As escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah raised fears of a full-blown war, an old video of a crowded airport resurfaced with false claims it shows people fleeing Lebanon in June 2024. The claims are “not true”, the country’s civil aviation authority told AFP. The video has previously circulated since at least September 2023 […]
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union moved Wednesday to hike tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, escalating a trade dispute over Beijing’s subsidies for the exports that Brussels worries is hurting domestic automakers. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, said it would impose provisional tariffs that would result in Chinese automakers facing additional duties of […]
A top Wall Street regulator has proposed outlawing election betting in the U.S. derivatives markets, with officials warning that the activity poses a threat to the sanctity of American elections. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission, which is charged with regulating the vast and complex derivatives markets, voted 3-2 on Friday to issue a new rule […]
By Lucy Raitano and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – Reports of an Israeli attack on Iranian soil that possibly drags the Middle East into a deeper conflict has jolted world markets with geopolitical risks that can swiftly change the direction of anything from oil to bonds and renew inflation risks. Stocks tumbled on Friday, oil […]
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The leader of Iraq will travel to Michigan on Thursday following a sit-down with President Joe Biden to meet with the state’s large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iran’s weekend aerial assault on Israel. Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s trip to both […]
GOMA, Congo (AP) — The world is forgetting the escalating violence in eastern Congo as conflicts continue in places like Ukraine and Gaza, the U.N. human rights chief said Wednesday while visiting the region and calling for peace and support for millions repeatedly displaced. Eastern Congo has long been overrun by more than 120 armed […]
(Bloomberg) — China’s Coast Guard boarded a Taiwanese tourist vessel near an offshore outpost, in an apparent response to an accident that saw two fishermen die. Most Read from Bloomberg The Coast Guard officers checked documents of the ship operating near the Taiwanese island of Kinmen on Monday and left after about 30 minutes, the […]
EAGLE PASS — Flanked by visiting Republican governors, Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday afternoon railed against President Joe Biden’s handling of the southern border and recommitted to defending the state from an “invasion” of migrants. Abbott has doubled down on enforcement at the border amid an escalating feud with the federal government over who controls […]
Serbia will seek an urgent UN Security Council meeting to discuss the escalation of tensions with its former province of Kosovo, the country’s president said on Friday. The move comes after Kosovo’s government decided to ban the use of the Serbian dinar and introduce the euro in areas where minority Serbs live. Kosovo’s government has […]
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes significant risks to shift the course of war and maintain his political position, emerging as an unpredictable player to watch, the Time wrote on Jan. 29. As Russian dictator Vladimir Putin shifts Russia’s economy onto a war footing, Ukraine knows it must mobilize and train hundreds of thousands of […]
Biden promised retaliation after a drone attack killed 3 US troops in Jordan on Saturday. Biden called the attack “despicable.” The attack marks the first line-of-fire deaths for US troops since the start of the war in Gaza. A drone attack killed three US service members and injured at least 25 others in Jordan, near the […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile Friday at a United States warship patrolling the Gulf of Aden, forcing it to shoot down the projectile, and struck a British vessel as their aggressive attacks on maritime traffic continue. The attack on the U.S. warship, the destroyer USS Carney, marked a further escalation in […]