NEW YORK, United States- Wall Street stocks fell for a third straight session Wednesday as markets digest gains from earlier in 2023 and take in hawkish Federal Reserve commentary. US Fed Chair Jerome Powell told a congressional panel that he expects additional interest rate hikes this year, noting...
WASHINGTON, United States- US lawmakers voted Wednesday to greenlight an agreement aimed at deepening economic relations with Taiwan that has already provoked an irritated response from Beijing. The US-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade streamlines customs checks, looks to improve regulatory...
WASHINGTON, United States- The United States has granted its first ever approvals to two companies to sell chicken grown directly from animal cells, becoming only the second country to allow lab-grown meat to be offered to consumers. The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved food safety...
TITAN’S DESCENT - This undated image courtesy of OceanGate Expeditions, shows their Titan submersible during a descent. Rescue teams expanded their search underwater on June 20, 2023, as they raced against time to find a Titan deep-diving tourist submersible that went missing near the wreck...
SAN FRANCISCO, United States – US President Joe Biden equated his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping with "dictators" on Tuesday as he addressed a Democratic Party donors’ reception in the presence of journalists. US President Joe Biden (AFP) Speaking at a campaign fundraiser in northern...
DEADLY PRISON BRAWL - Relatives of inmates of the Women's Center for Social Adaptation (CEFAS) prison gather outside the detention center after a fire following a brawl between inmates in Tamara, some 25 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20, 2023. Clashes between rival...
LOS ANGELES, United States – Teams from around the world were racing against the clock Tuesday to locate the vessel and its five-person crew before their oxygen runs out -- projected at under a day and a half from now. SEARCH UPDATE -- US Coast Gurad Captain Jamie Frederick...
TUNIS, TUNISIA - An attacker fatally stabbed a security guard on Monday outside Brazil's embassy in Tunis before being shot and arrested, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The guard "was wounded by a sharp object" wielded "by a person he was questioning over the reason for his presence in the...
JENIN, Palestinian Territories - Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed five Palestinians including a militant on Monday, in a raid that saw seven Israeli security personnel wounded and rare helicopter fire. The sound of gunfire was heard across Jenin as wounded Palestinians continued to...
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Two Hungarian nationals died when their private propeller plane crashed into the sea off Sweden's coast this weekend, police said on Monday. The identities of the two people were not disclosed but a police spokesman told AFP they were both in their 40s. Police "have opened an...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Sudan is descending into death and destruction at an unprecedented speed, UN chief Antonio Guterres said Monday as he urged donors to step in and curb the unfolding catastrophe. "The scale and speed of Sudan's descent into death and destruction is unprecedented," the United...
KAMPALA, Uganda - Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of last week's horrific school attack in the remote west of the country blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo. Other families were still desperately hunting for news of their...
