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,...
Cuba grid collapses again, hurricane heaps on misery
HAVANA - Cuba's electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island's misery and threaten further havoc...
Prabowo sworn in as Indonesia’s 8th president
JAKARTA — Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto on Sunday took over as president of the world’s third-largest democracy after sweeping the country’s election with policies like...
Cuba partially restores power after nationwide blackouts
HAVANA — Cuba’s government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island’s people after the national grid collapsed...