US President Joe Biden is being feted by his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron with a state visit, as the two allies aim to show off their partnership on global security issues and move past trade tensions. Mr Biden and Mr Macron attended ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday. They met separately the […]
Jun. 7—A person is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after a shooting broke out Friday evening near the troubled intersection of Second Avenue and Division Street in downtown Spokane, police said. Spokane Police Officer Daniel Strassenburg said one person was shot, but their condition wasn’t immediately clear. Streets in the area could be seen cordoned off […]
PARIS (AP) — President Joe Biden is being feted by French President Emmanuel Macron with a state visit Saturday, as the two allies aim to show off their partnership on global security issues and move past trade tensions. Biden and Macron attended ceremonies marking the 80th anniversary of D-Day on Thursday. They met separately the […]
HONG KONG (AP) — China’s exports in May grew at their fastest pace in more than a year despite trade tensions, though imports fell short of analyst expectations, according to customs data released Friday. Exports jumped 7.6% in May from the same month last year to $302.35 billion, rising at the fastest pace since April […]
China’s exports in May grew at their fastest pace in more than a year despite trade tensions, though imports fell short of analyst expectations, according to customs data. Exports jumped 7.6% in May from the same month last year to 302.35 billion dollars (£236.5 billion), rising at the fastest pace since April 2023. Imports rose […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has been tracking Russian warships and aircraft that are expected to arrive in the Caribbean for a military exercise in the coming weeks, in a Russian show of force as tensions rise over Western military support for Ukraine, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The ships also are expected possibly to make […]
STORY: Yoon Seol-hyun’s guesthouse near the border with North Korea is usually packed with tourists, keen to take a peek at the isolated North. But he and other residents of the South Korean town of Paju, some 22 miles from the frontier, have been hurt by a recent rise in tensions on the peninsula. Yoon’s […]
Thousands of mostly ultranationalist Israelis are expected to take part in an annual march through a dense Palestinian area in Jerusalem’s Old City in an event that often sees racist chants and brawls. Jerusalem, the epicentre of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has been mostly calm throughout the Israel-Hamas war, but the march could ignite widespread tensions, […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday for its first precision-guided bombing drill with South Korea in seven years, the South’s military said. The drill — seen as a show of force against North Korea — comes as tensions are rising over the […]
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s government approved the suspension of a contentious military agreement with North Korea on Tuesday, a step that would allow it to take tougher responses to North Korean provocations. The development came as animosities between the rival Koreas rose sharply recently after North Korea launched trash-carrying balloons across the […]
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Voters in Serbia will go to the polls this weekend for a municipal vote in dozens of cities and towns, including a rerun ballot in the capital of Belgrade where ruling populists were accused of an election fraud in December. The right-wing Serbian Progressive Party of President Aleksandar Vucic is seen […]