WASHINGTON, United States—President Joe Biden said Thursday he is against the proposed sale of US Steel to Japan's Nippon Steel, as election year considerations appeared to outweigh the risk of angering key ally Japan. US President Joe Biden Biden's intervention in the planned $14.1 billion...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Gunfire rang out Thursday in Haiti's capital and "bandits" set a police official's house ablaze, ending three days of relative calm as politicians pressed on with talks to form an interim governing body. Tires burn during a demonstration following the resignation of...
PARIS, France—French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday warned allies against imposing limits on support for Ukraine, saying European security was at stake in Kyiv's battle against the Russian invasion. This photograph taken on March 14, 2024, shows a television screen broadcasting...
MOSCOW, Russia—Russia began voting on Friday in an election set to prolong President Vladimir Putin's rule by six more years, as Kyiv branded the vote a "farce" and launched a barrage of deadly attacks on border regions. A woman casts her ballot at a mobile polling station during early...
TikTok (File Photo) ROME, Italy– Italy's competition authority on Thursday fined TikTok 10 million euros (nearly $11 million), saying the hugely popular video app had failed to sufficiently protect minors. "The company has failed to implement appropriate mechanisms to monitor content...
PARIS, France– Global oil demand is forecast to grow more than expected due to a brighter US economic outlook and rising fuel needs of ships rerouted away from the Red Sea, the International Energy Agency said Thursday. Commercial ships have been taking longer and costlier journeys...
This handout picture taken and released by Taiwan’s Coast Guard on March 14, 2024 shows Chinese Coast Guard personnel (white helmets) and members of Taiwan's Coast Guard (orange helmets) taking part in a joint search-and-rescue mission after a Chinese fishing boat capsized in waters near Kinmen...
AFP/Manila Bulletin MOSCOW, Russia– A Moscow court has sentenced two university students to more than three years in prison for their involvement with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Russia in 2021 outlawed Navalny's organisations as "extremist" and has handed down lengthy...
AFP BRUSSELS, Belgium– The EU on Thursday wielded a powerful new digital law to press TikTok, Facebook and six other platforms on the risk of AI to elections, including through deepfakes. In a flurry of actions taken under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA), the European Commission...
This photo taken on Aug. 23, 2022 shows a US military Osprey aircraft at the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in the center of the city of Ginowan, Okinawa prefecture. (AFP) TOKYO, Japan -- The US military on Thursday resumed Osprey flights in Japan, a local official said, ending a...
NEW BATTLE TANKS – This picture taken on March 13, 2024 and released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 14 shows new-type main battle tanks taking part in a competitive training exercise between the combined forces of the Korean People's Army tank...
Covid-19 caused the average life expectancy of people worldwide to fall by 1.6 years during the first two years of the pandemic, a more dramatic decline than previously thought, a major study said Tuesday. This marked a sharp reversal during a decades-long rise in global life expectancy, according...
