‘Local is king’: Africa’s online platforms take on Silicon Valley
By Kim Harrisberg and Menna A. Farouk
DURBAN/CAIRO - Plan a funeral, call out corruption or start a business - tough jobs all now made easier by a generation of tech-savvy...
US agrees to send advanced rockets to Ukraine
By Pavel Polityuk and Max Hunder
KYIV - Russian troops fought to take complete control of the eastern industrial city of Sievierodonetsk on Wednesday as the United States said it...
Australia PM Albanese appoints record number of women to diverse cabinet
SYDNEY, - Australia's new federal ministry was sworn into office on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appointing a record number of women to...
N.Korea hails progress in fight against drought despite COVID wave
By Hyonhee Shin
SEOUL - North Korea has made progress in its fight against drought, and rice planting is under way nationwide even as the country ramps...
Yellen says she was ‘wrong’ about inflation path; Biden backs Fed
By David Lawder
WASHINGTON - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that she was wrong in the past about the path inflation would take, but...
K-pop supergroup BTS meets Biden, speaks at White House
WASHINGTON - South Korean boy band BTS, a fundraising juggernaut for U.S. social justice causes, met with President Joe Biden at the White House...
China unveils stimulus policies to support economy
BEIJING — China’s cabinet unveiled a package of 33 measures covering fiscal, financial, investment and industrial policies on Tuesday to revive a pandemic-ravaged economy, saying it will inspect how provincial governments implement them.
Miracle fuel hydrogen can make climate change worse
A WORLD desperate for a climate-friendly fuel is pinning its hopes on hydrogen, seeing it as a way to power factories, buildings, ships and planes without pumping carbon dioxide into the sky.
UK to grant visas to graduates from the world’s best universities
LONDON — Britain will offer work visas to graduates from the world’s best universities in an expansion of its post-Brexit immigration system that is designed to attract the “best and brightest” workers.
Hurricane Agatha lashes southern Mexico with rain as record-breaking May storm
By Jose Cortes
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico - Hurricane Agatha plowed into beach resorts on Mexico's southern Pacific coast on Monday, bringing torrential rains and the threat of flooding as the first named storm in the eastern Pacific...
EU, resolving a deadlock, in deal to cut most Russia oil imports
By Jan Strupczewski and Philip Blenkinsop
BRUSSELS - European Union leaders agreed in principle on Monday to cut 90% of oil imports from Russia by the end of this year, resolving a deadlock with Hungary over the bloc's toughest sanction yet on Moscow since the...
Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales, ban look-alike toys
By Ismail Shakil and Anna Mehler Paperny
OTTAWA - Canada's government introduced legislation Monday to implement a "national freeze" on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would...