of the Uni...
Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards the outline of a historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations after decades of hostility, the White House said on Friday.President Joe Biden is hoping to transform the Middle East -- and score an election-year diplomatic victory -- by securing recogniti...
US interest rates are rapidly approaching their highest level in the Federal Reserve's current battle against inflation, and may already be there, a senior Fed official said Friday.The US central bank has raised interest rates 11 times since March 2022 in a bid to tame inflation and bring it fir...
Donald Trump never misses a chance to remind voters that he was the one to appoint three justices to the US Supreme Court who voted to ditch the federal right to an abortion.But ask the 77-year-old what he thinks personally about abortion, and his position starts to shift, the self-declared "mo...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved more than 100 recommendations aimed at curbing suicides in the US military, including through improving gun safety on bases, the Pentagon said Thursday.The recommendations follow reviews of 11 US military sites by the Suicide Prevention and Response Indepe...
After a seven-year wait, NASA scientists on Tuesday finally pried open a space probe carrying the largest asteroid samples ever brought back to Earth, finding black debris.Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was r...
The United States said Tuesday it would halt assistance to Gabon after the military took charge last month."The US government is pausing certain foreign assistance programs benefiting the government of Gabon while we evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the country's mil...
US Vice President Kamala Harris took on a new role Friday fighting gun violence, a job likely to give her more visibility ahead of the 2024 election.The 58-year-old Democrat will head up the new White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which will provide coordination on the issue but largely l...
The US labor market is remarkably solid despite aggressive interest rate hikes to fight inflation and a recent rise in unemployment, but analysts warn that the central bank risks pushing too far.The Federal Reserve has lifted the benchmark lending rate 11 times since March last year, with consumer i...
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi over the weekend, officials said Sunday, in the latest effort to ease tensions between the superpowers.Sullivan and Wang met in the Mediterranean island nation of Malta on Saturday and Sunday, according to ...
Mexico on Friday extradited the son of Sinaloa Cartel kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States to face narcotics charges, US Attorney General Merrick Garland said.Ovidio Guzman Lopez, also known as "El Raton" or "The Mouse," was indicted earlier this year ...
A top Cuban envoy held a rare meeting in Washington with US officials, but made no apparent progress on getting the island off a terrorism blacklist, diplomats said Thursday.Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio met this week with the top officials for Latin America at the State D...
US President Joe Biden will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week and discuss international security "threats" with other world leaders, the White House said Tuesday.Russia's war in Ukraine is again expected to dominate the annual UN forum, where nations las...
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