The United Nations is transferring thousands of tons of humanitarian supplies from a US-constructed pier off the coast of the Gaza Strip after the temporary port was suspended due to poor weather, an aid official said on Sunday. Workers started on Friday transporting the piled-up aid, mostly food, to warehouses, the World Food Programme (WFP) […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenyans woke up to the acrid smell of tear gas still lingering in the capital on Wednesday, a day after protesters stormed parliament amid violent demonstrations over a controversial tax plan during which at least six people have been killed. As the day began, there were no reports of violence. Police […]
(Photo by Edwin J. Torres/N.J. Governor’s Office) The National Mediation Board has ended more than four years of negotiations between NJ Transit and a union representing its engineers without a resolution, paving the way for a strike that federal law could still delay by months. NJ Transit locomotive engineers have been working under an expired […]
BORGO EGNAZIA, Italy (AP) — The United States and European countries have agreed to lock up sanctioned Russian assets until Moscow pays reparations for its invasion of Ukraine, a senior U.S. official said Thursday. The move clears the way for leaders to announce a $50 billion loan package for Kyiv at the Group of Seven […]
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – A top Federal Reserve Bank of New York official said Wednesday it’s time now for market participants to get prepared for new clearing rules looming in the Treasury bond market. Citing a new rule by the Securities and Exchange Commission mandating central clearing in the government bond market, Michelle […]
MISHAWAKA — Police are currently evacuating University Park Mall after a fight that broke out inside that reportedly resulted in someone firing a gun. Mishawaka Police Assistant Chief Dan Gebo said police have found no victim or anyone with any injuries, but they are clearing the mall store by store, evacuating bystanders and looking for […]
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – A federal appeals court panel rejected a bid by U.S. President Joe Biden‘s son to dismiss criminal gun charges, clearing the way for Hunter Biden‘s June 3 trial, a first for the child of a sitting president. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]
The United Nations has estimated that it would take 100 lorries some 14 years to remove the 300 kilograms of scrap metal per square metre covering the heavily destroyed Gaza Strip. And it is unlikely that the work could be done quickly, Peh Lodhammar from the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Geneva said on […]
BALTIMORE (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has opened a temporary, alternate channel for vessels involved in clearing debris from the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main shipping channel leading to the vital port, officials said Monday. Crews are undertaking the complicated work of removing […]
Highway crews are set to start spring cleaning projects on the North Cascades Highway (SR20). The annual clearing of the highway begins Monday, March 25, at mile post 171. The work typically takes from six to eight weeks, though a return to winter weather could affect the expected timeline. The Washington Department of Transportation (WSDOT) […]
A lawyer for Donald Trump says the former president has secured a bond sufficient to support an 83.3 million US dollars (£64.8 million) jury award granted to writer E Jean Carroll during a January defamation trial. Attorney Alina Habba filed papers on Friday with the New York trial judge to show that Trump had secured […]
Nikki Haley ended her long-shot challenge to Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Wednesday, ensuring the former US president will be the party’s candidate in a rematch with Democratic president Joe Biden in November’s election. Haley, the former South Carolina governor and Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations when he was president, made the announcement […]