BANGKOK – Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will make a brief condolence visit to Japan next week following the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the State Department said Sunday. Blinken will travel to Tokyo on Monday to…
Moscow has taken a page out of Washington’s playbook and tricked the United States and Britain by renaming the streets in front of their embassies in the Russian capital. The streets are now officially named after two separatist regions in…
Srinagar (Reuters) – A flash flood triggered by heavy rains killed 13 people and left at least 30 missing near the Himalayan Hindu cave shrine of Amarnath in Indian Kashmir, an official said here on Friday. Tens of thousands of…
Sri Lanka was plunged into a deep crisis today (July 9) triggered by the collapse of its economy. It was a day of chaos as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled his official residence in the country’s capital Colombo, hours before hundreds…
After five years on the run, a 63-year-old Thai YouTuber was arrested on Thursday for the attempted murder of a truck driver in 2017. Jantaphan “Taek” Worracate was arrested at his home in Nonthaburi province in central Thailand on charges…
Former Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said in an interview Friday that during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, a “friend” in the White House said then-Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows showed incompetence and…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie are changing the venue of their planned wedding, an ally of the prime minister said on Friday, denying allegations that he is staying on in his caretaker role as a…
NUSADUWA, Indonesia (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Saturday he discussed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and expressed concern about Beijing’s alliance with Moscow during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.…
China has extended its list of demands to the United States if it wants to improve relations when senior officials met Saturday. Secretary of State John Blinken and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi both called their talks in Bali “constructive,”…
The American Rescue Plan is known for its $1,400 stimulus checks, expansion of the child tax credit, aid to local governments and, most recently, possible inflation. But the little-known portion of the huge bill provides $86 billion to help many…
According to the World Bank, Indonesia produces 4.8 million tons of “poorly managed” plastic waste each year – meaning it ends up uncollected, in landfills or leaking from poorly managed landfills. a platform that makes it easier to collect waste…
(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk’s attempt to back out of a deal to buy Twitter Inc. has made the social media service worse, no matter how it turns out. If Tesla’s chief executive succeeds in closing the deal, Twitter’s stock could…
Politicians must run on some sort of platform, and my representative in the state legislature for North Carolina’s 52nd District, Ben Moss, has decided that his animating principle is to go crazy on electricity. To demonstrate his hostility to this…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Transportation on Friday warned airlines that it may issue regulations prohibiting them from charging extra to seat young children next to accompanying family members. Citing a 2016 law requiring it to review…
GameStop will pay a three-share dividend to investors on July 21, and the stock will trade on a split-adjusted basis the following day. GameStop ( GME ) – Get GameStop Corporation Report shares soared Thursday after the money-losing video game…