Leaders urge world to pay up to save nature as COP16 talks open
CALI, Colombia - The nearly 200 countries meeting in Colombia for the United Nations COP16 summit must act urgently to mobilize billions of dollars to stop rapid nature destruction,...
King Charles to meet Indigenous Australians in civil rights birthplace Redfern
SYDNEY - Britain's King Charles travels on Tuesday to Redfern, birthplace of Australia's urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in inner Sydney, a day after being heckled by...
Kamala Harris labels current federal minimum wage as ‘poverty’ pay
ROYAL OAK, Michigan - Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said on Monday the U.S. must raise its federal minimum wage, and she labeled the current minimum wage of...
IMF, World Bank meetings clouded by wars, slow growth, US elections
WASHINGTON — Global finance chiefs will gather in Washington this week amid intense uncertainty over wars in the Middle East and Europe, a flagging...
US says THAAD anti-missile system is ‘in place’ in Israel
KYIV — The US military has rushed its advanced anti-missile system to Israel and it is now “in place,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said.
THAAD,...
World lags on 2030 nature goals heading into UN COP16 talks
THE WORLD in 2022 reached its most ambitious deal ever to halt the destruction of nature by decade’s end.
Two years later, countries are already...
Israel gives the US its demands for ending war in Lebanon, Axios reports
Israel gave the United States a document last week with its conditions for a diplomatic solution to end the war in Lebanon, Axios reported...
Vietnam PM says aiming to lift 2024 growth above 7%
HANOI - Vietnam's gross domestic product is expected to grow by 6.8%-7.0% this year, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told parliament on Monday, before adding that the government was...
Indonesia’s Prabowo to swear in cabinet of over 100 ministers, deputies
JAKARTA - Indonesia's newly minted leader, President Prabowo Subianto, officially swore in his cabinet on Monday, a team which analysts said reflected continuity of his predecessor's main policies.
Mr. Prabowo took office on...
US, Canadian navies sail through Taiwan Strait week after war games
TAIPEI - A US and a Canadian warship sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait together on Sunday less than a week after China conducted a new...
Australia’s Qantas told to pay $114,000 to 3 sacked workers in landmark outsourcing case
SYDNEY - A court on Monday ordered Australia's Qantas Airways to pay a combined A$170,000 ($114,000) to three baggage handlers it unlawfully sacked in 2020, implying a...
Trump hands out french fries in Pennsylvania, Harris visits Georgia churches in swing-state appeals
ATLANTA/PHILADELPHIA - With the US presidential election just over two weeks away, Democrat Kamala Harris visited two churches on Sunday while her Republican rival, Donald Trump,...