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JERUSALEM – Palestinian militant group Hamas said it fired a barrage of rockets at cities in Israel’s south on Sunday in response to Israeli “massacres” of civilians in Gaza. Israel’s military said about ten projectiles were fired, but most successfully…
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…
ABUJA – Nigeria’s central bank has sold nearly $200 million to support the naira currency after President Donald Trump’s tariffs sent shockwaves through global markets, the bank said on Sunday. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) said a decline in…
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…
NEW YORK – The 36 new special patrol officers announced last month by Columbia University were appointed by the New York Police Department and will be subject to the orders of the police commissioner, a Columbia spokesperson confirmed this week….
SYDNEY – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday pledged A$2.3 billion ($1.39 billion) to help homeowners buy batteries to store solar power and lower their energy costs, a major issue in the May 3 general election. Albanese’s centre-left Labor…
SEOUL – North Korea on Sunday is holding its first Pyongyang International Marathon in six years, hosting foreign runners in the reclusive country that had largely closed its borders during the pandemic. Athletes from China, Romania and other countries have…
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…
COGNAC, France – Christophe Fillioux’s family estate in the cognac region of southwest France has survived for five generations, through wars and financial crises. Now, though, he has started to tear up some of his vineyards by the roots. U.S….
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…
TAIPEI -Taiwan President Lai Ching-te met tech executives on Saturday to discuss how to respond to new U.S. tariffs, promising to ensure Taiwan’s global competitiveness and safeguard the island’s interests. President Donald Trump announced across-the-board import tariffs on Wednesday with…
CERNOBBIO, Italy – The euro zone economy’s long standing structural headwinds have been exacerbated by a surge in uncertainty which may get even worse in the wake of U.S. trade tariffs, European Central Bank policy maker Isabel Schnabel said on…
BEIJING – China’s state-run media has taken to the internet with AI-generated videos, featuring dancing robots and fraught consumers, to chide U.S. President Donald Trump and tariffs they say threaten high inflation and economic distress for Americans. “‘Liberation Day’, you…
HANOI – Vietnamese budget airline VietJet is set to operate Chinese-made COMAC ARJ21-700 aircraft, also branded as C909, on domestic routes for the first time from mid-April, according to a company statement reviewed by Reuters. The airline plans to operate…
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 – While National Security Agency chief General Timothy Haugh apparently was not told why he was abruptly fired this week, a far-right activist who urged President Donald Trump to dismiss him offered one explanation: his alleged ties to retired…
DOHA – Congo’s government and M23 rebels last week held private talks in Qatar for the first time since the rebels conducted a lightning offensive in the country’s east, a source briefed on the discussions told Reuters. The talks, which…
Meta Platforms on Saturday released the latest version of its large language model (LLM) Llama, called the Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick. Meta said Llama is a multimodal AI system. Multimodal systems are capable of processing and integrating…
LONDON – British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he was ready to step in to help “shelter” the country’s businesses from the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s new tariff policies, mooting state intervention for the worst-affected industries….
RIO DE JANEIRO – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has completed work on a veterinary center in the Amazon region that is required for it to obtain an environmental permit for an offshore drilling project, the company said on Saturday….
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…
LONDON -Jaguar Land Rover will pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the United States for a month, it said on Saturday, as it considers how to mitigate the cost of President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff. Jaguar Land Rover, which…
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…
BANGKOK – Three U.S. aid workers were laid off while in Myanmar helping the rescue and recovery from the country’s massive earthquake, a former senior staffer said, as the Trump administration’s dismantling of foreign aid affects its disaster response. After…
MOSCOW – Russia’s defence ministry said on Saturday Ukraine had increased its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, hitting targets 14 times in the last 24 hours, despite a U.S.-brokered moratorium. In a statement published on Telegram, the ministry said Ukraine…